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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From the Couch Hole: Scanning Life Through the Picture Window
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we were afraid of Nosferatu who moves the dead. The reason is Sriracha Doritos on the day ...
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From the Couch Hole: I’m Not a Perfect Person
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, a complete unknown took shelter from the storm during the forever war. We are lady parts who ...
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From the Couch Hole: I Came in from the Wilderness, A Creature Void of Form
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we were tangled up in blue because of the twisters. The masters of the air will speak ...
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From the Couch Hole: We Just Saw It From a Different Point of View
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the instigators said you're a big girl now so get the hot cocoa with marshmallow. The elf ...
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From the Couch Hole: Best of the Rest 2024 – I’d Just Allow a Fragment of Your Life to Wander Free
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 TV/Streaming 2024 – I’m Living in a Movie That You’re Writing in Your Head
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 ...
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From the Couch Hole: Best of Film 2024 – Where Are You Going, So Full of Hope?
By Shawn Bourdo |
From 2005 through 2013 and then, after a brief hiatus, again from 2017-2023, I have punctuated each year with an ...
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From the Couch Hole: Our Conversation Was Short and Sweet
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the wolfs stole this old heart of mine with a blitz to Burger King for the fried ...
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From the Couch Hole: I’m Not Too Proud to Shout It
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the limey gave us an ode to a boy and chocolate Chex. The Penguin was wicked in ...
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From the Couch Hole: Exaggeration on the Truth
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the bad monkey met up with the baby driver who said, "Open your eyes and squeeze me." ...
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From the Couch Hole: Let Me Show You the Light
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the postman rang twice, once for the lemon pepper potato chips and a second time for the ...
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From the Couch Hole: It’s Quiet When the Tide is Low
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, Baby Jane was watching "I Love Lucy" while eating Chex. The Adventures of Tintin couldn't hold a ...
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From the Couch Hole: Now You’re Moving in High Society
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the hot fuzz was looking for Shaun of the Dead who escaped on a lifeboat. The wild ...
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From the Couch Hole: I Will Be Your Storm at Seas
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the oddity returned from beyond the grave on Sugar Hill. Shirley Temple gave us the genesis of ...
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From the Couch Hole: Before They Turn the Summer into Dust
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, last week out in Stumptown, the Joker found that love is a stranger with Plucky Duck and ...
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From the Couch Hole: To Tempt You In and Drive You Far Away
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, at Salem's Lot, Carrie went down the old Spanish trail for some night ghoulery. It ended up ...
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From the Couch Hole: Let Me Tell You a Tale
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the God Emperor of Dune was on the carefree highway with bad Ronald. They ate Coca-Cola Oreos ...
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From the Couch Hole: Let Me Slip Away on You
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the humans would fade into you. It wasn't imaginary that young Frankenstein showed up with the Monster ...
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From the Couch Hole: Strange You Never Knew
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we called out "Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice" and got an American honey with a case of a crazy little ...
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From the Couch Hole: I Gotta Be Cool, Relax
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, it wasn't just sunny, it was aftersun even though you like it darker. You can roll me ...
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From the Couch Hole: I’m Just a Vagabond
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the American refugee witnessed Mary Jane's last dance to a passage for trumpet on the causeway. The ...
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From the Couch Hole: You’ve Got to Put on That Party Dress
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the Alien on Romulus is versus the Predator who is wondering where the lions are. The robot ...
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From the Couch Hole: The World Survives Into Another Day
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the bad monkey would jump at the alien resurrection. We would speak no evil about Korean-style Ruffles ...
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From the Couch Hole: I Get Up and Nothin’ Gets Me Down
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the sharper cuckoo wasn't sunny because he was lost without your love. The three aliens played a ...
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From the Couch Hole: I Can’t Believe It’s Real
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, Didi and the Hellcats found a higher love at the point break with a star-spangled splash. The ...
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From the Couch Hole: Facing Our Fear and Standing Out There Alone
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the chaser alien met Deadpool and Wolverine but there was no surrender to the power of love ...
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From the Couch Hole: Don’t Need No Credit Card to Ride This Train
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, Oppenheimer was a problemista who took a liberty chill. Longlegs said love lies bleeding, but our lips ...
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From the Couch Hole: Pay No Mind to What They Say
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, on Janet Planet, Maxxxine went to the United States of Tara to have s'mores and churros. Garlic ...
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From the Couch Hole: Slow Down You’re Doing Fine
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, Logan and the Bear came straight from the heart to the quiet place. They were back in ...
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From the Couch Hole: And All My Words Would Just Fall Out of Line
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, Wolverine and Deadpool were the children of dune and together in electric dreams. It was the night ...
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From the Couch Hole: I’ll Never Find a Better Prize
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, Deadpool couldn't fight the feeling that he liked the Police and Nashville Hot pretzels. Wolverine's origin came ...
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From the Couch Hole: It’s Time to Bring This Ship Into the Shore
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, Frankie went to Hollywood in a Ferrari during a purple rain. The crime story was about the ...
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From the Couch Hole: Keep the Vampires from Your Door
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, Furiosa met with the Idea Man to say, "Please let me get what I want." That included ...
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From the Couch Hole: Good Times for a Change
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, I played your song out on Fury Road. I saw the TV glow in a quiet place ...
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From the Couch Hole: Or a Man Who Makes Potions in a Travelin’ Show
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the ring of terror was beyond Thunderdome over the cheeseburger melts. Madame Web took the sweet child ...
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