Zach Malm

As someone who has at times muted the word "golf" on these apps (but still very much enjoys a game of silly midcentury mini golf), "the profoundly insignificant game of leisure golf" is an all-timer for me.

Kristi Noem on her first day as Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas

The ideal scenario here is he devotes most of his time to hosting a vanity reality show called Iran's Next Top Government Official.

I think the Steelers should give TJ Watt some support by trading for Maxx Crosby, mainly so the defense can earn the nickname "TJ MAXX".

Yes, I also don't see a scenario where this administration decides to put "warfighters" into a "war".

"You're right, my answer was based on outdated information. My bad! I sincerely apologize for targeting hundreds of children, and hope you'll forgive me for the error. Upon further research, I have identified another epic target and launched missiles at the coordinates 33°48'45.9"N 117°55'08.4"W."

A character on Adventures in Odyssey was named after me.

The charming Bill Murray pic The Man Who Knew Too Little inexplicably bombed and Hollywood decided it was because audiences were tired of guys in over their head?

Imagine the rollercoaster this site would go on if James Talarico announced he was going to debut a new haircut at a televised debate or whatever, and then on debate day he walks out with a faux-hawk.

I don't closely follow Gorillaz, but this classically animated music video is absolutely gorgeous and the article about how they made it with old-school techniques is fascinating if you're into this sort of thing. Part of rejecting AI art can be embracing what made a medium great in the first place.

Spoiler alert: god is a shitty planner.

But yeah, had to maneuver through a purity culture mindfuck to allow myself to see it. Would be lovely to watch it again without anxiety.

I remember I went to see it with a female friend. We'd both said we had zero interest in dating each other but had a great friendship (still true!). I told her I wanted to see it with her because seeing it on a first date with someone or by myself would both be creepy. Loved it, should revisit.

Sworn enemy of Canadian commonwealth queenpin Hortense DuRealmaple.

I've been very interested to hear official word on how this impacts the UAE park plans. I cannot fathom Disney is willing to risk headlines about guests being stranded or worse - I mean, Grok accidentally bombing the park is not outside the realm of possibility.

Congratulations, I'm so happy for you!

It seems my brilliant anti-AI rallying cry hasn't taken off.

Gonna start referring to Avatar 2 & 3 as The Spiderverse.

Man cereal implies the existence of man milk, and like, no thank you?

Pretty much an iron law that the more unjustified a military campaign is on rational grounds, the more the aggressors will cite God's sanction. Leaders don't need to tell soldiers they're in a holy war when the nation is under attack; they do it when motivation to fight might otherwise be lacking.

A core memory I have is from a vhs tape of an evangelical theatre group, maybe the Jeremiah People, and there was a song where the chorus ended with "Ideologically, eschatologically, technically spea-kinggg, you can have yourself a theological dayyyyy". Have day, John, go for it.

I miss deconstruction twitter and Seahawks twitter, which is why I love Bluesky, the site where the best Seahawks/football posters are also fluent in exvangelical.

Promptery is Theft

I've maintained a list on Letterboxd of every movie I've shown at least one of my kids (14 and 16). Some they enjoyed at that age:
Pee-wee's Big Adventure
Song of the Sea
Coraline
Addams Family Values
Paddington 2
Newsies
The Kid Who Would Be King
What About Bob?
The House With a Clock in Its Walls

"The Strait of Hormuz? More like the State of More Booze, because that's what I'm focused on. And, uh, warfighting."

Lol, I wasn't trying to craft a misleading sentence, I swear.

Gonna rule if we hear this happened because Kuwait's air defense is "powered by AI".

Briefly excited to see something about an upcoming movie called "The People Vs VBS", but apparently "VBS" in this case is just a South African bank.

FYI just used some birthday money to order the complete Klaus, as well as The Great Treasury of Christmas Comic Book Stories. cc @benitocereno.bsky.social