I'm not sure if this qualifies as "niche IP" but I believe that I could write the hell out of a Haitian Revolution miniseries.

cells on a table relating the title "The Miracle Maker" with the character "Simon The Pharisee"

"has Alfred Molina (of Italian extraction) ever played a Jewish character?"

... technically?

tweet from @DVSblast from 8/16/2011 reading "Oh you like food? What's a potato taste like? Yeah that's what I thought, you dunno shit....you don't eat no food, player."

just realized that Wallace Shawn belongs on my "Jewish people who have played Italian people and vice versa" spreadsheet due to his performance on Princess Bride. decided to check if Mandy Patinkin has ever played an Italian. He hasn't, but production finished on a JFK movie where he plays a mobster

the best one!

Goose jn the outfield / fire in the sky

an ad on the back of a truck driving on the highway captioned "what chefs want" with a photo of a man with a beard, a short sleeved shirt, and an apron resting his arms on a table and looking just off frame and smliling

a cambro™ brand 6 quart cam-square food container with red lid.

This guy CO detectors.

alternately

*aqualung riff*

Putin has a pee tape

you got a Carbon Monoxide detector? (it'd be close to the floor)

🎶 I know, I know, it's really serious 🎶

Multiple guys named Andrew WK.

the concept of a Business Improvement District has proven successes, it's just that the biggest proven success in urban planning is... Times Square. The question is: is Guy Fieri Chicken Tender Restaurant™ an improvement on live sex shows?

Taking the bus home from the doctor’s by way of a donut

A building, likely a shop, called Orvis. Orvis advertises “Men, Women, Fly Fishing, Dogs”

Ahh yes. The four genders

The Guy Doing Stuff Theory of Film Utilizing the power of the moving image to define the medium of film.

my close personal in real life @sprobeforebros.bsky.social wrote a good newsletter about the Guy Doing Stuff genre, but since that was a term I, myself, coined, I figured I'd write about it myself as well for the newsletter

www.jesseraub.online/the-guy-doin...

r/vexilology baby. I want some flag discussion

a photo of David Bowie out of his goddamn gourd on cocaine standing up in a Mercedes at a train station surrounded by fans. It kinda looks like he's doing a Nazi salute but it's really just a still from a wave.

Bowie.

I mean, it's more 12th Night than Mulan, but it's not not Mulan.

see what's going to happen is you're going to realize you saw it in 2020 but only after you went back in time a few years from now

a screenshot of a google sheets doc titled "1977 in cinema power rankings" with various titles, ratings, comments, cliches, etc of the cinema of 1977

buddy I get it

very much appreciate that this is a spreadsheet screenshot and not a letterboxd screnshot.

It’s really funny that those two movies came out within a 12 month period. Everyone remembers “two asteroid movies in a year”. No one remembers “two rescue Matt Damon from a lifeless planet movies in a yearly

I pay him a salary on par with a neurosurgeon in cash. He's got beef with a guy trying to bring JC Pennys into town.

That is my district attorney Keith Ellison, at the time my rep in the US congress for MN-5.

GP shocked at how difficult it is to find scaffolding in Manhattan

I mean she did have us watch Barton Fink because yadda yadda Dante’s Inferno.

Did we do Paradise Lost in Classic Lit? This feels awful Miltonian.

unfamiliar with Wendell Berry. Did your man from The Mosquito Coast read him and get inspired?

Hmm. I don’t see it. Maybe it’ll become more apparent in the back half of the film.