“People keep asking if he’s one ugly motherfucker, and I haven’t really had an answer. But now, yeah, I’m thinking he’s one ugly motherfucker!”
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“People keep asking if he’s one ugly motherfucker, and I haven’t really had an answer. But now, yeah, I’m thinking he’s one ugly motherfucker!”
Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, also starring Milla Jovovich.
Update from NH state police in the Giuliani crash lines up w/ what his ppl have been saying: “Investigators believe the driver who struck Goodman and Giuliani had no connection to the initial domestic violence incident.” It’s possible other driver crashed because she was curious about DV scene.
I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org
Duvall in The Outfit
Here it is. Sure looks like they’re gonna Get Parker Wrong Again™️. youtu.be/6paP2-ry-QY?...
Is there a trailer? I’ll give every Parker movie a chance until they get Parker right.
Rudy has some previous ties to Manchester, NH. www.nydailynews.com/2018/06/12/r...
Here’s the NH state police press release on the Giuliani crash.
Must be Gruden’s favorite golf outfit since he wore it last week at Trump’s club in Virginia.
This is the worst thing a banana company has ever done. Hang on, I'm being handed a note...
Now, now. Shouldn’t we all be UNITED in our belief that FRUIT is always good?
Back then, they knew how to serve a chicken. youtu.be/2sVVl2EKgUU?...
Sypha is cool with it, though.
Luthen and Dedra sharing a tender moment, like they always wanted to.
Like she probably watched Battlestar Galactica instead of Farscape growing up and that’s simply a generational gap we cannot bridge
Yep
Leonard Greene still writes a column! www.nydailynews.com/2025/08/16/l...
If Watto’s not also in heaven, what’s the point?
I also have the one for Luthen, so it’s fun that I can pose them dancing together on my desk.
The things we find at (checks notes) the local Walgreens.
Seems like a good time to buy stocks in companies that manufacture N95 masks.
Italian photographer Ray Giubilo with a one-in-a-million shot of Jasmine Paolini at the US Open
My finest hour.
Whew, I was worried that Lara Croft might not be able to pay the mortgage or feed her kids, but thank god Tomb Raider is unaffected by these layoffs. Lara’s been through so much already.
It’s pretty striking to me that by scrolling Bluesky’s “Popular With Friends” tab for a few minutes I can get up to speed quickly with the breaking news of the day but if I were to just scroll X’s “For You” page for the same amount of time (or more) I wouldn’t even know there was a school shooting
Congrats on surviving the Gommage!
So much for that old adage!
I’ll have to re-read that. Seeing Cooke at an NYCC panel is what got me reading the Parker books to begin with.
I would have loved to see a Batman vs. Parker story.
A man buys a newspaper every day, looks at the front, throws it away. After a few weeks, the seller asks, "Don't you ever look inside?" "I'm looking for an obituary." "Those are in back!" "No, this one will be on the front page. Its for the great clown Pagliacci." Can you guess who the man was?
Here’s the story. Among other things, the defense lawyer tried to float the idea that the defendant’s choking of the victim was “seemingly half-hearted.” The autopsy showed the victim died of manual strangulation. www.nydailynews.com/2025/08/26/w...
Things are probably not going well when the sentencing judge tells you, "I f you want to persist with arguments that are patently disproven by the evidence, you can certainly go ahead. I don't see how it serves your client."
The account that made this viral post uses a AI-generated stock photo as their profile picture, and the main claim that Big Balls "was harassing and trying to pick up the 15-year-old girl" is not in the article. We are not immune from disinformation.
I wish I’d been able to get out to this one. Kerry Burke is an NYC institution!
Did you know the NY Daily News has just seven sports writers for the entire city of NY and all of its teams and venues? Did you know the hedge fund owners of the Daily News won’t hire more, but they managed to scrounge $88 million out of the seat cushions to (fail to) buy the Dallas Morning News?
