@jodyavirgan.com I loved the Christine Jorgensen episode! But no aside about Ed Wood and how Jorgensen inspired GLEN OR GLENDA? My film nerd heart breaks. 😁

Hollywood is Dead. Long Live Hollywood. Netflix's Potential Purchase of Warner Bros. and the End of Hollywood (As We Know It… Now) NOAF co-founder @scifiromance.bsky.social has a piece on this at the NOAF blog www.nerds-feather.com/2025/12/holl...

Today I take on the sale of Warner Bros. over at @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social. Whoever wins, the audience loses, and Hollywood will be changed forever. “Hollywood is Dead. Long Live Hollywood.” www.nerds-feather.com/2025/12/holl...

I showed two of the kids PLANES, TRAINS, AND AUTOMOBILES. Their favorite gag was reversing through the motel room, and favorite lines were: “Those…aren’t…pillows!” and “You play with your balls a lot.” Good choices.

Finally watching A COMPLETE UNKNOWN as a big ol’ folk nerd. I liked it, but felt like the better project is a Cinematic Universe where Lead Belly gets the first movie, then Woody, then Pete, then Odetta, then Joan and Johnny and Bob in no particular order.

The cats don’t like each other, but they both like me, and I guess 1950s science fiction.

Book Review: EC Comics Library: Weird Science Vol. 1 (Taschen) The Rolls-Royce Collection of Era-Defining Sci-Fi Comics NOAF co-founder @scifiromance.bsky.social has our review at the blog: www.nerds-feather.com/2025/10/book...

Somehow SPECIES — the 1995 sci-fi alien boob movie — stars Ben Kingsley, Forest Whitaker, Michael Madsen, and Michelle Williams.

Cult Film Review: In The Mouth of Madness (1994) Cosmic horror without the Lovecraft @scifiromance.bsky.social has our look back at the movie at the NOAF blog www.nerds-feather.com/2025/10/cult...

September is Suicide Prevention Month, and this is a reminder that you matter. You do. But if you’re struggling and need to talk to somebody, please reach out in the US to the 988 crisis lifeline via phone or text. youtu.be/86TGHzKWXsI?...

Tomas Lindberg, vocalist for At the Gates, has died at 52. It’s impossible to overstate the impact At the Gates had on me musically. I even arranged their song “And the World Returned” for string quartet and that’s what my wife walked down the aisle to at our wedding. He will be deeply missed.

Today @nerdsofafeather.bluesky.social I discuss MENTAL HYGIENE, the last word on 1950s-1960s classroom educational films. It’s a blast to read, and also helps illuminate the broader social dynamics of the time. Hint: the 1950s weren’t some golden paradise. www.nerds-feather.com/2025/09/book...

Book Sale Finds: Mental Hygiene by Ken Smith Editor @scifiromance.bsky.social has not had this much fun with a book in quite some time. It chronicles the many hundreds of classroom educational films produced in the mid 20th century His piece at the NOAF blog: www.nerds-feather.com/2025/09/book...

Groypers CANNOT be allowed to have Bella Ciao

As we round the bend into Spooky Season, I revisited something I wrote about FRANKENSTEIN for @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social back in 2018. One day it will not be so relevant. I look forward to that day. www.nerds-feather.com/2018/11/fran...

After the unjustified firing of the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, I encourage everyone to read John Lanchester’s look at the BLS in Michael Lewis’ WHO IS GOVERNMENT? collection or online in the (lamentable) Washington Post. (No paywall) www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...

WOLF CHILDREN is a simply gorgeous movie.

I live in LA and there are no riots here. There are protests, and there has been a little vandalism, but these are extremely isolated. The greater lawlessness is an unnecessary military escalation in order to make sensational B-roll packages on Fox News.

New music day. This is an old song, a folk standard, but these days I felt like doing a foot-stomping, hand-clapping old-time end-times jam as a way to sing back against the dread. You know the dread. Plus, my daughter’s on chorus vocals. It’s on all the streamers. open.spotify.com/track/3tDoMP...

“Guitar iz for cat?”

I like Jesse Welles’ stuff, but this new one is next level. We need all the socially-conscious music we can get these days. open.spotify.com/track/5jsoqK...

I think the most embarrassing thing about Trump is how he is such a scared little boy. When a reporter has enough guts to confront him, he is so afraid of getting in trouble he runs away like a child. “This is the first I’m hearing. I had nothing to do with it. I don’t know anything about it.”

Even our work fridge denounces illegal detention and rendition of immigrants.

Thank goodness for kitties.

When I ordered the new Taschen collection of EC Comics’ WEIRD SCIENCE, I had no idea the physical book would be as big as my daughter.

Thousands of people out in LA for the Bernie/AOC Fighting Oligarchy event. Any mention in the LA Times…? 🦗🦗🦗 www.youtube.com/live/mU_GhbF...

@jodyavirgan.com I just listened to the Graceland episode. Have you heard the Justin Townes Earle version of the title track? Production stripped away and just the glorious songwriting on display. youtu.be/BUN_IyupnJI?...

Guys, @kimmasters.bsky.social is just the best. We need more Kim Masterses.

The Trump and Bukele regimes don’t want Abrego Garcia returned because if he comes back, he will talk to the media.

This museum is amazing. It is a gem of Los Angeles.

I’m trying hard not to think of the world the way it could’ve been. In 71 days they have destroyed what will take generations to rebuild. In four years, I’m not sure what could even be left. In longer than four years… What a world we lost.

These fucking clowns asked AI to come up with a disastrous economic formula, and then applied it across the countries in the CIA World Factbook and now the stupidest among us have dominion over all the Earth.

It’s almost like electing an ignorant, racist, lying, incurious clown and a cadre of people who only tell him “yes” has consequences. Horrible, horrible consequences.

I loathe Josh Hawley, but nothing I can say about him is as brutal a takedown as this fact-based recap of his resume by @michaelhobbes.bsky.social

In light of current events, I have evolved on one policy position in particular. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I am now pro-Pinky and the Brain global takeover.

Um…is the point of ANORA that I should want to kill everybody in it?

Every week on the Scriptnotes podcast, they include an outro made by a listener, that incorporates the 5-note Scriptnotes tag. As a tribute to #DavidLynch, I re-created the TWIN PEAKS opening theme. Thanks to @johnaugust.bsky.social and co. for including it this week.

Wearing my orange vest and tackling BACK TO THE FUTURE 1-3 today with my girls. They’ve never seen 2 or 3. We just got to 2015, and they keep saying, “Wait…in 2015!?!?” 😂

Outfit power-up unlocked #horrorpunk #bluey

Currently working on some animation for a public service announcement. I’m not terribly adept at animation, but I love doing it so, so much.

Can you imagine being so soulless that you could, in good conscience, be the face of one of the countless, obvious grifts that we see all around us at all times now? For some money?

Amazing. apnews.com/article/colu...

I played music on a stage in front of people tonight for the first time in like six years.

Yesterday, my 15-year-old daughter made a “Whitey on the Moon” joke, and I couldn’t be more proud 😂

The thing Zelenskyy wanted in that phone call was a White House visit. He never caved, Trump got impeached. Now we see the WH visit. It’s possible this whole production — destroying 80 years of global order — was just revenge for not investigating Hunter Biden. What an awful, stupid timeline.

Naomi Watts’ transformation from Betty to Diane in MULLHOLLAND DR is one of the greatest acting feats on film ever. Transcendent.

Even more true this week…

The @washingtonpost.com is fucking useless now. An absolute debasement of the institution that brought down Nixon and shone a light on the perversions of the Vietnam War.

Why did they take over the Kennedy Center? Because the arts matter. They have power. The arts can laugh at or skewer people in power. Don’t forget.