Riding a wave of SAD ennui, my beloved FDot and I find ourselves abruptly if predictably abandoned by receding tides to sprawl jellyfishishly upon a grainy shore. A final burst of energy enables me to Roku over to an MST3K stream, thus evading EndFlop's fell grasp. It's DEATHSTALKER. Hope bekindled!

"Like most, I eat pizza every single day. I’m too busy to sit down and eat it as a meal, so into my pockets it goes, even if that means my car keys are always covered in tomato sauce, my wallet is filled with pepperoni, and my iPhone’s charging port is clogged with mozzarella."

His beard has a chin. How does that happen? How does a beard have a chin? I do not know, and yet... yet there it is, a beard with a chin. It cares not one whit about my preconceptions, it cares naught in re: my beliefs. It is defiantly itself, a living rebuke. A beard with a chin. #huh

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Hey all you out there in the vast of night, you beloved weirdos! You, yes, that's right, I mean *you*! Y’all who follow me for reasons either obscure or bizarre, I'm telling you right now that I love you all! Yup, tricked you, you're beloved now! #HeeHeeHee

Was gonna write a social media post here while hunkered all down, hunkered and wondering... this is it, right? All those months spent reading about the ancient hoary past of fascism fighting, and then Flash! Bam! Alakazam! Srsly, tho, fuck fascists. Fuck ’em all.

I keep seeing regular Americans taking more risks every day to fight tyranny, want, and cynicism than I see from the opposition party, and I imagine many of those regular Americans are asking themselves what the value proposition of such an opposition party is, really

Fun Feckless Fuckers Folding For Fascism Fact!

Break up the Democratic Party, sell the parts for scrap, beat and harangue its architects and factotums out of public life, and then reform a New Deal rainbow coalition. It's done. It's goddamn done! Bunch of carpetbagging shitstains on our collective shoe.

Schiff's San Francisco voice mail is full, but Padilla's Sacramento office is still taking messages. Tell them to hold the line and get their spineless senate colleagues not to vote yes

Don't blame me if you've never heard of any of these artists. Blame the music industry, which keeps selling you the songs of the untalented offspring of the Privileged Class. @ynotradio.net www.ynotradio.net #music #radio #neposwine

I just spent maybe ten minutes paralyzed in fright, frozen in primal mammalian terror at the unmistakable sounds of ravenous feasting coming from a shadowy corner of the Media Lair, and then I remembered I'd earlier brought my beloved FDot a pint of Americone Dream and a spoon. So, never mind.

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Fun Fact: I have been reliably informed that now is the time in the Lair when we watch episode two of PLURIBUS (1?), and I have been likewise informed that if I do not put my "fucking" phone down and watch this "godsdamned fucking amazing fucking show," I will be "sorry." Thus, shutting up now.

More Cyberpunk Than Cyberpunk, Exhibit A

Was gonna wait cuz don't wanna interrupt the flow, but we've started watching PLURIBUS and we're ten minutes in and I literally cannot contain myself anymore, hokey fulminate of smokes I am loving the shit out of this, but wait, what's suddenly about rats? Oh shit oh fuck lab flashbacks oh shit

Wait, Chris Elliott and Paula Poundstone in some kind of obscure science fiction movie? Gimme gimme gimme!!! Please, that is. #TheLastDriveIn #MutantFam #GialloNight

Okay, now I'm imagining a bunch of blissfully stoned hippies saying to their dealer, "Wooaah, maaan, you sound just like Paul Freeees!" #TheLastDriveIn #MutantFam #GialloNight

Fun Fact: "Go all floppy when the Killer tries to pick you up and carry you off" is the single least effective means of self-defense possible. Even "Explosively befoul yourself" is both more effective and more dignified. #TheLastDriveIn #MutantFam #GialloNight #BloodAndBlackLace

All right, are my shapely ears messing with me—yet *again*, those miserable rapscallions—or is Paul Frees dubbing, like, half of the actors in this movie? #TheLastDriveIn #MutantFam #GialloNight #BloodAndBlackLace

Tonight on Hallmark/DC Comics Theatre, the chilling premiere of I WAS STALKED BY RORSCHACH. #TheLastDriveIn #MutantFam #GialloNight

Fun Fact: When the score immediately blasts right off with bongos and wailing brass, you know you're about to get down with a mighty good time. #TheLastDriveIn #MutantFam #GialloNight

Fun Fact: We all know Cameron Mitchell originated the role of Happy in the Broadway production of DEATH OF A SALESMAN, but fewer know that the character was originally named Somber Jack, but Mitchell's irrepressibly joyful nature led Arthur Miller to completely rethink the character. #TheLastDriveIn

