The Lanckman Archive and Cinémathèque has once again expanded its collections...

I had a magnificent time at Il Cinema Ritrovato - many films, many friends, many drinks, slight hysteria throughout - but now I'm back and have to deal with things like unpacking my suitcase, getting some research done over summer (lol), and also a house move. Ahhhhhhhh.

It is a day full of ACADEMIC EXISTENTIAL DREAD, for a change. Aaaaaaaaaaa.

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If I was going to make an innocent victim read one Lovecraft short story, which one should I pick? (Story, not victim.) My instinct says Call of Cthulhu but I will take alternative suggestions...!

The Prince Charles Cinema is the best cinema IN THE WORLD. A true indie with the greatest audience. Bringing movies new and old to the big screen. Regularly showing films on 35mm and 70mm. Please sign this petition to protect the @princecharlescinema.com ❤️ you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

'Announced on Holocaust Memorial Day, the Wiener Holocaust Library’s new online platform includes more than 150,000 items collected over nine decades. Users can view letters, pamphlets and photographs that record the rise of fascism in Britain and Europe.' Link: www.whlcollections.org/index/

The paperback version of our glorious fan magazine ed coll is coming out soon! A pleasingly affordable £24.99 and in full colour - hurrah! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-stars-f...

David Lynch knew the essential secret of storytelling: you can do whatever the fuck you want as long as you’re also trying to solve a murder

I have taken the resources that were in the budget and which you were probably saving for higher education Forgive me they were needed to feed the AI bubble and to dismantle the humanities

A bit of lovely news. We have always been here, and we always will.

this is probably not the most important thing to know about the Panama Canal this week, but if you travel east through the Panama Canal you go from the Atlantic to the Pacific

As the transgender community continues to fight for civil rights in the U.S., one of the most common arguments against progress is that transgender people are a recent phenomenon. But it’s a fight that’s been happening here for decades and around the world for centuries. ⤵️

This is some appalling shit.

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Bloody hell, David Lynch! That's genuinely a tough one for me.

The Telegraph who hate illegal immigrants, advising Brits how to be illegal immigrants.

Any good conferences coming up this year? Film history, star studies, fan studies, etc? Ideally in the UK or EU somewhere?

Saw Maria, as a person who's been in love with Maria Callas for the past twenty years - and I LOVED it. I felt like the exact target audience for this rather lovely and mildly unhinged film.

"Not only did you share a thoughtless, cruel recipe, but you also had the audacity to call it the 'best chili recipe in the world.' Really? Have you tried every chili recipe? How do you think this makes the creators of other recipes feel?"

Writing tip: After you finish, go back & cut all the adverbs. Then all the adjectives. Then all the other words. Eat the paper. Now you're free.

Very much thinking of my California friends. I hope you're all safe and well. What a nightmare.

Saw Nosferatu and quite liked it, but he was much creepier when he didn't talk so much (in 1922)?! STOP OVEREXPLAINING, ominous vampire!

It'd be fab if I didn't have to spend the last few days of 2024 with a HORRID SINUS INFECTION, ugh.

Logged into Bluesky for the first time in months and found 74749493 more followers. Hurrah! I guess we're giving this a proper try.

One of my resolutions for 2024 is to be a bit more active on here - because I do like it but somehow never get around to posting. (Still convinced it's the superior Twitter replacement, though...)

I went to see the Marina Abramovic thing at the Royal Academy yesterday and it was fab - much recommended.

twitter users stone age in 2023 hunter-gatherers 🤝 mastodon attempt failed, turned to sky worship for sustenance

I normally always ask this on Twitter - but... which colour should I choose for my gel manicure tomorrow, Bluesky? You tell me!

It's Friday the 13th and I have a horror festival to go to today and tomorrow. 🦇 Hurrah!

Just saw an advertisement for an “equine hospital,” and I’m sorry, if you’re not going to call it a horsepital, what even is the point.

Fun in the sun with Norma and Constance Talmadge

✨ 🔉 Hi! Here's my CFP for a special recurring series on queer/trans sound art for Resonance: The Journal of Sound & Culture. I'm seeking guest essays, audiovisual media, commentaries, interviews, and other editorial items *in addition* to peer-reviewed scholarship! online.ucpress.edu/DocumentLibr...

This kind of shit happens every time the situation in the Middle East gets particularly bad, and I'm sick of it. I'm not sure what we're supposed to be able to fucking do to fix anything, thousands of miles away.

Bluesky is so much less toxic than Twitter right now and I'm enormously grateful for that.

MY THALBERGS ALWAYS, obvs.

I'm perplexed when I see non-indigenous leftists who are critical of X settler colonial society in which they live; who then celebrate as an act of liberation the murders of many non-indigenous leftists who are critics of Y settler colonial society in which they live.

Actually quite pleased with how my first week of teaching went, shockingly. Maybe I am halfway competent at this.

First day of teaching and I am A BIT GLAD I get to do it without a slightly unhinged London-Bristol commute this time around. Hurrah!

I never quite got the Hamilton hype, but one day, I'm going to use the lyrics of "Burn" to provide me with a suitably Sexy Title for a suitably Deeply Dull conference paper on ethics in historical fan studies...... (Surely that's most of the work done then. Phew!)

Recently used this chart and it actually works! Wonderfully precise yet humorous flow chart allows to figure out the date of an undated world #map. via xkcd.com

Can one do polls on here? Not a dealbreaker if not, asking because I need help choosing a nail colour........

Anyway, shana tova, all. I'm weirdly feeling the High Holy Days this year, probably because things have been a bit of a mess and I need AN INTROSPECTION.

What do we call Jewish Bluesky? Jwitter is obvs not applicable - JEWSKY?

First Bluesky post - might this be the one that finally replaces the Twitters?! Ah, this world of DIGITAL SUSPENSE in which we live.