Can folks do me a favor? I was on Bluesky early & it was great. Mostly. I hit the eject button in January. I came back, many colleagues are here, but still don’t know I am. I co-created Halt and Catch Fire. I write TV & comics. Here’s two favorite set photos. Repost? I am in the wilderness.
Unreported in U.S. newspapers? What are you talking about? This is the Washington Post's article last night? (gift link!) The Independent article that you are quote posting as an example of UK reporting CITES this article!
ICE continues to hold a reporter because he filmed them. “The reports claim Guevara’s journalism ‘contradicts societal norms,’ among other complaints.“
Silksong taking seven years with the team working at the pace they wanted with the team they wanted is only a problem if you personally believe that you deserved to have the game in your little piggy trotters sooner. "the fanbase was upset" who gives a shit. fuck the fans. make it how you want
I loved that one! Absolutely brilliant use of magnets.
Have you tried the Rurouni Kenshin remake? If you like anime where the only animated part is their mouths when they’re talking, then it’s the show for you.
WTF. I cannot stress this enough — WTF.
I saw what I think was a film print at Cornell Cinema in the mid-1990s. They were running Woo movies every couple of weeks ago. The version of A Better Tomorrow I saw had some truly awfully English subtitles.
EVERYTHING YOU'RE DOING IS IN THE DAILY NEWS
Really, this whole story is exceptional. www.conwaydailysun.com/news/local/a...
Incredible quote by the Bartlett police chief.
Some very good salesmanship in this local newspaper headline.
I like how it just keeps escalating.
Depends on how you define Great Value
I’ve sat in on a few sessions. Their high-paid, by-the hour lawyer, Chris Repole, makes sure to draw every lie out for maximum billable time. Yet now they want to go fast and take their dogshit contract offer. Most haven’t gotten raises in years, and they want to pay us like we work in a small town
A “fair agreement” for Jean Nechvatal means a $55k salary floor (in NYC!) and no 401k match for new hires, but hey let’s not mention that, right?
Whenever the @nydnunion.bsky.social does something fun like telling Heath Freeman’s Hamptons neighbors what a goon he is, we get an email filled with gibberish like this. What Jean won’t say is she thinks a “fair agreement” is actually 2.5 % raise so small it won’t restore our COVID pay cuts.
The tragic consequences of clicking the wrong thing when ordering a pizza online.
Bluesky sicko culture demands I post this image.
‘MONTAUK MENACE’: Heath Freeman, head of Alden Global Capital, lives in a swanky mansion in the ritzy Hamptons shore town of Montauk. Meanwhile some of our members earn so little they qualify for low-income housing…..
MONTAUK MESSAGE: We passed out flyers, posted signs and enjoyed watching our message truck circle around, spreading the word about Heath Freeman, the Montauk Menace.
From me, Rebecca White and Rocco Parascandola: Jamel Childs, one of 3 men killed in a mass shooting in a Brooklyn lounge, tried to stop a fight beforehand, his brother and one of his pals say. But an l.e. source says he may have also been one of the shooters. www.nydailynews.com/2025/08/17/b...
One of my enduring memories was being at a show where you and your posse held up a sign that said the dial-a-song wasn’t working, and one of the Johns read it while onstage.
So many things this could be about, and yet
There’s still wonder in this world.
I'm glad I went to WorldCon today because someone just got up to the mic and told George R.R. Martin to his face that he's going to die soon and started to ask whether Brandon Sanderson would finish his books and everyone started to boo.
Was Rothfuss also there somehow
You’ve probably seen this already, @laughingacademy.bsky.social (or more likely you were in the audience somehow), but just in case…
Tuvix sequel episode just dropped.
See the man circled here? That's E.J. Antoni, Trump's Bureau of Labor Statistics nominee, walking through a crowd of Capitol rioters. #ICYMI, we've got an archive of 500+ Parler videos taken during Jan. 6. You can spot Antoni starting at around 1:41 here: projects.propublica.org/parler-capit...
