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Emerson College Visual & Media Arts Affiliated Faculty / Film & Media Studies PhD / Researching: Horror, Found Footage, Experimental Film & Video, Promotional Paratexts, Moral Panics Recent at New Review of Film & TV: https://nrftsjournal.org/flash-fright

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Greatest managing editor in my lifetime, widely respected for his sagacity and tact, rips Jeff Bezos a new one. Go Marty. www.thedailybeast.com/ex-wapo-edit...

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NEH introduces new prohibited categories to comply with executive orders. This is an infringement of academic freedom plain and simple, and also nonsense: what is “discriminatory equity ideology”

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Mark Graham, director of Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, will join this conversation ⬇️

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Throughout February, we're sharing book recs inspired by #FoundFootage horror films... 💙📚 Next up: As Above, So Below (2014) and Inferno (c. 1321). What book recs would you add for this film? 📹 What found footage films should we cover? Let us know below! 👇 #booksky #filmsky #horror #bookrec #tbr

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Queer Slashers on the Indiana University Press homepage! #filmsky #horrorsky

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I don't think this is still embargoed but Draft Kings will be unveiling a new Manning Brother in an add later in the game. It's not a bit they made up for an ad, either, they crafted a real guy using proprietary Manning DNA. They call him Slumper and it sounds like a freight train when he breathes.

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Absolutely not

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Last night’s viewing: boxd.it/8My0eL

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More university presidents need to speak up about what's going on. Here's Wesleyan University President Michael S. Roth: "We must not sacrifice academic freedom and a healthy civil society for the short-term gains of anticipatory compliance." slate.com/life/2025/02...

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I wrote about the idiotic and anti-human vision that is currently replacing the republic. I will now go back to thinking about what a cleansing flood might look like. defector.com/billionaire-...

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It’s George A. Romero’s birthday today

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Welcome!!!

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Sunday morning cinema: Finally seeing this at The Coolidge Corner Theatre (in 70mm)

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“Charles Atlas: About Time” at ICA Boston

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Somehow went from Lynch to diving into the Trancers franchise

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Cusk’s “On Rudeness” essay seems especially apt currently…

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Now Reading (Book #3 of 2025): Coventry: Essays (Rachel Cusk, 2019)

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White TV (Nam June Paik, 2005) @ Harvard Art Museums

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Saturday morning

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The visionary David Lynch is gone. There are no words. Rest in peace to an absolute original.

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The Great Molasses Flood occurred 105 years ago today. 2.3 million gallons of molasses erupted from the ruptured Purity Distilling Company's 50 foot tall tank, rushing through Boston’s North End at 35mph. Buildings and homes were destroyed, and 21 people were killed. #history #archives

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You know you’re in for a good night when these words flash on the screen

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What is happening in L.A. is awful. What has happened around the country this year due to climate change is awful. May the coverage one day be class-blind.

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Current cooking music; this record dominated the speakers in my college dorm sophomore year. I can’t believe its just about 20 years old - it still sounds fresh, vital, fun, moving. Broken Drum (especially the Boards of Canada remix) gets me every time.

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KTLA commentator calling this a "Once in a generation event," seems a little optimistic.

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most of the "I need a private fire brigade and no property taxes" guys will also probably be furious to see new homeless people in their city and will definitely not interrogate the connection between those two things at all

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Now Reading (Book #2 of 2025): The Vulnerables (Sigrid Nunez, 2023)

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Finished this today; love how van den Berg can make places/spaces feel so familiar yet strange (like the people that haunt these short stories, each colored by some shade of death, loss, the uncanny, the bizarre). Can’t wait to read her newest one, State of Paradise.

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The Winter issue of Screen Journal features the horror of (and in) directors' audio commentary tracks plus the monstrous adoption of a LAMB (2021). Latter is #openaccess, enjoy! David Scott Diffrient / Bruno Cornellier / Jenny Heijun Wills #horror academic.oup.com/screen/issue...

