Oh dang. This is an excellent analogy.

ICYMI, the end of an era in T-minus..

Rewatching TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY and this movie gets better every time. Real masterpiece stuff.

Submerged remains of two altars from the only Nabataean temple discovered outside of Nabataea, at the port of Puteoli, Italy. This indicates Nabataean traders thrived in Italy before the Romans' annexation of the kingdom in AD 106. 🔗 from 2024 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

“If you’ve got a blacklist, I want to be on it.” youtu.be/sHd2O_KuCxA?...

You know someone who is a massively underrated actor? Dan Aykroyd. A pop culture icon in many ways, sure. But he built a career on playing so many different types of role.

Watching HIGH NOON and DIE HARD back to back is an interesting experience.

in the realm of "assholes in film" a special place is reserved for the reception guy in Die Hard who makes John McClane look up Holly's name before announcing "they're the only ones left in the building."

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

*taps mic* I’ll have some book news to share soon.

Read it as a teen, terrified by the sound of the window opening in Matt’s house. Read it as an adult, terrified by the scene of people knowing whats going on outside but refusing to look out their windows.

Why does ‘violence is not the answer’ and ‘this has gone too far’ apply instantly when a white christian dude (who was on record saying empathy was bad) gets killed, but not when the remains of brown babies are being scooped into shopping bags?

🎟⛏️ The hottest ticket in Scotland this weekend is at the @govanstones.bsky.social!

I've missed making the 'Hobbs Lane' signs (Quatermass And The Pit, 1958) so have made 25 available to pre-order, to ship in Nov. I've slightly improved on the original version with rounded corners, and thinner board to make it more in keeping with the original prop sign. hiddenbritain.bigcartel.com

FINALLY writing Marah Chase 3

With the release of the latest Conjuring film, it's time to once again post the link to one of many documentaries about the late Ed and Lorraine Warren, demonologists. @karenstollznow.bsky.social @matthewbaxtermt.bsky.social www.monstertalk.org/flashback-th...

Yasssss.

THE COUNTY LINE is #12 in Heist Crime. Lordy. I need to write more Heist Crime. “It’s like Faulkner had a love child with a couple of Elmore Leonard’s 1930s-set novels.” —Nick Kolakowski www.amazon.com/TheCountyLine

There are only 5 good Bond movies. And Skyfall isn’t one of them.

Two billion for country-wide access to ChatGPT. Yearly budget of Arts and Humanities Research Council is little over two hundred million. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I just hit 125 posts over at Torn Pages. If real pages of nonexistent books is your thing (and isn't it everybody's?) then head over there. Laughs abound. To make it even easier, the first 100 Torn Pages are free, free, free. Check it out here: www.patreon.com/c/tornpages

Sorry the Replacements hinted at something on Instagram so I can’t care about anything else for a little while

There’s a great song on the original Transformers soundtrack called DARE TO BE STUPID. Anyway. Don’t know why I thought of that.

Just when I’m ready to write Strange New Worlds off, it laughs at me and delivers a BANGER. Seeing Kirk, Scotty, and Spock together…magical.

NEW West African ancestry in #medieval England? 🏺 #Archaeology DNA analysis of two unrelated individuals from two seventh-century-AD cemeteries uncovers the first evidence for genetic connections between Britain and Africa during the Early Middle Ages. #AntiquityThread 1/10 🧵 📷 Lilian Ladle

@dsaarchaeology.bsky.social i’m pretty familiar with all the HP Lovecraft and Ignatius Donnelly strands in alt history but want to read up way more on theosophy, any books to recommend that written by real scholars?

Well, it’s official. Looks like i’m sticking around a wee bit longer. Time to figure out what I’m doing with my life.

Real discussion: CNN: Hey Dave it's CNN. Could you come on to talk about the death of Hulk Hogan Me: Hulk Hogan was a racist scab and a liar. He hated unions, Black people, and the truth and that's why he loved Donald Trump. What time do you want me? CNN: Great! Well.... so we'll keep looking

Somewhere Shawn Michaels just threw himself over the top rope

The Suburban Commando of our hearts

Can’t believe the Metallica bass player died

Dark Side of the Ring just got a whole new season lined up.

Hulk Hogan was the third man AGAIN

That works for me, brother

Hulk Hogan finally granted that kid’s wish.

Hulk Hogan is now a stiff wrestler.

Hulk Hogan, but with Rachel McAdams’s “oh no he died” line reading from GAME NIGHT.

People. Check out the cutest baby ever.

I havent seen Superman yet. But the Jor El thing i’m hearing is exactly what i’ve thought needed to be done for years. Its smart.

All the Doctor Whoness of it would just be fair game….EXCEPT they have a musical theme during the action beats that is so CLEARLY a Vanilla Iced version of Murray Gold’s I AM THE DOCTOR from the Matt Smith era, that SURELY this show is a walking lawsuit?

Everyone should watch Kipp.

Listen, people have the right to defend themselves from…..checks notes….starving people lining up for food.

The teaser for Nolan’s Odyssey looks exactly like what I assumed a teaser for Nolan’s Odyssey would be. Side note, I remain unexcited about the notion of a Nolan Odyssey.

Pro tip: if people are building concentration camps, oppose them.

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