We saw Wake Up Dead Man in the theater last night and really liked it. Hoping @rianjohnson.bsky.social has plans for another in-theater commentary, like the original Knives Out. (Not to, like, give him work.)

We've settled in to doing three Advent calendars each year - a puzzle one (this year - Exit the Game The Intergalactic Race), a food one (this year - Bonne Maman), and a crappy knock-off one. Last year we had 24 days of cheap halloween toys. This year it's "Classic Broadway Shows". (1/n)

Silly Little Guy enthusiasts - please enjoy a black witch cat, drawn for @fuzzyco.com

The real Hidden Fortress was the friends we made along the way.

These two are amazing @zackmast.bsky.social @sawinchell.bsky.social @wgntv.com

I spend a lot of time thinking about how to write about Chicago, especially right now, and the late, great Tony Fitzpatrick gave me a perfect metaphor: Chicago is a boxer. dansinker.com/posts/202…

@mobute.bsky.social thanks for doing all the hard work to get “The Great Yiddish Bake-off” episode out - very worth it.

A "fun" thing about bingeing an old horror movie series is when the first 30 minutes of "Part 2" is an edited-down copy of the first movie.

If you can get to a theatrical screening of Hundreds of Beavers and are a fan of feeling joy, you need to be jumping all over this. Trust me.

“Chicago is the future.“ @joseolivarez.bsky.social for @chicagomag.com

I spoke w/local food bank to ask what they needed to most as far as donations, and they requested cash instead of food donations as they can purchase what they need at a deep discount/wholesale rate. Just an FYI in case you were going to purchase food to donate vs. donating from your own shelves.

I am begging people to have at least the basic moral judgment of The Joker when it comes to Nazism

help me get more followers than the White House Bluesky account, as a bit

I would be into all of this even if I wasn’t playing Gene Siskel in the play at the end of the month, but I am also playing Gene Siskel in the play at the end of the month.

Way to gatekeep, American Airlines.

Join me & @zackmast.bsky.social at the Hideout at 10/15!! We'll be co-hosting this great movie trivia show and talking up our upcoming stage production where he's playing Roger Ebert and I'm playing Gene Siskel. Mark your calendars! Come on out! Two thumbs up!!

Here’s a convenient way to find alternatives to Uline for your business: refuseuline.com

I just got my covid and flu shots at CVS. No questions asked. In and out in five minutes. If you're in Illinois, don't hesitate to make an appointment ASAP -- before the wretched bastards in DC do another stupid and evil thing to stop it.

Eve Ewing had this on her Instagram feed with the comment, “I come from the fire city.” Amen. Also, me, too.

World Central Kitchen got fired on in Gaza by Israel, had members killed, and went back anyway because people shouldn't have to starve to death. This is an amazing humble bundle.

Did I get just get spam from Ea-nāṣir?

Yes and yes!

@musicboxtheatre.bsky.social Is the 35mm projector working today? Will there be a showing of Night Moves?

Ohana means Spamily.

So REVERSAL is a new graphic novel about what happens when the ley lines reverse and magic (and monsters) become a thing again—and how a teen girl and her family survive in this crazy new reality. Buy it here: bookshop.org/a/23067/9781... and please reskeet this to spread the word!

Just watched the documentary “The Fish Thief: A Great Lakes Mystery”. A real success story of government-funded research and US-Canadian cooperation. 😐

A thing I love about supporting my local press is that I have been told by 2 different humans and 2 different computer systems that I owe 4 differing amounts on my @chicagotribune.com subscription. Whee! (For now, I'm going to go with the last human, who told me $0 was the amount.)

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I wrote a post about the Klan 100 years ago and how the grip they held on the US seemed impossible to break, but people fought them anyway. And it’s been read by tens of thousands of you (!!!). I guess people want stories of hope right now. dansinker.com/posts/202…

One downside of the very-streaming world I live in now is figuring out how to watch disastrous local New Year’s TV coverage.

Ha ha ha! It’s so funny how every newspaper and magazine site actively hates its readers: breaking up and/or hiding any article with hundreds of ads and randomly reloading the whole page to make sure you lose your place! Hilarious and very amusing!

If none of these links work in the UK, HMV have it on sale as a Blu Ray for £6 hmv.com/store/film-t... of Apple TV currently have the streaming rights here. I am DETERMINED to Influence people to watch this, one of my favourite Christmas movies, this festivetime.

I had completely forgotten that My Cousin Vinny has a Travis Tritt song over the credits that reiterates the marriage-after-winning-a-case subplot. Like all those 90s movies that end with a rap song that summarizes the whole movie, but country and just the B-plot.

[3:00 am, standing on your neck] Hey we only have a few days left, can we talk about your plan to vote? Hey can we talk about ballot measures? Hey. Hey

Sudden Impact (1983) (the fourth Dirty Harry movie) is so over-the-top with how many violent situations Harry gets thrust into, and how mad his superiors are about it, that it feels like a parody.

The bait suggestions for this humane trap read to me like the way fancy restaurants list entree ingredients:

The stranger on Episode 2 of Advice from Strangers is someone I would totally take advice from. (It’s my wife.)(“My wiiiife”) www.advice-from-strangers.com/episodes/inn...

my public service announcement to you is that Hundreds of Beavers is on pluto and tubi

Could it be…another Silly Guy? You’re darn right it could! @fuzzyco.com requested a silly little slug sitting on a band-aid and I obliged.

I cannot recommend this non-dairy milk – made my coffee taste very strange. Frothed up well, though.

I cannot believe Apple decided that turning Siri Announcements (aka Siri reads your notifications to you EVEN IF YOU'RE LISTENING TO A PODCAST) on by default with iOS 18 was a good idea. I updated and went out for a bike ride and nearly threw my Airpods into the road.

If you want to be like the Harris campaign and donate downballot then these are the 6 candidates who need it the most right now. This way you can skip the middleman AND when you donate through Oath they don't send around your email and phone number so you get less spam app.oath.vote/donate?p=tsp...

I’m sorry to break it to you, but if Donald Sutherland is your genial political mentor, he’s running a giant conspiracy and you’re going to be on the run soon.

I'm going to tell my kids this was Mission: Impossible (1996).

I'm going to tell my kids this was Blue Man Group.

“I’m dismayed you suspect my motives. Allow me to show you this scale model of our city with my planned additions. Would I have had this small city constructed at great expense if I was doing anything untoward?”

@kibblesmith.com I watched this adaptation of your comic and it feels like they took some liberties.

If Lt Columbo ever turned back and said “just one more thing” to *me*, I would simply have not been taunting him about how he didn’t have any proof that I had murdered someone.

You're telling me this plate is made out of cheese?

The Sting (1973) was set in 1936, so the same time gap today would be a grift set in 1986 and yeah, that totally tracks.