I’m convinced strong relationships don’t just come from similar interests, but from similar hates that nobody else agrees with.

Specifically, I knew my wife was the one when she too hated the Beatles.

The plot of badlands is literally that Dek’s toxic chad dad thinks that Dek is too beta to live. Dek goes on a quest to prove him wrong and instead meets people that value him for who he is, and learns that true respect comes from within.

I’m definitely an old codger who wants more practical FX. (That stomach mouth would have been a beauty of an animatronic), but it’s the world we live in.

I’m really liking it. I’ve heard some people take issue with some of the CG and some of the plot, but I’m definitely floating with it.

I’m just starting #welcometoderry. I’ll know feelings on this show are mixed, but this title sequence freaking rules, right?

The best Marc A Thissen isn’t moron Thiessen, it’s “wounded confusion” Thiessen.

“Oh, please, Mr. President! Why oh why are you defending people of such low character?”

“Hey, Faye. Dont take this the wrong way, but are you an AI?”

I just called a repair vendor I’ve done business with before. I was put on the line with “Faye.” An AI voice just close enough to be human but wrong enough to be deeply fucking creepy, and still not as effective as talking to a person.

YES.

Keenan and Kel.

….The movie End of Days really set an incestuous, supernatural threesome to Limp Bizkit, eh?

The first time I saw “True Lies,” when Juno Skinner introduced herself I thought she said, “Do you know Skinner?”

To this day, I dread meeting someone named Juno Skinner at a party and responding, “No, never met him.”

Excellent reference.

The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what “works,” but art opens up what is possible. Not everything has to be immediate or predictable. Defend slowness when it serves a purpose, silence when it speaks and difference when evocative. Beauty is not just a means of escape; it is above all an invocation. When cinema is authentic, it does not merely console, but challenges. It articulates the questions that dwell within us, and sometimes, even provokes tears that we did not know we needed to express.

Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.

Yes, THAT Pope.

You’re doing the Lord’s work.

I’m astounded those movies do well. There’s no fandom associated with them. No pop culture cache. They appear, make a gazillion dollars, and sink back below the surface for another five years.

It’s behind a paywall, but every article like this should ask who they voted for.

The 1st #Avatar actually came out when my wife and I first started dating.

We now have a 10 year old and in that whole time James Cameron has done nothing except make 3 of these goddamn blue alien movies that make a gazillion dollars and then never get spoken about again until he makes another 1.

I actually introduced my ten year old to these sight unseen and she fucking loved them.

Rebooted like Hawkeye after Black Widow smacked his head into a railing.

I think he can’t get it up anymore.

Lizzie Borden’s a hack.

Half the allure of really old media like this is getting to view it as it was originally perceived.

I activated the bowser laser in Mario Party and wiped 123 coins away from my ten year old.

This is what Oppenheimer felt when the bombs dropped.

HAAAA

YOU CALL THIS SUFFERING YOU FUCKING DONKEY!?

Sometimes the perfect writing comp just hits you out of nowhere.

….Anyway, my new book is “Hellraiser meets Hell’s Kitchen.”

#horrorsky #writersky #hellraiser

If you can’t lead then resign.

It’s been awhile, but I remember it being a lot of fun. Forces hell crawling up from the subway, etc.

I’ve got this one too!

I always do a first draft by hand. It forces you to look carefully at every line as you type it in.