home sick with generic crud, coughing and whatever, and alonso is watching the insane reality competition show FINDING MR CHRISTMAS and one of these dudes just compared the christian family band he grew up in to the partridge family and OH NO SIR YOU DO NOT SPEAK LIKE THIS YOU BE QUIET AND YOU STOP
November 18, 2025 at 7:19 PM
home sick with generic crud, coughing and whatever, and alonso is watching the insane reality competition show FINDING MR CHRISTMAS and one of these dudes just compared the christian family band he grew up in to the partridge family and OH NO SIR YOU DO NOT SPEAK LIKE THIS YOU BE QUIET AND YOU STOP
INVITATION TO THE DANCE is on TCM now and, while I can't find a video of this, my favorite part is where this dude wants to spin a ballerina around but she's hungry so she eats a sandwich while they dance.
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Original Theatrical Trailer | Invitation to the Dance | Warner Archive
YouTube video by Warner Bros. Classics
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November 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
INVITATION TO THE DANCE is on TCM now and, while I can't find a video of this, my favorite part is where this dude wants to spin a ballerina around but she's hungry so she eats a sandwich while they dance.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCoo...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCoo...
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The future will be the last river being vaporized so that your personal Matthew McConaughey can gently urge you to end your life.
Michael Caine and Matthew McConaughey partner with ElevenLabs for AI voice cloning
Michael Caine and Matthew McConaughey partner with ElevenLabs for AI voice cloning
Oscar-winning actors Michael Caine and Matthew McConaughey have made deals with voice-cloning company ElevenLabs that will allow its artificial intelligence technology to replicate their voices.
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November 13, 2025 at 1:17 PM
The future will be the last river being vaporized so that your personal Matthew McConaughey can gently urge you to end your life.
Twenty years ago
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ARCHIVE: Nigella told me to buy a mezzaluna
We have stacks of magazines that we've written for over the years. All print, nothing internet. I'll be bringing pieces I wrote forr them over here from time to time.
Context: The Advocate, 2005
Twe...
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November 14, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Twenty years ago
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The UFW stands w/ @sbworkersunited.org workers going on strike today.
For nearly 4 yrs, Starbucks baristas have been fighting for a fair union contract, just like the fight that farmworkers face, far too often, when up against greedy employers. Join us in our support.
#NoContractNoCoffee
For nearly 4 yrs, Starbucks baristas have been fighting for a fair union contract, just like the fight that farmworkers face, far too often, when up against greedy employers. Join us in our support.
#NoContractNoCoffee
November 13, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The UFW stands w/ @sbworkersunited.org workers going on strike today.
For nearly 4 yrs, Starbucks baristas have been fighting for a fair union contract, just like the fight that farmworkers face, far too often, when up against greedy employers. Join us in our support.
#NoContractNoCoffee
For nearly 4 yrs, Starbucks baristas have been fighting for a fair union contract, just like the fight that farmworkers face, far too often, when up against greedy employers. Join us in our support.
#NoContractNoCoffee
played to a nearly empty house at Sherman Oaks Galleria except for us and some confused, irritated, loud grandparents
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too Christmas for the arthouse, too arthouse for Christmas
Today I'm writing out of market ambition. I want you to buy Alonso's new book, the revised and expanded edition of Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas, in which he writes about a film from 2024, Ch...
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November 12, 2025 at 7:06 PM
played to a nearly empty house at Sherman Oaks Galleria except for us and some confused, irritated, loud grandparents
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Indeed. Moving the clock simply means it will be dark later in the morning or dark earlier in the evening. Pick one.
One more time: we are currently on STANDARD time. THIS time of year is NOT on daylight saving time. I've seen 3 posts today bemoaning that we are on daylight saving time. We are not. We are approaching winter. What you have a problem with is the Earth's axial positioning. Take it up with the Earth.
November 12, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Indeed. Moving the clock simply means it will be dark later in the morning or dark earlier in the evening. Pick one.
It's been moving around film festivals this year, now available for pre-order on Blu-ray, and I would like to tell you about -- though not review -- my friend Dave Markey's new film, THE SECRET LIVES OF BILL BARTELL
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THE (jaw-dropping) SECRET LIVES OF BILL BARTELL
This is not a review. It can’t be. When you’re a film critic and you become friends with a filmmaker, the best you can do is help promote their work if you think their projects are worth it. And Dave ...
sluggish.ghost.io
November 11, 2025 at 8:56 PM
It's been moving around film festivals this year, now available for pre-order on Blu-ray, and I would like to tell you about -- though not review -- my friend Dave Markey's new film, THE SECRET LIVES OF BILL BARTELL
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We aren't waving hello we are counting to 15 and @graedrake.bsky.social just likes whipped cream in a can. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/6...
November 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
We aren't waving hello we are counting to 15 and @graedrake.bsky.social just likes whipped cream in a can. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/6...
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a little late and a little little, here's a quick review of BUGONIA
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BUGONIA is nothing sweet
The British food company Lyle’s – makers of baking pantry staples like golden syrup and black treacle – has a very old, very cool illustration on its labels. It’s a decomposing lion in which bees have...
sluggish.ghost.io
November 7, 2025 at 11:45 PM
a little late and a little little, here's a quick review of BUGONIA
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When you are not in any real danger and cannot manufacture suspense, tell your dumb little anecdote anyway.
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I love Los Angeles: stuck in an elevator, then a parking garage: 11/5/25
I want to apologize before I start. I spoiled the story with the title, and I've misled you into thinking this was going to be about Katherine Heigl vaping. It's not. I just think it's an enjoyable pi...
sluggish.ghost.io
November 6, 2025 at 8:02 PM
When you are not in any real danger and cannot manufacture suspense, tell your dumb little anecdote anyway.
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standing astride BUGONIA's flat earth
November 6, 2025 at 4:50 PM
standing astride BUGONIA's flat earth
Alonso Duralde quote of the day: "This is no orange, it's a tangelo. I know when I'm being ripped off."
November 5, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Alonso Duralde quote of the day: "This is no orange, it's a tangelo. I know when I'm being ripped off."
Go in the morning to the Farmer's Market lot, get a donut at Bobs, validate your ticket for free parking, walk over to B&N near the Santa Claus house, they open at 10am, say hey to our friend Dean who works there, buy all the copies they have, clean them out, distribute to cinema-loving friends.
November 4, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Go in the morning to the Farmer's Market lot, get a donut at Bobs, validate your ticket for free parking, walk over to B&N near the Santa Claus house, they open at 10am, say hey to our friend Dean who works there, buy all the copies they have, clean them out, distribute to cinema-loving friends.
I put one big zucchini, one stalk of broccoli, and one bundle of leeks on the scale at the 3-for-$5 lady's kiosk at the farmer's market and she routinely loads up my bag with double the amount that I've selected, without comment. I'm both grateful and confused and next week we are to be married.
November 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I put one big zucchini, one stalk of broccoli, and one bundle of leeks on the scale at the 3-for-$5 lady's kiosk at the farmer's market and she routinely loads up my bag with double the amount that I've selected, without comment. I'm both grateful and confused and next week we are to be married.
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The remarkable filmmaker Peter Watkins—THE WAR GAME (1966), PRIVILEGE (1967), PUNISHMENT PARK (1971), EDVARD MUNCH (1974), LA COMMUNE (PARIS, 1871 (2000) has died. He’d just turned 90 on Wednesday.
@theguardian.com — www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
@theguardian.com — www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
November 1, 2025 at 12:50 AM
The remarkable filmmaker Peter Watkins—THE WAR GAME (1966), PRIVILEGE (1967), PUNISHMENT PARK (1971), EDVARD MUNCH (1974), LA COMMUNE (PARIS, 1871 (2000) has died. He’d just turned 90 on Wednesday.
@theguardian.com — www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
@theguardian.com — www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
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it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!
November 1, 2025 at 12:16 AM
it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!
leather soled cap-toe lace ups and slippery polished dance floors and new hips
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Step Up 2 The Streets
I'm a fall risk. My surgeon says I'm past that phase. I think he's both right and wrong. I live in fear of crashing to the ground.
I'm a large man with two recently installed (Nov 2023/July 2024) hip...
sluggish.ghost.io
October 31, 2025 at 4:43 PM
leather soled cap-toe lace ups and slippery polished dance floors and new hips
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Is it Halloween yet?
October 30, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Is it Halloween yet?
It was either this or think about the collapse of everything.
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Trying to catch your heart is like trying to catch your heart is like trying to catch your---
My internet life occasionally involves walking into a silly maze of pop culture associations for no good reason. Yesterday on Bluesky my pal April posted about a song she liked from her childhood in 1...
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October 30, 2025 at 9:39 PM
It was either this or think about the collapse of everything.
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brownie funeral
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Eat your own coffin
Quick one today. I'm home from Atlanta, where one of our nieces got married to a good dude. I nearly had a hip disaster on the dance floor at the reception. More on that later. Today I need to tell yo...
sluggish.ghost.io
October 28, 2025 at 5:52 PM
brownie funeral
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