Matt Zoller Seitz
@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social
Author, filmmaker, book dealer. Bookstore: mzs.press. RogerEbert.com editor-at-large. New York Magazine writer.
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This is incredible no matter how you look at it, but the fact that she did it in a minivan, makes it even more amazing. It's like winning a marathon while wearing a cast on your foot.
Chased by police, driver covers 173 miles on SoCal freeways before escaping into Mexico
Chased by police, driver covers 173 miles on SoCal freeways before escaping into Mexico
The driver of a stolen van sped through Ventura, Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties, eventually driving into Mexico to evade the California Highway Patrol, officials said.
www.latimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:43 AM
This is incredible no matter how you look at it, but the fact that she did it in a minivan, makes it even more amazing. It's like winning a marathon while wearing a cast on your foot.
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@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social Vince Gilligan called AI a “plagiarism machine.” I guess you can consider him one of the good ones!
November 11, 2025 at 12:26 AM
@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social Vince Gilligan called AI a “plagiarism machine.” I guess you can consider him one of the good ones!
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Whore you, the apostrophe police?
November 8, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Whore you, the apostrophe police?
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I think hardware sales might've gone differently for Xbox if they could've figured out whatever design flaw led to this unfortunate situation.
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I think hardware sales might've gone differently for Xbox if they could've figured out whatever design flaw led to this unfortunate situation.
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This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
November 10, 2025 at 12:43 PM
This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
"Like an ancient cyborg culling through the ruins of a post-apocalyptic planet (twitter, derogatory), Joyce Carol Oates recently fired her full-power death ray at aspiring trillionaire Elon Musk."
For anyone who missed her post
Elon Musk gets roasted on his own platform by Joyce Carol Oates.
Like an ancient cyborg culling through the ruins of a post-apocalyptic planet (twitter, derogatory), Joyce Carol Oates recently fired her full-power death ray at aspiring trillionaire Elon Musk, wh…
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November 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
"Like an ancient cyborg culling through the ruins of a post-apocalyptic planet (twitter, derogatory), Joyce Carol Oates recently fired her full-power death ray at aspiring trillionaire Elon Musk."
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I'm so worried about what'll happen when our kids are old enough to have phones!!!! 😮😮😮
![A meme depicting a woman staring at her phone with one hand on her head, with the following text below:
IS YOUR CHILD TEXTING ABOUT THE WRECK OF THE EDMUND FITZGERALD?
What your Great Lakes maritime history-obsessed teen's text messages actually mean:
brb = bell rang bro
rofl = rang out for lost (crew)
bff = big freakin' freigher
lol = Load of Ore on the Lake
smh = shift minutes to hours
glhf = Great Lakes hella freighter
tbh = taconite be haulin'
stfu = steer the freighter upwind
tfw = that freakin' witch (of November)
asl = a ship lost
gg = Gitche Gumee
idc = immoderate deadweight capacity
btw = beneath the waves
afk = a freighter kaput
hbd = hauler's beacon down
ily = iron load yonder
jk = just [24] kilometers
lmao = lost my abyssal ore
nbd = north bound draft
glhf = good lord, hold flooding
omg = obliteratingly massive gales
tmi = too much iron
wtf = White Fish (Bay)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ccm7gttkbfs2eyyrlpshmeun/bafkreib6ughtj23oqdskaisavrueyn6fijujbp2e663h6p6ukx74lbibyu@jpeg)
October 31, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I'm so worried about what'll happen when our kids are old enough to have phones!!!! 😮😮😮
This is a fantastic idea, and I see no reason not to try it – the other side, twists, distort, and ignores laws for political reasons, but this actually has merit
Someone should run in 2028 on a platform of claiming this entire term illegitimate because of the insurrection clause, thereby nullifying every piece of shit legislation and EO he's signed, all judicial appointments, and every pardon.
November 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
This is a fantastic idea, and I see no reason not to try it – the other side, twists, distort, and ignores laws for political reasons, but this actually has merit
Back in the Stone Age (the 90s) I had a column about home video, and I would call stores to tell me what interesting things were being rented locally. One week, my guy at one of the independent stores with a porn room said "I don't have time this week, the Southern Baptist Convention is in town."
November 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Back in the Stone Age (the 90s) I had a column about home video, and I would call stores to tell me what interesting things were being rented locally. One week, my guy at one of the independent stores with a porn room said "I don't have time this week, the Southern Baptist Convention is in town."
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John Fetterman’s memoir comes out on Tuesday, so if the phone calls don’t work you can always tell him how you feel while he’s on book tour.
November 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
John Fetterman’s memoir comes out on Tuesday, so if the phone calls don’t work you can always tell him how you feel while he’s on book tour.
