Brian

Sipping beers, watching schlock, and working in patent law in the Ohio heartland. Usually in jorts.

[Brian @bdsteedd]

@KaleviHeinoFI I've really become enamored by this album recently, it's become a favorite. People tend to consider Grey and Pink their best but this one is much more satisfying IMO. It all just feels so good.

[Brian @bdsteedd]

I recently watched an episode of Match Game '74 (a year before Jaws) where the audience match was "Great White [BLANK]." None of the top three audience answers was "SHARK" and none of the panelists suggested it as a possibility. (learning cultural history from dumb TV ephemera)

[Tyler Greenfield @TylerGreenfieId]

Well the "Jaws effect" isn't real, for starters. Jaws was part of a larger, older social phenomenon responsible for the public's increased interest in/fear of sharks. The outcome would've been the same even if Jaws had never been made.

[Brian @bdsteedd]

@Qui_Quae_Quod42 In The War Games the Time Lords are able to capture the Doctor with ease once they know where he is, but when they learn the Master is on Earth in Terror of the Autons two seasons later they just shrug their shoulders and go "Eh, what can we do?"

[Brian @bdsteedd]

I think "AI art" has shown us what you get when "I've always been more of an Ideas guy" clowns try to actually create something.

[Brian @bdsteedd]

@girldrawsghosts I just finished Season 5 in my rewatch, it's fun spotting things like that with hindsight. Like S5 Mike doing invention exchanges and reading letters, and generally maintaining the gentler Joel-era vibe ("Hostess snowballs for everyone!") before settling into the Mike we all know

[Brian @bdsteedd]

@WillSloanEsq The creaking sound as Moe pulls out the nail, as if Shemp's feet are made of spruce.

[Brian @bdsteedd]

It still warms my heart to remember that Carl Reiner spent much of his last year on earth watching and tweeting about Columbo.

[Brian @bdsteedd]

@afrocosmist Man, yeah. In college I'd stay up till the wee hours watching it, best midnight movies ever.

[Brian @bdsteedd]

The next video update should be Pearl Forrester smoking a cigarette and counting the Kickstarter money with her money counting machine, Overdrawn at the Memory Bank style. #MST3K

[RiffTrax 🌽 @RiffTrax]

In the not-too-distant future, RiffTrax is making four new episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000! Support us on Kickstarter: https://t.co/RuqvOU45Bc #RiffTraxMakesMST3K

[Brian @bdsteedd]

@girldrawsghosts The casual byplay between the characters in the theater segments added so much to this vibe. When one character makes a comment the others will often react as if they're hearing it for the first time, with a chuckle or a breezy off-the-cuff reaction.

[James Urbaniak @JamesUrbaniak]

@faceuh8 Tell me this is not an amazing shot, encapsulating all the terrible alchemy of the dark side in Lt. Zachary Garber.

[Brian @bdsteedd]

I've never been on Bluesky but I imagine when you step inside you're hit with the sound of thousands of scolds saying "Do better" like the chirping of crickets.

[Brian @bdsteedd]

@WillSloanEsq Dimension-slip to a pocket universe where Shemp is doing his version of the turkey-stuffing scene in the Vitaphone short Peach of a Pair

[Brian @bdsteedd]

Why do Caravan fans pretend that Waterloo Lily isn't every bit as shit-hot as In the Land of Grey and Pink and For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night?

[Honeydew Wilkins @HoneydewWilkins]

No man deserves this

[Brian @bdsteedd]

@batmanmarch The way he looks at the others like children and explains things in the most condescending way possible is really unbearable. You can't even call it moderating, since nothing he says is designed to get any kind of response from the others beyond "Oh really?"

[Brian @bdsteedd]

Sunrises >>> Pictures of sunrises >>>>>>>> Being shown pictures of sunrises

[Brian @bdsteedd]

@TheCyberdevil I received my Region 1 set yesterday and went into Zygons hoping that the complaints about AI smoothing were overreactions. Man, it was as bad as everyone says it is. I'm shocked that it was allowed out the door in that state.

[Brian @bdsteedd]

@Sasha_Screens I was on a Hammett kick once and read Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man. The Thin Man made for an interesting comparison with its movie adaptation. William Powell lighted up the Nick Charles character quite a bit in the movie.

[Brian @bdsteedd]

@MikeMacRaeMike Charlton Heston showed himself to be a real-life hero when he walked away from Moore's tasteless hectoring with such grace and dignity.