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My Sincere Pitch for a New Muppets Movie

January 5, 2025January 6, 2025by rikimjadamsLeave a Comment

When the pandemic started in 2020, part of my escapism from the dread of the moment was going back and rewatching the entirety of the old Muppet Show. And it felt good, letting the nostalgia wash over me, but also it made me sad. As I continued watching more Muppet content, the movies, then the later TV shows, I felt like something got lost along the way, and it was the earnestness with which the Muppets and even the humans around them behaved. Even in moments of commentary or weirdo subversion, there was a genuineness that I felt fell away a bit. Recent years felt like there was more snark, more bite, more irony, even in how we as viewers engage with the Muppets. I was pleasantly surprised by the Electric Mayhem focused show with Lilly Singh and Tahj Mowry from a few years back, that felt like a love letter to music through the heartfelt lens of the Muppets. And it gave me hope that perhaps more Muppets could be coming. Then news came that a certain Warner Bros owned streaming service might be looking to off-load Sesame Street, and I didn’t just have hope, I had an idea, a movie pitch for how to reunite the Muppets and the folks of Sesame Street for the first time since the early 2000s.

I guess in order for this to happen Disney would have to buy the rights to Sesame Street to have them under the same umbrella as the Muppets. I’m not here to discuss the pros and cons of monopolistic IP hoarding and such. I’m here to talk about Muppets. So…

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The Fifty Best Songs Of 2024

December 31, 2024by Matt DrufkeLeave a Comment

Well, if we can say anything about the state of music in 2024, we can certainly say that it was decidedly less horny than last year.

Look, there were definitely still some efforts to keep the mojo running in music. Sabrina Carpenter, Tinashe and Addison Rae all did their best to get us going like so many did in 2023. But there was not enough to overcome some of the bigger feelings we got this year: Rage. Contempt. Loneliness. Hopelessness.

Because of this, joyous songs (and there were a good number of them) felt like overwelcome lifeboats getting us to the next day. And even with this year’s crop of the best songs taking us to darker, more introspective places, there was still so much amazing music to share. Let’s take a look at the 50 best songs from a very good year of music.

Yes, there’s a playlist at the bottom of the article. Let’s boogie!

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“Have You Heard of Martini Ranch?” by Riki MJ Adams

December 9, 2024December 8, 2024by rikimjadamsLeave a Comment

“Have you heard of Martini Ranch?”
It’s a question that I ask of anyone who gets to know me on a long enough timeline. More often than not, I’m not even met with a faint glimmer of recognition. Which always blows my mind until I remember that I also had to be introduced to Martini Ranch long after it had ceased to exist.

I remember exactly how it happened, I was working as a truck driver in 2017, and I had a lot of time to listen to podcasts on the road. A personal favorite was the Witch Finger Horror Podcast. I’d started listening to it as a fan of the band Kittie (who still rips by the way and just dropped a phenomenal album back in June), because the vocalist Morgan Lander was one of three hosts along with Megan Rae, and Yasmina Ketita of Rue Morgue Magazine. As I was listening to episode 19, titled “Near Dark and our tribute to Bill Paxton” (he had died earlier that year) I heard the name Martini Ranch for the first time.

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How to Unhook a Bra: Sex in Zach Snyder’s Rebel Mooniverse

August 15, 2024December 8, 2024by rikimjadamsLeave a Comment

Zack Snyder is possibly one of the most fascinating directors in pop culture today. He’s certainly one of the most divisive, whether for the content of his films or for his… let’s say “enthusiastic” fanbase.

Cries of “Release the Snyder Cut!” still echo through the halls of twitter, usually couched next to the worst cultural and political takes one can imagine in a steadily MAGAfying online space, even while Snyder himself professes liberal politics and endorses Democratic candidates.

Is Zack Snyder a woke Chad, a MAGA chud, the coolest dude, a giant dork…?

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I Am Not Touching You- written by Jordan Holmes

August 5, 2024August 5, 2024by The Fancy BoysLeave a Comment

You are not interested in why you are wrong or what you are wrong about! You are interested in what you are right about! When you and someone are having a conversation, you forget that they are more interested in them being right than they are being wrong. Especially when they are wrong!

How long did it take for you to turn on me or turn on to me or turn around to me or turn in my direction? What changed?

You and I are in the exact same place we were before you were mad at me for something I said. You and I are in the exact same place. You are in fucking Canada or whatever! What did I change? Nothing!

But what did you change? You changed the way you thought about something for one fucking second. YOU were challenged by an idea that I promise you, you have not heard! Did I hurt you? Did I fuck with your day? Did I find you and do anything?

Then why are you losing your god damn mind? What is happening? What can I do? I can’t do shit but write! I can’t do shit!

I cannot build anything, my hands are so soft I almost disgust myself! I cannot raise a child. I cannot do anything with money other than buy food and then give the rest away. Ask people around me, it concerns them! I am fucking useless!

I have nothing but words. I have nothing but my voice. I have nothing! Because you are still not listening to me!

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Built The Burn Thee Silver Mt. Zion – written by Jordan Holmes

July 11, 2024July 10, 2024by The Fancy BoysLeave a Comment

I am out to hurt your feelings! I am out here intending to cause you pain! I want you to feel personally attacked by what I am saying because I am also under attack.

I am under attack by a deluge of voices telling me where we are in relation to 1930s Germany and then saying, “Uh oh”. UH OH!? Motherfuckers Uh Oh? What in God’s fucking name are we doing here?

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Joey Chestnut Is An American Hero, DAMNIT

June 12, 2024by Brandon AndreasenLeave a Comment

Travesty is a word. It’s somehow both a perfect word for this situation while simultaneously not feeling strong enough.

A better word is WHATINTHEUNHOLYHELLARETHEYTHINKING. Yes. One word. Screamed from the top of Mt. Rushmore while riding a Buffalo as a Bruce Springsteen song echoes through the Grand Canyon.

Joey Chestnut is the greatest hot dog eater of all time. 16 team world champion. 76 Hot Dogs in 2021. During Covid! Chestnut is to hot dog eating as Michael Jordan was to basketball, Taylor Swift is to mediocre music, and Elon Musk will always be at ruining things people like. But all of that is gone.

The Major League Eating association, a clown car of an organization that is ostensibly the driving force behind being a big ol’ fat boy competitively, has decided that AMERICAN HERO JOEY CHESTNUT is not allowed to compete in the Independence Day tradition of the Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Championship.

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The Drake/Kendrick Lamar Feud- UPDATE- Drake may be the dumbest person alive…

May 6, 2024by Matt Drufke1 Comment

Last night, after a full day of watching people respond to Kendrick Lamar’s allegations that he was a pedophile running a child trafficking ring out of his mansion, Aubrey Graham (better known to the world as Drake) finally responded. Look, I’ve never been in a feud with Kendrick Lamar. And I’ve never been accused of, by all accounts, the worst crime a person can be accused of. So I’m not going to pretend I have any idea what was running through Graham’s head as I sure he was doom-scrolling social media reading about himself.

His response came in the track “The Heart Part 6”, a reference to a series of songs Lamar has released. And as far as responses go…

It’s really stupid.

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Kendrick Lamar vs. Drake: A (not-so) brief breakdown of music’s biggest story

May 5, 2024May 5, 2024by Matt Drufke1 Comment

Unless you don’t care about popular music at all, you have certainly heard about the feud going on between rap stars Drake and Kendrick Lamar. When the new Taylor Swift album dropped last week, I didn’t think anything would be strong enough to knock the spotlight off of The Tortured Poets Department, but I was wrong and wrong in a big way. For the time being, there is no Tortured Poets, there are two poets out there trying to aggressively torture each other.

But, exactly what is going on?

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FBC 2024 Oscars Coverage, Part IX- Predicting the winners, part 5- The lead acting categories

March 7, 2024March 5, 2024by Matt DrufkeLeave a Comment

Remember when my predictions started and I said Best Animated Feature was the closest major race? If that’s true, then Best Actress is a close second. There are two woman who each have an excellent chance of winning. Best Actor is a little (well, a lot) easier to pick.

Let’s get leading!

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