6 days until I present in my 1st #horrorstudies symposium! The support of the v cool @momoshaty.bsky.social—who didn’t know me from Adam but apparently decided I had worthwhile things to say—has been huge in me getting words out there. @nighttidemag.bsky.social is a great platform, & going places!

There are very few famous people I’ll ask for a picture with, but Bob Mould is one.

The Long Walk aka “Can Somebody Just Do It Already?”: The Movie

Just 2 short weeks until I present at my first #horrorstudies symposium alongside the fabulous @momoshaty.bsky.social & the rest of the @nighttidemag.bsky.social crew. Kick off October by feeding your head! Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/meeting-of...

Anybody have curriculum resources for broad, interdisciplinary Horror Studies at the high school level? I’ve decided to pitch an elective to my school for next year. Will run it under the Contemporary Media & Art course code so incorporate lit, film, video games, etc.

A Clive Baker character costume contest but nobody’s allowed to do Pinhead or Candyman. Predetermined winner is whoever can pull off the Butterfield gold pants.

Book update! S(p)lasher Flicks: The Swimming Pool in Horror Cinema now has a release date! My chlorinated progeny will surface into the world on December 11th. Pre-orders are live in all the places you get books, but especially direct from @mcfarland.bsky.social mcfarlandbooks.com/product/spla...

Excited to give a talk at the virtual #horrorstudies symposium facilitated by the fabulous @nighttidemag.bsky.social! You’ll never guess what my presentation is about… #horrorsky #filmsky

Excited to give a talk at the virtual #horrorstudies symposium facilitated by the fabulous @nighttidemag.bsky.social! You’ll never guess what my presentation is about… #horrorsky #filmsky

Favorite isn’t interesting so I’m gonna post the worst one.

Yoooo October is closer than you think…

I may not be the best at either, but guaranteed I rap better than almost any horror critic, & write better horror criticism than almost any rapper. New album is live at fellowmanrap.bandcamp.com & it’s being SUPER BURIED by the algorithms for reasons not mysterious. youtube.com/watch?v=vD-d...

For my money “The Man Who Walked Home” by James Tiptree Jr. is the best time-travel story ever written.

Summer may be waning, but it's still hot enough to risk a dip in the pool - or, maybe not if you take a look at this list of #horror movie swimming pools by @cullenwade.bsky.social www.horrorhomeroom.com/chlorinated-...

If you like this & would be interested in, say, 96,000 more words on the topic, boy do I have good news for you! Big ups to @horrorhomeroom.bsky.social & @dawnkeetley.bsky.social for being first to ask me to do one of these. www.horrorhomeroom.com/chlorinated-...

Jamie Lee Curtis lowkey had a weird career trajectory bc I can’t think of another nepo baby who started off with 6 straight low-budget slashers, like your parents are Hollywood royalty why are you doing Canadian tax shelter horror

Psyched my story “The Disappearance of Ways of Being” found a home in this beaut from @angrygablepress.bsky.social. “Lost film” with a twist—what if a movie was widely available one day & lost the next?—told by an elderly set dresser who can’t seem to remember & can’t seem to forget. a.co/d/bZ3iyUh

Releasing today.

Narrator: “The movies did not, in fact, reject AI.” www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...

I generally keep this account focused on my writing, but alongside my many varied pursuits, I’m also in a punk band! We put out our first demo a few weeks ago & today is Bandcamp Friday, in case you want to help us fund stickers & other merch. muttergutter.bandcamp.com/album/demo

I haven’t done one of these “one like =“ things but I could use a distraction & horror hot takes are my favorite.

We now need $4825 to publish the first all Black women fantasy graphic novel anthology from @burningphoenixpr.bsky.social We are almost there! Please less than 5k now with 13 hours left #sdcc #comicbooks #Blackbooksky www.kickstarter.com/projects/844...

Bone Face was good yall. #filmsky #horrorsky www.deafsparrow.com/2025/07/22/b...

today years old when I realized “the air that I breathe” is about the afterglow of some good sex & it’s not subtle

I have a few ppl on my *other social media* who are into that sovereign citizen buffoonery, &, like…I get not wanting to answer to anybody, but just because language sounds legalese-ey doesn’t mean it is. Bro just be gay & do crime like the rest of us. (Gay part optional but encouraged)

Ended up back on the floor of the dollar store & if you are a huge fan of this movie, please don’t tell me, cuz it hurts. www.horrorgeeklife.com/2025/07/20/d...

IKWYDLS reboot made some back-half decisions I wasn’t in love with but I’m *riding* for this movie because of how girly it is. We haven’t had a bigtime teen girl oriented slasher in a while & it’s been needed.

lol @ the idea that I need a better reason not to watch the ari aster covid movie than “ari aster covid movie”

One of my most underrated reviews, i fucking ate. boxd.it/1YIwsx

New Clipse AND new Raekwon, cocaine is really having a moment

fuck no, snub harder

The purple wide-mouth hydro flask with the pride stickers 🤌

Is (water) polo the only sport whose name is an anagram of where it’s played?

Not wild about the confluence of: - Photo ID to post on social media - Government contracts with openly prejudicial AI data-harvesting firms - Peaceful expression being classed as terrorism

Them: Do you suffer from gifted child syndrome? Me: ………….potentially. #iykyk

I don’t know what the latest thinking is on the social dimension of the analog horror/liminal space craze & its false nostalgia component but somebody who’s well-versed please assess my take: I think a lot of it is about surveillance & privacy. 🧵:

When your face is too hot so you turn it away from the sun & give mom & dad momentary panic that you broke your neck.

fuck yeah I celebrate Prine Day and if you don't, too, there's something wrong with you

“Support indie” does not mean “support corporate that appropriates the aesthetics & tools of indie!” …is what we’ve been yelling for the entire 3 decades I’ve been tuned in to pop culture discourse

There’s only one way to prepare yourself: www.pastemagazine.com/movies/horro...

The em dash is HIGH LITERATURE. I am aghast at them coming for the em dash as an AI giveaway. Pry it from poets & fiction writers who write sentence-long paragraphs' dead hands!

Post yourself from a different era

This reminds me of the time a couple years ago when I (a vegetarian since 1993) accidentally ate some ice cream with bacon in it & had violent diarrhea all night long

Well I just pulled the trigger & canceled my NYT subscription. Feels good & I’m saving $20 a month!

Probably my best 4th of July memory has nothing to do with murica it was that time I met Frankenstein

Probably the worst failing of my swimming pool horror book is that I didn’t write about this movie. At the time I decided it wasn’t horror enough buuuuuuut

Alternatives to NY Times Games & Puzzles 🧵 If it bothers you that your passive games subscription and clicks to the NYT Games cartel is funding their awful OpEd army and "journalism," there are a wealth of puzzle/game options less iffy/yikes complicit, and many are direct clones to your NYT faves.

If you had “LL Cool J turns out to have more Marxist cred than any other mainstream rapper” on your 2025 bingo card, lucky you!