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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

I know, Button. It was a rough 2025 for all of us.

A brown and orange tortie cat lounges lazily in a cat bed on New Year’s Day.

My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

“Ok, we just need some extras for an audience scene in Stargate: SG1. Make sure they’re just normal, average people and that nobody stands out in particular.”

A frame from Stargate: SG1 season 10 episode 15, “Bounty.” An audience applauds what they think was a technology demo but was actually a thwarted assassination attempt. The dude in the front row has the most amazing GIANT RED MANE of Sideshow Bob hair that ever Carrottopped.

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

I miss the old pint graphic design. The B&Js in Burlington, VT had a top-lid freezer full of factory-second reject pints you could buy for like $1.25. You’d find Heath Bar Crunch pints with no Heath Bar in them (or too much Heath Bar!).

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

I had one (might still have it — I know I still have the instructions) and I could crush the magic square game (game 5).

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

This gen x kid rocked this not at all dorky zip code lunch box in the mid 70s.

Metal lunch box that says “u.s. mail” on the side with a thermos sporting a fast running stick figure “zippy” zip code character.

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Tell me you've never actually seen The Terminator without telling me you've never actually seen The Terminator.

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Typing this from Burls, it's true that the vibe of the city has shifted in the last 20 yrs in ways locals notice & don't like, but it's a shift happening in LOTS of small towns. Also true that like many lib cities, it's hard to get ppl to agree to the low income housing that will help the problem.

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Wordle 1,553 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 My starting word was the word! First time ever!

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

It’s a sign from the heavens that this article was published on my birthday.

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Streets of Fire is such an odd duck of a movie. Absolutely iconic visuals (and Willem Dafoe!) but Michel Pare can’t really carry it. Good double feature with The Warriors (also Walter Hill). Miracle Mile is great.

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Maybe the specific details matter less than the big fact that she dies. Like, if Bones had saved her, they’d have had to kill her to save the timeline? So the deets in the obit are fluid, or something. Spock knew them, but they didn’t actually matter.

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

FYI your post made me dust off my Letterboxd and I think I'm going to actually start using it, so thanks!

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Safe. Not a Todd Haynes fan -- though I haven't seen it since it was in cinemas. I just remember it feeling like they ran out of money and just stopped making it, rather than writing an ending. It had a creepy, cold, Kubricky vibe, but no. 🤷‍♀️

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

It's a very good list. My immediate thought was that it's missing Stephen Soderbergh's Schizopolis. There appears to only be one film on there I actively dislike and a few I haven't seen. Squee!

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

I know this is serious and concerning, but all I see is (yet another) AI butthole graphic.

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

What heady time to be alive. Truly the peak of American culture, right there. Honestly, this was an outstanding burg.

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Would Mr. Spock ever use emojis? 🖖🤔

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

That maturity and realism was in the DNA of the original show too, evident in many episodes, just masked by campy f/x. Agreed TMP gets a bad rap. It’s too long, but a solid Trek film - one of the best in the franchise. 🖖

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

I love how in Mission Impossible: TFR they are fighting against an AI that wants to control the information super highway. The script could have been written in 1993.

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

This rundown of local creemee spots by @sevendaysvt.bsky.social's Chelsea Edgar is excellent and a fun read. For non-Vermonters, "creemee" just means "soft-serve" but when done right, has a higher fat percentage. #vermont #creemee

sevendaysvt.com

A Hater's Guide to the Burlington Creemee Scene

A guide to some popular Burlington creemee destinations that asks the tough questions, such as: Are these creemees actually good?

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I have a cat that likes to jump up on the counter next to the toilet and rub its face against my torso as I stand and do my business. No boundaries at all.

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Just realized Dukes Mayonnaise is available in a store near where I live for the first time ever. Excited to see what all the fuss is about. #bigweekendplans

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Funny, I watched this a couple weeks ago and had no idea it was Gareth Edwards, but I DID notice how uneven it was, w/ some really inspired action (literally reinventing how car chases work in the opening, and extra fun kills), and OMGWTF bad dialogue & exposition. It makes sense now.

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Spent the last 10 minutes trying to play Andor and restarting the Disney app and my RokuTV and nothing. Just a black screen. Fucking frustrating.

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

They're actual size but they seem much bigger to me.

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Not enough people talk about how @tmbg.bsky.social has been quietly crushing it for 40 years without a drop in quality. Name another band with that record. They aren't mega stars, but holy shit are they consistently great. And their live show is fire. #tmbg #they #touchthepuppethead

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Not enough people talk about how TMBG has been quietly crushing it for 40 years without a drop in quality. Name another band with that record. They aren't mega stars, but holy shit are they consistently great. And their live show is fire.

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bageltechno (Mike Norvell-Watch) @bageltechno.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

happy mother’s day

cyril in andor lying on a bed totally exasperated while his mother visits

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Technically he’s the SECOND Pope from Chicago.

Pope Guido Sarducci behind the Weekend Update desk on SNL in the late 80s or early 90s. Some idiot is on the background (it’s Dennis Miller).

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Also highly recommended: Hello, My Name is Beer, Pilsner.

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

I never hear anyone talk about this brewery like they talk about the Alchemist or Hill Farmstead, but every can I open of Mill River beer is fantastic. Fast becoming my favorite #Vermont brewery.

A can of Fulling Mill New England Style IPA beer from Mill River Brewing in St. Albans, Vermont.

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

This thread rocks. I read will stancil’s and was like, how tf are you defining politics, bruh? EVERY film is political on some level, but the ones with actual and intentional nazi/vietnam allegories are especially so, even the dumb ones.

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Montreal bagels have a sweetness in the dough that New York bagels lack. They are also often baked in a wood-fired oven. They’re good! But if you’re used to NY bagels, they’re kinda odd.

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

So I just got a new mechanical "clickety-clack" keyboard and in doing research for the purchase I was disturbed to learn that the term of art among the keyboard gearheads for this particular ASMR-friendly sound is "creamy." WTF is wrong with people?

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

But blue-check Dan from X played the SHIT out of GTA Vice City.

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Man, Andor hits extra hard at this particular cultural moment.

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My Dinner With Andre the Giant @thinkthing.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

"Officials also stated that an innocent 35-year-old passerby who found himself caught up in a long-winded dispute over use of the serial, or Oxford, comma had died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound."

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