Is there a youtube video/website page where someone recaps books 1 and 2 before the new release comes out this week? I desperately want to get caught up hahaha!
Hi! I have a podcast and made the decision to do it video-style from day one (for pod-clips to spread on social media). The problem with video style podcasts is that you have to look presentable, which isn't a problem normally, but I find that my wardrobe isn't as diverse and my 6-10 "good" shirts are going to run stale quite fast.
If you've had similar thoughts or concerns with your podcast, how did you resolve that? Or did you find that your audience didn't care?
Has the showrunner spoken on that topic? Or James Gunn?
Anything that seems like it may add context the very much ongoing world of Lanterns, I’d like to see. For example, I know I want to see a Sinestro vs Hal Jordan comic run after seeing him in the comic-con trailer!
I ran just under 4 miles (don’t judge the time please 🙏🏾) and my Race 2 said I burned 1636 kcals?!?!??
That’s an impossible number, that run in other watches averages around 600. Is this a part of the adjustment period for a new watch?
I think the Vertical 2 is the best watch? I can’t tell which watch is designed to be better than the next between the hardware updates and what not, is the vertical 1 worse than the new Race 2? Where does the Run fit in?
Anyone who takes on this task would be greatly appreciated.
I'm getting into physical media and am looking for stores that have a really good collection of these used discs.
I run a solo-monologue podcast and want to, at some point, bring on guests and co-hosts who'd be comfortable podcasting. I don't want to put that pressure on my personal friend groups so think I need to look for channels to meet other podcasters who speak to my target demographic. Are there any good websites, reddit communities, or methods you've found to network your podcast.
I run a movie podcast, which I think would help due to how much of a saturated space that is.
Let me know your experiences.
PS: This is not a post requesting podcast co-hosts so please don't reply with that intent!
A functioning movie, I mean.
The Odyssey is a tough work to adapt due to the high production costs and expansive scope of the story, heck, even Nolan didn’t adapt the entire story (gods and all).
However, I think Paradise Lost is a more difficult story to adapt. You have scenes in literally Heaven and Hell, and you’d have to tackle the creation story (that means naked Adam and Eve).
I don’t think it’s possible to make that movie work. Disagree? What directors could even attempt? I know Bradley Cooper has wanted to do it for a long time but he’s not really an epic movie director.
What other texts are “impossible” to adapt?
I’m holding off in getting the 2 movie set because I think it’ll happen. There’s no way they don’t right?
Is 2026 the year of the generational-coded movie? The Invite is so funny but leverages universal experiences like failing marriages, career anxiety, and pre-menopause to paint a generationally distinct story that everyone can enjoy.
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Olivia Wilde’s The Invite, her third directorial feature, joins a long history of movies that farm the comedy of two distinct couples (one often unhappy) trying to get along. It’s a subgenre with its own tropes and is a reliably hilarious exhibition of insecurity, unfulfilled sex lives, and the all too common curiosity about what your neighbors are up to.
The movie, penned by creative collaborators Rashida Jones and Will McCormack, wastes no time in establishing the emotional state of our characters. Seth Rogen’s Joe is a music teacher at a school of unagreed upon repute and obviously hates his life. He has debilitating chronic back pain but no ailment is more obvious than the open wounds he carries emotionally.
When we meet his wife Angela, played by Olvia Wilde, she is enthralled in the minutia of pre-hosting; appearing well-adjusted up until her bad vibes husband comes home so she can drop the facade of functionality. To say they proceed to bicker would be an understatement, and as the camera cycles through “fly-on-the-wall”-esque placements to keep us at arms length (close up shots are a rarity, these folks have too many secrets to welcome a POV angle) they make it reasonable to assume they don’t have couple friends.
So when the older and self-actualized bohemian pairing of Penelope Cruz’s Pina and Edward Norton’s Hawk enter the year’s second best movie apartment (which is at the same time beautifully ornate and lifeless), there’s a Chekhovian arsenal lying in wait to blow up the evening. Cruz’s Pina’s freedom gives her an unsettling amount of authority over the cast, using it to dance to Sade’s “By Your Side” in a sensual way or to verbally undress someone who’s offended her. Norton brings his infinitely punchable face and smarmy charisma to ingratiate with his unknowingly preyed upon counterparts.
Throughout the tight runtime of The Invite, it perfectly embodies the Jean-Paul Sartre quote “Hell is other people” as the tension of things both said and unsaid threaten to torture every character. The mountain of past annoyances swept under the rug comes out in absurdly comedic ways after the opening 30 minutes. It’s this middle section that had my theatre roaring with laughter. Rogan and Wilde lead this predictable comedy to success, pivoting from a pun-a-minute to the innate comedy of trying to communicate the unspeakable with someone who couldn’t care to listen.
Check out if it's worth your time with this review on Substack
I run an account for my film podcast (I post clips and make my own memes). and I’ve casually heard that the way to growth is “post, post, post!!” but have also heard that posting more than once in a 24hr period will hurt both posts chances of max exposure.
Which is the way to go for TikTok and Instagram?
I’m writing an article about digital paywalls and how businesses are using it to make us pay monthly for what we used to own outright.
I want to highlight instances where predatory trends by companies were popularized but either legislation or public pressure halted that potentially path to revenue.
It wouldn’t be something like the government making public schools free because that’s a non-capitalist activity.
I’d appreciate any examples you can think of!
I just submitted my first podcast episode and wanted to start publishing podcast clips immediately but want people to be able to follow the clips to an actual podcast. I read it can take up to a week, what have fellow RSS.com users experienced
I just watched the ninth episode of Band of Brothers and a huge element is the question of whether the local Germans knew what was happening. Nazism was clearly a wide movement and it’s disdain for their hated groups wasn’t subtle.
I am very interested in how Germany rehabilitated itself and dealt with the shame of their horrors. Bonus points on if there’s a book that discusses the parallels of the actions taken after WW2 Germany and The American Civil War South.
I'm considering starting a podcast with my childhood friends, akin to what The Ringer has with The Midnight Boys about media (working on narrowing our focus). The problem is that we all live in different cities and they don't already own microphones. I currently have a Blue Yeti Mic and my biggest question is if we'd all need to have the same microphone set up or if it'll sound weird.
If we did it, the biggest thing would obviously be to just start and get content out there, but I'd like to avoid unnecessary pitfalls!
I'm thinking obviously Bill Cosby (before the fall from grace), Bob Saget, maybe Bryan Cranston and Steve Carrell, are there any other people who's dad characters are so iconic that they've been culturally codified as father figures?
Matcha and Ube products are everywhere. I was first introduced to them via milk tea but they're in ice cream, french toast, and seemingly everything these days. This boom in demand as these ingredients become viral leads to a increase in price and a dilution of the cultural significance of these very culturally linked ingredients.
Do people even know that Ube is a Filipino ingredient?
It's worrisome what is happening and I wrote about it at length in my substack, read at the link below!
Henry has a new movie with Guy Ritchie in theaters at the moment and while it's not the best, it's the last time we'll see him in theaters likely before his Highlander movie (release date not confirmed) with Chad Stahelski.
Check out if it's worth your time with this review on Substack