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Matt Marcotte
@mattmarcotte.bsky.social
Product/trademark counsel, blogger, pop culture aficionado, game show competitor. Views expressed herein are my own.
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

1. Law and Justice in the American South
2. Russian and Eastern European Music
3. Bowling
4. Theater Arts
5. Advanced Essay Writing
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

1. Creative Writing - Poetry
2. Modern Art
3. Shakespeare
4. Contemporary Fiction
5. Topics in Religious Studies
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Marine Biology (we got to go out on a boat!)
2. The History of the Holocaust
3. Logic and Critical Thinking
4. Eastern Religions
5. The French Revolution
January 31, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Not a bad morning view!
January 31, 2026 at 4:13 PM
My weekend plans. (Fortunately, the actual place, not this conference room.)
January 30, 2026 at 1:10 AM
Quality team name doesn’t guarantee victory, but it doesn’t hurt!
January 28, 2026 at 4:44 AM
“Activate the Hot Dish Protocol.”
Minneapolis' "playbook" is not the Viet Cong's; it's the organizational skills you develop as an active Lutheran.
MAGA military geniuses are talking about Minnesota protestors like they are the Iraqi insurgency, the Taliban, and the Viet Cong all rolled into one.
January 27, 2026 at 12:36 AM
EGOT watch, alert level yellow! deadline.com/2026/01/rene... (Though she should probably already have an Emmy for GIRLS5EVA.)
Renée Elise Goldsberry Cast In CBS’ ‘Cupertino’ In Reunion With Creators Robert And Michelle King & Star Mike Colter
Renée Elise Goldsberry has been set in a series regular role in the upcoming CBS drama series 'Cupertino.'
deadline.com
January 26, 2026 at 11:36 PM
Does this settle once and for all the "Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?" question?
Top 10 Streaming movies during Christmas Week

Home Alone
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Elf
A Christmas Story
The Great Flood (2025)
Die Hard
It's a Wonderful Life

Source: Nielsen
January 22, 2026 at 9:09 PM
Ella McCay arrives on Hulu on February 5, so @hitchdied.bsky.social can watch it again and again.
January 22, 2026 at 8:31 PM
The 2026-27 Broadway touring season in SF is looking INSANE: Maybe Happy Ending, Death Becomes Her, The Outsiders, and Oh Mary! are now all locked, with more shows yet to announce.
January 21, 2026 at 6:25 PM
28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE (2026)
In the 2010s, the Icelandic tv station Channel 2 accidentally added subtitles from a gritty crime drama to an episode of Teletubbies.

I have translated some of the highlights
January 20, 2026 at 11:14 PM
I thought it was called “Omelette.” (Joke for very narrow audience.)
January 18, 2026 at 7:53 PM
SF watching the football game.
a man in a tan suit and blue shirt says this is displeasing
ALT: a man in a tan suit and blue shirt says this is displeasing
media.tenor.com
January 18, 2026 at 3:28 AM
Very squish. Much dog. Wow.
Have you ever seen anything more cozy squishy majestic
January 18, 2026 at 12:12 AM
Pizza day is the best lunch day at the office.
January 15, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Science class with @yooty.bsky.social
A Diet Coke is one of the most basic units of Liquid that there is. Easily in the first ten elements of the Periodic Table of Liquids. Astounding that it wasn't invented by the Mayans
January 14, 2026 at 9:07 PM
New religious denomination just dropped.
January 14, 2026 at 9:06 PM
Oh, god. He's coming after @subnomnomnom.bsky.social
Trump, during an "economic" speech today in Detroit, can't help but fixate on "wine mom gangs," saying they're "doing these fake riots." They go practice. They go to areas, they take hotel rooms, and they all practice together. It’s a whole scam. We’re finding out who’s funding all this stuff."
January 13, 2026 at 10:03 PM
I will say that reading the collected Doonesbury is a pretty good survey of American political/cultural history from the Nixon era to the present.
why did so many millennials read so many newspaper comics? easily 60 percent of my reading diet in elementary/middle school was collected editions of calvin and hobbes, farside, dilbert, peanuts, doonesbury (!), foxtrot (?!?) and i know im not alone. historically unique phenomenon
rather than talk about Scott Adams I want to talk about something weirder (me). Who else was really into Dilbert when you were 12. Who else was like, boy, I can't wait to work a cubicle job
January 13, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Serendipity! @jdotj.bsky.social
January 13, 2026 at 4:16 AM
This year is an interesting Oscar season--while Picture and Director seem to be basically locked up by OBAA, all the acting awards seem fairly wide open. Buckley and Chalamet are frontrunners, but not invincible.
January 12, 2026 at 4:34 AM