Mitch

Every year people say “we don’t know how good we had it in ____” and I wanna shake them and scream “WE HAVE IT SO GOOD NOW, FOOL” but I can’t shake them because they’re clearly babies

Man are you kidding me with movies this year?

Literal LOL

reeseewtherspoon.bsky.social @reeseewtherspoon.bsky.social .. Thu, October 23 at 12:37 PM Hello! How are you doing? reese!! is this really you Yeah, what your name and where are you chatting from? 12:41 PM We went to school together. It's Porpley Really What year is that ? we were in grade school in the 80s Wow I would like to get to know you better maybe I can remember 1:04 PM really? I kinda got your grandma killed 1:22 PM Woa woa i hope you're not still mad

I'm not. I'm sure it's not your fault oh it totally was and i would probably do it again 1:36 PM Why would you say that? she was a witness to the other stuff i did Wait, what are you talking about and why are you telling me this now ? why not? i already went to trial for it and the jury said it was ok That's in the past now can we just put it all behind i can. where is your other grandma Why are you asking? I want to talk to her. About ? You know

Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Columbo

And in that pause between pitch and contact - longer than logic, shorter than hope - we remembered why baseball existed long before we judged a sport's value by viral moments and betting apps. It is the romance of failure. The mortal beauty of trying and missing seven times out of 10 and still being considered great. It is the only sport where patience is a weapon, and panic the surest death. You cannot simply run out the clock in baseball; you must face it, pitch by terrifying pitch, until it finally releases you.

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper

www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

if it's GOOSE with two Os, those are jam band bros

if it's GEESE with two Es, have some indie psych please

Had some drinks and got a little tipsy with friends, so you know ya boi gonna start posting about how The Wonder Years' "The Greatest Generation" is one of the totemic works of the Opioid Crisis

Finally watched Zwigoff's amazing Crumb doc and, look, nobody's saying "You gotta hand it to the CIA," but you do really gotta marvel at the effect of making LSD as easy to get as bubblegum in Haight Ashbury had on fifty years of artistic expression.

if you see da police, viacom cbs paramount skydance discovery warn a brother

Wait, Mike Mills Is Making a Big-Budget Movie? $40M California Tax Break Hints at Something Big — World of Reel Little is known about Mills’s latest project, but it has already made headlines by securing California’s biggest tax credit: a $40 million allocation. By comparison, “Heat 2” was awarded a $37 million...

Hell yeah 22nd Century Women

STEREOGUM: People my age, we talk about how we were lucky that we didn’t have social media growing up, and there’s no record of all the dumb shit we said and did. You didn’t have social media, but everything you said and did in those years is on record, and you’ve got to live with it now. That’s tough. VIOLENT J: And the amount of gay Juggalos out there is really surprising. I think about them doing their research and getting the old records, getting excited about it, and getting their hearts broke or something, you know? I tell my daughter, “For the rest of your life, when your friends ask why your dad said that, say it’s because your dad was a fool. Don’t defend me. Say I was a fool then, but I’m not now.” There’s no excuse. I was going with the flow, and that’s the very thing we preach against — being a sheep. And that’s what I was doing. https://www.stereogum.com/2083804/icp-interview-juggalos/interviews/weve-got-a-file-on-you/

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

This photo…just…wow.

(breaking the silence on the ride home from the in-laws) How was I supposed to know your father was a victim of the Crank Yankers?

oh wow okay this company is IN TROUBLE in trouble

"What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid."

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

The last thing I expected to see tonight: legendary Iranian director Jafar Panahi shooting the Beyond Fest @beyondfest.bsky.social tee-shirt cannon into the Aero Theatre audience. @amcinematheque.bsky.social

The regime's desire for authoritarianism is bottomless, but their capacity is not. Not even close.

They rely on bluster and memes to make up the difference. The threat is real, but less powerful than they say.

Freedom-loving Americans outnumber them by a lot. Communities can resist. Like this one:

screencap of Adam Sandler from 'Uncut Gems', subtitle reads I'm going to become Hubie Halloween

me before and after shelling out to see One Battle After Another in IMAX

Don’t get mad at the muppets for playing the Riyadh Comedy Festival, it’s the only way they can save the theater

I was really bracing for my non-film head friends to see One Battle and their reactions have been across-the-board elated.

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Ezra Klein: There's a Rick & Morty quote I really like.

Ezra Klein: It goes like this, "Why would a pop-tart want to live inside a toaster? That would be like the scariest place for them to live."

Ta-Nehisi Coates not saying anything

Ezra Klein: Because in the episode they go to a neighborhood where everyone is a pop-tart and they live in toaster-houses.

The Skinner meme Top panel: Am I out of touch? Bottom panel: No, it's the children who need to know enough about nu-metal that I can talk about individual bassists without naming the bands they're from

This is one thing giant movie studios can still do--the crazy big swing that costs a lot of money and is not tied to an algorithm or concern about "viewer retention rate at minute three"--that no other entity can. It is one reason the film ecosystem still needs them.

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again