Rich Bunnell

My opinion is easily swayed by my 2-year-old who loves him, but get back to me in a few years

New Englanders, if you know, you know

I have a membership at a video store (Best Video in Hamden, CT) that is a full 501(c)(3) nonprofit and doubles as a coffee bar and general community space. It's a tough model to scale, but it's loads better than both Blockbuster and streaming, and I think more places should emulate this approach.

Being absorbed in a great book is the single best feeling you can experience across all fields of art

I'm glad the dinosaur course and zoo safari course in Mario Kart World are right next to each other, because it feels like a section of the map specifically focus grouped for parents playing to entertain their toddler

AMC's Rubicon. A fascinatingly analog Parallax View/3 Days of the Condor-style paranoia thriller about the War on Terror. Features a great supporting role by the late Christopher Evan Welch and characters named "Kale Ingram" and "Truxton Spangier."

"this silksong boss is so hard" and a pic is posted and this is the boss i see

My Letterboxd is fundamentally incomplete this year because there's no entry for me to log the 45 times I've watched the Counting Batty Bats episode of Sesame Street.

According to this Metafilter page, 2/6/99 was one episode that featured a few of them. ask.metafilter.com/306916/Do-th...

There was a point when they did little Behind the Music parody bumpers going into and out of commercials. I remember one with Jimmy Fallon as Colin Hay and another with Will Ferrell as Fred Schneider.

New King of the Hill is making me miss: 1) when animated shows had ludicrously talented, non-celebrity voice actors, 2) when broad, powerful swaths of society did not resemble Dale Gribble.

I'm listening to Mahler's 7th symphony, and I feel like I would have gotten into classical a lot earlier if someone had nudged me and said "This is where Star Trek music comes from"

We had to enforce the "do not come to our concert just to boo us" rule on the D&R Patreon this week, and I gotta say it was pretty satisfying.

Remember to do your part by replying to strangers about how there will never be another election and the rule of law doesn’t matter. You’re definitely helping the resistance.

I knew there had to be someone else who reflexively thinks that upon hearing Clinton's name, despite growing up during his administration.

I don't want to reduce either Wilson's death or Sly Stone's to a cozy theme, but it just can't be denied: these two minds were responsible for the sonic vision of so much post-1960s music. It's unbelievable.

YouTube video by The Beach Boys - Topic I'm Waiting For The Day

Just stopped everything I was doing and put on Pet Sounds in the kitchen. I knew on some level that this was coming, but it's still going to take a while for this to sink in. So much of why I love music, why I became obsessed with music goes back to Brian Wilson (and his collaborators).

"Do you know what I did this morning? I assisted in the birth of a foal. ... They named it Jack. ... and it was delicious."

I had it in my memory that 30 Rock seriously fell off after season 2, but upon rewatch, it turns out it was consistently hysterical and I was just extremely AV Club-pilled in my 20s

Imagine being killed by a bow and arrow. That would suck. An arrow killed you, they would never solve the crime. "Look at that dead guy. Let's go that way."

What actor's expression in a movie will stay with you for the rest of your life?

Me neither! I only know the plot from the Flop House podcast.

Appreciating the following bright spots in this dark timeline:

1) Walton Goggins is now famous enough to host SNL
2) My 2-year-old is walking around saying "Concwave!"

Whenever I meet a new person, I take a moment and mentally categorize them as either a "Linnell" or a "Flansburgh"

Your Pope name is: Last thing you ate + number of letters in your first name —

Pope Mapo Tofu VII

Listened to the Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs today for the first time since we did our big triple feature on D&R. The hit-to-miss ratio is absurdly good, and the interesting-to-uninteresting ratio is a complete blowout.

Most of the characters on this show are very funny variations on the actors' other roles, but Judy Gemstone is an amazing, completely sui generis comic creation on Edi Patterson's part.

I’m being sincere when I say I think not having this type of thing in our lives anymore because of the loss of hyperlocal journalism is part of our disconnection from each other as communities. This is the type of low-stakes neighborhood thing we used to talk and laugh about.

Honored and excited to be part of the @makeaplanetpod.bsky.social team!

It's been a while since I left the SF Examiner but if there is one civic lesson I took away from that experience it is that Newsom is a fucking tool.