@kentremendous.bsky.social Has been a million years, and sorry to do this over social media, but now head of American Studies at Columbia, and wondered if you were interested in doing something fun for us - if at all interested you can message me on here! Either way hope you're well!

A great way for your middle-grader or fan of MG fiction to ring in the new year!

And if you or your middle-grader have holiday gift money burning a hole in your pocket, here's one place to spend it.... now off almost 20 percent at Amazon! www.amazon.com/Press-1-Inva...

Re-upping this for HWA members: was such an honor to be nominated last year for non-fiction (for AMERICAN SCARY), and to be nominated this year for fiction would be a dream come true! (Plus, if you like fun, spooky middle-grade fiction, I think you might just like PRESS 1 FOR INVASION!) #horrorsky

And if you or your middle-grader have holiday gift money burning a hole in your pocket, here's one place to spend it.... now off almost 20 percent at Amazon! www.amazon.com/Press-1-Inva...

If you're looking for a Christmas gift for the middle-grader in your life, check this out!

I bought a copy for my nephew for Hanukkah!! It’s en route right now!

Thanks, man!! Take it from Sam, everyone (more the part about how your kids will like the book than me being a hero - but that first part, take that first part!) On sale wherever you get your books - find out more below!

I totally agree with the thrust of this - made a similar point on here just last week- bsky.app/profile/jere...

Today's note of praise is for Mark Wahlberg's performance - all the performances, actually - in Michael Bay's 2013 PAIN & GAIN. Not convinced it's a great movie, but it has a great deal of commitment to the bit, and has some wonderful simulations of stupidity that require a good deal of cleverness.

Today's note of praise is for Mark Wahlberg's performance - all the performances, actually - in Michael Bay's 2013 PAIN & GAIN. Not convinced it's a great movie, but it has a great deal of commitment to the bit, and has some wonderful simulations of stupidity that require a good deal of cleverness.

Today's note of praise is for @stephencollins.bsky.social and his hilarious, surreal and yet somehow utterly down to earth Guardian cartoons - I just read the SOME COMICS collection, and was absolutely blown away. ("Ian and Glenda Sisyphus Go on Holiday" a personal favorite, but they're all good!)

Today's note of praise is for @stephencollins.bsky.social and his hilarious, surreal and yet somehow utterly down to earth Guardian cartoons - I just read the SOME COMICS collection, and was absolutely blown away. ("Ian and Glenda Sisyphus Go on Holiday" a personal favorite, but they're all good!)

Today's little note of praise: I really enjoyed SNACKIES, Nick Sumida's small, funny collection of comics about romantic headache and heartache suffused with existential-stakes comedy. A small collection, but mighty in its own way!

From this morning - feel good about this

As someone for whom Jeremy is also a pal and a hero, I *enthusiastically* cosign this post. Get the book. Read the book. Enjoy the book.

FWIW, my take on the interview (which is fascinating, taken in whole) does not feel like the stage-setting of someone who's planning an exit, but something closer to (though not quite) an extended troll: more like, "so this is what it is. whaddya gonna do about it?" But I could be very wrong!

Today's note of praise is for Michael Cho's intimate, heartfelt graphic novel SHOPLIFTER, which delicately illustrates a young woman's moment of examination and re-examination of her life: a wonderfully drawn crossroads. Check it out!

"It's like, how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black."

I would read a reported article on the rise and (I believe) decline of Budokan as a venue of live album recordings by Anglo-American rock and pop musicians in the 70s and 80s....

Within this sketch lies one of the most perfectly crafted jokes ever, in my opinion: when we're told how the first citywide bank of change - which only makes change, that's all it does - maes money: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kodq...

Thanks, man!! Take it from Sam, everyone (more the part about how your kids will like the book than me being a hero - but that first part, take that first part!) On sale wherever you get your books - find out more below!

A great story.

Certainly an argument to be made that its cultural legacy is largely a (arguably pernicous!) technical one

Just putting some admiration out there into the world for Joe Keatinge and @leiladelduca.bsky.social and the work they did on SHUTTER, whose entire run I read this weekend - I'm blown away by the beauty and complexity of the storytelling and imagination on display there....

