Steven Mackay

Parents were hit and miss. 😂 They took 8yo me to see "Elephant Man." That movie wrecked me in 1010 ways. Nightmares of wearing bag. Germ freak. More nightmares. … Now I love it, love Lynch's entire work But for child??? Nope!

Aired past my bedtime! Am I holding a resentment? Am I!?!? You’re goddamn right I’m holding a resentment!!

I can see the giant, blinking, gold TRUMP sign over the “reactor” in my mind’s eye, which I will now pluck out and burn.

Would it employ aliens??

All on purpose. Kill these towns so they never trust higher ed again.

The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact

I’m shocked they didn’t superimpose Trump’s head on this guy’s body.

In fact, drug companies *have* done exactly that. 1500%! And Trump is sucking up every last pill, vial, shot, gel, suppository, puff, and huff, just to get through a single sentence. 🤣

This is the kind of math that gets a kid kept back at elementary school rather than graduate to junior high.

a man wearing a cowboy hat and a green scarf is looking at the camera . Alt: Sean Connery, ridiculously dressed as a Spaniard sword fighter complete with flop hat and feather, gestures with his finger. From Highlander film.

Day 3. Movie character from Spain. Sean Connery's deathbed, 31 Oct 2020. Priest: "Do you have any regrets in life, my son?" Connery: "…. #Highlander, maybe." Priest: "I thought as much." Among the most baffling casting decisions ever. #FilmSky
#EdwardsMovieCharacterChallenge2025

I greatly enjoyed First Steps. First and foremost, a love letter to Jack Kirby. I’m kicking myself for letting it go when I sold comic collection some years ago. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Fall 2025 International Student Enrollment Outlook and Economic Impact NAFSA: Association of International Educators is the world's largest nonprofit association dedicated to international education and exchange.

The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs.

a man in a suit and tie is looking through a microscope in a lab . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is looking through a microscope in a lab .

Day 2. Cursed. This is ridiculously wide open. But, I've long believed Frank Drebin from original #NakedGun is cursed. Has anyone shown proof he *isn't*??? #FilmSky #Movies
#EdwardsMovieCharacterChallenge2025
#AugustMovieChallenge

A navy ensign played by jack lemmon squats on his read while wearing a sweat-stained shirt and blue ball cap.

Day 1. Character from movie directed by John Ford. I need to watch more Ford films, but going with Jack Lemmon as Ensign Pulver in "Mister Roberts." Pure delight. #FilmSky #Movies
#EdwardsMovieCharacterChallenge2025
#Bales2025FilmChallenge
#AugustMovieChallenge

And it’s all your fault. If you really believed in God and Jesus and Trump, you’d be rich. So much money! What’s wrong with you???

If the economy buckles under this crew...don’t buy the ‘oops’ narrative.
They profit from volatility...chaos...and pain.
And if you can’t afford rent or food...remember...it wasn’t an accident.

Another Film Challenge I'm game for. This time, focusing on characters/actors. #FilmSky #Movies
#EdwardsMovieCharacterChallenge2025
#Bales2025FilmChallenge
#AugustMovieChallenge

None of the Epstein/Maxwell survivors were notified of Maxwell’s transfer to the minimum security facility.

Which shows ridiculousness of this firing. But I expected nothing less.

“Feelings aren’t facts.” Isn’t that what MAGA has been harping for years now? With T back in office, suddenly entire world waits on his feelings, moods, and what’s in his tummy.

Not if those people are arrested and incarcerated by ICE, in remote, secluded prisons. To be poor, to be houseless, to be alcoholic, etc., will all be crimes.

If George Orwell, Sinclair Lewis, and Aldous Huxley got together, dropped acid, and had a “one-upper” writing contest, they’d not match our sick-twist reality. Orwell: “Rats burrowing into faces is one thing, but let a sex-trafficker of children walk??? No!”

“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” Except here, it’s the *first” most essential command. Orwell got nothin’ on Mr. T!

One of original VJs, Mark Goodman, had family up street from us. His brother (step?) was in my grade.

a woman with a snl shirt on makes a funny face Alt: a woman makes a resentful smirk as camera pans close to her face

I mean, her? Or, perhaps Danny Downer??

Oh, friend, you have no idea how many parents call their (adult) child's college professor or professor's dept head/dean complaining about grades, etc. The standard line, "I'm paying for this education! How dare you fail my child!" Every. Day.

Ministry of There is No Unemployment. Orwell nw er thought of that, eh???

I’m making reverse joke. 😏 My late teens were spent obsessing, as I do still, over Twin Peaks. Now listening to Fargo S.1 score as I read book before bed. For Best TV Miniseries, I’d have to go w/ HBO’s Chernobyl. The pet liquidation episode shattered me.

Apparently some people are surprised that TV shows existed before 2000.