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writer of sappy personal essays about music, comedy, and film. also writing a book about growing up with a rare bone disorder. it’ll be funny, i swear. ✍️: merry-go-round mag, paste, pitchfork, creem, nme, etc.

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06.03.2026 17:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Livin' the dream

06.03.2026 14:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

One day I will see the name “Markwayne Mullin” and not read “Mudvayne,” but today is not that day.

05.03.2026 21:41 👍 82 🔁 7 💬 6 📌 0

If problem inflation is calculated like money inflation, we're up to about 169.87 problems in 2026.

05.03.2026 15:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Alternatively, maybe a bish IS a problem in this economy?

05.03.2026 15:48 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

99 problems??? In this economy??? (Seems like it should be higher than that.)

05.03.2026 15:44 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1

It’s no surprise considering they also had the balls to name their band that.

05.03.2026 04:37 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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a woman is sitting at a table in front of a television and looking at the camera . Alt: a woman is sitting at a table in front of a television and looking at the camera .

Whew, that is one hell of a picture! Still relevant in 2026. Ned Beatty’s scene alone, wow! Faye Dunaway! If you try searching GIF s for Network it most assumes you mean The Social Network! Took a while to find this one!

05.03.2026 04:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Watching Network for the first time, AMA but do it after the movie bc I’m not looking at my phone.

05.03.2026 01:31 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Yes!

05.03.2026 01:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
High Stakes Chess feat. George R. R. Martin and Robert Redford! | Dark Winds | New Episodes Sundays
High Stakes Chess feat. George R. R. Martin and Robert Redford! | Dark Winds | New Episodes Sundays YouTube video by amc+

It’s a whole 45 seconds and the last time Redford appeared on screen. It’s weird.

Anyway, Zahn McClarnon kicks ass, as always.

05.03.2026 00:25 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m watching Dark Winds, a show produced by Robert Redford and George R.R. Martin. What an odd combination, I thought. Then it got weird in season 3 when they show up out of nowhere for a distracting cameo as two guys playing chess while locked in a jail cell.

05.03.2026 00:21 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

I'd love to hear what Cash would have done with that.

04.03.2026 21:22 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

To a specific co-worker: When you preface something with "for your context," I have stopped listening because it has nothing to do with what I'm working on.

04.03.2026 17:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Keep Up the Good Work by Lowly on Apple Music Song · 2022 · Duration 5:41
04.03.2026 17:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm the first voice you hear on Danish band Lowly’s song “Keep Up the Good Work.”

04.03.2026 17:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

"Here you go, Jack. A great bit about Baby's Day Out, just for you." - Kevin Feige probably

04.03.2026 16:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Now, he may have been half-joking that it's a favorite, but I was just stunned that his stoner mind remembered seeing it in 1994. And then I wasn't, because I also remember when we went to see it. It's a dumb movie, but Joey Pants has 2 different posters of it in his house on Wonder Man.

04.03.2026 16:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It also featured a great bit about the film "Baby's Day Out," which was very funny for me personally. We were out at my dad's last summer, and he put it on. I commented on what an odd choice it was, and he remarked, "Oh, this is one of my favorites. We all went to see it at the Avalon theater."

04.03.2026 16:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

We finally had a chance to binge Wonderman, and I thought it was really great! It wraps things up and leaves room for more, but I also think the ending works well enough if they decide not to make another season. Ben Kingsley and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II have great chemistry on screen.

04.03.2026 16:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

How I arrived on Bluesky.

04.03.2026 16:41 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I mean, neither was I, really.

04.03.2026 15:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm so sorry for putting disgusting smut on your post.

04.03.2026 13:20 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Bahahahahahaha why would it do that!

04.03.2026 13:16 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This joke was a real stretch but we made it folks

04.03.2026 12:56 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Squeeze filling in as hosts for Mikey Day on Netflix’s Is It Cake?: Cake me I’m yours because dreams are made of cake

04.03.2026 12:54 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Homer Simpson eating slices of American cheese in his underwear.

Homer Simpson eating slices of American cheese in his underwear.

Me:

04.03.2026 12:31 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 1

Hi, I work in marketing and if I could push a button to end it all, I would.

03.03.2026 23:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If you’re a consumer of a product or service, it should disable all ads for that product or service everywhere you look. I already know about Hulu. We have nothing more to say to each other.

03.03.2026 23:46 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman Check out The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman - <p><b>A memoir-in-essays on transness, dad rock, and the music that saves us.</b></p><p> When Wilco's 2007 album <i>Sky Blue Sky</i> was infamously critic...

Instead of hate reading some nonsense essay about gender by some very hateable fella, you could read my book full of essays that are also about gender, and labour, and death, and addiction, and music, but in a much more curious and much more fun way

bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

03.03.2026 19:51 👍 115 🔁 35 💬 0 📌 3