Snake Pontchartrain

If there was anything like that, I would be there at least once a week.

"Bear's" Turner is a prototype bully bro living out frustrated dreams, "ATPM" lives in the shadow of imperial overreach, and "Network" has a trio of corporate monsters who have contempt for both the truth and their audiences.

And this is one of the few men who stands against them.

Everything you need to know about what the villains are up to in Washington DC can be found in three great movies that turn 50 this year.

"The Bad New Bears," "All The President's Men," and "Network" all feature antagonists whose spirits have returned to 2026.

Nowhere to run, baby. Nowhere to hide.

No matter how many show up, The Fonz and Carmine Ragusa could take 'em all.

(But they have to be together. No man is an island.)

I still think the scene where O'Connell flashes the cat is second only to Indiana Jones shooting the dude with the scimitar.

Had a slightly different answer on the actual thread. But I think my break from organized religion came from watching two loving and deeply Christian parents put their faith over and over again in a church that betrayed them at every turn.

Was consistently humiliated and made anxious for the first time in my life by a school and its priest instructors for wanting to exercise an artistic urge.

If you haven't "lost it at the movies" or lost it on any other art form, you probably shouldn't be a critic in the first place.

Many people need a sounding board for their ideas, their musings, and their disorganized thoughts. I think people find comfort in having a non-judgmental, supportive voice validating their ideas.

It's an intrllectually lonely person's idea of an unconditional friend.

Here's my heartbroken response for the intellectually lonely. So many people don't have people in their lives to help them "think aloud." People often mock, belittle, or act with incredulous superiority when people come to them with a lack of knowledge. People often hijack someone's thought process.

It was the gay nude pool, wasn't it?

One of the most brilliant things about the movie? It makes the job look thankless, grinding, and occasionally, career and life threatening.

Who wants to do that?

This, but also, no one wants to go home to live with their constituents.

I would have one more reason to come to London.

My junior year, my ride to school was Harry Connick Jr.

There must be a lot of dead Valkyrie to make them smile even that much.

Gauge Illuminations (@jimmymac2) I've been playing with the idea of creating an alternative artistic universe where Orson Welles decides to heed George Schaefer's advice and go for the big box office. After determining “War of the ...

No longer responsible for making payroll for 8 people, I have gone back to doodling, dreaming, and scheming. I should be picking up steam on Substack in the next few weeks.

What's more horrifying is that she is still more qualified than a single person (aside from some of the career dovish-therefore powerless-staff officers) in The White House.

Please understand I am not praising her.

I spend way too much time thinking of an alternative history where Orson Welles' first RKO picture is The Shadow.

This fucker of a book has aged exquisitely. Only the French would write a dense intellectual treatise on why we're all screwed.

Okay. So is this the moment Bruce comes back to Gotham?

At the end of World War II, Churchill said, "I could sleep for a thousand years."

I never fully understood it until this one.

Why would the bad guys ask the good guys for help?

Seriously, when is someone going on a rescue mission?

Have we reached that tipping point yet?

The enshittification is complete.

He wasn't doing the job in the first place. So, it's a wash.

Also, an honest and less sleazy Hart Bochner.

I am a former war correspondent sitting with his father, a retired army captain. And both of us, having seen shit, agree with this. Entirely.

There is a lot of AI out there.

Snake is beginning to suspect a lot of you.