Rebecca Stone Gordon
@meanlouise.bsky.social
Coffee enthusiast. Gothicist. Biocultural archaeologist - history of anatomy & museums, forensic anthro, mummies, Nuclear Culture
Writes about archaeology horror, mummy films, Scooby-Doo
Also @excavatinghorror.com
Not weird at all
Writes about archaeology horror, mummy films, Scooby-Doo
Also @excavatinghorror.com
Not weird at all
Pinned
The Ninth Configuration (1979) is a gothic horror-comedy set in a secret military asylum in a gothic castle on an island in the Pacific NW. Jason Miller understood the assignment. His intensity & commitment is a marvel. youtu.be/_hAA_ppWwks?...
The Ninth Configuration - Jason Miller Scene
YouTube video by Journey To The Center Of The Cinema
youtu.be
I need to quit watching this but it’s too delightful to fade away yet so I’m pinning it for a spell.
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The History Department of the University of Massachusetts Amherst invites applications for an Assistant Professor in the History of the Modern Middle East. Areas of specialization are open. Please share! - careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u... #History #Historians
Details - Asst Professor U of M | Human Resources | UMass Amherst
careers.umass.edu
November 19, 2025 at 12:32 PM
The History Department of the University of Massachusetts Amherst invites applications for an Assistant Professor in the History of the Modern Middle East. Areas of specialization are open. Please share! - careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u... #History #Historians
You know the rules
of stormwater management blog post reposting.
of stormwater management blog post reposting.
just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
What Tom Holland’s historic lip-sync showcase taught us about stormwater management
Grab your umbrella and your tights.
neorsd.medium.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:57 AM
You know the rules
of stormwater management blog post reposting.
of stormwater management blog post reposting.
So good!
Watching the @nunkie.bsky.social live broadcasts of an M. R. James story is one of my favourite holiday traditions.
I buy tickets for my family in Wisconsin so we can watch together from opposite sides of the Atlantic.
I hope you'll join us!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-episode...
I buy tickets for my family in Wisconsin so we can watch together from opposite sides of the Atlantic.
I hope you'll join us!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-episode...
November 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
So good!
I’m going to keep boosting this because it makes me giddy any time Disability Studies & Archaeology do a team-up!
I'm giving a talk at my work this week that is being broadcast online via Zoom! Maybe you're interested in watching?
"Archaeology of Ableism and Ableism in Archaeology: Building a More Rigorous Archaeology through Disability Studies"
Wednesday, November 19, 12-1pm Pacific
#academicsky 🏺♿
"Archaeology of Ableism and Ableism in Archaeology: Building a More Rigorous Archaeology through Disability Studies"
Wednesday, November 19, 12-1pm Pacific
#academicsky 🏺♿
November 18, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I’m going to keep boosting this because it makes me giddy any time Disability Studies & Archaeology do a team-up!
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I'LL MAKE A SPECTACLE OF YOU is a published novel!
My Gothic horror novel is a tribute to Black Appalachia, HBCUs, and Hoodoo, featuring a lesbian main character whose name and life mission are profoundly inspired by icon Zora Neale Hurston.
Order here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/beatr...
My Gothic horror novel is a tribute to Black Appalachia, HBCUs, and Hoodoo, featuring a lesbian main character whose name and life mission are profoundly inspired by icon Zora Neale Hurston.
Order here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/beatr...
November 18, 2025 at 11:51 AM
I'LL MAKE A SPECTACLE OF YOU is a published novel!
My Gothic horror novel is a tribute to Black Appalachia, HBCUs, and Hoodoo, featuring a lesbian main character whose name and life mission are profoundly inspired by icon Zora Neale Hurston.
Order here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/beatr...
My Gothic horror novel is a tribute to Black Appalachia, HBCUs, and Hoodoo, featuring a lesbian main character whose name and life mission are profoundly inspired by icon Zora Neale Hurston.
Order here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/beatr...
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I miss you, David, and your light. 🖤
Happy Tuesday, everyone, and, like he used to say: "Have a great day!"
Happy Tuesday, everyone, and, like he used to say: "Have a great day!"
![What a great time to be alive if you love the theater of the absurd
[David Lynch giving one of his weather reports]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tcvpjkdcsdotgvcgdf6epyoe/bafkreif2ihtjblvignfrlmpke4cjz2uohna33lf5oh2pzhbbtr6gy34ufy@jpeg)
November 18, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I miss you, David, and your light. 🖤
Happy Tuesday, everyone, and, like he used to say: "Have a great day!"
Happy Tuesday, everyone, and, like he used to say: "Have a great day!"
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How do you do, fellow nerds? Today marks the official publication date of ALIEN: PERFECT ORGANISMS! I chased this job for years and I’m so proud of the book. If you’re a fan of me or the franchise I hope you’ll check it out!
