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Geoff George

@geoffdgeorge.com

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Chicagoan, dev, writer and former micro/macro editor of little consequence, compulsive movie/TV watcher, ever-recovering night owl, and bookworm. Opinions are mine. He/him. (Also posts at @[email protected].)

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Geoff George @geoffdgeorge.com · Dec 22

Setting some intentions for 2025. I need to pay more attention to ... my attention.

Attending to My Attention

Some thoughts on the year behind, and some blog-related resolutions for 2025

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Geoff George @geoffdgeorge.com · 16h

"I met a traveller from an antique land ..."

GIFS GALORE @gifs-bot.bsky.social · 17h

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Geoff George @geoffdgeorge.com · 18h

I have done this, but with peanut butter instead.

Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 19h

Take a saltine. Put butter on it. Eat the buttered saltine. Repeat about 37 more times and you'll feel better, probably

Geoff George @geoffdgeorge.com · 1d

And if you engage with those stories, you're a sucker.

Geoff George @geoffdgeorge.com · 1d

Trump complaining about a photo of himself is not a story! You don't need to devote a single word to that! I need Brian Cox to go around delivering this line to every press outlet.

a man in a suit and tie says " serious people "

Alt: Brian Cox saying, "You are not serious people" on "Succession"

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Geoff George @geoffdgeorge.com · 1d

A notably tender film.

A review of Roofman (2025)

Went in knowing nothing, not even that it's based on a true story. And I either missed them declaring that it was a true story or they never did declare it till the end, 'cuz I just kept thinking, "Da...

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Geoff George @geoffdgeorge.com · 1d

Second screening in a row at the Evanston AMC without these two before the feature. Are they ... are they done? Is the era over? And I didn't even get to say goodbye?

Couple in the Coke commercial that has played in front of AMC movies for literal years

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 1d

It is tacky for really famous people to be in TV commercials for products. Their gambling debts/boat repairs are not my problem, those roles should belong to actors like the Time To Make The Donuts guy and the actress who said "who are you calling a cootie queen you lint licker" in that Orbit ad.

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Geoff George @geoffdgeorge.com · 1d

Royal Tenenbaum voice: "This is my adopted cell phone, Margot."

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Geoff George @geoffdgeorge.com · 1d

Spotted a small tragedy on the South Boulevard platform.

A forgotten, beat-up phone, left on a bench

Geoff George @geoffdgeorge.com · 2d

This means that someone somewhere said, "This'll be way better than using numbers."

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Geoff George @geoffdgeorge.com · 2d

The separation of books by genre and trope (even the delineation between fiction and nonfiction) in stores should be eliminated, and everyone will simply have to do more wandering among the aisles to find something that looks interesting to them.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Geoff George @geoffdgeorge.com · 2d

Maybe that's MY unhinged literary opinion.

Geoff George @geoffdgeorge.com · 2d

It's a fine pic. No dispute. I just prefer the cellar door so strongly.

Geoff George @geoffdgeorge.com · 2d

The only cover I'll accept. When the new edition came out, I said, "What is this shit???"

Updated cover of Stephen King's "On Writing," featuring the author himself at a desk with his feet propped up

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Geoff George @geoffdgeorge.com · 2d

OLIVER STONE: You can occupy both of these camps, actually.

🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 2d

CONSPIRACY THEORIST: If you watch the Zapruder FIlm closely, you'll see the truth

FILM SNOB: I thought the Zapruder Film had third-act problems, personally

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Geoff George @geoffdgeorge.com · 2d

I feel like that's a pretty hinged opinion!

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Geoff George @geoffdgeorge.com · 2d

This is one of my best posts. Please let someone who understands see this.

Geoff George @geoffdgeorge.com · 2d

"I suddenly remembered my Charlemagne: 'Let my armies be the frogs in the suits, and the nudes on the bikes.'"

Still from "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade," when Henry Jones delivers the line "I suddenly remembered my Charlemagne: 'Let my armies be the rocks and the trees and the birds of the sky.'"

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 2d

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 3d

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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Geoff George @geoffdgeorge.com · 2d

This is one of my best posts. Please let someone who understands see this.

Geoff George @geoffdgeorge.com · 2d

"I suddenly remembered my Charlemagne: 'Let my armies be the frogs in the suits, and the nudes on the bikes.'"

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Geoff George @geoffdgeorge.com · 2d

"I suddenly remembered my Charlemagne: 'Let my armies be the frogs in the suits, and the nudes on the bikes.'"

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Geoff George @geoffdgeorge.com · 2d

Sometimes I think about firing my account back up just to post a once-a-day reminder that it's a shit-slop place that there's no point being on anymore. But that would mean getting back on there, and just ... no.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

Because TikTok is an incredible place, every time we open the app now, we are shown that fake video of a reporter being arrested. Simultaneously, a bunch of commenters are convinced our video of state troopers in Broadview from yesterday evening is AI. Perfect, no notes

Geoff George @geoffdgeorge.com · 2d

Was not entirely sure what to make of "The Smashing Machine."

A review of The Smashing Machine (2025)

Huh. Did not hate this, I suppose, and Mr. Johnson does turn in an interesting performance as a mostly gentle giant. Was that the only real takeaway of the movie? A character study of a man capable of...

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Geoff George @geoffdgeorge.com · 2d

Cortisol levels completely unsustainable.

Geoff George @geoffdgeorge.com · 3d

Watching a dude mansplain chess to his girlfriend at the coffee shop, who is very attached to her pieces. "You want me to just SACRIFICE the pawn???"

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Geoff George @geoffdgeorge.com · 3d

Here at a 10:30 showing of "The Smashing Machine," like I'm still in my twenties.