Matt Simon
@mattsimon.bsky.social
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Matt Simon
@mattsimon.bsky.social
· Aug 11
Saw Donkey Skin over the weekend and I am thinking about the cat throne.
top level cowards hiding their faces and brandishing weapons on their mission to tackle and kidnap grandmas
a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
November 11, 2025 at 2:16 AM
top level cowards hiding their faces and brandishing weapons on their mission to tackle and kidnap grandmas
November 11, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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November 9, 2025 at 7:38 PM
November 9, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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On @elrickane.bsky.social's The Dead Thing: “The melancholy here is recognizable, the atmosphere of a stretch of life where we can find ourselves alienated from a world that doesn't quite feel solid. It’s a perfect mood for a ghost story.”
November 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM
On @elrickane.bsky.social's The Dead Thing: “The melancholy here is recognizable, the atmosphere of a stretch of life where we can find ourselves alienated from a world that doesn't quite feel solid. It’s a perfect mood for a ghost story.”
Reposted by Matt Simon
November 7, 2025 at 11:07 PM
November 7, 2025 at 11:07 PM
November 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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On Aislinn Clarke’s Fréwaka: “… a movie about the tangle of the mind and history, and [its overstuffed] rooms echo the troubled, cluttered minds of its characters.”
November 5, 2025 at 9:10 PM
On Aislinn Clarke’s Fréwaka: “… a movie about the tangle of the mind and history, and [its overstuffed] rooms echo the troubled, cluttered minds of its characters.”
Feels like an Ed Brubaker comic.
November 7, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Feels like an Ed Brubaker comic.
These days I have two kinds of music listening days: (1) pretty eclectic, multi-genre, with a fare amount of new music, and (2) just Elliott Smith on repeat.
November 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
These days I have two kinds of music listening days: (1) pretty eclectic, multi-genre, with a fare amount of new music, and (2) just Elliott Smith on repeat.
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The nominee to lead the BLM *actively hates the BLM* — He’s a shill for ranching, logging and Big Oil, a rabid anti environmentalist and conspiracy nut.
He’s featured in this list of Public Lands Enemies www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/pub...
Nominees can be blocked. Call your reps.
He’s featured in this list of Public Lands Enemies www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/pub...
Nominees can be blocked. Call your reps.
Hey rest of the United States!Head’s up! New Mexico oilman Steve Pearce is going to be nominated to lead the BLM. Millions of acres of pristine BLM land is vulnerable to mining & oil exploitation. Unleashed Steve will destroy our public lands. Call your reps and senators and block his appointment.
November 6, 2025 at 5:33 AM
The nominee to lead the BLM *actively hates the BLM* — He’s a shill for ranching, logging and Big Oil, a rabid anti environmentalist and conspiracy nut.
He’s featured in this list of Public Lands Enemies www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/pub...
Nominees can be blocked. Call your reps.
He’s featured in this list of Public Lands Enemies www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/pub...
Nominees can be blocked. Call your reps.
still seeking 2024/25 horror noir
Thinking of a newsletter next week on noir horror (in honor of #Noirvember). Gonna probably talk Hangover Square and Val Lewton, but I always mention something new and I'm drawing a blank. Any 2025 noir horror or horror noir I should know about?
November 6, 2025 at 6:02 PM
still seeking 2024/25 horror noir
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New newsletter--
“The abiding sense here is that physical reality, if we know how to approach it, will open up to reveal something deeper—a truer, more monstrous reality waiting out of sight.” On the 1925 Phantom of the Opera
www.deadofnightletter.com/mask-mind-mo... #filmsky #horror
“The abiding sense here is that physical reality, if we know how to approach it, will open up to reveal something deeper—a truer, more monstrous reality waiting out of sight.” On the 1925 Phantom of the Opera
www.deadofnightletter.com/mask-mind-mo... #filmsky #horror
November 5, 2025 at 9:06 PM
New newsletter--
“The abiding sense here is that physical reality, if we know how to approach it, will open up to reveal something deeper—a truer, more monstrous reality waiting out of sight.” On the 1925 Phantom of the Opera
www.deadofnightletter.com/mask-mind-mo... #filmsky #horror
“The abiding sense here is that physical reality, if we know how to approach it, will open up to reveal something deeper—a truer, more monstrous reality waiting out of sight.” On the 1925 Phantom of the Opera
www.deadofnightletter.com/mask-mind-mo... #filmsky #horror
New newsletter--
“The abiding sense here is that physical reality, if we know how to approach it, will open up to reveal something deeper—a truer, more monstrous reality waiting out of sight.” On the 1925 Phantom of the Opera
www.deadofnightletter.com/mask-mind-mo... #filmsky #horror
“The abiding sense here is that physical reality, if we know how to approach it, will open up to reveal something deeper—a truer, more monstrous reality waiting out of sight.” On the 1925 Phantom of the Opera
www.deadofnightletter.com/mask-mind-mo... #filmsky #horror
November 5, 2025 at 9:06 PM
New newsletter--
“The abiding sense here is that physical reality, if we know how to approach it, will open up to reveal something deeper—a truer, more monstrous reality waiting out of sight.” On the 1925 Phantom of the Opera
www.deadofnightletter.com/mask-mind-mo... #filmsky #horror
“The abiding sense here is that physical reality, if we know how to approach it, will open up to reveal something deeper—a truer, more monstrous reality waiting out of sight.” On the 1925 Phantom of the Opera
www.deadofnightletter.com/mask-mind-mo... #filmsky #horror
We are in a long struggle against fascism but tonight I think we get to celebrate. Put on some music, have a drink, eat some good food.
