Matthew Marcus

No one ever likes my Philip Larkin themed workouts

Manscrepidation

Whenever I check in on the latest news, sure, a lot of it is grim, but I am always able to console myself by remembering that a rising tide of blood and chaos lifts all boats.

So earlier today I discovered "Norwegian Wood" by Picture Parlour, and did what any sane person would: try to assemble the whole of Rubber Soul but composed of songs not at all by The Beatles. I'm doing well, but can anyone help me with "If I Needed Someone"?

Naming things is famously hard, but even so, "cubewano" might be the worst name for a thing ever.

This is just a stealth way of legalizing euthanasia surely? "It doesn't count as suicide if I get someone to make a copy of my brain, m'lud"

Isn't that just a TV at that point

Gotta stop putting Software Development Engineer on my business cards I think

2000 Iranian Rialsback

What is "SDE"? (And does the fact that I don't know imply anything about my own, er, poetic credentials?)

If every action has an equal and opposite reaction, there must exist an evil counterpart to Smokey called Arson Bear.

As Mrs Anningprop once remarked to Ernstony Haecksolute, orogeny recapitulates palaeontology.

Throw a man who can't swim into the sea and he will be politically left wing for 5 minutes. Teach a man to throw others into the sea and he will be politically right wing for life.

People often talk about the virtue of self-documenting code, but less often about the virtue of self-documenting people: you know, the type who post pictures of their breakfast and give blow-by-blow updates on their every mood change. Let us take a moment to celebrate their limpid simplicity.

For some reason Shawn Carter has still not gotten back to me about my pitch for him to star in a gritty police procedural set in the North of England, Jay-Z-Cars.

Is everything completely terrible now or am I just old? The $1000000 question

Just putting ALL of America first would be a start.

America First, and the rest nowhere, apparently.

I’m in the movies for a Chet Baker documentary and why hasn’t anyone made a Chet Baker biopic with Matt Smith as Chet Baker yet?

It's been a pretty tough century to be a Tonawanda Kardex and Providence Steamrollers fan.

#defundthepolliceverso

Looking forward to Trump or Musk giving a thumbs down signal to have a Democrat prisoner killed at one of their rallies, and then arguing that ACTUALLY the thumbs down signal meant "spare them" in Roman times.

What are you guys on - actual good films that might be worth watching ten years on from now never get nominated for Oscars...

I need to watch it but I'm expecting it to be a hate-watch

Please someone help me get the least bit excited about this year's Oscar nominations? My first reaction on looking down the list was "Whoever wins, we lose."

First episode of Severance season 2 might just be 50 minutes of saying “hey, we’re back, do you remember us?” but it’s still good to see it again.

I was hoping to really like A Real Pain (2024) because Kieran Culkin etc, but while Eisenberg's heart is in the right place... way too earnest and straightforward for me, sadly.

Denali's land? Aladdin Sane.

A Different Man (2024) is the most Kaufmanesque movie I've seen since about the mid-point of actual Charlie Kaufman's career, and I am 100% here for it.

I would like to state for the record that my chest tattoo means “by with or from the day, Bart, by with or from the day”. Nobody who speaks Latin could be an evil man