My Sunday dinner: Spaghettios (not pictured)

The second episode of Richard Ayoade's TRAVEL MAN was in Istanbul. It's on Prime (here in the States at least).

This is like when Lewinsky said she was the first victim of cyber-bullying. Completely unable to see past themselves and acknowledge the outside world.

This movie was not any good. Caught up with THE DRAMA this weekend too and liked it quite a bit, especially Zendaya.

About to watch CHIME and the movie it’s paired with.

About to see SUPER MARIO GALAXY MOVIE I think. Wife accidentally bought tickets for 3D version. Then the theater moved what screen it’s on… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I will absolutely trade Chat GPT for lawn darts. Bring back lawn darts!

Yes, vaguely northeast. Do you not watch Map Men? You should watch Map Men.

Vacation!: just landed and the guy that was going to drive us to our destination called to say he was in a car crash and can’t pick us up.

Didn't much like the extended scene from THE ODYSSEY shown before the movie though.

Watched PROJECT HAIL MARY in 70mm last weekend. Liked it quite a bit, should be a big hit. My screening, on Sunday night, was packed; only front row seats left. Sandra Huller real good.

@wrestleatrandom.bsky.social Unnecessary Correction: From the Demolition episode, Bill Eadie was Super Machine, not Big Machine (which was Blackjack Mulligan). Now if we could only figure out who Hulk Machine was...

My wife is watching WHAT A GIRL WANTS, which I did not like when it came out. But it is so much worse than I remember. Maybe one of the worst of all time.

4 infielders and 7 outfielders seems like a really weird ratio to me.

This is ~13 gallons per day I think? Who is buying that much fuel per day?

3) Jesus Christ Superstar, 2004. This just blew me away. Got the original album shortly afterwards and it's still one of my favorite albums today. I played mostly Organ/Synth mainly covering whatever wasn't covered with our really small band we had.

2) Anything Goes, 2002ish? Knew no one in the show or pit except for the music director. Spent a lot of time with lady playing the Trombone book. I'm pretty sure I played Bass for this one? Anyway, this was the most hilarious musical I've ever seen. Non-stop laughter all production week.

Favorite musical experiences: 1) Cinderella, summer 1996. Right in between HS graduation and college. Dated a member of the chorus briefly; really liked her. Played Percussion 2 book, and half the timpani book and ran sound effects from the pit. Definitely the most fun I've had in a pit.

I played in 33 pit orchestras between 1994ish-2006. Really hoping to get back to it now that my life has settled down a bit... but now I've been out of the loop so long I'm not sure how to get back in.

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Well, I looked it up.

I found it.

He had the best reaction to the Joss Whedon stuff, which I sadly cannot find anymore.

Sad to see Nicholas Brendon has died. Loved BUFFY so much back when it aired.

Had a disk with Shell Games on one side, Lemonade Stand on the other.

Played this so many times when I was a kid, glad I found it again.

Really not a great headline for Norway.

Sure, Wordlebot, sure.

Unfortunately ambiguous headline here.

Best films of 2025 Best year for movies for me in a long time.

Should anyone care: my favorite films of 2025, an outstanding year for cinema in my opinion.

Finally bit the bullet and watched HAMNET, found it to be kind of laughable, until the HAMLET performance scene, which I really dug. How cool would it be to watch a film of HAMLET, performed it would have been in 1600; sets, audience, male actors playing ladies etc. That'd be way better than HAMNET.