i’m so tired of biopics. no more biopics.

Judy is a cop

I often think about this quote from the Over the Garden Wall art book

When Joe Dante directed Gremlins, he eventually got to the point where he’d address the Gizmo puppet directly as if he were a person instead of the puppeteers. I think that energy is important when making a Gremlins movie.

we just don’t make movies with the same energy anymore

my takeaway from Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is that going on boat with a group of fellas would fix me

some say the original Woke 1 is the best. others say that the series peaked with Woke 2, but I think Woke 3 is actually really great.

damn relentless hope lol

actually, a better world is possible

I watched Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World and now I want a boat.

today was a good day for all of the dangerous lunatics, haters, and punk trash (complimentary)

Democratic party leadership has been on autopilot for ten years, they weren't losing to fascism, fascism isn't popular enough for them to lose to fascism, they were allowing it to fill the void where their leadership should have been. Tonight we're seeing that we have other options. They should too.

woke is back, baby

Woke 2 Timeline update

It’s time to celebrate

thinking a lot about how mad max: fury road is about rediscovering a sense of community and hope after your humanity has been stripped away by the daily viscitudes of survival in the apocalypse

David Graeber, a Jewish New Yorker, would be smiling today to see a Socialist win in his city.

he’s running

this is how we win, by building a coalition.

how are we supposed to make it through no nut November with all of this good news

A perfect video to post today

My high school graduating class created an art book featuring short stories, poems, photography, and illustrations. The editor asked me to contribute, so I made a one-panel cartoon lampooning Dick Cheney. The editor later informed me that our principal saw the piece and laughed.

In the words of Barry Crimmins, never shake hands with a war criminal.

there was a time i never thought i could hate a politician more than i hated that guy. in retrospect, very naive of me

I really love this Vincent Van Gogh quote: "To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace." No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.

(quietly to myself) i would like an aloof wife

the acme corporation have endorsed andrew cuomo

FACT: you should be sappier with your friends and loved ones. there is no reason not to be.

can’t tell if my antidepressants aren’t working or if they just weren’t built for this. like, zoloft was introduced in the 90s it barely needed to work then. if you got sad you could just buy a house.

Yorgos Lanthimos asks, “Will anyone match my freak?” and real ones answer, “Yes.”

If you’re celebrating Godzilla Day without a Godzilla (1998) Taco Bell car cup holder you’re doing it wrong.

John Carpenter is a big fan of Godzilla and wrote a lovely foreword for the book "Godzilla: The First 70 Years." Here’s an excerpt.

People Magazine just announced their 2025 “Sexiest Man Alive”:

Happy Godzilla day

RIP Adam Greenberg He was the superb cinematographer who shot Near Dark (watch it!), Terminator 2: Judgment Day and, of course, The Terminator, which means he’s responsible for one of my favourite shots in cinema that also coined a new genre for its film:

The Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy, to me, is about finding the will to live after enduring a great deal of pain. The universe can be capricious and brutal, but we still have each other. It’s okay to give a shit.

“Gallows humor and a keen bullshit detector are necessary for survival, but reflexive nihilism and blind obedience are deeply uncool. The ultimate rebellion is optimism.” An excellent piece by @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social.

I wrote a piece on the work of writer and director James Gunn, who is engaged in a pretty incredible ongoing enterprise that despises bigotry and authoritarianism and reaffirms patriotism for progressives. www.vulture.com/article/jame...

I keep thinking about Kiki’s Delivery Service and how it grapples with the struggle of keeping your creative spirit alive while commodifying your talent to survive.

me putting on a Cake album

are we allowed to talk about how eating breakfast is good again yet or is that still, like, off limits

Guy who’s watched 100 TV series: Succession is perhaps the finest TV drama since the Sopranos. Guy who’s watched 1,000 TV series: Cadillacs and Dinosaurs’ series finale was based on a story by Harlan Ellison and written by the defining 1987 Ninja Turtles writer David Wise,

this feels like the most aughts thing

Bugonia: Someone in the audience yelled “I love Stavvy” during Stavros Halkias’s first scene and then yelled “What the fuck?” during his second scene.