Collin Cannaday
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Texan author, screenwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist.
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Texan author, screenwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist.
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Collin Cannaday
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· Nov 20
Weird Wednesdays: King Kong Escapes — Hyperreal Film Club
What happens when the Kong franchise bounds outside its California home and we let the Godzilla folks take the reins for a bit? The result is the recent Weird Wednesday showing of King Kong Escapes.
hyperrealfilm.club
Did I need to study up on uranium mining to write a review of King Kong Escapes? No! But I did it anyway for you — the reader. #filmsky #kaiju #kingkong #kong
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Imagine being such a badass that universities are banning your work 2300 years later! That’s goals.
#philosophy #booksky #readbannedbooks
#philosophy #booksky #readbannedbooks
January 8, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Imagine being such a badass that universities are banning your work 2300 years later! That’s goals.
#philosophy #booksky #readbannedbooks
#philosophy #booksky #readbannedbooks
Reposted by Collin Cannaday
In a recent experiment, physicists cooled the organic molecule iodopyridine to almost absolute zero. Even at their chilled state, the molecule was vibrating. This is just one example of how, in the quantum world, motion persists at minimum energy.
In Quantum Mechanics, Nothingness Is the Potential To Be Anything | Quanta Magazine
Try as they might, scientists can’t truly rid a space or an object of its energy. But what “zero-point energy” really means is up for interpretation.
www.quantamagazine.org
January 7, 2026 at 4:46 PM
In a recent experiment, physicists cooled the organic molecule iodopyridine to almost absolute zero. Even at their chilled state, the molecule was vibrating. This is just one example of how, in the quantum world, motion persists at minimum energy.
Also, product placement in books is incredibly inefficient advertising. Assuming one gets through the first 153 pages to get to the passage about a fizzy Coke and still thinks ‘Yummy, gotta get me one!’ — more likely I would stay home, I’m just getting into this biography of John Stith Pemberton.
I don't know a single writer who has been asked to do product placement in their work, or at least, if they have, they have not admitted so to me. Nor have I ever been approached with an offer for product placement of any sort. I would be unlikely to entertain such an offer. I don't need the money.
@scalzi.com is this true? Do brands pay the big bucks for product placement in books?
January 8, 2026 at 3:39 AM
Also, product placement in books is incredibly inefficient advertising. Assuming one gets through the first 153 pages to get to the passage about a fizzy Coke and still thinks ‘Yummy, gotta get me one!’ — more likely I would stay home, I’m just getting into this biography of John Stith Pemberton.
“I am in perfect mental health!” Cried the man who randomly capitalizes words and signs his tweets like a letter — even though everyone else stopped doing those things years ago because it makes you look mentally unwell.
January 2, 2026 at 6:46 PM
“I am in perfect mental health!” Cried the man who randomly capitalizes words and signs his tweets like a letter — even though everyone else stopped doing those things years ago because it makes you look mentally unwell.
The House of Dynamite writing process was most likely a list of dialog lines it would be terrifying to hear an authority figure say. Then it was simply a matter of filming every variation. #filmsky
January 1, 2026 at 5:39 PM
The House of Dynamite writing process was most likely a list of dialog lines it would be terrifying to hear an authority figure say. Then it was simply a matter of filming every variation. #filmsky
The Eisbach wave was one of the coolest things when I lived in Munich. I hope it returns soon.
apnews.com/article/surf...
apnews.com/article/surf...
Debate over surfing in German park gets gnarly after city removes wave-creating device
Surf's not up in Munich. Workers in the German city on Sunday removed a beam used to recreate a surfable wave in the city's landmark English Garden park.
apnews.com
December 30, 2025 at 7:53 PM
The Eisbach wave was one of the coolest things when I lived in Munich. I hope it returns soon.
apnews.com/article/surf...
apnews.com/article/surf...
Knowing is half the battle
Unfortunately, the other half involves a lot of severed limbs
Unfortunately, the other half involves a lot of severed limbs
December 30, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Also in twenty years there’s going to be a generation of people who will assert “I loved those Avatar movies as a kid.” “They don’t make em like that anymore.” Etc.
