Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Third stanza, especially lines 3–4, goes hard on the Sunday after the obscene news broke that a certain individual became the world’s first trillionaire 000
Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Three more examples of how off the chain #gerrymandering districts for the US #HouseofRepresentatives has become. At least one of them knows how to use a ruler 000
Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Then the girl from Purdue smiled at that And said, “Now, I’ll teach Hebrew to Cat!” When the kitty was keen, To keep all its fur clean, Got a hairball and spat it like 000
Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Had this exchange in my class just now (student's name redacted) 000
Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 15/01/2026In the age of AI-generated photos like this one, I should be able to say, “On the one hand…but on the other hand…but on the other hand… 000
Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Incels are already a lot, but chess incels are on another level entirely 010
Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 09/11/2025If you speak both German and English (as I do), you know that Vienna sausages are wiener Wieners 020
Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 19/10/2025#OctoberMovieChallenge #MovieSky #FilmSky 10/19 Movie rental store in a movie Jack Slater (Arnold Schwarzenegger) Last Action Hero (dir. John McTiernan, 1993) 192
Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 18/10/2025OctoberMovieChallenge #MovieSky #FilmSky 10/18 A political hearing in a movie Dr. Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster) defends her experience of space flight before Congress Contact (dir. Robert Zemeckis, 1997) 030
Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 17/10/2025#OctoberMovieChallenge #MovieSky #FilmSky 10/17 Someone sentenced to prison in a movie Jean Valjean (Richard Jordan) and Inspector Javert (Anthony Perkins; yes THAT Anthony Perkins) Les Miserables (dir. Glenn Jordan, 1978) Bonus: Ian Holm (aka Peter Jackson’s OG Bilbo) as M. Thernadier 071
Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 16/10/2025#OctoberMovieChallenge #MovieSky #FilmSky 10/16 Something raided in a movie Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment (dirs. Jerry Paris and James Signorelli) 051
Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 15/10/2025#OctoberMovieChallenge #MovieSky #FilmSky 10/15 A frog in a movie Magnolia (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999) 051
Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 14/10/2025#OctoberMovieChallenge #MovieSky #FilmSky 10/14 Somebody hit in the face with something not a fist Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (dirs., John Francis Daly and Jonathan Goldstein, 2023) Forge (Hugh Grant) fails his potato in the face saving throw 061
Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 13/10/2025#OctoberMovieChallenge #MovieSky #FilmSky 10/13 The White House in a movie Photo 1: Carl Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) and Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) Photo 2: WH at night, approximate time stamp 1:35:50 All the President’s Men (dir. Alan J. Pakula, 1976) 151
Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 12/10/2025I was, I am, & I will always be STGPHNG #canibuyavowel 000
Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 12/10/2025🎶 Everybody have fun tonight! Everybody yang chow tonight! 🎶 000
Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 12/10/2025#OctoberMovieChallenge #MovieSky #FilmSky 10/12 A movie about an explorer Title character (Isabela Merced) in Dora and the Lost City of Gold (dir. James Bobin, 2019) 151
Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 12/10/2025#OctoberMovieChallenge #MovieSky #FilmSky 10/11 A movie with a Saturday Night Live cast member Dr. Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis), Dr. Ray Stantz (Dan Aykroyd ✅), Dr. Peter Venkman (Bill Murray ✅) and Winston Zeddmore (Ernie Hudson) Ghostbusters (dir. Ivan Reitman, 1984) 061
Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 10/10/2025#OctoberMovieChallenge #MovieSky #FilmSky 10/10 Mailman in a Movie Writer Pablo Neruda (Philippe Noiret) and mailman/title character Mario Ruoppolo (Massino Troisi) in Il Postino (dir. Michael Radford, 1994) 1111
Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 09/10/2025#OctoberMovieChallenge #MovieSky #FilmSky 10/9 Someone at the theatre in a movie The Godfather Part II (Dir. Francis Fors Coppola, 1974) Genco Abbandando (Frank Sivero) introduces Vito Corleone (Robert De Niro) to his “angel” (Kathleen Beller), an actor in Italian play “Senza Mamma.” 061
Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 08/10/2025#OctoberMovieChallenge #MovieSky #FilmSky 10/8 Something on fire in a movie Fire in Paradise (Dirs. Zackary Canapari and Drea Cooper, 2019) 061
Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 07/10/2025#OctoberMovieChallenge #MovieSky #FilmSky 10/7 Something assembled in a movie Amish Characters assemble a barn in Witness (dir Peter Weir, 1985) 0122
Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 07/10/2025#OctoberMovieChallenge #MovieSky #FilmSky #CatchUp 10/6 Something besides a bank is robbed in a movie. Ocean’s 11 (dir Steven Soderbergh, 2001) 071
Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 07/10/2025#OctoberMovieChallenge #MovieSky #FilmSky #CatchUp 10/5—Someone walking or running a great distance in a movie Chris Chambers (River Phoenix), Teddy DuChamp (Corey Feldman), Vern Tessio (Jerry O’Connell) and Gordie LaChance (Wil Wheaton) in Stand By Me (dir Rob Reiner, 1986) 070
Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 06/10/2025#OctoberMovieChallenge #MovieSky #CatchUpPost 10/4: Someone wrongfully Imprisoned in a movie Irwin M. “Fletch” Fletcher (Chevy Chase) temporarily held by corrupt police Chief Karlin (Joe Don Baker) in Fletch (dir Michael Ritchie, 1985) 051
Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 05/10/2025#OctoberMovieChallenge #MovieSky #CatchUp 10/3 Movie fictional or documentary with a podcast in it Images of podcast title ideas from Vengeance (dir., B. J. Novak, 2022) 051
Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 05/10/2025#OctoberMovieChallenge #MovieSky #CatchUp 10/2 Someone who is HIV positive in a movie Andy Bennett (Tom Hanks) in Philadelphia (dir Johnathan Demme, 1993) 051
Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 04/10/2025I unfortunately cropped where I got #OctoberMovieChallenge from and got started four days late: Day 1: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)—Gillian (Catherine Hicks) in an old-as-hell pickup 071
Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Palengke* cat @bodegacats.bsky.social *Filipino public market 000
Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 28/09/2025Today my nephew told me he wants to learn #German so I promised I’d give him my copy of #Jannach and a Wörterbuch and tonight I started refreshing myself on #Jumpspeak 010
Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 28/09/2025Different words to familiar hymns always give me a jolt 010
Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 26/09/2025The Breaking of the Fellowship #wellread #muchloved #needanewcopy 010
Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 20/09/2025I hate Jeopardy. How in the hell is Babylon a Persian city? 010
Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 19/07/2025It all makes sense now @stephencolbert.bsky.social 010
Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 21/06/2025On our way to Sweden 🇸🇪 , by way of Iceland 🇮🇸. #SBLInternationalMeeting 000