One of the pleasures of reading old comics is the movie ads

The movie scene that traumatized me as a kid was the entirety of The Legend of Boggy Creek. Bigfoot was goddamn real and he was not taking any more shit from us. Didn't matter that Arkansas was half the country away.

Whoa, crazy. An organization put together to specifically and explicitly promote right-wing policy plans is a nest of snakes run by a man who, if he'd said the things he believes out in public, would be shunned and ridiculed? Am I getting this?

Every once in a while I have to remind myself this is entirely normal.

If the billionaire is putting money into research that will directly benefit his companies, it's not philanthropy. It's investment.

I've achieved a new level of literary fame! Now receiving active spam from dudes who run newsletters with 30k very real not imaginary subscribers. Also getting letters of interest from AI trailer generators. It's all coming up Maxwell!

wow I tripped and fell into a 90s wormhole www.ccru.net/index.htm

"Money from these programs is a multiplier in the economy!" Only for the lower end of the pyramid, which is the part they're trying to punish. It doesn't matter how much you tell these ideologues that the money circulates everywhere. It's a matter of pride and position.

Wouldst thou like to live Kronenbouergishly?

Mr. Beast is the walking Torment Matrix, right?

Aquarius II – A Home-Computer Astrology Kit (1973) fontsinuse.com/uses/18852/a...

The only problem with that Monster/Elizabeth in her wedding dress poster is there could have been much more of the movie about just that.

Holy shit. A prestige series that actually looks the part.

He'll have a trillion dollars to his name and still be a spectacular failure. No men on the moon. None on mars. No robots in every house. No robot armies ready to serve loyally as bunker guards. No family. Sixteen male children all fighting to death over his bank accounts.

There will be no AGI, there will be no colonization of mars and no robot helpers, not made by any of these people, because they don’t make anything, they manipulate stocks and build houses of cards with shell corporations

Watching television news for longer than 3 minutes a day is functionally equivalent to getting kicked in the head by a donkey. The dumbest loudest people you know leave it blasting in the background and they'd fail a test for brain death.

Pretty sure that Chandler would throttle me the second I opened my mouth and McCarthy wouldn't even answer the invitation to sit out in the woods by the fire. I'm okay with this.

Sandwich Guy thanks everyone for their support, “emotional, spiritual, artistic or financial.” Intones, “Let us not forget that the great seal of the United States says…‘ out of many, one.’…You all have a right to live a life that is free.”

"Is there sandwich sign?" "Usul, there is sandwich sign the likes of which even God has never seen."

The double splitscreen shot from 1:13-1:42 is one of the most insane shots created during the photochemical era. You’ve got a real woman fondling Maroon and Valiant at both ends of the shot, with the woman’s body hidden by splitscreens that run along the edges of the fluted columns in the BG…

What's that? The President didn't show the merest shred of humanity or sympathy? The Secretary of Health ran like a child seeing the boogeyman? You're telling me these people aren't human at all?

Note that the reporter who filed this story for Wired was fired just this morning or last night. Total coinkidink, right?

I still don't know what happened at the White House or if it means anything 'cause the wrong guy is standing.

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Kingdom of the Spiders (1977, dir. John 'Bud' Cardos)

Fellas, is it bad to have reduced traffic at forty big airports across the US just three weeks before the heaviest travel season of the year? Help me out here.

Ooh. An injunction. And when they violate that? In five minutes? To flex?

Conservative feminism lol

Who would have thought that a dude whose primary occupation before this was as a short-con guy and media dancing puppet would be doing stuff like this? Not me surely.

Wow, this takes me back to a very very specific time in life.

Just tell me when/if the judge in these ICE trials starts to lay down some sanction with teeth. Sure, yes, it feels great to have them be called liars to their face. We also know their boss is a liar. Nothing happens to him. Without consequence, this is mere shadowplay.

Please enjoy the healing power of Funkadelic, even in despair, led by the soaring guitar of Eddie Hazel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOKn... From their third album. The third one. And they kept going.

This sounds suspiciously like Enron-era shenegains.

Was compelled by the rock gods to capture this three-song sonic magic from the first North American performance of any iteration of The Saints. Enjoy The Saints '73-78 from their tour-opening show. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DG8... #teragramballroom #losangeles #rocknroll

"AI pioneers make unverifiable claim to keep their options afloat" is the more accurate headline.

I'm trying to remember if this car is in the special collection at the Petersen Auto Museum or not. It's either this or a car belonging to Carol Lombard, along the same lines. Either way, the tour of the basement collection is absolutely worth your time and ticket price.

Ugh. The material is the spiritual. As above so below, my dudes.

Yasuko Sawaguchi and Godzilla on a picnic

Yasuko Sawaguchi and Godzilla

I think my 25% estimate is probably low, now.

Colin Wilson 'The Space Vampires' book cover art by Jerome Podwil (1977) #HorrorArt

I guess we'll find out if theys motherfuckers was taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy. My guess is they'll just ChatGPT up some notes that look like it because the armor of backstage behavior leads to all manner of unpleasant revelation when moved to the front stage.

The figure of 10% of Meta's income coming from scams it itself a scam. My guess is it's more like 25% when you actually call out the sophisticated stuff, not the sort-on-sight as scam garbage.

I was already tired of Douthat. This morning is not helping.

If Joe Dante is not part of Gremlins 3, neither is my interest in it.

Weird how this round of authoritarians are either media billionaires or are being aided and abetted by media billionaires, huh?

Watching through the end of The Veil and I understand the story it's telling but the plot/plan at the center of it is bonkers nonsensical. I get it, submit to the story and all, but sometimes it's hard.

Maybe if this kills off a whole bunch of content mills it'll be worth it?

Okay I read it (ty @lshultz82.bsky.social) and it is hair-raising at every level from the *cranked out researchers pretending to be UFO prophets* to the obvious interpretative malpractice, just breathtaking.

I'm not normally one to toot my own horn but this is the best description of Danzig and Type O Negative that anyone has ever written or will ever write