The journalists who spend the least amount time walking city streets go on tv and say city streets are dangerous. Stop talking about things you don’t know!
Look, Demerzel is programmed to serve Empire, and don't you forget it.
I went with this. Fast read so far, which is nice. Just finished Spin, by @wilsonspin.bsky.social, which I really loved, but it’s heady stuff I sat with it for about a month, so I need a palate cleanse.
Left or right?
Legal experts roundly predicted that Trump DOJ's grand jury unsealing gambit would: 1. Uncover nothing new 2. Unlikely win given traditional grand jury secrecy This ruling vindicates both lines of analysis — and to be clear, DOJ *also* confirmed there was nothing new here.
Put these foolish pierogi ambitions to rest…
He just needs to git gud
Hey so you don’t need to test if the new version of the lying, plagiarism bot is better or worse than the old plagiarism bot they’re all bad
At least the length of Donald Trome’s reign seems accurate.
So “The Paper” looks real bad, right? Is it just me? (The new TV show, I mean. Not the classic movie, which of course is the best newspaper movie ever made.)
Do not have fun at your work party. Have two drinks with a glass of water in between, make conversation, and then shake the spot.
Mandel is such a twerp.
The teen accused of repeatedly taking city subway trains on high-speed joyrides will have to spend more than a month on Rikers Island or make bail, as she awaits a court-ordered mental health evaluation. Latest with @johnannese.bsky.social
New from me and @simko-bednarski.bsky.social -- A transgender teen accused of repeatedly taking city subway trains on high-speed joyrides will have to spend more than a month on Rikers, or make bail, as she awaits a mental health evaluation. www.nydailynews.com/2025/08/07/s...
I don’t know, it sounded good.
One of my favorite moments from a Staten Island politician, circa 2007. www.youtube.com/watch?v=66Ki...
Hello, tourists to NYC! We have some strange rituals here, like not standing in front of a doorway or a busy subway entrance and blocking everyone from getting past while we wait for a guy with a stick to tell us where to go. Crazy, right? But that’s our way.
I’m a single-issue voter and that issue is Infinity Gauntlet #4
The Ninja Burglar nearly died breaking into this house. www.silive.com/eastshore/20...
Here's what was going on at the MDC Brooklyn today. www.nydailynews.com/2025/08/06/c...
The number of Black and Hispanic students accepted into the city’s specialized high schools has gone down this year. @jillianjorgensen.bsky.social unpacks the racial disparity in the admissions data.
Outside the MDC Brooklyn federal jail today, where there’s a car parked across the street with veteran plates, a child seat and an air freshener of Jeffrey Epstein that reads, “This Air Freshener Didn’t Hang Itself.”
Could always be the Endless Shrimp, right? It could never ever ever be private equity all along.
NY Reps @danielsgoldman.dg4ny.co @repespaillat.bsky.social @velazquez.house.gov visit Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, which is holding ICE detainees, for an unannounced oversight visit. Espaillat asked a masked federal officer, “Can I see your face?” The officer refused.
New from me today: The DOJ will not seek the death penalty against three Mexican drug lords awaiting federal trial in Brooklyn. DOJ and Bondi had teased the idea of death sentences when RCQ and Vicente Castillo Fuentes were expelled from Mexico in February. www.nydailynews.com/2025/08/05/n...
WILL THERE ALSO BE A TESLA DINER ON THE MOON
At 4p ET/1p PT, I’ll have a one of a kind interview with His Eminence Cleon the First. He has a powerful message from Empire on how Cleon XXIV is handling the latest Crisis - see you soon on Substack and later on YouTube.
Yes.
I was told there’d be mazes. I’m be played for several hours and no mazes yet.
But is it the “Citizen Kane of Video Games?” Or is that still Metroid Prime.
Citation needed re: the lack of sex and drugs
Yes