I agree with this and do think that it paved the way for a greater general comfort with movies that exist in great portion as or with CGI but are not coded as "animated movies". I think there's a path from AVATAR to the MCU and also the Disney "live-action" Lion King etc.

I think this is really important. I even think that if you, say, compared the amount of time people spent involved with, to take an example almost at random, SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS to the amount of hours in its production, that consumption metric would be very efficient indeed

Yes. It’s a good show with good writing and works well even without the Star Wars scaffolding/bones (in my opinion).

Yes! For the most part, Andor is very satisfying on its own. Its greatest connection to the wider franchise, thematically, is the spirit of the rebellion in the original film. Y'all will be fine.

An honest question. Say that my wife and I are considering watching ANDOR, but have only (only?) watched the 9 movies in, let's call it, the original sequence. Will we be able to make sense of it?

I think this is really important. I even think that if you, say, compared the amount of time people spent involved with, to take an example almost at random, SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS to the amount of hours in its production, that consumption metric would be very efficient indeed

Just putting some admiration out there into the world for Joe Keatinge and @leiladelduca.bsky.social and the work they did on SHUTTER, whose entire run I read this weekend - I'm blown away by the beauty and complexity of the storytelling and imagination on display there....

Looking for weekend reading/holiday gifts for your middle-grade reader? Maybe check out PRESS 1 FOR INVASION! Kirkus called it an "appealing choice" for its humor, action, "twists and turns...and lots of silliness"! Currently almost 20% off at Amazon: www.amazon.com/Press-1-Inva...

Say his name as many times as you can

AAJR is hosting a workshop for early career scholars in Jewish Studies this summer - for info & how to apply aajr.org/funding-oppo...

Looking for weekend reading/holiday gifts for your middle-grade reader? Maybe check out PRESS 1 FOR INVASION! Kirkus called it an "appealing choice" for its humor, action, "twists and turns...and lots of silliness"! Currently almost 20% off at Amazon: www.amazon.com/Press-1-Inva...

100% agree he could seamlessly move from topic to topic. He had terrible views but was very talented.

I get the sarcasm here; I wonder: who do people think are the best talkers on radio/podcast, regardless of if you agree with their positions? I was once driving for several hours where all I could pick up on the radio was Rush Limbaugh; disagreed with him on everything but was struck by his talent

Calibriation Day

I really enjoyed this 1907 silent film of underwater fantasy - I don't know that I would call it quite a horror film, more of a magical monstrosity tour, but some really wonderful set construction here.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAIk...

Re-upping this for HWA members: was such an honor to be nominated last year for non-fiction (for AMERICAN SCARY), and to be nominated this year for fiction would be a dream come true! (Plus, if you like fun, spooky middle-grade fiction, I think you might just like PRESS 1 FOR INVASION!) #horrorsky

So happy that R.J. Julia bookstore in Connecticut picked PRESS 1 FOR INVASION as one of their essential holiday gifts for middle grade readers! Check out their rec here and order a copy! www.instagram.com/reel/DR7pEHs...

So happy that R.J. Julia bookstore in Connecticut picked PRESS 1 FOR INVASION as one of their essential holiday gifts for middle grade readers! Check out their rec here and order a copy! www.instagram.com/reel/DR7pEHs...

And for this weekend almost 20 percent off on Amazon!

And for this weekend almost 20 percent off on Amazon!

Is Welcome to the Black Parade the Bohemian Rhapsody of the millennials, in terms of covers?

Just saw another comment from a teacher that a fifth-grader said, about PRESS 1 FOR INVASION, "This story has a lot of adventure and was exciting! I think other kids will love this book!” These are the reviews that are the absolute, absolute best.

Romero Foundation et al. present a free 35mm “SHIVERS” screening in Toronto this week. https://ow.ly/lef050XBCeE

A brilliant idea!!

Okay, this one from Hepworth, 1907's THE DOLL'S REVENGE, seems to me to be by a fair bit the most violent horror movie at least that I've seen up to then (though I'm sure @moviessilently.bsky.social and @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social can set me straight...) Impressive. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBsd...