The Ghost of Halloween Past
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Just keeping the same thing as other places, probably should be updated: Dad wearing a lot of odd-job hats. Writer. Photographer. No longer a teacher. he/him
Just keeping the same thing as other places, probably should be updated: Dad wearing a lot of odd-job hats. Writer. Photographer. No longer a teacher. he/him
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Showed the kid 28 Days Later today and it was even better than the last time I watched it. 5 star movie. I love it so much. I could probably do 10,000 word on all the ways it is great and interesting. Might be a top 3 all time horror movie for me? Hell, it might be the best. Its in the conversation.
Ok - will bring up one specific I love and, this is something of a spoiler. Ok? Spoiler here.
In the last act this movie had a choice: embrace the ethics of Seargent Farrell, or embrace the ethics of Major West. Most movie makers would have chosen the Major. Danny Boyle chose the Seargent.
In the last act this movie had a choice: embrace the ethics of Seargent Farrell, or embrace the ethics of Major West. Most movie makers would have chosen the Major. Danny Boyle chose the Seargent.
Very much enjoyed Wonder Man.
February 8, 2026 at 3:56 AM
Very much enjoyed Wonder Man.
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My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.
February 7, 2026 at 6:39 PM
My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.
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How much people everywhere are basically the same. Human experiences are universal and we have soooo much more in common than we have in difference
What has surprised you the most when traveling?
February 7, 2026 at 12:39 PM
How much people everywhere are basically the same. Human experiences are universal and we have soooo much more in common than we have in difference
The idea that an event that highlights a parade of athletes waving their country’s flag & where one of the rewards for winning is to play the winner’s country’s national anthem has rules against political symbolism is so ludicrous it would be funny if it weren’t so clear what the rule is really for.
I cannot sufficiently underline how despicable it is that the IOC has required Haitian Olympic athletes to remove an image representing the leader of the Haitian Revolution (against SLAVERY) from their uniforms.
February 7, 2026 at 3:23 PM
The idea that an event that highlights a parade of athletes waving their country’s flag & where one of the rewards for winning is to play the winner’s country’s national anthem has rules against political symbolism is so ludicrous it would be funny if it weren’t so clear what the rule is really for.
STET is a story that should have been mandatory reading in high schools, colleges, and universities since the day it was published. Also, just as a piece of art, a piece of short SF on the digital page, it was always a marvel.
For several particular reasons today, "STET" by Sarah Gailey is extremely on my mind. STET share.google/ODadlV1br3eH...
STET
Section 5.4 — Autonomous Conscience and Automotive Casualty
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February 6, 2026 at 4:51 PM
STET is a story that should have been mandatory reading in high schools, colleges, and universities since the day it was published. Also, just as a piece of art, a piece of short SF on the digital page, it was always a marvel.
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Halfway through Wonder Man and really enjoying it so far. I mean, you tell me I get more Ben Kingsley and I'll watch just about anything, but especially Ben Kingsley as Trevor Slatterly. Does Kingsley, who has been Ghandi, Don Logan, and Trevor Slatterly simply have the greatest range of any actor?
February 1, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Halfway through Wonder Man and really enjoying it so far. I mean, you tell me I get more Ben Kingsley and I'll watch just about anything, but especially Ben Kingsley as Trevor Slatterly. Does Kingsley, who has been Ghandi, Don Logan, and Trevor Slatterly simply have the greatest range of any actor?
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This might well become a thread.
I am calling it 'Bloody Hell, Aren't Doors On Old Walls Fucking Brilliant?'
I am calling it 'Bloody Hell, Aren't Doors On Old Walls Fucking Brilliant?'
January 16, 2026 at 11:46 AM
This might well become a thread.
I am calling it 'Bloody Hell, Aren't Doors On Old Walls Fucking Brilliant?'
I am calling it 'Bloody Hell, Aren't Doors On Old Walls Fucking Brilliant?'
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If you are a person who works in social media, and your job requires you to manage an account on Twitter/X, please ask your boss, in writing, to verify that you are required as a responsibility of your position to be on a platform that knowingly creates and monetizes child sexual abuse material …
January 29, 2026 at 6:46 PM
If you are a person who works in social media, and your job requires you to manage an account on Twitter/X, please ask your boss, in writing, to verify that you are required as a responsibility of your position to be on a platform that knowingly creates and monetizes child sexual abuse material …
So, Jack O’Connell is a pretty damn fantastic actor eh? Just give him all the villains with layers of nuance underneath their messed up villainy and need for tonal shifts that change tempo and catch you off guard like an elite point guard.
January 25, 2026 at 12:37 AM
So, Jack O’Connell is a pretty damn fantastic actor eh? Just give him all the villains with layers of nuance underneath their messed up villainy and need for tonal shifts that change tempo and catch you off guard like an elite point guard.
Got SINNERS on my mind and you know, for all the well deserved praise *that one particular* scene gets as a piece of only-possible-in-a-movie magic, I wonder if enough credit is given to what a truly stunning piece of music “I Lied To You” is all on it’s on as music. Just an amazing piece by itself.
January 24, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Got SINNERS on my mind and you know, for all the well deserved praise *that one particular* scene gets as a piece of only-possible-in-a-movie magic, I wonder if enough credit is given to what a truly stunning piece of music “I Lied To You” is all on it’s on as music. Just an amazing piece by itself.
I am never forgiving Google for making me have to finally start using Outlook. Security be damned!
