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Doris V. Sutherland

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January was the second of my themed movie months: every week, I watched a film with stop-motion monsters. Read my thoughts on King Kong, Q: The Winged Serpent, RoboCop, Wallace and Gromit and del Toro's Pinocchio here...
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Movie Month December: Stop-Motion Monsters

I decided that each week in January, I’d watch a film with stop-motion monsters. Here are the ones I ended up picking… King Kong (1933, dirs. Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack) …

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January 31, 2026 at 11:20 AM

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Doris V. Sutherland

@dorisvsutherland.com

Time to launch my big essay project of 2026...
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Interview with the Vampire, and I've decided to write a series of essays on the work of Anne Rice. The first post is yours to read today:
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Anniversary with the Vampire: 1976 and All That

Louis Pointe du Lac is a vampire. But he is also scornful of vampires. When, after much searching, he finds a community of his own kind, he expresses disdain for how these undead “had made of immor…

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January 27, 2026 at 1:43 PM

Doris V. Sutherland

@dorisvsutherland.com

TERFs: "We called our kids Draco"

Also TERFs: "Help, our kids hate us and want to change their names"

katie @supermathskid.bsky.social · 4d

with all due respect Ms Perry, calm down

We were the children who queued outside bookstores and cinemas at midnight. We got Harry Potter tattoos, threw Harry Potter themed weddings and named our children after characters from the novels — baby names like Hermione, Luna and Draco.

We interpreted our politics through the lens of the wizarding world, comparing those we disagreed with to the books’ main villain, Lord Voldemort, and carrying signs with slogans like “Dumbledore’s Army” and “Hermione wouldn’t stand for this!” at Women’s Marches. And some of us even took deeper moral cues from the books, reading them like a new Bible, treating the works as sacred texts with religious teachings to convey.

January 27, 2026 at 7:34 PM

Doris V. Sutherland

@dorisvsutherland.com

Time to launch my big essay project of 2026...
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Interview with the Vampire, and I've decided to write a series of essays on the work of Anne Rice. The first post is yours to read today:
dorisvsutherland.com/2026/01/27/a...

Anniversary with the Vampire: 1976 and All That

Louis Pointe du Lac is a vampire. But he is also scornful of vampires. When, after much searching, he finds a community of his own kind, he expresses disdain for how these undead “had made of immor…

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January 27, 2026 at 1:43 PM

Doris V. Sutherland

@dorisvsutherland.com

Not sure this comment's stood the test of time

pauline kael bot @paulinekaelbot.bsky.social · 5d

My dear anonymous letter writers, if you think it is so easy to be a critic, so difficult to be a poet or a painter or film experimenter, may I suggest you try both? You may discover why there are so few critics, so many poets. (1963)

January 26, 2026 at 7:39 PM

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pauline kael bot

@paulinekaelbot.bsky.social

David Lynch might turn out to be the first populist surrealist—a Frank Capra of dream logic. (1986)

January 26, 2026 at 5:34 PM

Doris V. Sutherland

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January 25, 2026 at 7:06 PM

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Out of Context Biffo the Bear

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Beano #682, August 13, 1955

Biffo walks past his teacher on the way out of school at 4:00, holding a "KICK ME" sign with both hands while manifesting a third arm to wave goodbye. Buster pokes his surprisingly plump, curvaceous bottom through the doorway and makes a disgusting face.
TEACHER (thinking): Biffo's acting queer!
BIFFO: Night-night, Teacher!
BIFFO (thinking): I daren't let him see the notice!

January 22, 2026 at 7:15 PM

Doris V. Sutherland

@dorisvsutherland.com

JDA's avatar always reminds me of the guy in this meme

January 22, 2026 at 7:42 PM

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Avram Grumer

@avramg.bsky.social

Great gods have greater gods above their heads to smite ’em,
And those gods have still greater gods, and so ad infinitum.

Kevin J. Maroney, he/him @womzilla.bsky.social · 9d

I have long been oddly haunted by Ovid's observation that the homes of the gods have household shrines to other, unknown gods.

January 22, 2026 at 5:39 PM

Doris V. Sutherland

@dorisvsutherland.com

Planet of the Apes with Big Naturals

Unnamed Jeb-Like Doll @namelesswrench.bsky.social · 10d

Improve a movie title by adding "With Big Naturals"

January 22, 2026 at 9:02 AM

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Golden Age Explosions 💥

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December 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM

Doris V. Sutherland

@dorisvsutherland.com

I wrote a to-do list last night and one of the items is borderline illegible.
It looks like "WOREDS" and "PAL". I remember writing "PAL" underneath for clarification, but this clearly didn't work.

