Brent Shepherd (he/him)
@shepcatzero.bsky.social
Down these mean skeets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.
Though I did so unintentionally, Baltimoreans of Bluesky may be proud to know that I just ate an entire 7.75 oz. bag of Utz Crab Chips — hilariously billed as "family size" — in a single sitting.
I have consumed enough sodium to stun a yak.
I have consumed enough sodium to stun a yak.
November 9, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Though I did so unintentionally, Baltimoreans of Bluesky may be proud to know that I just ate an entire 7.75 oz. bag of Utz Crab Chips — hilariously billed as "family size" — in a single sitting.
I have consumed enough sodium to stun a yak.
I have consumed enough sodium to stun a yak.
MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (Ford, 1946)
You can argue all day about what the *best* John Ford film is, but I believe this is his thesis statement as a visual artist. Every frame is perfectly composed. Invariably he and D.P. Joe MacDonald choose the ideal camera placement, then don't screw with the shot.
You can argue all day about what the *best* John Ford film is, but I believe this is his thesis statement as a visual artist. Every frame is perfectly composed. Invariably he and D.P. Joe MacDonald choose the ideal camera placement, then don't screw with the shot.
What is the best movie not from this year that you’ve seen this year? Bonus points if you say why
November 9, 2025 at 6:49 PM
MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (Ford, 1946)
You can argue all day about what the *best* John Ford film is, but I believe this is his thesis statement as a visual artist. Every frame is perfectly composed. Invariably he and D.P. Joe MacDonald choose the ideal camera placement, then don't screw with the shot.
You can argue all day about what the *best* John Ford film is, but I believe this is his thesis statement as a visual artist. Every frame is perfectly composed. Invariably he and D.P. Joe MacDonald choose the ideal camera placement, then don't screw with the shot.
Is this critic an employee of Amazon Prime’s owner diligently shitting on an AppleTV production, or did we just not watch the same thing? Because the two eps I watched felt neither stalled, constrained nor choked out. I found PLURIBUS fraught, harrowing, exhilarating, and deeply, darkly funny.
Review: “Pluribus,” the new Apple TV show by “Breaking Bad” creator Vince Gilligan, stalls under constraints that choke out the series’s dramatic possibilities.
Given enough time, the show will hopefully find the story that fits its mission.
Given enough time, the show will hopefully find the story that fits its mission.
Review | Vince Gilligan is brilliant. Rhea Seehorn is great. ‘Pluribus’ drags.
The “Breaking Bad” creator’s fascinating, original sci-fi premise stalls out under constraints that choke out most of the series’s dramatic possibilities.
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November 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Is this critic an employee of Amazon Prime’s owner diligently shitting on an AppleTV production, or did we just not watch the same thing? Because the two eps I watched felt neither stalled, constrained nor choked out. I found PLURIBUS fraught, harrowing, exhilarating, and deeply, darkly funny.
Made it to page 84 before Jane Leavy’s copy editor failed her. It’s “Nuke” LaLoosh — two capital L’s and a nickname based on vocational predilection.
This is why IMDb exists, especially if you’ve never seen arguably the best baseball movie ever made (as Jane certainly has).
#ShepcatEditsEverything
This is why IMDb exists, especially if you’ve never seen arguably the best baseball movie ever made (as Jane certainly has).
#ShepcatEditsEverything
November 8, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Made it to page 84 before Jane Leavy’s copy editor failed her. It’s “Nuke” LaLoosh — two capital L’s and a nickname based on vocational predilection.
This is why IMDb exists, especially if you’ve never seen arguably the best baseball movie ever made (as Jane certainly has).
#ShepcatEditsEverything
This is why IMDb exists, especially if you’ve never seen arguably the best baseball movie ever made (as Jane certainly has).
#ShepcatEditsEverything
I dreamed I was doing a crossword puzzle, and one of the across clues was “Sorry, for bastards.”
MYBAD
MYBAD
November 8, 2025 at 9:21 AM
I dreamed I was doing a crossword puzzle, and one of the across clues was “Sorry, for bastards.”
