Justin Muschong
@justinmuschong.bsky.social
Writer of funny novels and plays. Sometimes I have thoughts on movies.
Me watching Odessa Steps at 18: This is an important development in the history of filmmaking.
Me watching Odessa Steps at 43: This slaps.
Me watching Odessa Steps at 43: This slaps.
Battleship Potemkin was released 100 years ago today, on Dec. 21, 1925
December 21, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Me watching Odessa Steps at 18: This is an important development in the history of filmmaking.
Me watching Odessa Steps at 43: This slaps.
Me watching Odessa Steps at 43: This slaps.
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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Every time I've sliced garlic over the past few weeks, I think, "He used a lightsaber."
December 17, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Every time I've sliced garlic over the past few weeks, I think, "He used a lightsaber."
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When they started them at the then new AMC in town in late 99, people would boo. I remember a digital camera ad that was regularly met with hisses.
I'm old enough to remember when they started playing commercials before trailers in theaters. People older than me were offended by it, I didn't think it was a big deal, but I should have listened. We should have held the line. I should have listened.
December 13, 2025 at 5:54 PM
When they started them at the then new AMC in town in late 99, people would boo. I remember a digital camera ad that was regularly met with hisses.
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Two time Academy Award winning editor Anne V. Coates, who cut LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, OUT OF SIGHT, and FIFTY SHADES OF GREY was born 100 years ago today. She made one of the most iconic edits in film history.
a man is holding a lit match in his hand and looking at it
ALT: a man is holding a lit match in his hand and looking at it
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December 13, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Two time Academy Award winning editor Anne V. Coates, who cut LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, OUT OF SIGHT, and FIFTY SHADES OF GREY was born 100 years ago today. She made one of the most iconic edits in film history.
I don't know if it was me or @nickmartorelli.bsky.social who first said it, but we wish we could have a reunion with everyone we saw THE RAID with one winter afternoon at the AMC Lincoln Square.
Raising the always fun question: What are your most memorable theater-going experiences?
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
It was hands-down one of the most memorable theater-going experiences I can remember, a collective 30-minute butt-clench/armrest-grab for the final climb. And we knew he lived! Wild.
December 13, 2025 at 7:11 AM
I don't know if it was me or @nickmartorelli.bsky.social who first said it, but we wish we could have a reunion with everyone we saw THE RAID with one winter afternoon at the AMC Lincoln Square.
If I DM your animal photo or joke to my wife, I will give it a fave regardless of my own personal feelings and opinions. That's the Justin Promise!
December 12, 2025 at 5:58 PM
If I DM your animal photo or joke to my wife, I will give it a fave regardless of my own personal feelings and opinions. That's the Justin Promise!
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🎬 The Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Day Remix Contest is on!
🎥 Celebrate Public Domain Day in January by creating a 2–3 minute film using at least 1 piece of public domain media from 1930.
📆 Deadline: January 7, 2026
💰 First prize: $1,500
ℹ️ Details 👉 blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2...
🎥 Celebrate Public Domain Day in January by creating a 2–3 minute film using at least 1 piece of public domain media from 1930.
📆 Deadline: January 7, 2026
💰 First prize: $1,500
ℹ️ Details 👉 blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2...
December 8, 2025 at 6:02 PM
🎬 The Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Day Remix Contest is on!
🎥 Celebrate Public Domain Day in January by creating a 2–3 minute film using at least 1 piece of public domain media from 1930.
📆 Deadline: January 7, 2026
💰 First prize: $1,500
ℹ️ Details 👉 blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2...
🎥 Celebrate Public Domain Day in January by creating a 2–3 minute film using at least 1 piece of public domain media from 1930.
📆 Deadline: January 7, 2026
💰 First prize: $1,500
ℹ️ Details 👉 blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2...
That ad came up when we were streaming something and the wife, not knowing about the AI, asked, "Why does this look weird?"
Just had to watch the AI Coke ad while seated for a movie. I’ve never related to the end of A CLOCKWORK ORANGE more.
December 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
That ad came up when we were streaming something and the wife, not knowing about the AI, asked, "Why does this look weird?"
This could be a bit in a Conner O'Malley video.
We first started this story after noticing streamer Vitaly Zdorovetskiy playing Stake casino games while doing his "pedophile catch" videos, where he would sometimes play on his phone *with* the alleged predators on stream.
December 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
This could be a bit in a Conner O'Malley video.
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This is me and @justinmuschong.bsky.social and PTA at the end is very @justinmuschong.bsky.social
December 10, 2025 at 3:24 AM
This is me and @justinmuschong.bsky.social and PTA at the end is very @justinmuschong.bsky.social
"Yes, your honor, everyone I killed was on a real government target list, up to and including the woman what happened to catch the stray whilst we were vacating the bank. I expect your apology forthwith."
December 7, 2025 at 7:02 AM
"Yes, your honor, everyone I killed was on a real government target list, up to and including the woman what happened to catch the stray whilst we were vacating the bank. I expect your apology forthwith."
The Tony Scott love & short running time led me to UNSTOPPABLE last night. While no RUNAWAY TRAIN (what is?), I found Scott's style more appealing & effective than I did back then, tho over-the-top at the times the train was going 20-some mph. Plenty of cliches, but sold well. Solid Friday flick.
December 6, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The Tony Scott love & short running time led me to UNSTOPPABLE last night. While no RUNAWAY TRAIN (what is?), I found Scott's style more appealing & effective than I did back then, tho over-the-top at the times the train was going 20-some mph. Plenty of cliches, but sold well. Solid Friday flick.
You know it's a good post when it appears in your feed four times in a row.
hillary clinton doesn't get a lot of love on this site but let's never forget she took odo's virginity with such gentleness and skill that they made a baseball card out of it
December 5, 2025 at 6:40 AM
You know it's a good post when it appears in your feed four times in a row.
Imagine being on a nice hike and passing some jagoff speaking a shitty book into her phone.
December 4, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Imagine being on a nice hike and passing some jagoff speaking a shitty book into her phone.
My grandmother passed away 30 years before I was born. She was a singer who used to make homemade recordings on 78s of herself and her family members. My father recently found them, cleaned them, and bought a record player. This weekend I heard her voice for the first time.
December 1, 2025 at 2:20 PM
My grandmother passed away 30 years before I was born. She was a singer who used to make homemade recordings on 78s of herself and her family members. My father recently found them, cleaned them, and bought a record player. This weekend I heard her voice for the first time.
My wife has named "Jumper Hounds" as her favorite thing in the entire world.
jumper hounds
jumper hounds
jumper hounds
jump up jump up and get down
jumper hounds
jumper hounds
jump up jump up and get down
November 27, 2025 at 7:24 PM
My wife has named "Jumper Hounds" as her favorite thing in the entire world.
I watched this year's Tree House of Horror and couldn't get over the voicework. The characters don't sound like themselves anymore.
I feel like it is culturally important to note that I recently played an old episode of the Simpsons on Disney+ for some kids and then a random newer episode and the kids, unprompted, were like “how come this isn’t as funny?” so it’s not just nostalgia we are correct
November 25, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I watched this year's Tree House of Horror and couldn't get over the voicework. The characters don't sound like themselves anymore.
I doubt this subway graffiti is 22 years old, but that still seems more likely than someone today being a big fan of BULLETPROOF MONK.
November 24, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I doubt this subway graffiti is 22 years old, but that still seems more likely than someone today being a big fan of BULLETPROOF MONK.
He got mad at me for prioritizing chores over pets.
November 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
He got mad at me for prioritizing chores over pets.
The wife is in the middle of directing her high school's annual musical. We watched MR. SCORSESE ("The Scorzaza Show") and she seems to have taken real inspiration from it. Not from his style, but from the WORK required, the dedication and passion and attention to detail. It warms my cold heart.
November 15, 2025 at 8:01 PM
The wife is in the middle of directing her high school's annual musical. We watched MR. SCORSESE ("The Scorzaza Show") and she seems to have taken real inspiration from it. Not from his style, but from the WORK required, the dedication and passion and attention to detail. It warms my cold heart.
The rescue organization gave our cat the name Merv the Perv. We changed it, but it still haunts us.
November 13, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The rescue organization gave our cat the name Merv the Perv. We changed it, but it still haunts us.
This has moved into "playing it for my puzzled wife" territory for me.
second verse on this is one of the funniest things i've ever heard
November 11, 2025 at 7:48 PM
This has moved into "playing it for my puzzled wife" territory for me.
I genuinely gasped at this. One of my favorite actors of all time who was in many of my favorite films of all time. I was very lucky to see him in person at the Museum of the Moving Image when they showed RAN some years ago. It's a treasured memory.
hearing reports out of Japan that Tatsuya Nakadai has passed away at 92. RIP to a legit legend.
November 11, 2025 at 3:27 AM
I genuinely gasped at this. One of my favorite actors of all time who was in many of my favorite films of all time. I was very lucky to see him in person at the Museum of the Moving Image when they showed RAN some years ago. It's a treasured memory.