The UFW stands w/ @sbworkersunited.org workers going on strike today. For nearly 4 yrs, Starbucks baristas have been fighting for a fair union contract, just like the fight that farmworkers face, far too often, when up against greedy employers. Join us in our support. #NoContractNoCoffee

played to a nearly empty house at Sherman Oaks Galleria except for us and some confused, irritated, loud grandparents sluggish.ghost.io/too-christma...

Indeed. Moving the clock simply means it will be dark later in the morning or dark earlier in the evening. Pick one.

It's been moving around film festivals this year, now available for pre-order on Blu-ray, and I would like to tell you about -- though not review -- my friend Dave Markey's new film, THE SECRET LIVES OF BILL BARTELL sluggish.ghost.io/the-jaw-drop...

We aren't waving hello we are counting to 15 and @graedrake.bsky.social just likes whipped cream in a can. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/6...

a little late and a little little, here's a quick review of BUGONIA sluggish.ghost.io/bugonia-is-n...

When you are not in any real danger and cannot manufacture suspense, tell your dumb little anecdote anyway. sluggish.ghost.io/i-love-los-a...

standing astride BUGONIA's flat earth

Alonso Duralde quote of the day: "This is no orange, it's a tangelo. I know when I'm being ripped off."

Go in the morning to the Farmer's Market lot, get a donut at Bobs, validate your ticket for free parking, walk over to B&N near the Santa Claus house, they open at 10am, say hey to our friend Dean who works there, buy all the copies they have, clean them out, distribute to cinema-loving friends.

I put one big zucchini, one stalk of broccoli, and one bundle of leeks on the scale at the 3-for-$5 lady's kiosk at the farmer's market and she routinely loads up my bag with double the amount that I've selected, without comment. I'm both grateful and confused and next week we are to be married.

The remarkable filmmaker Peter Watkins—THE WAR GAME (1966), PRIVILEGE (1967), PUNISHMENT PARK (1971), EDVARD MUNCH (1974), LA COMMUNE (PARIS, 1871 (2000) has died. He’d just turned 90 on Wednesday. @theguardian.com — www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!

leather soled cap-toe lace ups and slippery polished dance floors and new hips sluggish.ghost.io/step-up-2-th...

Is it Halloween yet?

It was either this or think about the collapse of everything. sluggish.ghost.io/trying-to-ca...

brownie funeral sluggish.ghost.io/eat-your-own...

Your teeth in my neck, etc sluggish.ghost.io/notes-on-rad...

very few people clicked on this and i'm convinced it's because of the accompanying photo. it's not about wicked or defying gravity at all, but the reticence amuses me. anyway, it's about noise, and that will bother an entire other set of people. sluggish.ghost.io/ipod-track-4...

One time, I made a HELLRAISER-themed birthday cake for a friend and on it I wrote, "We'll tear Aaron's soul apart" and the Aaron in question really liked that. sluggish.ghost.io/archive-the-...

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For example, the latest revised and expanded edition of Alonso Duralde's HAVE YOURSELF A MOVIE LITTLE CHRISTMAS, with like a hundred new titles in it. bookshop.org/p/books/have...

The 70s were the best.

This is two sentences joined by a semicolon.

yr flesh has a limit sluggish.ghost.io/n/

i want to save you 25 cents on monster vitamins

When Alonso comes home from a press screening for a film I haven't seen yet: "You'll love it. It's a sad movie about failure."

This will be a vote to erase 50 years of medical and psychiatric knowledge and kill gay and trans kids, because MAGA Republicans feel that in a better world, fewer of them would exist. It is that simple. Democrats must make SCOTUS expansion part of the party platform. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

RIP KEN JACOBS one of the last masters of lo-fi avant garde cinema. if you don't know his work, do yourself a favor and check it out no firewall www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/m...

He laughs at me for looking up the menu online before we go but I like to have a plan and I know I'm right.

I will use this column to hype my dude sluggish.ghost.io/a-straight-u...

They can't all be super meaningful. In fact, most of them just won't be. sluggish.ghost.io/look-at-this...

sluggish archive time sluggish.ghost.io/archive-leav...

please enjoy one critic after another, for a total of two of them. they're nice i like them.

BUY A BOOK. ATTEND A CONVERSATION. LOOK AT MY DUDE AND MY FRIEND.

umbrellas of blerghblergh

Non-journalists really need to understand how everyone in the industry has been laid off, those who wanted to stay have joined an already massive pool of freelancers, and companies have cut freelance rates to almost nothing. Then they sent all the cash left over to their venture capital CEOs.

It played once in Los Angeles, and it's my understanding that it's coming soon to VOD. I loved it and it loved me back. sluggish.ghost.io/the-flowers-...

S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y night! Dave and introduce a 30th anniversary screening of SHOWGIRLS at the 29 Queer Film Festival. @dlelandwhite.bsky.social #filmsky 📽 www.29qff.com

a cute little milk chocolate dracula in a colorful foil wrapper from the vermont country store catalog's selection of halloween candy sluggish.ghost.io/archive-suck...

CHARLOTTE'S WEB made me a lifelong fan of spiders and their talents. Web at a window? Great. Other bugs not coming in. Good job. I just found one making a web connecting the kitchen counter to the refrigerator door and I was like, "DID THEY TEACH YOU NOTHING AT SPIDER SCHOOL?" Anyway it's dead now.

this is about SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE sluggish.ghost.io/this-photo-o...