November 18, 2025 at 1:27 PM
How do you do, fellow nerds? Today marks the official publication date of ALIEN: PERFECT ORGANISMS! I chased this job for years and I’m so proud of the book. If you’re a fan of me or the franchise I hope you’ll check it out!
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Pretty amazing to see two releases from the BFI that I provided essays for won awards the other day
November 18, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Pretty amazing to see two releases from the BFI that I provided essays for won awards the other day
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I'm giving a talk at my work this week that is being broadcast online via Zoom! Maybe you're interested in watching?
"Archaeology of Ableism and Ableism in Archaeology: Building a More Rigorous Archaeology through Disability Studies"
Wednesday, November 19, 12-1pm Pacific
#academicsky 🏺♿
"Archaeology of Ableism and Ableism in Archaeology: Building a More Rigorous Archaeology through Disability Studies"
Wednesday, November 19, 12-1pm Pacific
#academicsky 🏺♿
November 17, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I'm giving a talk at my work this week that is being broadcast online via Zoom! Maybe you're interested in watching?
"Archaeology of Ableism and Ableism in Archaeology: Building a More Rigorous Archaeology through Disability Studies"
Wednesday, November 19, 12-1pm Pacific
#academicsky 🏺♿
"Archaeology of Ableism and Ableism in Archaeology: Building a More Rigorous Archaeology through Disability Studies"
Wednesday, November 19, 12-1pm Pacific
#academicsky 🏺♿
Wednesday! You will not regret attending this event, reading this book, or getting a hula hoop! 🖤🖤🖤 ok, ymmv regarding the hula hoop, but you won’t know til you try.
I'm gonna be in Harrisonburg TONIGHT!
Looking forward to partying in DC on Weds .....
Looking forward to partying in DC on Weds .....
Hi!! I got TWO bookstore events this week:
Monday at Parentheses Books in Harrisonburg, VA:
www.parenthesesbooks.com/events
Wednesday at Little District Books in Washington DC:
littledistrictbooks.com/products/les...
Please come hang out, and please tell your peeps! I don't wanna be lonely...
Monday at Parentheses Books in Harrisonburg, VA:
www.parenthesesbooks.com/events
Wednesday at Little District Books in Washington DC:
littledistrictbooks.com/products/les...
Please come hang out, and please tell your peeps! I don't wanna be lonely...
November 17, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Wednesday! You will not regret attending this event, reading this book, or getting a hula hoop! 🖤🖤🖤 ok, ymmv regarding the hula hoop, but you won’t know til you try.
both relieved & disappointed to report that someone nearby has been doing midnight Madonna karaoke & sang Material Girl repeatedly over several nights. This per my insomniac neighbor. I slept through it, but apparently it infiltrated my dreams. Still kinda want to make Team of Men a thing, tho.
Last night I dreamt that Team of Men was an accessibility transportation option at our conference but
@meredithea.bsky.social realized it was pretty awkward. In the way of dreams I remember very little other than Scott Manning being carried down the hall as he joyfully yelled “Joan of Aaaaaark!”
@meredithea.bsky.social realized it was pretty awkward. In the way of dreams I remember very little other than Scott Manning being carried down the hall as he joyfully yelled “Joan of Aaaaaark!”
I’ve been meaning to text you all day because I dreamt you borrowed these shoes from me but said they’d never touch the ground & I was like “it’s ok, they’re shoes” & you said “I have a team of men who carry me around at formal events” & later you sent me pictures of you being carried like this 😂😂😂
November 17, 2025 at 8:06 PM
both relieved & disappointed to report that someone nearby has been doing midnight Madonna karaoke & sang Material Girl repeatedly over several nights. This per my insomniac neighbor. I slept through it, but apparently it infiltrated my dreams. Still kinda want to make Team of Men a thing, tho.
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If your image lacks alt text, I don't repost it, no matter how good, trenchant, or funny it is.
November 17, 2025 at 2:05 PM
If your image lacks alt text, I don't repost it, no matter how good, trenchant, or funny it is.
Monday. Etc etc.
November 17, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Monday. Etc etc.
Sigh. Whose turn was it to do the ritual?
November 16, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Sigh. Whose turn was it to do the ritual?
Crisis averted! Poor Indiana Bones! His steel cable snapped in the 45mph wind gusts & he came close to impaling himself on the fence and/or landing on our car. Our neighbors came to the rescue & all is temporarily well.
November 16, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Crisis averted! Poor Indiana Bones! His steel cable snapped in the 45mph wind gusts & he came close to impaling himself on the fence and/or landing on our car. Our neighbors came to the rescue & all is temporarily well.
Derivative, but I still laughed.
Brush your teeth after eating these or else you'll get calculus.
November 16, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Derivative, but I still laughed.
