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I have watched the 1922 Nosferatu

Next up the 1979 version which I have never seen

This post says it all.

Nice work here Salt Lake City Tribune with your lead!

Ahhh, congratulations 🎉

I was able to make a donation to my local Food Bank and if you can at all spare a few bucks I encourage you to do the same.

It ended up working in Fresh but I was so annoyed by its general over use in movies it took me longer to catch on to the purpose than it should have.

Agreed.

It’s the mechanics of the shot that throws me out of the story. I start thinking about where the camera is and what my take away is supposed to be and it breaks the fourth wall when no shot before or after does.

I mentally ask the director in my head every time—what are we doing here?!

What’s the purpose of the movie shot from inside the fridge looking at the protagonist? Seriously, is there something I’m missing?

Short SFF Reading Update #quicksipreviews

Kaleidotrope Autumn 2025 (12 originals, plus 7 poems) @kaleidotrope.bsky.social

A big issues as usual, covering a lot of thematic ground. A nice mix of fantasy and science fiction with plenty of horror elements thrown in for good measure.

Just read “Un-Pragmagic: A Tyler Moore Retrospective” by Spencer Nitkey in Lightspeed- It lingers like flash should

And then I think about horse sweat and how there are two different kinds; lather and watery but both nominally horse sweat.

My mind is a chaotic place.

I often wonder how many great and beautiful works of art have been lost due to the artists lack of privilege and the need to survive extraordinary circumstances.

Short fiction and flash are great ways to find new favorite writers. Someone who has been around and you should have read before but in reading short you can sample their work and fall in love quickly over and over again.

@hschofieldfic.bsky.social Congratulations on your story in Year’s Best!

Whoa, B!

Lovely chickens!

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We have forgotten all the ways people used to get toxins out of their food before federal regulation. It's not that food and water used to be cleaner -- it's that domestic work used to include detoxing everything we put in our mouths!

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Ha! That was my laugh for the day.

If you haven’t had a chance to check out the @kaleidotrope.bsky.social newsletter you really should. In a generally bleak world it is quick and whimsically fun.

I loved the shared titles list in this week’s Kaleidonotes newsletter! Fun and inspirational @kaleidotrope.bsky.social

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I just finished reading “You Knit Me Together in My Mother’s Womb” by Paul Crenshaw in the July issue of Lightspeed, and wow! I felt such a deep sense of deep empathic, palpable rage. There are lines I will not soon forget.

Shoreline of Infinity #39 (Summer 2025) Omniscient computers, ghosts in machines, and cellular communication all crop up in this edition of Shoreline, and there seems to be a loose theme of lives that take place within non-corporeal and hidden states.  Alan reviews the latest Shoreline of Infinity

Alan reviews the latest edition of the excellent @shoreinf.bsky.social‬ - Omniscient computers, ghosts in machines, and cellular communication all crop up in this edition of Shoreline, and there seems to be a loose theme of lives that take place within non-corporeal and hidden states.

Okay, question— when you are reading a work that references a particular song or album do you put it on while you read that work?

Just read “How to Win Against the Robots” by Katherine Crighton in Lightspeed and it was lovely.

Okay, question— when you are reading a work that references a particular song or album do you put it on while you read that work?

Oh, this could be a game changer for my household!