Tom Brazelton (@tombrazelton.bsky.social)
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I write a lot about pop culture. Movies, television, and comics most often. Sometimes politics. I live-skeet SNL on Saturdays. Just a head’s up. I used to write and draw the web comic Theater Hopper, if that means anything to you.
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I'm working from 2:30 to 10:30 tonight, so I ate a whole pizza for lunch to get me through the rest of the day. That maybe wasn't the smartest thing.
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If you put one of these in a tip jar, you’re a bad person. Found another one in the bathroom as well, when I did my check.
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We have some cash tips. Some goon left one of these…
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SOME folks have souls. Three people tipped over $10. That was nice.
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Murderbot’s inner voice is too perfect.
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Annoyed. Had a few tabs tonight people added no tips to. $16, &30, $52. C’mon. I’m not THAT lousy.
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I love them so much. I basically stumbled backward into them a few years ago. I put off reading the first one much longer than I should have.
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May 2026 is too long to wait. www.usatoday.com/story/entert...
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Pray for me.
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Tomorrow I’m getting my first haircut in four months. This may be the longest I’ve gone without a haircut since COVID?
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Slightly burned, but alive.
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I was listening to the latest episode of Good One where they interviewed John C. Reilly and it was really nice to listen to someone talk at length about love, beauty, and sincerity with enthusiasm.
Tom Brazelton (@tombrazelton.bsky.social)
A LiveNation venue in the area keeps booking movie screenings with well-known actors. John Cusack and High Fidelity, Chevy Chase and Christmas Vacation, Maccaulay Culkin and Home Alone. They do Q&As afterwords. On the one hand, yes. On the other hand, why?
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I was in New York City, crossing W 74th Street and I waited with Michael Imperioli at the crosswalk. Later that same day, I was at 30 Rock "Captain" Kirk Douglas from The Roots walk into the building as I was walking out.
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I guess I'm gonna update to iOS 26 this morning and see how that goes.
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Redford did it right. A life to aspire to. www.pajiba.com/news/robert-...
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I can’t think of anything more triggering than this for Erik. He would fold Chuck up in his wheelchair for sure.
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I knew that was an option on Instagram, and turned it off. I haven’t seen the integration for Facebook.
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I think we can agree that Facebook and Instagram are not what they were. But if anything is driving down my enjoyment of those platforms is how they try to shove Threads into it. I wish I could block it entirely.
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Erik ain’t gonna like that!!
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I wanna go to Henry Rollins' punk rock museum. www.axios.com/local/nashvi...
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I logged into Facebook today and got a message that said "You're eligible! Start earning with content monetization!" And I was, like... "Why?"
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I thought I would have more time to hold off on getting a Switch 2.
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This is the second image of RDJ’s Doom that I’ve seen. Overall, I like the design. But I want to know if he’s going to have the gun and holster. I always liked the idea that it was meant to dispatch enemies unworthy of his true power.
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I started playing it last year on PS5 and got bogged down in the tutorial missions. I need to reconnect with it.
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Watching the Cubs game, they were showing Rizzo in the bleachers taking pictures with people. Made me happy.
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I mean, I liked it. But I can also see why it kind reached a certain apex.
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Finally got around to watching Thunderbolts. I don’t know why a movie about superheroes fighting depression wasn’t more successful.
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I don’t even wanna know. Fuentes is ultra toxic.
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I need to start investigating some of the bands that are playing earlier so I can hopefully see something good while waiting for the main draws.
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Thinkin’ about what band tees I’m gunna buy at Riot Fest next weekend…
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I’m bartending this afternoon and it’s dead. I’ve had two customers in the last three hours.
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Oooooo, SNL. You might be in a bit o' trouble with this departure. www.pajiba.com/tv_reviews/s...
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Co-signed. Gotta lean on others so you can have the strength for them to lead on you when they need it. ❤️
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I’m feeling less and less worse about canceling Paramount+ before the last season even began.
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My wife and girls have been rewatching Parks and Recreation. I pop in and out. After this week, the show has been a balm on my soul.
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I also saw it and it's horrific. People should not seek this out. Not kidding.
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Something I noticed about Alien: Earth... On Boy Kavalier's tropical island, there always ambient jungle noise - birds screeching, insects chirping - and it has become just as unsettling as the Xenomorph's clicks, clacks, and shrieks.
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I haven't watched The Tonight Show since AD Miles left in 2017. Yeah, yeah. I know he came back in 2023, but the bloom was off the rose by then. I might actually watch a live broadcast, though. Only because it's so rare in network television.
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I was thinking about upgrading my AirPods solely because it still had the lightning charging port and I wanted USB-C. But this stuff is cool, too.
