LA friends take note! The amazing FX artist Gabe Bartalos (who you might know from brain damage, basket case 2 &3, Malacostraca, destroy all neighbors) is having a new art show soon! Go check it out!!!

Wild BTS photo from 'Twin Peaks' I just saw on FB as shared by the boom operator Walter Gorey!

The consensus seems to be that this Goya dog painting is forlorn or he might even be drowning/looking up at an absent god but this is just what dogs look like when they want cheese

Happy May Day, fellow peasants.

Happy May Day!

I am not trying to do this again but this is in my head and I'm going to put it here so it leaves: /to the tune of "Girls On Film" Byung-Hyun Kim

yep www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

amazing local journalism here

Hammer's The Curse of the Werewolf - Released in the UK this day in 1961 - French poster - Art by Guy Gérard Noël

This beer oh my gosh

Really hoping he drowns his sorrows in something that actually drowns him.

This is an absolutely wild correction from The Verge www.theverge.com/features/916...

Heehee

Ooh

a few fun anagrams of 'blair witch project:' -Abject Tropic Whirl -Architect Jib Prowl -Tropical Jib Wretch -A Birch Project Wilt -Cab Pitcher Jilt Row -Breach Crow Jilt Pit -Abject Rich Trip Owl -Crab Pic Writhe Jolt -Jab Cleric Throw Pit

04/30/2026

15 minutes after putting the fish in the percolator he gives you that look

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If I got to do an **** **** film I would use lights

Focus

grant writing... is not fun writing

I’ve been driving past the Tiki Theater for decades. It’s the last straight porn theater in Hollywood. I had always thought that it was an actual theater. I just saw a photo of the interior and the Yelp reviews that mention meth pipes, toothless blowjobs and catching scabies make sense now.

Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’ https://theonion.com/supreme-court-overturns-right-v-wrong-1819573211/

so the version of 'tales from the crypt' that's gonna start streaming this friday definitely isn't gonna be remastered, alas, yeah?

Tell my step-grandkids this was the Woke Mind Virus.

I’m watching the 1926 silent film ‘the Bells’ in which Boris Karloff plays a fair mesmerist who looks just like Doctor Caligari haha hell yes

“Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant,” reads OpenAI's coding agent instructions. www.wired.com/story/openai...

I am amped to have the new @kimstim.bsky.social edition of Jan Svankmajer’s ‘Faust!!’

I wrote about SOUTHLAND TALES for my reader's choice series. Modern critics often suggest that its value is tied to how accurately it predicted the future, but its strengths are in how vividly it reflects the paranoia and the abyss of post 9/11 America. www.patreon.com/posts/patron...

It's kind of funny that just 3 days after every journalist in DC threw Trump a little party to "celebrate the first amendment" while giving him a tongue bath, Trump is once again using the full weight of the federal government to try to ban a comedian from TV for insulting him.

i unfortunately discovered the next panel in this comic last week

Book Cover of the Day:

@david-castleton.bsky.social Nice to make your digital acquaintance David! I'm digging your posts haha yes!

As St Walpurga was said to defend people against evil spirits & witchcraft, it was believed such forces were strong on the eve of her day. In Germany, witches were said to meet on the Brocken, the Harz Mountains' highest peak, which features in Goethe's Faust. #FairytaleTuesday #folklore #gothic

imagine almost getting assassinated but surviving and it just pisses everyone off more. lmao

If anyone needs some good fucking news Sam Neill is officially cancer free

Absolutely spot on writing here indeed

Inland Empire (Lynch, 2006)

"A lot of people have had a chance to see their first ever walrus, which is lovely."

postmodern society got me like

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

Seconded!

Charles Remorse United States City and Business Directories, ca. 1749 - ca. 1990

You ever think about how the Mafia boss in The Rocketeer has higher ethical standards than everyone who attended the WHCD

Robert James Ritchie aka Kid Rock is 55 years old. His career peaked in 1998 – that was 28 years ago. The average age of enlisted service members is 27.

spent the day with charles burnett as the city of los angeles honored him with distinction and friends from across his life sung his praises. deeply honored to co-present the award and be in the number of those singing his praises.