Austin Lugar

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

I trusted you wanted us to watch a Fallon clip for a good reason.

My Letterboxd is up to date on what I've seen but also you can just name things and I'll say if I've seen it. First five to give ones I haven't seen are the ones I'll watch. Go!

Also, I'm posting this on a couple of places at once, but it's the beginning of October so I'm doing my usual thing where I ask for horror recommendations and I promise to watch them before the end of the month. Only rule is that I can't have seen it before.

Having a therapist who hasn’t seen any movies will probably end up being a good thing for me.

Nazis sure hate when people call them Nazis.

The world we deserve

Do you live in Chicago or know someone who does? or live in the midwest in general?

GEORGE LUCAS TALK SHOW is coming November 23! come hang out, have some cool guests being lined up!

tickets.thedentheatre.com/event/the-ge...

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

Still on my Amazon Wish List.

Thanks to the Drafthouse Baby Day Screenings, it was our kid’s first movie! Gotta learn about class inequality early.

Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect.

As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.

Eventually I want my son to learn how to read and fractions and whatever. First I’d like him to learn that it’s his hands blocking his mouth when he wants food.

"POKELAW - speculative ethics of Pokemon" - SUNDAY at 1:00 PM. Panelists: Meredith Rose, Lucas Matos Hernandez, Will Harris, Jess Eppstein, Ryan Consell Description: Capturing wild animals for bloodsport, using unsupervised preteends for fieldwork, how did any of this get ethics clearance?

Got my tentative schedule for DragonCon, and FOLKS...

Ongoing Best Picture Ranking With the 100th Academy Awards a few years away, Sarah and I are going to see if we can get through each Best Picture winner every few weeks or so. Here is the ongoing rankings as we watch them chronol...

As my wife and I go through every Best Picture winner before the 100th Academy Awards, on Letterboxd I'm ranking them and putting what I would have voted for. letterboxd.com/arileyl/list...

I highly recommend The Westing Game. Great intro into mysteries and puzzles. And a young female protagonist.

Happy Gilmore 1 leaving Netflix on Friday is objectively funny. They love making sequels and then not bothering to pay enough to keep the original on the site.

Monday challenge: post the least flattering photo you have of your pet

(She looks like Ron Pearlman)

Evergreen reminder, Emmy voters don't watch TV. Snubs can't actually exist if they only watch two shows a year.

To a certain kind of brain, it is easier to imagine being the savior than to understand there are times when we all need to be saved. Superman often works best as a character when you can imagine that _he_ is protecting _you_, which requires a certain degree of vulnerability.

NYT #connections making some wild choices lately

I was fortunate enough to interview Brian Wilson and John Cusack for LOVE & MERCY, and host a Q&A at Music Box for the film. This photo was taken before the latter. Wilson was a very sweet man, but needed assistance, and I think this shot captures Cusack's affection for him. A truly great night.

That’s job security right there.

Do you get severance every time they fire you?

Horror Book Recs Based on Your Favorite Stephen King Novels Part 1 & II on my Instagram. Comps for: The Shining, Carrie, The Stand, Duma King, IT, Needful Things, Revival, The Dark Tower, 'Salem's Lot, & Pet Sem!
www.instagram.com/mother.horror/

A wonderful American filmmaker and professor is gone. Michael Roemer, a chronically underappreciated director whose masterpiece, Nothing But a Man, should be seen by everyone who cares about truly independent cinema, has died at 97. His work lives on, as does his influence in all those he taught.

I didn't even know it was a debate.

Seeing Zardoz for the first time last year and rewatching this episode was a treat.

Shameful.

Episode 1: The Robot Revolution
Started at 2:07AM

Andy Serkis tried to steal my wedding ring today, so yeah, it was a good day.