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Katemonkey (In Most Places)
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Transplanted Southern Californian in the land of medieval hoodlums.
Likes bad pop culture and the Internet.
Yep.
She/Her/They/Them.
Find me at https://www.katebolin.com
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Katemonkey (In Most Places) @katemonkey.com · Jan 25
Hey, if you're following me in an attempt to get more followers or whatever?
Don't.
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SLUGGO’S
SATURDAY
NOOD…NO
SLUGGO IS CONTENT WITH HIS HANDS FOLDED BEHIND HIS HEAD AS HE APPEARS TO BE FLOATING ABOVE THE GROUND SLUGGO: NO
November 15, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Enjoying Royal Sussex Hospital's Urgent Treatment Centre. There is the BIGGEST seagull outside looking very threatening to anyone who comes nearby. I can only assume he's representing the resident doctors.
Fight the power, buddy!
A photo through a door window. There is a parking barrier and to the right of it is a large grumpy seagull. This is his carpark. How dare you.
November 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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C'est moi
Single comicbook panel showing the Hulk lying prone on some grass near a beach. He's saying (in two speech balloons): "Hulk will sleep now, and maybe when Hulk wakes up ..." "... everything that has made Hulk tired will be changed!" (From Incredible Hulk #261, 1981)
November 15, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Welp, I'm a casualty of #ffconf. That fall I took on the stairs on my way to the afterparty has wrecked my knee. Time for knee supports, pain killers, and a lot of swearing.
(And I specifically brought one of my coelacanth shirts to wear to the aquarium 😭)
November 15, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Today I watched "Prey" (2022) on Film4.
A review of Prey (2022)
Yet again, I'm so sad this never got a real theatrical release. I would have loved to see this on a huge screen, all the action, all the sound, everything. Dang, Trachtenberg knows how to make a Preda...
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November 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Ahead of @ffconf.org – I decided to get back into random blogging. Right now it's all at katemonkey.bearblog.dev (I need to figure out what's going on with the SSL for katemonkey.com at some point).
But, hey, wanna know why I keep on using this green? Now you can.
The Joy of Go-Away Green
How a simple colour makes everything better. Now go away.
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November 13, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Tonight I watched "The Wedsworth-Townsend Act" (1972), the TV movie that kicked off "Emergency!".
A review of Emergency! (1972)
I used to watch this show obsessively every weekday between the ages of 10 and 12, while I was being home schooled. Then if I ever found it on TV, I'd watch it again. I started watching 9-1-1, but it'...
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November 13, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Just got my first phishing attempt from "BlueSky"
🥹 My baby's growing up!
November 12, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Today, I watched 'All That Heaven Allows" (1955), part of the Melodrama season at the Broadway.
A review of All That Heaven Allows (1955)
Lush with technicolor glory and swelling strings, with Jane Wyman's crystal tears and Rock Hudson's barely repressed emotion, the arch of Agnes Moorhead's eyebrow and the bleak reflection of lonelines...
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November 11, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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When I bought "House Flipper 2", I didn't think I'd reach a point in the game where I'm obsessing about kerning.
But here we are.
Screenshot of a scene in House Flipper 2, where there's a stage background in the shot (purple with orange spiderwebs). The letters on the background say "Halloween Festival". The kerning is bad. There is also a microphone in the right foreground, showing that it is a stage, and a gloved hand next to the phrase "Precise placement". The placement, based on the letters, is not precise.
November 9, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Today, I saw "The Running Man" (2025), which was the "mystery movie" at the Vue in town.
A review of The Running Man (2025)
I'm not sure what to think about this. I mean, as an action film, it's a lot of fun – Edgar Wright knows how to make a movie, and he does well with a great cast (I don't think I've really seen Glen Po...
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November 8, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Today, I watched "Predator: Badlands" (2025) at the Vue in town.
A review of Predator: Badlands (2025)
It's obvious Dan Trachtenberg has one true love in his life, and it's making fun smart-ass Predator films. Just give him a good budget, free rein with the canon, and set him loose. Throw in the larger...
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November 8, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Today, I watched "One Dark Night" (1982), recorded ages ago off of @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social.
