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The Film Optimist
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Writer, actor, comedian, YouTube movie commentator. You might have seen me on other platforms as DoctorHu or as BrawnBones, or possibly just as "Glen." Pronouns: Any/All, Formal: Mg. (Mage) Williams
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The view this morning is giving Silent Hill.
The top of a peaked roof, distant trees, all shrouded in thick, grey fog.
November 23, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Just doodling ideas. Don’t mind me.
A large, vertically tall spaceship with a “Cool S”-shaped grill, a bubble dome, two long prongs from the top, two smaller prongs in a V from the left and the right sides, and three prongs from the bottom. Two silhouettes in the bubble dome. One is saying, “We’re SMUGGLERS‽” and the other responds, “We’ve agreed to drop off ONE package!”
November 17, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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We have a cat named Uhura whose favorite MST3k episode is "Final Justice," with Joe Don Baker.
A fluffy brown cat with green eyes and a white mask and chest meows at the camera.
November 7, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Legend says that at the Film Optimist’s house, when there is no candy left in the bowl, the popcorn shall walk the Earth.
A happy woman in a pink Labubu costume showing off our bowl of microwave popcorn for the late trick-or-treaters.
November 2, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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"Frasier: Tossed Extortion and Scrambled Murder" is an NES *classic.* #retrogaming
October 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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I learned about this today, and promptly generated this masterpiece.
October 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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It’s not very Halloween-y, but this is a very exciting physical media purchase! And if you skipped “Paddington in Peru” because you worried it wouldn’t be as good as the first two, you should fix that now. #movies
Photograph of a 3-movie set of the Paddington films in 4K. The art features Paddington floating through the air on his umbrella.
October 28, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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AND THAT’S A ROCK FACT. #OverTheGardenWall
Bri stands in front of a television that is showing “Over the Garden Wall.” In front of her face she’s holding a pillow designed after the rock from the show with a painted goofy face.
October 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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I've missed #LetterboxdFriday for a couple of weeks, but I'm back with a new #LastFourWatched!
Screenshot of the Recent Activity field from the Film Optimist's profile on Letterboxd. It shows posters for David Cronenberg's "Stereo," Frederico Fellini's "Toby Dammit," film noir "Deadly Game," and classic suspense thriller "The Monster Maker."
October 25, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Further adventures in auto-generated closed captions. This is how the machines interpreted "Ms. Hotchkiss!"
A young man shouts, his shadow on the wall behind him. The captioning reads, "The sludge gets!"
October 22, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Huh. I wish I could say I was shocked by this development.
Screenshot of an email from UnitedMasters. Headed with the UnitedMasters logo, it reads, "Hey there, This is a reminder that starting October 29th, free subscribers will no longer be able to distribute music on UnitedMasters. All music released will be taken down from streaming platforms including TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram." Two buttons read "Learn More" and "Upgrade Now." Below the buttons are the words, "Feel free to respond to this email if you have any questions. -UnitedMasters Team."
October 22, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Guys! I found it! The exact contents of Jeff Bezos' brain every day of his life!
The cover of a pulp magazine, number 533 of "Fame and Fortune Weekly," with a price of "5 cents," published on December 17, 1915. The subtitle of the magazine is "Stories of Boys that make Money." The headline reads, "An Eye to Business; or, The Boy Who Was Not Asleep. By A SELF MADE MAN." The image is of a young man in a suit and carrying a lantern falling from the ceiling of a warehouse with a broken ladder beneath him while a gang of four men in blue suits with giant raven masks advance on him, one carrying a canvas and another carrying a club. The caption below the image reads, "Then something the boy had not calculated on happened. The ladder snapped in two beneath his weight. As Travers came tumbling to the floor he caught sight of several grotesque figures rising from behind the shelter of the empty barrels."
October 20, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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I used to do these Conqueror Challenge virtual runs all the time. To get back into the flow, I just signed up for their Thanksgiving event.
