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Mortal Cinema | LYT | Substack
Movies (and TV) analyzed through an atheist filter, along with toys, fast food and other pop culture from longtime entertainment writer and mere mortal Luke Y. Thompson. Click to read Mortal Cinema, b...
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Does anyone else wish the movie BELEN were an Ellen DeGeneres biopic made by Minions?
December 1, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Does anyone else wish the movie BELEN were an Ellen DeGeneres biopic made by Minions?
just a fun post tagging people for memes lytrules.substack.com/p/sunshine-b...
Sunshine, Bloggypops
Let's learn a bit more about each other, shall we?
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November 30, 2025 at 10:44 PM
just a fun post tagging people for memes lytrules.substack.com/p/sunshine-b...
Rounding up other people's writings that entertain me lytrules.substack.com/p/weekend-ro...
Weekend 'Round the Web: Predator Fanfic, Imperial Metrics, and a Lumbass
What I've been reading and amusing myself with.
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November 30, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Rounding up other people's writings that entertain me lytrules.substack.com/p/weekend-ro...
No, I expect them to stay the fuck out if the profession they endangered people in.
When a cancelled performer reënters the culture, we expect them to offer us a great work, channelling their newfound clarity into the finest art they’ve ever made. With his new comedy show and début novel, has Louis C.K. met the bar?
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
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Louis C.K.’s Next Chapter
In a new standup special, and a début novel, the comedian navigates murky, post-#MeToo terrain: not quite exiled, not quite welcomed back.
www.newyorker.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:33 PM
No, I expect them to stay the fuck out if the profession they endangered people in.
Small Business Saturday #SmallBusinessSaturday
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Mortal Cinema | LYT | Substack
Movies (and TV) analyzed through an atheist filter, along with toys, fast food and other pop culture from longtime entertainment writer and mere mortal Luke Y. Thompson. Click to read Mortal Cinema, b...
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November 29, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Small Business Saturday #SmallBusinessSaturday
SORRY, BABY promises a kitten on the poster, but it really only gets, like, two scenes before growing up
November 29, 2025 at 7:17 PM
SORRY, BABY promises a kitten on the poster, but it really only gets, like, two scenes before growing up
This Black Friday weekend, SUPPORT SMALL BUSINESSES! Namely me. I'm the smallest. Sign up for a FREE subscription to my newsletter, or buy yourself an annual sub, or give the gift of one! Ask any of my current readers if it's worth it or not -- also I could really use the money
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Mortal Cinema | LYT | Substack
Movies (and TV) analyzed through an atheist filter, along with toys, fast food and other pop culture from longtime entertainment writer and mere mortal Luke Y. Thompson. Click to read Mortal Cinema, b...
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November 29, 2025 at 2:52 AM
This Black Friday weekend, SUPPORT SMALL BUSINESSES! Namely me. I'm the smallest. Sign up for a FREE subscription to my newsletter, or buy yourself an annual sub, or give the gift of one! Ask any of my current readers if it's worth it or not -- also I could really use the money
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Resharing for those who missed my latest batch of reviews lytrules.substack.com/p/quick-take...
Quick Takes: A Magnificent Life of Chuck's Accidental Train Dreams
Can it be I actually kept them shorter this time?
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November 28, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Resharing for those who missed my latest batch of reviews lytrules.substack.com/p/quick-take...
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The designer of Mouse Trap, Rock'em Sock'em Robots, Lite Brite, and many other toys has passed away.
What a legacy of joy!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/a...
What a legacy of joy!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/a...
Burt Meyer, 99, Dies; Made Lite-Brite and Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:49 PM
The designer of Mouse Trap, Rock'em Sock'em Robots, Lite Brite, and many other toys has passed away.
What a legacy of joy!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/a...
What a legacy of joy!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/a...
More catch-up reviews: The Life of Chuck, A Magnificent Life, Train Dreams, and It Was Just an Accident. Loved two, disliked the others, Guess which? lytrules.substack.com/p/quick-take...
Quick Takes: A Magnificent Life of Chuck's Accidental Train Dreams
Can it be I actually kept them shorter this time?
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November 26, 2025 at 8:43 PM
More catch-up reviews: The Life of Chuck, A Magnificent Life, Train Dreams, and It Was Just an Accident. Loved two, disliked the others, Guess which? lytrules.substack.com/p/quick-take...
Louis CK's old joke about being so rich he'd open a store called The FuckShitPissStore and sell pencils for a million dollars apiece is no longer much of an exaggeration.
Trump's crypto company promoted a coin called ‘Shit Piss Skin Can’ this week.
The name comes from one of the company's founders, who said you could sell “shit in a can, wrapped in piss, covered in human skin” for a billion dollars.
The name comes from one of the company's founders, who said you could sell “shit in a can, wrapped in piss, covered in human skin” for a billion dollars.
Trump-Backed Crypto Company Promotes 'Sh*t P*ss Skin Can'
gizmodo.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Louis CK's old joke about being so rich he'd open a store called The FuckShitPissStore and sell pencils for a million dollars apiece is no longer much of an exaggeration.
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i’m not sure how but this is real antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/10...
November 26, 2025 at 3:18 AM
i’m not sure how but this is real antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/10...
What kinds of stories do you get when you pay for an annual subscription to my Substack? Let's peek behind the paywall: lytrules.substack.com/p/the-10-bes...
The 10 Best Premium Stories From Mortal Cinema, Year 1
Get a handle on what you could win
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November 26, 2025 at 3:30 AM
What kinds of stories do you get when you pay for an annual subscription to my Substack? Let's peek behind the paywall: lytrules.substack.com/p/the-10-bes...
