My six-year-old nephew is obsessed with Pokémon, so when I told him my favorite Pokémon was Jigglypuff — based entirely on my experience with Super Smash Brothers — he took that shit seriously. He gifted me a Jigglypuff card, so now that card is traveling with me to Portugal and will be the focus of all our photography over the next two weeks. I hope he likes the daily photos he’s about to get. #jigglypuff #pokemon

My six-year-old nephew is obsessed with Pokémon, so when I told him my favorite Pokémon was Jigglypuff, he took that shit seriously. He gifted me a Jigglypuff card, so now that card is traveling with me to Portugal and will be the focus of all our photography over the next two weeks.

At the airport, flying internationally, and ordering more beers than I’ve ever ordered before. You may not hear from me for the next week.

I think I hate Elon the most, and that’s no small praise.

Walsh is a stain on Matts everywhere. He’s the worst of us.

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Meeting Superman in a Spider-Man shirt? Rude.

CANNIBAL MUKBANG is playing TONIGHT at 7:30 pm at the historic, family run, independent Gardena Cinema 🎥🥩🍿

I’ll be there in person after the screening for a Q+A moderated by the legendary @jonleebrody.bsky.social

🎟️ Get tickets: www.gardenacinema.com

Best of the year so far

I could talk about it forever

WE'RE GONNA WORK TOGETHER UNTIL THE WORLD BURNS

Published my piece on SESSION 9 in 2007, the year I graduated college!

Very, very slowly making my way through a first-ever rewatch. I'm pretty happy with this decision.

Watching The X-Files With No Lights On 🛸 The Truth is Out There 🛸

it is part of my grieving process (see, also this piece I wrote last summer)

It’s easy to edit @xtinemakepeace.bsky.social. Not just because she’s a great writer, but because we’ve been working together for 19 years, and we know each other’s voices really damn well.

DoorDash DashRoots Deliveries could cost more Philadelphia lawmakers have proposed a 25-cent delivery tax on certain deliveries. This could make deliveries more expensive for Philly residents. At a time like this, when costs are already high, this tax could put more pressure on households across the city. Once a tax like this is in place, it’s hard to undo. Take 30 seconds to tell your city council members to oppose this delivery tax! Take action now

DoorDash wants me to oppose a $0.25 delivery tax on certain deliveries, eh? Best evidence so far that this is good policy.

go on, buy a mag

Frank Herbert I apologize for ever doubting you

Age of Comics: The Golden Years Age of Comics: The Golden Years is a medium light worker-placement board game where you play the role of a fictional comic book publishing house during the golden age of comics (circa 1938-56). To bec...

I somehow missed that there is a worker placement game where you're managing your own comic book publisher in the 1930s and 1940s. That feels like a must-own for me.

Scorpion and the frog

Springfest 2026 logo

If you live in Philadelphia, you can see HOKUM and OBSESSION this weekend as part of @phillyfilmsociety.bsky.social's annual SpringFest, which I just think is neat.

A woman sits on a crappy motel bed with a hair dryer and screams at something out of frame

I want more movies that look like CUCKOO. The sets, the lighting, the Dan Stevens speaking German and carrying a rifle. 🤌

Overlook 2026 Review: Hokum One of my most anticipated films out of Overlook Film Festival 2026 was the latest by writer and director Damian McCarthy (Caveat, Oddity), Hokum. A horror author travels to a remote Irish inn to s…

2026 @overlookfilmfest.bsky.social REVIEW: Hokum is one of the most frightening films of the year, combining mystery, drama, and folklore to create a nightmarish work of art. Go to thebloggingbanshee.com/2026/04/16/o... for my review.

#Hokum #DamianMcCarthy #AdamScott #Neon #OverlookFilmFestival

David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson

THE X-FILES: “Tooms” (S1E21): There’s a beat in this episode where Scully calls Mulder Fox for the first time, and I had entire relationships in my twenties with less sexual tension than that single word. Plus, first appearance of Skinner!

cant beat prometheus though for helmets, look at that bubble

Gotta give credit where it's due!

(I 100% shared that because I saw @friede.bsky.social share her LARB piece and was like oh wait I did that)

I sometimes forget all the weird bylines I accumulated in graduate school - where I wrote for the Los Angeles Review of Books and Playboy in the same one-year period. Don't have that hunger anymore, but those were fun times.

John Hillcoat, Mythmaker | Los Angeles Review of Books If "Triple 9" has any lasting message, it is this: the very possibility of change is precluded by the nihilism of the present.

"If TRIPLE 9 has any lasting message, it is this: the very possibility of change — and by extension the mythic stories that we tell to help us transition from the before and after — is precluded by the nihilism of the present. In it, the cycle of history has been closed." One from the archives.

I keep waiting for someone to be like "do you want to play" and for me to be like "WELL IF YOU INSIST"

not gonna lie, everybody coming together just to talk shit about the platform? bluesky's never felt more like old twitter

Someday I really need to commit myself to writing about Irish horror. Why do I keep putting that off.