It never fails to delight me just how much the late Gene Siskel fucking loved Babe and Babe: Pig In The City. Dude went to the grave stanning for that lil pig.

Respectfully, I think Edgar Wright’s The Running Man overestimates the power of zines.

I enjoyed Predator: Badlands so much I almost forgot I have a gig tomorrow.

Los Angeles suffered tremendously because of the wildfires. The president of the United States has wanted to make the immigrants who make the city suffer and declared war on the city. But all throughout it, L.A. makes it work daily. It’s a place where people go to make it. LA deserves this.

LA right now:

Aaand here come the fireworks.

A 2021 study from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics showed that 52% of all trips in the U.S. were less than three miles. 28% of trips were less than one mile. With slight tweaks, many of those trips could be done on bikes, e-bikes and other light electric vehicles, and walking.

I shouldn’t have to say this but Christ, specific actors get cast in specific movies for a reason. Their performances are more than just their likeness, it’s a million little choices that only that actor could make. Slapping a shitty Brad Pitt skin on Kaluya’s performance wouldn’t make it his

Leavitt: "At this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president's main priority."

I took the train to LAX today. Even without the finished people mover and having to take a shuttle the last mile it only took me 35 minutes. Now if we could just do something about a beer at the terminal costing $19.

Jesus Christ. I just left the new Kathryn Bigelow movie and even though it was about nuclear Armageddon, it still felt like escapist entertainment watching a president and SecDef who weren’t fucking drooling idiots.

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

Had another incredible CicLAvia today. Rode through neighborhoods I’d never seen. Saw so many different kinds of people out and on two wheels. It’s incredible how much a city comes alive when you get rid of even a few cars.

Every single day living in the United States.

Just got out of the Way of Water release in 4DX. Best 4DX experience I've ever had by a country mile. (Payakan splashed me!) Can't wait for Fire and Ash to come out.

People of Illinois, we need your help. Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

The editor and nearly all reporters at the Homer News, Peninsula Clarion, and Juneau Empire announced their resignations after corporate management deleted content from a story about Charlie Kirk in response to a complaint from a Republican state lawmaker. www.juneauindependent.com/post/editor-...

This just in: Nazi site popular with Nazis.

Is there an app to keep track of American mass shootings

Dave Matthews has the opportunity to do the funniest thing.

I came into The Long Walk as it was already on screen. Based off the rest of the movie I’m assuming I missed a lengthy scene where the characters trade discuss their socks/choice of shoes. Me? I’m bringing Keens with some thick wool boys on that walk. Spoilers: The kid in Chucks didn’t make it.

My fiancee thinks I can be too fatalistic about things, but who cares we’re all gonna die…

the US if Tylenol actually caused autism

I hate it here.

I’m no @legaleagle.tv , but if I’m the company who makes Tylenol, I’d be calling my lawyers right about now.

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

Seth Meyers right now:

As a kid I never would have expected that the fate of America’s free democracy would so heavily involve not one but TWO hosts of The Man Show.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

SISKEL & EBERT, which premiered #OTD in 1986, had a master class of an opening sequence. Thirty-five seconds, 21 shots, and a flawless establishment of the professional rivalry of two Chicago newspapermen who inspired a generation of film buffs. #FilmSky #TVSky

Can’t wait to see The Newsroom episode about all this.

Ebike round two courtesy of the folks at Upway Cycles. No one steal this one please and thank you.

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents. In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.

“The new @lindsayellis.bsky.social video has everything: Analysis of pre-K children’s entertainment, doomsday cults, digressions about Andrew Lloyd Webber, Rwandan genocide—“

Just watched Zach Creggor’s opus. Also I saw Weapons.

civilization vi leader two turns before you destroy his lone attacking trebuchet unit with a missile cruiser

The White House walls right now:

I just watched a man eat a pickle… with a knife and fork. Do I call the police?

Every movie wherein Stephen Root played a blind man was nominated for multiple Oscars. No one has yet to take advantage of this statistical certainty.

Should we be concerned about LLMs being trained with the Necronomicon?

Y-you- you’re thinking about this all wrong, as if I had the Epstein files back in a safe. The Epstein files aren’t here — the Epstein files are in Joe’s house, and Mrs. Menklin’s house, and a hundred others

What a biker actually hitting a pedestrian looks like

If people are mad that Superman (2025) is vaguely an immigrant allegory, they’re gonna be furious when they watch the Coneheads movie.

I need somebody at NBC/SNL to upload the full Michael McDonald’s McDonald’s sketch.

Reading @benmckenzie.bsky.social ‘s book Easy Money. Enjoying it so far but I’m shocked that, when having to describe how Ponzi schemes work, he doesn’t mention the cautionary tale of Jimmy Cooper.

Feeling more and more like this guy every day.

Just got out of a 35mm screening of The Commitments at The Academy Museum. Apparently it’s only available print in the US. Great flick. Loved hearing the writers and sound recordist talk before the show. Stuff like this is why I stay in LA despite, you know, everything else.

STOLEN BIKE ALERT - Blue Lectric XP Lite 2.0. Stolen at 3pm from the Whole Foods in Culver City, CA. Still waiting on the serial number and any security cam footage but this is a recent photo showing off the accessories the bike had as of today.

How it started; how it’s going. #BikeLA #Cycling #AssholeStoleMyGoddamnEbike