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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
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
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
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
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
Indeed, with all of our knowing, where and is and also babby formed.
December 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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
Classic
December 10, 2025 at 5:27 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.
December 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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
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
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
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
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"
December 9, 2025 at 9:41 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.
December 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM