John Hatch

Jenna Maroney–ass

So I guess I should get some Milwaukee beer to drink tomorrow night?

It's gotta be so peaceful being a total fucking idiot—you can saw whatever you want and as far as you know, it's true!

These people don’t want to win; they don’t even want to persuade. They want a world where they are a pure and rarified elite, with none of the responsibilities of actual power, only the smug gratification of being right.

Me when a streamer raises their prices

"Participation trophies are bad." —Guy who won't shut up about how well his fake football team is doing

Bluesky has four kinds of users

Saw THE SHINING last night on the big screen, and for all that's been written and speculated about this movie, at the end it's about a guy who pretty openly despises his wife and barely tolerates his son and malevolent forces use his contempt to push him over the edge.

Times have been tough in this Ohio town ever since the woke mob closed the old Cheesecake Factory. So when Vivek Ramaswamy promised to legalize child rape, they finally had something to cheer about again. But then Obama said something elitist.

Every AI booster is like "Sick of having to know things about your family and—worse—spending time with them? Have we got a solution for you!"

Raising Cane’s is ass but in case you needed an excuse not to eat there. Unless instead of the garlic bread you prefer a side of COVID.

all of this has always been about getting back at the uppity women who wouldn’t fuck them

So @leeunkrich.bsky.social new audio commentary for The Shining on the Complete Kubrick set is excellent, everything you want in a commentary. Polished without being stilted, informative without just rattling off facts. The good stuff.

Finally—FINALLY!—a good article about parental estrangement and its role in MAGA politics. The 2024 article linked inside is also excellent.

I, too, need a gimlet.

Get to the end and your jaw will drop

I want everyone to internalize that these fucking "A.i." companies are inflicting this shit on us KNOWINGLY. They're doing this to us. THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR WHATEVER HAPPENS. No bailout for these creeps, ever. Let their companies and their wealth and reputation evaporate forever.

Has someone got a list? I feel like we need a list. Maybe a shared Excel spreadsheet we can all follow?

Is there anything less surprising than Trump not knowing that they did stop cars from entering Central Park?

RIP Tom Skerritt. A great actor who had an uncanny ability to show up in the most iconic movies, even if it was with the briefest part. I did a wide-ranging talk with him a few years ago that's still one of my favorite interviews [Gift link]: www.vulture.com/2021/10/tom-...

When people repeated the dumb fake story about the cast not knowing that the alien would pop out of John Hurt's chest, Skerritt would say, "Of course we knew, we read the script." RIP to an all-timer, especially The Dead Zone and M*A*S*H

AirBnB host making me shave his wife’s back to complete checkout ?

I can't even fathom staying at an Airbnb again. I like hotels, where they don't openly hate my guts and don't charge me a cleaning fee that is often higher than the actual room.

Do you want to laugh and be depressed at the same time?

It feels like the grift economy and Democratic candidates underestimate how much people hate it (and AI for enabling it) at their own peril.

I mean, I'll pray but I don't think you're going to like what I'll pray for.

Sure, prices have gone up but you have to balance that against none of the streamers having the movie you actually want to watch most of the time. Oh, and they all have ads now.

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The "nearly a decade" thing for a 21-year-old is sending me. Anyway, when is the Post gonna profile me, a 50-year-old who's never been stupid enough to vote for Trump? There are millions of us, do we not count?

Just going to be straight here — no pun intended: I am the only journalist who has been covering this issue in depth, was often the only journalist at hearings, and was the only one explaining what DOJ was actually arguing here. Support my work if you can: www.lawdork.com/subscribe

It's extremely weird and arrogant to tag someone in your negative review of their work, the equivalent of following someone around with a megaphone to force them to hear what you think. Be normal on this app!

This also aligns with Hegseth's public execution. A majority of Americans support capital punishment because they see it as justice for committing murder. But Republicans are so stuck in their freakish little bubble they think the average person is out here going, "Wish I could throw the switch!"

the idea that empathy is dangerous has been permeating right-wing spaces for a while, but it's not an actual element of their ideology as much as it's a defense mechanism against confronting the reality of their cruelty

I'm not sure how much more blatant it can get that these guys are looting the federal government and then pointing over there and saying "look what THOSE BLACK PEOPLE ARE GETTING AWAY WITH!!!" bsky.app/profile/atru...

This reminds me of the incredible "bookcase" in Last Crusade at the library.

With the election looming, the GOP is calling in the big guns. Which means having a megachurch freak named Timmy dispatch an army of walleyed 23yo home-school casualties with YouTube diction to opposing candidates' rallies, where they will demand those candidates reject and denounce the WNBA.

At long last, we have created a way for you to take away Nikki's free will, from the classic horror movie "don't take away Nikki's free will"

Criterion's website is crashing, so if you could all log out and let me get the Complete Kubrick that'd be swell.

Off the record, on the QT, and very hush-hush.

You can see the "Rosebud" sled that Joe Dante once owned hanging up in the Klopek's basement when Art runs downstairs to tell Ray to get out of the house. That sled sold for $14.75 million last year.

Unconscionable to be on “X” at this point. Just a cesspit. Except for banking; I do my banking there & don’t see a problem.

Word on the street is we’re getting the Criterion 50% off flash sale tomorrow with the release of the Complete Kubrick.

Can we be a serious country for five minutes or nah

Oh, this is awful. Ann was such a wonderful critic and a lovely person, too. Awful awful. www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...