Here's @pulpcurry.bsky.social looking at films about the Red Army Faction, AKA the Baader-Meinhof gang, and wondering why there isn't more crime fiction touching on the same subject. andrewnette.substack.com/p/everything...

open.substack.com/pub/andrewne... Interesting read about German cinema inspired by Baader Meinhof gang from @pulpcurry.bsky.social

Those tall ships really lifted the nation's spirits after Watergate!

actually need to make this my desktop background image

As a 70s Catholic kid I thought the Rapture was a Blondie single. youtu.be/pHCdS7O248g

'Tylenol' is known in the civilised world as Paracetamol 2.4 million children born in Sweden between 1995 and 2019. Studied 186,000 children whose mothers were treated with paracetamol during pregnancy. news.ki.se/no-link-betw...

So Australians are supposed to be disappointed that our PM won’t be meeting a lunatic who believes Paracetamol causes Autism. Spare me! Ian

TOON TUESDAY #ToonTuesday

OTD in 1978k the premiere of Norman Lear's Apple Pie, with Rue McClanahan, Dabney Coleman, and Jack Gilford. Only a small clip is available. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG_p...

Barack Obama to be conferred with freedom of Dublin at ceremony on Thursday

Safe In My Garden - a new compilation I've put together for Ace Records. Melancholic sunshine pop, created in the shadow of Vietnam. Perfect for early autumn. www.acerecords.co.uk/safe-in-my-g...

Fun story this morning. I spoke with Curtis Evans, the retired Marine in the viral photo below who took part in the anti-ICE protest at Broadview. He's a thoughtful guy, well read and with a dry sense of humor. Story @taskandpurpose.com taskandpurpose.com/news/marine-...

The even more unbelievable crime fact (which I learned relatively recently) is that burglary has fallen by more than 90% since the 1990s. Did anyone notice? Nope. Does anyone believe it? Nope. But is is true? It is!

Well deserved, those good reviews. IMHO. ‘Orphan Road’ & ‘Gunshine State’ by Andrew Nette, aka @pulpcurry.bsky.social

Currently no plans to do a sequel to REVOLUTION IN 35mm: POLITICAL VIOLENCE & RESISTANCE IN CINEMA, FROM THE ARTHOUSE TO THE GRINDHOUSE, but if there were, Peter Fleischmann’s 1975 film WEAK SPOT would have to be in it. Fascinating exploration of the psychology of repressive regimes

Colm Tóibín: 'I have it in for business news ... It has to stop'

The Coens are filmmakers whose body of work I wouldn't begrudge any selection from being someone's favorite, but most days MILLER'S CROSSING is mine

Nice interview with Yang Hao. I reviewed her fascinating new novel, Diablo's Boys, in the Irish Times last week. Translated by Nicky Harman and Michael Day. ‘Dublin should be a joyful city but there is a certain sadness floating in the air’ www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Thread. 🧵 When I interviewed Toni Basil back in 2021 we were both kind of amazed that there still hadn’t been a full-length bells-and-whistles documentary made about her incredible life. These people won’t be with us forever, you know.

After screening at Cannes (in May) and the Toronto Int'l Film Festival (earlier that month), Sean Penn’s directorial debut, The Indian Runner, was given wide release in U.S. theaters on September 20, 1991. It became one of my favorite films, a sad saga about two brothers. Watch it! More: alt text

Now students, always remember your "3 R's"....Reefer, Riot, and Revolution! Remember Kent State! Fuck School! (And Fuck Censorship Too!)

Toni Basil's career as an actress included always-memorable appearances in films like Village of the Giants (1965), Easy Rider (1969), Five Easy Pieces (1970) and Greaser's Palace (1972). There's a bit more of her pre- and a bit post-"Mickey" story in the alt text, if you'd like to know more.

Happy Birthday to Nick Cave, born September 22, 1957, in Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australia! I'm a fan of his solo albums & (especially) albums with his band, the Bad Seeds, but lately I've been listening to these six soundtrack albums by Cave and his musical partner Warren Ellis. More: alt text

Reading ‘Clown Town’ by Mick Herron. Slow Horses v the team that handled IRA enforcer & British source Stakeknife (aka Pitchfork in the Slough Horse world)

September 22, 1975

BONUS EPISODE: during our recent trip to Hamburg, we kept a little audio diary of our activities - Beatley and otherwise! Find it in the podcast apps today! pod.link/1531129636/e... #beatles #podcast #hamburg

“Churchill’s enforcer in Ireland - Who was Hugh Tudor?” www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

One for your consideration, @neglectedbooks.com

What a great film! A sweaty Edmund O'Brien opens the film murdering and robbing someone and only gets worse from there. He plays a James Ellroy style cop who swims in alcohol and darkness. It's a pitch black crime film that ends in the only way it could.

“The city is strong in the memory, no matter how much it decays and gives way to the sea.” –Elaine Perry, 1990 #Lit #Afrofuturism #Blackademics crimereads.com/elaine-perry/

Title of your sex tape. Det Jake Peralta, NYPD (Retired).

Fleetwood Mac are not now, nor ever have been, cool. (Apparently the story is not true anyway)

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.” Stephen King, born on this day in 1947

Qua Diddly Qua Qua! NEW Adam Ant greetings card decoration from heykidsrocknroll.etsy.com

‘The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America’ by Carol Anderson. And a Grifter pale….

Border Czar Tom Homan was caught by the FBI accepting bribes - on camera - to deliver government contracts in exchange for $50,000 in cash. Pam Bondi knew. Kash Patel knew. Emil Bove knew. And they made the investigation go away. A corrupt attempt to conceal brazen graft.

MARY TYLER MOORE theme song writer/performer Sonny Curtis (1937-2025) will be remembered for asking “Who can turn the world on with her smile?”. But his season one lyrics cut deeper, reflecting the hopes and fears of a generation of young women who were asked “How will you make it on your own?”

Watergate-level high crimes and misdemeanors happening right in front of us every day

The frenzy to lionize a podcaster with extreme and objectionable views — and with such heavy-handed government bullying, relentless media gaslighting, and screaming outrage toward anyone who actually quotes him — makes me feel like Sophia Loren’s character in A Special Day. youtu.be/KloWrqcHAF0?...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “I got to know Redford over friendly lunches and dinners and interviews for The Times and at Harvard’s Kennedy School,” our columnist Maureen Dowd writes. “And that rarest of things happened: He was everything you hoped he would be.”

Meanwhile, back in the real world . . . Bagram Air Base was built by the Soviet Union in the 1950s. What an idiot.

rewatching NETWORK for a project 👀 and it is absolutely shocking how prescient this film is. it’s like paddy chayefsky was granted a vision of america in 2025 and he furiously tried to turn what he saw into something intelligible to viewers in the 1970s

Happy Batman 🦇 Day. Art by my favorite Batman artist after Neal Adams and before Frank Miller...the brilliant Marshall Rogers, who I once wrote a cool essay about for @crimereads.bsky.social called "Pulp Penciller." #Batman @dccomics2023.bsky.social @bronzeagebabies.bsky.social

Remembering actress Raquel Welch, born Jo Raquel Tejada on September 5, 1940, in Chicago, IL (d. February 15, 2023), seen here in a great little gritty western as the title character in Hannie Caulder (1971), which I first saw with my family (I was ten!). Read the alt text for more film info.

oh no all of you have the wrong tv theme songs on your top 5 so i fixed it 😈 Rockford Files - Mike Post Newhart - Henry Mancini Taxi - Bob James MTM show - Sonny Curtis The Fall Guy - Lee Majors

And Oz band ‘The Dukes’ in full 90s pomp & horn section like the 80s never ended pumping out ‘I Fought The Law’ from the justifiably obscure Yahoo Serious movie ‘Reckless Kelly.’ RIP Sonny Curtis.

Just a reminder that Richard Hanania is not a centrist and has not changed his white supremacist views. The data most definitely doesn't show crime rates are about race unless you ignore every other causative variable (urban/rural, poverty, population density, etc.).

youtu.be/Ks0to2QuJtM I’ve posted this before, but RIP to Mr Sonny Curtis.

He wrote "I Fought the Law" AND "Love is All Around"?! Range. RIP. deadline.com/2025/09/sonn...

Is it too much to ask that I come across this book in the wilds?