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Texan author, screenwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist.
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Did I need to study up on uranium mining to write a review of King Kong Escapes? No! But I did it anyway for you — the reader. #filmsky #kaiju #kingkong #kong

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Weird Wednesdays: King Kong Escapes — Hyperreal Film Club
What happens when the Kong franchise bounds outside its California home and we let the Godzilla folks take the reins for a bit? The result is the recent Weird Wednesday showing of King Kong Escapes.
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Meanwhile in the good timeline, whomever is president saw the halftime show and they were like, “Oh shit! The Puerto Rican power grid! We should totally get someone on that ASAP! Gracias señor Bunny!”
February 9, 2026 at 3:56 AM
Reposted by Collin Cannaday
A federal judge warned Justice Department lawyers that their statements on a slavery exhibit display in Philadelphia were "horrifying."

"You can’t erase history once you’ve learned it. It doesn’t work that way"
Judge Calls DOJ's Statements On Slavery Exhibit Display 'Dangerous' And 'Horrifying'
Senior U.S. District Judge Cynthia Rufe told the Justice Department's attorneys, "“You can’t erase history once you’ve learned it. It doesn’t work that way.”
www.huffpost.com
January 31, 2026 at 4:12 AM
A general strike for me means I won’t be laboring for others or purchasing consumer items. We will be also eating leftovers and avoiding streaming shows from any major platforms.

- doing labor for yourself is okay.
- protesting and demonstrating is recommended.
- porch beers are a-okay.
January 30, 2026 at 3:18 PM
An unfuckable popcorn bucket. I never thought I’d see the day. #filmsky

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Movies Theaters Will Sell a Melania Trump Popcorn Bucket This Weekend
What a world.
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January 29, 2026 at 12:43 AM
The Pitt is my new favorite Shakespeare play. #tvsky
January 25, 2026 at 5:43 AM
I’m a maniac.
#letterboxd #lastfourwatched.
January 23, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Me: hums ‘Hey Now!’
Jenny: is that Oasis?
Me: I’m a person of a certain age therefore I have at least three Oasis songs chambered and ready to go at any moment.
January 18, 2026 at 1:29 AM
Because you can’t spell
‘InfErIorIty ComplEx’
without I-C-E.
January 16, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.
January 15, 2026 at 4:50 AM
Who is the greatest movie character and why is it Charly Baltimore from The Long Kiss Good Night? #filmsky
January 10, 2026 at 3:50 AM
Imagine being such a badass that universities are banning your work 2300 years later! That’s goals.

#philosophy #booksky #readbannedbooks
January 8, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Reposted by Collin Cannaday
In a recent experiment, physicists cooled the organic molecule iodopyridine to almost absolute zero. Even at their chilled state, the molecule was vibrating. This is just one example of how, in the quantum world, motion persists at minimum energy.
In Quantum Mechanics, Nothingness Is the Potential To Be Anything | Quanta Magazine
Try as they might, scientists can’t truly rid a space or an object of its energy. But what “zero-point energy” really means is up for interpretation.
www.quantamagazine.org
January 7, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Also, product placement in books is incredibly inefficient advertising. Assuming one gets through the first 153 pages to get to the passage about a fizzy Coke and still thinks ‘Yummy, gotta get me one!’ — more likely I would stay home, I’m just getting into this biography of John Stith Pemberton.
I don't know a single writer who has been asked to do product placement in their work, or at least, if they have, they have not admitted so to me. Nor have I ever been approached with an offer for product placement of any sort. I would be unlikely to entertain such an offer. I don't need the money.
@scalzi.com is this true? Do brands pay the big bucks for product placement in books?
January 8, 2026 at 3:39 AM
January 7, 2026 at 3:49 AM
“I am in perfect mental health!” Cried the man who randomly capitalizes words and signs his tweets like a letter — even though everyone else stopped doing those things years ago because it makes you look mentally unwell.
January 2, 2026 at 6:46 PM
The House of Dynamite writing process was most likely a list of dialog lines it would be terrifying to hear an authority figure say. Then it was simply a matter of filming every variation. #filmsky
January 1, 2026 at 5:39 PM
The Eisbach wave was one of the coolest things when I lived in Munich. I hope it returns soon.

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Debate over surfing in German park gets gnarly after city removes wave-creating device
Surf's not up in Munich. Workers in the German city on Sunday removed a beam used to recreate a surfable wave in the city's landmark English Garden park.
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December 30, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Knowing is half the battle

Unfortunately, the other half involves a lot of severed limbs
December 30, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Also in twenty years there’s going to be a generation of people who will assert “I loved those Avatar movies as a kid.” “They don’t make em like that anymore.” Etc.
Avatar has had a staggering cultural impact, in that every time one of the movies is released there is a flood of articles/comments/assertions about how little cultural impact it has had, any franchise that causes that consistent level of engagement in the chattering class is making a hell of a mark
December 28, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Quote with four of your favorite holiday movies! ❄️☃️
December 24, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Oh boy! Glögg! The Scandinavian treat that’s fun to… drink, I think.
December 22, 2025 at 3:36 AM
2025 in review: Tell me you’re in a new Great Depression without telling me you’re in a Great Depression.
December 21, 2025 at 1:23 PM
“I don’t care what anyone says, I like that movie.”
December 19, 2025 at 4:45 AM
The trailer for a live-action Nadesico adaptation is all the main characters upset they made a live-action Gekigangar adaptation.
December 19, 2025 at 4:33 AM