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Mike X. Nichols
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Harakiri (1962). Tatsuya Nakadai as Tsugumo Hanshirō. “Our lives are like houses built on foundations of sand. One strong wind and all is gone.”
November 11, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein with Jacob Elordi as the Creature. A version of Snoopy made to look like the Creature has been edited into the photo. The source of the image is the Twitter user “elordisnoopy.”
November 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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the bravest thing you can do is eat one of these bad boys anywhere other than over a trash can
A photo of a Nature Valley Crunch Oats ‘n Honey granola bar. Crumbs get everywhere when you eat one.
November 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Sailor Moon. My job here is done/But you didn’t do anything meme. The top text says, “DEMOCRATS.” The bottom text says, “THE FIGHT LIVES ON.”
November 11, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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me and who
Sat, Sep 11, 12:31 PM: “Checking in.” Sun, Sep 12, 10:25 AM: “Checking in.” Tue, Sep 21, 1:56 PM: “I’m bad.” Thursday 10:24 AM: “Checking in.” Today 1:37 AM: “I’m doing bad.”
November 10, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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cracking up
A chat between “Victor” and “Creature.” Victor Today at 8:19 PM You genuinely GENUINELY Piss me off. Creature 8:20 PM I ate some cookies today and had some lemonade Victor 8:20 PM Are you TWELVE Creature 8:20 PM And then I played some video games
November 10, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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I love this advice from Vince Gilligan, which stemmed from wisdom he received from Michael Mann
With a halt-amused shrug, Gilligan says he was not thinking about Al when he conceived of "Pluribus," and he wrote it before the rise of large language models like ChatGPT. "One thing I did wrong while doing press for 'Breaking Bad' was tell people, 'This is what this meant! This meant that!' He remembers conversations with journalists and fans in which he drilled down his belief that his protagonist, Walter White, was, in fact, a villain. "I look back, and it was so tiresome," Gilligan says. "Whatever people want to take away from this show is 100% up to them." Gilligan recalls writing for "Robbery Homicide Division" in 2002 and asking Michael Mann, an executive producer on the CBS procedural, about the theme of his episode. "He looked at me for a minute, not in an unkind way, and was just puzzled," Gilligan says. Mann responded to him: "Just tell a good story, let the audience figure out the theme. That's their job."
November 10, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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me when batman shows up at the beginning of the batman
Batman Begins. Cillian Murphy as Dr. Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow. “He’s here.” “Who?” “The Batman.”
November 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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The Simpsons. Bart Simpson reading the newspaper. “Springfield Shopper: MONSTERS OKAY SLAVERY PLAN.”
November 8, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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I often think about this line and Bob Odenkirk’s delivery
I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson. Bob Odenkirk. “She’s beautiful but she’s dying.”
November 7, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Bluesky with the rude filter on vs. Bluesky with the rude filter off
Futurama. Fry riding a Scooty-Puff, Jr. Futurama. Fry riding a Scooty-Puff, Sr.
November 7, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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I often think about this quote from the Over the Garden Wall art book
Beatrice, the bird from Over the Garden Wall. “I don’t know how this show got made.” —Nick Cross, Art Director
November 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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It’s time to celebrate
A photo of an OLED television. The opening of Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. The text reads, “APRIL - 1805 NAPOLEON IS MASTER OF EUROPE ONLY THE BRITISH FLEET STANDS BEFORE HIM OCEANS ARE NOW BATTLEFIELD”
November 5, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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Mad Max: Fury Road (2015). Nux (Nicholas Hoult) on a bike. The caption reads, “Yeah. It feels like hope.”
November 5, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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thinking a lot about how mad max: fury road is about rediscovering a sense of community and hope after your humanity has been stripped away by the daily viscitudes of survival in the apocalypse
Mad Max: Fury Road. Max (Tom Hardy) and Furiosa (Charlize Theron) with their hands clasped together in agreement.
November 5, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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In the words of Barry Crimmins, never shake hands with a war criminal.
The cover of a book by Barry Crimmins titled, “never shake hands with a war criminal.”
November 4, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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the acme corporation have endorsed andrew cuomo
Looney Tunes. Wile E. Coyote reading through a mail order catalogue of products from the ACME Corporation.
November 4, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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A poster. The text, “READ: GODZILLA FOR AMERICA’S LIBRARIES.” Godzilla is reading a publication about Godzilla.
November 3, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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John Carpenter is a big fan of Godzilla and wrote a lovely foreword for the book "Godzilla: The First 70 Years." Here’s an excerpt.
“Godzilla is the longest-running movie franchise in the world. Today, Godzilla is respected the world around, but the truth is that these movies were appreciated in silence for many years. It wasn't cool to be a fan of Godzilla. Well, I was not cool-but that was fine with me. You now hold in your hands a comprehensive history of Japan's King of the Monsters, authoritatively written by two genre his-torians. This is, of course, a well-deserved tribute to a cinematic monster of unparalleled influence. In 2024, Godzilla Minus One received an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. Fi-nally, in my lifetime, the big guy is getting the respect and admiration and ovations he is due. I'm a happy man.”
November 3, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Happy Godzilla day
The only possible explanation is Godzilla.
November 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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me putting on a Cake album
Garfield on a fence. He’s wearing sunglasses and a hat, and he has a trumpet in his hands.
November 2, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Beautifully said by @realgdt.bsky.social
Frankenstein (2025). The Creature (Jacob Elordi) stands alone in the frame with the horizon of the arctic. The quote by Guillermo del Toro reads, "We hope that in some way, somehow, our gratitude, our love, can reach him like a whispered prayer, like a distant song. And we dream that perhaps he can stop-amid the frozen tundra and the screaming wind-and can turn his head and look back. At us. And we hope that then he might recognize in our eyes his own yearning. And that perchance we can walk toward each other and find meager warmth in our embrace. And then, if only for a moment, we will not feel alone in the world."
November 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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A black-and-white NY Times advertisement for The Exorcist. An empty stadium with one person sitting in it. A speech bubble for that person reads, “Where’s everybody??” The caption reads, “They’re all at CINEMA I… seeing ‘The Exorcist’”
November 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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One Halloween Party After Another
Me dressed as Bob Ferguson from One Battle After Another. I’m holding a chihuahua named Finley.
November 1, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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I love a good movie theater carpet
A movie theater carpet with popcorn, tickets, film strips, soda cups, etc.
October 31, 2025 at 6:04 PM