A review of One Dark Night (1982)
I have to say, it's pretty impressive when your Big Bad for most of the film is just a flashing pink light behind a cracked marble tile. This is the kind of movie you want to show at, like, a 10-year-...
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November 8, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Today, I watched "How I Live Now" (2013), recorded off of Film4.
A review of How I Live Now (2013)
"The Day After" for kids who want to be a little scared by war, but not too much, just enough to know that things will be difficult but eventually everything will work out, you're just a little trauma...
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November 8, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Today, I saw "Mildred Pierce" (1945) at the Broadway.
A review of Mildred Pierce (1945)
Although I think I prefer Crawford during her psycho-biddy phase, I still absolutely adore the sheer glamour, the drama, the sparkling brooches and perfect eyebrows, the single crystalline tear...perf...
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November 4, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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A movie you've seen more than 7 times
November 3, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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Also look what I found in a nearby "vapes and sweets" shop. The taste of my childhood.
I'm holding a can of Cactus Cooler, an orange and pineapple soda that is rare to find outside of California.
November 2, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Today, I watched "The Haunting" (1963), a Fortune & Glory showing at the Nottingham Waterstones' Women in Horror convention.
A review of The Haunting (1963)
Still a delight to watch, all gothic horror, queer subtext, and houses that are just born bad. Add to it the delights of watching it at a Fortune & Glory showing, where you wave a pride flag when the ...
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November 2, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Today I watched "The House on Sorority Row" (1982), recorded ages ago off of @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social.
A review of The House on Sorority Row (1982)
A nice generic 80s' slasher, nothing too exciting, but amusing due to 1982 fashion, the mediocre rock band, and the absolutely trippy bits at the end, when the final girl is sedated and hallucinating....
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October 31, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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S P O O K Y T I M E S
A bunch of plastic animal skeletons are on various small steps. There is a sign that says "Spooky Petting Zoo". There's a buzzard, a rat, a jackalope, a sheep, a cat, a piranha, two crows, and a monkey. A carved turnip, a plastic cat skeleton, a carved jack-o-lantern, a large plastic skeleton, a scary baby doll with a plastic hand, a lantern, and a skull with candy in it. A carved pumpkin and a carved turnip. Me wearing green faceprint, a long scraggly black wig, and a veil with roses and a skull on it. I look mysterious and spoooooooky.
October 31, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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I feel like everyone could use a boost.
Here is a very dapper coelacanth that is here to tell you how fantastic you are.
A coelacanth is swimming up from a crevice. They are wearing a top hat and a monocle, because style matters, even in the ocean.
October 30, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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WHAT WHAT WHAT. FREE UPGRADES FOR A FIVE YEAR OLD GAME WHAT.
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Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition & Free Update – Announcement Trailer
YouTube video by Nintendo of America
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October 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Today, I got a certificate and a fancy coin to show off when I go to protests, harangue my MP, and be annoying at any local events.

Yep, look out everyone, I have representation to go with my taxation.
A dour looking gentleman wearing a poppy (because England) is standing next to a fabulous looking person with teal hair, a teal cardigan, a teal dress with a mid-century-style illustration of New Orleans, and big black boots with blue shoelaces. The person, a physical embodiment of "blue hair and pronouns", is holding up a British Citizenship certificate. A challenge coin, cheaply made and wrapped in plastic, with text that reads, if you read it from top to bottom: "British City of Nottingham Citizen".
October 28, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Today I watched "Warlock" (1989), recorded ages off of Film4.
A review of Warlock (1989)
What a charmingly cheesy movie. So utterly late 80s that it hurts, all bad haircuts and amazing outfits, random Mennonite farmers (and how does a man from 17th century Boston even know what a Mennonit...
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October 25, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Oh no. I am watching that stupid Darryl Dixon show because Oscar Jaenada is wearing a waistcoat and has a cane.

Oh no send help he is too attractive I am stuck watching it as an box set on my Virgin Media box as part of Sky Showcase oh no I hate Sky but he's. so. hot.
October 25, 2025 at 10:34 AM