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Please read this new story I have written for @NewYorker @tnyshouts newyorker.com/humor/daily-sh…

App Ideas for Coping with a Broken Heart

If you search for your ex’s new boyfriend on Instagram, the app could randomly select one person you follow and comment “Love this!!!” on his or her oldest selfie.

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Goober@KingMoleManAug 30
Russell Mulcahy’s The Shadow should be in the Criterion Collection
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Goober@KingMoleManJun 20
If you prefer modern traced stock image paper doll Marvel art over this, then you don’t like super hero comic books.
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Goober@KingMoleMan5 Nov 2025
A super homophobic black woman and a super racist gay guy not a winning combination it seems
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Goober@KingMoleMan16 Nov 2024
If you run in the Richmond Marathon you are supporting the terrorist organization known as Seibert’s Towing
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In retrospect maybe it was bad to have nine unelected officials who decide our most important laws behind closed doors with total immunity and a lifetime appointment while gladly and openly taking bribes.
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I like that Christopher Nolan presents himself as the professor emeritus of the film world, and half his movies are like, "What if Opposite Day was real?"
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MZS@mattzollerseitz24 Apr 2024
they heard my distress signal rogerebert.com/mzs/megalopol…

A Plea for Someone to Save Megalopolis

Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis is reportedly scaring studios away with its price tag. Someone needs to save this movie. We're looking at you, France.

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Damian Pietrzak@Damiansport123 Apr 2024
Francis Ford Coppola MEGALOPOLIS has been picked up by Le Pacte in France! The distributor of Anatomy of a Fall will release the Coppola epic at the end of september (source: @LePoint) #Cannes2024
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I’m one of those weird guys capable of wrapping my head around a film that doesn’t make it clear whether I would be on the good guy side or the bad guy side
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years from now film critics and historians are gonna look back at the release of #CivilWarMovie as the culmination of a chapter of film history that began on 9/11/01.
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The prequel to Civil War is about Joe Rogan moving to Texas
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Hi I spoke to @Emilferrisdraws for @LibraryJournal so check it out @fantagraphics libraryjournal.com/story/LJ-…

LJ Talks with Emil Ferris, Author of ‘My Favorite Thing Is Monsters’

Emil Ferris grew up during the turbulent 1960s in Chicago, where she still lives, and is consequently a devotee of all things monstrous and horrific. She has an MFA in creative writing from the...

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Tom's questions and my answers ...
Tom Batten@Tombatt11 Apr 2024
Hi I spoke to @Emilferrisdraws for @LibraryJournal so check it out @fantagraphics libraryjournal.com/story/LJ-…

LJ Talks with Emil Ferris, Author of ‘My Favorite Thing Is Monsters’

Emil Ferris grew up during the turbulent 1960s in Chicago, where she still lives, and is consequently a devotee of all things monstrous and horrific. She has an MFA in creative writing from the...

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Hi I spoke to @Emilferrisdraws for @LibraryJournal so check it out @fantagraphics libraryjournal.com/story/LJ-…

LJ Talks with Emil Ferris, Author of ‘My Favorite Thing Is Monsters’

Emil Ferris grew up during the turbulent 1960s in Chicago, where she still lives, and is consequently a devotee of all things monstrous and horrific. She has an MFA in creative writing from the...

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Was just reminded... my unpicked-up Adult Swim pilot is online and watchable... youtube.com/watch?v=JvA87SVd…
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Replying to @KingMoleMan
@KingMoleMan and me are hosting a panel on humor comics at @GalaxyConRVA this weekend. Come hear us lose our minds over this absolute masterpiece by @MKupperman
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That one’s at 2:45 on Saturday. Then at 6:45 we’re talking about Godzilla! The last time Jake and I hosted a panel together we met a former circus clown who told us some very sad stories about life under the big top. Maybe he’ll be around this time, too!!
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Goober@KingMoleMan25 Feb 2024
RIP Ramona Fradon, one of the great American cartoonists, an artist involved in American comic books for almost their entire existence
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The great American movie of the 21st century
Films to Films
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I’ll always defend that movie.
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Hi I spoke to Dan Clowes about his upcoming book and you can read what we said to each other at the link below if you’d like. @LibraryJournal @fantagraphics libraryjournal.com/story/LJ-…

LJ Talks with Daniel Clowes, Creator of 'Monica'

Cartoonist, illustrator, and screenwriter Clowes has won multiple Harvey and Eisner Awards and has been nominated for an Oscar. Perhaps most famous for the graphic novel Ghost World, he is also known...

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Hi @mattzollerseitz a guy in a bar told a friend of mine that you turned Wes Anderson onto Up in the Old Hotel and as I’m a fan of you and Anderson and that amazing book I’m wondering if it’s true. Sorry for @-ing you.
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Griffin Dunne on the New York Times' "disrespectful" William Friedkin obituary. instagram.com/p/CvsyQv4JftH/
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