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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 11h

Literally as I'm innovating on the fly by adding broken Cool Ranch Doritos to my taco meat, I'm thinking, "You're basically making a burrito with shards of glass in it." We live on the edge here at Down-at-Heels.

Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 13h

Early in MR. SCORSESE (Miller, 2025), Marty mentions the presence of crime families during his childhood in NYC over an archival photo of a Caffe Bella Napoli on Mulberry Street.

A long time ago I wrote a screenplay which featured a bar in Brooklyn named Bella Napoli, operated by a crime family.

Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 16h

I just read the phrase “Scottish performer Tilda Swinton” on a [insert expletive here] BBC post, and I’m going to need some time to process the inexplicable adjectival failure to adequately classify or describe my queen in a language boasting somewhere in the ballpark of a half million words.

Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 22h

When reading a book about a circus, I highly recommend the film scores of Alexandre Desplat as musical accompaniment.

I’d say Nino Rota, but, you know: adrenaline.

Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 22h

Damsel, undistressed, on a ledge, #Caturday, 8:07 a.m. #Marlowe

Illuminated by gauzy morning sunlight against a hazy view of shrubbery, tall grasses and other landscaping, a black, white and tan calico cat stretches out on a white-painted window ledge, her pale green eyes looking directly to camera.

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 2d

Markus. Lynn. BETTS. #MILvsLAD #NLCS

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 3d

I just came home a little before 2 to discover that someone's errantly Doordash'd Chick-fil-A breakfast order has been sitting at my doorstep since about 8:30 this morning.

Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 5d

I legit can't believe Turang swung at that last pitch. Treinen threw one good curveball out there and the rest of his placement was shit. I mean, go Dodgers, but still. Yeesh. #LADvsMIL #NLCS

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 5d

Blake Treinen's pretty good at doing that to himself.

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 5d

I am undeniably an old, but good lord, Roki Sasaki looks like he just arrived from Williamsport, PA, to close out this game. #LADvsMIL #NLCS

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 5d

THE THING (Carpenter, 1982)

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 5d

Did MLB cite a legitimate baseball reason for making the bases bigger, or was it just to better accommodate "base cam" technology with its groundbreaking bug's-eye view of the game? #LADvsMIL #NLCS

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 5d

FREDERICK! #LADvsMIL #NLCS

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 5d

FRANKENSTEIN is terrible because Victor is constantly falling ill or going on vacation instead of confronting the consequences of his creation. Shelley whiffs every possible opportunity to embrace the dramatic conflict of man vs. monster. It should be a chase story that ends in a fight to the death.

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 5d

I find most 19th century writing to be florid and overwrought, but just dropping in here to say I wouldn't have waited until my 50s to read MOBY-DICK if someone had bothered to tell me the first third of the book is a screwball comedy.

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 5d

I read a ton of Hemingway in my youth, only to discover later that Steinbeck was the money all along.

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 5d

L.A. CONFIDENTIAL is actually great because it's Peak Ellroy before he crawled so far up his own ass, but since you brought it up, shout-out to Curtis Hanson for adapting two of my favorite books — this (co-scr. Brian Helgeland) and Chabon's WONDER BOYS (scr. Steve Kloves) — without fucking them up.

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 5d

I have quit books because they were poorly edited. I'm not about to sit through a few hundred pages of a publisher failing one of its authors and taking me out of a story while I do someone else's job.

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 5d

Stevie Wonder, "We Can Work It Out"

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 5d

I have now Shazam'd the same Spoon song off the radio three times. I like it, obvs. I just never remember who it is or even whether I've heard it already.

I am Drew Barrymore in this remake of 50 FIRST DATES.

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 6d

I can no longer hear the phrase "difference maker(s)" without imagining them as one of the groups that attacked the Capitol on January 6.

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 6d

I'm a fan of Shane Black's oeuvre and I even like Mark Wahlberg when he's operating within his wheelhouse, but I don't understand how any sentient filmmaker could watch POINT BLANK then say with a straight face, "Yes. Wahlberg. He's my Parker."

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 6d

Next up for Kushner: bombing the everloving fuck out of Cambodia.

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One of the original architects of the Trump administration's landmark Abraham Accords, President Donald Trump's Jewish son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is proving to be a modern-day Henry Kissinger, bringing business acumen to peace deal-making.

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Kushner 'Modern-Day Kissinger' for Mideast Peace

Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 6d

Except they leave off "two jobs to afford a basic standard of living," which I suppose is understood by most.

Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 6d

Wait. I'M older than Joe Flacco?

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