Jay Seaver
@jayseaver.bsky.social
I watch and write about movies, obsess over the Red Sox, take 3D pictures, and wish certain things had been cooler when I was 13. He/him. www.jaysmovieblog.com, https://letterboxd.com/JaySeaver/, https://www.pillowfort.social/JaySeaver
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Jay Seaver
@jayseaver.bsky.social
· Jan 1
Pinning some 2025 goals:
* At least one #FilmRolls blog per week, helping to get through the Blu-ray backlog
* > 400 seen on @letterboxd.social
* Do at least one maker-mart thing with ViewMaster reels
* Christmas-set Jazz Age body-swap ebook by Christmas
* At least one #FilmRolls blog per week, helping to get through the Blu-ray backlog
* > 400 seen on @letterboxd.social
* Do at least one maker-mart thing with ViewMaster reels
* Christmas-set Jazz Age body-swap ebook by Christmas
Gotta respect someone with great revenge splits (1048 OPS against the Angels)!
Mike Napoli
1B-Catcher-DH
Debut: 2006 - Retired: 2017
CLE - BOS - LAA - TEX
1B-Catcher-DH
Debut: 2006 - Retired: 2017
CLE - BOS - LAA - TEX
Mike Napoli at baseball-reference.com
Career stats of Mike Napoli
baseball-reference.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Gotta respect someone with great revenge splits (1048 OPS against the Angels)!
Splurge is probably a proper home theater, but ongoing there's probably a storage unit and more travel.
Let’s say your salary doubled overnight.
What’s the splurge purchase you’d make?
What’s the splurge purchase you’d make?
December 15, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Splurge is probably a proper home theater, but ongoing there's probably a storage unit and more travel.
Reposted by Jay Seaver
December 15, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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The Spokane Press
Saturday, December 14,1907
Saturday, December 14,1907
December 15, 2025 at 2:34 AM
The Spokane Press
Saturday, December 14,1907
Saturday, December 14,1907
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Daily bunny no.3169 gazes into the abyss
December 15, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Daily bunny no.3169 gazes into the abyss
Hot take: Once you know it exists, the 25-minute AMC trailer block is fine, though I'd rather it didn't include the non-movie ad that's infiltrated it lately. You can either show up late, or actually see previews for movies you might not know about because marketing is useless these days.
I swear to God I will pay the extra $10-15 if you just tell me when the movie really starts, AMC. America is begging you. I am trying to see films in theaters, I really fucking am.
Although I was amused to see the Kidman bit is now cut to a drive-by 15 seconds.
Although I was amused to see the Kidman bit is now cut to a drive-by 15 seconds.
December 15, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Hot take: Once you know it exists, the 25-minute AMC trailer block is fine, though I'd rather it didn't include the non-movie ad that's infiltrated it lately. You can either show up late, or actually see previews for movies you might not know about because marketing is useless these days.
On the one hand this is an "I'll miss them, but I haven't been buying them, so that's why their vanishing" situation, but on the other, I sometimes feel like I read less now because these just aren't all over the place and easy to pick up for $7 and keep in a backpack/pocket.
All my recent books went from hardcover to trade paperback and almost all of my backlist in mass market has now migrated to trade. The role of mass market paperbacks is now handled almost entirely by ebooks. I'm okay with this but it is the end of an era.
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Last Call for Mass Market Paperbacks
After years of steady sales declines, the format will largely disappear next year.
www.publishersweekly.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:19 AM
On the one hand this is an "I'll miss them, but I haven't been buying them, so that's why their vanishing" situation, but on the other, I sometimes feel like I read less now because these just aren't all over the place and easy to pick up for $7 and keep in a backpack/pocket.
Look, Branagh's a very easy target, but it feels like he's catching an awful lot of strays meant for Michael Green the past few days!
Branagh, I am side-eyeing you SO HARD
We absolutely do not need to know the origin story of Poirot’s mustache complete with flashback. Get back to over the top period detectiving.
December 15, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Look, Branagh's a very easy target, but it feels like he's catching an awful lot of strays meant for Michael Green the past few days!
