Ryan Martin

What are some of y'alls favorite episodes of Batman: The Animated Series?

Home is where your butt is.

putting on my favorite thanksgiving holiday film — sam raimi's spider-man

Well sever my lung and call me Steve! New Humidity Robot styles!

It's Monday. So I thought I'd checka my email.
flashy: homestarrunner.com/sbemails/210...
tubey: youtu.be/-zhsNdk1_Vc?si

Marvel Team-up

It really missed an opportunity to reference the internet's favorite piss drinker, Bear Grylls, here.

Pat McAfee making a face like, "wait...how is Blofield Bond's adopted brother if one of them is German"

Pat McAfee making a face like, "whoa...those monkeys flew the Statue of Liberty to another planet??"

Pat McAfee making a face like, "wait...the little guy's limp just magically healed itself?"

Pat McAfee making a face like, "wait...how could that kid see Bruce Willis if he was a ghost? oh shit...the kid was ALSO a ghost..."

It's astounding how consistent this is:

Every photo of Pat McAfee makes him look like the only guy in the movie theater who doesn't understand the big plot twist

Also, I gotta get me that no-joke right cheekbone they gave me! That thing could slice brisket!

Extremely Kobe coded.

~ Connection to the sinking of the Marine Electric On February 12, 1983 the ship Marine Electric was carrying a load of coal from Norfolk, Virginia to a power station in Somerset, Massachusetts. The worst storm in forty years blew up that night, and the ship sank at about four o'clock in the morning on February 13. The ship's chief mate, 59-year-old Robert M. "Bob" Cusick, was trapped in the deckhouse as the ship went down. His snorkeling experience helped him avoid panic and swim to the surface, but he was left to spend the night alone on a partially deflated lifeboat he eventually reached, in water barely above freezing and air much colder. Huge seas washed over him, and each time he was not sure that he would ever reach the surface again to breathe. Battling hypothermia, he was tempted to allow himself to fall unconscious and be washed away. Just then he remembered the concluding stanzas of "The Mary Ellen Carter". (9)

12:43 三 And you, to whom adversity has dealt the final blow With smiling bastards lying to you everywhere you go Turn to, and put out all your strength of arm and heart and brain And like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again. Rise again, rise again -though your heart it be broken Or life about to end. No matter what you've lost, be it a home, a love, a friend, Like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again. As Cusick tells in One Warm Line, a documentary about Rogers, he started to sing it and soon was alternately shouting out "Rise again, rise again" and holding his breath as the seas washed over him. (10](11) At seven o'clock that morning a Coast Guard helicopter spotted him and pulled him to safety. 19 Only three men of the thirty-four who had been aboard survived the wreck. After his ordeal, Cusick wrote a letter to Stan Rogers telling him what

stan rogers' shipwreck song was so inspiring it saved a man's life in an actual shipwreck, hard to beat that

One way of thinking about Twitter, especially in the Elon Musk era, is as the latest and most sophisticated version of the mailing lists that have powered the conservative movement, and the various scams and cons and schemes that constitute it, since the 1960s--in other words, as a huge and immediately accessible collection of suckers, waiting to have their avidity and paranoia exploited for cash. The predictions markets here are happy to play the same role with heavy X.com users as crypto scams and meme-stock hustlers did on the same site a few years ago, or as cash-for-gold ads did with Fox News viewers a decade before that, or as direct-mail get-rich-quick schemes did with Goldwater voters deep in prehistory.1 But the demand for dumb money created by the increasing annexation of our everyday social and cultural lives into casino-market hybrids like predictions markets (or, arguably, social media itself2) isn’t going to be satisfied solely by a pre-existing population of Birchite suckers. We talk a lot about the “male loneliness crisis” but in my estimation we don’t talk enough about the “male suckerfication crisis”: The process by which young men are continuously cultivated--by politicians, influencers, podcasters, sportscasters, and the very structure of social networks--as dupes and suckers, both for the enrichment and empowerment of Trumpist politicians and movements but also in service of the profits an ever-expanding roster of gambling and gambling-adjacent industries, among them app-enabled retail day-trading, crypto speculation, predictions markets, and of course, actual sports betting.

we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...

If you want a GDT movie about an inhuman creature that's actually more human that any real one go for Pinocchio or Shape of Water over Frankenstein. (Still one of the best adaptations out there, though. I enjoyed his take more than any other one I've seen)

Happy 4th of July, Batman.

Cover A by Mark Laszlo. Santa stands in front of a fungous Lovecraftian scene, including a giant goatman playing Pan pipes

Cover B by seakae. The Krampus smiles and prepares to take a bite of a Santa Claus-shaped cookie

Cover C by Tom Fowler and Olli Hihnala. Santa defends magical woodland creatures from a spectral huntsman riding a skeletal horse

Cover E by Lee Gatlin. Santa joyfully bounds over rooftops holding a smiling log under his arm that is shooting sparkling candy treats out of his log butt

I know it's 2 days to Halloween and very few of you want to think about Xmas yet, but the nature of comics means the time to order STARTLING TALES OF SANTA CLAUS is now!

Please let your retailer know you want a copy, and please let me know if you're a media outlet who would like to talk about it!

The Calvin and Hobbes strip where Calvin gives his oral report on bats, in which he confidently calls them bugs

Daniel writing this post

@whysophiewhy.bsky.social
How's fantasy ball goin' for you this year?

Me as Bob Belcher from Bob's Burgers. I'm pretty sure he wears slacks but my nice sweats and crocs had to do. (Apologies for missing the apron)

Easiest costume ever (other than the facial hair)

A 1990s Wayne Barlow depiction of Nanotyrannus, which is a bit out of date now -- in terms of musculature, to say nothing of the question of feathers -- but still marvelously evocative, well-observed and intimidating. Barlow makes tricky anatomy look easy!

Through 5 games Victor Wembanyama is on pace to have the highest defensive rebounding % in NBA history.

Defensive rebounding % is the estimated amount of DREBs secured by a player while on the floor. 40% is an insane ratio. Dennis Rodman never even reached that mark.

via @basketball-reference.com

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Killer, dude!

This is why the ice cream sandwich is the ideal way to consume an amount of ice cream. You get cookies with it and they shield your teeth a bit from the cold when you bite.

Years ago I did the mutton chop thing for longer than I'd care to admit to try and gear up for a Logan but it just never really worked out. Dave's killin' it!

Strong Bad and Homestar Runner stand in a spotlight, singing on Strong Bad's desk. A little gold foil sticker says "25 dot coms" and text below them reads "Back to a Website."

Let's all go back:
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This is why the ice cream sandwich is the ideal way to consume an amount of ice cream. You get cookies with it and they shield your teeth a bit from the cold when you bite.

Raspberry?

Until I die every white tight end on the Ravens will be Todd Heap to me

The homeopathic cure for autism already exists

Yo!