Mark Spatny

Curious to see how this plays out.

That’s a good plan!

There’s like 8 levels of underground parking under the music center downtown and it only cost $10 for the day. You just gotta get there about an hour early. Bring picnic and enjoy the park across the street.

I definitely don’t. To me it’s a sport that’s very fun to play but excruciating to watch as a spectator. When I was a kid my parents took me to games and I’d bring a book and just look up when I heard the crack of a bat. As soon as people stopped running I’d go back to the book.

I’m finally in the majority about sports. But how is baseball more popular than basketball? IT’S SO SLOW.

It was good! I knew about the changes made between the stage production and the movie, and it turns out the movie made all the right choices. Still, this was a great and moving performance.

Tonight, tonight,
The world is full of light…

(actually today,
since it’s a matinee)
@laopera.bsky.social

Reported on Next Door 10:39AM Four black SUVs and three white vans headed towards Glendale Home Depot.

Yesterday, we honored the firefighters who made the ultimate sacrifice protecting Californians.

Since 2002, more than 1,500 names have been added to the California Firefighters Memorial in Capitol Park—including five from CAL FIRE this year. Their courage and service will never be forgotten.

Cake picnics are thing:
www.cakepicnictour.com

But you can just do your own like this person:

Whoops

Comments on LinkedIn re: One Battle After Another:

"It’s Star Wars with muscle cars"
"‘Commando’ meets Coen Bros quirk"
"Leo DiCaprio hanging out with a teen girl"

My dudes...just say you didn't see the movie. It's OK.

Chekhov’s Martial Arts:
If you see a girl intensely practicing martial arts and have multiple scenes in a place literally called a ninja academy early in a movie, when it comes time for her to save herself, she should still use a mystery gun she found and never even try martial arts.

CALIFORNIANS!!!!

You’re gonna start getting your ballots. Vote YES for prop/ state measure 50, (it will be titled differently in different counties.)

Vote as soon as you get your ballot so that phone calls and texts can be directed to people who need more convincing.
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I try to do that. I started out by mostly following artists, writers, and Star Trek people to avoid the politics and such that made Twitter a bummer. But the artists, writers, and Star Trek people post mostly about politics 🤷

Not enforcing moderation and the TOS when it came to a notorious and vocal transphobe with a large following. And then posting some very flippant comments and memes about the situation. Which the trans community took as her basically saying “go pound sand”.

YouTube video by sometest353 Gershon Kingsley - Popcorn

Addendum: if it’s a horror comedy, I’m going with a super slow version of Gershon Kingsley’s original version of ‘Popcorn’ (not the Hot Butter cover which has a different chord progression and loses the reverb).
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I can’t wait to watch it. I watched hundreds, maybe a thousand hours of phone and news footage from that fire, scrutinizing it to match the look for an episode of STATION 19. I’m excited to see what they can do with a feature film budget and schedule and how much more terrifying that will be.

IL Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh: "I think Kristi Noem should have consequences. I think she should be tried at The Hague."

Got mine today. Will be returning it ASAP this weekend.

It’s so obvious that it must have been used already, but if not, Blondie’s ‘One Way Or Another’.

2nd choice: Heart’s ‘Dream Of The Archer’.

Kat deserves alllll the same hype Mamdani gets. She’s out there getting literally beaten. We need to uplift every single one of these people who are doing the most so those doing the least know what we expect, and nothing less.

L.A.’s Entertainment Economy Is Looking Like a Disaster Movie Work is evaporating, businesses are closing, longtime residents are leaving, and Los Angeles’s creative middle class is hanging on by a thread.

This is just brutal. Oscar winners out of work for a year and a half. So many of my friends who have been constantly employed by the film industry for more than a decade are completely out of work - and resources. www.wsj.com/business/med...

It's weird for civilian agencies to do this. I have 4 challenge coins given to me by military officers, one from an admiral in Strategic Command. I keep them out of the respect I have for those officers. I would give serious side eye if the head of the FBI or the Sec. of Agriculture gave me one.

Aside from just how this reflects a 12 year old's mentality and misunderstanding of The Punisher, and all that...why is the head of a civilian agency giving away challenge coins? Does it make him feel tougher and more manly by imitating military traditions? It's just weird and conveys insecurity.

Donate to Yes on 50 – the Election Rigging Response Act If Californians don’t act now, Donald Trump will seize total power for two more years.

Please join me in donating to support passage of California’s Proposition 50, the Election Rigging Response Act. California voters have the power to fight against facism. And vote YES on Prop 50. secure.actblue.com/donate/erra-...

The Private Detective Blues I started out as a newspaper investigative reporter in 1993 Japan, but by 2008, one thing led to another, and I found myself also working as a private eye.

When you’re a private investigator, there’s one person you can be fairly sure that will lie to you: your client. 🕵🏻‍♀️
But you must tell them the truth.
There are exceptions.
#TokyoNoir #TokyoVice
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Kirk and Spock watch a younger Spock on a screen in Star Trek.

Star Trek is so good that even the people on Star Trek watch Star Trek 🖖🏻

The OG!

The 10 Most Visually Stunning Movies of the Last 100 Years, Ranked From Dune, with its endless deserts, to Blade Runner, with its neon decay, these movies have the best and most striking visuals of the last 100 years.

Terrible list. No Wizard of Oz, Life of Pi, What Dreams May Come, Grand Budapest Hotel, Fifth Element, Sin City, Schindler's List, Kundun, Avatar, Metropolis, House of Flying Daggers, West Side Story, Fury Road, Into the Spiderverse, or any Miyazaki? Really? C'mon man.
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