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Is Chester Arthur drinking Lagavulin in that scene in episode 2 explaining his backstory? Because if so, that’s a top notch Easter egg by Mr. Swanson. Because I have to believe Nick Offerman had to have been behind that!

I admit I only know about Garfield's assassination because I grew up near the Jersey Shore town where he was brought to recover (they tried). I remember taking a field trip to Seven Presidents Beach as a kid. Didn't appreciate the historic nature of the story until adulthood. Can't wait to watch!

3 Screenshots from the movie "Back to the Future" (1985): First, a man with wild white hair in a white lab coat sits inside a futuristic car, speaking to a young man in a red vest. Subtitles read: "Of course, November 5th 1955." Second, the same man continues animatedly speaking to the young man, with the car's interior visible. Subtitles read: "That was the day I invented time travel." Third, back in the year 1955 the white-haired man wears a complex metal headpiece, looking surprised as he interacts with the young man by the front door.

Nov 5th 1955 - Dr. Emmett Brown slipped and struck his head on the sink. When he regained consciousness, he had a sudden, vivid vision: the design of the flux capacitor.

📽️📅 Back to the Future (1985)

Young people in NYC absolutely showed out and there should be 1000 articles and profiles about this. Because we have had to put up with 1000 MAGA diner stories for years now.

The fascists are not inevitable. They're not unstoppable. They're not all powerful. They want you to think that, but millions turned out last month to call their bluff. And millions turned out today to claim our power. We will win.

Morgan Freeman in The Shawshank Redemption, sitting under a tree, reading a letter saying "Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things."

New Jersey, it is the honor of my life to earn your trust to become this great state’s 57th Governor.

I promise to listen, lead with courage, and never forget who I serve.

Man. I just had a great idea for a book or a script...but it's just a seed. It could grow in at least three different directions. But the core image...oh baby, it's REALLY fun...

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Honestly, Frakes could make for a fun narrator too...he has that cavalier tone that could make it seem lively. Of course, then you'd be left wondering...did the events in this story REALLY take place?

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...

A wild-eyed Christopher Lloyd explaining that the only way to close the inter-dimensional wormhole from the Cubs winning the World Series is to play another World Series in the "null hour" when clocks are turned back.

Oh Donnie Baseball.
Poor Donnie Baseball.

Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social

Man, this is NOT how I ever imagined Star Wars becoming real.

This timeline sucks lol

Bonus points if you find new ways while still having old ways brought up.

Catharsis? In this economy?

“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?' There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register. Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”

reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book

Screenshot of text: unfuck google drive by shooting gemini Hey folks! Google is fucking you via sneaky enshittification again! Want the shit in your google drive to load instantly again, instead of taking for-fucking-ever? Open your gdrive (web OR app) Settings > Manage Apps Gemini was checked "use as default" (and i sure the fuck didn't set it that way, this was a silent push) Nuke that, and suddenly, folders that took up to a minute to populate and sort do so in a fraction of a second.

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

It's not lost on me that the part of the White House we are destroying is the part that has to do with women's history in the White House.

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Showed my students the Talky Tina episode of The Twilight Zone today. The gasps and audible reactions in the dark always bring a smile to my face. Over 65 years later and Rod Serling is still giving gifts to us teachers. My film kids love this time of year. They know TZ time is coming.

If you'd like to celebrate Columbo Day, it's streaming all day on the Universal Crime Channel.

On Pluto TV and elsewhere.

pluto.tv/us/live-tv/6... #ClassicTV #TVSky #ColumbusDay

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My head-canon for The Running Man is that this is a continuation of the Home Alone Universe, and Kevin’s home invasion games have been learned from and taken to a WHOLE new level. Glen Powell’s Ben Richards? Totally a witness protection name for McCallister. On to you @edgarwright.bsky.social !

Hell yes! A never-ending well of fun ideas for stories! My film students adapt a few each year!

Weird NJ rules!

@chuckwendig.bsky.social Just started up Black River Orchard and did a double take when Manalapan got a shout-out. Not used to my area getting a spotlight- though a spooky story makes total sense. Weird NJ is our official state mag for a reason lol

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OOF. I also feel like this only came out a little while ago…but TWENTY?! I was selling this when I was in college…I‘d just started dating my future wife! Wait a second….

(*does math despite being bad at Math*)

Oh no…

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

I’m like that with Philly. I’ve never had issues there. We must just be lucky!

Yeah, everyone advising the caution? Absolutely correct. Newark is a disaster. Extra time is a must.

Or Secaucus. Or Newark.

Still can’t get over it being pronounced Nork as in Mork lol