November 5, 2025 at 3:08 AM
We are in a long struggle against fascism but tonight I think we get to celebrate. Put on some music, have a drink, eat some good food.
Thinking of a newsletter next week on noir horror (in honor of #Noirvember). Gonna probably talk Hangover Square and Val Lewton, but I always mention something new and I'm drawing a blank. Any 2025 noir horror or horror noir I should know about?
November 3, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Thinking of a newsletter next week on noir horror (in honor of #Noirvember). Gonna probably talk Hangover Square and Val Lewton, but I always mention something new and I'm drawing a blank. Any 2025 noir horror or horror noir I should know about?
Perhaps the perfect hinge between October and November, I’m thinking about horror and cornfields …
www.deadofnightletter.com/halloween-sp...
#filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema
www.deadofnightletter.com/halloween-sp...
#filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema
October 31, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Perhaps the perfect hinge between October and November, I’m thinking about horror and cornfields …
www.deadofnightletter.com/halloween-sp...
#filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema
www.deadofnightletter.com/halloween-sp...
#filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema
Really taking to this wolf mask (too much so probably) 🎃🐺
October 31, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Really taking to this wolf mask (too much so probably) 🎃🐺
On Michael Myers’s stillness: “… he's also striking a pose, making a creepy image of himself, and taking his place as an icon.” 🎃
www.deadofnightletter.com/halloween-sp... #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema
www.deadofnightletter.com/halloween-sp... #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema
October 29, 2025 at 5:52 PM
On Michael Myers’s stillness: “… he's also striking a pose, making a creepy image of himself, and taking his place as an icon.” 🎃
www.deadofnightletter.com/halloween-sp... #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema
www.deadofnightletter.com/halloween-sp... #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema
One of the great vacation horror movies. Watch with the Abner Pastoll Road Games for a perfect double feature.
October 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
One of the great vacation horror movies. Watch with the Abner Pastoll Road Games for a perfect double feature.
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NEW 🚨
In January 2023, LAPD killed three people suffering mental health crises.
In response, our Office assessed the LAPD’s Mental Evaluation Unit (MEU) & found that LAPD requires a patrol-first, armed response in mental health calls for service.
Full report:
bit.ly/lapdmeu
In January 2023, LAPD killed three people suffering mental health crises.
In response, our Office assessed the LAPD’s Mental Evaluation Unit (MEU) & found that LAPD requires a patrol-first, armed response in mental health calls for service.
Full report:
bit.ly/lapdmeu
October 27, 2025 at 9:48 PM
NEW 🚨
In January 2023, LAPD killed three people suffering mental health crises.
In response, our Office assessed the LAPD’s Mental Evaluation Unit (MEU) & found that LAPD requires a patrol-first, armed response in mental health calls for service.
Full report:
bit.ly/lapdmeu
In January 2023, LAPD killed three people suffering mental health crises.
In response, our Office assessed the LAPD’s Mental Evaluation Unit (MEU) & found that LAPD requires a patrol-first, armed response in mental health calls for service.
Full report:
bit.ly/lapdmeu
“Contemporary horror loves metaphor, but few creators wield it like Solomon …”
A short recommendation of @riverssolomon.bsky.social’s Model Home.
www.deadofnightletter.com/fog-frankens...
A short recommendation of @riverssolomon.bsky.social’s Model Home.
www.deadofnightletter.com/fog-frankens...
Fog / Frankenstein / Family
As we approach the molten core of Halloween season, we're thinking about John Carpenter, Frankenstein, and haunted houses/families. Light spoilers below . . .
From the Grave.
Three ideas from horro...
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October 27, 2025 at 8:19 PM
“Contemporary horror loves metaphor, but few creators wield it like Solomon …”
A short recommendation of @riverssolomon.bsky.social’s Model Home.
www.deadofnightletter.com/fog-frankens...
A short recommendation of @riverssolomon.bsky.social’s Model Home.
www.deadofnightletter.com/fog-frankens...
Angelenos—join us this afternoon, if you’re free, in asking that Big Oil pay for the ravages of climate change. www.mobilize.us/sunrisemovem...
Make Polluters Pay Rally + Picket · Sunrise Movement
Join us on October 24th from 3:30 pm - 5 PM in Hollywood for a rally and picket to demand that the California Legislature pass Make Polluters Pay!
On October 24th, students and community members acro...
www.mobilize.us
October 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Angelenos—join us this afternoon, if you’re free, in asking that Big Oil pay for the ravages of climate change. www.mobilize.us/sunrisemovem...
“He has lots of ideas, and they serve to expand and develop a master amalgamated Frankenstein that exists in del Toro’s mind.”
www.deadofnightletter.com/fog-frankens... #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema
www.deadofnightletter.com/fog-frankens... #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema
October 23, 2025 at 10:16 PM
“He has lots of ideas, and they serve to expand and develop a master amalgamated Frankenstein that exists in del Toro’s mind.”
www.deadofnightletter.com/fog-frankens... #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema
www.deadofnightletter.com/fog-frankens... #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema