Garry Planticus

There are dozens of us!

When film makers do discover two male leads with chemistry they should knock out a dozen pictures. We should have a The Nice Guys universe.

“Isn’t it great that we can all stop pretending. What a huge relief”

And side note: all Pixar films, and most kids movies in general feature protagonists who are outsiders in some way or another. Apply your woke detector to those while you’re at it. No one is rooting for the powerful.

True, but the fun part is so fun. I’ve watched the first half many many times.

You could argue that he has actually missed the point of his own films. Great at producing morally complex films while seeming to have a monochrome view of the world.

"We're all throwing dildos at women athletes to promote our memecoin" really puts a fine point on not just how sexist, mean and stupid so much of right now is, but also the grim degree to which we're just inundated with Stuff a 15-Year-Old Dipshit Would Think is Cool. A confederacy of Beavises.

Hurt people hurt people. We must find all the hurt people and kill them

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Getting paid 30 billion dollars to stop doing Nazi salutes, but it’s non-binding

Bizzare

Clicked on that inside of a second. He stabbed someone on stage!!!

Strong recommendation for the @markharris.bsky.social biography of Mike Nichols if you haven’t read it. He’s a fascinating artist.

Just learned something important.

The fact that you were still on substack was putting me off subscribing. I’ll be subscribing now.

If we are going to give Die Hard shit, it has to be the “…and when to pray” line - makes me cringe every time

Neat (and I’d somehow missed killer if killers, so I’ll check that out - I loved Prey).

*Violin plucking intensifies*

It doesn’t prohibit the sacrament - people can still confess. It makes the priest liable though - there could be a price for their (lack of) action. This law exists in Australia, although I’m not aware of any prosecutions.

This Parking Lot That Replaced Paradise Is Actually Pretty Convenient With apologies to the great Joni Mitchell. - - -All right, I’ll just say it: I really, really like our town’s new parking lot. And I know how contr...

"Maybe we could build an auxiliary lot where the tree museum is? I know I was just praising it, but do we really need a museum dedicated solely to trees, what with our town’s dire parking shortage and the abundance of tree videos on YouTube?"

Hey. The MRI is basically a really big magnet and by basically I mean it is and we literally never turn it off. It's like really big. Really really big and powerful and The Magnet is always on. We don't turn it off Ever, for any reason. We mean it bro, The Magnet is literally always on. It's crazy strong and will definitely kill you. So don't bring any metal into the MRI room, man. You will fuck up the machine (because The Magnet is always on) and then you will die (again, because The Magnet is always on). Here's some fun questions for you to test your understanding! 1) The ______ is always on. 2) The Magnet is ______ on. 3) How often is The Magnet on? 4) The Magnet is always __. 5) The Magnet is always on. T/F 6) The Magnet is usually on but we know to turn it off for you because you're a very special boy :) T/F 7) My weak fleshy body can survive the wrath of The Magnet. T/F 8) Look at this 500 lbs steel hospital bed, which The Magnet has crumpled into an origami crane. Imagine if that was you. 9) Is The Magnet ever off? 10) Sometimes we turn The Magnet off. T/F

Welcome to MRI Training.

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Despite being a big sketch comedy fan, I hadn’t really watched much SNL until the last year or two, and the most striking thing is how long they go on. Any sketch has to be amazing to sustain itself for five minutes.

Also your nice, fairly new Avanti Rainier mountain bike (because some jerk will come along and snip open the sides and steal it).

I know this is shallow, but I couldn’t enjoy my ride in case someone I know saw me inside that hideous looking car (20 photographs and only the very last one shows that terrible bottom feeder grill - you think I don’t notice that?).

“Is it bad if there are fewer young people?” if you’re an old person who needs someone to help you go to the toilet, the answer is yes.
The number of people the earth can sustain is a related but different question.

I like community for all its stylistic swings and (sometimes failed) ambition. 30 Rick is a pure joke machine that just about never misses.

Back from Yet Another Globetrotting Adventure, Indiana Jones Checks His Mail and Discovers That His Bid for Tenure Has Been Denied January 22, 1939 Assistant Professor Henry “Indiana” Jones Jr. Department of Anthropology Chapman Hall 227B Marshall College Dr. Jones: As chairman...

It's Harrison Ford's birthday today, thus we are contractually obligated to point you to this ridiculous classic from our archives.

I really recommend his autobiography, lots of great stories well told.

Her interview on Radio National a few weeks ago was one of the most astonishing things I’ve ever heard.

1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar

2025: ohhh ok