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Jim Ellwanger

@ellwanger.tv
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Fan of pinball, radio jingles, passenger trains, and many other forms of recreation, communication, and transportation. He/him.

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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 5h
The department, or the chemical reaction?
Text message: "Hello, We need your valuable opinions regarding LOS ANGELES CITY FIRE"
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 11h
"We're flying high!"
Robert Hays as Ted Stryker, sweating profusely as he tries to land the titular flying object, in noted Paramount Pictures release AIRPLANE!
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 27/09/2026
The movie theater where I saw TRON is now a church (I realize this is a fairly common theater reuse).
Google Street View of the Britton Radiant Church, in a strip mall
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 23/09/2026
Birthday cheesesteak and baseball!
Cheesesteak on a TV tray in the foreground, Tampa Bay Rays vs. New York Yankees on TV in the background
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 20/09/2026
I’m standing on the platform. It’s too late to plan ahead.
Los Angeles Metro departure time monitor with the rider alert: The "B" & "D" Lines are operating with delays in service due to track maintenance. Trains will share 1 track between Union Station and 7th/Metro Center. Please Plan Ahead.
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 16/09/2026
Using my quarterly Hilton credit card credit to have dinner in a hotel that isn’t paying their bills.
TV in a hotel restaurant showing a car commercial. Overlaid is a graphic saying “To pay your bill or make an arrangement: directv.com/pay (203)”
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 14/09/2026
Job interview invitations sent from "job job" are definitely not a scam, sure.
Email from "job job," sent to "undisclosed-recipients," with the subject line "Interview Invitation - BangerVille LLC" (BangerVille is a moribund website that this scammer has appropriated the name and logo of)
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 12/09/2026
@travelswithbrindle.bsky.social Getting my hair cut at Supercuts in Studio City, CA - Sparks came up in conversation and the stylist said she used to cut Ron’s hair.
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 12/09/2026
I’ve got about two-thirds of the red-band WILD HORSE NINE trailer memorized. If I see it a few more times (which I probably will, given how many movies I see and how often it runs), I’ll probably have it all down pat. What are we, hippies now?
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MLB @mlbbot.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
JUNIOR CAMINERO WALKS IT OFF @RAYSBASEBALL HEADS TO THE POSTSEASON!
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 10/09/2026
Okay, there are 6 seasons, and you guys just added it on September 1st. Let's not get too antsy.
Email from Netflix telling me, "Don't forget to finish SCTV. Let's find out what happens next... keep watching."
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 10/09/2026
The "Surf Dracula" tweet, but I've edited it to say:

back in the day if u did a tv show called THE MUPPET SHOW you'd see THE MUPPETS every week in new VARIETY ACTS but in the streaming era the entire 1st season gotta be a long ass flashback to how THEY got the THEATER until you finally get to see KERMIT HOST for 5 min in the finale
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 21/08/2026
This sounds like the tagline for a Connie Willis time-travel novel.
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 16/08/2026
When FTX made a 5-year deal in 2021 to put ad patches on MLB umpire uniforms, I replied to @uniwatching.bsky.social on Twitter to predict that it wouldn't make it the full 5 years, and I heard about it from a few cryptobros. The deal lasted about 17 months: frontofficesports.com/youre-out-ml...
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 16/08/2026
Suddenly, AI Peanuts characters are everywhere.
Restaurant is raising funds for Colombia earthquake relief using an AI image of Snoopy and Woodstock praying.
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 14/08/2026
How do you answer your phone? (I try not to.)
"Far Side" cartoon in which two anthropomorphic cows sit on a sofa in a suburban living room, looking at a dial telephone on a small table with a "RINGGGGG" sound effect.

