Michael Pelusi

Long, Long Drive - Selected Songs in The Walkabouts' Own Words, by The Walkabouts 14 track album

Much-missed and underrated folk-noir group The Walkabouts have a new anthology on Bandcamp. Pay what you want.

Bob Odenkirk as Van Hammersly on MR. SHOW

And now it’s time for the awards… the Actor Awards!

Just a little levity to distract myself from our awful government.

I’m Worried That Hogan’s Heroes Will Be Replaced Permanently On METV Since “The Golden Girls” Is Coming March 16th.

I’m Worried That Hogan’s Heroes Will Be Replaced Permanently On METV Since “The Golden Girls” Is Coming March 16th.

A torn and wrinkled bit of newspaper featuring a Tom Tomorrow cartoon titled Why We're Going To War

@tomtomorrow.bsky.social from the City Paper in Philadelphia.

DEAD MAN: Neil Young Presented here is footage shot by director Jim Jarmusch that shows Neil Young composing the score for DEAD MAN.

Available to Criterion Channel subscribers as well.

Will Graham (William Petersen) on the phone in MANHUNTER.

It remains wild that this is how Michael Mann chooses to frame a man on the phone.

“Signal 30” — an amazing episode of MAD MEN in which Pete Campbell is emasculated about five times.

"I have resisting watching M*A*S*H because it looks like one of those shows that gestures at martini-swilling doctors during the Korean War while actually teaching its audience the difference between a chicken and baby."

I believe they're referring to beloved actor Danny DeVito.

CLOCKWORK ORANGE, LOVE LIZA, and (very recently) IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU.

Never Let Me Go

Hot Lips Houlihan

Charles Winchester and some bartender

Now showing at the Passyunk Ave Acme.

Sorry, I know these are serious political times. But anytime I have the opportunity to post Paul Dooley losing his shit in BREAKING AWAY, I'm taking it.

Superlative commitment to the bit.

Yeah, I can't imagine even the most contrarian writers making a "Well, actually..." case for the auto-download.

'U2 - Days of Ash' New EP Out Now Days of Ash, a standalone 6-track EP is released today. A special digital edition of Propaganda tells the stories behind the songs.

Fascinating that U2's new surprise protest EP has been thus far been ignored on my timeline. Very different from the response to Springsteen's Minneapolis song. Bono et al really have kind of torched their rep in the last 15 years.

The late political satirist and PBS fixture Mark Russell.

Only now just realizing that Kyle Chandler's name in the Godzilla-verse is Mark Russell.

One of my favorite movie quotes: “And I can't fix a car like this, because I don't have the tools! And even if I did have the tools I don't know if I could fix a car like this!”

My back to the wall
A victim of laughing chance
This is for me
The essence of true romance
Sharing the things we know and love with those of my kind
Libations, sensations
That stagger the mind

I actually remember watching this on Prism in the early ‘80s. As a young, Star Wars-obsessed lad, I think I could just barely perceive that something was… off about this one.

“Sucks to your trauma, Piggy.”

Imaging the arguments between the Paulettes to get to pod with her.

Movie poster featuring A woman and a man sittjng at a table set for a banquet, avoiding eye contact as 4 other men and a cow mill about. There are also 4 oddly shaped white implements on the table. Title reads, "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover, and Cow Tools"

Roses are red/
I'm trying to be kind/
But I read your play/

Roses are red/
I promise to be brief/
I know your name/

Looks like the Root Beer Store in Sandy Utah has finally gone out of business.

Bruce Springsteen singing “Atlantic City.”

The 2026 Phillies becoming Mutter Museum weirdos could be their ticket to the World Series - my column