Brian Thompson

A kind man and a keeper of the peace.

Can’t wait to take my young son to this movie about one of his cartoon hero Batman’s scariest super villains! Hahaha, I know it’s silly but he loves this stuff because he’s a baby.

I wonder how many of today’s AI executives were once excited to eat/drink Soylent.

Many years ago, when the regular teacher came down with diarrhea, Joe substitute taught a sketch writing class I took. I thought he did pretty well considering the tragic circumstances.

I’m looking forward to reading this book. Recently I watched Serling’s post-Twilight Zone western series The Loner (all episodes on YouTube and looking great). Lloyd Bridges clops around the west killing people because he’s sad about the civil war. Good stuff!

I only read male authors like George Eliot, James Tiptree Jr., and Joey Carol Oates.

There is a type of man who walks around with a big cup of crushed ice and rattles it around and tilts his head back and pours it into his maw and chomps it and this is the type of man I would like to be.

In the past two weeks, I’ve had two short stories accepted in very good literary journals. I’m happy about this, but mostly because one is about Art Bell and the other features an erotic encounter between an elderly man and Mariah Carey.

I, an LA resident, woke up this morning to hear the president wants Iran to kill me. But I saw the clip and it seems clear this isn’t what he meant. He was saying Iran could have taken out LA and San Diego, so the cost of the war is a “small price to pay.” Who cares either way, I guess.

This is the first time I have ever seen anyone reading on the subway past page 12 or so.

Fascinating centerfold in this issue.

I had to sprinkle snake repellent around my house due to seeing a snake (lesson: never stop renting) and it smells really good. Put a dish of this stuff in your powder room and your guests will love it unless they’re snakes.

Life gets better when you finally block that guy who does nothing but post Trump photos and clips. Turns out I don’t need to know when he falls asleep or how weird his hair looks every hour of every day.

I just sold a short story about Art Bell to a serious literary journal.

While I have yet to investigate the headline posted below, I have just released an episode of my program Whatever Happened to Pizza at McDonald's? marking its 10th anniversary: open.spotify.com/episode/1hZ6...

The Last Samurai had the misfortune of coming out from a crappy publisher the same year as both Kavalier & Clay and A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. DeWitt’s book is the best of the three, but, as the new author’s afterword suggests, she herself is a bit of a screwball (complimentary).

Great new books to look at and consider buying for yourself, including an excellent "Nicely Nepotistic" mention of an excellent new memoir from an old friend... Warning: This is a "Bring Your Own Theme Song" episode of the bathtub! youtu.be/uMpU9dxfeh0

It is impossible to Google the band Live.

That‘s it, I’m selling my Macklemore/Sheeran tickets. Does anyone have any suggestions for an even shittier double bill?

For my money I'm not sure there's a more cathartic or awesome line in fiction than Rooster Cogburn in "True Grit" shouting, "Fill your hand, you son of a bitch," just before he charges at Lucky Ned Pepper and three bandits with his horse's reins in his teeth

"My friend is obviously Chinese." Happy 60th, Star Trek. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSJ0...

Really interesting how AI discourse so effectively rips the masks off of the world’s dimwits and numbskulls.

By writing 100 Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez was a symbol of great novel writing. But today, upon completion of my manuscript 200 Years of Solitude, I'm the greatest of all time. Thank you.

What an odd turn of events that being unreasonably angry about Disney decanonizing the Star Wars EU is now right wing coded. If you‘re obsessed with Ulic Qel-Droma, it’s a dogwhistle.

To be clear, I believe Mr. Vance should be in prison for writing a book called Communion without a Gray alien on the cover. But I'll be darned if I'm going to chastise someone for joking about 9/11.

The only time this kind of thing has ever been acceptable is when I went to a screening of Willow and asked Ron Howard if he’d direct my screenplay for a Willow / Beastmaster crossover called Willow 2: Through the Portal of Time.

The only filmmaker who could successfully adapt Ulysses is Tyler Perry.

Strange how so many of the world’s most irritating podcasters came from UC Santa Cruz.

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A man at Starbucks has been staring at me for 3.5 hours.

I have seen this film roughly 7000 times because as a teenager I helped build a Cinemark multiplex and we used a print of Knock Off to calibrate the projector and sound in each theater.

Famously the theater where I walked out of the film Madame Web. Not because of the film but because when I got up to buy some popcorn they had closed the nearest concession stand and I didn’t want to go upstairs.

Re: the C-3PO guy, it’s become very difficult for me to tell whether these people are stupid or profoundly insane.

So happy to see one of my favorite children's book characters, the Green Lantern, in a violent True Detective ripoff instead of something my child can watch.

Has anyone tried placing a simple 5150 hold on these fellas?

Claire is my mentor (she told me I could call her that) and everyone should read her new book.

Thomas Matthew Crooks Memorial Highlander: The Series Studies Scholarship

Blue collar intellectual. One of my favorite interviews. Support Harvey Pekar's oeuvre.An essential American author.

For petty, personal reasons, it’s giving me a little “dopamine hit” watching a certain somebody go through public embarrassment, sorry.

The Odyssey predates the modern concept of character. Changing his actions can’t really soften him, since he’s not really a character who could be softened. Only in adaptation does he become a “type of guy” and therefore has to act like a person rather than a series of actions. (Caveat: I’m dumb.)

Counterpoint: I recently took a rare trip to east Los Angeles and encountered on a single afternoon upward of four different 40+ year old men wearing Minions bucket hats.

Was it this guy? tinyurl.com/2jjctn98