Caption: "Well, there it goes again.... And we just sit here without opposable thumbs."
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 04/08/2026
I'm going to assume mermaids evolved in Lake Erie because it was a biological advantage to have hands they could use to slap their own tails and say "Welp..." before swimming away.
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 03/08/2026
Those new digital shelf tags are working great!
Digital shelf tags working correctly for two varieties of yogurt, but another two varieties have paper price tags stuck over the digital tags.
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 26/07/2026
It’s my friend Jenn’s birthday, and mainly thanks to her husband, this viewing is a tradition.
Watching the MST3K version of MITCHELL on a backyard screen. “An action hero named Mittens?”
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 26/07/2026
I love it when a meme comes true.
The “Holy shit! Two cakes!” meme.A chocolate birthday cake and a mango birthday cake.
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 22/07/2026
Pinball league high score certificate!
*THIS AWARD GOES TO*
JIM ELLWANGER
FOR
Season 62 High Score: Tales of the Arabian Nights (20,546,460)
Presented by The LA Pinball League
Date 7/21/26
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 21/07/2026
I just found out that the 2017-18 Canadian comedy series NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW will be available on Disney+/Hulu beginning this Friday (along with the follow-up movie that came out earlier this year, NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE). Very highly recommended.
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 15/07/2026
Yesterday's @theonion.com headline, today's job posting.
"Politics: Kash Patel Calls For Public's Help Using Computer"FBI job listing for Special Agent: Cybersecurity/Technology Expertise in Los Angeles, CA
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 15/07/2026
Last September, I was laid off as a full-time employee but kept on as part-time 16 hours a week... then in May, I was cut to 9 hours a week... and now I've been cut to zero hours a week.
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 08/07/2026
They've finally done it!
Brian Anderson (the Brewers/Turner Sports announcer) in the same broadcast booth as Brian Anderson (the Rays color commentator), temporarily.
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 07/07/2026
When I worked as a closed-captioner, I captioned a LOT of soap episode, mostly Days of Our Lives. They were relatively easy to deal with because they just used scrolling captions (quicker and cheaper for them than the "pop-on" variety). 1/2
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 01/07/2026
I promise, finding a 1976 phone book in a time capsule was not necessary for this fact to be "revealed." Area code 407 was created in 1988. Ask a local Gen-Xer what their phone number was when they were a kid!
News story about a bicentennial time capsule being opened, with the sentence, "Additionally, the capsule included a phone book that revealed Orlando had the area code '305' in the mid-1970s."
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 28/06/2026
Groovy.
Grove pitching to Groover in the Tampa Bay Rays-Arizona Diamondbacks game.
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 23/06/2026
If you liked the picture I posted yesterday of me outside the #MST3K studio, here's another 1996 photo, this one of me at a slightly less well-known tourist attraction.
Me standing in front of a railing at the Grand Canyon. I'm wearing a red T-shirt and blue jorts. I still dress this way, 30 years later.
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 22/06/2026
Widow's Bay (2026)
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 22/06/2026
Found this picture of me from about 30 years ago. #mst3k
Me, wearing a "Mystery Science Theater 3000 The Movie" T-shirt, standing next to the "Best Brains, Inc." sign in a nondescript business park in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 20/06/2026
The comic strip "Crabgrass" got this correct!
Comic panel with the dialogue "If you think *I'm* doing what it says in your *stupid* future letter, you've got another think coming!"
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 19/06/2026
A young Lisa Loeb thinks, "Hmm, maybe *I* could make records."
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 17/06/2026
My "recent" visit was September 1, 2025. Everything's up to date in St. Louis!
Email from the concessionaire that runs stuff at Gateway Arch National Park, asking me to take a survey about my "recent visit."
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 16/06/2026
Need to see if I can go to Cheyenne County, Nebraska, and get some free stuff. panhandle.newschannelnebraska.com/story/305284...
panhandle.newschannelnebraska.com
Ellwanger appointed as Tourism Director  - Panhandle NCN
Known for passion of local and regional history
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 09/06/2026
Wait, what nation IS this?
Job posting lists the location as "Nationwide"Rejection email: "Dear Jim... Unfortunately, your current location does not meet the job location requirements for this role."
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 08/06/2026
Someone once asked me for directions on the Columbus Circle subway platform, even though I was wearing a Tampa Bay Devil Rays shirt and there were dozens of people around in Yankees apparel, so I am obviously a Real New Yorker.
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 05/06/2026
Advertised as a free continental breakfast: 🙂 Actually a full breakfast: 😁
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 04/06/2026
I just want to get tickets to a regular digital IMAX showing of The Odyssey, but all the 70-millimeter cineastes are clogging up the works.
AMC Theatres app says “You are now in line. The line is paused.”
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 01/06/2026
Due to my current employment/financial situation, I can only afford the REDUCED egg salad sandwiches. I’m sure it’ll be fine!
Supermarket egg salad sandwich in plastic container. Originally $7.99, reduced to $3.60. The sell-by date is tomorrow.
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 31/05/2026
BACKROOMS (dir. Kane Parsons, 2016)
Entrance to an empty former Sears store.
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 24/05/2026
Applying for jobs.
Form on an online job application that asks for GPA. I've entered 3.3, a perfectly normal grade-point average. The form is displaying an error message: "Answer must be a valid number (no decimals)."
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 24/05/2026
They were warned!
ESPN headline on Apple News: “Tigers place reliever Brant Hurter on 15-day injured list”
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 12/05/2026
This is the first time I've watched a baseball game from Toronto since seeing Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie. When do Matt and Jay parachute in?
Exterior shot of Rogers Centre, as seen at the beginning of a Tampa Bay Rays broadcast. (Contrary to the body of my post, though, the roof is actually closed, so Matt and Jay won't be able to get inside.)
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 10/05/2026
At one point during the Billie Eilish concert film, the guy in front of me used Shazam. Sir, I can tell you, this song is by Billie Eilish.
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 30/04/2026
I rode in this elevator with Jesse leaving the @maximumfun.org Moving Party back in March, so it seems like we definitely dodged a bullet!
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 17/04/2026
I think you need a proofreader more than you need a technical writer!
Email from Indeed listing the job title as "Technical Writter."
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 12/04/2026
I don't have a favorite EPISODE, I have a favorite ACT: Act I of "Fear of Flying." "The old sugar-me-do," Mount Lushmore, Guy Incognito, "that dog has a puffy tail," the Cheers bit, "this lesbian bar doesn't have a fire exit," "you flyboys crack me up," etc.
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 12/04/2026
ENTER TO WIN CURRENT THE JACKPOT (this graphic has been like this all season) #RaysUp
Graphic on the Tampa Bay Rays TV broadcast, advertising the team's 50/50 raffle, says "ENTER TO WIN CURRENT THE JACKPOT"
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 12/04/2026
Colman Domingo should be hosting “Sunday Night Live.” Where’s Colman Sabado?
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