Reposted by Jay Seaver
Umbrellas of Cherbourg is a beautifully bittersweet love story but the third act pivot to space sci-fi always takes me out of it
April 19, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Umbrellas of Cherbourg is a beautifully bittersweet love story but the third act pivot to space sci-fi always takes me out of it
Wordle 1,639 5/6*
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Better routes, I think
Pips #119 Hard 🔴
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Decent
Strands #651
“Pricy pairing”
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Not sure how I couldn't find the spanner earlier
Connections
Puzzle #917
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Pips #119 Hard 🔴
7:50
Decent
Strands #651
“Pricy pairing”
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Not sure how I couldn't find the spanner earlier
Connections
Puzzle #917
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December 14, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Wordle 1,639 5/6*
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Better routes, I think
Pips #119 Hard 🔴
7:50
Decent
Strands #651
“Pricy pairing”
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Not sure how I couldn't find the spanner earlier
Connections
Puzzle #917
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Pips #119 Hard 🔴
7:50
Decent
Strands #651
“Pricy pairing”
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Not sure how I couldn't find the spanner earlier
Connections
Puzzle #917
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Honestly thought that purple was green at most
Good for her!
So many early Hollywood stars who didn't work past their thirties have awful stories, but she seems to have lived her best life.
So many early Hollywood stars who didn't work past their thirties have awful stories, but she seems to have lived her best life.
After her Hollywood career came to an end, Colleen Moore became a successful real-estate broker in Chicago and partner in the investment firm of Merrill Lynch.
December 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Good for her!
So many early Hollywood stars who didn't work past their thirties have awful stories, but she seems to have lived her best life.
So many early Hollywood stars who didn't work past their thirties have awful stories, but she seems to have lived her best life.
Wordle 1,638 3/6*
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Pips #118 Hard 🔴
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Strands #650
“All over the place”
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Took me FOREVER to find the second word, but then it fell into place quickly
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Strands #650
“All over the place”
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December 13, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Wordle 1,638 3/6*
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Pips #118 Hard 🔴
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Strands #650
“All over the place”
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Took me FOREVER to find the second word, but then it fell into place quickly
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Strands #650
“All over the place”
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Took me FOREVER to find the second word, but then it fell into place quickly
Reposted by Jay Seaver
See also the short-lived Krispy Kreme in the Pru, which was practically run out of town on a rail.
something i really admire about boston is how fundamentally hated starbucks seems to be here. at the train station the crowd at dunkin is nigh on impassable but even so only a few shifty eyed cowards are at the starbucks. you guys really did it man you defeated the monster
December 13, 2025 at 2:45 PM
See also the short-lived Krispy Kreme in the Pru, which was practically run out of town on a rail.
Reposted by Jay Seaver
The Daily Review
Decatur Illinois,December 12,1925
Decatur Illinois,December 12,1925
December 13, 2025 at 9:24 AM
The Daily Review
Decatur Illinois,December 12,1925
Decatur Illinois,December 12,1925
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Dick Van Dyke is 100 years old tomorrow.
I hope he's making the most of his finally night of Lego building.
I hope he's making the most of his finally night of Lego building.
December 12, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Dick Van Dyke is 100 years old tomorrow.
I hope he's making the most of his finally night of Lego building.
I hope he's making the most of his finally night of Lego building.
Truth: I'm getting my mom 1923 on Blu-ray for Christmas and won't be terribly annoyed if I need to get her a player because all she's got is DVD. It doesn't get that expensive until you start talking UHD.
A (quite) young movie lover said to me recently, "Not everybody can afford a DVD player," and I said "How much do you think a DVD player costs?"
He said, "I don't know, like $500?"
Those of us who advocate physical media are maybe not doing the best job of messaging.
He said, "I don't know, like $500?"
Those of us who advocate physical media are maybe not doing the best job of messaging.
December 13, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Truth: I'm getting my mom 1923 on Blu-ray for Christmas and won't be terribly annoyed if I need to get her a player because all she's got is DVD. It doesn't get that expensive until you start talking UHD.
Reposted by Jay Seaver
A (quite) young movie lover said to me recently, "Not everybody can afford a DVD player," and I said "How much do you think a DVD player costs?"
He said, "I don't know, like $500?"
Those of us who advocate physical media are maybe not doing the best job of messaging.
He said, "I don't know, like $500?"
Those of us who advocate physical media are maybe not doing the best job of messaging.
