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Matt Wedge
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(He/him) Film writer type, bylines at Daily Grindhouse, Neon Splatter, and others; vegetarian, expert on the films of Larry Cohen, cat herder, library lifer, cancer survivor, Chicagoan living in the south. All opinions mine.
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Watched THE PREDATOR. Not sure why everyone hated on it so intensely. It’s stupid and overstuffed with too many characters, but I’d put on par with part 2 and PREDATORS. Meaning brainless silliness that scratches a specific action-horror itch.
I've just up and moved several states away without a job waiting for me four times in my life. Despite having fewer attachments than ever before, I can't get away with that now. As a cancer survivor now, I need to maintain health insurance at all costs.
There's such uncertainty in what the economy holds because of everything the orange menace is doing. That goes doubly for working in higher education. My job is stable for the foreseeable future, so that's really all I have going for me. I need a perfect job & location combo to make a move.
I'm deeply unhappy about where I'm living right now, but if I don't get this job I'm waiting to hear back about, I think I'm going to have to put the job hunt on pause for a year and sign a new lease here. That would be massively bad for my mental health, but I don't see any other option.
Heads up, they're playing the long version of The Sisters of Mercy's This Corrosion on @chirpradio.org right now!
When you're waiting to hear about a job you've had two interviews for and you get a call from that area code that turns out to be spam. Oh, the rage. I cannot even express how angry I am.
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Often think about the scene in ROCKY when Mickey shows up, hat in hand, making his pitch to be Rocky's trainer. In the middle of a tense, emotionally brutal scene for both characters, Mickey sees Rocky's pet turtles and with perfect comic timing by Burgess Meredith, says "What the hell are those?"
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If you could go back in time and not kill Hitler but prevent the formation of exactly one major company, which one would would you target to do the most good for the future?
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If you could go back in time and not kill Hitler but prevent the formation of exactly one major company, which one would would you target to do the most good for the future?
I don't want to diminish Bogdanovich's work here, but I always wondered what the script looked like before Fuller got hold of it. The film feels closer to his brutal efficiency and disinterest in subtlety. Anyway, great movie and Karloff's performance really seals the deal.
Hard fought game. Good baseball. Don't have much hope that the World Series will be that good though.
As a Cubs fan since the early ‘80s, I get it. One day it will happen.
The question is, were the Jays banging garbage can with their bats in the dugout before that Springer home run?

I kid, I kid.
Guess they should have just hit him in the knee again.
It’s ironic how bad John Smoltz is at successfully closing out his thoughts.
Young people definitely look younger now—if that makes any sense as a statement. But I’m not joking about people of my generation aging faster because of all the booze and drugs and other stupid things we did when we were young. Plus, Piven just looked 40 from the time he was a teenager.
Odd because Cusack and Piven were like 31 or 32 and Driver was actually in her mid-20s. Maybe too much smoking and drinking (and probably drugs in Piven’s case).