From the Couch Hole: A Tender Blade of New Green Grass
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the voice was shining darker than amber against the dreadful lemon sky. There were stranger things afoot ...
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From the Couch Hole: Won’t You Take Me Back to School
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, last year was on both sides now for poker face. The dead man had knives out on ...
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From the Couch Hole: Best of the Rest 2025 – The Days Grow Short, the Nights Are Gone
By Shawn Bourdo |
From 2005-2013 and 2014-2020, I punctuated each year with an ever increasingly complex Best of List. In 2021, I returned ...
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From the Couch Hole: Best of Streaming/TV 2025 – Marshmallows Are for Team Players
By Shawn Bourdo |
From 2005-2013 and 2017-2020, I punctuated each year with an ever increasingly complex Best-Of List. In 2021, I returned to ...
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From the Couch Hole: Best of Film 2025 – This Might Get Unpleasant… Or More Unpleasant
By Shawn Bourdo |
From 2005 through 2013 and then, after a brief hiatus, again from 2017-2024, I have punctuated each year with an ...
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From the Couch Hole: And Ice Cream Castles in the Air
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the wicked sorcerer was spirited away after stealing banana caramel Cheerios while claiming no one is to ...
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From the Couch Hole: You Can Look at the Menu, but You Just Can’t Eat
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the nice Indian boy obeyed the rule of Jenny Pen and met the unquiet dead for Cinnamon ...
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From the Couch Hole: I Hear You Calling, but I Can’t Come Home Right Now
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, on the road to Omaha, the running man found love so right. His companion carried the works ...
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From the Couch Hole: Start Living for the Moment
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, Rocky had a return to innocence when he went back to the future to the happy days ...
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From the Couch Hole: And If You Want, Then Start to Laugh
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, Bugonia lived in a house of dynamite because who wants to live forever. We went beyond the ...
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From the Couch Hole: The World Has Only One Sweet Moment Set Aside for Us
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we said welcome to Derry even though it's no country for old men. Honey don't forget that ...
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From the Couch Hole: You’re Gonna Hear Me on Your Radio
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the silent phone didn't warn us about the substance that came with your love. The ghoul gave ...
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From the Couch Hole: I’ve Got to Know What You’re Doin’
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the chair company was in the deep red after Godzilla vs. Mothra destroyed Tokyo. The situation called ...
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From the Couch Hole: Moving Through the Doorway of a Nation
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the dream on becoming a guinea fowl went from highest to lowest for Stranger pizza Doritos. The ...
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From the Couch Hole: One Half Won’t Do
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the trilogy of terror happened when you shut your eyes and you dreamed of electric sheep. Ultraman ...
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From the Couch Hole: Shut Your Eyes and Think of Somewhere
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the Time Lord was on the road to Gandolfo for his trial. The monkey heard the rhythm ...
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From the Couch Hole: I’ll Wait Out of Time with You in My Heart
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah vs. the legend of Ochi was to see who was looking for #1. ...
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From the Couch Hole: Every Day Is an Endless Train
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the sign o' the times was a clue to the change unearthed in the time capsule. Jaws ...
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From the Couch Hole: When It’s All Too Late, It’s All Too Late
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we said farewell, my lovely in Terminus to the Chips Ahoy weapons. The opus of toffee creamer ...
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From the Couch Hole: Show Me a River That’s So Deep
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, on Alien Earth, Shin Godzilla was at square one with fudge stripes. The timecop said the hard ...
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From the Couch Hole: You Can’t Say What You Don’t Know
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the bear said, "Farewell, my lovely," but hold on if you are in the mood for love ...
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From the Couch Hole: Are You the One You Want to Be?
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, sinners never flinch when they say there will be blood. And so it goes, there will be ...
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From the Couch Hole: And You’re the Only One Who Knows
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, on Sunset Boulevard in 'Salem's Lot there was an incredible theft. Something so right came in the ...
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From the Couch Hole: And I Was in Crazy Motion
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the big sleep brought dreams of first steps and if you know how to love me, you'll ...
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From the Couch Hole: Breathless Drive on a Downtown Street
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, Superman had one summer dream of root beer float milk in Eddington. There was a double sin ...
