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Matthew Sullivan
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I’ll protect you from the hooded claw.
Friday evening kitchen LPs.
February 6, 2026 at 8:32 AM
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FUTUREWORLD (1976) Dir. Richard T. Heffron
An oft forgotten sequel to Westworld that pushes the idea further with cloning added to the nightmare. Once again it is not the machines but the men behind them who are the real villains. Some things never change, and that is the point. 🎞️📽️
February 6, 2026 at 6:37 AM
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Late-stage Kapitalism
February 5, 2026 at 9:44 PM
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Does anyone besides me remember what one scene they cut out of BREAKING AWAY when NBC aired it two weeks after the Oscars? I was 9 at the time and still spotted it.
February 5, 2026 at 9:54 PM
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when i was a 16yo girl i thought i was an adult. coaching 12-17yo girls as a 28yo really hammered home how much i was wrong about being an adult at 16 and how obvious it is to actual adults that a 16yo is not an adult. if they say they cannot tell they are lying because they are a creep.
February 5, 2026 at 10:10 PM
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A prosecutor tries to frame a police chief for murder, but it doesn’t stick. Now they must work the case together. This crackerjack premise is the brainchild of Richard Wormser, a very underrated noir author. THE BODY LOOKS FAMILIAR finds him at his sharpest and most perceptive. Highly recommended.
February 5, 2026 at 11:04 PM
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They're both consistently hilarious, but the few times when Patty shows some emotional vulnerability just absolutely wreck me. She's my favorite Peanuts character by far.
February 5, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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I like to think of ^that^ Jan 2, 2000 strip as the LAST Peanuts comic.The half a dozen new comics that followed it (Sundays only) just aren't as funny or impactful or poetic - but this one from Jan 9, 2000 is a sweet high note:
February 5, 2026 at 5:49 PM
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Here's the full comic, from January 2, 2000. It was the last strip that featured Peppermint Patty, arguably Peanuts greatest character. Schulz died six weeks after it was published. It's perfection.
February 5, 2026 at 4:49 PM
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A panel from one of the last Peanuts comics. I think of it often.
February 5, 2026 at 4:46 PM
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My favourite beginning to a 1970s TV mystery drama of the week. Going by their smugness and the title of the story, that’s them both dying horribly at the end then.
February 5, 2026 at 5:24 PM
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Civil rights activist Medgar Evers was shot in the back by a Klansman in 1963.

The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from Evers' museum and reportedly plans to remove references that call his murderer a “racist"
Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist - Mississippi Today
Among anticipated changes to a new visitor brochure for the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument is no longer using "racist" to describe the killer of the civil rights leader.
mississippitoday.org
February 5, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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Top Ten Western

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon
The Searchers
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Forty Guns
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
Ride the High Country
El Dorado
The Wild Bunch
The Shootist
February 5, 2026 at 8:16 AM
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February 1973
February 5, 2026 at 9:05 AM
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MAD Magazine Presents;
Christies East Art Auction Catalog ( 1992 )
The Art Of MAD

#madmagazine #alfredeneuman #whatmeworry
#theusualgangofidiots #collection #collector
#art #artauction

Hey Gang, On Sunday We Will Take A Good Look At The Contents
February 5, 2026 at 9:07 AM
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Released #OTD in 1973 #filmsky

Originally The Bar-Kays were going to enter the L.A. Coliseum riding in horse-drawn chariots. However, when the executives of Stax Records heard this they didn't want the group to do it was so that they wouldn't upstage the concert's headliner, Isaac Hayes.
February 4, 2026 at 3:39 PM
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Released #OTD in 1978 #filmsky

The character and film's story was based on glamour wrestler Gorgeous George and his career. This picture was made and released about 15 years after Gorgeous George had passed away.
February 3, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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𝟖 𝐌𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐖𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐃𝐢𝐞 (𝟏𝟗𝟖𝟔)
February 3, 2026 at 12:08 PM
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Hurricane Smith (1992)
TMDB score 41%

An oil-field worker from Texas journeys to Australia to look for his missing sister, and his search winds up getting him involved with a violent drug-smuggling gang.

#movies #moviesky #badmovies
February 4, 2026 at 11:17 AM
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Is That Black Enough for You?!? (2022) Written and Directed by Elvis Mitchell Documentary covering the history of Black cinema, focused mainly on the '70s. Includes archival and new interviews with many of the key players from the era.
#BlackHistoryMonth
February 4, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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What Was Playing on The Deuce: Feb 2, 1979 #grindhouse #filmsky #nyc
February 2, 2026 at 1:43 PM
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(Not that I'm suggesting this led to his invention of the #87thPrecinct, because this adaptation was in 1957 when at least three books in the series were already available. It's possible that he selected the play for the group, becoming their chairman the following year.)
February 4, 2026 at 1:41 PM
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To reveal a tidbit of my #EdMcBain research - Evan Hunter sometimes performed in amateur dramatics productions. As part of the Pound Ridge Players, he appeared as Charlie The Burglar in their adaptation of Kingsley's Detective Story.
I just rewatched William Wyler's Detective Story--it's based on a 1949 Sidney Kingsley play that ran for 15 months on Broadway with, insanely, a cast of 34. NY really needs an Encores series devoted to unrevivable plays, which this is, even though it basically invented the police-precinct TV drama.
February 4, 2026 at 1:41 PM
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February 1968
February 5, 2026 at 9:10 AM
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Cory Doctorow: "America is not great. It has been gutted by the Epstein class, who robbed us blind, raped our kids, and are now selling us shitcoins and chatbots and the spectacle of protesters being shot in the streets."

Another banger here:
Pluralistic: Stock swindles (02 Feb 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
February 4, 2026 at 3:48 PM