Richard Whittaker

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A bit?

DMs are open.

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I misread that as Fruits Basket and was not shocked at the idea these clowns would blow the GDP of Tanzania on high school anime.

Ever tried getting a Lancastrian, a Mancunian, a Scouser, and a Yorkshireman to share a table (unless there's a Londoner there to hate)?

There was a Rhodesian (and he was definitely from Rhodesia, not Zimbabwe) in my class and he'd blithely come up with some opinions that could derail a monorail, never mind a conversation.

And then there's the "The Pope's your problem now" unionist singbook.

I always love that there are rival Unionist and Nationalist lyrics to The Men Behind The Wire.

Any critics or film pr folks at SXSW getting into town early and with nothing to do Wednesday night, allow this local critic to be your host for a couple of hours.

Hear me out. Arnold as Lear. Too many actors play him as a frail and doddering old man. I want a warrior in twilight who never understood politics and falls to his blindness. The actor who did Maggie and Aftermath could do this. Have Justin Kurzel do it as a companion to his Macbeth.

And no actual midnight screenings, either.

You wanna know why The Bride! failed? Because even the people who liked it said, "Yeah, it's a mess but." That's like telling audiences that a restaurant is great if you eat around the broken glass.

Depends where you are.

The covers of three books. Left to right: Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the life of a legend, about the late Sopranos actor. The cover shows Gandolfini looking shy, peering offscreen with one unobstructed eye and another that peeks out between the fingers of his right hand. CENTER: The cover of Cinema Her Way, a coffee table book by Marya E. Gates about female directors. On the cover is actress Michelle Rodriguez as the boxer heroine of Karyn Kusama's sports drama Girlfight, about a woman boxer. RIGHT David Hockney's painting collection The Arrival of Spring in Normandy, showing a painting of a verdant field. In the background of the field is green grass. in the upper foreground are the branches of a tree sprouting white, cottony buds.

A screenshot of the pre-orders section at mzs.press. Three screenshots of books that have not yet been released. I Am The Night, Daniel Dockery's book about Batman the Brave and the Bold, has a silhouette of Batman stretching from the top to the bottom of the cover, with the title of the book and a nighttime Gotham skyline circumscribed by the borders of the Batman silhouette. CENTER The cover of The Ring Cycle, Matt Zoller Seitz and Odie Henderson's book on the Rocky and Creed films. The cover is white except for a pair of black boxing gloves floating there RIGHT The cover of Documentary Now!, the 600-page, 7-pound coffee table book celebrating the aforementioned IFC Channel series parodying classic documentaries.

Screenshot of three books carried at mzs.press arts bookstore: LEFT: Cover of Lead Sister, a biography of Karen Carpenter, featuring a closeup of Carpenter playing and singing with The Carpenters. CENTER: The cover of Anthony Hopkins' We Did OK, Kid, a memoir of his life and career. On the cover is Hopkins in closeup as he looks presently, narrowed blue eyes looking directly at the spectator. RIGHT: Cover of Louis Armstrong In His Own Words, a collection of the bandleader's correspondence. The cover image is a photograph of a probably fortysomething Armstrong seated at the wooden desk in his office where he often wrote letters.

Screenshot of the covers of 3 books carried at mzs.press Arts Bookstore. LEFT: The cover of Gotham City Cocktails, a book of mixed drink recipes inspired by Batman. Art deco-style flowing border lines flow around and around the interior of the dust jacket. At the center are drawings of two tall cocktail glasses and between them, a shot glass and a tumbler with a sword-pierced cherry in it. CENTER: The cover of Downton Abbey Afternoon Tea Cookbook. Green cover, white writing and graphics. The central image is a teapot with stem lines coming out of it, and at the pot's base, a teacup and saucer and a separate plate of biscuits. RIGHT: Bob's Burgers "The Re-Recipe Box," a set of recipe cards inspired by the joke hamburger names featured on the small board at the front of Bob's joint. Red sides with small graphics, cover image of the restaurant.

Greetings, new friends! You may know me as an author, a prolific Bluesky poster and 4th place finisher on So You Call That Dancing? But you might not know that my partner Judith (@mzpress) and I have an online arts bookstore that's growing every day. Full inventory here: mzs.press/EVERYTHING-W...

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Pam's AJ, this thread is Taker.

You don't know indie wrestling at all.

(Stares in God is a Bullet)

Help Matt. Buy a book. It's all win-win.

Sadly, it's all just marked-up copies of The Secret.

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Is he a The Fast Show character?

I mean, harsh to begin with ...

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And the granddaddy.

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Stop motion is still animation.