My article from 6 years ago includes how we once celebrated Thanksgiving by watching #Godzilla marathons and why the Confederacy condemned the holiday as Yankee abolitionist propaganda. www.yesweekly.com/news/5-fun-f...

I also asked the Republican-appointed Board of Elections chair about his claim that one has to “be born here” to have constitutional rights. www.yesweekly.com/news/voting-...

#AnnaMayWong & #VincentPrice in John Gerard & Lawrence Langner’s Princess Turandot at the Westchester Playhouse in 1937. According to Victoria Price, they were in love, but marriage was illegal under racist US laws. #TCMparty @superamanda.bsky.social

I want to thanks @LordRetail.bsky.social for putting me in touch with #MarkWade , whom I think was right to call #MurphyAnderson the first comic book fan turned comic book pro.

It was an honor to write this article.

Great quotes from @PatrickZircher.bsky.social & #MarkWaid for my cover story. Did you know that Murphy Anderson wanted the #SilverAge #BlackCanary to be Black, but Julie Schwartz said no? #DCcomics #Greensboro @superamanda.bsky.social www.yesweekly.com/news/triad-c...

The operation in the Triangle comes amid “Operation Charlotte’s Web,” in which over 100 people have so far been detained in Charlotte, another Democrat-run city targeted by the Trump administration as part of the president’s efforts to ramp up deportations.

Current & former housing commissioners allege being threatened with removal by #Greensboro city attorneys & council-members for suggesting commission should be penalizing slumlords rather than poor homeowners for code violations. [email protected] www.yesweekly.com/news/housing...

@superamanda.bsky.social @nonzerosumjames.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy @gigdrain.bsky.social @michaelchabon.bsky.social

#MurphyAnderson lived in #Greensboro 1950-60, taking over #BluebirdTaxi when his dad died & driving a cab while working on #StrangeAdventures & #MysteryInSpace. He once picked up Joe DiMaggio, Yogi Berra & Whitey Ford. He also drew this logo. @patrickzircher.bsky.social @jessnevins.bsky.social

Here’s the design. City required approval from all rights holders. Nixed Buck Rogers due to rights dispute. Plaque will be in Cultural Center. #MurphyAnderson @PatrickZircher.bsky.social @jessnevins.bsky.social

#Comics peeps, #CityofGreensboro Mayor Elect Marikay Abuzuaiter has created a resolution honoring #MurphyAnderson, who grew up here. Comment with covers or panels by Murphy you love. #DComics @patrickzircher.bsky.social @jessnevins.bsky.social

Vicious MAGA trash befouling #TCMparty on X.

If you need an alternate choice, this 1964 British cheapie is terrifying. youtu.be/Pm5IJ7MG8NY?... #TCMparty

@SuperAmanda.bsky.social & I saved #CurseOfTheDemon to watch instead of Mario’s inexplicable choice. #TCMparty

“Grew them, as nature does, from seed.” 16th-century scientist/alchemist Paracelsus claimed to have created homunculi from human sperm fed with human blood in a horse's womb. #BrideOfFrankenstein #TCMparty

The real #VillaDiodatti is less spacious than Universal’s. #TheBrideOfFrankenstein #TCMparty

The “flashback” of Karloff’s hands strangling somebody was shot for #BrideOfFrankenstein. His sleeves & arms are burned. 15 minutes were cut from the film, including 8 murders. #TCMparty

#TCMparty #TheMummy not only portrays gods of ancient Egypt as real, but implicitly shoes that science and Christianity are useless against them. Only by calling on the religion of her former self can Helen destroy Imhotep. @SuperAmanda.bsky.social

#TheMummy is an unofficial remake of #Dracula, adding reincarnated lover subplot that Matheson & Coppola would later give to Drac. But I prefer it due to its stylishness & agency of its heroine. Zita Johann destroys Imhotep w. aid of Isis, while Van Helsing analog is helpless.

Jack Pierce‘s briefly seen full mummy makeup on Boris is so terrific that it’s easy to overlook just how effectively Pierce also turned him into the undead sorcerer Ardath Bey. #TheaMummy #TCMparty

I wish this wasn’t out of print & so expensive. Earnshaw persuasively debunks the claim that the Demon was added by the producer. Like many genre directors, Tourneur fibbed when interviewed by his fans at Cahiers du Cinema. #TCMparty. #CurseOfTheDemon

Clytie Jessop was also the ghostly Miss Jessel in THE INNOCENTS. #TCMparty #Nightmare

(Reposting because I forgot #TCMparty hashtag) Friday night 8 pm. A great film, but for Halloween? And is it a selection that will benefit from Mario Cantone’s schtick? @SuperAmanda.bsky.social @SlipKid24.bsky.social

#GreensboroNC city council at-large candidate Irving Allen w. NCA&T students. In 2019, Irving was removed from city committee for speaking truth about police homicide of #MarcusSmith. My book 𝗜 𝗔𝗶𝗻’𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 describes what happened.

