Zach Malm
@muzach.bsky.social
Recovering certainty addict.
Co-host, Veterans of Culture Wars podcast. Musician, former worship leader, helped destroy Mars Hill Church, not really sure what I believe anymore, and ok with that. He/Him
https://linktr.ee/vcwpod
Co-host, Veterans of Culture Wars podcast. Musician, former worship leader, helped destroy Mars Hill Church, not really sure what I believe anymore, and ok with that. He/Him
https://linktr.ee/vcwpod
Ebiri is a fantastic critic, been one of my favorites for 15+ years, and is unafraid to go out on the thinnest of limbs for things he's passionate about. I hate this movie with the fire of a thousand Heatmisers, but him loving it actually makes me want to give it a second chance (I probably won't).
December 12, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Ebiri is a fantastic critic, been one of my favorites for 15+ years, and is unafraid to go out on the thinnest of limbs for things he's passionate about. I hate this movie with the fire of a thousand Heatmisers, but him loving it actually makes me want to give it a second chance (I probably won't).
Already? Wow, must feel great to see that. A most sincere congratulations, I'm super happy for you. Seems like this has been a pretty active, fulfilling year work-wise. Consider me a lock for the issue #2 pre-order.
December 11, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Already? Wow, must feel great to see that. A most sincere congratulations, I'm super happy for you. Seems like this has been a pretty active, fulfilling year work-wise. Consider me a lock for the issue #2 pre-order.
I was gonna ask, since I don't know how the approval process goes for subsequent issues, do you just start working and hope sales of the first are enough to get the go-ahead, or is it already approved? Are a certain number of issues usually part of a contract, or is it issue-by-issue?
December 11, 2025 at 5:16 AM
I was gonna ask, since I don't know how the approval process goes for subsequent issues, do you just start working and hope sales of the first are enough to get the go-ahead, or is it already approved? Are a certain number of issues usually part of a contract, or is it issue-by-issue?
Unless it left for a while, I think it's been on Kanopy for several years, and they just highlight it every December. It's SO GOOD.
December 10, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Unless it left for a while, I think it's been on Kanopy for several years, and they just highlight it every December. It's SO GOOD.
Indeed, with all of our knowing, where and is and also babby formed.
December 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Indeed, with all of our knowing, where and is and also babby formed.
Found this song poem yesterday, a new favorite. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oshh...
Dick Kent - Your Body's Makin' Eyes At Me (Lyrics by Ray Harris) [1980 Song-poem Soul]
YouTube video by ThriftStoreVinyl
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December 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Found this song poem yesterday, a new favorite. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oshh...
I should watch The Last Jedi again. I saw it once in the theater, liked it quite a bit, haven't seen it since, and honestly don't understand how it was capable of angering so many people, but toxic fandom needs something to rage about.
December 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I should watch The Last Jedi again. I saw it once in the theater, liked it quite a bit, haven't seen it since, and honestly don't understand how it was capable of angering so many people, but toxic fandom needs something to rage about.
I see your Tim Curry stim and raise you Miss Piggy in The Muppet Christmas Carol saying "Peter" in the line "Peter, don't stop turning that spit!".
December 10, 2025 at 3:47 AM
I see your Tim Curry stim and raise you Miss Piggy in The Muppet Christmas Carol saying "Peter" in the line "Peter, don't stop turning that spit!".
There are certainly Protestant denominations that shuffle pastors around, but yeah, that's more of a feature on the Catholic side.
December 10, 2025 at 12:40 AM
There are certainly Protestant denominations that shuffle pastors around, but yeah, that's more of a feature on the Catholic side.
Wicks seems to me like that JD Vance type of adult Catholic convert who hasn't really shaken his Protestant roots.
December 10, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Wicks seems to me like that JD Vance type of adult Catholic convert who hasn't really shaken his Protestant roots.
And here's the 2nd, which delves into the exvangelical side of Rian's journey. I joked (sorta?) in my Letterboxd review that Johnson, a former evangelical youth group kid, made his murder mystery about Catholics bc it has confession, but he's more to the point here: evangelical aesthetics are yikes.
i talked to @rianjohnson.bsky.social about 'Wake Up Dead Man.' Just two former youth grop kids trying to solve the mystery of faith. please enjoy.
December 9, 2025 at 11:23 PM
It's also the 4th track on my 2020 Christmas mix, which you can stream here: www.mixcloud.com/zachmalm/chr...
Christmas Mix 2020 - The Good The Bad and The Jingly
Pandemic-era Christmas mix made from vinyl, mp3s, Youtube, CDs and CD-Rs.
www.mixcloud.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
It's also the 4th track on my 2020 Christmas mix, which you can stream here: www.mixcloud.com/zachmalm/chr...
If only you were following me a year ago. Or three years ago on twitter, when I originally posted what I imported here a year ago: bsky.app/profile/muza...
RIP Loretta Lynn. I love her "Country Christmas" LP.
"So to heck with ol' Santa Claus
When he goes dashin' through the snow I hope he falls
I'd like to hit him in his (ho ho ho) with a bunch of big snowballs
To heck with ole Santa Claus"
"So to heck with ol' Santa Claus
When he goes dashin' through the snow I hope he falls
I'd like to hit him in his (ho ho ho) with a bunch of big snowballs
To heck with ole Santa Claus"
December 9, 2025 at 9:41 PM
If only you were following me a year ago. Or three years ago on twitter, when I originally posted what I imported here a year ago: bsky.app/profile/muza...
My AMC monthly subscription pass for effectively unlimited movies has made me feel extremely not cheated, though I pretty much only buy concessions if someone in my family joins me.
December 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
My AMC monthly subscription pass for effectively unlimited movies has made me feel extremely not cheated, though I pretty much only buy concessions if someone in my family joins me.