MYBAD
MYBAD
The music has grown on me over the years, but in my heart, I have to believe that at least once during production, someone in charge asked Burt Bacharach, "What the fuck am I listening to here? Aren't we making a Western?" #TCMParty #ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid
November 3, 2025 at 2:16 AM
The music has grown on me over the years, but in my heart, I have to believe that at least once during production, someone in charge asked Burt Bacharach, "What the fuck am I listening to here? Aren't we making a Western?" #TCMParty #ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid
Just for fun, every so often, type this into your search engine of choice, rack up metrics and page views, post a screenshot.
Who knows. Maybe this administration is more responsive to spikes and fluctuations in data than we imagine.
Who knows. Maybe this administration is more responsive to spikes and fluctuations in data than we imagine.
November 2, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Just for fun, every so often, type this into your search engine of choice, rack up metrics and page views, post a screenshot.
Who knows. Maybe this administration is more responsive to spikes and fluctuations in data than we imagine.
Who knows. Maybe this administration is more responsive to spikes and fluctuations in data than we imagine.
Royals and Dodgers fan here, just getting this on the record.
Despite his being hyped as a two-way player when KC drafted him out of Florida, but having beheld the singularity of Shohei Ohtani and knowing our front office, Jac Caglianone will never pitch a significant inning as a Royal.
Despite his being hyped as a two-way player when KC drafted him out of Florida, but having beheld the singularity of Shohei Ohtani and knowing our front office, Jac Caglianone will never pitch a significant inning as a Royal.
November 2, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Royals and Dodgers fan here, just getting this on the record.
Despite his being hyped as a two-way player when KC drafted him out of Florida, but having beheld the singularity of Shohei Ohtani and knowing our front office, Jac Caglianone will never pitch a significant inning as a Royal.
Despite his being hyped as a two-way player when KC drafted him out of Florida, but having beheld the singularity of Shohei Ohtani and knowing our front office, Jac Caglianone will never pitch a significant inning as a Royal.
Kamala Harris ran a campaign promising to serve all Americans to the best of her ability.
Donald Trump ran a campaign promising one half of America that he'd screw the other half when his plan all along was to screw all of America because he doesn't give a fuck about anyone but himself.
Donald Trump ran a campaign promising one half of America that he'd screw the other half when his plan all along was to screw all of America because he doesn't give a fuck about anyone but himself.
November 2, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Kamala Harris ran a campaign promising to serve all Americans to the best of her ability.
Donald Trump ran a campaign promising one half of America that he'd screw the other half when his plan all along was to screw all of America because he doesn't give a fuck about anyone but himself.
Donald Trump ran a campaign promising one half of America that he'd screw the other half when his plan all along was to screw all of America because he doesn't give a fuck about anyone but himself.
If a dementia-addled president devoid of empathy, complicit Congressional and Senate caucuses, and the drafters of Project 2025 have coalesced around a central ethos, it's this:
If Americans are sick, hungry, broke, weak, vulnerable, disenfranchised or dead, it's harder for them to fight back.
If Americans are sick, hungry, broke, weak, vulnerable, disenfranchised or dead, it's harder for them to fight back.
November 2, 2025 at 3:16 PM
If a dementia-addled president devoid of empathy, complicit Congressional and Senate caucuses, and the drafters of Project 2025 have coalesced around a central ethos, it's this:
If Americans are sick, hungry, broke, weak, vulnerable, disenfranchised or dead, it's harder for them to fight back.
If Americans are sick, hungry, broke, weak, vulnerable, disenfranchised or dead, it's harder for them to fight back.
This season my world champion Los Angeles Dodgers hilariously upended a longtime bugbear of mine.
They have two Hernandezes on their 40-man roster: LF Enrique (Kiké), #8, and RF Teoscar, #37. Easily distinguishable from each other, their jerseys read simply HERNANDEZ.
They have two Hernandezes on their 40-man roster: LF Enrique (Kiké), #8, and RF Teoscar, #37. Easily distinguishable from each other, their jerseys read simply HERNANDEZ.
November 2, 2025 at 2:24 PM
This season my world champion Los Angeles Dodgers hilariously upended a longtime bugbear of mine.
They have two Hernandezes on their 40-man roster: LF Enrique (Kiké), #8, and RF Teoscar, #37. Easily distinguishable from each other, their jerseys read simply HERNANDEZ.
They have two Hernandezes on their 40-man roster: LF Enrique (Kiké), #8, and RF Teoscar, #37. Easily distinguishable from each other, their jerseys read simply HERNANDEZ.
