Finally saw The Long Walk. I’d say I respected it more than I enjoyed it. Unrelentingly grim and sad, a bit stagey and dated, but unquestionably powerful with great performances. Cooper Hoffman is turning out to be as great as his dad.

I always admired Kaleb Horton's writing so much and am terribly sorry to hear of his death. It's a long list of singular writers who didn't have the careers they should have because of the people, places, and things that killed online media, but his name is right at the very top. I hate all of it.

I think that perhaps the biggest disservice that was done to our generation growing up was the notion that racism and hate, while not gone, could possibly be gone within our lifetimes. Intolerance is like herpes. You forget about it, and then it flares up every few years. It will never be cured.

One Battle After Another was tense, funny, spoke directly to our current political climate, and yet was oddly hopeful in a realistic sort of way. Made me think. It's one of my favorite movies of the year.

It might not be perfect, it might be missing some promised audio tracks, it might be spread across a ridiculous number of discs, but the Right Stuf Dirty Pair box finally arrived and I'm pretty happy with it tbh

Was thinking, if somehow Jesus returned and it was indisputably a real miraculous event, how many loving, nonjudgmental, socialist-adjacent things would he get to say before the crazy fundie crowd would be set to declare him a fake and re-crucify?

It's up!

Next episode of The Anime Business going up tomorrow morning at 9am EDT!

Can't believe it's possible, but I'm actually going to be rooting for a drug company in a lawsuit.

watched Mars Express (2023) tonight and folks they're* calling it the most underappreciated animated movie of the last several years. a must-watch if you like sci-fi and/or GITS:SAC *: i'm they boxd.it/b8YrX5

This is not our movie, but if you enjoy things like smiling you REALLY should go see this movie with strangers!

“The History of Sound” should’ve pushed all my buttons. Wistful, understated nostalgic drama about a doomed gay romance with Paul Mezcal. It was well made, but I felt nothing. Maybe it was just too slow a burn, or so restrained that there was nothing to latch onto. What a shame.

underneath all the doom and hideous stuff happening at the top of our country is a more inspiring story: regular Americans are not buying all this crap. and they're still willing to call the government out on it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Look, I appreciate the “stop human trafficking” signs posted at FedEx, but… I don’t really think that’s how they do that

Very good reporting/analysis from @tvmojoe.bsky.social on KImmel/Disney/ABC that provides real answers to many of the "Why don't they just..." questions. www.vulture.com/article/bob-...

Low key rough ass week

It finally happened. I got in trouble in Japanese class for an off-color joke. It wasn’t the one about playing with dead bodies. Or any of the ones about cannibalism. It was the anodyne one about a guy making crane plushies and then finding out they were being enjoyed by furries. 🫣

Important context that I'm not seeing widely reported in Nexstar's leap to cancel Jimmy Kimmel and appease the FCC and the US authoritarian Administration -- Nexstar is seeking FCC approval for a $6.2 billion merger. www.cnbc.com/2025/09/17/c...

The TV networks that are willing to hastily cancel anyone who dares speak are owned by major conglomerates. These companies control so much of our media and can turn it off whenever they see fit, with or without cause. Now is a good reminder to make back ups of downloads & preserve anything you can.

Important to note that the economics of late night daily talk shows stopped working a while ago and so the networks are likely excited to have cloud cover to get rid of em. Legacy media really loves a good smoke after a gasoline bath.

Looks like all the October Discotek titles arrived early at MediaOCD store and are now shipping...

USPS said I had a package coming in from Japan today. I was expecting a hard drive or master tapes or something…

One of those “work out to the Requiem for a Dream soundtrack” mornings

When the feed is boring, that's your cue to go have an experience with something that'll make it less boring for yourself and others later.

relevant life lesson from comics on this one

Please note:

• You no longer need to upgrade your phone more than every 3+ years, 5+ yrs for laptops • Huge increase in authentic Chinese and Mexican food • Ubiquitous captioning • Normies will watch subtitled things • You can spin up an online store in < 2 weeks (I did!) • Even kids get that social media is bad

Gunbuster is back in stock! All the backorders (that don't have other preorders in the order) are now being filled! www.mediaocd.com/product-page...

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

My mistake, I was thinking this had been an oddly chill summer, current-events wise

I just realized I completely screwed up my flight and hotel schedule for my fall Japan trip. I'll deal with it tomorrow. Tonight, I desperately needed to bake Biscoff Butter Chocolate Chip cookies

I like how “crashing out” used to mean going to bed and now it means “lose your shit” because now whenever I’m tired I tell people I’m going to crash out and they get really nice and quiet

Trader Joe’s red lentil pasta is a high protein substitute that, remarkably, doesn’t make me want to immediately kill myself, so it’s going in the meal prep rotation. I hate macro counting so, so much

Not only will they safeguard Mega-Tokyo in 2032, the Knight Sabers will now prevent screen burn-in on your mid '90s CRT monitor - Bubblegum Crisis: The Screensaver! 📖: Animerica, July 1994

Saw Twinless. Great performances, Dylan O'Brien is a standout. Extremely tightly written, although I wish one of the leads was fleshed out more. But one of those personal, smart indie movies that made me love them. (Also very honest about the crap realities of gay life.)

Literally was the guy who got a quizzical look at the record store from buying Enya and KMFDM at the same time. Also I owned the Chess soundtrack on cassette because the CD was out of print at the time, it was the 90s

Artists and writers might not be so opposed to AI if every major AI advocate did not take such pains to announce, as loudly as possible, "I am an asshole." deadline.com/2025/09/ai-t...

Podcasts feelin like YouTube did about a year ago, where all my favorite creators seem like they're running out of steam.

New review! @bleedingcool.com gave 25 Cats from Qatar 9 out of 10! bleedingcool.com/movies/25-ca...

I enjoyed "Caught Stealing" and it totally gave me flashbacks to what NYC was like when I moved there in '99. It's not super compelling but it's a very well made "realistic" crime action film. Wasn't an Austin Butler fan before but I was impressed here.

In middle school our computer lab was ~36 Apple IIe and IIgs’s NetBooting off of a single Mac server. It took 5+ min for them all to boot. Our school didn’t understand computers and everyone knew it. Our teacher was the shop teacher. He had FULL admin privileges. His pw was his first name, “dan” 🧵

THIS. IS. SO. COOL.

Just jogged a mile for the first time since my foot surgery in January, and... I hate to say it, but I really missed it

ICYMI, I added GE999 Eternal Fantasy DVD and the old ver of Megazone BD to the closeouts! We're out of some of the A-ko sequels, Baldios and Lupin Pt IV, so gotta act fast! Hopefully more Discotek closeouts coming soon. This went way better than we anticipated. www.mediaocd.com/category/ons...

Changing all your search engine defaults to Duck Duck Go is such a flex. I've been COMPLETELY oblivious to all of Google's enshitification as of late.

I never turned off the push notifications I get from the MediaOCD store. My phone pings every time there's an order. Today @miketoole.com asked me if my phone was blowing up from all the Gunbuster panic buying. I told him, it was like if Henry Cavill went on Grindr.

Aaaand they're gone. I've opened up a limited number of backorders, since it seems we have a window to get more.

Word is out, Gunbuster is leaving the Discotek catalog and likely bound for licensing hell. Still some copies at the MediaOCD Store, so get it while you can! www.mediaocd.com/product-page...

CR messed up on the back end one time and throttled everyone's bitrate the original apology, which I wrote, stated that we messed up and wouldn't do it again PR tossed it, then rewrote it into some weird non-apology that sounded more like a sales pitch then I tweeted the truth and got in trouble😀