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I warned you about stairs John!!! I told you dog!

my wife got me the mountain goats 365 days book for Christmas, so I'm going through it day by day. I hadn't heard today's song before so I gave it a listen, it seems to start with 15 seconds of John Darnielle falling down a flight of stairs

Hulking New Year to all. Trying to shift back over here bit by bit. please enjoy this latest episode of My Immortal (Hulk) where we discuss the Grinch, what a Mission: Impossible Christmas special would look like, and of course issues 6-10 of Al Ewing's Immortal Hulk

bdg what color were your nails on gastronauts. they look different in every shot and my wife and I cannot figure this out

3/4 of the way through the trailer it says AGAINST ALL ODDS but like what odds?? is the kid gonna climb Everest or something?

the Zachary Levi autistic kid movie trailer is so funny bc like. you know he thinks it's caused by vaccines

for a while there I had enough rewards points that every time I went to the movies I got popcorn and a soda for less than 50 cents... it was incredible. I felt like a king

taking cell phone photos or videos of a movie in theaters is always bad, except for the time Mitchell sent me the whole last 10 minutes of Cocaine Bear on snapchat as he was watching it. that doesn't count bc there wasn't anyone else in the theater and it was his birthday

Friday again my friends

really have to wonder if the people who post about that all the time have seen the Truman show. it's not, like, a movie about a weird house. I'm sure they took all the cameras out when they wrapped filming. there's nothing really strange about the house itself

my hot take is that I don't think it's weird or notable that Matt Gaetz grew up in the house from the Truman show. people sometimes post about it like "this explains EVERYTHING about him" but does it though? it's just a suburban house

can't stop thinking about Conclave

google image search results for "guy from the wire", featuring two pictures of Michael K Williams who played Omar on the wire

google image search results for "white guy from the wire" showing two more pictures of Michael K Williams and, inexplicably, two posters for the Matt Walsh movie Am I Racist?

couldn't remember Mcnulty's name. tried to look it up

Stanley Tucci: we need to stay united, or else Tedesco will win
Ralph Fiennes: [looks contemplatively at his paper]
Jeff Probst: [in ecclesiastical Latin] I'll go tally the votes

understandable mistake to make really. they sound similar. y'all are heading about it here bc it's not really interesting enough for twitter

I was talking to Mitchell a few weeks ago about how good Ilona Maher was doing on dancing with the stars and he seemed really confused and after a while said "isn't she a politician? I thought she was that politician" he thought I was saying Ilhan Omar

Friday

hate to say it but I think Jake Paul will win tonight. we're clearly just rerunning 2016, which makes this fight the falcons/patriots super bowl

Joseph Robinette has proved to be a catastrophically bad president. elected in a moment when big change was needed and fully failed to deliver. in historic terms it's like if Buchanan was president after the civil war and then somehow lost to Jefferson Davis

the last few eps leading up to s2e9 are like, impossibly good. spectacular television. then the engine stalls for a while lol

I had intended to watch all of twin peaks (which I hadn't done since high school) then watch FWWM and the return, which I hadn't seen (still haven't gotten around to it lol)

did a rewatch recently and kept myself to a hard limit of one episode in a day. it's not a show that you can binge well I think. but man that James storyline is a slog

anyone worried about raising your kid in 2024, you know those parents that sit their babies in front of iPads and they end up listening to the Hitler Show starring Hitler? Don’t do that.

You have to parent. No AI can do it for you.

last fm Friday, moving it over to bluesky

gonna give the movie another shot some day bc it probably is actually good, but I was just shocked when I first watched it that like, the top five most things I remembered most from the book (tower/crawler, emperor starfish, swimming pool, boar, "Annihilation!") are just not in the movie at all

rereading Annihilation because I wanted something short, easy, and familiar and I still cannot believe they didn't include the tower in the movie. I'm 60 pages in and it's been almost 100% about the tower so far. it's like the main thing

feeling the same. went ahead and deleted the twitter app bc I just couldn't take it

there's this Idris Elba video from 10 years or so ago about like new years resolutions where he's like "whatever changes you want to make in life, less drinking more vegetables, less road rage more library... moments" and I think about that every time I'm having a library moment

imo most people's political views are shaped by what the options are and not by, like, deeply held beliefs. I think most of the ground lost on immigration is bc of the capitulation of the Biden admin. if the Republicans and Democrats both say there's a border crisis the average voter will believe em

need someone to explain to me why Moebius's art looks like that and why I like it so much. I don't understand. I've been pondering it to no avail