Last year the Dodgers won without starters. This year they won without a bullpen. Next year: a decimated outfield patrolled by late-season call-ups. Threepeat.
November 2, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Last year the Dodgers won without starters. This year they won without a bullpen. Next year: a decimated outfield patrolled by late-season call-ups. Threepeat.
Pitchers and catchers report in 100 days.
November 2, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Pitchers and catchers report in 100 days.
On the one hand, I've been a Dodgers fan since I was a young boy. On the other, I just don't want George Springer to experience elation or joy ever again. #LADvsTOR #WorldSeries #AlwaysAnAsterisk
November 2, 2025 at 4:05 AM
On the one hand, I've been a Dodgers fan since I was a young boy. On the other, I just don't want George Springer to experience elation or joy ever again. #LADvsTOR #WorldSeries #AlwaysAnAsterisk
Just imagined this game also going 18 innings and Yamamoto going the distance, pitching the equivalent of his third CG this postseason. At this point, anything is possible. #LADvsTOR #WorldSeries
November 2, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Just imagined this game also going 18 innings and Yamamoto going the distance, pitching the equivalent of his third CG this postseason. At this point, anything is possible. #LADvsTOR #WorldSeries
That Pages catch gave me Bump Bailey flashbacks. #LADvsTOR #WorldSeries
November 2, 2025 at 3:45 AM
That Pages catch gave me Bump Bailey flashbacks. #LADvsTOR #WorldSeries
Shout-out to Snell for getting some pretty good outs in crunch time. If I were him I'd have been thinking about those meatballs I tossed to Schneider and Vlad the entire time I was out there. #LADvsTOR #WorldSeries
November 2, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Shout-out to Snell for getting some pretty good outs in crunch time. If I were him I'd have been thinking about those meatballs I tossed to Schneider and Vlad the entire time I was out there. #LADvsTOR #WorldSeries
MIGUEL ROJAS! #LADvsTOR #WorldSeries
November 2, 2025 at 3:16 AM
MIGUEL ROJAS! #LADvsTOR #WorldSeries
Someone please bring Chuck Schumer up to speed on the "fight fire with fire" concept as it applies to American politics. Use electric shock if necessary to get the point across.
Kamala Harris: It is about reminding folks that we refuse to kneel at the foot of a tyrant. That's not what we do. We stand for the principles upon which our nation was founded. We believe in the power of the vote, and we are prepared when necessary to fight fire with fire.
November 2, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Someone please bring Chuck Schumer up to speed on the "fight fire with fire" concept as it applies to American politics. Use electric shock if necessary to get the point across.
Win or lose, Dodgers LF Kiké Hernandez is delivering perhaps the most impressive defensive performance of this postseason. He's posted two phenomenal outfield assists (the most recent ending Game 6) and seems to be attacking every ball hit toward him with the same urgency. #LADvsTOR #WorldSeries
November 2, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Win or lose, Dodgers LF Kiké Hernandez is delivering perhaps the most impressive defensive performance of this postseason. He's posted two phenomenal outfield assists (the most recent ending Game 6) and seems to be attacking every ball hit toward him with the same urgency. #LADvsTOR #WorldSeries
Game 7! Shohei! Scherzer! I'm sleeping in tomorrow, so if you absolutely must duke it out for another 18 innings, tonight's the night! Let's go Dodgers! #LADvsTOR #WorldSeries
November 2, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Game 7! Shohei! Scherzer! I'm sleeping in tomorrow, so if you absolutely must duke it out for another 18 innings, tonight's the night! Let's go Dodgers! #LADvsTOR #WorldSeries
Finished a book this morning. Went to peruse what my next read might be, and the library website tells me one of my holds is "in transit" to my pickup branch. So now I'll be refreshing my on-hold page all weekend like it's an Amazon package marked "out for delivery."
November 1, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Finished a book this morning. Went to peruse what my next read might be, and the library website tells me one of my holds is "in transit" to my pickup branch. So now I'll be refreshing my on-hold page all weekend like it's an Amazon package marked "out for delivery."
November 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Wake up, losers. New bucket list item just dropped. I want to watch YOJIMBO and SHAFT with June Squibb. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0nb...
June Squibb's Closet Picks
YouTube video by CRITERION
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October 31, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Wake up, losers. New bucket list item just dropped. I want to watch YOJIMBO and SHAFT with June Squibb. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0nb...