Brian Schmid

this game is barely a month old lmao

Happy one year anniversary to @boxofficegross.bsky.social!
THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH for coming with us on this wild journey, it’s genuinely been one of the great pleasures of my life over the last year, something to continually look forward to every week.

I wonder what my first announcement was.

Thumbnail for a YouTube video by actor Russell Brand about the film V for Vendetta called "WOAH! Did this movie predict the future?"

Just discovered this video exists, nullifying any point to the imminent Box Office GROSS episode about the movie. Sad!!

We really do need to hammer home reducing police budgets and using them to bolster teacher salaries immediately. The fact we have these massive goon squads playing candy crush all day at their jobs meanwhile teachers are having to get second incomes is frankly embarrassing as a rich country.

Yeah it's always seemed like it covers a whole lot of my specific artistic interests, and I like Fassbinder a lot so I'm intrigued

#NowPlaying (1973, Fassbinder) <first viewing>

Using my painful unexpected vacation from work to at least begin watching the oldest thing on my DVR, which I recorded back in SEPTEMBER and hadn't gotten to because it's long:

Go listen!!! I love this game and I love talking with alexey

how many US citizens are there in Israel right now, do you think

men love to be like ‘if i saw some guy doing that shit to my girl i’d kill him.’ no you wouldn’t lol. you can’t even politely ask your buddy to stop calling women fat bitches or whatever

It's all audiobooks because I do it at work but I'm a good portion through ALL THE PRETTY HORSES, THE DA VINCI CODE and THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA (the latter two for the podcast; I had intended to spread them out but we changed our schedule)

YES LIKE A NEW JACK MATCH

That said, I have like a day and a half to do something about this, so if you wanna hear the "Renegade Big Dog Cut" of the episode, you still have time.

So bad news folks, this is getting a copyright flag from Spotify because we needed to put Akon's "Big Dog" in the outro, so I'm gonna need every one of you who listened to the episode to listen again damnit :P :P

A lot of the chuds on Twitter are hyping themselves up for this by talking about how they remember seeing the hostage crisis on TV and it's a great reminder that only Americans get to hold grudges; if someone says "America killed my family so I want to kill Americans," they're a terrorist

We bought an EV last year (a Chevy Bolt), and I have never been more pleased by a purchase, to the degree that when I was in my accident, we turned right around and bought nearly the same car. The money we’ve saved on gas mostly covers our monthly payment.

There's brilliance in simplicity. I feel WWE overthink things when just having him beat guys in squashes and slow rolling someone is the answer. Maybe he wins the Andre battle royal. Again, simple stuff that doesn't interfere with ongoing stories. WWE did this all the time.

Texas Ranger E.J. “Jay” Banks in the 1950s

The statue, by the way, is of the cop seen in the below photo, Jay Banks. He's standing in front of a school with a dummy of a Black person hanged in effigy. His mission: to prevent Black students from enrolling. A mob formed to attack Black people if they tried. The cop supported the mob.

MLB will do whatever it can not to weigh-in here. If pressed I suspect they'll call it a club matter. Never mind that MLB routinely exercises veto power over stadium elements of all sorts, bans fans who bring in anti-racism signs and the like. MLB's silence is an endorsement of racism.

That statue, which was cast back in 1961, was modeled on 1950s Texas Rangers – as in the law enforcement Texas Rangers – Captain Jay Banks. Since it's unveiling 65 years ago it has spent most of its life at Love Field in Dallas. But then in 2020 it was removed and placed in storage. Why? Because Captain Jay Banks was a racist cop who made it his mission to stop schools from integrating. This is an excerpt from the 2020 book, Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers by Doug Swanson, which describes' Banks' role in efforts to keep schools in Texas racially segregated in defiance of the United States Supreme Court's 1954 decision, Brown v. Board of Education: Then there is the form and face of the statue itself. This dates to 1956, when the NAACP, backed with a court order, attempted to integrate the high school in Mansfield, about 30 miles southwest of Dallas. White residents erupted in fury, so Gov. Allan Shivers dispatched the Rangers. But unlike state police in other Southern racial hotspots, the Rangers in Mansfield did not escort black students past howling mobs of white supremacists. They had been sent instead to keep the black children out of a white school.