January 20, 2026 at 12:16 PM

Doris V. Sutherland

@dorisvsutherland.com

Post-credits scene has Everett True stepping out of the shadows

Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 12d

I commissioned myself @jucikadaily.bsky.social @oocbiffo.bsky.social

Three-panel black-and-white pen drawn "fan" art comic strip by me, titled "Jucika vs. Biffo"

Panel 1: Jucika, everyone's favourite sassy soviet-bloc flapper, strolls through 1960s Budapest

Panel 2: Jucika encounters Biffo the Bear, drawn in his own inimicable art style. He is smearing olive oil on his feet and, as usual, narrating everything that happens.
BIFFO: Hullo, readers! To-day I'm smearing my feet with "olive oil"!

Panel 3: Jucia relaxes at home, ambiguously nude in an armchair with a cocktail, her new Biffo-skin rug having pride of place in front of the blazing fire. Caption: "jucika's nëwy rúg!"

January 19, 2026 at 1:09 PM

Doris V. Sutherland

@dorisvsutherland.com

Dragon's behind you mate

Hourly Videogame Box Art @vgboxart.bsky.social · 12d

DRAGON FIGHTER

January 19, 2026 at 1:08 PM

Doris V. Sutherland

@dorisvsutherland.com

What's Latin for "leopards eating faces"?

The point? There are days I think that because I’m Catholic, there’s always a section of the population that will always declare that Catholics aren’t Patriotic enough. Catholics aren’t American enough. Catholics aren’t enough on the correct side. We can vote in Trump, we’re not right(wing) enough. We can be a quarter of the armed services,18 and God knows how much of the police, but we’re not doing enough.

I’m tired of seeing “Catholics aren’t good enough because they are Catholic.”

I’m tired of being gaslit and told it’s not happening, as my churches are burned and my fellow Catholics are literally shot at.

I’m just … very tired.

January 19, 2026 at 9:27 AM

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Forgotten Comic Strips

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"Dennis Dull" by Phil Young, 1994-1994
February 14th, 1994 as seen in the Syracuse Herald-Journal

Single panel comic strip "Dennis Dull." Dennis is at the checkout lane at the grocery store. Caption reads: "Dennis knowingly uses an expired coupon." This strip ran for a week in the Syracuse Herald-Journal at part of a competition to win a spot in the paper. It lost to Ken Grundy and Malcolm Willet's "Tight Corner" and was never heard from again.

January 18, 2026 at 5:13 PM

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Funny Of Internet

@888.bsky.social

I feel like this cat was a musician or sacred person in a previous life because it understands this music so deeply

January 18, 2026 at 3:01 AM

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly

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pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things

Tweet exchange in which a photo of Anne Hathaway is posted by @TheRoyalSerf, to which user @VvSchweetz24 replies "@grok...do your thing.

@Grok replies: Anne Hathaway isn't Jewish; she was raised Catholic but left the church. She married Adam Shulman (who is Jewish) in 2012 and celebrates Jewish holidays with their kids. SHe's played Jewish roles, like in "Armageddon Time."

January 16, 2026 at 4:55 PM

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The Comics Journal

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Helter Skelter much? Annihilator: Rainbow of Death #1 by Josh Simmons, reviewed by Doris Sutherland www.tcj.com/reviews/anni...

Annihilator: Rainbow of Death #1 - The Comics Journal

“Here in the rainbow temple, we work to eliminate as much brown-gray as possible. We want hyper, vibrating pinks and yellows and acid greens and sexy purples. We want fun and sunshine and glory. Lazin...

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January 14, 2026 at 3:39 PM

Doris V. Sutherland

@dorisvsutherland.com

On this week's #WerewolfWednesday, I'm writing about yogurt pots.

Yogurt pots.

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Werewolf Wednesday: Fiendish Feet (1989)

Last week I blogged about a bunch of ice lolly wrappers from 1980. This week, I’m continuing the theme of decades-old novelty food packaging by talking about yogurt pots from 1989 — nam…

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January 14, 2026 at 7:13 PM

Doris V. Sutherland

@dorisvsutherland.com

I'm proud to say that my first piece for @comicsjournal.bsky.social is now live! So, join me as I dig into the first issue of Annihilator: Rainbow of Death by Josh Simmons...
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