Ya just gotta love the little bounce that the POV camera does after hitting the ground, that's the kind of attention to detail that distinguishes Great Cinema. #TheLastDriveIn #MutantFam #GialloNight

Sure, it would have been kinda insulting had he told her, "Beeteedubs, there's a killer at large, so please don't fling wide the door if you hear any mysterious noises behind it," but, as George Carlin famously noted, some people need practical advice. #TheLastDriveIn #MutantFam #GialloNight

We got a whole room fulla hepcats here in the Lair, all groovin’ to these wild NAKED CITY jazz riffs, daddy-o. #TheLastDriveIn #MutantFam #GialloNight

A really funny thing to do as a police-type detective is when the serial killer you're investigating calls you up tauntingly, you pretend to have a bad connection and keep asking him to repeat things. I bet he'd become so cross, he would make a mistake. #TheLastDriveIn #MutantFam #GialloNight

The big Einstein poster says that she's smart, but since it's not the one of him sticking his tongue out, it also says she takes smartness seriously. #TheLastDriveIn #MutantFam #GialloNight #MarioAndDario

Fun Fact Follow-Up: The practice goes back to Mussolini, who required studios to dub movies after filming so that government monitors could make sure nothing subversive or anti-fascist was said. #TheLastDriveIn #MutantFam #GialloNight #MarioAndDario #FuckFascism

Introducing one of my very favorite-most Argento themes—the witness who is convinced they saw something vital, but can't quite figure out what it was. #TheLastDriveIn #MutantFam #GialloNight #MarioAndDario

This week saw an expansion of the conflict between the lanyard fascist and youtube fascist factions of the Republican Party, as the one guy they've outsourced thinking to looks more and more like he's going to, uh, "get back on that gold escalator soon."

Look, anyone can *startle* an audience with a sudden soundtrack sting or swoosh. Pfui! The bestest jump-scares, as in EXORCIST III and Mario Bava's SHOCK, rely entirely on the visuals to induce fear and/or soiling of undergarments. #TheLastDriveIn #MutantFam #GialloNight #MarioAndDario

Made it back to the Lair just in time for @therealjoebob123.bsky.social and @darcythemailgirl.bsky.social and #TheLastDriveIn and the Technicolor wonders of Giallo Night, let's goooo!!! #MutantFam #GialloNight #MarioAndDario

🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug! - LETTERS HOME FROM THE SECOND CIVIL WAR - Brought to you by the fightin' Inner Hive, including long-time member Austin L. and new member newmanewman ( bit.ly/theInnerHive ) - READ IT RIGHT HERE👇

The @midnightpals.bsky.social are back! This week HP Lovecraft tells “The Tale of the Shadow Over Innsmouth”. Hear me as folksy inn keeper, Gilman. Gilman is your typical New England local who loves salt water taffy, hospitality and squid Jesus. #MidnightPals #Podcast #HPLovecraft #SquidJesus

Somehow I managed to get my beloved Fdot interested in the whole HELL HOUSE LLC series, so now we're settling down to watch HHLLC: LINEAGE, or whatever it's called just okay that's just that's just movie time here we go

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One of the inspirations for casting Vincent Price as Ratigan in Disney's THE ADVENTURES OF THE GREAT MOUSE DETECTIVE was Price's performance in 1950's CHAMPAGNE FOR CAESAR, and once you see it, you understand perfectly why it was such an inspiration...

Jonathan Harris (1914-2002) was born on this date. “He’s the only actor I’ve worked with who had producer’s approval to write all his dialogue...He singlehandedly created the character of Dr. Smith." — Bill Mumy (Will) #BOTD #ClassicTV #LostInSpace

Quick question, you can't bounce-pass in football, right? That's a basketball thing?

I assume this account followed me only hoping for a follow-back, and this here post what I'm posting now is in no way an endorsement of a product I am in regards whereof quite factless, but... I mean, CBD-infused Freddy and Jason bath bombs? That deserves a rePost just for the concept, fun fact!

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

I guarantee this was NOT written by AI and was fact checked.

"Call me old-fashioned, but I prefer a city where everyday residents have to work three jobs and are under constant threat of eviction. Anything short of an excruciating existence for the working class just doesn’t cut it for me."

We have a number of exciting upcoming releases from authors who also have new titles coming soon with other publishers... Here's a thread of some great new books you should pick up from other presses while waiting for these authors' new Shortwave titles!

Thank you to everyone who donated to the 2026 Festival of Monsters yesterday during Giving Day at UC Santa Cruz. We raised $4155 towards next year, but have a long way to go. Want to help? bit.ly/give2monsters

Did you ever wonder what you would have done as a citizen in historical times of incredible cruelty: slavery, the holocaust, etc.? You don't have to wonder anymore! You're doing it!