Alex Navarro

Dad's dad did once run for office, a West Virginia legislature seat, IIRC. Didn't win. Possibly because of his lackluster campaign slogan, "We appreciate your support."

Dad's dad did the standard WWII-vet-to-insurance-salesman pipeline.

Mom's dad had like 38 different jobs across his life. Deli owner, limo driver, pool hustler, bookie, etc. I don't even know all of them. One might say he was at the vanguard of the gig economy.

with all sincerity, there is no one on earth I would trust more with the continued preservation of this one extremely specific object.

"The CIA conspired to make me less cool than I was when I was 25" is the most succinct Gen X manifesto I've ever heard

This bit in the From Russia With Love game made me laugh out loud. You've got a fairly grounded, low key fight based on the one in the movie, then the most video game looking fucker of all time slides into frame.

Stingray and Titanic Tim tangle up!!!

SATURDAY NIGHT SLAM MASTERS
CAPCOM 1994
SEGA GENESIS

this cures what ails me every time

Listen, the theme I concocted for these may be extremely thin, but the movies are good, and that's all that matters.

it's also okay to joke about his Mets fandom

are you telling me they did not slice off a hunk of that radical rock for every kid who had above-average conditioning and could scale a moderate obstacle?

these shoes look like the parting gift you get when you come in second on Nickelodeon GUTS

Justin? out here doing the lord's work.

A screenshot of a text box from Star Trek Voyager: Across the Unknown. Kathryn Janeway: Follow them! We'll get Tuvok's lungs back.

This is what gaming is all about

Not that I doubted, or anything, but I saw this Audiotree performance from a couple months ago and it was clear the dudes still got it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-6O...

new Converge album is the first Certified Heater of '26. you heard it here probably not first.

this just seems like the kind of shirt that gets you asked a lot of questions, and they're not the kind of questions you want to have to answer in detail over and over, is all.

a long sleeve white shirt with the image of Laura Palmer, dead, wrapped in plastic, as its primary graphic.

you know, this isn't quite the Laura Palmer wrapped in plastic Funko Pop, but it's maybe not as far away from it as the people making it might realize.

YouTube video by LouReedVEVO Lou Reed - No Money Down (Official Video)

People like to post the old latex costumes and puppets that have been found disintegrating in some guy's garage 30 years later, but this is just a music video that Lou Reed made. A record label said "yeah let's cut a check for that."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiyX...

I'm not joking when I say I think this is one of the best things the music video format ever produced.

great looking movie and that’s about the only nice thing I have to say about it.

not sure I could even articulate what it was I hated about it at the time, as I have not seen it since. but I was like incandescent with hate for it walking out of a theater. I just remember saying over and over "how the fuck was that a movie?"

I've seen a lot of anger inducing films in theaters for various reasons, so I'll default to one of the earliest and most inexplicable examples: the John Cusack air traffic controller romantic comedy Pushing Tin.

also one of my favorite “drop in for one scene and absolutely kill it” performances, as kelso in “heat”

it’s difficult to explain exactly what makes it so specifically French Canadien, vs France or larger Canada. I can only describe it as an unmistakable puppety-mimeishness that is unique to the region and its performance art scenes throughout the decades.

this popped into my feed a few days ago and I got maybe 20 seconds into it before saying out loud, to no one, “this is the most French Canadian shit I’ve ever seen in my life”. I had no idea where they were from. I just knew.

this is what I mean when I talk about technical limitation as its own sort of launching point for artistic creativity.

OK, I'll bite. what is Metal Gear Solid 4.

sonuvabitch stole my bit

toss up between Winona Ryder and Lloyd Bridges.