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Now Reading

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Did not groove to Nu-sferatu at all… boxd.it/8cWolZ

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Last nite’s watch: boxd.it/88pa8b

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Love this - and especially appreciate not only the choice of Carnival of Souls, but the mention of Herk Harvey’s industrial/educational film career. If you haven’t seen the infamous “Shake Hands With Danger,” its a must! www.filmpreservation.org/preserved-fi...

Greatest managing editor in my lifetime, widely respected for his sagacity and tact, rips Jeff Bezos a new one. Go Marty. www.thedailybeast.com/ex-wapo-edit...

NEH introduces new prohibited categories to comply with executive orders. This is an infringement of academic freedom plain and simple, and also nonsense: what is “discriminatory equity ideology”

Mark Graham, director of Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, will join this conversation ⬇️

Queer Slashers on the Indiana University Press homepage! #filmsky #horrorsky

I don't think this is still embargoed but Draft Kings will be unveiling a new Manning Brother in an add later in the game. It's not a bit they made up for an ad, either, they crafted a real guy using proprietary Manning DNA. They call him Slumper and it sounds like a freight train when he breathes.

Absolutely not

Last night’s viewing: boxd.it/8My0eL

More university presidents need to speak up about what's going on. Here's Wesleyan University President Michael S. Roth: "We must not sacrifice academic freedom and a healthy civil society for the short-term gains of anticipatory compliance." slate.com/life/2025/02...

I wrote about the idiotic and anti-human vision that is currently replacing the republic. I will now go back to thinking about what a cleansing flood might look like. defector.com/billionaire-...

It’s George A. Romero’s birthday today

Welcome!!!

Sunday morning cinema: Finally seeing this at The Coolidge Corner Theatre (in 70mm)

“Charles Atlas: About Time” at ICA Boston

Somehow went from Lynch to diving into the Trancers franchise

Cusk’s “On Rudeness” essay seems especially apt currently…

Now Reading (Book #3 of 2025): Coventry: Essays (Rachel Cusk, 2019)

White TV (Nam June Paik, 2005) @ Harvard Art Museums

Saturday morning

The visionary David Lynch is gone. There are no words. Rest in peace to an absolute original.

The Great Molasses Flood occurred 105 years ago today. 2.3 million gallons of molasses erupted from the ruptured Purity Distilling Company's 50 foot tall tank, rushing through Boston’s North End at 35mph. Buildings and homes were destroyed, and 21 people were killed. #history #archives

You know you’re in for a good night when these words flash on the screen

What is happening in L.A. is awful. What has happened around the country this year due to climate change is awful. May the coverage one day be class-blind.

Current cooking music; this record dominated the speakers in my college dorm sophomore year. I can’t believe its just about 20 years old - it still sounds fresh, vital, fun, moving. Broken Drum (especially the Boards of Canada remix) gets me every time.

KTLA commentator calling this a "Once in a generation event," seems a little optimistic.

most of the "I need a private fire brigade and no property taxes" guys will also probably be furious to see new homeless people in their city and will definitely not interrogate the connection between those two things at all

Now Reading (Book #2 of 2025): The Vulnerables (Sigrid Nunez, 2023)

Finished this today; love how van den Berg can make places/spaces feel so familiar yet strange (like the people that haunt these short stories, each colored by some shade of death, loss, the uncanny, the bizarre). Can’t wait to read her newest one, State of Paradise.

The Winter issue of Screen Journal features the horror of (and in) directors' audio commentary tracks plus the monstrous adoption of a LAMB (2021). Latter is #openaccess, enjoy! David Scott Diffrient / Bruno Cornellier / Jenny Heijun Wills #horror academic.oup.com/screen/issue...

Now Reading

Did not groove to Nu-sferatu at all… boxd.it/8cWolZ

Last nite’s watch: boxd.it/88pa8b

Love this - and especially appreciate not only the choice of Carnival of Souls, but the mention of Herk Harvey’s industrial/educational film career. If you haven’t seen the infamous “Shake Hands With Danger,” its a must! www.filmpreservation.org/preserved-fi...

New Superman trailer is something

Trying to start actually writing/review a bit on Letterboxd; first up:

Winter Solstice at Mount Auburn Cemetery

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