Zack Stentz

Screenwriter (Thor, X-Men: FC, The Flash, Rim of the World, Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, Empire of Wolves, Raven.)

[Zack Stentz @MuseZack]

1: I finally got my account back.
2: A thousand apologies to all of you, especially anyone who got the phishing messages and might have been hacked in turn.
3: Bring me the head of Coach Antonia.

[Zack Stentz @MuseZack]

@VK_HM Co-starring Benny Safdie as young Paul Schrader having a temper tantrum when Scorsese casts Harvey Keitel as the pimp instead of a black guy.

[Zack Stentz @MuseZack]

@bearmccreary The crazy thing is that Happy Days existed as a backdoor pilot before American Graffiti (George Lucas saw it and cast Ron Howard because he liked how he played a 50s teen) but it was the latter film's enormous success that made the network greenlight the show.

[Zack Stentz @MuseZack]

@bearmccreary Imagine being Ron Howard and getting the lead in a sensitive dramedy that was sold more or less as "American Graffiti: The Show" and this is what your life is a few years later...

...too bad that guy never made anything of himself. ;)

[Zack Stentz @MuseZack]

@FranklinH3000 @Tubi Big Bad Mama reunion?

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@CarolWalshReal1 "Guy who lives on a rich guy's property and keeps an eye on things" is a whole thing in Monterey County, isn't it?

[Zack Stentz @MuseZack]

@wtfcetialpha5 "Sorry babe, the Constitution class lighting up the D7 lamp stays on during sex."

[Zack Stentz @MuseZack]

The best of the old BBC shows like this, the Sam Waterston Oppenheimer, or the Alec Guinness Smiley ones are proof that production values are incredibly overrated if you have incredible writing and acting.

[1976 Live @50YearsAgoLive]

I, Claudius, a drama television series set in the Roman Empire starring Derek Jacobi, premieres on BBC2.

[Zack Stentz @MuseZack]

@GoodGoy8841 @SaladBarFan They did an Obama teleprompter sketch and a whole bunch of articles going after his fondness for drone strikes. https://t.co/8I1aFBG7lo

[Zack Stentz @MuseZack]

@JackGogol00 @JamesPetigru @ashley_r_temple @tracewoodgrains Those are two different issues, though. State and federal grants means urban schools generally get more money per student than suburban schools, not less. But they tend to spend it on layer after layer of administrators and trendy ed consultants instead of teachers.

[Zack Stentz @MuseZack]

@JamesPetigru @JackGogol00 @ashley_r_temple @tracewoodgrains Looks like it has modest class sizes too. https://t.co/wEVsMHvsJA

[Jack @tracewoodgrains]

This is the per-pupil funding for the elementary school Nikole Hannah-Jones sent her daughter to.

If you subscribe to the funding theory of education, how much would have been enough? It's already crossed the average per capita annual income threshold. Maybe $100k? $200k?

[Zack Stentz @MuseZack]

@cityaestheticss The wild thing is that it's just close enough to New Orleans to not even have any of the cultural cachet of being a major college town and state capital. Just a cursed place.

[Zack Stentz @MuseZack]

@RetroBayArea Voice Farm is the forgotten San Francisco band I still think about often. They were really popular locally for a good chunk of the 80s and early 90s! https://t.co/yjPNsyIHB4

[Zack Stentz @MuseZack]

The saddest thing on this list is seeing just how much Husker Du--an excellent band that defined "college rock" for a good chunk of the 1980s--has pretty much vanished from the public consciousness.

[David C Lowery @davidclowery]

Last weekend spent a lot of time discussing whether the production of certain popular 90s grunge acts held up. The conversation wandered off into a discussion of essentially who was more influential now, from that era. I said I'd pull the Spotify monthly listener numbers to see which ones people still listen to. And here they are.

Also threw in my own two bands and some peer bands and random shit (like Creed) for comparison. Cracker has held up pretty good over the years, with our listener count more than doubling since covid. We do get lots of soundtracks but not really sure why that has happened. We also have some historic soundtracks (like Clueless) that support our numbers. And we did have 4 solid MTV hits. Camper Van Beethoven meanwhile is dwindling having lost 25% over the last 6 years.

Wanted to point out how popularity back in the day doesn't always translate to what people listen to now.

[Zack Stentz @MuseZack]

@jeffwp11 @TomAandTom1 Exactly. The best big twists are the ones you're not even waiting for because you're already invested in the movie you're watching. M. Night's problem is that he trained his audience to look for the twist.

[Zack Stentz @MuseZack]

@VK_HM Somehow I always found the chubbiness of the horse the funniest thing about this sequence.

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@Pythagasaurus3 That first album from Sugar is fantastic and doesn't sound dated at all. Bob Mould is a hell of a songwriter indeed.

[Zack Stentz @MuseZack]

@JamesPetigru @ashley_r_temple @tracewoodgrains I used to completely believe the line that urban schools were failing their students because they were starved for funds. Learning that the viral Indiana high school that looked like a posh college campus had 1/3 the per student funding of many urban districts was a huge shock.

[Zack Stentz @MuseZack]

@AlixArs81 The problem is that these idiot stans have learned how to attack whatever singer they don't like by calling them "Zionist" or "spiritually Israeli" so even if it's an op, it's an op because it works on these dumb kids.

[Zack Stentz @MuseZack]

Pop singer stan culture has given birth to a new form of anti-Semitism so illiterate and low IQ that it would embarrass your average 19th Century Cossack.

[Pop Fusion HQ @PopFusionHQ]

Lady Gaga’s baby Rose Bean Polansky was birthed in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center — an Ashkenazi hospital that has the Star of David on its building and has partnered with Israeli healthcare.

[Zack Stentz @MuseZack]

@hradzka Bummer, looks like it's out of print. https://t.co/WOvDJxSAde

[Zack Stentz @MuseZack]

@hradzka Recommended book in the same wheelhouse: Reefer Warrior, a nonfiction account from a former scout plane pilot in Vietnam who fell into flying bales of marijuana during the wild and woolly 1970s. A lot of great nuts and bolts detail on the early days of latam smuggling.

[Zack Stentz @MuseZack]

@tracewoodgrains Here's the argument she makes in the article. She apparently believed it was a lack of resources that made the kids in her child's school fight with each other, disrupt classes, not do homework, and randomly fill in test bubbles. https://t.co/FAUaL8bwEL

[Ashley Temple @ashley_r_temple]

@MuseZack @tracewoodgrains She does address this in the article.

[Zack Stentz @MuseZack]

@tracewoodgrains Here's what I've never understood about the "it's your obligation to send your kid to the failing public school" argument. What is the mechanism by which your child's presence improves outcomes for everyone else?