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Bafflegabs
@bafflegabs.bsky.social
Senior Producer at Smartless Media, formerly Earwolf. Staying Alive/ClueLess/Bad Dates/Just Jack & Will/HDTGM/Get Played/Comedy Bang Bang/Video Archives/Unspooled.

Character-wise, I’m kind of borderline shy/wild. I like to surf & turf, in that order.
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My new album Blame It On My Zodiac is available now exclusively on my Bandcamp!! You can stream it or buy it there, but go check it out, won’t you? I gave it every micron of energy I had and I’m very proud of it. Out everywhere else next Friday!

painkillerthepigeon.bandcamp.com/album/blame-...
Manousos rules.
When I see an ad boasting of all that A.I. can create for me
December 13, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Transphobes make everything worse. A social poison, a social madness. Apparently believing human beings have a right to their own lives & bodies means you can no longer host a beloved comedy science show. Robin at least has his undiluted integrity. Dear BBC, look into the acquisition of a spine.
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Just got out of Goldeneye at the Egyptian, 30th anniversary screening! I also saw it in 1995, and y’know what? Still rips. Brosnan kind of my platonic ideal of James Bond. This movie a Top 5 Bond for me, easy.
December 13, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Just got back from the post office, shipping out my first batch of albums and posters! I can’t handle the feeling of making something myself, designing it, pressing it for real, people paying their literal money for it, and getting to send it to them. I’m giddy, it’s very special. 🥰
December 13, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Cats getting so low they are essentially two-dimensional in anticipation of an attack >>>>
December 12, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I keep thinking how much ICE must hate its own employees. Doing the LA raids in the summer & the Minnesota raids in the winter? Feels like you’re tangentially punishing your actual workers in addition to terrorizing people for no good reason. “Next we’re gonna hit St Louis in swampbutt season.”
December 12, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The second single from my album is out today! Available on Bandcamp or anywhere you stream! Features 4 brand new B-sides, and they might be my favorites. Slightly groovier, a little more electro, a very ex-gf batch of songs haha. Check it out!

painkillerthepigeon.bandcamp.com/album/miss-t...
December 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM
PLUR1BUS is EL1TE tier, I am so into it!! Great new ep.
December 12, 2025 at 6:08 AM
(Government agent looking through five years of my social media) Jesus, this guy LOVES Columbo.
December 11, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Packing up a set of CDs & posters, going out this week! Down to 78 copies of the limited edition CD & poster combo (PS, comes with a supplemental mixtape CD, for fun, will be slightly different every time I ship a new batch!)

painkillerthepigeon.bandcamp.com/album/blame-...
December 11, 2025 at 3:09 AM
You do not miss this. Everything in the 1980s smelled like open hell, people smoked in the produce section haha, the interior of every government building or airport was coated in a yellowish-brown. It was vibey as fuck, no doubt, but it was absolutely disgusting haha.
December 10, 2025 at 7:05 AM
My favorite Cassavetes has always been Opening Night, due to Gena Rowlands is everything (& it’s his closest to a horror film haha). Minnie & Moskowitz is huuuge in my life, Husbands too. Bookie is an incredible film. Influence is excoriating, I’ve only seen it once. Gloria is UNDERRATED.
December 10, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Reposted by Bafflegabs
Celebrating the one and only John Cassavetes (BOTD in 1929) a pioneer of American independent cinema who changed the way we experience emotion on-screen.
December 9, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Reminds me of a classic Richard Herring story. He came home after a funeral, & flatmate Peter Baynham (later the writer of Borat) saw how sad he was & said “I am delighted your grandmother has died.” Then when Pete’s dad died, he saw Richard & preempted the joke “Are you delighted?” Ya gotta laugh.
Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.
December 9, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Blimey.
Coming soon! ‘TWIN PEAKS: The Complete Series’ 🏔️🏔️

Beginning Jan. 13th, we’re thrilled to present David Lynch's groundbreaking television series TWIN PEAKS in its entirety. 

Join us every Tues. at LF3 as we enjoy this damn fine series on the big screen!
www.americancinematheque.com/series/twin-...
December 8, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I had to go out for a session, came back home to this cat listening to classical music and stretched to her full length on the sofa like the Queen of the goddamned Nile haha. (She really seems to like solo piano and string quartets, no drums for Grinklin please)
December 8, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif, no Stars, no Rings, no Marvels.
December 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I demand a Falling Down/Nobody-esque action thriller starring @mikewozniak.bsky.social as a put-upon 1970s maths teacher who snaps.
December 6, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Next record’s gonna be very dancey, I can tell. Stayed up late listening to Robyn, Annie, Mouse On Mars, Aphex Twin, Madonna, Chemical Brothers, B-52’s. I’ve always thought this song was the absolute good shit.

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Annie - Chewing Gum [Live On Popworld]
YouTube video by fabulae
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December 6, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Portrait of a Grinklin in repose.
December 6, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Second Saturday in a row that I went out looking for something else but ended up having a giant sushi plate and a green tea latte for breakfast, honestly this feels like the dawn of a new era. I should’ve been doing this for decades?
December 6, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Quote with your model of masculinity
December 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM
So, I didn’t win the Football Peace Prize this year, but I’ve got big hopes for the Taco Bell Oscars.
December 5, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Tarantino: “And you know who else sucks?” (Holds up picture of lil puppy dog)
December 5, 2025 at 10:06 PM
“Hey we’re reissuing one of your fav records!”

“Yay!”

“Remastered with B-sides & demos.”

“So cool!”

“And we’ve made the cover worse, of course.”

“…what?”

“Yeah, we changed it to a photo that wasn’t as good, the colors are wrong, & the font’s bad now.”

“Why?”

“Nobody knows. You’re welcome!”
December 5, 2025 at 8:47 PM