Released #OTD in 1980 #filmsky Friedkin spoke with a man who survived an attempted murder by the alleged serial killer at the time, and he mentioned the assailant's little sing-song couplet "Who's here, I'm here, you're here." He made note of it and included it in the film.

Released #OTD in 1978 #filmsky One of two Vietnam War themed films to be nominated for the Best Picture Oscar in 1979, with the other film being the Oscar winner, The Deer Hunter (1978). Jane Fonda and Bruce Dern previously appeared in They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969).

Released #OTD in 1974 #filmsky Carmine Caridi also appeared in The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (1971), which was also based on Joe Gallo's life. Sam Coppola and Tony Lip would both go on to star in The Sopranos (1999). Coppola as Dr. Melfis family therapist, and Tony Lip as Carmine Senior.

#VHSunday #filmsky

Happy Birthday #CarolineMunro, seen here as Stromberg's personal helicopter pilot and assistant Naomi in pursuit of #JamesBond 007 in the mountain roads of Sardinia (spoiler alert) it doesn't end well for her "THE SPY WHO LOVED ME" (1977) dir. Lewis Gilbert 🎬 Eon Productions 🚁

Oh, and it’s also the 50th anniversary of the disappearance of this chap, so: happy vanishing Bum Farto day to all who celebrate

A eulogy for the mass market paperback, "one of the most brilliant technologies in the history of the world."

Devastating video accompanying this article 😭

Happy Saturday, y’all. We can all only wish to be as cool as the Cobra.

The Case of the Sun Bather's Diary (1955) Mason defends the daughter of a man convicted of armed robbery who first loses her trailer, all her clothes and her diary.

An Irishman, an American, an Englishman, a Hungarian, a Swiss, a Belgian, a Vietnamese, an Australian, a Chinese lady, a German, a Frenchman, a Brazilian, a Peruvian, a Greek woman, a Canadian and a Cambodian walk into a bar. “Sorry”, said the barman, “you can’t come in here without a Thai”

Mondays have become Other People's Music Day for me, so I'm looking forward to hearing these for the first time, bought from the surprisingly groovy shop in Emsworth, while perusing the crossword & other words in @mojomagazine.bsky.social - I will then treat myself to the gorgeous Miles Davis comp.

Cool double LP from the Soul Jazz label. ‘Miami Sounds’ vol 2

Soho record shop day

Morning ☕️ with: New Orleans Funk Volume 2 (The Second Line Strut) Released in 2008 on Soul Jazz Records. Feat. Eddy Bo, The Meters, Lee Dorsey, Art Neville, Betty Harris and many others. #CdCollection #NewOrleansFunk #VinylCommunity #MusicSky #NowPlaying #Jazz #JazzSky #Funk

Just the four today. #WhatIPlayedHashtag

Stand Up and Be Counted - Soul, Funk and Jazz From a Revolutionary Era (1999) Harmless Records LP #NowPlaying

Haven’t listened to this CD in a while. Picked up on the recommendation of Wallace Stroby, years ago, on that other place. ‘Sam Cooke’s SAR Records’ double CD.

God, I love Bill Watterson.

(6/11) Uber tracks battery life. Former exec Keith Chen noted in 2016 that users with low battery are statistically more likely to accept surge pricing. Uber says it doesn’t use that data to set prices, but the correlation remains a point of regulatory scrutiny. www.npr.org/transcripts/...

Reading American history will break your heart a thousand times but it will also fill you with such admiration and awe for all the people who were excluded from the protection of America’s founding principles and fought to promote, protect and expand them anyways

Related: here's the greatest fan made music video of all time, beginning with a very unsanctioned answering machine message.

Reducing systemic racism... increases white resentment... which makes it easier for pro-racism candidates to get elected... which increases systemic racism. 🙂🙃 The system is resistant to change. Which is why not pandering to white resentment, is such an important focus point.

Crime fiction feels like the only fiction relevant in this moment and none more than the howling grief stricken detective novels of Burke. At this point he just uses the conventions of the genre as a platform for his quasi Buddhist Catholic theology wrapped in noirish existentialism

Elon probably meant to say "Scots-Irish" and probably knows more of the history here than you might assume since white supremacists like him regard the Plantation of Ulster and displacement of the Catholic Irish as a prototype for later white supremacist settler colonialism (like South Africa)

On the blog this week for #ReadIndies, I've written about some of my favourite books from NYRB Classics. Featuring books by Olivia Manning, Vicki Baum, Dorothy B. Hughes and more! #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/02/12/s...

Time’s been unkind to The White Stripes

A lion, a witch and a wardrobe go into an Irish bar. The barman says "I'm serving Narnia"

Second printing. Signed by Toni Morrison.

1972 movie tie-in edition. Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett and Britt Ekland.

The New Avengers! Got the long overdue remastered blu-ray debut for christmas. Bought all the paperback novelisations at the time, but only just seen these US editions. Also new to me that there was a second annual.

"This is my native state. I will not leave it to serve the South. Down the street yonder is the old cemetery where my father lies there going to dust. If I fight, I tell you, it shall be for his bones." Lew Wallace, who died on this day in 1905

This rules. I love how delighted they all look!

Call US Senators and tell them to vote against the SAVE Act. It has already passed the US House. In its current form, it means that 100 years after women earned the right to vote, we are facing down the implementation of a 21st century poll tax for women.

Finished collecting the ‘Peter Duluth’ detective mysteries by the gay couple who wrote as “Patrick Quentin”.

Valentine’s Day treat! A first edition, first printing. *swoon*

Brian Wilson photographed by Annie Leibovitz on Malibu Beach, 1976

The Go-Go’s - Vacation ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #Music #MusicSky #Vinyl #VinylSky #VinylCommunity #VinylCollector #VinylRecords #NowPlaying #NowSpinning

So what’s everybody reading this morning on the most romantic day of the year?

Valentine’s memory of this Dashiell Hammett paperback inscribed to Lillian Hellman, which sold at auction back in 2019

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Above most else, based only on this evidence, Marco Rubio is a fricking idiot who could be intellectually ripped apart like a BBQed chook by a 12 year old Catholic school debater.

I'm not sure what year it was but it had to be before 1975 the year I graduated. Our high school band played the theme from Shaft at a pep rally. At just the very first note everyone knew what it was and the crowd went crazy. Bass High Atlanta Ga.

Can't hear the word without thinking of this.

First cassette I ever owned...