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🎃andy, crumpkinhead🎃

@crumpandy.bsky.social

author, journalist, critic, token white guy; swagger-heavy, cutting and confrontational; trying to do better. words: Paste Magazine, JoySauce, The Daily Beast, Time, The A.V. Club, Salon, Cool Material, Pop Heist, and on it goes. agcrump.wordpress.com

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Chatting on @popheist.com slack about Eric Bauza's passing, and something crystallized for me: the feeling I have the majority of the time a talent - whether actor, filmmaker, screenwriter, author, musician, and so on - dies is gratitude for their work. With Bauza, I feel whiplash. Like: damn.

I am both, 1) patting myself on the back for not doing business with any of these bastards, and 2) signal-boosting this so y'all can check and see if you're doing business with any of these bastards yourselves; you have the right to know who helped fund that disgusting ad

Judd Legum@juddlegum.bsky.social

Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.

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Avengers: Doomsday (1976) #Heistoween

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It really needs to be emphasized that the woman Vivek is featuring in these videos fled with an accused & indicted child rapist and successfully helped him avoid trial for 20+ years.

shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social

even by normal oppo standards this story is bonkers — basically vivek and co (and acton’s shitty mother) are accusing acton of fabricating horrific stories of child sexual abuse that are clearly documented in court records

Last (FOR NOW!): we all know and love (or tolerate) K-pop, a category that's dominated international music for nearly two decades. but I have news! a rising tide of recording artists is shifting the spotlight from Korea to SEA. and they're good, too!

joysauce.comWhy more Southeast Asian listeners are turning to homegrown artists - JoySauce.comIn Southeast Asia, the popularity of K-pop and Western artists is waning in favor of local acts that fans can see themselves in.

Wow, thank goodness we don't have a woman serving as president, they're too emotional; anyways here's racist pedophile grandpa having a hissy fit about being asked a question.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social

“Wait! WAIT! You better be careful… Quiet! QUIET! What’s wrong with you? Are you a sick person?” The short-tempered thin-skinned dictator wannabe with cratering approval numbers repeatedly loses his shit at reporters. (H/T @atrupar.com )

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Just got all my boys together to take on the wandering ronin who came to town. There’s like 15 of us and only one of him so pretty much the only thing that would give me any pause is if he was master of the devastating and lightning-fast iaidō style. But that’s not likely. Coward hasn’t even drawn h

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"I'm trying to deliver Jesus from identity theft. Folks who claim to share the faith that I share support these mean-spirited policies that kick people off of their healthcare & take food out of the mouths of hungry children. I don't understand that kind of faith." ~ Sen. Rev. Dr. Raphael Warnock

Seems like as good a day as any to impeach Racist Addled Grandpa Pedo and take him to the retirement home, and by that I mean “prison.“

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "I do not want to lose as your representative $90 billion for the privilege of allowing Canada to have a healthcare system and other things that they shouldn't be having"

My goodness, so much of this is so real to me, particularly the press tours aspect, cutting right back to my experiences recently speaking with a certain massively influential and venerated filmmaker during a press tour of their latest, and one of their finest, films.

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Do what Brett says! The newsletter is *totally* free. (But also you should become a Pop Heist member, which, yeah, that *isn't* free, but original entertainment journalism produced by independent, worker-owned publications is a frighteningly rare commodity in the 2020s; it's the least you can do.)

Brett White@brettwhite.bsky.social

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Btw, I do think this means that YIMBY is specifically liberal and not leftist I think a lot of stuff is liberal and not leftist. I broadly agree with the gatekeeping leftists about what leftism is, which is I think what divides me from a lot of people i largely agree with otherwise

I hated, hated, hated, *hated* CRYSTAL LAKE, a pants-on-head stupid appropriation of a mythos that at no point in its existence has needed reimagining. Absolutely appalled that anybody is giving this the time of day. Not even Linda Cardellini is enough to recommend it.

theplaylist.net‘Crystal Lake’ Review: Linda Cardellini Can’t Save A Thunderously Dopey ‘Friday The 13th’ ReimaginingLinda Cardellini delivers a standout performance in ‘Crystal Lake,’ but A24’s ‘Friday the 13th’ reimagining buries its slasher roots poorly

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I think frats should be banned from campuses for the same reason I want ICE abolished: I think impunity factories are bad, actually.

As an Andy, I refuse to recognize Harris’ validity as an Andy, and will from here on out refer to him as Plop. With that established, I believe it is incumbent on all of us to vote Republican legislators, including Plop, out of office and ensure they never set foot in it again, fuck this guy.

Baltimore Banner@thebaltimorebanner.com

Republican Rep. Andy Harris incorrectly told a reporter they were breaking the law as the reporter and others recorded an exchange with him last night. Harris had just wrapped up a debate with Democratic challenger Dan Schwartz.

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So Danny Trejo was manipulated and tricked into being in Ben Shapiro's newest film. Holy shit.

There is absolutely nothing creative or interesting about shifting time periods around and wrapping a corporate espionage sci-fi thriller around one of 1980s' slasher cinema's enduring icons. Maybe *you* need a concrete explanation for Jason's powers, but I don't.

MINOTAUR: ***. I struggled with this one; feels like a good political thriller and a good marriage drama poorly molded into a worse version of both. I see no reason to tell these two stories side by side, and so I feel like the choice here just slows the entire exercise down. #IFFBoston

I also admit that parts of the film, here and there, were obscured a bit by rude nitwits in the seats around me. Missed out on little details in the final scene that made the whole import of it all kinda feel more ambiguous than intended.

IRON BOY: ****1/2. A movie that does not necessarily tell us that modernity is evil, but invites us to wonder what is lost when the world becomes hyper-modernized; also a movie about a boy and his bumpy relationship with his father, so of course it worked on me. #IFFBoston

If your “journalism“ invites death threats against subjects, whether or not the subjects themselves are in the wrong, then your journalism is a cherry bomb and you’re full of shit for acting like you’re a legit reporter, especially when your reporting is facilitated by AI.

Honestly, I do find it irksome and troublesome that anyone associated with the Democratic party is comfortable having anything to do with Piker, but the day will come when folks wise up and realize he's a fucking parasite; the media would do well to contain the hard-on they have for him.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social

REPORTER: “Why does Mike Rogers have to answer for Trump and you don’t have to answer for Hasan Piker?” 🤡 @abdulelsayed.bsky.social : “Is that a serious question? Donald Trump is the president of the United States.”

Like: I cannot imagine an emptier, more useless person who provokes the same level of panic as Piker among the media, the Republicans, and the Democrats. He's a loathsome idiot, unqualified to render opinion on anything beyond completed double majors at Rutgers. Fuck off with that.

The stir over Piker is broadly a matter of racism, and I'm pissed that it's morally correct to defend his dumb ass; for all the bile I have for him, he shouldn't be chased out of politics because of his heritage and ethnicity, but rather because he's a narcissistic moron.

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