The commanding Ranger on the scene was Sgt. E.J. “Jay” Banks. A wire service photo showed him casually leaning against a tree outside Mansfield High. To his left, above the school’s entrance, was a dummy in blackface, hanging from a noose. Nearby a white mob had assembled. Some carried signs that threatened death for anyone attempting to integrate the school. Banks saw no need to remove the effigy or disperse the mob. “They were just ‘salt of the earth’ citizens,” he later wrote. “They were concerned because they were convinced that someone was trying to interfere with their way of life.” Blacks were so intimidated that none attempted to enroll at Mansfield. Several days later, Gov. Shivers ordered Banks and a few other Rangers to Northeast Texas, because African-Americans wished to take classes at all-white Texarkana Junior College, a public institution. Again the Rangers’ job was to stop black students from enrolling. As at Mansfield, a mob of white men gathered outside the school. An 18-year-old woman and a 17-year-old boy, both black, arrived by cab and began to walk toward the college. The mob blocked their path. Some surrounded the 17-year-old and kicked him, while others threw gravel. The Rangers watched it happen and did nothing except threaten to arrest the two students. That wire service photo of Banks in front of the school with the Black person hung in effigy can be seen at the top of today's newsletter.

The statue was removed from public view in 2020 in the wake of that book about the Rangers being published. This occurred at the same time that statues of Confederates, Klansmen, racists, and segregationists were removed all over the country following the murder of George Floyd. But now the Texas Rangers Baseball Club, knowing full well the history of the statue, its subject, and its removal, and knowing that multiple municipal institutions decided it was inappropriate for public display, is happy to put that statue up in a public concourse at a major league baseball stadium. When I learned of this yesterday afternoon I contacted Major League Baseball and asked the following questions: Is Major League Baseball aware of the history of the "One Riot, One Ranger" statue and its subject, Jay Banks? Is Major League Baseball aware that Love Field and the City of Dallas removed the statue and put it in storage in 2020 after Banks' involvement in attempting to keep schools segregated in the 1950s came to light? Does Major League Baseball condone one of its Clubs erecting a previously-removed statue of a staunch segregationist at its ballpark?; and Does Major League Baseball have any comment regarding the discomfort that will be felt by Black fans when confronted with the statue of a segregationist at Globe Life Field? I did not receive a response. I'm going to assume that the league's silence on this means that it wholly condones the Rangers putting up the "One Riot, One Ranger" statue despite its sordid and extraordinarily well-reported history.

Yesterday the Texas Rangers erected a statue of a segregationist cop at Globe Life Field. A statue that was removed from public property in 2020 because of its racist history. @mlb.com has refused to comment. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...

fuck, I’m sorry, I can’t compete with this

New SCRUBS good. Episodes are short, direct, you can feel they cut as many jokes as they use, each ep has more than one storyline that conclude by the end, and early nods to nostalgia were gone by episode two. Like many of us, I yearn for the classic TV format, and this is providing it.

YES that kid jumping into the air is legendary. I've been watching through 1992 in pro wrestling for the first time, I'm in May '92, and I'm SO excited to finally get to Simmons winning, I've never seen it in context.

Right, Big Van Vader straight from Japan who had just murdered STING.

And a REAL world champion, not some cheapie fluke thing. That motherfucker beat *VADER*.

Just remember the good ol boy confederate wrasslin had a black world champion 6 years before the company from the north

And when Simmons came to the company from the north his gimmick was “heel who plays the race card” and I mean they literally kept saying “he’s playing the race card” on commentary

SCARY MOVIE 4 (2006, 4/10)

People think that early 90s WCW was just Good Ol' Boy Confederate Wrassling, and there is some of that, but there was a sizeable black audience in nearly every place they went. Like, look at this shot of Ron Simmons posing on the turnbuckle.

bungholes escape, singing sad sad songs

The final season gets sort of dicey sometimes but the seasons immediately preceding it are in the running for best seasons of television full stop