Avatar has had a staggering cultural impact, in that every time one of the movies is released there is a flood of articles/comments/assertions about how little cultural impact it has had, any franchise that causes that consistent level of engagement in the chattering class is making a hell of a mark
December 28, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Also in twenty years there’s going to be a generation of people who will assert “I loved those Avatar movies as a kid.” “They don’t make em like that anymore.” Etc.
Quote with four of your favorite holiday movies! ❄️☃️
December 24, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Quote with four of your favorite holiday movies! ❄️☃️
Oh boy! Glögg! The Scandinavian treat that’s fun to… drink, I think.
December 22, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Oh boy! Glögg! The Scandinavian treat that’s fun to… drink, I think.
2025 in review: Tell me you’re in a new Great Depression without telling me you’re in a Great Depression.
December 21, 2025 at 1:23 PM
2025 in review: Tell me you’re in a new Great Depression without telling me you’re in a Great Depression.
“I don’t care what anyone says, I like that movie.”
December 19, 2025 at 4:45 AM
“I don’t care what anyone says, I like that movie.”
The trailer for a live-action Nadesico adaptation is all the main characters upset they made a live-action Gekigangar adaptation.
December 19, 2025 at 4:33 AM
The trailer for a live-action Nadesico adaptation is all the main characters upset they made a live-action Gekigangar adaptation.
In a Quantum Christmas Carol Scrooge can exist in a state of good and wicked at the same time as long as Cratchit doesn’t go into the office on Christmas Eve, keeping him in superposition indefinitely.
December 9, 2025 at 3:38 AM
In a Quantum Christmas Carol Scrooge can exist in a state of good and wicked at the same time as long as Cratchit doesn’t go into the office on Christmas Eve, keeping him in superposition indefinitely.
Welcome to late-stage capitalism where all the points have doubled and money is just made up anyway. Lolz. #filmsky
kotaku.com/netflix-warn...
kotaku.com/netflix-warn...
Paramount Goes To War With Netflix Over Warner Bros.
The left-at-the-altar corporation makes a last-ditch attempt to woo Warner away from the streamer
kotaku.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Welcome to late-stage capitalism where all the points have doubled and money is just made up anyway. Lolz. #filmsky
kotaku.com/netflix-warn...
kotaku.com/netflix-warn...
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
December 8, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
Watching Road House and Patricia Tallman is in it for a microsecond at the very beginning. I would love to interview her. I bet she’s got all the stories. #filmsky
November 26, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Watching Road House and Patricia Tallman is in it for a microsecond at the very beginning. I would love to interview her. I bet she’s got all the stories. #filmsky
"In many ways, the Greek pantheon was the original Marvel Cinematic Universe. If you think about it." said the history teacher, desperately.
November 24, 2025 at 11:28 PM
"In many ways, the Greek pantheon was the original Marvel Cinematic Universe. If you think about it." said the history teacher, desperately.
Did I need to study up on uranium mining to write a review of King Kong Escapes? No! But I did it anyway for you — the reader. #filmsky #kaiju #kingkong #kong
hyperrealfilm.club/reviews/king...
hyperrealfilm.club/reviews/king...
Weird Wednesdays: King Kong Escapes — Hyperreal Film Club
What happens when the Kong franchise bounds outside its California home and we let the Godzilla folks take the reins for a bit? The result is the recent Weird Wednesday showing of King Kong Escapes.
hyperrealfilm.club
November 20, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Did I need to study up on uranium mining to write a review of King Kong Escapes? No! But I did it anyway for you — the reader. #filmsky #kaiju #kingkong #kong
hyperrealfilm.club/reviews/king...
hyperrealfilm.club/reviews/king...
The thumbnail of M3gan 2.0 is M3gan spiking the camera as she tilts down sunglasses that she does not need nor are featured in the film. This should tell you most of what you need to know about M3gan 2.0. #filmsky
November 13, 2025 at 2:40 AM
The thumbnail of M3gan 2.0 is M3gan spiking the camera as she tilts down sunglasses that she does not need nor are featured in the film. This should tell you most of what you need to know about M3gan 2.0. #filmsky
November 12, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I don’t completely buy into the whole “mind over matter” ethos. But I do think mind plays a part.
November 8, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I don’t completely buy into the whole “mind over matter” ethos. But I do think mind plays a part.
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If you have an election in your city/state tomorrow please... Vote.
November 3, 2025 at 10:55 PM
If you have an election in your city/state tomorrow please... Vote.