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Bram Stoker, International Horror Guild Award- winning and Shirley Jackson-nominated Author. Film and Arts Critic/Commentator. Editor. Book Doctor. Fitness Trainer. Writing Instructor. He / Him www.BluePencilMike.com / www.GetOffMyLawnFitness.com
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I hope that we all find a love as pure and as beautiful as GG and Tay Tay have…

Whoever made this deserves a medal.

My music and reading selections for tonight… Johnny Mathis and Wilhelm Reich…

Just a reminder that Oscar Drill and the Bits from the ROCKY HORROR follow-up SHOCK TREATMENT were fucking awesome. Introduced here by Ralph Hapschatt himself!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsfF...

My review of Mission: Impossible - Final Reckoning is live at @theartsfuse ! It's not as good as the last entry, but it's pretty goddam good! artsfuse.org/310835/film-...

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Wow... watch this complete broadcast from 1976 of THE STEPFORD WIVES, and check out all the "Don Draper-y" commercials selling the very consumerist ideas the movie skewers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zka8...

If this image doesn't make you bawl your eyes out, and you're over a certain age, I'm not sure we can be friends.

Just saw two fine, upstanding young lads of the DOGE-Bro generation (mid-20s, maybe) talking about the work they'd done for, and the offers they were getting from, firms like Goldman Sachs and Merril Lynch and punctuating their discussions with blasts from the fart competition they were having. (1)

I’m so embarrassed by my idiotic nation, and the classless, graceless sack of gluttonous shit for whom this gesture was done. www.newsweek.com/saudi-arabia...

I checked. This is real. I’m so embarrassed by my nation.

Hey! Check out my Thunderbolts* review at the @theartsfuse.bsky.social ! It's shockingly good, after a string of MCU duds. #thunderbolts artsfuse.org/310129/film-...

"SO SPEAKS GALACTUS!"

He actually posted this

Kash Patel is a Russian asset... www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5-C...

Working out outside. ROCKY HORROR and SHOCK TREATMENT soundtracks blasting. Battle ropes. Resistance bands. Fresh air. Sun. Feeling sweaty and gross and GREAT!

CURRENT MOOD: Farley Flavors!!!

Just a reminder: Superman is a Good Guy. Superman punches Nazis. Be a Good Guy like Superman. Punch Nazis.

SCARY THING TO CONSIDER... Folks... I've mentioned how people don't recognize me when I shave my beard. Or I stop shaving my head for a while. Or when I try contacts, instead of glasses. A neighbor almost called the cops on me after I grew my beard, because she didn't recognize me in my own yard.

Just when I thought I couldn't loathe him more... www.vulture.com/article/neil...

My review of #RyanCoogler 's #Sinners at the @theartsfuse.bsky.social SEE IT! artsfuse.org/309163/film-...

To everyone seeing SINNERS this week... stay to very, very, very end, after the last credit has rolled. Trust me. #SinnersMovie

Current Mood... Abner Devereaux!!!

BEHOLD!! A wealth of ovoid, eggy treasures BEYOND THE DREAMS OF AVARICE!

I won't comment on the trailer for TRON: ARES. But I will say... I never, ever thought I'd live in a world in which Nine Inch Nails scores a Disney movie. Somewhere, somebody cut a check to Trent Reznor with the stylized "D" logo on it, or maybe the "Mouse Ears" logo, and that's melting my brain.

I miss Tom Vu, sometimes...

RIP Nick Rivers... one of the greats.

WAIT!!! Doyle's _The Sign of the Four_ and Wilde's _The Picture of Dorian Gray_ were commissioned at THE SAME DINNER? How the fuck did I not know this???? www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...

Evergreen. Ice cream scooper in Portland, Oregon. My kid admired his ink and he gave them an extra scoop. Solidarity,

They're the same picture.

Yeah, I’m in a state. The world is on fire. So I’m reading a stack of “comfort food” books—Sherlock Holmes, Lord of the Rings, Superman graphic novels. I need to read about worlds with Good Guys who are actually Good.

Happy March 25th!! International Tolkien Reading Day! here is the centerpiece of my Tolkien collection, the very first edition of the paperback boxed set from the mid-1960s! #tolkien #tolkienreadingday

Tonight’s “comfort food” reading.

We are living in a world in which General Ursus seems like a fucking moderate.

"You're going to have to sleep some time..." "Oh I'm a real light sleeper, Childs."

At the coffeeshop. Woman at the next table is telling her grandkids the story of The Hobbit, including the songs, from memory. RESPECT!!!

Every now and then, I feel obliged to remind people that Superman isn’t a good guy because he’s powerful. He’s a good guy because he’s good. Ergo, his periodic savings of old ladies’ cats.

I spent a huge chunk of the day doing chores around the house. And as I did so, I listened to the Old Time Radio programs, THE ADVENTURES OF PHILIP MARLOWE and THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN. Now I need to remind myself it's not 1947, and try as I might, I can't buy Kellogg's PEP cereal anymore.

"Have you heard it on thе news About this fascist groove thang? Evil men with racist viеws Spreadin' all across the land Don't just sit there on your ass Unlock that mighty chain dance Brothers, sisters, shoot your best We don't need this fascist groove thang" www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNmQ...