Thomas Wynne

[Thomas Wynne @TomDWynne]

@Twetterless_Sam and I recently had an important talk about a certain grocery store.

[Thomas Wynne @TomDWynne]

@mattparlmer Fryerfox

[Intelschizo @Schizointel]

Happy Interlocking fields of double canister grape shot day to those who celebrate!

[SpyHards - A Spy Movie Podcast @SpyHards]

Sorry, but can we take a moment to appreciate Timothy Dalton’s slick-as-hell transition from dinner jacket to sniper outfit at the start of THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS?

Pure 007.

[Testy Takes @patmart100]

Speaking of Stephen Root, and Seinfeld, he had a great guest appearance. And yeah, you see that philosophy here. That awkward wait and conversation, lol.

[Dave Crowley 🍉🐦‍⬛ @TheCrowbert]

Wake up everyone, the official James Bond twitter account just dropped a 'You Know my Name' edit

[Mads @europemaxxed]

Life after realizing this

[Zack Stentz @MuseZack]

The best part of writing Agent Cody Banks was getting Keith David to tell us behind the scenes stories from making The Thing, one of which included the line "And then John Carpenter walked in...MAD AS A MOTHERFUCKER."

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Mexico paid $20 million for eight minutes in this movie. Then those eight minutes forced them to invent an entire cultural tradition.

Before Spectre, Mexico City had no Day of the Dead parade. The holiday was celebrated at home, at cemeteries, with family altars. Quiet, intimate, centuries old. Sam Mendes fabricated a massive street parade for the opening sequence, shot it with 1,500 extras in skeleton costumes across the Zócalo, and audiences worldwide assumed they were watching a real annual event.

Mexico's government had negotiated hard for the placement. Leaked Sony hack emails showed officials offered up to $20 million in tax incentives for four minutes of positive portrayal. Sony was drowning in a $300 million budget. The deal included script changes: the Bond girl had to be a Mexican actress, the villain could not be Mexican, and the city's modern skyline had to appear on screen.

Then the movie opened in 182 countries and tourists started booking flights to Mexico City for the parade.

The parade that did not exist.

Tourism authorities panicked. Visitors were arriving expecting the spectacle they saw in the film and finding nothing. So in October 2016, the government spent $500,000, hired 650 volunteers, built dozens of floats and giant skeleton marionettes, and staged the first real Día de los Muertos parade in Mexico City's history. 250,000 people showed up. They openly called it a "Spectre-style parade" in press materials.

Ten years later, the parade draws millions. Anthropologists call it the "pizza effect," where a cultural element gets exported, transformed abroad, and reimported as authentic. Mexico's most famous public celebration of its most sacred holiday was invented by a British director shooting a $300 million spy movie.

That tracking shot is doing more for Mexico City's economy every November than the $20 million they paid for it.

[Emir Han @RealEmirHan]

James Bond actor Roger Moore says ‘SKYFALL’ is the best Bond movie ever made.

“Daniel Craig is, without a doubt, the Bond. He has just got it all. He brings to Bond the killer instinct.“

“Skyfall is just an extraordinary piece of motion picture. It guaranteed another 50 years.”

[Eddie Mauldin @eddiemauldin]

The amount of careers and great shows that came out of this one decision is pretty astounding. If only CEO’s were more willing to take risks like Ted Turner.

[Taha Bali @tahabito]

Undoubtedly the craziest arc in Middle East history. All is left is a meeting with the Pope

[Haydn, 🇵🇸 @bilbosfootcomb]

This is what every single one of the New England founding fathers would have looked and sounded like if you put them in a hoodie instead of colonial garb

[Jonathan Berk @berkie1]

On its third attempt tonight, Marblehead Town Meeting approved an “MBTA Communities–compliant” district largely centered on the 125-year-old Tedesco Country Club, meeting 3A requirements on paper while all but assuring no new housing would be built.

This comment says it all.

[Josh Billinson @jbillinson]

[Werner Herzog voice] Jimmy Buffet’s Margaritaville

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

Magyar has spent the last few days meeting with Orbanistas who lied about him and his family incessantly, blocked him from addressing the nation, and did their utmost to keep him from winning a fair election. From Hungary's president -- who must invite Magyar to form a government before resigning -- to this state TV presenter, he's met them to say: "Hello, here's why you're out of job. Goodbye." Breathtaking.

[Scott Barber @thescottbarber]

Putin accidentally creating a high-tech regional military power of the first order on its doorstep has to be one of the funniest self-owns in history.

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

This is more Welsh than Raymond Williams and Richard Burton running into each other on a train held up by a flock of sheep in Swansea.

[Josh Billinson @jbillinson]

Impossible to read this anecdote and not think of the Bill Burr bit