Really wish Friedkin was still around to vociferiously and profanely decry this.
Really wish Friedkin was still around to vociferiously and profanely decry this.
I still think of him as the screenwriter of HELL OR HIGH WATER, which seemed so perceptive and nuanced. Maybe the directing and performances had more to do with that?
WOKE GINGER: I can't, Sir. I'm Woke Ginger!
Whiskey Friday with Tony Dokupil is extra off-the-chain today.
I may be the only person in the world who loves his "Kingdom Come."
The first time I saw Patti live was her keynote speech for the very short-lived Philadephia Music Conference around 1996. She wanted to close by reciting "People Have the Power" but an audience member had to prompt her the opening line.
"We all hung out in a coffee shop called Poopies up on the strip."
A close picture of a hawk or some other kind of bird of prey. The color-correction of the photo has turned the head and wings of the bird a dark grey-blue-green, and the chest a faded orange. The bird looks off to the right, the image cuts off the bird's beak.
#88 Pernice Brothers, THE WORLD WON’T END
29 seed votes
21 nomination votes, approximate nomination rank: #73
Length: 1.41 Weezers
Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/1Jo8nu...
YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
#61 Pulp, WE LOVE LIFE
37 seed votes
27 nomination votes, approximate nomination rank: #52
Length: 1.90 Weezers
Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/07Ho17...
YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Gillian Welch, a thin white woman with long brown hair, sits on a table that have cushions on them. She is in a red dress covered with white flower shapes. The cushions have a multicolored, striped, kind of plaid pattern on them. The woman looks off to the right with a slight look of puzzlement.
#8 Gillian Welch, TIME (THE REVELATOR)
81 seed votes
58 nomination votes, approximate nomination rank: #7
Length: 1.82 Weezers
Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/4MvnpO...
YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
"The hounds are out, folks!"
Imagining these jokers continually tripping in White House hallways like Hank Azaria in THE BIRDCAGE.
Heathcliff stands on a front yard holding a detonator connected to some dynamite with a long cord. As he pushes the plunger down on the detonator, the dynamite explodes with a puff of smoke and a loud BOOM. The owner of the house, angrily looking out his window, says "I'm tired of replacing lawn gnomes."
11 Mar 2026
I can access it on my phone, but something's off on my laptop.
Is anyone else having trouble logging into inquirer.com?
Heathcliff sits contemplatively in an armchair, surrounded by several framed pictures of meat, with a few pieces of meat hanging from the ceiling on wires. Grandma Nutmeg stands at the doorway with her friend and says "His aesthetic is meat core."
07 Mar 2026
Much-missed and underrated folk-noir group The Walkabouts have a new anthology on Bandcamp. Pay what you want.
Bob Odenkirk as Van Hammersly on MR. SHOW
And now it’s time for the awards… the Actor Awards!
Just a little levity to distract myself from our awful government.
I’m Worried That Hogan’s Heroes Will Be Replaced Permanently On METV Since “The Golden Girls” Is Coming March 16th.
I’m Worried That Hogan’s Heroes Will Be Replaced Permanently On METV Since “The Golden Girls” Is Coming March 16th.
A torn and wrinkled bit of newspaper featuring a Tom Tomorrow cartoon titled Why We're Going To War
@tomtomorrow.bsky.social from the City Paper in Philadelphia.
Will Graham (William Petersen) on the phone in MANHUNTER.
It remains wild that this is how Michael Mann chooses to frame a man on the phone.
“Signal 30” — an amazing episode of MAD MEN in which Pete Campbell is emasculated about five times.
"I have resisting watching M*A*S*H because it looks like one of those shows that gestures at martini-swilling doctors during the Korean War while actually teaching its audience the difference between a chicken and baby."
I believe they're referring to beloved actor Danny DeVito.
CLOCKWORK ORANGE, LOVE LIZA, and (very recently) IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU.
Never Let Me Go
Hot Lips Houlihan
Charles Winchester and some bartender
Now showing at the Passyunk Ave Acme.