Full MICHAEL review up at @thepitch.bsky.social! Did you know CAPTAIN EO is available on YouTube? Go watch that instead, it's only 17 minutes long!

I will always, ALWAYS recommend people watch "Michael Jackson's Ghosts."

There's a bit in MICHAEL where Michael announces on stage that he's no longer touring with his brothers, and Colman Domingo, wearing lumpy prosthetics and contacts as Joe Jackson, looks like he's gonna combust like the defeated boss in a video game. It's pretty funny.

Anyway. Bad movie!

The Bubbles intro really got me. "Look at this sweet, innocent chimp baby, he's my friend!" Dude, I regret to inform you NOPE exists.

ATTAGIRL

Hurricane Omar is gonna wipe stuff OUT (but it'll be all billionaire high-rises getting destroyed, and somehow the rebuilding money is gonna go to the people who actually need it).

Yay.

Panic Fest: Find Your Friends is a joyless collage of better revenge movies Courtesy Panic Fest Panic Fest 2026 just wrapped up at Screenland Armour in KC. The yearly homegrown genre festival is a delightful cavalcade of feature films hitting theaters soon, and some with rele...

Find Your Friends was miserable and tonally weird and I did not care for any part of it that wasn't Helena Howard-related.

Panic Fest: Dead Media is a loving ode to physical media, low-budget filmmaking and so much more Dead Media. // Courtesy Panic Fest Panic Fest 2026 just wrapped up at Screenland Armour in KC. The yearly homegrown genre festival is a delightful cavalcade of feature films hitting theaters soon, and...

Dead Media! It's adorable and made me feel all warm and fuzzy about the right things. @jamesurbaniak.bsky.social is delightful in it! So is @billcorbett.bsky.social!

Panic Fest: Hokum is Irish filmmaker Damian McCarthy's latest 'must watch' nightmare Panic Fest 2026 just wrapped up at Screenland Armour in KC. The yearly homegrown genre festival is a delightful cavalcade of feature films hitting theaters soon, and some with releases further down th...

Panic Fest dispatches! A thread. First up: Damian McCarthy's HOKUM, which has some flaws but makes me happy to remain team "Let Damian McCarthy keep doing whatever he wants"

YES exactly. Gross!

The last Prego I bought and used had a ketchupy flavor/consistency that I did not love. So that'd surely come up.

PJ Soles and Edie McClurg in Carrie getting their hair done. PJ Soles' hat is sitting on top of the styling hood

We don't talk enough about how great this moment in the 76 CARRIE is. Icon status.

See, I like the idea of that performance more than the execution. As soon as one of my friends pointed out that he sounded just like Herbert from Family Guy it was ruined.

I know this isn't entirely the point, but if my conservative commentator dad named me after William F. Buckley, I'd spend my whole life trying to spite him. Like, woof.

This is describing my house and I don't like it.

a man in a blue shirt is holding a large log and a shovel Alt: Cap rips a tree stump in half with his bare hands

How it feels pulling up the baby trees in my yard by the roots bc it rained a bunch and the ground is all soft:

The poster for the 2018 movie The Little Stranger

Remembered on a whim that this movie exists and boy oh boy did it hit the SPOT.

I do not have 2.5 hours of patience tonight, otherwise I totally would.

Very courteous of that massive storm to be done in time for me to make dinner.

Anyway, now I'm in the mood to watch something gothic, any recommendations?

I've got my fireproof box and my power bank. Currently hanging out with both cats (!!) in said hall closet.

Look, if nothing else, this storm provided an excellent opportunity to clear out and vacuum my hallway closet.

Wilson heads, our time has come!

YESSSSSSS

My laptop has weather radar on it. The cats are just beyond it, asleep, snuggling.

The elite weather crew is ON IT.

The one upside of watching weather tracking this closely is learning the *wild* names of towns and unincorporated areas around the region. Good Intent! Agency! St Pats (not St. Patrick's, St. Pats)!

Anyway, turns out when it's really windy sometimes your toilet gets a sewage gas blockage and it makes your tank drain suddenly and smell like poo. All you have to do is pour in a bunch of water. Did you know that? Now you do.

Sure, I could Google what's wrong with my toilet and get an AI answer that's only as good as what I know to ask, or I can call my uncle, who will tell me immediately what to do, save me money on a plumber AND get a silly joke from my aunt as a bonus.

No contest, really.

KC September 29. Who's going. Let's make plans.

the problem isn't that Pete Hegseth shared a prayer adapted from PULP FICTION (1994). anything can inspire a prayer

it's that he clearly hasn't interrogated the prayer, or the source, or himself

Jules (the repentant hitman played by Samuel L. Jackson) recites Ezekiel 25:17* twice in the film: