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Erik Adams
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Currently: Sundance Institute (through February '26)
Previously: IGN, IndieWire, The A.V. Club.
Eternally: Mr. Autumn Man Walking Down Street With Cup Of Coffee, Wearing Sweater

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But Dr. Google Discover—I am Pagliacci.
Google Discover recommending that I read my own article.
November 25, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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I want you to read the whole review, of course, but I also hope you pause near the top to give the subhead its due
Subheadline text: Being Ron never felt so right
November 24, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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When you're well-versed in putting torture on screen
Section from producer Mark Burg's Wikipedia page, detailing his involvement in the Saw franchise and Two and a Half Men. Highlighted text: produced the Saw film series as well as the television series Two and a Half Men.
November 21, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Timeline synchronicity @sitcompeople.bsky.social @columboscreens.bsky.social
In a post from Sitcom People, actor Asher Angel puts his hands to his forehead. In a post from columbo screenshots, Lt. Columbo puts his hands to his forehead twice
November 20, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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So the Jesse Welles Colbert spot is a nice little slice of late-night agitprop, but it also left me thinking "They yassified Hopalong Conor Oberst doing 'When the President Talks to God' on Leno!"
Conor Oberst wears a black cowboy hat and burgundy western shirt while playing an acoustic guitar and singing into a microphone on the set of the Tonight Show circa 2005
November 20, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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During my first One Battle After Another screening, I realized sensei and I have the same track jacket (albeit in different shades of blue), and I've never been more honored to share a fashion sense with a fictional character.
Benicio del Toro in One Battle After Another, wearing a blue Puma track jacket with white stripes running down the sleeves. The author wearing a blue Puma track jacket with white stripes running down the sleeves.
November 15, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Rattled by this article, mind reeling over a society forsaking the most potent and compelling literacy curriculum: A psychedelic universe of hyperfixated little freaks each with their own catchy theme song
A 5 x 6 grid of the 26 little freaks that taught me how to read—The Letter People
November 13, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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If you see a little line where an aside could go
The punctuation is an

Emmmmmmmmm dash!
Em dash, yeah, yeah
Fred Schneider, Kate Pierson, and Cindy Wilson of The B-52s in the "Love Shack" video.
November 10, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Time to bring this guy in
Mark McKinney in a Toronto Blue Jays hat and Toronto Maple Leafs jacket and jersey. In his matching hockey gloves, he's holding a mug of beer. From Kids in the Hall's "Cincinnati Kid" sketch
November 2, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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I need to get a picture of somebody else wearing it so I can put that on a tee and pull off this bit:
A tweet from 2014 showing a picture of Macaulay Culkin wearing a T-shirt featuring a picture of Ryan Gosling wearing a Macaulay Culkin T-shirt. It's from the Twitter account of Mac's jokey, pizza-themed Velvet Underground tribute, Pizza Underground. God, were we ever so young?
November 1, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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The author of the re-post, as depicted in the Onion article "Mr. Autumn Man Walking Down Street With Cup Of Coffee, Wearing Sweater Over Plaid Collared Shirt"
October 21, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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The only fast-food burger cooked in
October 18, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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May we all know the confidence of the Mattel employee who figured the kids of 1996 would clamor for a Judge Claude Frollo action figure.
Card back scan featuring the full line of Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame action figures, featuring Esmerelda, Gargoyles, Clopin, Phoebus, Quasimodo, and Frollo. Close-up of the Frollo figure. A gray-haired man with a cocked eyebrow in black robes and a tri-corner cap. Accessories include table, basket covered by napkin, two books (Old _and_ new testament?), a dagger, and chalice.
October 17, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Robin Williams in 1993, backing up Zelda Williams' 2025 assertion that this is not what he'd want.
Quote from Robin Williams: “In ‘Mork & Mindy,’ they did Mork dolls--I didn’t mind the dolls; the image is theirs. But the voice, that’s me; I gave them my self. When it happened, I said, ‘You know I don’t do that.’ And they apologized; they said it was done by other people.”
October 6, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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This is cute: www.totalwine.com/curated-coll... (And more appropriate than its creator could've realized, because the first time I got good and truly drunk, it was on an apple-cider-and-spiced-rum concoction.)
Total Wine's "Mr. Autumn Man Collection," featuring seasonally appropriate boozes. Label: "Pumpkin, coffee & spice pari with cozy flannels & cool nights."
October 2, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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The Mr. Autumn Man re-promotions can be both a source of vanity _and_ humility.
Anonymized Bluesky reply to the Mr. Autumn Man repromo: "I hate Mister Autumn Man"
October 2, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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September 30: October 1:
The author, in the photo for the Onion article headlined "Mr. Autumn Man Walking Down Street With Cup Of Coffee, Wearing Sweater Over Plaid Collared Shirt" It's the same picture: The author, in the photo for the Onion article headlined "Mr. Autumn Man Walking Down Street With Cup Of Coffee, Wearing Sweater Over Plaid Collared Shirt"
October 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Screenshot from the opening titles of the TV series Half Nelson, featuring two squares of B-roll and text. In the left square, a happy looking bull terrier. In the right square (which is spinning into frame, L.A.'s Union Station.) Text over the images: "Introducing Tony as Hunk."
September 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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The headline The Onion posts in response to every mass shooting in the United States: "‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens." Photo features a state trooper's patrol vehicle behind police tape in front of a single-story school.
September 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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I can't be the only person who recently worked for a media organization (or still does) who knows the sentiment expressed below isn't true. nymag.com/intelligence...
Text from New York magazine column headlined "Do Media Organizations Even Want Cultural Criticism?": The consensus of the people I spoke to was that stand-alone reviews just don’t generate traffic, and reviews of more niche art forms, like an independent film or a string-quartet performance, are even harder sells. There are exceptions: the latest Sally Rooney novel, a highly anticipated Hollywood blockbuster, an especially beloved critic going to town on someone. But the vast majority of reviews go virtually unread.
September 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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We now revisit a Labor Day weekend classic: The accidental Renaissance portraiture in the background of my uncle's autographed photo of The Russian Five
In the rows of Philadelphia Flyers fans behind a triumphant Stanley Cup champion Red Wings squad, a mustachioed man adjusts his glasses, but looks like he's Robert Oppenheimer recognizing that he's just given humanity the tool to destroy itself. A young man in a Flyers crewneck and one of those white college caps that were so popular in the 1990s and 2000s is deep in the grips of ennui. On the other end of the photo, Slava Fetisov and Sergei Fedorov have, behind them, a Maurice LaMarche-looking guy whose face is just immaculately lit, and another gentleman furrowing his brow and looking accusatively/inquiringly to his left as if he's one of the disciples in Leonardo da Vinci's depiction of The Last Supper.
August 30, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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The Mr. Autumn Man photo, with a speech bubble to make it look like he's saying the words in Noel's post.
August 21, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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What's happening to Easy Breezy now?
Music Box Theatre marquee for 70mm screening of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
August 18, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Unemployment has revealed my true artistic calling: watercolor Slimers
A watercolor rendering of Slimer from Ghostbusters (aka The Onionhead Ghost), a green, focused non-terminal repeating phantasm or a class 5 full roaming vapor. Real nasty one, too.
August 13, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Never too late to kick off your own personal Block Party Summer!
The schedule for Nick at Nite's Block Party Summer 1995: Munster Mondays, Lucy Tuesdays, Bewitched Wednesdays, Jeannie Thursdays, and Kotter Fridays.
August 13, 2025 at 7:46 PM