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Gutted. We have lost a brilliant voice in the world. Rest in peace Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social you were so inspiring to so many of us. Thank you for sharing all your words and for always shining a light on the disability community.
November 15, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Gutted. We have lost a brilliant voice in the world. Rest in peace Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social you were so inspiring to so many of us. Thank you for sharing all your words and for always shining a light on the disability community.
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I usually don’t like linking to the NYT, but I think it’s important to know that they wrote and published an obituary immediately for Alice Wong. (It selectively left out parts of her disability activism that they didn’t like, of course.)
“One of the things that really gives me joy is the fact that there are so many amazing, brilliant, creative disabled people out there. But part of my rage — and it’s a very real rage — is that most people don’t really know about them.”
Obit:
Obit:
Alice Wong, Writer and Relentless Advocate for Disability Rights, Dies at 51
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I usually don’t like linking to the NYT, but I think it’s important to know that they wrote and published an obituary immediately for Alice Wong. (It selectively left out parts of her disability activism that they didn’t like, of course.)
What - and I can’t emphasize this strongly enough - the fuck?
![[AlertDC] US Secret Service reports simulated cannon fire will occur around the White House complex now through 3:00 p.m.
For more info https://evbg.co/78vq1h .](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qphomynbliyd3bjbnhuhfwc2/bafkreidenjs7ehrrvjauvhafkw3rl3jo3ketmnf7xpxxamztmo6pbjxp2u@jpeg)
November 15, 2025 at 6:23 PM
What - and I can’t emphasize this strongly enough - the fuck?
Super excited for this keynote from @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social!
Great inspiration as I finally finish prepping my old A Corpse For Christmas lectures into a blog post bonanza about christmas horror & politics, so this is a fab way to get geared up. (The genre has BOOMED in the intervening years lol).
Great inspiration as I finally finish prepping my old A Corpse For Christmas lectures into a blog post bonanza about christmas horror & politics, so this is a fab way to get geared up. (The genre has BOOMED in the intervening years lol).
IT'S HAPPENING!!! 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄
Join 'Tis the Season for my keynote and lots of other wonderful scholars discussing Christmas in Pop Culture all day in this FREE VIRTUAL conference
shastacollege-edu.zoom.us/j/89560735727
Join 'Tis the Season for my keynote and lots of other wonderful scholars discussing Christmas in Pop Culture all day in this FREE VIRTUAL conference
shastacollege-edu.zoom.us/j/89560735727
November 15, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Super excited for this keynote from @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social!
Great inspiration as I finally finish prepping my old A Corpse For Christmas lectures into a blog post bonanza about christmas horror & politics, so this is a fab way to get geared up. (The genre has BOOMED in the intervening years lol).
Great inspiration as I finally finish prepping my old A Corpse For Christmas lectures into a blog post bonanza about christmas horror & politics, so this is a fab way to get geared up. (The genre has BOOMED in the intervening years lol).
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Scares That Care has TWO charity events in early 2026 -- our first Women's Writing Symposium and our 6th annual AuthorCon. For more information on either event, visit the charity's website: scaresthatcare.org
Scares That Care
scaresthatcare.org
November 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Scares That Care has TWO charity events in early 2026 -- our first Women's Writing Symposium and our 6th annual AuthorCon. For more information on either event, visit the charity's website: scaresthatcare.org
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It’s Yaphet Kotto’s birthday so it’s your duty to ask about the bonus situation.
November 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
It’s Yaphet Kotto’s birthday so it’s your duty to ask about the bonus situation.
Last night I dreamt that Team of Men was an accessibility transportation option at our conference but
@meredithea.bsky.social realized it was pretty awkward. In the way of dreams I remember very little other than Scott Manning being carried down the hall as he joyfully yelled “Joan of Aaaaaark!”
@meredithea.bsky.social realized it was pretty awkward. In the way of dreams I remember very little other than Scott Manning being carried down the hall as he joyfully yelled “Joan of Aaaaaark!”
I’ve been meaning to text you all day because I dreamt you borrowed these shoes from me but said they’d never touch the ground & I was like “it’s ok, they’re shoes” & you said “I have a team of men who carry me around at formal events” & later you sent me pictures of you being carried like this 😂😂😂
November 15, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Last night I dreamt that Team of Men was an accessibility transportation option at our conference but
@meredithea.bsky.social realized it was pretty awkward. In the way of dreams I remember very little other than Scott Manning being carried down the hall as he joyfully yelled “Joan of Aaaaaark!”
@meredithea.bsky.social realized it was pretty awkward. In the way of dreams I remember very little other than Scott Manning being carried down the hall as he joyfully yelled “Joan of Aaaaaark!”
Shark! Shark! Shark!
Yes we would love this for the Connecticut State Museum of Natural History! Just asked the director (Janine Caira) and she agreed. I can drive to pick it up
November 14, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Shark! Shark! Shark!