Rob Thomas

"Brat Rangoon" is my Star Wars name.

nothing will ever top the story my buddy sean told about getting a job at a mall battery kiosk and knocking himself out licking a battery a few minutes into his first shift. he didn't work a second one.

One five-hour late shift at a Winchell's donut shop. There were no customers so I spent the whole time cleaning, and at the end of the shift the manager asked if I could come in at 5 a.m. Sunday. Bye!

When you hire a sitter and Kanye shows up

My dad turns 85 today but Walgreens doesn’t sell an 85th birthday card so I had to improvise

The story we keep hearing about body cameras in Madison skips over a lot of context. I explore the last couple years of this process in the latest issue of my subscriber-supported newsletter, Yahara Flyer.

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My car was in the shop, and the dealer sent me a little video of the mechanic looking under the hood and telling me what the problem was. Which was great, because I was able to nod and pretend to understand what he was saying from the comfort of my own home.

lol lol lol lol lol lol lol

If you saw The Weight and liked it, please repost. It would be great if this thing became a sleeper hit because it's 100% original. 

Really glad I took @whittlz.bsky.social ‘s advice and saw Herb Alpert last night. Still blowing the doors off the place at 91!

Why was the indie dramedy THE MISCONCEIVED made using photorealistic computer animation? I think the pointlessness is the point. notthatrobthomas.substack.com/p/what-if-al...

BREAKING: The Carrie Nations will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran

werner herzog on AI filmmaking (from here www.indiewire.com/features/int...)

The three martyrs of Minneapolis but also a squirrel with a candy bar, some barnyard animals, and a silly yeti. Minnesota State Fair crop art.

Such a thrill to see @chuckwendig.bsky.social and @inkwellmonster.bsky.social talk apples, bootleg root beer and generational trauma in Madison! And what a treat to meet my longtime BlueSky buddy @ninjitsuprincss.bsky.social IRL!

I give myself an offramp every 100 pages to give up on a book that I'm not liking.

Tim Curry seemed as bewildered as anybody that he was hired to voice a hot Cajun detective in the GABRIEL KNIGHT point-and-click games in the '90s. But he sounded like he was having a ball, as always. RIP.

COME ON

PS: Today is a very fine day to donate to the Imagination Library. imaginationlibrary.com

Jackie Mittoo and the Soul Brothers - James Bond [Jamaica, Ska] (1967) Great cover of the classic 007 theme https://redd.it/2w6tm2 https://youtu.be/RgxgEnPsPWw

you perverts like staring at wisconsin, huh? you like looking at maps with all of our stupid little counties? you can't help yourselves but whisper "fond du lac" and "shawano" while reading about ballot drops. you want to taste a cheese curd? huh?

Did this win a Sporkie?

I’ll say this much for “One Night Only” – you don’t see many rom-coms set in a Christofascist dystopia. notthatrobthomas.substack.com/p/one-night-...

Me thinking of going to a 9 p.m. show with two openers.

If a movie reminds me of the '80s sci-fi movie THE HIDDEN, that's probably a good thing. And, not just for that reason, SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY is a good movie. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Wild story — as summarized by @itsrobthomas.bsky.social of City Cast Madison: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

RIP Glen Hansard. Few performers are as present and alive on stage when they're making music as he was. This is a horrible loss.

This is devastating news. I can't quite believe it. RIP Glen Hansard. www.independent.ie/irish-news/o...

Ozymandias prequel coming summer 2028

"The sky was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." Looks like they even got that right!

UECK, the new documentary about Bob Uecker, hits many theaters around Wisconsin today for a one-week run. Highly recommended even if you're not a Brewers fan. notthatrobthomas.substack.com/p/ueck-celeb...

Colonel Sanders: High-ranking officer, military tactician Jolly Green Giant: Huge, camouflaged Chester Cheetah: Fast, quick on his feet Little Caesar: Has spear

Hell yeah in Madison with @inkwellmonster.bsky.social ! I moderated a horror panel with her last month and she was wonderful.

Roughly the same selection as a real Blockbuster used to have

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK3Z...

I mean he's not wrong

This is a picture of my family.

What movie did you see in 2017-2018 purely because you had a MoviePass at the time? I’ll start: THE HAPPYTIME MURDERS.

The good news is that they could talk to Mitch McConnell. The bad news is that they could only ask him five questions.

This looks amazing.

Listening to @blankcheck.bsky.social talk about WALL-E and realized I had completely memory-holed its best character. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiMF...

Name a film with a title that is a full sentence.