This is why I support hyperlocal news. I love creamy garlic dressing more than I can put into words. My favorite was Villa Palermo (RIP) but now my normal supplier is JB Albertos. I would buy it by the gallon if they let me (if you think a gallon would go bad before I finished it you are wrong).

I've been hoping the 1000 WOMEN IN HORROR doc would hit Shudder soon, so this is great to see.

In which we continue our Powell and Pressburger coverage and identity three primary life lessons: men should wear more shorts, don’t repress your emotions and thus lose your mind, and no colonialism. Let’s talk about Black Narcissus.

No, *you* teared up getting a message that you can once again join the MST3K Info Club via actual mail

Spending a few days in St. Louis next week, tell me where to go to buy books.

It's impossible to overstate how essential to my emotional wellbeing STP Guy has recently become. Excellent work, please do keep it up.

Bless

If you return your mail-in ballot early, you should somehow be able to opt out of every single political advertising channel in existence. No, I do not know how to implement this. I just know that I deserve it.

Hey, if you haven't got your Girl Scout cookies yet (or you already need more, in which case I admire and respect you deeply), you can get some from this South Side troop and help them reach their goal and sustain their troop.

Close study of Who Framed Roger Rabbit has convinced me that despite Eddie Valiant's embittered Othering of toons, he and Betty Boop got it on many times, and may have actually been in love. But society frowned upon it, so it has to end. Kinda like a gender -flipped Sammy Davis, Jr. and May Britt.

Ash Wednesday

“I’ve gotten interested in these very little, subtle things you usually don’t see in movies, very quiet, tiny, little moments that you see in life and which are very difficult to put into a movie. I watch people a lot and look for those moments.” - Tom Noonan, R.I.P.

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I can trace two of my favorite thematic obsessions, miniatures and people who can't function in this world dissolving from it, back to an early viewing of one TWILIGHT ZONE episode: "Miniature," with an awkward, sensitive and achingly sympathetic young Robert Duvall. What depth and grace he had.

I didn't read any Brontë books until I was a relatively stable grown-up, which I think is why I'm an annoyingly smug "actually Anne is my favorite" type of gal. I genuinely like THE TENANT OF WILDFELL HALL better than the other big two (which, incidentally, sold so well Charlotte later squashed it).

Tattoo and Haircut, by Reginald Marsh (American, 1898–1954) 1932 More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/59820

We're currently in an amazing overlap of sunny, warm false spring and discounted Valentine's Day candy season, I advise you all to go out and take full advantage.

Every once in while someone explains to me that they’re not on social media because it breaks people’s brains and is a huge contributor to the current ills of the world and I have to be like yes undoubtedly but what about the cheese reviews

Posted some links and stuff. You can read them if you want.

Come on, Illinois. We are not a people who do things halfway. Do better.

Sorry I can’t this weekend man I have to wander around my home like a tormented ghost for a couple days

If you participate in Friday the 13th celebrations remember to honor the real reason for the season, Pamela Voorhees

Sure but when I do this I'm apparently "being weird" and "disrupting traffic"

FYI 'tis the season

THE MUMMY (1999) and it was a fucking blast

Don't give anything an Emmy until it's as good as this.

I recently joined the uranium glass collectors subreddit as well as the subreddit dedicated to hidden rooms, excited to see where this journey takes me (presumably to a hidden room full of uranium glassware, but we'll see)

Always and forever 💙 Wishing a very happy birthday to the singular Laura Dern.

(seeing Chewbacca on stage at the medal ceremony in A New Hope) hey what the fuck that's the guy who ripped my arms off when i won battle chess

This Saturday happens to be Valentine's Day and I happen to be going by myself to see SALOME, a famously gory opera featuring a woman known for obsession, seduction and demanding a man's head on a platter, so I think I'm staying pretty on brand here.

If I owned a TV station, I would insert the “Log Lady intros” at random moments in the daily schedule.

A good way to announce that the latest @quietlittlehorrors.bsky.social's episode is out, on THE RED SHOES. And, yes, next up is BLACK NARCISSUS, so gird your loins and such.

The temperature is going to be above freezing today, who will spot the first Chicagoan out on the street wearing shorts

I'm starting to think that the real victory in this election might be us constituents getting through it without imploding

Two years ago, I bought my first home, in Rogers Park. Shortly after I moved in, the neighborhood movie theater a few blocks away closed down and broke my heart. I am so, so happy to see a new version of it that seems to want to be a part of our community so much.

This one is hard to get a hold of but it's worth it if you can find it. A horrifying portrait of isolation and sadness.

I am very pleased by this development.

“I’m a god.” “You are God?” “I’m a god, I’m not the God. I don’t think.”

Once again, I urge you to trust only local sources for your weather prognostications determined by large rodents. Spoiler alert: Willie did not see his shadow this morning.

Oh hey, we released a new episode recently. It's a good time of year for us to stay in and listen to ghost stories about snow yokai killing men in the woods. Let's talk about KWAIDAN. quietlittlehorrors.com/episode-s07e...

It is 1980. You meet a guy in a dark-wood-paneled bar. He is affable enough to overcome how much he talks about Foreigner. He takes you to his place, up to ... the attic? Which is dark but also strangely soft and ... multidimensional? Only in the light of the next day does the the full horror dawn.

I legitmately think about this scene all the time. It could just be a joke. But it's also sincere and good advice for women who were socialized to hate themselves one way or another, and I believe Catherine knew it. She made it into a gift.

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I need a way to filter out any posts about the IL-09 representative race and the candidates therein that come from people who don't actually live in IL-09 or even anywhere near it.

I would have been ridiculously pleased with myself if I got to write this headline. Also I think it's a great idea to let the coyotes colonize Alcatraz. And everywhere else. Let's just be ruled by coyotes now. How could it possibly be worse.

"Views of marquees at various budget theaters across Chicago", all featuring James Caan in The Gambler (1975) Photos: Chicago Sun-Times collection, Chicago History Museum"

love when there’s a newspaper profile of some psychopath that points out they allow themselves “a lone vice, like a single cup of black coffee in the morning.” personally I am a bundle of trash glued together by vices. they’re all load-bearing

Happy Alan Alda’s birthday to us all.

I'm in month six of being an engineering manager and still every day brings a fresh, Kafkaesque labyrinth of policies, portals and systems that lead me to question not only my sanity but also the trajectory of human progress that brought this very world into being. So, seems to be going pretty well.