January 22, 2026 at 3:29 PM
I am never forgiving Google for making me have to finally start using Outlook. Security be damned!
I haven’t been on here much lately. Would like to change that. But I have quickly realized I’m going to have to put a billion words and terms into mute.
January 22, 2026 at 1:43 AM
I haven’t been on here much lately. Would like to change that. But I have quickly realized I’m going to have to put a billion words and terms into mute.
Damn! Libro.fm (best place to get your audiobooks) has some fantastic sales on right now! Gideon the Ninth $6.93! libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
Gideon the Ninth Audiobook on Libro.fm
The Emperor needs necromancers. The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman. Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead nonsense. Tamsyn Muir's Gideon the Ninth unveils a sola...
libro.fm
January 20, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Damn! Libro.fm (best place to get your audiobooks) has some fantastic sales on right now! Gideon the Ninth $6.93! libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
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The City of Minneapolis has designs for signs and stickers that you can download.
January 20, 2026 at 12:33 AM
The City of Minneapolis has designs for signs and stickers that you can download.
Chose a hell of a week to open up this app and the news in general for the first time in quite a while
January 10, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Chose a hell of a week to open up this app and the news in general for the first time in quite a while
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Shit. That rhino can corner.
January 9, 2026 at 8:52 PM
Shit. That rhino can corner.
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I will say this again and again and again: capitalism cannot be king in a world where white people had to be forced by law to accept dollars from Black hands, and that is the world we live in.
This is why people who insist that capitalism/profit motive will ultimately trump racism are unfortunately and demonstrably incorrect
We’ve had endless examples of how much money there is to be made, and yet they consistently do this
We’ve had endless examples of how much money there is to be made, and yet they consistently do this
I still can't believe Sony sold K-Pop Demon Hunters to Netflix thinking it would be a flop, but are betting that basketball movie with a goat is going to be a huge hit in cinemas.
December 2, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I will say this again and again and again: capitalism cannot be king in a world where white people had to be forced by law to accept dollars from Black hands, and that is the world we live in.
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Zines in SF/F that are nonprofits AFAIK and thus worthy of your support on this Giving Tuesday. (Pls add others you know of!)
BCS
@strangehorizons.bsky.social
@reckoningmag.bsky.social
@escapepod.org @podcastle.org @pseudopod.org
BCS
@strangehorizons.bsky.social
@reckoningmag.bsky.social
@escapepod.org @podcastle.org @pseudopod.org
December 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Zines in SF/F that are nonprofits AFAIK and thus worthy of your support on this Giving Tuesday. (Pls add others you know of!)
BCS
@strangehorizons.bsky.social
@reckoningmag.bsky.social
@escapepod.org @podcastle.org @pseudopod.org
BCS
@strangehorizons.bsky.social
@reckoningmag.bsky.social
@escapepod.org @podcastle.org @pseudopod.org
Oh great, Toronto Star publishing TERF bullshit now and I see they've gotten around to tossing in stuff to be explicit that they don't just hate trans athletes but any athlete who isn't "women enough" based on their chromosomes. Cause why not just make the hate even more hateful eh?
November 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Oh great, Toronto Star publishing TERF bullshit now and I see they've gotten around to tossing in stuff to be explicit that they don't just hate trans athletes but any athlete who isn't "women enough" based on their chromosomes. Cause why not just make the hate even more hateful eh?
I don’t even know what else is on this list yet, but I see the graphics for House here, so, I know it’s a great list.
get ready, beloveds!!
we're back on the blog with:
Five Haunted Location Horror Films to Indulge In
by @theblackbuffy.bsky.social 🏚️ 💀
psychopomp.com/five-haunted...
we're back on the blog with:
Five Haunted Location Horror Films to Indulge In
by @theblackbuffy.bsky.social 🏚️ 💀
psychopomp.com/five-haunted...
Five Haunted Location Horror Films to Indulge In - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
The leaves are on the ground, the air is chilly (not everywhere, but at least in certain parts of Canada and the US), and there’s nothing like a haunted location horror film to finish your night with.
psychopomp.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I don’t even know what else is on this list yet, but I see the graphics for House here, so, I know it’s a great list.
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
So I see this article saying there are no obvious threads connecting the traitorous Democrats who want to give in to the Republicans and then, after a bunch of descriptions of them it says “None are up for reelection in 2026”. Uh, that would be the obvious connecting thread?!? Obviously?!?
November 10, 2025 at 1:29 PM
So I see this article saying there are no obvious threads connecting the traitorous Democrats who want to give in to the Republicans and then, after a bunch of descriptions of them it says “None are up for reelection in 2026”. Uh, that would be the obvious connecting thread?!? Obviously?!?
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BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Actually, anyone know any LGBTQIA+ makers of flag pins or something like that, in Canada, maybe an etsy shop or something? Cause seriously, I shouldn’t have to be exhausted by people’s bigotry, they should be afraid to speak their bullshit around me.
I’d desperately love to be able to talk to people for work reasons that does not turn out to just drop transphobic bullshit into conversation. I’m starting to think that I need just wear a collection of pride flag pins whenever I am in public or something so people stop assuming I’m like them.
November 9, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Actually, anyone know any LGBTQIA+ makers of flag pins or something like that, in Canada, maybe an etsy shop or something? Cause seriously, I shouldn’t have to be exhausted by people’s bigotry, they should be afraid to speak their bullshit around me.