Predator: Badlands is certainly an imaginative adaptation of a Springsteen song

Harold D. Craft Jr.'s 1970 PhD thesis, "Radio Observations of the Pulse Profiles and Dispersion Measures of Twelve Pulsars". Page 215 I am getting some Unknown Pleasure from this....

New York City, six months from now, according to the GOP:

Meanwhile

If I'm reading the news correctly, the new mayor of New York has defeated Donald Trump for the presidency, which is bad for Democrats

If my study of film history is correct, in the 1940s it was customary for all murder victims to carry a matchbook from the last nightclub they visited.

Watching Black Angel (1946) on Criterion, and Constance Dowling as the nightclub singer is a dead ringer for Diane Kruger in Inglourious Basterds.

LOIS: Did you get potatoes? SUPERMAN: Ah fuck. (flies around the world 10,000 times) LOIS: Yay, you remembered potatoes!

I bet you five bucks Stephen Miller convinced Trump to send troops to Los Angeles by showing him the first ten minutes of Predator 2.

Okay everybody, pack it up

Okay, I have to get back to work.

Apologies.

The real lesson here is that I can't sleep.

Man, they're already playing seasonal depression music at the mall.

I liked the "Sexy Edgar Allan Poe" so much, I'm putting together an idea for next year's costume.

Finally, Sexy Edgar Allan Poe

Costume of the year:

I don't want to be an alarmist, but I was typing "threats to..." in a text and it suggested "Democracy"

1936 ad for Schlitz beer, emphasizing its health benefits:

If World War II has taught us anything, it’s that we should have a lot more state funded art schools and they should accept all applicants

The Amazing One-Headed Cat:

This is Greg Bovino, the Border Patrol officer who is currently enforcing the border we share with (checks notes) Lake Michigan. At some point, these people will just start wearing swastikas and death's-head insignia and then make it illegal to use the word "Nazi."

If you're in the mood for a horny-vampire double feature, 1971's Daughters of Darkness and 1983's The Hunger make a GREAT double feature. Both feature queen vampires, played by European actresses best known for their work in the French New Wave, taking a paycheck for a meaty horror role.

New rendering of the Trump Ballroom just dropped

Current mood:

"5 out of 5 stars! This deck is even better than it looks and the booklet is brilliant. It also is stored in a very cool box that looks like a book. It would make a great gift for yourself or someone who enjoys horror, Tarot, or both!" -- rory, Oct 15, 2025 toddalcottgraphics.etsy.com

FOUND HIM!

Seven of Pentacles, Horror Tarot: toddalcottgraphics.etsy.com

Reddy Kilowatt waits for his test results.

HORROR TAROT: FOUR OF PENTACLES Suit of Pentacles was a pulp magazine that had a brief run from February 1939 to May 1940. It belonged to the “weird menace” sub-genre of pulp magazines. This issue features “The Collector,” about a man who develops a serum shrinks people to six inches in size.

FYI, Trump used to pull this shit all the time with his construction projects, promise one thing, then just build whatever the fuck he wants, and if anyone complains just sue the shit out of them

Sure, call it whatever you want, "Tear down the Trump Ballroom" will be a great slogan

FIVE OF SWORDS Issue Five of The Suit of Swords features “What’s for Dinner?” about a housewife who decides she’s had enough of her milquetoast husband. 1/2

Maybe he's doing all this so when the pee tape finally comes out, everyone will be like "so what?"

ACE OF SWORDS: The “Ace” issue of The Suit of Swords comics kicks things off with the story of legendary pirate Jean Lafitte, who is buried in a Louisiana cemetery and rises from the grave to seek his lost treasure. toddalcottgraphics.etsy.com

I'm listening to a podcast about the life of Heinrich Himmler, creator of the SS. Himmler was a nerdy social climber who loved fairy tales about a mythical ancient Germany and craved to belong to an elite, exclusive club of aristocrats -- 1/3

IN CASE OF FIRE, BREAK GLASS: Windows, mirrors, glasses, whatever, go for it dude, now's your chance!

THE KNIGHT OF WANDS is a card about energy, passion, and inspired action. For instance, our Knight has an axe, which he is about to use to chop up his wife and son. The lesson is that not every goal is noble, and not every prize, no matter how it shines, is attainable. toddalcottgraphics.etsy.com

Couldn't have said it better myself.

Mike Johnson looks like what you'd get if you went to an AI site and said "Make a guy named Mike Johnson."

MILLION DOLLAR IDEA: a cannabis-infused coffee called High Ground

an unendurable length of time

SIX OF WANDS Cheers of joy echo through the arena as an alien overlord brainwashes the masses into mindless obeisance. Perhaps you have also been celebrated recently. Perhaps you deserved it. Perhaps a rowdy upstart in the crowd is preparing to take you down. toddalcottgraphics.etsy.com

Ikea (1973)