Jeff Ryan

3 Aug

Reports Differ as to the Number of Maniacs #BandNamesAsNYTHeadlines

22 July

@beckyandfrank.com Hey! I'm setting up a series of polls to see who's the best fictional character from each state. Would either of you be willing to write a paragraph or two about why Steven Universe is the world's greatest fictional Delawarean?

22 July

@georgiefairplay.bsky.social Hey! I'm setting up a series of polls to see who's the best fictional character from each state. Would you be willing to write a paragraph or two about why Tyler Durden from Fight Club is the world's greatest fictional Delawarean?

9 July

Over 100 years ago, there was a rumor that Lenin's death was covered up, his body preserved, and party loyalists called out to his dacha to pose for pictures as proof of life that he was still alive. #weekendatvladdys

2 July

A Change in Destination for the Titanic's Maiden Voyage

16 June

Tolkien could have played Pong.

12 June

Quasar #17 is in serious contention for the best Flash comic ever written.

BACK ISSUE! Magazine@backissuemagazine.bsky.social

Quasar #17 from 1990 by Mark Gruenwald and Mike Manley @drawmanley.bsky.social may be the most beloved issue to their run. It is an homage to the fun Superman/The Flash races of the 60s and 70s and features a cameo of a scarlet speedster who needs help getting back home.

12 June

Cabbage is the daywalker of lettuces: all of the strengths, none of the weaknesses

15 May

@petersagal.bsky.social to play harried Ub Iwerks in the movie WALT WALT DON'T TELL ME.

13 May

How many submarine scenes are required before a movie is a "submarine movie"?

20 Feb

@drawmanley.bsky.social Hey! Never knew that little Warlock pop-up on the cover to Quasar #8 was drawn onto the penciled cover, not added like a starburst!

20 Feb

I write books about pop culture heroes and their creators: I've got one on Spider-Man and the Romita family. Available in print, digital, and audio. LMK if you're interested, I'll get you a copy!

17 Feb

@patrickzircher.bsky.social Just found you on Bluesky, and see you're an audiobook listener. Would you be interested in listening to FATHER AND SON ISSUES, a book new on audio about the Romita Family? I can send you a free code.

Umbrage? You're co-signing on the regressionist anti-Muggle policies of Dolores Umbrage?

Frank Conniff@frankconniff.bsky.social

My ability to write jokes that hundreds of people on Threads misunderstand and take umbrage with has come to me relatively late in life.

I've never seen this cover of Books of Blood, but I've read the interiors. May everyone get as good a blurb as Stephen King gave this book!

Daily Book Covers@dailybookcovers.bsky.social

Book: Books of Blood: Volume One Series: Books of Blood #1 Author: Clive Barker #BookSky #Books 💙📚👀 🪐📚 #bookskyES #CliveBarker #HellRaiser If it's as good as Hellraiser, then I need to read it!

Read this, but not with this cover. That cover is NOT WILD ENOUGH for the contents!

Daily Book Covers@dailybookcovers.bsky.social

Book: The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965) -Standalone- Author: Philip K. Dick #BookSky #Books 💙📚👀 🪐📚 #bookskyES #PhilipKDick

I read this book, but not with this cover. It's got an extra chapter that's stunning, and makes its lack of inclusion in the film even more stunning.

Daily Book Covers@dailybookcovers.bsky.social

Book: A Clockwork Orange (1962) -Standalone- Author: Anthony Burgess #BookSky #Books 💙📚👀 🪐📚 #bookskyES #AnthonyBurgess #AClockworkOrange The movie is a good classic, but what about the book?

5 Jan

[Spongebob voice]"Hey Euridice!" [Patrick Star voice]"Hey Orpheus!"

1 Jan

Guys named Al have even more reason to hate A.I. than everyone else.

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Throwing movie quotes in Latin makes them sound like spells.

"Nummos nummos serva, sordidum animal!"

"Idcirco capillus eius tam magnus est. Secretis plenus est!"

Throwing movie quotes in Latin makes them sound like spells.

"In throno mendacii sedes!"

"Vale, Felicitas!"

Throwing movie quotes in Latin makes them sound like spells.

"Accende lucernam, non murem! Accende lucernam, non murem!"

"Veritatem accipere non potes!"

If I didn't wake up at 4:30 am and watch a random movie on my iPad with headphones, I would never have seen the craziest movie finale of 2025: Playdate. [spoilers ahead]

Alan Ritchson takes out a remote detonator, presses it, and THE ENTIRE WAREHOUSE OF CLONE BOYS EXPLODES, as the main cast walks away all cool.

They ended a family comedy with the hero incinerating 100 children.

If I didn't wake up at 4:30 am and watch a random movie on my iPad with headphones, I would never have seen the craziest movie finale of 2025: Playdate. [spoilers ahead]

They find the right clone, rescue him, and leave the facility. Someone askes what's going to happen to the other 100 clones, all bred to be feral? (We know with a little bit of affection they turn into regular kids.)

(You are seriously never going to guess how this resolves.)

If I didn't wake up at 4:30 am and watch a random movie on my iPad with headphones, I would never have seen the craziest movie finale of 2025: Playdate. [spoilers ahead]

Ritchson's son turned out to be a kid he found and saved when working as a security guard. When then turns out to be...his adolescent clone! (This is a WILD movie.)

Action comedy stuff ensues, the clone gets taken back by the cloners, and the dad break in to save the clone kid. There they're attacked by a ARMY of ten-year-old Baby Reacher clones.

If I didn't wake up at 4:30 am and watch a random movie on my iPad with headphones, I would never have seen the craziest movie finale of 2025: Playdate. [spoilers ahead]

PLAYDATE is a comedy about a normal guy™ and a crazy guy™, played by Kevin James and Alan Ritchson. They're dads.

17 Dec 2025

Wake up, babe, new Azele Dazeem just dropped: the Bostoo Yook Yorters.

Mordy Oberstein@mordyoberstein.bsky.social

For anyone worried AI will replace all of us. Courtesy of Gemini for the prompt “create an infographic of all the World Series winners since 1986” I dare you to find 10 things that are right.

14 Dec 2025

Frankencorn, starring Jacob Elote

12 Dec 2025

YOU WON'T BELEIVE WHAT THIS BARTLEBY SAID WHEN ASKED TO DO A TASK

"So, you're aware, as am I, that I have this small packet of Oreo cookies, and you do not. I am an adult, and you are a child. You may be hoping or expecting I would, uh,quote-unquote share some of these little cookies with you."

If I started to give them away, well, now they're not "my" cookies at all, as it were. One understands. Now, what, you may ask, do I plan to do with my cookies if not eat them.

Well, in so many words, I had a hankering to throw them away in front of you. Not out of ghastliness, just a sort of mild glee." --Hugh Grant not giving a 4-year-old cookies.