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Michael Chasin @chasin.bsky.social · 1d

If you don't read books you should live in a zoo. (And I posted this a second ago with such bad typos that I myself deserve a week of zoo time)

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Michael Chasin @chasin.bsky.social · 1d

When a book is advertised with a list of tropes I imagine opening a menu to see it read "Mixed vegetable salad: Green, red, brown, crunchy, and wet."

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Michael Chasin @chasin.bsky.social · 2d

Ah, but Mr. Ngo has to be lucky every day. The mascot costume milkshake brigade only has to be lucky once.

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Michael Chasin @chasin.bsky.social · 4d

Today's answer

Mayor Quimby: Gentlemen, it's time we face up to the un-face-up-to-able.

Michael Chasin @chasin.bsky.social · 7d

The Thing is more of a superhero movie, if you're an octopus.

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Reposted by Michael Chasin

Heckin Spoopy Mutilated Corpse @jrbolt.bsky.social · 10d

Everyone who worked on a Watchmen sequel is going to be turned into a pagan bone shrine in Alan Moore's backyard

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Michael Chasin @chasin.bsky.social · 10d

The next game should have Gosha mode, highlighting the underappreciated, clean, kinetic composition of Hideo Gosha.

Sucker Punch Productions @suckerpunchprod.bsky.social · Jul 12

Miike Mode 🗡️

We've partnered with Takashi Miike, the director of 13 Assassins, to bring you Miike Mode:

🎥Closer Camera
🩸More Blood & Mud

This mode puts you in the driver seat of a classic Miike film and delivers a more intense lens of Atsu's journey

Michael Chasin @chasin.bsky.social · 11d

[Joe Biden liquid swords voice] HAVANA ROSE LIU

Defector @defector.com · 12d

Name a 28-year-old: defector.com/name-a-28-ye...

Name A 28-Year-Old | Defector

Here is the challenge before you: Name a famous person who is 28 years old. Go ahead. No cheating, no looking it up. Off the dome. Pure, uncut 28-year-old naming. I bet you can’t do it. Zendaya? 29.…

defector.com

Michael Chasin @chasin.bsky.social · 12d

Masterpiece: Park Chan-wook, Ridley Scott, Andrzej Żuławski, the Wachowski sisters, Spike Lee, Tobe Hooper

Start with this: Steven Spielberg, Tony Scott, William Friedkin, Bong Joon-ho, the Coen bros, Hayao Miyazaki

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Michael Chasin @chasin.bsky.social · 12d

Killing the work presentation, sitting down and realizing I spoke entirely in bug gibberish

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Michael Chasin @chasin.bsky.social · 12d

Deep enough into Hollow Knight that it's getting very hard to see the appeal of non-Hollow Knight-related activities.

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Michael Chasin @chasin.bsky.social · 13d

As we used to say in the old days, delete your account.

Michael Chasin @chasin.bsky.social · 13d

First day of October, but I don't think I'll read anything more bone-chilling for the rest of the month: www.cracked.com/article_4856...

Here’s Every Single Dull and Inane Thing Jimmy Fallon Says in the First Episode of ‘On Brand With Jimmy Fallon’

Presented without further comment

www.cracked.com

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Michael Chasin @chasin.bsky.social · 14d

Gavin Newsom must be held to account for his actions in this week's chapter of Chainsaw Man.

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