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One thing I love that I only noticed after binge watching is that Columbo’s schtick with the perps completely turns off when he’s talking to anyone who’s not the perp. If it’s just a rando he needs a small fact from he gets really brusque and to-the-point, like “yadda yadda you’re in my way here.”
November 9, 2025 at 7:34 PM
One thing I love that I only noticed after binge watching is that Columbo’s schtick with the perps completely turns off when he’s talking to anyone who’s not the perp. If it’s just a rando he needs a small fact from he gets really brusque and to-the-point, like “yadda yadda you’re in my way here.”
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“a modest margin” dawg it was five days ago we all remember them calling this race before Steve Kornacki had a chance to get both of his legs into his khakis
November 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
“a modest margin” dawg it was five days ago we all remember them calling this race before Steve Kornacki had a chance to get both of his legs into his khakis
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With liner notes by me on the deluxe edition
FYI: Guillermo del Toro's FRANKENSTEIN lives, with Alexandre Desplat's haunting soundtrack now available on two exclusive stunning vinyl releases, courtesy of Mutant.
Guillermo Del Toro’s FRANKENSTEIN Soundtrack Lives With Stunning Exclusive Vinyl From Mutant
Guillermo del Toro's FRANKENSTEIN lives, with Alexandre Desplat's haunting soundtrack now available on two exclusive stunning vinyl releases, courtesy of Mutant.
dlvr.it
November 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
With liner notes by me on the deluxe edition
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Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
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November 9, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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I was honored to be on the Talk Without Rhythm podcast to talk about two Burt Lancaster movies. tworpodcast.blogspot.com/2025/11/epis...
Episode 795: Brute Force (1947) and Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
This week on the Talk Without Rhythm Podcast I'm continuing NoirVember as I'm joined by Mike White of the Projection Booth Podcast an...
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November 9, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I was honored to be on the Talk Without Rhythm podcast to talk about two Burt Lancaster movies. tworpodcast.blogspot.com/2025/11/epis...
He's eloquent and forceful for sure, but he has a lot of nerve trying to out-Bible the evangelicals when there are pictures of him busting up a homeless encampment
Newsom: "Think about the state of mind of the VP. How do you square the circle when you go to a prayer breakfast? Old testament, new testament. What's the fundamental thing that connects John to Matthew to Proverbs? It's this notion of hunger, feeding the poor. It's central to advancing God's will."
November 9, 2025 at 7:27 PM
He's eloquent and forceful for sure, but he has a lot of nerve trying to out-Bible the evangelicals when there are pictures of him busting up a homeless encampment
"Appearing to close his eyes"
Images of Donald Trump appearing to close his eyes at an Oval Office announcement this week rocketed around social media this weekend, with the president’s opponents seizing on the footage to raise questions about Trump’s on-the-job performance.
Images of Trump appearing to close his eyes during Oval Office event spread across social media | CNN Politics
Images of Donald Trump appearing to close his eyes at an Oval Office announcement this week rocketed around social media this weekend, with the president’s opponents seizing on the footage to raise qu...
www.cnn.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:24 PM
"Appearing to close his eyes"
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My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash
November 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash
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You might enjoy these quotes from Falk talking in general about Columbo's "reaching into pockets" business. (In that same interview he told me about directing "Blueprint for Murder" and getting help from Cassavetes and Spielberg.)
November 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
You might enjoy these quotes from Falk talking in general about Columbo's "reaching into pockets" business. (In that same interview he told me about directing "Blueprint for Murder" and getting help from Cassavetes and Spielberg.)
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Also, fans seem to have a great recall for how Columbo solved the crime (and the star who did it) in every episode. I had a recent bar conversation where the other guy and I spent like 30 minutes swapping episode details with ease. I was stunned by how much I remembered.
November 9, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Also, fans seem to have a great recall for how Columbo solved the crime (and the star who did it) in every episode. I had a recent bar conversation where the other guy and I spent like 30 minutes swapping episode details with ease. I was stunned by how much I remembered.
Enjoying Columbo, an endlessly rewatchable series. Falk's sly timing raises the level of every scene, as in "Blueprint for Murder," where he questions the arrogant architect, drops an incriminating fact, then reaches in his coat pocket and asks, "Ya want half a candy bar?"
November 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Enjoying Columbo, an endlessly rewatchable series. Falk's sly timing raises the level of every scene, as in "Blueprint for Murder," where he questions the arrogant architect, drops an incriminating fact, then reaches in his coat pocket and asks, "Ya want half a candy bar?"
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something many political wonks fail to comprehend is that living a good life is a feeling, and that feeling is not determined solely by access to material goods, but a relative sense of where we're at within our society, community, and social circles, and right now, everyone feels like fucking shit
November 9, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Mamdani is going to implement Mariah Law. All everyone will want for Christmas is you
November 9, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Mamdani is going to implement Mariah Law. All everyone will want for Christmas is you