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Popcornbender Spatch
@spatch.bsky.social
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Writer/old-time radio actor/roller coaster rider/CAT TOWN guy/funy computar maker/etc. Wrote Pick Up The Phone Booth and Die once. Married and we have a cat. Often tells you to enjoy the show at the Somerville Theatre. Aquarius. Hi
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"DMK? Who the hell is DMK!?"
Mary Catherine Stewart as Regina in Night of the Comet, shown here playing the arcade game Tempest at her movie theater job. We don't see it in this picture but her name REG is on every high score on this machine except one, which is taken by someone with the initials DMK.
November 27, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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FIVE EIGHT EIGHT
TWO THREE HUNDRED
EMPIIIIIRE
TODAY
Pope Leo XIV looks like he's singing into the microphone on front of him
November 23, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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Another Saturday night in the speakeasy under the balcony
A $2 bill with scowling slaveholder Jefferson stuck to a seafoam green concrete wall, looking down, with an old electrical doorbell setup labelled "door bell" stuck above in a tangly mass of wires, some of which may still be live, others not.
November 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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North St and Boston Ave
Looking straight up while waiting for the crossing light, we see a telephone pole, street sign, a traffic light currently green for Boston Avenue traffic, and a small latticework of utility wires crossing over each other.
November 17, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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"I agree, Joan, it's dangerous for kids to find out about this stuff on their own. Who's gonna tell them to use somebody else's matches? Or how to make it look like an accident? That's where our Johnny Hoodlum Action Pal comes in."
Dan Aykroyd as Irwin Mainway, maker of irresponsible toys
November 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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After listening to how Sonya spent her afternoon trying to get Copilot out of Word for Mac, where it snuck in so badly there was no ribbon button or any control and the extant Manage Connections option forbidding background auto-updates had not caught it, I'm classing fucking Copilot as malware
This is a picture of Dick Miller with paper crown and tin star and toilet plunger scepter and I have no real reason for adding it here except well what else am I gonna do?
November 13, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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Good morning and here is 45 seconds of our Hestia happily breaking in a new catnip pickle, a gift from her adoring 'grandcat' to replace the previous pickle which had been well-loved enough by now
November 10, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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this appears to be a matter on the public record and well he made it out okay
John Goodman bursting out of the bluish-brown muddy ground in Raising Arizona, bellowing like a madman freed
November 10, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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come with me
and you'll be
in a world of OSHA violations
Still from the 1971 film "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" showing Augustus Gloop stuck in the bright pink chocolate pipe and about to get blasted up to who-knows-where.
November 10, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Gas Station Simulator had a free update a while back that added a drive-in theater to your desert gas station empire and I started playing it this week and to my delight discovered you can add your own mp4s and screen them so computer people are now enjoying my theater midnight preshows from 2023
A screenshot of Gas Station Simulator showing two cars parked in front of a small kinda makeshift drive-in theater (you upgrade it as you go) and a third car pulling up beside them. On the screen is one of my favorite pieces of policy snipe ever, the one that tells you that public displays of affection are not allowed in this theater. The caption onscreen says "Hello young lovers whoever you are: We're glad the Love Bug has caught up with you!" A screenshot of Gas Station Simulator showing the drive-in theater from a different angle. At this time, John Waters is on the screen telling you not to smoke in the theater while he takes big ol' drags off of his own cigarette. "Mmmmm!" he says. One lone cop car is watching. Did you know you can lockpick the trunks of cars, even the cop cars, and keep what's inside? Nobody cares if you do because this game is bugnuts. But oddly fun.
November 7, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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Shot of Cyrus from The Warriors in the park, arms outstretched, probably hollering "CAN YOU DIG IT?"
November 6, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Welcome to the Short & Curlies corner, which is we've got you by when you come round out of desperation

Anyway I sure am enjoying my $5.29 emergency replacement shoelaces, fuck you sideways CVS
A pegboard display at CVS showing off pairs of shoelaces priced at $5.29 each, because someone who needs something in a pinch should be gouged as hard as fuck as you can
November 6, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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The look of pathos and betrayal of a poor cat who doesn't understand she has a bloodwork appt at the vet tomorrow at 10 and has to fast for twelve hours
A little black cat sits by a corner where her food and water dishes are usually placed. But both are gone (she has access to water from two other sources which she cannot overturn in protest) and she sits with her back to us, staring at the spot, and waits. The little black cat turns her head to look at us beseechingly and it is heartbreaking, oh baby cat I am so sorry, but it's vet's orders and we will feed you as soon as we get you back home tomorrow, and you can have all you want
November 6, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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I got overdrawn by $8 and get this charmingly threatening note and I don't get paid til tomorrow so I'll be $43 in the hole after all is said and done

