Silly call either way. Nothing out of bounds about that shot.

It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly

Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

DC Comics Announces 'Clayface: Celebrity Dirt' | DC DC today announced Clayface: Celebrity Dirt, a new Batman universe noir horror comic book miniseries starring Basil Karlo in a twisted tale of fame, transformation, and self-destruction.

This one is muddy and messed up in all the right ways. Join @judedoyle.bsky.social , Fran Galán, Patricio Delpeche, Tom Napolitano this July! www.dc.com/blog/2026-04...

You have drawn my nightmares. Only I think your characters are more fun.

It's going to be a tight race, but when the blood finally dries and history renders its verdict, this one may prove to have been the most catastrophic appointment of all.

Heart breaker. I am broken.

Basketball is a game of inches.

a woman in a plaid shirt is sitting on a couch and making a funny face . ALT: a woman in a plaid shirt is sitting on a couch and making a funny face .

If this is followed by you posting fresh-baked bread for the next 8 days…

April 1 was always a not great day when I worked for CBR (some publishers would send us official Press Releases that were completely false), but I think you’re right that the last 10 years made the idea of participating in any sort of foolishness today completely pointless and unpalatable.

Batman: Dark Patterns tpb cover by Hayden Sherman

Batman: Dark Patterns interior art

He's here.

The Batman: Dark Patterns tpb is out today from DC. Me, @cleanlined.bsky.social, @treecolour.bsky.social, & @gofrankgo.bsky.social.

Who is the Wound Man?
What is the voice in the tower?
Have the Red Hood Gang truly returned?
And why is Gotham burning?

The Dark Detective is on the case.

Oh, I thought you were talking about… well, never mind.

Tonight’s episode of THE PITT really hit home for my by tackling the trifecta of kidney failure, blood thinner, and the inescapable threat of aging.

That’s fucking television, baby! (And I’m upset about it.)

Whoever did that cover did a great job…

I don’t remember much in the way of details about the original, but I feel like I’d watch this (and then log it on Letterboxd).

“Bridget Jones’s Letterboxd Diary” (2027)

I have seen the 2013 film twice, and the 2014 never. People contain multitudes!

Long-time listener, first time caller. Please discuss their directorial debuts, LOST RIVER and DON JON and how one seemingly doomed a career while the other was a little-seen blip on the ascent to superstardom?

I’ll take my answer off the air.

2026: HaWWWWWWWWWWks!

2015: HaWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWks!

This was offered (and declined) to someone next to a person I was talking to, but I had no idea what was said or what was in the box. Missed opportunity!

It was going on one, two in the morning, and we were shooting what I felt was an important scene for me, when he makes an attempt to be quote-unquote straight, in a suit, and at the end of it he gets emotional and locks himself in the other room. And I felt like, I’m not getting what I want—I’m not happy with it. Mike was happy with it. He called me the next day and said, “I know you weren’t happy with the scene last night. Believe me, we wouldn’t have gone home if I had felt we weren’t getting it.” And then he sort of became my psychiatrist and said, “You find it difficult to be happy, don’t you? You find it difficult to enjoy things.” And I said, “Well, sometimes. Last night was about feeling too tired and not feeling I was reaching what I needed to reach for the scene.” He talked to me then about when he was making, I don’t know whether it was Virginia Woolf or The Graduate. He said, “I didn’t enjoy it for a second. I was worried about so many things.” And then he said, “You know, this is never going to happen again quite this way. You should try to allow yourself to enjoy this more. Take a minute a day, and then add a minute the next day, and another minute. Pretty soon, you’ll have hours of happiness.”

The Birdcage opened thirty years ago today, so in its honor, I want to share one of my favorite stories about Mike Nichols that didn't make it into my biography. This is from an interview I did with Nathan Lane.

Oh yes! Let's talk about this!

"A reasonable conclusion is that most screenplays submitted to the Black List website are competent but not exceptional, and those that are exceptional are quite rare (which roughly mirrors what most of us know instinctively if we’ve read a lot of screenplays)."

I think they might have better luck spending two thousand dollars holding a press conference where they detail who made the key decisions to collaborate with the Trump administration, how and when they were fired, and explaining what would stop that from happening again.

“Does the human body *actually* need sleep,” he wondered , aloud (surprisingly), while jabbing his cat and filling her like a balloon.

Well, in that case, I give you permission to potate. It’s only a problem if you start to sprout.

Is this about *being* a potato or *eating* potatoes? Inquiring minds need to know.

I have no children and no toys on my desk, so the math maths.

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I try not to get too high or too low based on any one thing, but this loss may have broken me. Shooting variance can’t always be against us, defense can’t consistently disappear, and the rotations have been downright silly all season. Something (else) has to change.

HaWWWWWks!