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I had a really good day on Sunday and I had hoped to keep that ball in the air for a little bit longer. But I find I am now back at an aggrieved, anxious state and I don't like it.
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"Hey, while I'm on the phone, could you not give the dog a squeaky toy?" - A thing I had to say at 7:40 in the morning.
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I can empathise with this. It's the reason I can't get into the Fallout games or the last season of The Boys. (But Alien Earth really is fantastic.)
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Still counts! Good luck on that bad back! I know that pain well!
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I’m catching up on last week’s Alien: Earth - the flashback episode. I’m 20 minutes in and the tension is killing me. Working backwards from how wrong it all goes. Gawd.
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Dude, that looks legit. ❤️
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Remember when people used to post what they were eating on social media? I’m bringing it back.
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I had a really good day today. First one I’ve had in a while. ❤️
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I’m seeing The Messthetics tonight in a 200-person club and I am here impossibly early.
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I can only assume Macho Man’s diminished aura, globally, has contributed to this distinct lack of snapping.
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I peeled the wrapper like a banana and I squanched into it?
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It’s a countdown to heartache.
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I don’t know what possessed me, but I recently decided to consume a Slim Jim.
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Also, both characters only have four fingers.
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Klaus Kinski’s Shining Time Station.
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If they left, I could start cleaning and listening to the music I like.
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The best thing about bartending is when you haven’t had any customers for 90 minutes except for the couple who ordered one drink and are refusing to leave.
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What up, nerd?
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A big mound of spaghetti? In THIS economy?
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Ben for the design, Sue for her character.
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You know what I miss? Mashups. They felt like more of a thing before Spotify and other streamers.
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It’s art.
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They're gonna have to pry Kenan out of there with a crowbar.
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I figured she left under her own power. Most cast members with any juice leave around 7 or 8 years. But that she was let go feels cold.
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Whoooaaa. This sucks. latenighter.com/news/report-...
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Everything about Twitter feels designed to raise my blood pressure. I don't miss it.
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This is almost beyond parody. Isn't their whole belief system supposed to be centered around the power of the free market to decide these things? gizmodo.com/newsmax-sues...
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I can get on board with this. Rogen and Goldberg have had pretty good success with chaotic entities in their TV projects.
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Wow, so this rumor was true.
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There are still people making new, but early 2000's flavored internet content out there, if you know where to look for it. youtu.be/ckAbTex0XGw?...
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Well, gonna have to carve out time for this…
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The folks on Threads are swearing up and down that he’s dead. My guess is that he has a solid gold toilet with his name on it he wants to sell, or something.
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Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea is probably the better album. But the rage on Rid of Me makes me love it more.
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I love it when I Google something like “haircut ideas for thinning hair” and you get search results like this.
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I just saw a commercial for next week's Alien Earth that looks to be a flashback episode explaining how everything went wrong on the USCSS Maginot. Very much looking forward to that.
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It's kind of confusing to me. Because, cynically, I feel like this administration is going to try to find some way out of even *having* the midterm elections. But maybe they don't have a way and that's why these folks are dropping out.
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She went from "bring it on" to "I quit" in 16 days.
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But she accomplished so much! 🙄 👎 www.cbsnews.com/news/joni-er...
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For real. This could honestly be SO much easier. All of this. We have the resources to do it and we don't because of greed.
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Hell, yeah.
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Another bad decision. Longfellow would have been great hosting Update. He reminded me a lot of Dennis Miller and Norm MacDonald with his delivery.
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WHY IS IT ALWAYS WET?!
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I know it’s a very old sci-fi trope to assert “the *real* villain is humanity,” but damn Alien Earth does it well.
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Preparing to watch Alien Earth is something I both look forward to and dread in equal measure.
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I guess that's where I'm at - can't hurt. I can always Uber.
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Do you really think it would work? I struggle with the idea because, if I were a business owner, I’d probably dismiss it. ☹️
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As John Waters once said, "If you go home with somebody and they don't have books, don't fuck them." www.axios.com/2025/08/27/r...
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Imagine being President of the United States. Now imagine caring about *a late night talk show host's contract extension*. www.cracked.com/article_4807...
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Gotta say, I think this one was a mistake. Emil had potential.
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I'm putting together a one-sheet offering to design animated ads for social media. I'm basically going to be cold-calling businesses to see if I can get any takers with an introductory offer. I have low confidence this will work, but I'm still forcing myself to do it.
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You know how sometimes Spider-Man can't tell what his spider sense is reacting to because the threats are everywhere? Same.
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It’s the voice cracking at the end that sells it.
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You know when people say "If the task takes 5 minutes to do, just do it and get it over with?" I hate how often that's right.
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Walker seems like a nice enough guy, but he didn’t really find his lane on the show. variety.com/2025/tv/news...
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Bless their hearts. 😉❤️