Garrett Martin

that’s what they teach you at Georgia Tech

"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

Highguard seemed fine? I dunno, maybe video games need to take a break.

SET MY PEOPLE FREE, NINTENDO!

THE GIRLS WANT TO SHINE!

they made another one of these

twenty one pilots and not a single one can write a halfway decent song?

do YOU run a boutique home video label that regularly includes essays in your releases? if so I will copy edit those essays for free, because jesus christ none of y’all are proofreading these things for shit.

did they ever determine if that guy really was using anal vibrations to cheat at chess

oh man this was my WCW. (well like ‘86 JCP into ‘93 WCW.) I don’t think they ever released the full match but I was at the Omni when Williams and Gordy won the belts in ‘92 and it was legit the most excited I’ve ever been at a wrestling show.

Atlanta was the wrestling territory too busy to hate. (as much as I’d love to say “WWF up north was more blatantly racist” well it was owned by a guy who grew up in North Carolina so all us down here can’t really get too smug about that)

the kids in the front row when Simmons wins the title is some of the purest joy ever seen in wrestling

Landowner is the band I would have if I had a band, which is dumb to say because I’ve had (did have?) a band for like 30 years

YouTube video by Landowner - Topic Linear Age

song of the year youtu.be/AEvRXH1kdoc?...

“I spent 30 years interviewing every legendary animator, here’s why they all suck”

the guy who wrote this history of American animation I’m reading seems to hate every animator and cartoon, it’s cool

websites, please stop writing “trend pieces” about every single thing dumb kids do

I did one virtual appointment and it was $300 more than the normal in-person appointment with the same doctor usually is. makes no damn sense at all.

had friends 30 years ago who thought the internet sucked and made everything uncool and they were righter than they ever knew

gambling sucks and is bad but at least the culture of it inspired a lot of good crime fiction starring cool lowlifes with cooler names. now it's everywhere in the dorkiest ways possible.

we’re all saying it

The Actor Award goes to Alan Arkin for Last of the Red Hot Lovers because I am watching it right now and he is very great in it

The Actor Award is a Mr. Show sketch

“The Actor Award” sounds like a bit

nope

was able to resist model trains in December, was able to resist buying a lot of cheap western paperbacks right now. not ready to be an old man just yet.

the biggest line of American wrestling magazines used to have kayfabe writers who embodied different media stereotypes—the grizzled old reporter who saw Ed Strangler Lewis live, the flirty gossip columnist, etc. the entirety of UK media seems to operate the same way.

the closest comparison to the disquiet of SNL is WWE between 2001 and 2023, and the common denominator is that they were both shows made to exclusively entertain one deeply out of touch man

JAJ’s Trump is mechanically fantastic. the writing for those sketches is almost always weak though, and it’s basically impossible to find anything Trump-related to be remotely humorous or entertaining at this point.

at heart it’s a show for 13-year-olds but like I don’t buy that any 13-year-olds could find it funny these days, even if they understood how to watch a show on tv.

SNL breeds a certain kind of emptiness that nothing else instills. just a deep cosmic unease.