The desperately cloying, sentance-ending “Right?” has overtaken Ira Glassian diminishers “sorta” and “kinda” as the most irritating speech in all of podcasting. Somebody do something!

Good call PWH.

1957-05-11: Children stand in a deep rain puddle outside of their home. 📸: Richland Library

If you fed an AI algorithm the Beatles’ early catalog only up through “Revolver” and asked it to write more Beatles music, would it ever give you “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”?

1955-10-25: Monkeys race around the tracks at the South Carolina State Fair. 📸: Richland Library

Loved this conversation! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-… #ejesusfilm

Andi is THE BEST.

For all of its flaws, it has been the greatest force for good of any nation in the last 250 years.

One of my all-time faves! I recently bought HEAVEN CAN WAIT (1978) on Blu-Ray. Now YOU can download a copy for free on me! But only if you love 70s California screwballs with an NFL (L.A. Rams!) subplot. And Charles Grodin. (Looking at you, Dan van Voorhis.)

Summer/Fall film fests have been so fun! Fingers crossed for more C&SM U.S. film fest screenings in California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, Mississippi, New York, Oklahoma, and other states in 2025.

This is my truth.

Heaven Can Wait…until TODAY!! Happy “Joe Pendleton Death Date” to those who celebrate! youtu.be/EHJoH9IFboo?si…

I witnessed my first altercation at Waffle House between a customer and employee yesterday. While threats were made and lots of curse words were used that eventually lead the argument outside, in the end there wasn’t any punches thrown. But it’s was magical to see and my food

The more American reality we process culturally, in dramatic, literary, musical, and visual forms which are aimed at our shared faculties as human beings, the less of this brittle, mindless political chatter we'll have to put up with.

Mission Impossible 8 (2025). Time Cruise age 62 Mission Impossible 1 (1996) Jon Voight 58

Making good art is a very strange thing. No one knows how to do it. Sometimes you know when you've done it, but not always. We tend to believe now that it comes from within, but the ancients believed it comes from somewhere else. Also, the compulsion to keep at it seems eternal.

A long time ago, I was auditioning for the movie “The Doors” It was kind of a cattle call. They paired together potential Jims with potential Pamela‘s. And they were running behind so we were spilling out of the casting office, sitting on the porch, the lawn, and the driveway.

The Masters is not a golf tournament. It’s a lifestyle brand, a cultural marker dressed in azaleas and On Clouds. Catnip for the aspirational Southern professional class, who see in Augusta not just a course, but a mirror. A sociologist could write volumes on the emotional pull