ByMatthewPorter
bymatthewporter.com
ByMatthewPorter
@bymatthewporter.com
Writer. Destroyer of keyboards. Coffee enthusiast.

Co-host with Ian Porter (ItemCrafting.com) of the IMMP podcast (www.IMMProject.com).

Movie obsessive. (Movie and theater reviews on YouTube.)

That’s the one I found! So, so good.
November 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
If the CBS show “Fire Country” is about people who fight fires, is its spinoff “Sheriff Country” about people who fight sheriffs?
November 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
"I hold a baseless and ignorant assumption.

Here is a fact that runs contrary to that assumption.

Isn't that interesting?

Not interesting enough to reconsider my assumption, though. Of course not. No need to be hasty."
November 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Someone in this administration goes to work every morning and asks, "Is there anyone in the whole wide world who does NOT regard the USA with complete loathing and derision?"

And if the answer is "Yes," he sets about trying to change that.
November 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The Secretary will take this up with his JAG advisor Captain Morgan.
November 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Then, maybe fifteen years later, that kid got into Magic. Played a lot with his friends.

Finally, last year he re-taught me the game. And now I'm in up to my neck!

#MagicTheGathering #MTG
(3/3)
November 16, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I gave it a look. But something else happened around that time: my wife and I had a kid.

A newborn baby substantially limits one's time available to get into a big new game.

#MagicTheGathering #MTG
(2/3)
November 16, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Related: what's your favorite film or TV version of Shakespeare's THE TEMPEST?

Right now I'm looking for good, fairly faithful productions of the play, not loose adaptations or re-imaginings.

#movies #shakespeare
November 11, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Thank you Senator. Please continue to hold the line against capitulation to Republican demands without the firm legal guarantees required to protect Americans’ healthcare. And please hold to account your colleagues who choose to cave.
November 10, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Thank you Senator. Please continue to hold the line against capitulation to Republican demands without the firm legal guarantees required to protect Americans’ healthcare. And please hold to account your colleagues who choose to cave.
November 10, 2025 at 2:24 AM
[to the tune of of "Unpack Your Adjectives"]

I judge employees by race
'Cause I'm an evil disgrace

AI is helping me
Update phrenology

Please sit still while I measure your face

And I unpack my calipers
November 7, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Remember when Bill Clinton was accused* of delaying traffic at LAX so he could get a $200 haircut, and it was played up as a huge scandal?

Yeah, those were good times.


*falsely accused
November 6, 2025 at 5:49 PM
They say they are "against woke" and we hear them: they would rather be asleep.

They say they are "against Antifa," and we hear them: they are in favor of fascism.

They say they are against "No Kings," and we hear them: they want to be subjects of a monarch.
November 5, 2025 at 10:37 PM