Please watch the new Muppet Show special that went up on Disney+ today. Heck, watch it twice. Convince them to make a hundred more of them!

This morning for school drop-off, there were three people helping out our regular crossing guard & they were wearing Muppet shirts & holding puppets and this poster & were urging everyone to tune in next week. (And I wasn’t even one of those people.) So, do it for them!

@cmwryly.bsky.social FYI: Those Monarch kids are coming back in February! tv.apple.com/us/clip/cons...

I’ve seen some jokers & kooks saying things like “this one wraps it up & I don’t want another” or “he should let someone else do one,” so let’s be clear: Cameron MUST do Avatar 4 & 5. #beserious

It happened again.

I’m alive

@dinosaurdracula.bsky.social Fun Pack Thanksgiving treat this evening. Happy Thanksgiving!

New Purple Stuff Podcast! Join us for a look back at the 1985 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, starring He-Man, Rainbow Brite and Rue McClanahan! Listen here: dinosaurdracula.com/blog/1985-macys-parade/

Read to see my silly photo of my run-in with a Demogorgon-in-progress! www.goodhousekeeping.com/entertainmen...

I mean, yes, of course. aiptcomics.com/2025/11/19/p...

(It is the time of year when a man’s fancy turns to thoughts of Tom Turkey & Santa Claus.)

No idea if Wolf’s musing about working with Disney again is realistic, but the first step should absolutely be just doing some Maroon Cartoon Roger Rabbit/Baby Herman shorts and putting them up on Disney+ to reintroduce the character.

Yesterday, as we shared a Thanksgiving Sub at Firehouse Subs for lunch, @feegrowsinbk.bsky.social observed that she could already picture me in three years wistfully bemoaning how much I enjoyed that sandwich & wishing they’d do it again that (and every) November. Accurate.

As someone who spent over half my life in the city & left in part because my family got priced out, this really made me happy. I love our life & where we are now, but I love you NYC! Proud of you!

It’s November 2nd & the kids are playing cards with the 1996 parade in the background. A Nathaniel November.

October 31st November 1st

Good night, Halloweenies!

Happy Halloween!

Hallowe’en Eve

My pitch: HOUSE OF DRACULA meets CHRISTMAS EVE IN MILLER’S POINT

Does anybody know when (if?) I AM FRANKELDA is going to have a U.S. release? CC: @realgdt.bsky.social

New Far Side Alert! www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/36...

Holy smokes, not where I expected the third season to go, but it looks rad! ew.com/primal-seaso...

Fun October Fact: Even if you haven’t been to the new Universal park with the Dark Universe land, theres an album full of new music Danny Elfman wrote for the park that you can just download from iTunes.

Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the triangle eye and the singeing candle. #raybradbury

Anything that couldn’t be predicted by just taking their Project 2025 handbook to install fascism in the U.S. could be predicted because they ALWAYS do/are exactly what they accuse their enemies of doing/being. Like clockwork.

That looks right to me. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/t...

FYI (in case you don’t already have it on disc): it looks like Something Wicked This Way Comes is supposed to finally show up on Disney+ on October 3rd this year!

Happy 5th birthday to the official theme for Spirit Halloween

Now on Dino Drac is the 2025 edition of The Mausoleum of Madness, which is updated every day through Halloween with another vintage creepy collectible. Won't be plugging often; it's on you to check! dinosaurdracula.com/blog/mausoleum-ii/

So far, the thing that makes the least sense to me about Tacoma is that there is no park with a statue of a cow (or a woman with a beehive hairdo, or a young nerd) to commemorate it as Gary Larson’s birthplace!

@thegrandcinema.bsky.social Hello! Is there any chance of Highest 2 Lowest sticking around for a second week?

All right, where’s the influencer or junket guy who’s gonna badger Ethan Coen about Old Fink at the Honey Don’t premiere?!

At our AirBnB. The “Ha, Ha, Ha!” makes it feel a little menacing.

The ONLY downside to this is that there isn’t a whole movie to watch. (Of COURSE I showed it to the kids this morning, and Ada instantly was just like “Is there another one tomorrow? Is there a show? Is there a movie?”)

Woo hoo!

Sorry for the poor quality pics, but yes, the Jim Henson thing is real.

Five years old today!

Frankly outrageous that @akiva.bsky.social‘s dinosaur bodega installation didn’t come to the Grand Army Plaza station until after we’d moved. rexs.nyc

Same.

Many thanks to @dinosaurdracula.bsky.social & @sludgecentral.bsky.social for what I am considering a just-belated birthday gift: dinosaurdracula.com/blog/1980s-m...

Very excited to see that @thegrandcinema.bsky.social succeeded in the campaign to buy their building!

A real bummer that the “turn everything into a streaming show” bubble burst before Disney tricked themselves into making a Tomorrowland or John Carter sequel miniseries.

If you (like me) sometimes just find yourself bummed out that the last crowdfunding campaign didn’t work out & you don’t have new MST3K episodes, this is a nice little balm. (It’s also on their YouTube channel.)

@alamodrafthouse.bsky.social DEEPLY jealous of this! Do one in Tacoma! godzilla.com/blogs/news/a...

I…don’t know that I’d be excited for a series set before he builds a monster, but maybe they’ll throw in all the other monsters instead? I believe I’ve liked-to-loved 100% of the Waititi-produced shows I’ve seen? Of course I would watch this.

If this is true AND it is coupled with an actual TV ad I can show the kids when they ask about the cereal monsters this October, there will be much rejoicing in our house.

When we first spotted them this morning they were nursing. Little guys!