If you’re interested, sign up at www.theconqueror.events/r/GW897 (Referral link — it helps me earn free challenges)
A virtual race bib shows the Thanksgiving 2025 branding with the name “Glen Williams” and the number 04253. The distance listed is 50 miles or 80 kilometers. At the bottom is the slogan “Make Every Mile Count.”
October 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Uhura says she is cool with this plan as long as she gets to be played in the movie by Grudge from Star Trek: Discovery.
A large, fluffy cat with brown and black fur and a white blaze on her face and chest sits on the floor under a bedframe.
October 13, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Finally settled on the scary version of my display name.
A screenshot showing The Film Optimist's avatar and part of their header image above the Bluesky display name "The Film Optimist Wearing a White Bikini with Angel Wings."
October 9, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Uhura stands with @kickstarterunited.org
A big, fluffy cat in brown, black, and white, sits at the top of a set of stairs, her right rear leg pushed forward, and her mouth open in mid-meow.
October 7, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Without downloading anything new, where are you mentally?
A mashup of of Batman and Robin as they appeared in the 1960s “Batman” TV series riding in the Batmobile and the main characters of Hunter S. Thompson’s “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.” Batman wears his blue and grey costume along with a bucket hat and yellow sunglasses and clenches a cigarette holder in his mouth. Robin — in addition to his red, yellow, and green costume with black mask — sports a mustache and soul patch. Behind the Batmobile you can see a vast, open desert with a blue sky, with horrific bats flying through it. Batman is reaching for a red lever labeled “Emergency Bat Turn Lever.” The image is not captioned, but would probably feature the text from “Fear and Loathing”: “We can’t stop here! This is bat country!”
October 7, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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For the record, Kash Patel once published a book in which he cast himself as a good wizard defending Donald Trump from an evil witch, and his FBI challenge coin design is a skull with spider eyes and gun teeth. This dope is cosplaying the tough guy at every opportunity.
A glaring skull with gun barrels for teeth and spiders in each of its eyes and the letters KSH on its crown. On the reverse side is the FBI’s seal with the words “Presented by the Director of the FBI Kash Patel,” above the image of a tommy gun, Patel’s signature, and a blue 9.
October 4, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Gotta get my #LetterboxdFriday with my #LastFourWatched posted before Friday's over! Accompanying blog entry to follow as soon as I'm done writing it.
Screenshot of the "Recent Activity" feed on my Letterboxd profile showing the movie posters from the last four movies I've logged on the site. From left to right, they are "Night Swim," "Quasi at the Quackadero," "Nightlight," and "Let's Live Again."
October 4, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Automatically-generated closed captions are just a marvel to watch in action.
A screenshot of a black and white horror movie in which a woman raises her hand to her mouth, screaming, a look of terror in her eyes. The closed captions read: [XBOX SOUND].
October 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Watching Guns of El Chupacabra from @rifftrax.com for the first time got me like
#rifftrax #movies
The galaxy brain meme. An x-ray shows a skull with a half-sized brain and the text, “The movie shows boobs in the first five minutes.” Below that, a full-sized brain with a cluster of glowing lights in the middle with the text, “They’re Julie Strain’s boobs.” The third frame shows a blue glowing brain shooting out beams of energy in all directions with the text, “The RiffTrax guys are riffing it.”
September 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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One of these things is not like the others….
A small Stitch figure in a skeleton costume, a larger Stitch figure in a mummy costume, and Gizmo from Gremlins.
September 27, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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It’s #LetterboxdFriday, right? Here’s my latest 4!
#movies
The latest four movie posters listed under my Recent Activity on Letterboxd. From left to right, they are “Jigsaw,” “A Forbidden Orange,” “Lucky Three,” and “Time Without Pity.”
September 26, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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At the Palace Theatre, seeing @kurtis-conner.bsky.social with @brisuscheez.bsky.social — we’re in the nosebleeds!
A very cute couple - Bri in her purple dress, me in one of my many Hawaiian shirts - with a stage in the background.
September 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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BRB, adding “house builder” to my official résumé.
A cardboard cat scratcher in the shape of a haunted house, purple, decorated with classic sheet-with-eyes ghosts, wacky spiders, goofy bats, and jack o’ lanterns.
September 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM