Rich Bunnell
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New Haven, CT | Co-host, Discord & Rhyme | Audio engineer, Jax & Phoebe Make a Planet (coming soon) | Watch out, Laszlo Panaflex!
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People are harshing on some “diverse reading challenge” thing that’s going around, and I get it, but looking at what you read and asking yourself “what isn’t represented here?” is imo a good and healthy practice
December 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
People are harshing on some “diverse reading challenge” thing that’s going around, and I get it, but looking at what you read and asking yourself “what isn’t represented here?” is imo a good and healthy practice
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I honestly think that many people don't know what their public libraries offer besides books. I think that everyone should go on a public library treasure hunt in 2026. Go explore what your library systems offer at no cost to you. Report back to me :)
“I miss blockbuster video” the library has every dvd totally untouched and I never see you there
December 12, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I honestly think that many people don't know what their public libraries offer besides books. I think that everyone should go on a public library treasure hunt in 2026. Go explore what your library systems offer at no cost to you. Report back to me :)
This one pops into my head and makes me crack up literally every time I take a road trip in the Northeast.
December 4, 2025 at 3:12 AM
This one pops into my head and makes me crack up literally every time I take a road trip in the Northeast.
New Englanders, if you know, you know
October 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
New Englanders, if you know, you know
I have a membership at a video store (Best Video in Hamden, CT) that is a full 501(c)(3) nonprofit and doubles as a coffee bar and general community space. It's a tough model to scale, but it's loads better than both Blockbuster and streaming, and I think more places should emulate this approach.
video stores aren't "good," but going out and engaging with the world is good, while staying home half-watching the latest garbage the Netflix algorithm shoved at you while scrolling through your Insta feed is a form of cultural and spiritual malnourishment encouraged by corporate psychopaths
Yeah, I think I see the problem here - it's not that the video store was good, it's that you miss being a teenager
October 21, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I have a membership at a video store (Best Video in Hamden, CT) that is a full 501(c)(3) nonprofit and doubles as a coffee bar and general community space. It's a tough model to scale, but it's loads better than both Blockbuster and streaming, and I think more places should emulate this approach.
Being absorbed in a great book is the single best feeling you can experience across all fields of art
Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.
October 14, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Being absorbed in a great book is the single best feeling you can experience across all fields of art
I'm glad the dinosaur course and zoo safari course in Mario Kart World are right next to each other, because it feels like a section of the map specifically focus grouped for parents playing to entertain their toddler
October 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I'm glad the dinosaur course and zoo safari course in Mario Kart World are right next to each other, because it feels like a section of the map specifically focus grouped for parents playing to entertain their toddler
AMC's Rubicon. A fascinatingly analog Parallax View/3 Days of the Condor-style paranoia thriller about the War on Terror. Features a great supporting role by the late Christopher Evan Welch and characters named "Kale Ingram" and "Truxton Spangier."
Everyone has a 1-2 season TV show they sorely miss and not enough people knew about that you are always praising the heavens about.
What's yours?
What's yours?
September 12, 2025 at 11:10 PM
AMC's Rubicon. A fascinatingly analog Parallax View/3 Days of the Condor-style paranoia thriller about the War on Terror. Features a great supporting role by the late Christopher Evan Welch and characters named "Kale Ingram" and "Truxton Spangier."
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"this silksong boss is so hard" and a pic is posted and this is the boss i see
September 6, 2025 at 2:36 AM
"this silksong boss is so hard" and a pic is posted and this is the boss i see
My Letterboxd is fundamentally incomplete this year because there's no entry for me to log the 45 times I've watched the Counting Batty Bats episode of Sesame Street.
September 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
My Letterboxd is fundamentally incomplete this year because there's no entry for me to log the 45 times I've watched the Counting Batty Bats episode of Sesame Street.
New King of the Hill is making me miss: 1) when animated shows had ludicrously talented, non-celebrity voice actors, 2) when broad, powerful swaths of society did not resemble Dale Gribble.
August 7, 2025 at 10:36 PM
New King of the Hill is making me miss: 1) when animated shows had ludicrously talented, non-celebrity voice actors, 2) when broad, powerful swaths of society did not resemble Dale Gribble.
I'm listening to Mahler's 7th symphony, and I feel like I would have gotten into classical a lot earlier if someone had nudged me and said "This is where Star Trek music comes from"
June 30, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I'm listening to Mahler's 7th symphony, and I feel like I would have gotten into classical a lot earlier if someone had nudged me and said "This is where Star Trek music comes from"
We had to enforce the "do not come to our concert just to boo us" rule on the D&R Patreon this week, and I gotta say it was pretty satisfying.
June 29, 2025 at 2:02 PM
We had to enforce the "do not come to our concert just to boo us" rule on the D&R Patreon this week, and I gotta say it was pretty satisfying.
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Remember to do your part by replying to strangers about how there will never be another election and the rule of law doesn’t matter. You’re definitely helping the resistance.
June 27, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Remember to do your part by replying to strangers about how there will never be another election and the rule of law doesn’t matter. You’re definitely helping the resistance.
Just stopped everything I was doing and put on Pet Sounds in the kitchen. I knew on some level that this was coming, but it's still going to take a while for this to sink in. So much of why I love music, why I became obsessed with music goes back to Brian Wilson (and his collaborators).
I'm Waiting For The Day
YouTube video by The Beach Boys - Topic
youtu.be
June 11, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Just stopped everything I was doing and put on Pet Sounds in the kitchen. I knew on some level that this was coming, but it's still going to take a while for this to sink in. So much of why I love music, why I became obsessed with music goes back to Brian Wilson (and his collaborators).
I had it in my memory that 30 Rock seriously fell off after season 2, but upon rewatch, it turns out it was consistently hysterical and I was just extremely AV Club-pilled in my 20s
June 7, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I had it in my memory that 30 Rock seriously fell off after season 2, but upon rewatch, it turns out it was consistently hysterical and I was just extremely AV Club-pilled in my 20s
Imagine being killed by a bow and arrow. That would suck. An arrow killed you, they would never solve the crime. "Look at that dead guy. Let's go that way."
Everyone has one Mitch Hedberg joke stashed in their brain like a squirrel to sustain them whenever they need to feel joy for 30 seconds and mine is “they say the recipe for Sprite is Lemon and Lime but I tried to make it at home, there’s more to it than that”
May 23, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Imagine being killed by a bow and arrow. That would suck. An arrow killed you, they would never solve the crime. "Look at that dead guy. Let's go that way."
What actor's expression in a movie will stay with you for the rest of your life?
May 21, 2025 at 11:20 PM
What actor's expression in a movie will stay with you for the rest of your life?
Appreciating the following bright spots in this dark timeline:
1) Walton Goggins is now famous enough to host SNL
2) My 2-year-old is walking around saying "Concwave!"
1) Walton Goggins is now famous enough to host SNL
2) My 2-year-old is walking around saying "Concwave!"
May 9, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Appreciating the following bright spots in this dark timeline:
1) Walton Goggins is now famous enough to host SNL
2) My 2-year-old is walking around saying "Concwave!"
1) Walton Goggins is now famous enough to host SNL
2) My 2-year-old is walking around saying "Concwave!"
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Whenever I meet a new person, I take a moment and mentally categorize them as either a "Linnell" or a "Flansburgh"
May 8, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Whenever I meet a new person, I take a moment and mentally categorize them as either a "Linnell" or a "Flansburgh"
Your Pope name is: Last thing you ate + number of letters in your first name —
Pope Mapo Tofu VII
Pope Mapo Tofu VII
Your Pope name is: Last thing you ate + number of letters in your first name —
Pope Havarti IV
Pope Havarti IV
Your Pope name is: Last thing you ate + number of letters in your first name —
Pope Macadamia VI, hell yeah
Pope Macadamia VI, hell yeah
May 9, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Your Pope name is: Last thing you ate + number of letters in your first name —
Pope Mapo Tofu VII
Pope Mapo Tofu VII
Listened to the Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs today for the first time since we did our big triple feature on D&R. The hit-to-miss ratio is absurdly good, and the interesting-to-uninteresting ratio is a complete blowout.
May 7, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Listened to the Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs today for the first time since we did our big triple feature on D&R. The hit-to-miss ratio is absurdly good, and the interesting-to-uninteresting ratio is a complete blowout.
Most of the characters on this show are very funny variations on the actors' other roles, but Judy Gemstone is an amazing, completely sui generis comic creation on Edi Patterson's part.
Edi Patterson is a mad scientist and Judy Gemstone is her greatest creation
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God Bless Judy, Our Most Precious Gemstone
No one does it like Edi Patterson.
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May 4, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Most of the characters on this show are very funny variations on the actors' other roles, but Judy Gemstone is an amazing, completely sui generis comic creation on Edi Patterson's part.