Greg Franklin

Sunday, March 9th and the next day on MAX - the world shall be collectively moaning "OH MY GOD...YES!" in a blissfully batshit existential quandary. Congrats to the genius Adele "Supreme" Williams and Six Point Harness, the embodiment of creative prowess. You've been warned! See ya in 2102!

Persepolis is such a great film.

Very funny that they’re doing this calculated “You need to support DIGGER to support original film!” push the same week the masses are flocking to YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING and the director’s cut of THE DEVILS.

Case in point

So, now that the NYT best TV shows list is out, I’d like to talk about how there’s an artificial barrier erected between western critics and anime.

Fun episode! Even though they misidentify a Clampett cartoon as an Avery at one point, I doubt I could talk about cartoons for two straight hours without making a similar misstep…

COYOTE VS. ACME is a hit so we've got TWO HOURS of @gregfranklin.bsky.social & @bobcalhoun.bsky.social talking LOONEY TUNES in epic detail! Binge & purge on Spotify & other pod apps. open.spotify.com/episode/6MrR...

What gif pops up when you type your name?

When Amadeus first transferred from London to Broadway in 1980 the Broadway production starred Tim Curry as Mozart and Ian McKellen as Salieri and I would like to go back in time and watch that.

our entire global financial system is currently leveraged to the hilt on the premise that it was good and right for a small cadre of US companies to steal all of the intellectual work ever produced by humanity and sell its back to us without credit or remuneration to the authors (plagiarism)

A 24gb turd you can't flush

Was there ever an ice cream flavor called "tin roof" or did I just dream this

Old movies save you time!

I saw Mitch McConnell drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's.

The USA celebrates its 251st anniversary

Gift Basket Case

Garffeld

RIP to the legendary Gene Shalit

"You shouldn't make art for the money" buddy I'll take it one step further and say we shouldn't have to labor for capital at all but in the meantime pay an artist

RIP

Best film adaptation of The Odyssey, wrong answers only.

The Conjuring, but instead the Warrens are not paranormal investigators but shameless con artists exploiting real life tragedies for book and movie deals, and THEN the angry ghosts come back to torment and kill them. #freeremakeideas

They all look like buttholes to some degree

"Yoda...once said: "Do or do not. There is no try." But that's bullshit. He was a senile old cucumber who happened to be magical. Try is all there is. It's all try."

www.wired.com/story/openai... ARE GOBLINS FUCKING WITH AI? WE CAN ONLY HOPE

Hi did you know I do a Weed/Old Movies podcast? Follow @oldmoviesystoners.bsky.social it's fun!

Here’s @gregfranklin.bsky.social’s poster autographed by psychedelic legend Country Joe McDonald that we gab about in our ROGER CORMAN 420 episode, now streaming on Spotify & other pod apps. open.spotify.com/episode/5WwI...

We've enjoyed 100 years of ROGER CORMAN and it's 420 so @gregfranklin.bsky.social & @bobcalhoun.bsky.social pair pot with Roger's stoniest movie, GAS-S-S-S (1970) in this mini-episode. Streaming on Apple & other pod apps: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Flash was everywhere. Now it's gone. Sound familiar? Flash is just part of the story of VANISHING CULTURE, a new book exploring the fight to preserve our fragile digital history. 📖 Join us for the book launch! 📅 Apr 23 🕠 Doors 5:30 PM 📍 300 Funston Ave, SF 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/vanishing-...

I think they should add RFK Jr. to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. His voice rocks.

I was reminded of this song today.

It's the tragedy of TV that instead of drawing upon new experience and fresh sources of comedy it cannibalizes old pop culture. When movies do the same now, they aren't even imitating movies, they're imitating TV. (1972)

This is folk horror.

JD Crowe.

Afroman for president

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast. They’ll play this in museums in future. (🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)

I met Mark in a North Beach coffee house a few months ago. He knew some of the people involved with one of the murders I wrote about in my last book and wanted to talk about it. He mentioned a manuscript that he'd been working on too. This is a big loss for The City and bird lovers everywhere.

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RIP Lyle Conway, who oversaw some of cinema's most groundbreaking, impressive and influential creatures as animatronic designer & creature sculptor.

"Having Their Fling" by Art Young. First published 1917 in "The Masses"

It's insane they shoved this local TV legend out the door with no fanfare or sendoff (which KTLA absolutely LOVES to do) Mark was clearly losing it on air daily, which I will miss, but should have been allowed to retire after all those years, and great unhinged moments like this one from 2013....