Thomas 🚀 SFF180

Tom Atkins noooo!

Pretty good center mass hit.

Reddit post on r/GenX asks “Who still says Fuckin’ A?”

There are deep existential questions plaguing my generation and I appreciate Reddit for staying on top of them.

Loving the whole “swatting a fly with a shotgun” energy here.

Beautiful baby!

To be fair, that list actually does sell it.

Here’s the blistering response if you don’t want to click through:

“Absolutely,” adding that she was "not saying you’re going to get a lot of information, but given what’s in the files and his past conduct, he would be on my witness list."

It’s like the dog story is as bad as it gets and yet she still got worse.

I feel like a lot of that generation of Italian horror came from the “we’re making it up as we go” school of filmmaking.

Still, I’m sure there are plenty of American and European residents. I actually lived in Dubai as a very small boy, like more than 50 years ago. Certainly wasn’t what it is today. But yeah, western oil companies were setting up shop at the time and so there was a growing American community.

Oh right. Yeah, even if you were the kind of blissfully amoral navel-gazer who just didn’t care about the UAE being a slave state and all that, everything I’ve read says Dubai is pretty worthless as a tourist destination. It’s all just malls. There’s no local culture to immerse yourself in.

I’m an unabashed veteran of 2000s New Atheism and even I think this is unfounded, reactionary horse apples.

Cornyn would absolutely annihilate her. People simply don’t get how Chernobyl-lever nuclear the racism is among conservative Texans.

They’re “influencers,” and Dubai attracts them like 💩 attracts flies.

You don’t drink wine yet you know things!

15/10 Freudian slip right there.

The book was fun. Would love to find out where the movie can be seen.

And continue distracting from his sex crimes.

Saw you open for Alcest in Austin!

Nice!!

Mike, here you go. Maybe set the phone down, take a hot shower and fall asleep to some ocean sounds or something. Wake up to a bright new day.

Hundreds of extremely irritable badgers!

Very large boulders that look like cartoon potatoes!

Giant anvils.

…by telling everyone the new rating was just Hollywood’s sneaky plan to push porn into your homes. They sold themselves as “your FAMILY video store” but happily rented out softcore and Playboy product.

I say bring back the quirky mom & pop video stores! Those were amazing!

They pandered to moral outrage by refusing to rent Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ. They played probably the biggest role in destroying the NC-17 rating as a viable means for filmmakers to make adult films without the taint of porn…

Nobody asked but I’m gonna roll in with a hot take: I deeply miss video stores, but Blockbuster were the bad guys. They really were. They were very right wing and exercised too much control over the film industry and what could or couldn’t get made. +

Oh yeah, it will keep them solvent for the rest of the decade.

I think people are waking up to the value of physical media again. I hear Gen Z has gotten into raiding secondhand shops for CDs and DVDs. It’s a big pushback against the “you will own nothing and like it” corporate mentality.