*youth pastor voice* Let me tell you kids about another carpenter who wasn’t very popular with the authorities

Big Friday night plans: gonna have my first Grinch Meal Immersive Gastro-Erotic Experience™️

I drove 50 miles outside of Pittsburgh today, mostly through small towns. It used to be the case that, as soon as I'd get 5 minutes outside of the city, I'd see Trump and "Let's Go Brandon" signs everywhere. I did not see a single one today. 🤔

He just did to the president of the United States what Kendrick Lamar did to Drake with this one

Here's a fun montage of Halloween footage from home movies and stock footage. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNuY...

All week I keep refreshing the shipping tracking and looking at photos of my latest sweater purchase and just getting ridiculously giddy.

Because I expect every action of this admin being intentionally, cartoonishly evil, I anticipate the new wing of the White House being torn down sometime after the revolution, and we'll find that it's literally constructed on and with human remains or something equally disturbing.

I had three events in 24 hours (all with varying degrees of 16mm projection, including a projectionist's workout with a Rose Lowder show as the second of those), and I had to go 40 hours without a wink of sleep, but I survived and all events somehow went pretty smoothly and now I feel superhuman.

Yes, I finally did the thing: I bought overpriced Sabrina Carpenter tickets. My first time ever for an arena pop show. I figure I should have the experience at least once in my life. (And, after sitting with it for over a month, I will say that the new album is quite good!)

Some fresh picks for you this week: 🧟The Mattress Factory puts its own twist on the season with Rot and Resurrection: two films by Rebecca Shapass 💐Or you can smell the roses at CMOA with 16mm shorts by legendary experimental filmmaker Rose Lowder, courtesy of us at Pgh Sound + Image 1/3

Greetings, fellow Cinema Respecters!

I'm *so* close to becoming the crank who just starts yelling at public TVs tuned into the news.

Leia's first selfie

Crazy busy day ahead of me, but then I realized that it's finally cold enough to wear a sweater while I'm out. And then I had no fear.

I'm not really into streaming movies, but I'm into streaming emails. "Oh, sorry, I missed your email when it came into the inbox, and then it just floated right on down the stream to the unread ocean."

taking it back 👇 www.tiktok.com/@ashleyryant...

This is real btw

Deep into another Grouper-heavy autumn (for something like the 18th year in a row) and this is still just one of the sweetest songs. clatsopanimalassistance.bandcamp.com/track/little...

i want to go to a sit-down restaurant called "sauceway" that's just a maze of tubes twisting all over the ceiling and to every table, delivering a variety of sauces with the push of a button, traveling at the speed of sauce.

choad (noun) - an account with a follower count smaller than its post count

I'm sitting here watching over and over again the moment where he says it. I'm studying the non-reactions from his co-hosts. This is one of the purest moving image depictions I've seen of our present moment of fascism taking deeper hold over the US. This should be shown everywhere.

Potential title for my next gofundme scam: "Master record collector needs fingertip transplants"

We've reached a lethal level of political fanaticism where it's not only unsafe to vocally disagree with the far right, but it's also expected that you adopt their heroes and show reverence or face consequences. This is fascism.

shrinkflation is hitting the wal-mart clearance section really hard these days

TONIGHT: an evening of experimental cinema, dance, music, and movement Eric Theise returns with his one-of-a-kind cartographic performance. A who's who of local artists welcome him with dance and music! I'll kick off the evening with a few 16mm shorts. Starts at 8 at the Glitterbox!

Film in Pittsburgh is 🔥🔥🔥

Semi-regular reminder that Sabrina Carpenter's real name is Arlene Kraulick #doyourownresearch #releasethetapes

I haven't found my new songs of this summer, but I *have* found my potato chips of this summer: Hal's jalapeno kettle chips (the best and spiciest jalapeno chips I've had, and I try every brand I find) and Herr's horseradish cheddar chips. I'm not living if my tongue isn't tingling just a tad!🤌

I have literally never used ChatGPT to do anything. Gonna start a chastity club.

I've been a part of a lot of events lately, but special shout out to this one coming to Pittsburgh on Sunday: Sleazy Femme Film Festival Queer short films from all over the world! With director/curator Maren Moreno in-person. Sunday,8/3 at 8 pm at the Glitterbox! Tickets available at the door.

I stupidly left my 16mm Freaks (the good print, not the crummier Esper dupe I also have) on the rewinds as I walked away for 15 mins, and I came back to find out that Leia had punctured several holes in it with her claws and teeth! But I'm not even mad. It's so cute to imagine her playing with it!

Just to reiterate this film is a key cinema destination in Pittsburgh right now

[Using my pedantic voice] That's a pro level monitor and also definitely not a consumer VCR with all those knobs, so we never had that kinda setup in my public schools. Though, I do currently have that exact monitor (PVM-2530) and identical AV cart, and I last used it to play NES Metroid.

diesel is my bb and my whole heart

Needed this reminder today.

Pittsburgh film folks: go to Row House's sweded film fest! Starts today, running for a week. Laugh, drink, make out with your cutie, be merry...and then vote for our There Will Be Blood swede!

aaaand...there's the pick me up i needed!

bummer www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBAh...

As a night owl, I feel so attacked having to report for jury duty at 8:30 AM. Like, imagine ordering a person on a more socially acceptable sleeping schedule to report somewhere at 4 AM, and you get the idea!

This is my occassional request to takeout/delivery restaurants to please stop using staples on your packaging! I have ended up with staples in food twice because of this. (One of those ended up in my mouth before I caught it!) Please, just tape the damn bag!

Next up: Musk takes up residence on Mars, imagining that he can use his DOGE data mine to create "America 2."

Okay, so what accounts do I follow for the most cutting edge info on this summer's new pop girlies? (Sincere question)

Accurate

Thanks to @wormsgreenrealm.bsky.social for the kind words about our most recent show! "This round of FILMO...showing film is as playful as it is serious, as ridiculous as it is instructive, low-brow as well as high (sometimes in the same single film)." artofilliterates.substack.com/p/on-filmo-a...

But this not just Gaza’s story. It is the story of the future, the story of the decades to come. It is the story of how violence and genocide will define the coming decades if the precedent set in Gaza is established and passes without accountability and justice.

I've always loved a good sweater (especially a striped one), but some kind of flip switched in my brain recently that has me spending time every day obsessing over various designs, color combos, and fabrics. It has culminated in me dreamily looking at this $1250 sweater every day for a week! 😂

This is an eye-opening moment for me. There was: before I saw this video, and then there is *after* I saw this video. I've been going about my life all wrong!

generations, like laws, are fake plenty of old people suck, plenty of young people suck, and tribalism gets us nowhere

I made a post recently about being a "neophile luddite," and the secret is that I was mostly being serious about it!