Travis J Cook

Wrote about one of my fave movies and its soundtrack, which encapsulates peak second wave nu-metal.

Wrote about one of my fave movies and its soundtrack, which encapsulates peak second wave nu-metal.

Welcome to my Nightmare Let’s be clear – Freddy vs. Jason is not a good movie. It’s not wretched, but it’s not good. But it is a lot of fun, and has some decent horror movie sequences scattered throughout. Again, even as an ...

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@travisjcook.bsky.social writes scarily about the freddy v jason soundtrack ihavethatonvinyl.com/essays/welco...

All kinds of rage working their way in through all kinds of ways today. Having been out late/up late the past two nights doesn't help, but neither does shit like 🧊 using LOTR for recruitment.

The Cure are helping.

All I'll say - I ain't lining up to buy his jersey.

good to know for general human clarity. He's a good pitcher with a promising career. ....maybe he'll grow out of the rest? or maybe he's just always going to be a mega-chud, in a sport with a culture that empowers and supports mega-chuds.

I have a lot of thoughts about separating art from artist, and that applies to baseball from baseball player. Kershaw's one of my favorite players, and increasingly finds ways to become one of my least favorite people in the game. End of the day, things like this aren't surprising, but also 1/2

Bro what

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

We’ve progressed from watching the baseball game to being held hostage by the baseball game.

Yep, this is some good baseball.

JOE BUCK: Welcome to the top of the 47th
[Sun rises]
[Sun keeps getting bigger]
BUCK: yes
[World engulfed by flames]
BUCK: oh god yes

(Except Kirk def wasn't struggling when you wrote about him, so maybe not)

Maybe this is another example of the Jaffe Reverse Judge Blessing (or whatever the appropriate term is) for Kirk.

She goes surprisingly hard at times. Def worth a first listen.

oh yeah what's he gonna do, get lost in a mine at me

I don’t, but there’s a picture of it, so it’s hard to miss. Runs about $36ish, had leftovers for three days. Magnificent.

This is tonight in the Belmont Cragin neighborhood of Chicago, which has been hit hard by ICE. (See the article under the quoted post)

Wife and I went to Guerrerense on Friday night and ordered what I can only describe as the Ultimate Meat Bucket, and it was as delicious as one might think. Even beyond going to support our neighbors, it’s really damn good food, y’all. Head on out.

I was rooting for the Brewers at the start of yesterday's game, and then Shohei did his thing and I couldn't care less apologies to the state of Wisconsin but if you're gonna go out, going out against an all-time game is the way to go.

updated for 2025:

Ohtani hit it to Nevada.

Shout out to the top 5 kings in the world, Martin Luther, Larry, Don, Stephen and Americans don't have a motherfuckin'.

Indirectly showed up far too early for my scheduled oil change this morning, so wound up sitting in The Brewed coffee shop on Milwaukee Ave in Chicago, and forgot how nice it was to sit in a coffee shop and crush a hefty amount of work while housing bottomless coffee. Absolutely delightful morning.

I’ve always said Joe Flacco is a first ballot Hall of Famer. Never a doubt.*

*Such doubts. Always such doubts.

You should sever any relationship, including a close friendship, with someone who is rude to waitstaff.

Fuck, Alien was right after. OG poster had Silence of the Lambs, that one too.

Evil Dead 2 also comes to mind. And Halloween.

The Thing
Bride of Frankenstein
The Exorcist
Jaws

Sure looked like a circus ass catch.

It is not, far as I understand it. 8-6-2 force at home, 2 unassisted at third.