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Randy Golden
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Quiet misfit blogger of road trips, conventions, geek/post-geek stuff at Midlife Crisis Crossover. Dislikes aging, self-promotion. Views do not necessarily reflect other companies, hiveminds or bandwagons.
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When I'm too deep into people-pleaser mode at work
"Would you like an atom bomb?" says an uneasy DHL delivery man to an irritable offscreen character in PLURIBUS episode 3.
November 14, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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...and seriously, I LOVE that this Ken/Loki #cosplay mash-up looks chillingly like real-world magician Alan Moore
Cosplayer mash-up of Ken and Loki, wearing Loki helmet, pink business suit and Kenoki for President button. He carries an Alligator Loki puppet and Barbie figure box. His facial hare and stark glare look EXACTLY like comics writer Alan Moore.
October 26, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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[9] DAYS TILL NEXT CONVENTION
Badges for Fan Expo Chicago 2025 with Batman art
August 6, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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That time Anne met Loni Anderson at Wizard World Chicago 2017. RIP.
My wife at a comic-con standing next to Loni Anderson. The 8x10 photo in Anne's hand and the pic on Anderson's booth banner are both from her WKRP days.
August 4, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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JURASSIC PARK REBIRTH (2025)
Domokun plush doll in grassy diorama cutely threatening a smaller orange lizard toy.
July 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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THE LIFE OF CHUCK II: CHUCK MY LIFE
My wife and me (two plump middle-age geeks) doing jazz-hands with a nimble Tom Hiddleston in front of an Ace Comic Con photo-op backdrop.
June 18, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Flashback to 8 years ago, no particular reason concerning an unexpected future. Cheers!
My wife and I doing jazz hands with "Doctor Who" star Billie Piper at Motor City Comic Con 2017.
May 31, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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"Come meet Jennifer Beals, star of THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT and absolutely nothing else! We're pretty sure it was her acting debut!"
Fan Expo Chicago ad for 2025 guests Jennifer Beals and Ashley Eckstein, emphasizing Star Wars roles over any sense of film history goubg back more than 4 years.
April 30, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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MICKEY 17 (2025)
Not-quite-human sci-fi protagonist attempts to communicate with giant alien lump that doesn't speak English and could kill him if it wanted to, but it doesn't because it's a peaceful sort.
March 12, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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When Hollywood sins, innocent IPs suffer. Won't someone please think of the IPs?
Screeb shot of actual THR headline: "Justin Baldoni’s ‘Pac-Man’ Movie in Doubt Amid Blake Lively Legal Battle"
January 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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TWO POOCH-MEN ENTER! ONE POOCH-MAN LEAVES!
Wolf Man movie poster, release date 1/17 Dog-Man movie poster, release date 1/31
January 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Sony v. DC
First pic: Goofus running with scissors, with obviously altered caption: "Kraven runs with the scissors pointing up." Second pic: Gallant strolling with scissors, also with altered caption: "Superman walks with the scissors pointing down."
December 20, 2024 at 1:50 AM
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I live-tweeted from a comic-con where a CLUELESS cast reunion hit on a slow news day, and this remains my greatest contribution to humanity to date by a humiliating margin
Comic-con photo of a crowd watching TVs outside a ballroom. One person wears an 8-foot-tall inflatable Pikachu costume, blocking the TV view of a guy behind them checking his phone.
November 28, 2024 at 4:49 PM
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,532,437! And the crowd goes wild! *yeeeeey*
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #1,532,437, Randy Golden ‪@randygolden.bsky.social‬, joined on Oct 15, 2023"
September 21, 2024 at 6:42 PM
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Smokey Joe, the first arcade game I ever played. Pick whether to steer a firetruck from the front or the rear; don't crash into stuff. That was it, that was the whole game. I figured out driving from the back was easier and ruled at it. 1978, age 6.
Ancient black-and-white video game in which a primitive fire truck is veering awkwardly around a splotch labeled "OIL". Screen is surrounded by a fiery border. Score is zero; truck has 87 fuel remaining.
September 15, 2024 at 7:35 PM
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TIL Katy O'Brian from THE MANDALORIAN and BLACK LIGHTNING is from Indy! Nifty interview in the new Indianapolis Monthly about breaking in, her six auditions for LOVE LIES BLEEDING, and how she hates paying too much for haircuts.
Photo of page 1 of a 2-page magazine interview that isn't online yet. Includes photo of Katy O'Brian sitting casually in a windowsill, dressed in all gray, barefoot with large ankle tattoos. Photo of page 2 of a 2-page magazine interview that isn't online yet, but maybe eventually.
March 10, 2024 at 4:23 PM
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Happy Friday from Columbus, Ohio, on the road to Galaxycon!
My wife Anne in heavy black jacket and red cap and gloves pointing at a toy store's sidewalj sign: "Come inside for big fun." Atkp the sign is a drawn Captain Picard with hand raised and ready to point forward when he yells his takeoff catchphrase.
December 1, 2023 at 5:12 PM
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Our least worst shots of Marty Krofft (and H.R. Pufnstuf!) from this year's Dragon Con parade, not even three short months ago. R.I.P.
A blue convertible sportscar coasts in a downtown Atlanta parade. The driver is a guy in a red polo shirt. Marty Krofft, age 86 and tiny and white-haired, is in the passenger seat peeking out over the side-view mirror. Someone in a giant-headed H.R. Pufnstuf costume sits in the back, waving to roadside watchers. Tiny white-haired Marty Krofft sits in the passenger seat of a blue convertible with the top down. Also in the car are a red-polo-shirted driver, a woman in the back with her hair pinned up, and the legs of someone in a green monster costume. On the car's door are a Dragon Con symbol and a second sign reading "Dragon Con Presents Marty Krofft and H.R. Pufnstuf!" Several fans line the roadside, most of them taking phone photos of the car.
November 27, 2023 at 2:12 AM
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Russell Davies making new DOCTOR WHO with Disney bucks instead of BBC shillings
DiCaprio with glasses (faintly resembling Russell Davies if you squint) sitting by a tropucal water body, counting a big stack of dollar bills
November 25, 2023 at 8:45 PM
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WE WERE PROMISED NO SEQUELS, GALE AND ZEMECKIS
November 23, 2023 at 4:00 PM
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The woman I love, doing her Halloween thing again. 'Tis the season!
My wife standing in a church hallway in a banana costume, smiling and doing jazz hands.
October 29, 2023 at 5:47 PM
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me on Bluesky / me on Threads / me on Twitter

(at far left, my wife on Reddit)
From AppleTV+'s " Foundation", the three emperor clones Day, Dawn and Dusk on their thrones. At far left is their lead assistant Demerzel, her palms horizontally together as usual.
October 15, 2023 at 6:39 PM
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Finally, a social app that lets me have my own name. About time I beat all the other Randy Golden early-adopters to something for once!
Jamie Hector as drug-corner boss Marlo Stanfield from THE WIRE, in a holding cell angrily protesting, "My name is my NAME!"
October 15, 2023 at 6:19 PM