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As good as Steve Martin is, you have to go with the OG Peter Sellers: The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)

Man Running in Grocery Store with Paper Towels

The chase sequence here is basically a live-action Bugs Bunny cartoon, and I never stop laughing once the pack of dogs shows up. Raising Arizona (1984)

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Alt: H. I. McDunagh running for his life with "Huggies, and whatever cash you got", Raising Arizona (1984)

Time for another deep cut: A Night at the Opera (1935) - still gets me every time.

Jon Bernthal as The Punisher

Oh, and another really obvious one that I have to see on every other fucking truck bumper sticker: The Punisher

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Alt: Jon Bernthal as The Punisher

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I'll go with a deep cut, but very obvious choice: any of the 3 people who went to theaters to see an adaptation of Ayn Goddamn Rand. Atlas Shrugged I and II

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First2Go @bbenston.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Name a film more people should watch. Shoplifters (Japan, 2018) Easily the best movie I've seen in 20 years.

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I would be an actor in this in a hot fucking Boston second

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First2Go @bbenston.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

She's the same gutter racist that puts the imprimatur of Ivy League thinkiness on all her bad faith bullshit. www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...

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Heather Mac Donald to Charlie Kirk: “White civilization has decided to engage in the great replacement theory, and to go down without a fight”

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First2Go @bbenston.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Time to set the vibe with headnoddin music of my younger self in SF m.youtube.com/watch?v=RIuW...

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Mark Farina- Mushroom Jazz vol. 1

YouTube video by Francisco Criollo

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First2Go @bbenston.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

EDMUND To both these sisters have I sworn my love, Each jealous of the other as the stung Are of the adder. Which of them shall I fuck? Both? One? Or neither? Neither can be enjoyed If both remain alive. ...for my state Stands on me to defend, not to debate.

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First2Go @bbenston.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Resident Evil's a banger. It's Cregger's most *fun* one. Weapons is his best *movie*, but my hot take is that Barbarian is his best *horror movie*, if that makes sense.

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First2Go @bbenston.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Not giving a single solitary rolling fuck about cultural trends is goddamn amazing. After school I'd play Bach on a piano and my students (the more intelligent ones, anyway) would be intensely curious about it. I'd introduce those students to Tolkien, and they'd mainline it.

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First2Go @bbenston.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Meanwhile, the foundations of civil society crumble on down.

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We literally gave up on Academy after a couple eps. Lower Decks is great every time. I still need to get the fam to sit down again for SNW.

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Eh, the only one I'm going to quibble on is 9... bc without 9, you don't get DSmotherfuckin9. Also, does Next Gen really deserve all the hate ahead of, say, Disco and what they did to the Klingons? (Burnham notwithstanding being one of my fav cap'ns and having my man Saru)

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What about a nice big pack of Peanut M&Ms that I can struggle with opening only to have them explode all over the table? I THOUGHT THIS WAS STILL AMERICA

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At the extreme risk of overstaying my welcome: My fav is actually Chinatown (I go for noir), and I think it works as a more realistic portrait of Bad Men: Gittes is an asshole, but comes to see his racism blinds him to the truth. Irony: directed by somebody who should be prosecuted.

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(However, I disagree about Breaking Bad, mainly bc it was really compelling about its descent into hell. Culminating in a burnt, starved Walter rolling a barrel of money through the desert.)

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Thanks for this, Danielle. Yes, I *really* love movies too, and Scorsese has problems with his not-entirely-even shock/glorification treatment of excess and misogyny. As I've gotten older I've definitely reevaluated. Another auteur in this category: Kubrick. (Yay for Moonlight, Dog!)

First2Go @bbenston.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There's places on the earth, in the words of the late Spaulding Gray, where evil has touched down, and you feel it. I only felt it a couple times, when I was in the Cambodian countryside, and again when I toured the "Hanoi Hilton" prison. As a human being on this planet, you *must* show respect.

