These are some of the funniest comics I’ve ever read. The Eltingville Club shone a light on toxic fandom before almost anybody else, genuinely prescient and hilarious. Dork made me laugh out loud regularly. Milk and Cheese, too. If you don’t have this stuff it’s a great way to get your hands on it.
My dude I don't even have a website.
A professional immersive theater marketing department has decided that I'm an "influencer" in that space (barrier to entry: low) and has asked me for my podcast's "media kit" and it is taking all my energy not to just reply with "AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA"
I miss knowing what wasbeing cheered or jeered in a given week. (But seriously, as a kid who read every TV guide article
and my newspapers art section daily I both felt I had a decent grasp of pop culture at the time, which has served me well at trivia nights.)
Deeply excited to see Heavenly (one of my absolute favorite bands ever) in Massachusetts tonight - between flying to London to see them play 3 shows in 2023 and seeing three more shows in NY in 2024 I think I've now seen Heavenly more in the 21st century than the 20th.
Oh my god those fucking chatrooms.
Happy sixth anniversary to my pandemic lockdown decision to watch one movie from each of the past 100 years. It would be harder to pull this off now (kids go to bed later, I'm busy with podcasts/game night/going out) but it was one of the things that genuinely got me through 2020. Hooray for art.
If I cared about growth/metrics I would ONLY do episodes about immersive theater. Those episodes get way more downloads/listeners (the one time I was recognized by voice it was at an immersive theater show) but sometimes I just want to interview Xena cast members or talk about comic books instead.
Very much this. A friend of mine kept asking about ways I could monetize my podcast and I had to eventually say, "I don't want to worry about making money off it. I just want to do it for fun and have it be the weird thing I want it to be."
Saw Project: Hail Mary with my 11 year old daughter tonight and we both really loved it. A cross-generational hit!
I’m not the least bit excited about “The Mandalorian and Grogu” and I appear on the video edition of “Star Wars Trivial Pursuit” - if they can’t even get ME on board then this film is in trouble.
RIP Sid Krofft. I once asked him about the variety show Pink Lady and Jeff (a show Sid co-produced with his brother Marty and that I am obsessed with) and he told me, “That was a real piece of shit.”
I just booked an appointment for a Sleep No More tattoo in case you were wondering how my midlife crisis is progressing.
I was just COLD LAMPIN' in Cambridge yesterday and our paths didn't cross. Dammit!
New episode of my podcast THE BEST STUFF IN THE WORLD, talking all things Babylon 5 with Nathan from @42cast.bsky.social and Denise from Not On Social Media! Vorlons! Centauri! Narn! Oddly prescient plotlines about the spread of fascism! Go and listen and then GET THE HELL OUT OF OUR GALAXY!
Spring is in the air and with it comes an intense need to listen to JANGLY GUITAR SONGS.
Please send me your jangly guitar song recommendations!
New episode of GLEAMING THE TUBE, my podcast about movies that involve skateboarding in some capacity! This time out my co-host Mike and I take on ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER! Ocean waves, gang. Ocean waves. Find it wherever pods are casted.
Y’all are killing it with the episode pics lately.
I’ve got Young Romance but not Real Love. (My collection of Kirby hardcover collections is robust but incomplete. I’ll add it to the list.)
A poster for "Charlie Chaplin in The Gold Rush" featuring Chaplin in his iconic Little Tramp persona shivering in a cabin on top of a stove.
Last night's viewing! My 9-year-old son Alexander asked to watch a Charlie Chaplin movie so we fired this one up. For a movie that is over 100 years old, most of the comedy in this one still hits. Alexander preferred the wacky cabin scenes to the romance stuff with Georgia Hale in the middle.
I was on the podcast "Wait, you haven't seen...?" to talk about one of my favorite movie musicals, Singin' in the Rain, recently. You can check it out here or wherever pods are casted!
New BEST STUFF IN THE WORLD podcast - talking to Athena Z. Peters from Incantrix productions about their upcoming immersive/interactive theater productions in MA. Go and listen!
I hated that Goo Goo Dolls song in the 90s and I hate it now.
You should follow the Red Sox organist on here when the season starts to see the incredible breadth and depth of the songs he plays throughout the season. One of the joys of baseball season. @jtkantor.bsky.social
Poster for "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring"
Last night's viewing! The number of things that had to go right for this movie to be any good at all is staggering and the fact that Peter Jackson and his talented crew and cast managed to create one of the greatest fantasy movies of all time is nothing short of astounding.
Also, staying up until 11:30 to watch a deliberately paced subtitled movie without falling asleep on the couch is something I think I deserve an award for.
Cover the The Piano Teacher (a film by Michael Haneke) blu-ray.
Tonight’s viewing! Fucked up and mesmerizing. Isabelle Huppert gives the performance of a lifetime. Not a feel-good movie.
“Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.” - Kurt Vonnegut
There was a period in the 90s where if you knew how to use a search engine well you were treated like a wizard. It's going to be like that with people who are good at AI prompts for a short while and then I think it'll become a skill most people in certain jobs have.
Nothing in human history has ever sounded better than this Slowdive song that WMBR is playing right now.