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From the Couch Hole: Deep Waters Flow, Out to the Sea
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the people at the Institute said, "I wish you were here" during the long goodbye. Then 28 ...
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From the Couch Hole: Did They Get You to Trade Your Heroes for Ghosts?
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, Parthenope was in Manchester by the Sea with twisted queso. The third-floor flat parasite said, "I'll be ...
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From the Couch Hole: Can You Feel The Light Shine?
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the Bear and the Brutalist promised you a miracle. Then 28 weeks later they showed up at ...
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From the Couch Hole: Summer Breeze and Brilliant Light
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the life of Chuck had a coda 28 days later. There was a glittering prize but one ...
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From the Couch Hole: Shine On, Shine the Lights on Me
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, someone, somewhere in the Summertime there was a Phoenician scheme for the razor girl to find Howdy ...
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From the Couch Hole: Brilliant Days, Wake Up on Brilliant Days
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, Jaws caused quite a fallout for his dead reckoning. The judgement from outer space proved that love ...
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From the Couch Hole: I Think It’s Time to Get Ready
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the Rogue Nation was all I need. That and a friendship with Poirot that wasn't close to ...
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From the Couch Hole: When the Singer’s Gone / Let the Song Go On
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the Blade Runner believes in miracles of the dragons domain. The impossible mission of the ghost protocol ...
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From the Couch Hole: I’ve Been So Many Places, I’ve Seen Some Things
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the blue eyes crying in the rain fed the seeds of doom. The mission impossible was Goldfinger ...
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From the Couch Hole: In a Land That Knows No Parting
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the Thunderbolts* upon inspection became the New Avengers for the good times. The escape artist grabbed the ...
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From the Couch Hole: Let’s Just Be Glad We Had Some Time Together
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, Tuck everlasting and the eternal daughter had an Alpha child. The wolf man took it one day ...
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From the Couch Hole: Is Good for You, You, You
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, when love breaks down there is time enough for love during warfare. You gotta have fun during ...
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From the Couch Hole: Have You Seen the Weather
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, last week the Monkey Wrench Gang took on the emotional baggage of Y2K with some queer s'mores. ...
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From the Couch Hole: It’s Like Sugar Sometimes
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the Righteous Gemstones went to Tom Lake looking for the beautiful loser. The death of a unicorn ...
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From the Couch Hole: You Realize You Just Can’t Have It All
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, Medusa was in Cold Harbor with Aguirre. The four Musketeers discovered that love hurts but late-night jalapeno ...
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From the Couch Hole: I Know a Thing or Two, I Learned from You
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, Basquiat and Lady Blue listened to the Anderson Tapes with Barney Miller. All roads taste like salt ...
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From the Couch Hole: You’re Showing Me a Different Side
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, Anora was carrying her black bag when she boarded the Millionaire's Express saying, "I feel like makin' ...
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From the Couch Hole: Watchin’ Winter Turn to Spring
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the fire woman showed us that we live in a time where all we imagine is light ...
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From the Couch Hole: Twistin’ Like a Flame in a Slow Dance
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, there was vengeance most fowl in the meaning of dreams. The flow of friendship described in the ...
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From the Couch Hole: Tell Me What the Problem Is
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, Peter and Max took on Captain America in his brave new world that included Frosted Flakes ice ...
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From the Couch Hole: It’s Getting Near Dawn
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, Sherlock Jr was investigating some helter skelter at the summer's end. Charlie says, "Same spirits, new forms, ...
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“Popeye, You Still Picking Your Feet in Poughkeepsie?”: Five Essential Gene Hackman Films
By Shawn Bourdo |
When I heard about Gene Hackman's death this morning, I didn't need to pull up a filmography to remind myself ...
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From the Couch Hole: Just Come on Home
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, there was a presence from the old days of Woe's Hollow. A different man with a sore ...
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From the Couch Hole: Good Times I Remember
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the Continental Op was called in because on September 5, somebody somewhere was infected. The real pain ...
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From the Couch Hole: I’ve Got Too Much Energy to Switch Off My Mind
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, babygirl was on her last night in Soho with the young Americans. We said, "Hello, Ms. Cobel" ...
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