December 13, 2025 at 4:15 AM
A (quite) young movie lover said to me recently, "Not everybody can afford a DVD player," and I said "How much do you think a DVD player costs?"
He said, "I don't know, like $500?"
Those of us who advocate physical media are maybe not doing the best job of messaging.
He said, "I don't know, like $500?"
Those of us who advocate physical media are maybe not doing the best job of messaging.
Reposted by Jay Seaver
Daily bunny no.3167 knows how to save a life
December 13, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Daily bunny no.3167 knows how to save a life
Look, Mega Man, we've only got an inch or so of snow expected in Boston this weekend, so don't tempt fate!
December 13, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Look, Mega Man, we've only got an inch or so of snow expected in Boston this weekend, so don't tempt fate!
Runner up: The re-premiere of the William Gillette SHERLOCK HOLMES at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. The entire Castro Theatre was filled with folks who figured Gillette's character-defining performance was just lost to time a year earlier.
Raising the always fun question: What are your most memorable theater-going experiences?
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
It was hands-down one of the most memorable theater-going experiences I can remember, a collective 30-minute butt-clench/armrest-grab for the final climb. And we knew he lived! Wild.
December 12, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Runner up: The re-premiere of the William Gillette SHERLOCK HOLMES at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. The entire Castro Theatre was filled with folks who figured Gillette's character-defining performance was just lost to time a year earlier.
"Louis", a short silent comedy about Louis Armstrong, at the Apollo theater with Wynton Marsalis and Cecile Licad performing the soundtrack live.
Raising the always fun question: What are your most memorable theater-going experiences?
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
It was hands-down one of the most memorable theater-going experiences I can remember, a collective 30-minute butt-clench/armrest-grab for the final climb. And we knew he lived! Wild.
December 12, 2025 at 10:59 PM
"Louis", a short silent comedy about Louis Armstrong, at the Apollo theater with Wynton Marsalis and Cecile Licad performing the soundtrack live.
Wordle 1,637 3/6*
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Strands #649
“Shakespearean titles”
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Connections
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Pips #117 Hard 🔴
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Strands #649
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Just right out there
Connections
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December 12, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Wordle 1,637 3/6*
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Not bad
Pips #117 Hard 🔴
2:19
Pretty quick
Strands #649
“Shakespearean titles”
🟡🔵🔵🔵
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Just right out there
Connections
Puzzle #915
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Pretty easy
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🟠 Align 12/12/2025
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Weird words
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Not bad
Pips #117 Hard 🔴
2:19
Pretty quick
Strands #649
“Shakespearean titles”
🟡🔵🔵🔵
🔵🔵🔵
Just right out there
Connections
Puzzle #915
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Pretty easy
Par 5 Letter Boxed in 4
🟠 Align 12/12/2025
⏰ 01:34 🔄 15
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Weird words
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Anime: Keeping families together in one peace. #BiteSizedArchie
December 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Anime: Keeping families together in one peace. #BiteSizedArchie
Aw, heck. Discovered him on a Tom Clancy recommendation and enjoyed almost everything I read of his.
Once he bestrode the field like a colossus. Now he's gone. Rest in peace, John Varley.
floggingbabel.blogspot.com/2025/12/john...
floggingbabel.blogspot.com/2025/12/john...
John Varley, 1947-2025
. John Varley died two days ago on December 10, 2025. A great many will mourn him as a science fiction writer whose work they enjoyed. But...
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December 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Aw, heck. Discovered him on a Tom Clancy recommendation and enjoyed almost everything I read of his.
Mildly curious if anything is shooting in Boston or if a significant number of Academy voters live here, because that weird SCARLET booking feels like Columbia trying to get it before voters' eyeballs so they can boast a Best Animated Feature nomination in February...
Next Week in Tickets for 12-18 December: ELLA MCCAY, NOT WITHOUT HOPE, DUST BUNNY, THE SECRET AGENT, SILENT NIGHT DEADLY NIGHT '25, LA GRAZIA, SCARLET, the Y2K GRINCH, Imax THE SHINING and ROLLING STONE AT THE MAX, and 6 from India open in Boston-area 'plexes.
December 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Mildly curious if anything is shooting in Boston or if a significant number of Academy voters live here, because that weird SCARLET booking feels like Columbia trying to get it before voters' eyeballs so they can boast a Best Animated Feature nomination in February...