see that old man in that booth over there? he doesn't look like much now but in his heyday he was the biggest name in agribusiness lobbying. remember when creamed spinach was on every steakhouse menu in the country? all him. only mistake he ever made was he didn't see kale coming a mile away

“You’re a machine" “No I wish. This is a prop from the classic NBC series Super Computer. 1975 to 1875" Every time I rewatch 30 Rock it goes up a rung in my all time list!

The joy around neutrals on Arsenal losing the UCL final is perhaps the biggest barometer on them being a real club. If I were an Arsenal fan, I’d wear it as a badge of honour. City won a treble and I sometimes forget it. Arsenal went unbeaten in the 2000’s and you’ll never hear the end of it!

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

Also I’m messing around with this new fangled ‘video podcast’ thing →

Syndicated my letterboxd reviews onto the site (and shamelessly stolen from Soderbergh). Also accidentally created a table of contents, so perhaps I’ll just keep updating this throught the year: www.purplereview.com/posts/third-...

Data visualization is my passion

J'Acuzzi

hey john. its your cousin marvin. marvin cage! you know that new sound youve been looking for? well listen to this *hangs up phone*

For years Halt and Catch Fire has been my white whale. I know I’ll love it, but everytime I start it (including its original airing) something gets in the way. Just loaded up episode one and loving it. Will see how far I get...

There was a time where I could search for a half remembered quote and get its source on Google. Those days are long gone. Just an absolute shell of a product, and has ironically made switching easier since I’ve got very little to lose

How can you not feel romantic about space exploration

Completely forgot how cool a real rocket launch feels.

Where there’s a will there’s a way my friend

a lot of people try to do the work without reading the theory first

Sheep took flight on her LMFAO

What if Michael B Jordan had spent his thank-you speech taking precision shots at opera and ballet

Timmy’s on a generation run. Shame he’s come up against such strong competition. Genuinely might be one of the strongest Academy Awards suite of nominees.

You watch this celebration of One Battle After Another and Sinners and the clear takeaway is that Warner Bros has be sold!

go watch the secret agent. moviemaking at its finest. superb acting and a love song to a city. Recife lived up to the hype. Brazil in all its tropical surrealist sublime slate.com/culture/2025...

This is going to lose me the entire pool. Unbelievable. Leonardo di Caprio is my only hope

Community, Happy Endings, New Girl, and Childish Gambino. Ludwig really composed the soundtrack to my teenage years. Surely he’s a lock to win next year as well

Can we be honest? Ludwig never misses.

I’m gonna eat crow on my best supporting actor prediction. I just know it.

The Oscar’s are doing ties now? Games gone

The casting in The Secret Agent is nothing short of genius. That’s my only comment.

Think the country of Canada got thanked before God

Amy Madigan’s win is huge for me; the one person that corectly predicted in my Oscar pool

I love the movies

This might be the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time

Its a bad thing for celebrities to be able to quickly share their thoughts. Perhaps also bad for regular people. But not me though; I’m the exception.

Considering the negative reactions to Wuthering Heights, I think we’re going to go through the Joker/Joker 2 cycle. The flaws that are rightly called out in the second were there in the first, but ignored and praised. And I feel like I’m losing my mind.

Will be posting more for a while. See how it goes.

Spent a bunch of time checking out the Substack social feed trying to put together why it felt so strange. It’s filled with a bunch of losers who don’t know it. Theres a specific desparation to be, not liked or loved, but thought of as cool. Very off putting

New Air Bud coming out this year. Huge for me who’s relationship to the franchise began and ended with the quote “ain't no rules says a dog can’t …" Terrible grasp of legal theory. Hilarious concept!

Jodie Foster: They should have sent a poet Poet: Aliens ahoy! A galactic sight. When you’re in space all day is night

God I love #afcon You can’t write this

Jonathan Hickman does not miss. Just finished Avengers vs Aliens after taking @patrickhwillems.bsky.social ’s advice. What a ride!

does arsene wenger enjoy watching this arsenal team lol

this is correct

i just think everyone would be happier in life if they accepted that sometimes referees will make decisions they disagree with.

“I never faint because I’m not sure that I will fall gracefully, and I never use smelling salts because they puff up the eyes. I’m Christine Vole.” What an introduction!

Someone please please buy my Brighton tickets off the TX. You know, maybe one of you that lives really close but complains there are no tickets. Please. Thanks.

The brilliance of Citizen Kane grows when you watch other films from that time period. Whatever their quality, they seem dated, while Kane is clearly heralding a time-to-come

Might block out my Saturday to clean and finally watch Lawrence of Arabia

New: I went on a months-long treasure hunt for 1,200+ books spanning 450+ years to digitize Daniel Updike’s Printing Types from 1922, detailing the history of printing and typography. Made a nifty poster too. Explore: www.c82.net/printing-types How it was made: www.c82.net/blog/?id=100

telling girls that I've had the "history of UPN" Wikipedia article open in my browser for several days