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It's the one-year anniversary of my Substack, and I'm celebrating with a giveaway! Plus a countdown of my ten most popular non-paywalled stories of the last year. lytrules.substack.com/p/happy-anni...
Happy Anniversary to Us! Our Top 10 (Free) Stories so far!
Plus a giveaway this week!
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November 24, 2025 at 9:24 PM
It's the one-year anniversary of my Substack, and I'm celebrating with a giveaway! Plus a countdown of my ten most popular non-paywalled stories of the last year. lytrules.substack.com/p/happy-anni...
I probably shouln;t be happy to give a well-regarded film a negative review, but given how much I like, even narrowly, I';s a relief to see stuff that just doesn't work/
November 24, 2025 at 11:24 AM
I probably shouln;t be happy to give a well-regarded film a negative review, but given how much I like, even narrowly, I';s a relief to see stuff that just doesn't work/
So I guess Pennywise is Trump now too? A redheaded maniac preying on fear and just eating everything in sight while the US govt. mistakenly think they can control and weaponize him?
November 24, 2025 at 9:04 AM
So I guess Pennywise is Trump now too? A redheaded maniac preying on fear and just eating everything in sight while the US govt. mistakenly think they can control and weaponize him?
Anyway, How's Your Sex Life, Charlie Brown
Ain't No Rule Says a Dog Can't Play Basketball, Charlie Brown.
We all float down here, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Anyway, How's Your Sex Life, Charlie Brown
Question @chrissheltonmsc.bsky.social - I once heard this guy was so annoying that scientology actually kicked him out. Is that true?
A man best known as "the ShamWow guy" just filed to run for office as a Republican, according to filings.
'Not ShamWoW!!' Shock as ex-infomercial actor files to run for office as a Republican
A man best known as "the ShamWow guy" just filed to run for office as a Republican, according to filings.The candidate, who registered as Offer Vince "ShamWow" Shlomi in the filing, is seeking to replace Congressman John Carter (R-TX-31), who was born in 1941.The filing was received on Friday, and c...
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November 24, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Question @chrissheltonmsc.bsky.social - I once heard this guy was so annoying that scientology actually kicked him out. Is that true?
My belated reviews of Christy, Blue Moon, and If I Had Legs I'd Kick You. lytrules.substack.com/p/quick-take...
Quick Takes: Christy, Blue Moon, Legs/Kick
Did a Syd Injustice rule the world? What makes a non-supernatural horror?
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November 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
My belated reviews of Christy, Blue Moon, and If I Had Legs I'd Kick You. lytrules.substack.com/p/quick-take...
"Push th'little daisies and make 'em come up
Push th'little daisies and make 'em come up
Push th'little daisies and make 'em come up
Push th'little daisies and make 'em come up
PUSH TH'LITTLE DAISIES AND MAKE 'EM COME UP
PUSH TH'LITTLE DAISIES AND MAKE 'EM COME UP
PUSH TH'LITTLE DAISIES..."
Push th'little daisies and make 'em come up
Push th'little daisies and make 'em come up
Push th'little daisies and make 'em come up
PUSH TH'LITTLE DAISIES AND MAKE 'EM COME UP
PUSH TH'LITTLE DAISIES AND MAKE 'EM COME UP
PUSH TH'LITTLE DAISIES..."
November 23, 2025 at 9:30 AM
"Push th'little daisies and make 'em come up
Push th'little daisies and make 'em come up
Push th'little daisies and make 'em come up
Push th'little daisies and make 'em come up
PUSH TH'LITTLE DAISIES AND MAKE 'EM COME UP
PUSH TH'LITTLE DAISIES AND MAKE 'EM COME UP
PUSH TH'LITTLE DAISIES..."
Push th'little daisies and make 'em come up
Push th'little daisies and make 'em come up
Push th'little daisies and make 'em come up
PUSH TH'LITTLE DAISIES AND MAKE 'EM COME UP
PUSH TH'LITTLE DAISIES AND MAKE 'EM COME UP
PUSH TH'LITTLE DAISIES..."
Was just watching a roundtable TV program where comedians were complaining that their peers can't do ethnic or racial or minority-based humor any more because it offends too many of the young audiences.
The show was from 1955. The comedians are Buster Keaton and Bert Lahr.
The show was from 1955. The comedians are Buster Keaton and Bert Lahr.
November 21, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Was just watching a roundtable TV program where comedians were complaining that their peers can't do ethnic or racial or minority-based humor any more because it offends too many of the young audiences.
The show was from 1955. The comedians are Buster Keaton and Bert Lahr.
The show was from 1955. The comedians are Buster Keaton and Bert Lahr.
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
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I believe they prefer to be called Americans
November 20, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I believe they prefer to be called Americans
Oh lordy, I just thought of the stupidest thing ever. If Netflix buys Warner Bros., well, remember who has a deal with Netflix?
Yup...Zack Snyder.
I think we just found the "Yay, X-Men can be in the MCU now!" of all of this.
Yup...Zack Snyder.
I think we just found the "Yay, X-Men can be in the MCU now!" of all of this.
November 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Oh lordy, I just thought of the stupidest thing ever. If Netflix buys Warner Bros., well, remember who has a deal with Netflix?
Yup...Zack Snyder.
I think we just found the "Yay, X-Men can be in the MCU now!" of all of this.
Yup...Zack Snyder.
I think we just found the "Yay, X-Men can be in the MCU now!" of all of this.