Ian McDowell

Bunuel had to fight for Dan O'Herlihy, who’d been Macduff to Welles‘s Macbeth. His Mexican producers wanted Welles, whom Bunuel called “too loud and too fat.”

#TCMparty #RobinsonCrusoe

William Hope Hodgson. An exponent of what was then called physical culture, as well as a tough sailor and soldier who looked good in a uniform.

Isn’t that Fritz Leiber Sr., his father, Shakespearean actor/manager & Hollywood character actor? Fritz Jr. resembled his dad, but that photo looks like it dates from the 20s, when Fritz Sr. was playing Hamlet & Fritz Jr. was a teenager playing very small roles in his dad‘s company.

It was perfect Valentine’s weekend viewing, sweetheart.

Till my beautiful and beloved @superamanda.bsky.social told me, I had no idea that Fred Gwynne wrote and illustrated children’s books.

Some folks have forgotten things how bad things were in Downtown #Greensboro in 1992.

I remember when the GPD was routed and a patrol car was set on fire by outside agitators.

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@superamanda.bsky.social @slipkid24.bsky.social @kellylink.bsky.social

My love @superamanda.bsky.social & I have walked downtown multiple times in the past few years and never felt unsafe. Nor have I in the over 30 years of doing that before I met her.

Police, business owners say downtown not dangerous According to the Greensboro Police Department, violent crime is not more prevalent downtown than elsewhere in the city. Some who live, work, or regularly visit there agree.

My latest article is about how crime statistics do not support the narrative that downtown #Greensboro is disproportionately dangerous. Multiple white men are arguing with this in Facebook comments, often without having read the article.

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I stupidly tagged the wrong man in my skeet about Eric Larson making this reply to Monica Valentinelli on Facebook.

It’s NOT comics artist/writer/publisher Erik Larsen, to whom I apologize.

It’s Eric Larson, whom I believe has been a Fan Guest of Honor at Gen Con.

Sorry, We’re Closed: Matheny, Mayor, and business owners comment on closures According to Zack Matheny, president of Downtown Greensboro Inc. (DGI), there are multiple reasons for recent restaurant closings in the municipal district his tax-funded organization administers.

I did not have DGI President Zack Matheny blaming Ozempic for #GSO restaurant closures on my bingo card. My cover store in the latest YES! Weekly.

@DanDosSantos.bsky.social @SuperAmanda.bsky.social

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Look at this kvetching Karenating killjoy complaining about TCM showing three Marvin the Martian cartoons before William Cameron Menzies’ INVADERS FROM MARS. What a maroon.

#TCMparty #InvadersFromMars

Here is my article on this from Black Gate.

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1973, not 1968. I’d been reading Graham‘s Warren work and then noticed his illos in Amazing and Fantastic, which is where I also first noticed Kaluta and Cockrum.

Apparently, it's okay for armed agents of the state to seize a man from a church, but not okay for journalists to report on a protest taking place at a church.

Yesterday, my love @superamanda.bsky.social and I spent hours down this rabbit hole, as they were her childhood environs and I only knew Berkley from reading about it until she took me there. Exploring this time capsule with her was magical.

I’m glad that Moshe Feder, who thinks people who use the term “AI Slop” are bigots, is at least semi-retired from Tor.

Halloween 1976 issue of the BERKELEY BARB.

There’s a never-before reprinted short story by Fritz Leiber (clearly the genesis of OUR LADY OF DARKNESS), a history of drag & a feature in which Ursula K Le Guin, Mayor George Moscone, Lawrence Ferlinghetti & Grace Slick say what scares them.

I’m so glad I have my love and, soon, my wife, @superamanda.bsky.social and that she has me.

None of that is in the Toho version.

In the original Japanese print, which has a lot of corporate media satire and more original music (the Universal version uses a lot of Creature from the Black Lagoon curse), it’s the logo of a TV network.

You can imagine how this blew me away when my granddad bought me the Best of Creepy at Woolworth’s.

I already loved Frazetta from his REH & ERB covers, but I don’t think I’d seen his comics yet. I did know what a great draftsmen he was from his illustrations in the Lupoff ERB bio, which is where I first learned his name, as well as that of Crandall and Williamson.

Oh yes, absolutely. Discovering Raboy and Lou Fine in the Steranko History of Comics was a revelation.

Before that, I thought all vintage comics looked like the ones reprinted in Feiffer’s The Great Comic Book Heroes.

The word is Murdered.
ICE murdered an ICU nurse.

She defied cops, the Klan, & the racism of Dairy Queen and K&W.

@superamanda.bsky.social

A Champion of Justice: Triad Civil Rights Icon, Willena Cannon, dies “The passing of Willena Cannon is a major loss to all who fight for justice,” said Brigette E. Rasberry, executive director of the Beloved Community Center of Greensboro, about the

My cover story about the passing of the civil rights & labor organizer who, after the #GreensboroMassacre, threw herself between Nelson Johnson (who was still bleeding from the Nazi knife thrust through his arm) & the officers kicking him in the head.

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Nope, never made. But it was advertised in VARIETY back in the day!

3 Prosecutors Quit After Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim’s Widow

holy shit.

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Yeah, that was my impression.

There was a time when one could imagine an editor pitching an anthology of just “serious” stories from Unknown, such as “It” or “They.”””

To be clear, I don’t have any direct knowledge to back up my impression that instant remainders were once a deliberate thing. Over on the Book of the Face, I asked a question about this that I tagged you and others in.