Pope Impious

Let me tell you about my Lego and my comic book collections….

“I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them.” — KURT VONNEGUT

This admission alone is an impeachable offense

Sometimes Emo Phillips is all that stands between a person getting erect over fascism and Robin pulling a boner in his quest for justice

#LastFourWatched

The Columbus Dispatch this morning

Trump’s personal Attorney General Todd Blanche doesn’t rule out challenging election certifications in various states (You are not alarmed enough)

Be careful. Everything it touches dies.

Is he TRYING to throw the election? My god.. I’m all for allowing him to experience the same thing to see if that might change his mind.

Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff to Vladimir Putin today: “You talk so much about Trump being a humanitarian, you are a humanitarian also, sir. And I salute that. I commend you.”

Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.

Escape from New York, the glider scene. It's '81, a year before Tron revolutionised CG and Carpenter has 1/3 of Tron's budget...so how did he pull off an absurdly sophisticated wireframe simulation?! It's actually a cardboard city painted matte black, lined with reflective tape and lit with UV.

‘Tis the spooky season. #last4watched

Weird how only women seem to lose their jobs for incompetence in this administration.

You know what we need? A way to put over a ton of steel a dozen feet in the air over people’s heads on the freeway. No way will some entitled a**hole try to fly over a traffic jam and come crashing down onto someone.

you can't be serious. This reads Meta/Facebook/Insta is looking to grant itself the rights to scrape websites across the open web - and train Meta's AI - if a company after Oct 30, 2026 uses Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp or other Meta services. So every biz. Read that again. Outrageous. 1/5

"I consulted many people in the field, is it OK if I label myself a lawyer?"

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

Man, a cannot wait for a month from now when all the TV ads are about rain-gutter covers, window replacements, and adapting showers for people with mobility problems. There are just too f**king many political ads now.

I MAY have too many Lego minifigures.. and some minor OCD issues.

“Hey baby.. I know where I need to take you before it closes..”

This remake of the Wicker Man sure doesn’t seem to follow the first two versions very closely.

Please note: Trump also stated the other day that he personally approved live-streaming an execution. Not what I think of as “peace prize”-worthy behavior.

This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country.

I found Hum to be almost unwatchable. Dracula is a classic I would watch just for the set design. Nudus had ok acting, but a plot I could not follow to save my life, and Snatchers was a stupid but fun horror-comedy, which makes it the second best of the batch.

Just a reminder how much Tom Emmer has debased himself for power:

I said I liked it. I didn’t say it was good. Can’t Stop the Music (1980)

He makes a good point.

Nothing but respect for MY Digger

I’m really happy about the new Hello Kitty Lego coming out. I can’t afford everything, and that means there are fewer sets in production that I “need” to buy.

will you people shut the fuck up

Another late dinner at the Dube with the boys.

Last four watched. I admit.. I’m a little all over the place here. #letterboxd, #filmsky

the staffer who assured Eric Schmitt that Jack Smith was definitely at an Atlanta Hawks game has been identified

Let’s face it. Crypto ruins everything.

Never really tried anime (beyond Akira, since I needed to keep some geek cred). Just watched Spirited Away. Wow is that a gorgeous movie.

Jack Smith: “it’s inconceivable to me how you can pardon people who beat police officers… and then vilify the officers”

Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."

I haven’t actually built a Lego set in years.. just MOCs. Do all the new sets have so many teeny tiny pieces? This Mayor Manor is crazy. So, so many 1x1 plates.

“I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them.” How an Archeologist changed KURT VONNEGUT’s life.

You ever have one of those days when your brain, for no reason at all, decides to start singing “🎼Doctor Shrinker.. Doctor Shrinker.. He’s a madman with an evil mind..”? No? Just me then?

Film you’ve watched more than six times with a gif.

Name a film you watched at a drive-in.

The Administration seems to live under the belief that the problem with all the terrible things they are doing is that they can’t do enough of them. Problem with food quality? We should ease up on regulations. Problems with getting workers? Maybe children should start working..

Anyone else remember when Trump’s son-in-law was put in charge of “Peace in the Middle East” a few years back? How’s that working out?

EIon Musk’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $984B Jeff Bezos’s Wealth 2009: $6B 2026: $370B Mark Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $256B Federal Minimum Wage 2009: $7.25 2023: $7.25 Billionaire tax rate: 8.2% Worker tax rate: 13% Pay workers. Tax & Abolish Billionaires. Save our economy & country.

Consent has never been something Trump has cared about too much.