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"I know myself," he cried, "but that is all." - This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald Most of what I know is baseball, Pittsburgh, and movies. https://boxd.it/21omL
wrote about the ballgame
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It is the deepest of bummers to listen to John Smoltz broadcast a baseball game. He hates the game so intensely it almost makes *me* hate it!
11.10.2025 21:05 — 👍 270 🔁 18 💬 22 📌 120 days until release! Pick up Pre-Code Essentials from your favorite bookseller! bookshop.org/p/books/pre-...
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the ending of THE GODFATHER, the best american movie ever made, doesn't work without diane keaton's final look --- at the realization of who she's married and what her life is going to become and what corruption lurks behind closed doors. unforgettable, inimitable work. RIP.
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#RIP #DianeKeaton
11.10.2025 19:57 — 👍 30 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0Something I love that was especially precious pre-widespread internet adoption is moments where you got into some kind of important books/ movies/ music/ art in general that was otherwise unavailable from you. Like a friend who made you That One Mixtape, your random video rental one time, etc
11.10.2025 05:47 — 👍 436 🔁 35 💬 22 📌 3Christ, I’ve seen comprehensive Frederick Wiseman documentaries about ordinary institutions in New York City that were shorter than last nights Tigers-Mariners game.
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3 Screenshots from the movie "The Shape of Water" (2017): First, a woman in profile is seen changing a calendar date, with the subtitle "That's when you're planning on releasing him?" The setting is dimly lit with intricate wallpaper. Second, an older man with glasses stands in a warmly lit room holding a paper bag, the subtitle reads "On the 10th?" A woman is visible in the background. Third, three figures are silhouetted against heavy rain, walking across a wet industrial setting, their backs turned to the viewer.
Oct 10th 1962 - Elisa and Giles attempted to release the Amphibian Man into the canals, but then Colonel Richard Strickland turned up to stop them.
📽️📅 The Shape of Water (2017)
I didn't write a review of TRON: ARES because it's too boring and I feel asleep and I don't care.
So I guess that's the review?
There's never been a bigger gap between the visual/audio experience and the plot. Terminally boring. 3/10 🎥
As the @pghguild.com strike paper sports team gets ready for the Friday night writes, we've written about IRS / @nteunational.bsky.social layoffs and roadway shutdowns: www.unionprogress.com
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The George Romero-supervised restoration of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968) from MoMA and The Film Foundation is now on Netflix.
It's also on Criterion Channel, but it's nice to see such a significant (and subversive) indie classic on the largest subscription streaming service in the US. #FilmSky
whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing
01.06.2025 21:31 — 👍 7656 🔁 2624 💬 138 📌 302You procrastinate, and then you write the fucking paper the way the gods and nature intended. Several hours before it's due, high off either caffeine, nicotine, sugar, drugs, and PANIC.
Fuck AI.
Community nonprofits in the Hill District can apply for grants of up to $25,000 from a pool of $240,000 to support youth educational programs around science, engineering and technology, the arts and athletics for young people in the neighborhood.
09.10.2025 20:19 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0What I find so strange about middle aged people now is that many are completely unable to process that things they liked as kids were made for kids. They don’t have to magical think them into being “good” by adult standards. They did their job admirably, let them rest.
09.10.2025 18:49 — 👍 358 🔁 46 💬 13 📌 4Two of the only lessons I remember from middle school, and rely on weekly at least, are from Home Ec, cooking basics and laundry care. Good thing we don't teach those classes anymore.
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SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
09.10.2025 04:42 — 👍 27857 🔁 8832 💬 336 📌 912Read this story, get Bluesky referral traffic up on Spotlight PA's analytics, and maybe Stephen will post here more.
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#scifisky #filmsky #scifi #movies
"For every man who has ever lived, in this universe there shines a star."
- Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008)🌹
"It's impossible to tell you what I'm going to do, except to say that I expect to make the best movie ever made."
- Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999)🌹
Very sad news about the Egyptian, remembering the line stretching around the block on the rainy night when we played FANTASY A GETS A MATTRESS in collaboration with @siffnews.bsky.social for our 2023 PNW series.
09.10.2025 17:47 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0Really good interview from @davidzipper.bsky.social.
The keys? Frequency and transit-oriented development.
Anybody adept at adding things to tmdb + Letterboxd? I’ve encountered something weird which is a movie listed on Letterboxd (with no poster or info), but not on tmdb. So I added it + crew and poster but don’t want Letterboxd to pick that up & have a double listing. And idk how to log it now -
09.10.2025 17:25 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Walkable cities and public transportation are better. But at least make the cars small again
09.10.2025 17:05 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0Uh…..the Yankees blew a 5 run lead in a World Series elimination game last year due to two horrific errors and Gerrit Cole forgetting to cover first base.
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I'm told this is where the Portland antifa operatives are gathering and holding their resistance meetings.
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From H.G. Wells' original to the 1933 horror classic to Blumhouse's 2020 version, the evolution of the Invisible Man reveals salient truths about seeking power through fear, manipulation, and coercion
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New York Times bestselling author and film & TV critic at New York Magazine Matt Zoller Seitz's LEADING MAN, the definitive biography of Jack Nicholson, casting Nicholson as the complex main character in an era of American culture spanning six decades, while shining a light on the actor’s crucial role in shaping modern masculinity, both on and off the screen, based on new interviews and original reporting, to Amar Deol at Grand Central, in an exclusive submission, by Ethan Bassoff at WME.
My next book will be a biography of Jack Nicholson, written as an epic story of the transformation of the movie industry and modern masculinity from the 1950s to the present, with Nicholson as the main character. The title: Leading Man.
09.10.2025 15:47 — 👍 891 🔁 89 💬 90 📌 33"We don't have room for Bryce Harper" was an actual thing Brian Cashman said. If you go back and look into the players that were the reason they couldn't be bothered to sign him, it might drive you mad, if you actually cared about the New York Yankees.
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