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How to Survive a Plague, and a few more movies
From the Department of Dystopia
Don’t SAY That!
by Eel Paradise
How to Make a Monster, Them!, and a few more movies
Hey, space aliens, take me, too.
Where’s Jackie Chan’s forehead?
Family matters
by Eel Paradise
Family, friends, and a stranger
Housekeeping, and a few more movies
Joycelyn Elders & Gimme Shelter
America stands united, for just a moment.
A lot of us lead pathetic lives.
The House that Jack Built, and a few more movies
The House of Yes, and a few more movies
Don’t be a putz like George Bailey.
Witty quips, lies, half-truths and more lies, setups, put-downs, and still more lies
First, they came for the immigrants.
“The movies are your mistress.”
They say romance is dead?
by Joe Gallo
Burger with a view of the end of the world
The House of Ghosts, and a few more movies
Famous fact-checker admits famous lie
House of Cards, and a few other movies
Comcast = stupid people
by Joe Gallo
4 SPU to Judkins Park (but not really)
Shenandoah, and a few more movies
$2 plastic pinchy picker-upper
Tireless civil rights crusaders not so smug now
One last look at the 2024 election
Ladies don’t say good morning.
Bebop a loo bop a lop bam boom
Google kills independent publishers
How bad is Trump 2 going to be?
Something’s gone wrong in my mouth.
I love living in the internet age
by Joe Gallo
Hôtel des Invalides, Tár, and a few more movies
Marijuana, LSD, and Tootsie Pops
The bus stop at the playground
How to lose friends and annoy strangers
A hip & happening sandwich shop
Hot Saturday, and a few more movies
So Elon Musk was what Republicans would call an “illegal immigrant”
The Hospital, The Host, and a few more movies
Horrors of Spider Island, and a few more movies
“It’s the First Amendment, stupid.”
Hello again. Is this thing on?
The counterculture belongs in a museum.
The Battle of Algiers, Hoosiers, and a few more movies
Our new AI-enabled robot dog overlords
An inappropriate workplace conversation
Riding the bus in San Francisco
by Bruce Anderson
Two frustrations and a roast beef sandwich
Ace in the Hole, Honour Among Thieves, and a few more movies
Unless the wrong candidate wins
Underwear, batteries, and beans
She didn’t even say “Uh.”
Munich, and a few more movies
Daydream accounting
by Joe Gallo
Home of the Brave, Homebodies, and a few more movies
Is Ken Kesey cuckoo?
The New York Times kinda sucks.
On the nose
Holy Flying Circus, Home Alone, and a few more movies
“More human than human, is our motto.”
“Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.”
The Life of Brian, and a few more movies
Quantum physics and other stuff
Urban safari
by Joe Gallo
Close to the margins
The Hole, Holiday, and a few more movies
Donald Trump answers a question
November’s going to be a shitstorm
“They gave their lives for their country.”
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, State of Fear, and a few more movies
That’s George, and that’s Doug.
Location # 181
His Girl Friday, A History of Violence, and a few more movies
Please adjust your fine tuning.
Highway Dragnet, The Hi-Jackers, The Hill, and a few more movies
Drunken Master, but not Drunken Master II
Trojan horse
by Joe Gallo
On the 8th floor
High and Low, High Noon, and a few more movies
Dennis Kucinich can kiss my arse.
“You folks lost?”
The Hidden Fortress, The Hideous Sun Demon, and a few more movies
Nobody’s shrink or guru
Here is Your Life, Hesher, and a few more movies
Pierced
Hell’s Angels, Hercules, and a few more movies
That’s terrorism, if that loaded word means anything.
Just a minute
Hell or High Water, and a few more movies
Nothing much today
Heavenly Creatures, Heaven’s Gate, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and a few more movies
Maggie & Mom?
Heartland, Heathers, Heaven Can Wait, and a few more movies
Talking box
by Joe Gallo
Limitless stupidity… and then more
A long brown stripe on the carpet
Hawks and Sparrows, The Heartbreak Kid, and a few more movies
“OK, Mom. You win. You got into my room.”
Mom was speechless. It was beautiful.
The very definition of cruel and unusual
Breakfast, lunch, and dinner with Mom
Hate, and a few more movies
You never write, you never call
Harvey, Zero for Conduct, and a few more movies
Oh, look. It’s crocodiles again.
Scary women
The Harder They Fall, Hardware Wars, and a few more movies
Staring into the eye of darkness
by Joe Gallo
Letters to the editor
Hard Candy, Hardcore, and a few more movies
The Tenderloin at midnight
Harakiri, and a few more movies
Relentlessly mocking the believers
Black-and-white double feature
The Hangman, Hannah and Her Sisters, Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice, and a few more movies
This is not a paid advertisement.
Good thinking, boss.
The Hands of Orlac, Hands That Bind, Hang ‘Em High, and a few more movies
Is this thing on?
by Joe Gallo
My crappy job that just got crappier
Hale County This Morning, This Evening, and a few more movies
Lunch with the doomed
Hair, Hairspray, and a few more movies
Zines and movies are all I got
Late night justice
Gypsy 83, Habit, Hail Caesar!, and a few more movies
Sidewalk pinball
Gutter Girls, A Guy Named Joe, Guys and Dolls, and a few more movies
A quiet space in the heart of the city
More mumbles and less Maggie
Guns Akimbo, The Guns of Navarone, and a few more movies
Plans for the weekend
Guncrazy, The Gunfighter, Gunga Din, Gunpowder Milkshake, and a few more movies
Just another dipshit with a gun
God is love (some restrictions may apply)
Our Confederate dead
Guilty as Sin, Guilty by Suspicion, Guilty Bystander, and a few more movies
“You have to put yourself out there”
Looking out the window of the train
Groundhog Day, Growing Up in America, and a few more movies
Not drunk, not disorderly, just … lost
The Grifters, Grindhouse, Grizzly Man, and a few more movies
Oh happy day, after oh happy day
Belching and scratching my ‘nads
The Green Room, Grey Gardens, and a few more movies
Aren’t you proud to be an American?
Greed, Green Eyes, and a few more movies
“Nobody likes going into the city.”
The Fourth of July, 2024
Doctor Who (6th season, 2011)
The Great Santini, The Great Silence, and a few more movies
Insert clever title here
The Great Flamarion, The Great Piggy Bank Robbery, and a few more movies
Where’s the League of Women Voters when we need ’em?
The return of the fat guy in the back row
The Great Dictator, The Great Escape, and a few more movies
Lights out at the Strand
The Grand Illusion, The Grapes of Wrath, and a few more movies
#165 Green River College
The Fugitive (4th season, 1966-67)
A gentleman doesn’t discuss such things.
The Graduate, Gran Torino, and a few more films
Clearly, someone has a hot plate.
The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Goodbye Dragon Inn, and a few more films
Six movies in two days
The Good Girl, The Good Lord Bird, Good Night and Good Luck, and a few more films
Maggie
The Golden Gate Murders, and a few more films
Things I’d rather not talk about
Seattle Sprocket & Flange
Going Steady, Gold Diggers of 1933, and a few more films
“Have you no sense of decency, sir?”
Just plain hate speech
Godzilla, Going Attractions, and a few more films
‘The weird kid’ at school
The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, and a few more films
Go, Go Ask Alice, Go Go Second-Time Virgin, and a few more films
Nothing but blue skies do I see
Gloria, and a few more films
Meeting the boss
The Glass Wall, and a few more films
“Customer service is needed in the liquor department.”
Milk instead of coffee
Doctor Who (5th season, 2010)
Girls on the Loose, Girls Will Be Boys, and a few more films
News & links & brilliant insights on current events
Recent futilities
Girl Asleep, The Girl Can’t Help It, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, and a few more films
Keep looking up!
The Fugitive (3rd season, 1965-66)
Giant, and a few more films
Please, not Roswell.
Ghost in the Shell, Ghostbusters, and a few more films
You are cordially invited
Get Carter, Get Out, and a few more films
Cinco de Mayo with the family
Germany Year Zero, Geronimo, Gerry, and a few more films
News & links & music & dead people
The Gay Divorcee, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and a few more films
The Fugitive (2nd season, 1964-65)
News & links & I don’t like genocide
The Gang’s All Here, Gas Food Lodging, and a few more films
A stubby white building on Lentil Street
We’re walking here
Galileo, Gambit, A Game of Death, and a few more films
Me and Dick, Hazel, Mom, and Jesus
Strangers in the night
Fury, Future ’38, and a few more films
News and annoyances
The Funeral, Funny Girl, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and a few more films
Stop, stand, and wait.
Frozen, The Frozen North, The Fugitive, and a few more films
Izzy
The Fugitive (1st season, 1963-64)
Fritz the Cat and The Front, and a few more films
Sondering
The French Connection, The Freshman, Friday Foster, and a few more films
Me and the man upstairs
Frankenstein, Freedom Riders, Free to Be… You and Me, and a few more films
Four Lions, Foxy Brown, 14 Days in a City with No Laws, and a few more films
More than peanut butter
The 400 Blows and 4:44 Last Day on Earth, and a few more films
News you need, whether you know it or not
What do you have in you?
Fortress and 42nd Street, and a few more films
Hello neighbors. You are loved.
Foolish Wives and Forbidden Games, and a few more films
Me and my brother, and Jesus
The Fog of War, and a few more films
I am not downloading an app to buy a candy bar.
That magnificent deuce
The Flim-Flam Man and Flower Drum Song, and a few more films
News & links: Congressman Jim
Flash Gordon and Flesh, and a few more films
The other flatmates
Five Easy Pieces and (500) Days of Summer, and a few more films
News & links: Another ‘rough ride’
Fitzcarraldo and Five Came Back, and a few more films
Same place, same problem
A Fish Called Wanda and The Fisher King, and a few more films
News & links: The most sacred lies
Firefly and First Blood, and a few more films
“Catch you later, Doug.”
Fear of a Black Hat and Fiend Without a Face, and a few more films
News & links: Memo to Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Fargo and Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, and a few more films
Nuts
Faces and Fairyland, and a few more films
Barry Lyndon, and a few more films
Bob and the driver
Eraserhead, and a few more films
News & links: Collapse
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, and a few more films
Meeting Doug Holland
by Eel
8½, and a few more films
Laziness learned from my father
Duck Amuck, and a few more films
News & Links: Monday, March 11, 2024
Drive, and a few more films
Most peculiar, Mama
Do the Right Thing, and a few more films
Defending Your Life, and a few more films
Dazed and Confused, and a few more films
Mr Randowski
Days of Heaven, and a few more films
The Crying Game, and a few more films
Cosmos, and a few more films
News & Links: Saturday, March 2, 2024
Cocaine: One Man’s Seduction, and a few more films
Pastries, panhandlers, and beef head
Cinema Paradiso, and a few more films
Call Me Lucky, and a few more films
British Sounds, and a few more films
Breakfast with George and Aubrey
Black Rain, and a few more films
News & Links: Saturday, February 24, 2024
Mom and God again
Beau is Afraid, and a few more films
Walking the grounds
Winter Soldier, and a few more films
News & Links: Monday, February 19, 2024
Doctor Who (4rth season, 2007-10)
It’s good to not be dead.
Doctor Who (3rd season, 2006-07)
News & Links: Sunday, February 11, 2024
The Holdovers and The Shooting, and a few more films
News & Links: Sunday, February 4, 2024
The Day of the Locust, and a few more films
Heroes, and a hardass
Broken Crown
News & Links: Sunday, January 28, 2024
Never a dull moment
Johnny Tremaine and Shane, and a few more films
News & Links: Sunday, January 21, 2024
A few of my favorite calls at Vector
Jennifer’s Body and KingTom, and a few more films
News & Links: Monday, January 15, 2024
“Thank you for calling Vector.”
Old man grumbles about being old
Down by Law and Victim, and a few more films
News & Links: Monday, January 8, 2024
Items too short for a page of their own
News & Links: Monday, January 1, 2024
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