Marcus Johnson

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Late Gen X. Author Blu Rays for OCN Distribution and occasionally Vinegar Syndrome. No I can't tell you about the upcoming releases. They / Them

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Marcus Johnson@mpjohnson· 5d

Oh here we go it's an old @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social tweet

Tweet from @drewtoothpaste

"In 1988, Front 242 asked anton corbijn to direct the video for their song Headhunter. it wasn't until the band got the finished video back that they realized Corbijn thought they said Egghunter, so the video is full of eggs"

Black and white screenshots from the Front 242 Headhunter video featuring a woman with an egg shaped hat and multiple people carrying / holding / eating eggs

Marcus Johnson@mpjohnson· 13d

If I understand the trailer correctly, in this scene the mom is telling young Steve Gutenberg that his father just became in POW in the Vietnam War. So, yeah... 🤷

A teenage boy and his mother are standing in a very modern kitchen with a flat screen television on the wall behind them. In the background Dan Lauria and a young boy sit at a table in in a breakfast book.

Marcus Johnson@mpjohnson· 13d

Oh, it turns out Blue Harbor is basically a "vanity" movie distributor. That makes more sense as to why this is getting released. variety.com/2023/film/ne...

Blue Harbor Entertainment says it will offer marketing and distribution services, overseeing a movie’s rollout across theatrical, home entertainment and digital streaming platforms, as well as arranging its television deals. In return it will charge a service fee. The goal is to help filmmakers find a better way to self-distribute their movies. Every year, several movies hit the festival circuit looking to sell themselves to a distributor, but the reality is that many fail to secure a deal in a timely fashion or have to settle for an arrangement that isn’t terribly profitable.

Marcus Johnson@mpjohnson· Jul 8

There are a lot of people reading a misleading headline and not the article who think the waymo literally drove the car to the police station with the kids trapped inside, which is of course not what happened. This line from an NBC story makes it sound like the doors weren't even locked

Waymo shared the car's location with authorities and remotely disabled it near 20th Avenue and El Camino Real while officers moved into position. To keep the teens from leaving, the company told them the vehicle was experiencing mechanical trouble, police said.

Marcus Johnson@mpjohnson· Jul 1

Here it is: www.stuff.co.nz/entertainmen...

You can draw a line from Pink Flamingos to Jackass quite easily.

"Oh sure, absolutely", Waters says proudly. "And I love Jackass. Johnny [Knoxville] is great; he's a sweetheart. He's sensitive and funny and he's not at all homophobic, but he's also definitely straight. But what's amusing to me," and the chuckle is seeping in to this story, "is that I went to Jackass 3D here in Baltimore. And I loved it! But the theatre is full of grown men with their young sons. They're all watching these guys on the screen shoving things up their butt. I mean it's a thin line between these worlds, isn't it?"

Marcus Johnson@mpjohnson· Jun 26

Sadly I can't find the actual video but this made me think of a very early SNL skit with Eric Idle and Dan Aykroyd "drag racing"

Eric Idle and Dan Aykroyd circa 1976 in stripper outfits with boas, stockings, heels and blonde wigs running a foot race

Marcus Johnson@mpjohnson· Jun 10

Getty photo labeled Osaka Central "Pablic" Hall

Marcus Johnson@mpjohnson· May 29

Statement from the studio musicians behind Milli Vanilli

Marcus Johnson@mpjohnson· May 9

Seems like the choice of term might have originated with this statement from the airport, but it's still a weird choice

Statement from DEN on incident tonight: Frontier Flight 4345 reported striking a pedestrian during takeoff at DEN at approximately 11:19 p.m. on Friday, May 8, 2026. There was a brief engine fire that was promptly extinguished by the Denver Fire Dept. (1/2)
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Marcus Johnson@mpjohnson· May 5

Still from Clerks (1994). Dante and Randall listen as a man says "You know, any contractor willing to work on that Death Star knew the risks. If they were killed, it was their own fault."

Marcus Johnson@mpjohnson· May 4

Sounds like his management might have pushed her on him if he was wary from the beginning variety.com/2026/music/n...

“TOUR UPDATE: M.I.A is no longer on this tour. I told my management to send a notice to her team before we started tour that I didn’t want anything offensive at my shows, cuz I already knew what time it was, and I was assured things were understood. After the last couple shows, I’ve been flooded with messages from fans that were upset by her rants. This, to me, is very disappointing, and I wont have someone on my tour making offensive remarks that upsets my fanbase. Thank you for understanding. Rager.”

Marcus Johnson@mpjohnson· May 3

But what if the cats develop a taste for human flesh?

A poster for Ted V Mikels' 1971 movie "The Corpse Grinders." A pair of unscrupulous men rob graves and turn the deceased into cat food. Soon pet cats develop a taste for human flesh and attack their owners.

Marcus Johnson@mpjohnson· Apr 22

He seems to have a very... Interesting relationship with the character www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Grammer was asked about the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday. While he said he couldn’t speak too much about it, he was overly excited to return as the character, who he likened to legendary activist Martin Luther King Jr.

“To come back as Beast has been one of the great experiences of my life,” said Grammer. “Because I always loved the character. I always thought of him as sort of the Martin Luther King of the mutant generation. He stood for rights, for equality, just a beautiful character…strong, tough, a little hairy, a little blue.”

Marcus Johnson@mpjohnson· Apr 16

Lol aren't you just riffing on this old Twitter joke

god: i have made Mankind
angels: you fucked up a perfectly good monkey is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

Marcus Johnson@mpjohnson· Mar 30

I'm driving a 2019 (final model year) Ford Flex and I'd say it's the last real station wagon an American car manufacturer put out. It's got the ground clearance of a sedan and a ludicrous 350hp turbo charged engine. I will keep this silly vehicle going as long as it will let me.

Marcus Johnson@mpjohnson· Mar 29

Yeah I think it was run through an AI upscale, here's a much clearer copy from the IMDB page for "It Came From 42nd Street"

Photo of 42nd Street movie marquees during a snowstorm, probably mid 1980s. Several action, Kung fu and comedy movies are on the marquees

Marcus Johnson@mpjohnson· Mar 29

(Na-na-na, na, na, na, na, na, na) (Na-na-na, na, na, na, na)

A delicious looking loin of back bacon (aka Canadian bacon)

Marcus Johnson@mpjohnson· Mar 27

Somehow I think Mick decided on the costume before they cast the part 😂

He wrote a screenplay of Clive Barker's "The Body Politic" to serve as the film's second part after "Chattery Teeth."[3] Casting director Lynn Kressel, who previously worked with Garris on The Stand (1994) and The Shining (1997), came up with the idea of Christopher Lloyd as Quicksilver; while the network loved the decision, Garris was a bit skeptical, reasoning that he want a "little more seductive" actor to play the part.[3] In the end, however, Garris loved the decision.[3]

Marcus Johnson@mpjohnson· Mar 21

Cillian Murphy knows how to wear a hat

Cillian Murphy in a photo from Port Magazine in 2012 wearing a Firenze hat while resting his head on a wooden table

Cillian Murphy in a photo from Port Magazine in 2012 wearing a Venezia hat while gazing wistfully out a window

Marcus Johnson@mpjohnson· Mar 12

Marcus Johnson@mpjohnson· Mar 9

Anakin / Padme meme

Anakin: well here we are down in my catacombs
Padme: For the amontillado?
Anakin:
Padme: face is half covered by bricks

Marcus Johnson@mpjohnson· Mar 1

This would genuinely be hilarious

Enforcement against Linux distributions, however, is likely to be problematic. Distros like Arch, Ubuntu, Debian, and Gentoo have no centralized account infrastructure, with users downloading ISOs from mirrors worldwide, and can modify source code freely. These small distros lack legal teams or resources to implement the required API, so a more realistic outcome for non-compliant distros is a disclaimer that the software is not intended for use in California.

Marcus Johnson@mpjohnson· Feb 22

Surely this is what you meant

Marcus Johnson@mpjohnson· Feb 14

Looks like something they had made up as promotional items for David Lynch's Dune, but I'm not sure about the Happy New Year part

Picture of a young Kyle McLachlan wearing a promotional Dune t-shirt with no sleeves and a bandanna

Marcus Johnson@mpjohnson· Feb 5

Still of Kate Bush from Wuthering Heights music video, badly PhotoShopped into an image of a night sky looking through a window.

Text: "If you're cold, she's cold. Let her in your window."

Marcus Johnson@mpjohnson· Jan 27

Kraft Bacon & Tomato was the best salad dressing ever and it's a crime they discontinued it

1985 advertisement showing a bottle of creamy Bacon & Tomato dressing nestled in a pile of avocados. The slogan "Kraft Salad Days are here!" is at the top

Marcus Johnson@mpjohnson· Jan 26

The downside to this approach is when the majority response is "bro your house is literally on fire get out now why are you on Reddit" www.reddit.com/r/AskElectri...

Recent post from r/AskElectricians. Most common response was "get the hell out of there why are you on Reddit"

"We started smelling burnt wire and I noticed that my breaker box is glowing orange. Also there is one breaker that tripped when I plugged in a small space heater. My room gets cold and I was using it to supplement my heat pump/aux heat. I turned off the heater and the orange glow went away.

A little while later I noticed the smell again and saw that it was glowing orange again. My aux heat was running. I turned off the aux heat and the glow went away.

I’m in the middle of a snow storm and can’t find an electrician. Any advice? We have the breaker that tripped turned off."

Marcus Johnson@mpjohnson· Jan 25

It is, as well as Hulu

Screenshot of the search window on HBO Max showing Have I Got News For You as available with 4 seasons and a new episode

Marcus Johnson@mpjohnson· Jan 15

Here's the relevant section, although I wish he gave more detail than vaguely stating "future prosecutions" Full transcript: mn.gov/governor/new...

You have an absolute right to peacefully film ICE agents as they conduct their activities.

“So carry your phone with you at all times.

“And if you see ICE in your neighborhood, take out that phone and hit record.

“Help us create a database of the atrocities against Minnesotans – not just to establish a record for posterity, but to bank evidence for future prosecution.

Marcus Johnson@mpjohnson· Jan 14