Andy Rattinger

At least I get to go trick r treating with my gf’s nephews on Friday. That’ll be fun.

I also was so busy and sick I never fully finished decorating for Halloween, and I haven’t done my traditional drive around Burbank to look at houses. Halloween really slipped away from me this year.

Yeah I oughta go see One Battle After Another but I don’t know if I can swing a three hour movie.

I wanted to go to the movies tonight but ran late. I haven’t gone in weeks (other than screenings, I guess). So if I go tomorrow I really only have one shot. Part of me wants to watch Tron because it’s a big screen experience. I’d even watch it in 3D. But word is not good. So maybe Good Boy?

Fuck today.

You haven’t failed. Failure is a layover. You’re en route.

Happy belated!

Anyway, I also caught @realgdt.bsky.social’s FRANKENSTEIN. It’s great. And he talks so passionately about it.

Man. You ever really really really want to love a film and it turns out to be flat and uninspired?

The son of a good friend is in it so I’ve been hearing about it for a long while, but I finally got to catch it today. What a powerful debut.

Yep. It’s so damn good.

THE PLAGUE is fantastic. If it’s not up for some awards I’m gonna be surprised.

A Nightmare Before Christmas.

And as I was about to hit send I realized you probably mean the movie series.

Helloween on Peacemaker is awesome. Though the realization that Nazis probably love Helloween is not lost on me. And it breaks my heart.

“She’d never heard of Helloween” made me laugh so hard.

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.

The reveal halfway through season 2 of PEACEMAKER is illustrative of how much even as audiences we have biases and blind spots.

Holy shit. Bad City in PEACEMAKER? That’s one helluva pull, @jamesgunn.bsky.social!

It’s 6am. I’ve slept exactly 0 minutes. I have to get up in 90 minutes to teach.

Damn.

Ooooh. Where’d you get that lovely art?

I’M TELLING YOU NOBODY BELIEVES ME

Reminder that Spotify advertises ICE, its CEO finances AI weapons, and it doesn’t even compensate artists fairly.
Support physical media.

Took me years to realize there was a TV edit because I told everyone how the backyard scene with the child scarred me and no one believed me.

Imagine the most handsome black Labrador retriever to ever grace the planet, and his name is Raven. Now picture him even more handsome, and with a white tuft of hair on his chest that looks like a white Raven. And this dog, he’s smiling, his goopy tongue hanging out of his mouth. He’s sitting pretty on a couch in front of some Halloween decor, because this is the Halloween season. And this picture is so cute it can heal the world. That’s exactly what this picture is.

Happy Sixth Rescueversary to Ravenwood Fett,
aka Raven
aka Captain Poop
aka Hair Machine
aka Little Riddle
aka Misbehavin’ Raven
aka Disaster Dog
aka Chaos Demon
aka Goobernator
aka Reverend Thwacker
aka Sir Wags-a-Lot
aka Little Baby

Girlfriend forgot her hair clip so now it’s being held for ransom. It’s a rough galaxy out there.

A White House-ordered Hatch Act violation happening on every agency website and in every federal employee's out-of-office autoresponder.

RIP Jane Goodall

I just watched an all-AI fan trailer for M.A.S.K. and seeing so many people think that’s “cool” breaks my heart. It’s literally just slow motion shots of the vehicles and the characters walking. All of the shots are the same. No sense of a story. Just slop. Media illiteracy will destroy us.

RIP Robert Redford.

The worst part was in the dream Jesse was hanging out at my place and you came to say goodbye to him but never walked in so I didn’t even know until he told me. And I immediately was like, “I better call his wife. She’s gonna need help!”