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My Dinner With Andre the Giant@billsimmon.bsky.social |
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Filmmaker, writer, nerd. [he/him] I like astronomy & physics, politics, comics, film & TV criticism, and some other stuff & junk. Video essays on YouTube: youtube.com/@think_thing
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It's enough to make me unsubscribe except I WASN'T subscribed but then I recently complained to my brother about having to let my Times games sub lapse because I'm currently unemployed (I'm a daily crossworder) and he just gifted me a year of the all-encompassing subscription... Sticking to games.
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That’s officially the dumbest of dumb political hot takes I’ve ever seen, and that’s saying something!
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…and brains.
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40 years. Never forget. 🎬📽️
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@stonkers.bsky.social just called Alexi Lalas a “denim-clad turd burglar .” lol.
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No thinking about it top 10 tv: The Wire The Expanse Band of Brothers Fleabag The Bear Twin Peaks Pride and Prejudice (1995) Rick and Morty Sealab 2021 Patriot
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Highly recommend the first BB book - I haven't read the sequel.
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@stonkers.bsky.social loves the movie Clue. I think it's silly but forgettable. I adore The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai. She thinks it's dull and not as cool as it thinks it is. Which of us is right? Watch the video to find out (spoiler: we both are). 🎥🎬📽️
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I literally found his channel today after a friend said he reminded them of me (my voice, cadence, and beard). I don’t hear it, but I liked the channel! Here’s me for comparison: youtu.be/URGJ56Hvw6k?...
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It was really a doc about McCarthy's personal struggle with his own neuroses more than anything, and I enjoyed it for being that - it was honest and didn't try to make him out to be above it all. That said, did anyone else find it odd that Anthony Michael Hall wasn't mentioned even 1 time by anyone?
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Almost no one has seen this southern gothic horror show from the mid 90s. I still think about it a lot.
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I'm just saying, there was an earthquake felt in VT in April, a total solar eclipse, a bright and active aurora recently, a planetary alignment this morning, and I saw this shit yesterday. WTF is the universe trying to tell us?
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Spoiler-free Furiosa review is up! 📽️🎬
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Is Strange New Worlds great Star Trek, or the GREATEST Star Trek? I get into the weeds in this video essay. #treksky 📺🖖
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Excelsior!
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Idea: a new video game that gives you the feeling you get when you play Centipede - it's called "Verisimilipede."
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The. Best.
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Can anyone join this pod? I have podcast production/co-hosting experience and many half baked opinions!
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Well fwiw Bernie has been doing way more than most to recruit young progressives into congress — Our Revolution, etc. and there are Vermonters who need his earned capital right now and don’t have the luxury of looking several congresses ahead. YMMV
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VT law requires a rapid special election in the case of a senate vacancy and VT will always elect a progressive, regardless of the political winds in DC. I'm all for younger reps, but (as a Vermonter) I'm happy w/ Bernie staying where he is for as long as possible.
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Just as a practical matter, as long as he's capable, I think it's more important to keep his seniority-earned power in the senate (chair of healthcare committee, etc.) than to pass the baton to a younger & inexperienced senator w/ no real influence. He does make a difference there.
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This mashup happened organically in the car this morning as @stonkers.bsky.social and I were discussing the coming week. She started quoting Rabbot and I chimed in with "🎶Happy Days!🎶" Then I had to rush home and manifest it. Sorry, Internet.
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Watergate mashup. You’re welcome, internet. 🎬📽️📺
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Tom Wambsgans FINALLY says the quiet part loud.
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When the shark in Jaws 3 followed that family across the county because revenge…
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The more time you spend with super scary monsters, the less scary they are. I’m looking at you, Borg Queen, and also you, Sauron in Rings of Power. 📽️🎬🖖📺
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2016’s Hell or High Water by Taylor Sheridan and David MacKenzie is a nearly perfect movie. It just needed one small change. 🎬📽️#filmsky
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Andrew Davies’ 1995 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice is vastly superior to the 2005 film adaptation starring Tom Wambsgans. That’s just science.
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I literally almost typed that but thought it was too on the nose. lol
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I finally got around to starting the video essay YouTube channel I've been thinking about doing for years. Thoughts on media, culture, politics, food, science... New videos drop on Fridays. Be an early subscriber!
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🙄 I know, right? They really like that word "instinctive," but I don't think they actually know what they are talking abut when they use it.
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A job posting I was going to apply for required me to provide my "Kolbe A Index" score, and it costs me $55 to acquire such a score. It's just pseudoscientific nonsense, right? It sure looks like it at first blush.
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I just applied!!! Good timing. I got laid off a month ago and I would love to do this!
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Some days are just… you know? Wordle 1,038 4/6 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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That adorable pup is Marnie the Dog.
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I made this thing 9 years ago, Facebook reminds me.
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I did not know this and how is there not a supervillain named this.
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Yes, I can hear you, Clem Fandango!
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Untitled Goose Game FTW
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I agree, but I think the technological/cultural changes that result in a decline in culture-defining movies/books/TV are broadly the same things that have disrupted the pop music industry/fanbase. So while our consumption habits and cultural drivers may be different, its still worthy of comparison.
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I tend to agree and would have said the same thing about the era of giant culture-defining pop stars, but Taylor Swift has thrown that theory for a loop. So this may be a phase.
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Insight I just had in a text chat: the eclipse at 95% totality was just like badly done day-for-night cinematography in old westerns. It was weird, but still familiar. Totality doesn't really have an analog. It's just deeply, unsettlingly odd.
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Game Night and Confess Fletch are my recent go-to examples of the sorts of movies you don’t see anymore that I really miss.
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I’m sorry you have to endure those first two seasons. It starts getting a lot better in S3.
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I endorse this message. Albert Brooks sweating. Omg I think I have to watch it now.
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...While I get the urge to watch Lee Majors in episodes of The Fall Guy. There's two kinds a people in this world...
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This and Matewan are two "Great American Movies," deserving to be on any list of the most important American films of the 20th century.
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