Revisited this last year, and it hits something no other book quite does for me.

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It's ep. 7 of 10 in my head.

I believe in Barthes*!

*-I should be friends with a 22-year-old.

Sure, but it's really hard to sell limited series right now unless they are based on massive bestsellers, which Woodworking is not. It has sold well, but not "has massive name recognition" well.

Yeah! There's very little children's programming that airs on broadcast!

The main reason to hope for a Woodworking adaptation, as always, is so that I can meet the 22-year-old trans girl who plays Abigail and try to be best friends with her, thus proving I don't understand my own book.

Like what interest there is in a Woodworking adaptation (which is still minuscule, to be clear) has only increased in the past few months, when such a thing seemed like a non-starter in early 2025. Granted, a Woodworking movie would be aimed at adults, but it does prominently feature a trans teen.

This sucks. I also get the sense from various meetings across the past ~six months that entertainment companies are less scared of the perceived cultural revolution and willing to push back on stuff like this. I hope I am right!

Project Hail Mary was pretty good, but I really wish its trailer had featured "Solsbury Hill" and Movie Voice Man saying, "He had to travel halfway across the universe... to find his very best friend."

I really hope Jean Teasdale gets a column on the new Infowars dot com

Let’s go to the mall. Today! (Today.)

Yes. Now we're talking.

No, they both love The Lord. This is going to be Mulder and Scully, except they both believe in some super niche shit without a ton of overlap.

A pagan water witch and a super Christian baptizer have very little in common... but they're the crime-solving duo of the century.

Do we think I could sell a TV show about a water witch whose dowsing rod keeps finding dead bodies instead?

The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.

simply trying to think of the most incongruous recent film this could have happened in

I see someone just finished watching Hamnet.

I would love to live in the UP, but I do not know that the UP would love me. A friend of mine lived up there, and people were weird to her the whole time.

Okay but what if I bought a duplex in Grand Rapids

Can't wait to read it!

we all know I have no life, so:

My daughter demanded to see this over and over and wouldn't accept any other Minions content in its stead.

Making it 2019 again via science or magic

My firm belief is that Minions can see the evil in all human hearts and, thus, will work for anyone if the pay is good.

love bluesky because the replies to this post immediately descend into people fighting about whether the minions would have worked for stalin

Let me make a Gabriel Knight TV show

I was, like, "Do I really need an updated birth certificate?" but then once I had one, I was so happy about it.

Would be tempted to go up to five, but I really firmly buy the lore around only two -- MAYBE three -- of them.