Swamp Thing (A24)

You should read HEADS!

Nick Park's Salem's Lot

Happy Bitches Brew release day to all! The MD IG account shared a crucial previously unknown(?) letter from Miles to Teo Macero this morning, outlining extraordinarily specific cut n’ paste edits to the title track. Evidence that Miles got pretty deep into the weeds in the edit stage! (1/2)

Plowed through this one in about a week and a half, in haze of awe, laughter, and disbelief. Thank you @seanhowe.bsky.social for a wild ride.

Watching Netflix's restoration of Stan Lathan's SAVE THE CHILDREN, and noticed it runs 102 minutes, 21 minutes shorter than the version Paramount released in theaters in 1973. Anyone know what has been cut? Does it involve just non-concert material, or were there artists that couldn't be recleared?

WZZZ 100.1FM drifts Downtempo '76 A 10-hour mix of mostly instrumental downtempo electronic music made to sound like a radio station that you are meant to fall asleep to, planting seeds for Boards of Canada and Broadcast, while the ad breaks trip you out. DROPBOX LINK: bit.ly/WZZZdriftsDO...

plan accordingly

File this one next to Stephens' Jerusalem Post article "Paul Wolfowitz: Man of the Year," from 2003.

the king of Paggli-yacht-cci Rock

Today is Annie Besant’s birthday… an extraordinary Victorian rebel always much under-rated. Do order the book to find out more!

As @seanhowe.bsky.social shared in a MARVEL COMICS: THE UNTOLD STORY post... In 1974, Stan Lee inquired about the American rights to Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima’s LONE WOLF AND CUB. We were THIS close to "The Lone Wolf and His Cub" by Roy Thomas and John Buscema www.facebook.com/100050381474...

"Donna is too beautiful for me! I really shouldn't see her so often!"

“This is the 12th death in ICE custody in the first 2.5 months of the year,” Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, wrote on X. “Last year, 30 people died in ICE custody, a record level. This year, we’re on pace for just under twice that amount.”

“Carefully chosen … words … by [Alan] Moore”

Fox News headline

Wolverine by Mike McMahon

Banshee by Gary Leach, 1978

first I’m hearing of Enric Sió, #need a translation

Cyclops by Dave Gibbons, 1978

Nightcrawler by Brian Bolland, 1978

Its official title is the Society of Space Skeptics...a household banner to the thousands of the world-wide disbelievers who subscribe to its newsletter "The Skepticon!" Shall we go inside?

"That’s Entertainment!" Richard Goldstein, Village Voice, September 19-25, 2001

Facebook has reminded me that John Amos once praised something I wrote. A little Friday pick-me-up. (The article here) www.nytimes.com/2018/03/07/m...

DoD giving money to Anthropic which in turn gives money to class action lawsuit settlement for authors would be one of the weirder tax rebates I'd ever received

"Many long hours of research were spent reconstructing what happened between the principal years of the cover-up, 1955 thru 1964, a time period in which many popular super-heroes and comics code officials were brutally murdered."

"Congressional Democrats are opening a probe into millions of dollars private companies pledged to President Donald Trump’s planned presidential library, asking what happened to the money after the original fund was dissolved last year." wapo.st/47oKZQO

This is a great read. I worked in a multiplex from 1979 to 1983 as an usher (as we were called back then). The opportunity to give moviegoers a warm welcome and (when asked) my thoughts and recommendations on which film to see was always rewarding. Its good to know that some things never change.

just LOOK at this!

"These shoes feel great, sir, real great! Not loose at all! We sure do appreciate them, don't we, everybody?"

A real factchecking challenge

spent a few minutes here today

This is the photograph that Newsweek ran, Bookforum-style, alongside its 1990 review of Thomas Pynchon's VINELAND. "Hand Series, No. 1" (1972) by Victor Landweber landweber.com

Lighthearted illustration from the front page of the Tampa Bay Times, January 29, 1960.

A FACE IN THE CROWD (1957) poster illustration, detail Artist unknown

"I looked up, and up, and up, and up, until I saw Tom Noonan's face, looking down at me with a curious expression. 'What did you say your name was?' he asked." A remembrance of my friend Tom, lost too soon. www.rogerebert.com/mzs/a-beauti...

One hundred years ago today. What a legacy. 2026 must have seemed like a science fiction setting to Hugo Gernsback, and I doubt he could have imagined the potential extinction crises to come with climate change, A.I., and nuclear proliferation.

What a gorgeous cover! Inside: A heavily researched, guided tour of Batman: The Animated Series, with plenty of behind-the-scenes revelations.

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

"[Dems] should say it now: The blood of Americans who die because of this illegal war—in the theater, while traveling abroad, or within the United States—is all on Donald Trump’s hands."

This morning, I qualified to run for the DeKalb County Board of Education, District 4. I did not plan to run and made my decision yesterday based on the chaotic rollout of redistricting. We need good representation. Pokémon Go to the polls, y’all.

Found another noir for @seanhowe.bsky.social. THE SCARLET HOUR, Michael Curtiz. (1956). Based on a story by cartoonist, animator, gag writer, screen writer, director (ARTISTS AND MODELS) Frank Tashlin. Ideal Hollywood Hills setting. www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/oM4Mz7...

Will not go back down the Louis Tackwood rabbit hole Will not go back down the Louis Tackwood rabbit hole www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGeY...

Stanley Kubrick wanted to adapt Foucault's Pendulum

"The prosecutor displayed photos on a courtroom television of evidence seized from the garage of defendants on trial for alleged involvement in a radical left-wing conspiracy: Photocopiers, a bookbinding machine and leaflets called 'zines.'” Gift link: wapo.st/4cYZWN6