we're gettin' there!
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we're gettin' there!
Twin Peaks: Audrey Horne.
I don't know what this is!
oh hey, you're very welcome by the way! And if you liked Mare I think you'll be over the moon for this.
Thinking about it now, if Mare and Task were two seasons in a Brad Ingelsby Philly-suburbs crime anthology show, which they might as well be, the fact that Mare ended strong would be a telltale sign that Season 2 could be a Sophomore Surprise a la Foundation, Halt and Catch Fire etc. So this tracks.
I didn't like Mare of Easttown, though I thought it ended strong.
One thing I like to think about is the George HW Bush impersonator at the beginning of The Naked Gun 2 1/2 saying "John Sununu"
This is one those things you see and you think "how much longer can @schumer.senate.gov let this guy go on?" but I actually think it's too late to stop him.
Congratulations, Maris, on being the living embodiment of one of the ten or so Simpsons jokes I know
Have you considered setting your mentions to show you only the replies of accounts you follow? I hear that's great for people who've been having a lousy time on here.
Me in Honey
Ospreay: Brad Windsor: Janet Kenny: Riff/pre-show MC Harley: Columbia Mercedes: Magenta Swerve: Eddie/Dr. Scott Renee: Criminologist Brodido, Conglomeration, Triangle of Madness: Transylvanians Fletcher: Rocky Toni: Frank 🤼
you KNOW Toni Storm knows every word to Rose Tint My World
Morrissey - I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday
Chris, if the right has taught us anything, it's that political hegemony is a wish your heart makes
It'd be nuts to tell James Poniewozik or Judy Berman or whoever "You're not allowed to write about Yellowstone or Fox News." Same principle
An individual reporter or podcaster working for a larger site is not the right target for this anyway. An actual coverage blackout of WWE (which is of course impossible) would have to start with the top of each major site at any rate.
Critical coverage of politically noxious art is vital to every art form. I'm a TV critic and we cover and call out right-wing bullshit on TV all the time. You guys do too! When WWE MAGAs out, you say so. But if you are a wrestling journalist, you MUST cover the largest wrestling promotion.+
All of social media right now:
so far this is a comparable level of bleak, but without what I at least considered some pretty clumsy, workmanlike mystery writing and a reach that exceeded the filmmakers' grasp
Narragansett
very much so—gritty down-to-earth crime drama slash slice-of-lifer in a rundown Philly suburb
Tuesday I think?
I think a lot of people figured the press might want to cover a president's obvious secret illness given their famous repeated failure to do so as recently as the prior president. Nah! Simply not interested
seriously looks like Grandpa from Texas Chain Saw
Do you think he lost the power of speech? That's my guess
better director helps i'm sure
Bluesky may be dying but I can tell you one person it's gonna outlive
I'm really pleased to say that based on the two episodes I've seen, Task is an improvement over creator Brad Ingelsby's Mare of Easttown in almost every conceivable way, aided by Tom Pelphrey's seemingly bottomless reservoir of pathos and a gloriously overheated score by Dan Deacon (!!!)
Morning Shoegaze Airport is the antithesis of Night Arby's
when I was using the Comics Journal message board back in the day I was actively hoping I'd wake up to find it gone
We know him now primarily for his reaction gifs, but Wee-Bey from The Wire was a serious babe
I've heard that too, but it hasn't happened to me
he loved it! I'd try to steer him towards Hot Rod, which is like Napoleon Dynamite as directed by ZAZ, but at this stage what's the point
I mean for god's sake. "If you liked Airplane!, you'll like The Naked Gun" and "If you liked Zoolander, you'll like Anchorman" are two of the safest recommendations a human being could possibly make, on the level of "If you liked The Godfather, you'll like The Godfather Part II." I'm beside myself.
How can you make any recommendations based on that? It's a coin toss! I'm defeated.
My 16yo son's taste in comedy is completely impenetrable to me. Airplane!, Zoolander, The Naked Gun (2025): LOVED 'EM The Naked Gun (1988), Anchorman: writhed in discomfort before switching them off within five minutes of starting
He's in Zoolander, sir. The comedy about male modeling and so forth. More than once!
*or one of his associates
re "Bluesky is dying"
It feels once again like a situation where only the left has agency and the right is weather. "We MUST do our part to make Bluesky less hostile! Also the most successful text-based social network is run by a literal Nazi who turned a chatbot into MechaHitler. Again, we must create a hospitable envir
let's hope the nervous system stays switched one for a while. let him enjoy it
(I also have a reasonably big account for Bluesky and don't have any problems with Blue MAGA, whereas I had many problems with them and actual nazis on Twitter, so idk)
Every time this comes up, I'm just like...not once, in the thirty years I've been online, have I ever cared or been asked to care about the financial health of the platform I was using. I'm not sure why I'm supposed to care now, but I suspect it's only because left/liberalism has been found at fault
what movie
Insofar as he believes he is the only real person, Trump is probably facing the prospect of his impending death with all the composure and dignity of Patrick Hockstetter in IT
that's why i'm giving it even odds
Good morning, and Happy Labor Day, but please keep the President in your thoughts as he is very ill and probably suffering a great deal
The Sport of Queens 🤼
oh thank god Juice Robinson isn't clean shaven anymore. that was disturbing 🤼
Wow, FTR got crazy heat with the Philly crowd, even without Big Stoke 🤼
ALF put on a brave face, but I think he was scared all the time
Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about
Daniel Craig was too old to play a newish agent who'd never killed anyone before the opening of the movie in Casino Royale.
It feels it. Looking at a boyfriend's phone: "Signal? Why do you have an app for encrypted messaging on your phone?" Or my favorite, said while doing donuts in a parking lot: "We're doin' donuts!"
We've been watching The Hunting Wives. It's very sleazy, which I really appreciate, but it feels written for an audience of very stupid people.
there's room for a variety of things. my favorite wrestling archetype is just "person who is extremely good at wrestling" but I can also appreciate eg. "skulleted tag team who believe they're from the 1980s and refer to themselves as The Youngest Men Alive"
I was JUST saying this
I can't believe they're doing a full-fledged reskin opposite-number villain for Hologram. They're giving him a Sinestro, a Reverse Flash, a Red Hulk, a Venom. I love it so much 🤼
I've been beating the "bully Tony" drum for a long, long time
MOTHER WAYNE: You need to take a walk. KIP SABIAN: *I* need to take a walk? I'll take a walk then, shall I? MOTHER WAYNE: You shall. 🤼
Ishii has been wrestling his neckless ass off all summer long, and no one else wrestles like he does, and despite it being the same basic thing each time he never gets lazy or boring. The better his opponent the better he is, too. 🤼
TONY SCHIAVONE: Pick-up, 🤼
Our queen of cunt Julia Hellraiser 2
God I love it when Kyle O'Reilly fights Kyle Fletcher for the LET'S GO KYLE/KYLE SUCKS, THIS IS KYLE, KYLE FOREVER etc chants alone 🤼
DADDY MAGIC: What's the legality on that? TONY : Well, you've got a five count, don't you? NIGEL: You can't stab someone in the eye and say "I've got a five count." There have to be *some* rules, Tony. 🤼
Rudy had Maddy Ferguson's body in his trunk at the time
Today I cried because I saw too many cute cats
It's very nice to hear someone say "This guy is very clearly a moron and a lunatic." It's deranging to watch TV reporters spend all the live-long day going "The President made a bold new claim about his right to conquer Greenland" like this is a live issue and not the rantings of a diseased pederast
Me (Jenny) and Phil Casnoff (Macheath) in The Pimp’s Ballad tango.
the brains of the outfit
citadel mall, port huron, michigan, 1988
Twin Peaks: Bobby Briggs at the RR Diner.
Clédial did, just because I couldn't remember seeing an antidepressant with an accent mark in its name before! But I don't think I'd have guessed Narmacil (that was the one I missed).
I, CLAUDIUS is horny as hell — and there's a reason for that. buff.ly/Nvpgpm2
To be clear, my issue with these matches isn't that I think the wrestlers suck, it's that these pay per views are so long and these matches have no reason to be on them. Not when you have that double main!
alright i take this one back
I came one away from a perfect score
Bandido vs. Hechicero was even better than Bandido vs. Takeshita. I kinda think I had Bandido fucked up. 🤼
Sammy Guevara in LFI could work. If the audience insists he's a heel, at least put him with a cool heel faction. 🤼
hahaha the first one was Billy Eichner, I just like it a lot
ah okay. i fully cop to missing that if they mentioned it on commentary
Paul Walter Hauser vs. QT Marshall. Quite a card 🤼
Lee Moriarty vs. Xelhua for the ROH Pure Championship was exquisitely wrestled. Moriarty is such a badass performer. 🤼
The whole project is so strange. A second film dedicated to how much the first film sucked; a third film dedicated to how much the second film sucked, so bad that it makes you wonder if maybe ALL films suck. It almost feels like someone ratfucked the franchise on purpose.
Riccaboni just pointed out that Matt Taven won the world championship in the main event at Madison Square Garden, and I am astonished anew. A fascinating decision. 🤼
"Some moron brought a cougar to a party and it went berserk."
a creative disaster of epic proportions. and not even a fun one to watch!
a neat shot in service of an incredibly stupid and nonsensical idea, by the way!
because i talk like a damn grownup
i was about to list all the other ways those movies squandered what they had but then i was like "this will take too long, and also people will get mad because I dislike TLJ" and gave up. but absolutely
the Disney Star Wars sequels (which I consider non-canonical) dropped the ball with this man so badly it beggars belief
A no-stakes no-story match between the Kingdom and Lee Johnson/Blake Christian. Sure, why not. 🤼
this point—that this era is not forever and accountability can come in many forms—has for some reason proved bizarrely elusive for democrats
“Manifestation isn’t real” well it’s worked pretty well for the right wing. They’ve created an entire alternate reality for themselves and our reality has bent to their will because of it. There’s something to be learned from that
Deonna Purrazzo is like if a Jersey Shore cast member were one of the five best women's wrestlers in the world, which is the most thisbetternotawakenanythinginme.gif thing I, a Long Island Irish, have ever seen