Barry

not everything is getting worse: For many years, every music critic lived in fear of saying Taylor Swift is mid. Some of them no longer live in fear of that.

Finally got to a place where I’m a kind of guy The Onion makes fun of.

Screenshot of hyper-partisan right-wing message on the homepage of the USDA during 2025 government shutdown.

I mean, this is just some real Try Hard apple-polisher shit, right here.

Met somebody today who really didn’t like the movie “Weapons.” Don’t know how to feel about that.

Super close up of black and white cat’s face.

What the fuck giant cat everybody run!!!!

thought after 10 episodes viewed in a sitting: Season 3 doesn’t have enough scenes where Audrey Horne yells at her possibly imaginary husband for uncomfortably long periods of time.

Eight episodes in: I have determined that too many people involved with this show are dead. At least five of them should be brought back.

Four episodes in: my madness is rising but remains at a manageable level. Dougie’s scribbles have given me a lot to think about and no, I do not have a light, sorry.

About to watch 10 consecutive hours of Twin Peaks: The Return on the big screen. Feeling very normal about the situation. @brattletheatre.bsky.social

Everyone in “Spinal Tap II” is really phoning it in … except for Christopher Guest and, somehow, Paul McCartney.

One-Eyed Jacks is basically Epstein Island. David Lynch tried to warn us.

I don’t give a fuck about “Jaws.” It’s not that great of a movie. Sorry, shark fans.

I’d bet twenty whole dollars Paris Campbell will be making routine and lucrative appearances on right-wing cable news weeping about the danger of trans people by this time next year.

To clarify, "damn, the booty don't stop, girl" was the title of the mixtape? Or is that a song title? Or a lyric? Or all three?

astoundingly, there is not: www.amazon.com/Sharpest-Spi...

Did this mixtape contain the immortal alt-journalism anthem “Snap Before You Fluff My Lady”?

In "The End of Evangelion," an unambiguously heterosexual male lead spends most of the film paralyzed by self-loathing while dynamic female characters engage in swashbuckling sci-fi combat against menacing giant robots. Did writer/director Hideaki Anno invent wokeness in 1997? It would appear so.

Beauty is very much in the eye of the beholder, but that is a thing that happened.

I donno. My take is the president wasn't entirely a non-factor in the presidential election. Also, you talk like an overwritten 1980s pro-wrestling promo.

I don't know your political affiliation, so it might not mean anything to point out that you're being a crappy leftist. But mull this question over for a thought experiment: Who had a bigger influence on the outcome of the 2024 election? Poor people in red states or Joe Biden?

Indeed. Let us all blame our national political catastrophe on people with minimal (functionally zero) actual power, especially if they're people we never interact with or encounter directly.

Shot of Roy and Pris in Blade Runner, which is playing on an outdoor screen during the evening.

Whoa! It’s Blade Runner! On a big screen in the middle of the city! You don’t see that every day.

New York City does alright every now and then.

Only low and medium hats are acceptable, I suppose.

"Miller's Crossing" is so good it doesn't even matter that I have no idea what anybody is saying.

Three people at Boston Pride/No Kings saw my “I Have Friends Everywhere” sign and said “Hey, Star Wars!” And here I was worried the reference was too obscure…

Everything is terrible. On the bright side, I officially own a promo CD ("The Big Dream") and a 7" ("Flame of Love") that currently reside in a warehouse formerly owned by David Lynch. Buying stuff off the internet is good sometimes.

Fluffy orange cat sitting with Spider-Man doll amidst pile of laundry in corner of room.

Here is a cat who is friends with Spider-Man.

anyone who doesn't wait for a half-off sale needs to be legally banned from controlling their own money, just like Britney Spears used to be.

Criterion just announced a 20-disc Wes Anderson 4K blu-ray set for $500. Didn't realize Criterion is sick, twisted MFers, but there y'go.