A Ceremony of Carols is mid-century hipster music

[gonzo voice] and the Grink, who was NOT there,

We apologize for the error.

Shrek v Grinch: Whoever Wins, We Lose

over at @theatlantic.com, they let me write about how Heat is just a regular-type romance movie. here’s a guest link www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...

I did not leave the house today, but on the downside I was quite productive

What I'm wearing to the Blue Sky Christmas party

Interviewer of Disturbed Person Also Disturbed

product called bar keeper's enemy and it's just gunk and muck

ever get behind someone checking in a family with 6 kids at the doctor office

Vegan Hot Dog Simulator

“Deeply poetic and unacceptably gross” is a hell of a description

Buddy, I couldn't get her to shut up when she was alive.

Universal’s Dark Universe has been rebooted

just spent 8 hours dealing with a Mom Christmas Crisis: the tree fell over this morning and she blew out her power this afternoon.

well I bought a fancy* microphone at a thrift store, but I’m not starting a podcast *compared to my work headset. It appears to be this one:

Santa has a list of good and bad children. Yet another third party harvesting data.

The irony that Hugh Jackman is playing a real life Milwaukee notable, and it’s not the Milverine.

When we were leaving the pizza place last night, there was a women wearing a shirt for the band Train and she had completely smothered her pizza slice in ranch. Absolutely unhinged shit.

I’m the guy who storms out of the theatre when a movie isn’t inspired by real events

it has been 0 days since I made an ironic purchase

baking baguettes and pressure canning chicken stock

“I have another mission for you, Rick”

my uncle just concluded our phone call with ‘hang loose’

what does it say that I have read books by two different people I stumbled across on social media, and they’re both historical noirs

just because someone’s last name is pronounced News-y doesn’t make them news worthy

love this trucking company’s anime-like mascot

The notes of the C major scale? You mean the big naturals?

Thunderbolts asks the question: what if your character’s internal conflict could be externalized

MILF Tormé

I have a friend who will sometimes send me screenshots of bullshit social media posts and ask me what I think about them. Totally deranged.

when u had to get an annual checkup (he’s fine)

‘I didn’t say I was an Avatar fan, I said I was an avid Tar fan’

I do not want to move him

Extruded Plastic Dingus

Yes

this is probably the best film out of Frankenheimer’s post-RFK assassination* period (say up to French Connection II) *he gave RFK a ride to the event where he was killed

The statistics are staggering

making everyone around me clap simultaneously when I fuck up so I know to edit it out of my memory later

[calculating the distance between me and where DELIVERANCE was filmed] uh oh

do NOT trust this man, he is NOT a doctor

new DC villain just dropped

I do not think this rural thrift store understands their own sign

is bugonia an acceptable post- holiday meal movie to watch with your parents bc that’s what me and Dan are doing rn

fled to the basement to watch GET SHORTY

“Hardscrabble Road” is a bit too on the nose

watching a bad Spaghetti Western in the traditional manner: via some weird channel in a cabin that is showing a damaged print