Rev. Chris Stangl
@chrisstangl.bsky.social
nothing so appalling in the annals of horror
Had to pause a podcast to say out loud to no one "You did NOT 'record it on my VHS' in 1989, you recorded it on your VCR or on a videotape or more likely 'I taped it off TV,' but under no circumstances did you say 'I recorded it on my VHS,' so, doing really well psychologically.
December 16, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Had to pause a podcast to say out loud to no one "You did NOT 'record it on my VHS' in 1989, you recorded it on your VCR or on a videotape or more likely 'I taped it off TV,' but under no circumstances did you say 'I recorded it on my VHS,' so, doing really well psychologically.
It is very funny but Lou achieves what Don, Ken, Sal, and others who clearly yearn to make art are only able to claw at before the whirlpool of advertising money sucks them back in and/or destroys them.
God it's so funny that Lou Avery gets his dream job and waltzes off into the sunset
December 12, 2025 at 7:38 PM
It is very funny but Lou achieves what Don, Ken, Sal, and others who clearly yearn to make art are only able to claw at before the whirlpool of advertising money sucks them back in and/or destroys them.
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This is either a wild thing to say about Farmer Ted or multiple wild things
This is either a wild thing to say about Farmer Ted or multiple wild things
[SIXTEEN CANDLES] Anthony Michael Hall is in fact no more than a year older than the freshman he's playing. His Geek is a computer-age teen version of the early Woody Allen character—the fast-talking genius nerd—but Hall moves like Steve Martin, and even more confidently. (1984)
November 11, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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This is either a wild thing to say about Farmer Ted or multiple wild things
This is either a wild thing to say about Farmer Ted or multiple wild things
This makes my entertainment center look extremely cool and sophisticated and not nerdy and crammed with dork gear.
October 27, 2025 at 11:51 PM
This makes my entertainment center look extremely cool and sophisticated and not nerdy and crammed with dork gear.
My favorite Mellon Collie track is "Muzzle" and my favorite Smashing Pumpkins song is "Muzzle", thank you for asking, Stereogum.
The Smashing Pumpkins’ ‘Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness’ hit US record stores 30 years ago today. 💿💿
What’s your favorite track?
What’s your favorite track?
October 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
My favorite Mellon Collie track is "Muzzle" and my favorite Smashing Pumpkins song is "Muzzle", thank you for asking, Stereogum.
That’s my Uncle Stevie!
[STAND BY ME] And maybe you wonder how moviemakers who had the spirit to stage this stupendous gross-out could have made such a vain, effete, self-coddling movie. (1986)
October 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
That’s my Uncle Stevie!
Neil's right; if the Hughes legacy been flattened into "wholesomeness," I assume the cause is his later family/kiddie comedies. The positive reputation of Hughes' teen film cycle — rowdy comedies and sensitive romances alike — was that they spoke to adolescents with a sympathy uncommon at the time.
As a Gen Xer, I feel like the John Hughes movies were sold as National Lampoon Lite rather than wholesome at the time. Too many people didn't remember them quite that way when they passed them down, so that got lost.
October 21, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Neil's right; if the Hughes legacy been flattened into "wholesomeness," I assume the cause is his later family/kiddie comedies. The positive reputation of Hughes' teen film cycle — rowdy comedies and sensitive romances alike — was that they spoke to adolescents with a sympathy uncommon at the time.
Don't Do What Astro Does!: Never press your thumbs into the front of your partner's throat the way Astro is illustrating; your aim is to apply pressure to the carotid artery on the sides of the neck, not crush their trachea.
When you are kinkier than your partner
October 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Don't Do What Astro Does!: Never press your thumbs into the front of your partner's throat the way Astro is illustrating; your aim is to apply pressure to the carotid artery on the sides of the neck, not crush their trachea.
The literary influence of The Real Ghostbusters episode “When Halloween Was Forever”
October 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The literary influence of The Real Ghostbusters episode “When Halloween Was Forever”
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The wait for The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic was totally worth it.
October 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
The wait for The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic was totally worth it.
Disappointing trends in declining popular interest: Children of Paradise, Chaplin, Ford, Bergman, golden age musicals & Westerns.
throwing this prompt from Twitter in here. what examples you got?
October 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Disappointing trends in declining popular interest: Children of Paradise, Chaplin, Ford, Bergman, golden age musicals & Westerns.
idk which insaneo merch announcement made me laugh more today, the Captain Trips board game or TMBG selling a sledgehammer
October 7, 2025 at 9:54 PM
idk which insaneo merch announcement made me laugh more today, the Captain Trips board game or TMBG selling a sledgehammer
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Ken Russell seems almost cursed by his subjects; he seems to want something from them, but each time he gets close to them he dances away. His movies are charged with sex, but it's androgynous sex, and sterile. (1972)
October 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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more like V/H/Sux
October 7, 2025 at 8:33 PM
more like V/H/Sux
This is not, in fact, the first-ever novel-length Rocky Horror comic. The film was adapted in 1990 over three issues written and drawn by Kevin VanHook, published by Caliber Comics.
September 27, 2025 at 5:46 PM
This is not, in fact, the first-ever novel-length Rocky Horror comic. The film was adapted in 1990 over three issues written and drawn by Kevin VanHook, published by Caliber Comics.
Angel s5e12 “You’re Welcome”, Spike plays Donkey Kong as physical therapy for his reattached hands (cut off in “Damage”), and we hear accurate sound effects, but he’s clearly playing on Xbox, which never had a DK port, so Wolfram and Hart must have provided some kind of interdimensional console.
September 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Angel s5e12 “You’re Welcome”, Spike plays Donkey Kong as physical therapy for his reattached hands (cut off in “Damage”), and we hear accurate sound effects, but he’s clearly playing on Xbox, which never had a DK port, so Wolfram and Hart must have provided some kind of interdimensional console.
Ranking The Long Walk at 14 of 72 Stephen King adaptations + ancillaries I’ve seen (that’s between The Stand ‘94 & Pet Sematary ‘89). Remarkable it exists at all, but nagging feelings that minus digital blood & if the characterization of McVries & ending were book-accurate it’d jump a few places.
September 20, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Ranking The Long Walk at 14 of 72 Stephen King adaptations + ancillaries I’ve seen (that’s between The Stand ‘94 & Pet Sematary ‘89). Remarkable it exists at all, but nagging feelings that minus digital blood & if the characterization of McVries & ending were book-accurate it’d jump a few places.
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Did You Check Up Your Ass, Idiot?
September 20, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Did You Check Up Your Ass, Idiot?
