It takes such skill to be funny without relying on similes.

Brian Phillips@brianphillips.lol · 4d ago

Finally tumbled to a stop at the end of S1 of Le Bureau thanks to @epicciuto.bsky.social. Giddy from everyone making correct decisions based on the wrong information, a tour de force of dramatic irony. Unrivaled go-for-broke energy for a show that runs four more seasons.

Less encumbered by Patrick O'Brian's 18th-century nautical fetishism than his punctuation. I'd gain two or three knots in speed if he'd reefed the colons and semicolons.

I interviewed 83-year editor & sound designer Walter Murch, a legendary figure. The Godfather trilogy, Apocalypse Now, The Conversation, Ghost, The Unbearable Lightness of Being...and The English Patient, which turns 30 this year. Info on a free zoom talk included. www.rogerebert.com/interviews/t...

Editing As Music: An Interview with "The English Patient" Craftsman Walter Murch

The acclaimed editor and sound designer talks about the poetry of the edit in Anthony Minghella's classic, and his approach to his craft.

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Dogcatcher xkcd.com/3309/

When I'm gently ricocheting through my house in search of a misplaced something, I sometimes pause to mutter that it's all a great mystery. When I do, singing this Hugh Laurie ditty helps with the mood if not the search.

Hugh Laurie - Mystery [Lyrics & letra en español]

YouTube video by Nooe013

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[the Minotaur at the Fall Festival erupts from the edge of the maze clutching corn stalks] this structure is no challenge, no punishment for the hubristic and the wicked. Frankly embarrassing.

They’re called your loins, maybe you’ve gird of it

nervous demon purveyor 🔥 ndpdesign 🦄 Unwritten Earths Symposium@ndpdesign.com · 2w ago

it’s called the dictionary, maybe you’ve word of it

Apple Adjustable Keyboard III.

Last night I hosted my third annual secret midnight meet-up in the woods to kick off spooky season! I made this witch head in a box for that. It's got some neat features: Hidden strings open the eye when the box opens. The eyeball is removable and has secrets inside...

Wolfmanning Skull 🎃@manningkrull.bsky.social · 3w ago

🎵 It's my witch in a box

Overlooked in discussions of Manchester City penalties are the executives and accountants who actually cheated. I read that club representatives intentionally lied during the investigation. Their names should be part of the furor prior to their lifetime bans from English football.

"The classic beginner's mistake in Argentina is to neglect the first steak of the day." The classic style triumphs again. Finding examples of my favorite writing style always energizes me.

My qualifications speak for themselves.

Kate Armstrong@brainchain.ca · 4w ago

I feel like we all need a universal coping mechanism. So let’s share your favourite bass guitarist or bassist. 

My fallible memory insinuates I saw this for the first and only time on the big screen when it played IFC years ago. It never left my memory. I will return for the Sunday morning service to reaffirm my faith and my salvation.

filmlinc.bsky.social@filmlinc.bsky.social · 4w ago

👿 All I do is SIN: secure your 🎟️ to our one-week engagement of Ken Russell's THE DEVILS (1971), an #NYFF64 Revivals selection being presented on a beautifully restored 35mm 🎞️ print beginning October 16! 🎟️: filmlinc.org/devils

Me, upon hearing the news:

⚡⚡MAD DOCTOR IMPOSSIBLE⚡⚡@impossiblephd.bsky.social · last mo.

*Frothing at the mouth with excitement* HEY GUESS WHAT, YOU DON'T HAVE ONE BRAIN, YOU HAVE TWO! med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...

Got my ass kicked trying to break up a skirmish down at the convent with my flute music. Never bring a fife to a nun fight

Colbert goes full Method by spending time in New Zealand to grow the traditional, post-CBS-Late-Show-Gandalf beard.

flat Earth? No

Me, after seeing the trailer for the new Nathan Fielder movie.

The less your RPG's GMing advice references and leverages your game's rules, the less game design you've done.

RIVALS OF AMZIAH KING isn't getting enough credit for its screenplay. All of its characters and stories work like spinning tops in reverse: wobbling before rising perfectly onto their tips. The dialog has the same baroque pleasures of a Charles Portis novel.

A game like MCDM's Crows buries its GM dependency. "Player skill" really means "GM skill" in an RPG with that much GM authority. Players can't have brilliant, ingenious ideas of the GM can't or won't support them. Like all RPGs, the proof is in the book's GMing advice.

Ahh! It's out, it's out! Beware! Run for the hills! Protect yourselves! THE CALAMITIES has escaped its prison deep in the void and is now appearing on bookshelves in libraries and bookstores everywhere! Shit! Shit!!

The Demons! The Demons Are Free! The Calamities Is Out!

The Calamities (Book One of The Fiends) is now out, rampaging through the populace, gamboling about, claws at the ready, teeth sharp, and its countless eyes fixed upon you. So, I do hope you’…

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Three major league at bats, three home runs. If my calculations are correct he is on pace to hit approximately 6,000 home runs in his career.

skáld@danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 2mo ago

this kid's swagger is off the charts. what a debut

Eight days left on the JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED RPG campaign on Gamefound. I’m the developing editor on this project and I’d like to say a little more about it so that maybe you’ll go back it if you haven’t already. gamefound.com/en/projects/...

DC Justice League Unlimited Roleplaying Game by D20 Culture - Gamefound

Live your ultimate superhero dream with the Justice League Unlimited RPG! Fight alongside Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman—or play as the icons themselves. Join the world's greatest superhero team a...

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Does the Tiktok train guy play locomotive sounds when he gets busy with his lady instead of Sade?

I also must remind -- going on tour with this book! Philly! NYC! Doylestown! Harrisburg! Pittsburgh! Cincinnati! Chicago area! Milwaukee! Madison! Minneapolis! Denver! St. Louis! Charlotte area for the Belmont Litfest! And then some more dates in October. COME BEHOLD MY CORPOREAL FORM

Chuck Wendig@chuckwendig.bsky.social · 2mo ago

psst one week to CALAMITY

Amused to see François Vatel valorized in the new Bourdain movie by Bourdain's mentor. Vatel famously ran himself through with a sword over the lateness of a seafood delivery intended for a 2,000-person banquet honoring Louis XIV. I first learned of Vatel via this quotation.

REMOTE METEOR (Sonnet) It sprints alone, a stone aglint — its tint and tone a throne of flint that twists and sparks its flight amidst the dark of night.