As attorney Helen Parsonage observed, “nobody channels Gestapo chic by accident.” Chicago Sun-Times coverage: chicago.suntimes.com/live/10/28/2...

Friday night 8. A great film, but for Halloween? And is it a selection that will benefit from Mario Cantone’s schtick? @SuperAmanda.bsky.social @SlipKid24.bsky.social

Bela has more dialogue in this delightful #MarkOfTheVampire trailer than he has in the film. @superamanda.bsky.social @slipkid24.bsky.social #TCMparty youtu.be/eyvOdKm0eDo?...

The real nature of #RosemarysBaby was only a surprise until 1968. By then, every kid in my grade school knew Rosemary gives birth to Satan‘s child, although most of us would not see the film for years. #TCMparty @superamanda.bsky.social

#RosemarysBaby can’t be experienced the way the novel’s first readers did. For most of its length, it seems she is either delusional, or her neighbors intend to sacrifice her unborn baby. #TCMparty

Photo of me in front of St. Teresa of Avila Church, taken by my gorgeous love @superamanda.bsky.social. The former schoolhouse beside it is now a private residence. #TheBirds #TCMparty.

I’ve long thought even the most annoying #TCMParty hipster-quipsters less annoying than the subtitle-phobic geriatrics on Facebook that they (and I ) make fun of. But several insufferable comments on #TheseAreTheDamned, the best SF film Hammer ever made, have revised that opinion. But

My article about how compilation video issued by the Greensboro Police omits not only the controversial actions of Officer McDaniel, but the unnamed Black officer who attempts to de-escalate the situation. www.yesweekly.com/news/police-...

Terence Henry Stamp (22 July 1938 – 17 August 2025) The death of this great actor and beautiful man at 87 does not make me feel old, but the fact that, at 49, Cillian Murphy is too old to play him in a biopic, does.

Terence Henry Stamp (22 July 1938 – 17 August 2025) The death of this great actor & beautiful man at 87 does not make me feel old, but Cillian Murphy at 49 being too old to play him in a biopic does. Note that, on stage, Stamp originated the role that would make his roommate, Michael Caine a star.

Congratulations to my colleague @byJordanGreen.bsky.social for his courageous and essential work that put his life in danger. hillmanfoundation.org/sidney-award...

I describe it in I AIN’T RESISTING: THE CITY OF GREENSBORO AND THE KILLING OF MARCUS SMITH, & in MORNINGSIDE: THE 1979 GREENSBORO MASSACRE & THE STRUGGLE FOR AN AMERICAN CITY’S SOUL @AranShetterly.bsky.social documents how the city’s demonization of Nelson Johnson intensified after this event.

Excellent article by Adam Harris for The Atlantic, which I don’t believe is paywalled. More people need to know about the 1969 National Guard attack on North Carolina A&T State University. www.theatlantic.com/education/ar...

My beautiful amazing fiancé has searched for an action figure this favorite from my monster-movie-obsessed childhood since before my birthday last year. When she finally found one, she wasn’t about to wait until Christmas to surprise me with it. @SuperAmanda.bsky.social , I love you! #GORGO

My article from last November about controversial developer Srinivas Potluri & conditions at his Greensboro apartment complexes won 2nd place in investigative reporting at the NC Press Awards. @superamanda.bsky.social, thank you for your essential help & love. www.yesweekly.com/news/east-gr...

My fiancé @superamanda.bsky.social, who has been doing deep and essential research into the horrifying history of the People’s Temple, brought this to my attention, and I agree with her about the importance of passing this act.

@moderation.bsky.app, why did you hide this photo of my fiancé @superamanda.bsky.social with an adult content warning?

astroturfing groups need to end

Book 40: Conjure Wife by Fritz Leiber (1944 Retro Hugo). Recommended. My second Leiber to read, this is an interesting WW2-era horror story.

Think of Jonestown. Waco. Ruby Franke. The Turpins. The Duggars. Warren Jeffs Sign the #EveryChildSafeAct Petition! sign.moveon.org/p/Every-Child-Safe-Act-Petition

Dead Kennedys recording Nazi Punks Fuck Off in 1981.

NC senator Michael Garrett speaking yesterday about ICE detention of Mohamed Naser. “When his family tried to show the agents his legal documentation, they were told ‘we don’t want to see your paperwork.’’ @SuperAmanda.bsky.social youtu.be/IbZbhKbosiQ?...

Mohamed Naser has been held in a detention center in rural western Georgia for more than a week.