today is not the right day at all for this bullshit, not today, not today
November 4, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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CARNAGE
The house center right aisle of a movie theater after a screening of the Rocky Horror Picture Show. The floor is covered in toilet paper, newspapers, rice, playing cards, toast, and who knows what else. The house center left aisle of a movie theater after a screening of the Rocky Horror Picture Show. The floor is covered in toilet paper, newspapers, rice, playing cards, toast, and who knows what else. An overhead view of 1/3 of the orchestra, taken from the balcony. Paper products are everywhere. It's like there was an explosion at the bog roll factory.
November 1, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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Black and white picture of an abandoned house, apparently a Pennsylvania strip club, with creeper vines growing over the entire first story and about to engulf the sign reading "GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS"
October 30, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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my only regret is that living colour's vivid was released in late 88 cause I listened to it constantly thru 89 but that's okay, there were others
Cover art for the 1989 de la soul album "3 feet high and rising"
October 29, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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my favorite part of the MBTA trip planner is when you ask it to give trips that arrive by a certain time, and it provides options with departure times that have already happened, like if you'd left an hour ago you could've done this one
a screenshot of the mbta online trip planner presenting four travel options to get to a location by 3:15 pm. The first one presents a travel time from 2:36-3:13 pm, the second from 2:13-3:00 pm, the third from 1:11-2:10 pm, and the fourth from 12:58-1:44 pm. It was around 2:05 pm when I made this lookup request.
October 29, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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guess who's back
back again
balcony bar's back
tell a friend
A view from a balcony lobby showing a half-open french door, a high top table with napkin and straw caddy, and a plywood cutout of an usher we have named Bruce, gesturing towards the whole thing with a little pumpkin ghost dangling from his gesturin' hand. Inside the french door is a glimpse into the wonderful world of our upstairs load-bearing balcony bar, which is where I'll be for this evening's show. The open half of the french door also has a dry erase board menu hand lettered by yers trooly
October 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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my current favorite online game is toontown corporate clash which lets you make a kiwi toon if you want

as the kiwi is flightless the game has made the artistic decision to not render their arms (seriously)

however I purchased a nice hang glider thing for my kiwi & they look like a superhero now
Screenshot from Toontown: Corporate Clash featuring a little purple kiwi bird named Little Sourberry with green pocketed shirt, dark purple jeans, yellow shoes, and big-eyebrowed Groucho glasses sitting on a couch in a Toontown building. Behind them is a portrait of themselves, celebrating their having saved the building from an evil Cog invasion. Screenshot of Little Sourberry the flightless kiwi bird in Toontown: Corporate Clash. Kiwis in this game are shown without arms. Here Little Sourberry is stepping forward in an act of annoyance, looking to their right. Their white gloved hands are floating off on either side of them, and the shoulder sleeves on their t-shirt are raised to suggest arm movement. This is the way of the kiwi A screenshot of the dimunitive purple Little Sourberry, purple kiwi bird with fuzzy eyebrow Groucho glasses, sporting a neat set of hang glider wings on their back with vertical rainbow stripes and outfitted in a t-shirt and gym shorts combo colored dark blue with red accent outlines. The t-shirt has a graphic of a hand holding a pie on the front. The outfit is a reward from a little questline in the newbie area; the hang glider I bought with daily rewards. A screenshot of the dimunitive purple Little Sourberry, purple kiwi bird with fuzzy eyebrow Groucho glasses, sporting a neat set of hang glider wings on their back with vertical rainbow stripes and outfitted in a t-shirt and gym shorts combo colored dark blue with red accent outlines. The t-shirt has a graphic of a hand holding a pie on the front. The kiwi bird stands proudly in front of the Toowntown trolley before hopping on to go swim through some rings or catch oranges.
October 20, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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postscript: ragequit
Chief Arino, sitting at a table covered in viewer submissions and prizes, says "I believe there won't be a next time." The camera pulls back on Chief Arino sitting with unclaimed prizes and the boombox. He announces "This has been 'Sing Whatever the Hell You Want!'" Chief Arino sits at the table and waits for the segment to end. The caption "The End" appears onscreen. Below that is the announcement "Due to circumstances, this segment has come to an end. Thank you for your support."
October 14, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Great Moments in GameCenter CX:

That write-in segment in Series 10 where Arino sings viewer-submitted lyrics to video game music, and gets clowned on for his troubles
Chief Arino, a cheerful man in his 30s holding a microphone and reaching for the PLAY button on a tape recorder, says "Well then, I will sing." Chief Arino sings the lyrics a viewer has written for the Final Fantasy II chocobo ride music. The first half goes "Chief Arino's wife is beautiful." Chief Arino sings the lyrics a viewer has written for the Final Fantasy II chocobo ride music. The first half went "Chief Arino's wife is beautiful." The second half goes "It's a shame their kids look more like him." Chief Arino stops singing, looks at the camera, and says "Shut up."
October 14, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Today I drove over a hundred miles to bring her birthday perry and birthday ribs and it was worth all the miles and then some
ST in her cool cap is enjoying a cup of hot hard pear cider We are sitting in the front porch of the greatest bbq roadhouse ever and ST is happily sitting in front of a half-massacred slab of ribs
October 10, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Not much, just a raccoon hanging from a screen window 9 ft off the ground (also hanging out in a set of bushes)

I have tried clanging a pot at it from the porch and hollering and you can guess how well that went

The cat is watching from another room

I think it hissed at me thru the glass
A picture taken through a set of plastic vertical blinds, reflecting double glazed window and a metal screen window, of the face of the furry little bastard who greeted me when I pulled back the blinds. It is sitting in the bushes outside the window and kinda grumpy that I'm being grumpy about it.
October 6, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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thanks for the warning, I was gonna post these
A little black cat happily reaches out for the soft arm of the couch while curled up in her couchside cat sittin' dish A little black cat sits in her round carpeted cat sittin' dish, which is close to both a couch and a window. She looks down and away from the camera, either pensively or good-naturedly annoyed at having to put up with these two nuts who wave their cameras at her and call her a good cat
October 4, 2025 at 6:39 PM