Needing a 6-digit verification code to my phone to log into my bank or something? Sure. Needing a 6-digit verification code to buy tickets from Ticketmaster? Kind of annoying, but OK. Needing a 6-digit verification code to make a fucking reservation at Cheesecake Factory?

Let's pretend he will be held accountable. resist.bot/petitions/PB...

I listed some tickets I am reselling at $165 each, which supposedly includes fees. But I am looking at the sale page and they are listed for $200.08. Considering they are already taking $25 from each ticket off my $165, what is this other $35? Does @ticketmaster.com just LIKE being sued, or....?

"Grow up." - me to today's green category

Whenever somebody is chloroformed in a movie now I instantly think of this

TFW you think about how a cat in a movie looks kind of like yours and then (because it's a horror movie) the cat gets killed. :(

Haven't seen MEMENTO in like 23 years. Hits a lot harder when you've lost a loved one (or three in my case) and your own memory is turning to shit.

Hosting a movie tonight and we have more seats sold for our screen than the rest of the theater (four other screen) combined. That feels nice.

It's rare these things have a single correct answer, but today is the exception, because it's Sonic Youth's "Superstar" cover in the HIGH TENSION trailer. youtu.be/ZsfqXekOvJQ?...

Old man achievement unlocked: my arm is sore today from assembling a desk and a chair for Will. Three different Allen wrenches were involved!

I just got to experience the joy* of Roblox's "prove you are human" system. Pick the traffic lights on a grid of 16 pictures? No. Retype a warped text? No. You have to listen to three increasingly indistinctive robot sounds and pick which of the three is different. Get one (1) wrong? Start over.

Of course I would pull into the drive thru seconds after the person ordering *52* dollars worth of food, so I can sit for ten minutes with the realization that I could have gotten home by the time I get my food. There is simply no alternative.

I am old enough to remember when speech to text worked properly. And if I used speech to text to say that, it would probably read "Mold enough to remember win speech to text work Papa lee."

Very excited for this fall's 30th anniversary tour for 1995's Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness!

The thing with Pennywise telling Richie's future mom about him was colossally fucking stupid. #WelcomeToDerry

Doing the classiest thing you can do in LA. The thing that makes people not just wish they were with you, but wish they KNEW you, just to someday breathe in that rarified air and experience it by proxy. (Going to the Toothsome Chocolate Emporium at Citywalk.)

The wonderful, calming feeling of finding out a mutual is also aware that a certain person in the vicinity is garbage and not to be trusted. It's like "Oh, you're not blind after all, incredible!"

"That is a lesson learned for us." Is it? You have a year until the next one, and you'll just use 2.0 of this bullshit.

Doing a Q&A and the talent's PR wants me to send over the questions for approval. So now I have to remove all the ones about what kind of porn they watch and if they've ever murdered anyone and just stick to "What was the most difficult scene to shoot?"

"I'm not on LinkedIn"

Terry Gilliam, while making BRAZIL, couldn't have dreamed up something this soul crushing. www.wired.com/story/i-work...

Onion final lines are an art form of their own, and this is one of their very best IMO. theonion.com/even-shaq-su...

This is horrible. Two kids lose their dad because, once again, no one knows how to give a shit about anyone else anymore. www.nbcboston.com/investigatio...

Having grown fed up with tax spam calls, I finally just blocked the 833, 844, 855, 866, and 877 area codes entirely. Unfortunately they can still leave voicemails, but at least my phone doesn't ring 10x a day anymore.

Inspired by OBSESSION, thinking of making a list of all the horror movies that wouldn't happen if people knew how to communicate. THE FLY counts! Ronnie can't just tell Seth that Stathis is her ex and just randomly leaves when he's ordering dinner for them. He then gets upset, drunk, and teleports.

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DEATH GAME (1977) dir. Traynor

Bold take.

Will wants to watch GOAT, the animated movie about the goat who plays basketball. These are the things I *won't* miss when he outgrows them. Like if you told me that watching this would get me 10 more nights of being able to read a story to him at bedtime, I'd have to sleep on it.

Nothing is funnier in the history of James Cameron being a dick than when he says 20 minutes into the movie, which he edited, "The credit will be 'directed by Billie Eilish' and then with my name in small print under it" and then the actual credit puts his name first.

"I wish everyone involved with the dance off / car chase / love scene AMC bumper was banished to life in prison" *snaps One Wish Willow*

Mortal Kombat, Devil Wears Prada, Practical Magic... I am glad sequels are embracing numbers again instead of meaningless subtitles.

Look, if anyone has earned the right to do whatever the hell he wants, it's James Cameron. But Avatar 4's complete departure from the first three films was misguided, no matter how you slice it.

Just realized: it is very funny that "Dalia" ranted so much about recasting actors for movie roles. Bit of telling on themselves, perhaps? "I hate when we have to pretend a completely different person is the one we already connected to!"

HOOK.

Despite what I said in my previous post, this is empirically wrong. Jesus Christ. (It's from Threads so probably the point, to rage engage, but just in case.)

Interesting realization: the most abrasive people I've ever known are also the ones who are fully and utterly incapable of even trying to see anything from another person's perspective. Everyone else is wrong, never them. Zero curiosity about "the other man's shoes," as it were. Funny, that.

Using a One Wish Willow to wish I didn't make the sound I made at the car window scare. Horror Movie A Day: Obsession (2025) share.google/orOHJThg87oN...

Xander handled this shit better than Bear. #obsession

Holy shit. Even a B is kind of a big win for horror. Good for all involved!

SUBNAUTICA 2 isn't much different than the first so far, but I'm having a good time. The "find stuff that unlocks recipes that will let you make stuff that gets you further out to find new stuff" loop is very satisfying.

Favorite moment in a movie all year: Liu Kang says that they should split up so they have a better chance at finding the amulet, and then he finds the amulet in the very next shot.

"I will name him Leto. So he would have the voice of an angel." - Zendaya, Dune 3

After three (3) kiddie trailers I realized I was perhaps in the theater for Sheep Detectives and not Mortal Kombat II. New Aardman looks good though!

Cast Mads. It'll be funny.

Obsession has me thinking about that one episode of What We Do in the Shadows where they had lawyers come in to guarantee that the wish did not backfire ironically due to vague wording.

Inferno Hellseeker Deader Hellworld Revelations Judgment

I really should have gotten the Wordle in 1 today. (Took 5)

Since Michael was such a smash hit, it's a good thing they left so much on the table for a sequel!