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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 7h

happy birthday friend

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 8h

the too common “remake with one human and the muppets” prompt post is annoying but uh TCM is a solid answer to it

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 8h

I try to keep things respectable around here but uh Karen Allen is the GOAT

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 8h

how many movies use an un- (or barely) seen Dylan Folk City performance as a climactic metaphor for change (because The Wanderers does that shit)

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 8h

about to do either this lumines arise demo or the new pac-man platformer (pac-former?)

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 8h

also: both The Wanderers and John Sayles’ Baby It’s You, which I watched a few nights ago, use “Shout” and “Stand by Me”

Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 8h

Dolph Sweet is also in tonight’s movie, Philip Kaufman’s The Wanderers. turns out the Gimme a Break dad was a real good tough guy actor.

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 9h

New show on the Paramount Plus Channel imagines an alternate history where the Fabulous Thunderbirds achieved Taylor Swift levels of cultural heft. Starring the Fabulous Thunderbirds as themselves.

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 9h

can’t wait to watch Tuff Enuff

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 9h

the one genuinely great thing about Tron is the Tron: Legacy pinball machine

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 9h

people have some nostalgia for the original arcade game and the whole Tron aesthetics, the light cycle and disc stuff is cool, and young Jeff Bridges is charisma incarnate. they have parlayed that meager amount of goodwill into three failed movies and I dunno a cartoon or something? it’s nuts.

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 9h

it is not. it is the kind of bad story often turned into bad movies though.

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 9h

when is Kenan Thompson gonna play Donnie Moore in a movie

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 10h

at least one of them lost

Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 3d

Dodgers vs. Phillies might be the most “can both teams lose” series ever

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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 15h

we're live!

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 15h

ah damn way too young

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Endless Mode @endlessmode.bsky.social · 15h

Disney has raised prices on its theme park tickets, as it does every year. Here's what it'll now cost to hit up Disneyland or Disney World. www.endlessmode.com/article/disn...

Disney Raises Theme Park Prices; Here's What Disneyland and Disney World Now Cost.

Disney has raised prices on its theme park tickets, as it does every year. Here's what it'll now cost to hit up Disneyland or Disney World.

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Jezebel @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social · 16h

Tell us what we're missing and what will keep you coming back.
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Take Jezebel's 2025 Reader Survey

Tell us what we're missing and what will keep you coming back.

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 16h

the only thing that makes (the legitimately great and eternally cool) Cash “seem deeply uncool” is the legion of punk dorks who worship him but have absolutely no time for any other country music

bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 17h

wtaf are you talking about

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 18h

can it really be Vertigo without a Peter Milligan book though

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 21h

if a game looks especially good or cool we’ll find a way to write about it. really hard to break through otherwise.

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 1d

somehow actually found a little bit of time to write again

Endless Mode @endlessmode.bsky.social · 1d

Pinball Expo, an annual celebration of pinball, returns to the Chicagoland area next week. We talk to its founder Robert Berk about what you can expect from the show. www.endlessmode.com/article/pinb...

Pinball Expo Celebrates the World's Greatest Game

Endless Mode explores the infinite possibilities of games and anime, from the excitement of video games, togetherness of board games, and action of pinball, to the adventure of theme parks, exhilarati...

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 1d

what movie do you watch when you most strongly feel the urge to drive directly into the biggest tree you can find

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 1d

helluva show

Colette Arrand @colettearrand.bsky.social · 1d

Dawg look at this card.

The CWF card from the Tallahassee Sports Stadium card in Garrett’s screencap from the film “Below the Belt.” From 3/1/75:

Baron Scicluna vs. Frank Hester - Draw

NWA Florida Tag Titles
Dominic DeNucci & Tony Parisi (c) defeat The Patriots (Patriots #1 & #2)

Bob Armstrong defeats The Red Shadow

Lumberjack Match
The Mongolian Stomper defeats Dusty Rhodes

Elimination Six Man Tag
Eddie Graham, Mike Graham, & Tony Charles defeat Bob Roop, Dick Slater, & Toru Tanaka

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 1d

apparently the songs are by Jennifer Holliday and Billy Preston?!?

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