Scott Tobias

Marriage means not being surprised when your husband can’t recall any details of a fairly involved multi-day plumbing disaster from 6 months ago, but (in the same day) when you randomly ask him who Dolph Schayes is, he can tell you that he was the 4th overall draft pick in 1948.

My wife is roasting me on the internet tonight.

UCLA is somehow going to spit-and-bubblegum their way to victory today. It's like an underdog sports movie.

The boosters gotta start raising money for the biggest cement mixed you've ever seen.

Searching for reasons that Vandy is really good at football now and surely an offensive coordinator with the last name KILL has something to do with it.

It's store policy that you have to covert it into a cute bear-name pun. Like Growlie Kirk or Milo Bearannopoulos.

Very fortunate to have not hit Around the Sun.

$400!

Cincinnati fans *storm the field* after their team, a 1.5-point favorite, beats Iowa State. Egregious. That should trigger some sort of witches' curse.

Don't make this absurd. Immortan Joe is only CONSIDERING releasing water

IMMORTAN JOE RELEASES WATER

Josh you have to catch up with PREDATORS! Surely a link can be sent to Scotland.

Hmmm... I'd never seen it before today. But I was certainly happy to see it.

As I dropped off the 17yo at school this morning, about a dozen+ teachers were outside the entrance, each holding a sign welcoming the kids in a different language. A really lovely gesture to end a week when ICE has been skulking around the neighborhood.

I was not a fan, but I did really like the much much much subtler 2006 German film REQUIEM that was inspired by the same story.

Trump: we will do project 2025
Harris: he will do project 2025
Public: oh that’s bad
Trump: I’m not gonna do it have never heard of it
Harris: he’s still gonna do it
Media: no one can predict the future 77 pinocchios

A screenshot from Publisher's Lunch: Jennifer L. Armentrout and Hellmann's In a promotion designed for BookTok enjoyment, Jennifer L. Armentrout’s just-published THE PRIMAL OF BLOOD AND BONE is available in a special, limited-edition "garlic-scented copy, infused with Hellmann’s Garlic Aioli to create a one-of-a-kind, Craven-proof book." They explain: "This exclusive edition is printed with garlic-infused ink, designed to ward off Armentrout’s bloodthirsty monsters, the Craven. While humans may dread garlic breath, Hellmann’s has cleverly transformed this social faux pas into an unexpected – and delicious – form of supernatural protection."

no no the publishing industry is doing fine, why do you ask

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

In Review: ‘The Smashing Machine,’ ‘The Lost Bus’ This week's fact-based dramas feature Dwayne Johnson and Matthew McConaughey fighting fires both figurative and literal.

A couple of on-the-fence-leaning-forward reviews today at The Reveal, with @kphipps3000.bsky.social on THE SMASHING MACHINE and me on THE LOST BUS. thereveal.film/in-review-th...

See, I like the Frank Darabont film, and I'm not generally into Darabont adaptations. It's got great atmosphere and it ventures into startlingly grim places .

YouTube video by CineClips "Are You Threatening Me?" | Punch-Drunk Love | CineStream

Re-watched PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE for the first time in a while last night. Great stuff, of course, but Philip Seymour Hoffman's reaction to being told to go fuck himself is just the best. A truly incalculable loss for the movies when he died. www.youtube.com/watch?v=phfj...

Why has it proven so vexing to adapt?! It should not be hard to make a good movie out of that!

My favorite. I was going into eighth grade. We had moved into a crummy, roach-filled apartment in Georgia, wrenching me from my childhood home and friends in Ohio. I read that book in four days, listening to Tears For Fears "Songs From The Big Chair" on cassette. I was LOCKED IN!

Just as long as the willies don't develop into the full-on hebbie jeebies.

… from this year!

That is a lot of Takashi Miike films, my god.

Clever. (Also, damn. I just assumed it was on there.)

Squidward meme where two lesser John Carpenter features, Village of the Damned and The Ward, are looking at every other Carpenter film playing on Criterion Channel.

Criterion Channel this month: