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patrickcaldwell.bsky.social

Portlander, cyclist, movie addict, (very) infrequent writer. Posts about: Portland (my current home), retro video games, film, biking, Austin (my former home), media, the occasional really good croissant.

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And that’s to say nothing of the numerous assaults by the Baseball Furies, the Van Cortlandt Rangers and the Gramercy Riffs.

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I know they’re advertising the Final Reckoning as the last Mission: Impossible but Tom Cruise really needs to make one more so that we can realize the dream of an all-M:I Cinematrix grid.

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The virgin Snyder Superman letting his father die in a tornado vs. the Chad Gunn Superman violating international sovereignty to save the lives of children.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

submitted 41 days ago • 40 comments

I predict Chicagoans are going to be absolutely insufferable about being able to claim a Pope.

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I've read a lot of books on parenting, listened to a lot of podcasts, and perused a lot of magazine articles, and not a single one has reflected my lived experience of being a dad better than this.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

I have no idea what the K in Ursula K. Le Guin stands for and I refuse to look it up because I want to believe it’s short for “Karate.”

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

I know what I typed, Google.

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Thinking about cashing out my entire 401(k) and putting the money into copies of Panzer Dragoon Saga instead. Seems more stable.

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

Tariffs making your game consoles too expensive? Thankfully this problem was solved years ago. Simply set up a factory to manufacture the Sega Master System in your country

submitted 75 days ago • 50 comments

Remembering how, in middle school, I took a computer class where one of the assignments was to create your own website. So I did what any red-blooded American boy would do: I built a Geocities fansite for THE GHOST AND THE DARKNESS.

submitted 77 days ago • 4 comments

Perhaps its my own location bias talking, but I've always considered Toobin' to be the ultimate Texas video game, seeing as how it's basically "Saturday in New Braunfels: The Arcade Game." RELEASE A NEW TOOBIN' GAME, YOU COWARDS!

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RIP to action cinema legend Richard Norton, pictured here with Stevie Nicks. Before starting his screen fighting career Norton was bodyguard for Fleetwood Mac, ABBA, John Belushi, and David Bowie. That’s right: all the cocainest people in the cocainest decade.

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

The stage is set for the ultimate localization move: a game called "Megaman: Rockman"

submitted 83 days ago • 5 comments

Portland needs a funicular. We have some mondo, publicly accessible hills in this town. Shove a funicular in there somewhere. We're losing the funicular race with Los Angeles. It's flatly unacceptable.

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

Now that I live in the future world of the 2020s, my life is far less regularly imperiled by the yakuza than the books I was reading in the 90s led me to expect. In the gulf between their perceived and actual threat, they are the quicksand of international criminal organizations.

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So excited to see Black Bag this weekend. Fassbender! Blanchett! BROSNAN! That’s more dimly lit sexy older spies than you can shake a stick at.

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I find the use of "The Revolution Starts Now" in the Andor S2 trailer sort of ominous. That Steve Earle record was but one of a vast wave of anti-Bush albums released by beloved rock and country icons circa 2004. Did the revolution, in fact, start then? Friends, it turns out it very much did not.

submitted 114 days ago • 0 comments

Looked up at a TV in the gym for half-a-second, saw a chyron that read "Men in yoga debate?" and walked over to the elliptical where the giant pillar in front of it obscures my view of every screen.

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There is perhaps no greater joy than checking your mail and finding a new print issue of @theonion.com mere moments before you’re about to hit the john.