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First2Go @bbenston.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sliding in the thread: - the amount of entitlement is gobsmacking - similar to ppl taking selfies there - how do you conflate "we're going to a historical site, great, let's have snacks" with "we're visiting Auschwitz"

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My favorite movie of all time, too. Probably says something about me.

In the 1st season, there were a fair number of characters doing a lot of emotional growth, and that was interesting to watch,+ the legit hilarious moments. This season, not as much growth going on, with weird sitcom comedy scenes occasionally (thinking of the Fake Chicago Accent stuff).

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Chinatown (7/9) Movie CLIP - Capable of Anything (1974) HD

For me, this has always been like top 3 dickish material, especially because it *exactly* mirrors the Musks and Zucks of today. m.youtube.com/watch?v=ppGd...

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Share a TV show that raised you:

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First2Go @bbenston.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I had ppl ruin a simple "man, I love these gas station BTS Oreos" post with "y'know, the maker of Oreos is pro-Putin and pro Gaza genocide and all yums are yukked now, byeeee" Is it wrong that I want to fire these people into the sun?

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The best thing for me was when I got my smartest kids into the Cult of Tolkien. One of them (even after my saying "ehhh some of them aren't that good") even went out and read ALL the Middle-Earth lit he ever wrote.

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First2Go @bbenston.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

But crucially he didn't use his $ to actively fund Jim Crow or its like in England. He might've known better; JKR actively chose evil. It's one thing to have reprehensible private views that may infect your work a la Roald Dahl; JKR makes them a public lifestyle choice.

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First2Go @bbenston.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

You resurrecting your thread, me saying "hell yes". You want a wizard story that steals HP's lunch money in every way? LeGuin wrote an entire six books of Earthsea. I'm a Tolkien fan; yes, there's some racism in his books that can be interrogated bc *of the time he lived in*.

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First2Go @bbenston.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Nowhere is the formerly-argument-shaped blizzard more telling and more revealing than when the GOP talks about elections and "election fraud". Dude, just say you're an authoritarian and you don't believe in democracy anymore, rather than waste everyone's time bleating on about nonexistent fraud.

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First2Go @bbenston.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It's sorta too bad. I missed the boat on Buffy, and by the time I might've been interested in catching up with it, that's when Whedon got outed as a major asshole. However, while ppl were doing Buffy, Firefly was my JAM

In the future, all disputes will be settled by Wizard Battles for Morons. Mark it.

The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

If we're "shareholders in the American Dream", this must be before regulators put padlocks on the doors before American Dream Chapter 7 liquidation proceedings take place. I clearly live in a fantasy world.

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Hey, Gen Z and others, that anxiety you’re feeling about AI or the climate crisis destroying humanity? That’s how us Gen Xers felt about nuclear war. Sorry you’re having to deal with that. For us, it’s like “Hey, there’s the nonstop existential dread I grew up with. I forgot how much this sucks.”

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

As I was standing by this gas pump filling up my truck with six dollar gas I couldn’t help but think that this was a small price to pay so that every child wanting to play sports in elementary school has to submit to mandatory genital inspections

My jeep with a gas pump in her fuel filler

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Amateur hour with these feckless assholes. All the way down. Sometimes I wonder what would happen if I had a multibillion dollar propaganda empire in TV and talk radio papering over every mistake, humiliation and dumb move I make, and then I remember that I have a shred or two of self-respect.

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Pfft. My humors are just fine, thanks. You sound like you have too much bile in your system, or that Saturn ascending may be interfering with your outlook. These are very simple things WE MEN OF SCIENCE understand, sumdirt. Sheesh. Noob.

My man looks like he put a fresh rip in the upholstery

First2Go @bbenston.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Gonna make you jealous. Couple towns away in Somerville, there's Red Bones. It's Somerville, which means $$, but they have white lightning in jars, brisket, Texas ribs, okra, the whole thing. It's not quite the BBQ I used to get at Brothers in Oakland, but that'll do. That'll do.

Plate of ribs 'n beans at Red Bones, in Somerville, MA