@tomkessler75.bsky.social
Just some middle-aged Gen X'er whose primary purpose in life is to be a worthwhile homestead partner and pet parent. Also still does super amateur-level videography by request. I know how to frame a shot, but have more intuition than disciplined skill.
I have just now completed my Halloween essay, which is about NIGHTBREED. It was just about the coolest thing I'd seen when I was 14, its flaws are more evident now, but so are its various meanings. It has dozens of cool monsters, it's pro-freak, anti-fascist, and full of imagination. I love it.
31.10.2025 23:47 — 👍 38 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 1They finally built a machine that can simulate peaking on edibles
31.10.2025 18:49 — 👍 1418 🔁 260 💬 28 📌 4
Yesterday’s train wreck is today’s perennial classic.
“HALLOWEEN III: SEASON OF THE WITCH” is to Halloween what “ELF” is to Christmas.
www.fandango.com/halloween-ii...
“It’s almost time, kids. The clock is ticking.”
It’s Halloween, so definitely time to share this, the HALLOWEEN III / horrorthon concept album you didn’t know you needed.
#HalloweenIII
#SeasonOfTheWitch
#SecretChiefs3
#Horrorthon
secretchiefsthree.bandcamp.com/album/horror...
Three jack o lanterns on a stoop. One is cranky looking, one is kind of crazily laughing, one horrified
Reacting to your posts
31.10.2025 00:21 — 👍 616 🔁 76 💬 3 📌 2
1. This morning, a flurry of movement in federal rulemaking signals Trump's intent to ban transgender youth care nationwide.
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I just picked this up at Walmart in Hanover, PA. which means you can almost certainly find a copy at Walmart, Anywhere.
This would make a lovely stocking stuffer.
Or a Valentine’s Day means of proposing? You know they’re a keeper if they say yes to WNUF Halloween. www.walmart.com/ip/WNUF-Coll...
first halloween season in awhile where i have not watched PRINCE OF DARKNESS (my favorite carpenter?) but i am watching THE THING right now so i can’t really complain
28.10.2025 23:26 — 👍 3487 🔁 77 💬 211 📌 30
atlantic article screenshot headline: no one knows how big pumpkins can get sub head: a decade ago, the worlds heaviest pumpkin weighed 2,000 pounds. now the 3,000 pound mark is within sight by yasmin tayag
this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread
23.10.2025 12:41 — 👍 11382 🔁 2957 💬 165 📌 437I wasn’t supposed to shoot that night (a rule the hosts had no intention of enforcing), but how could I not?
The GoPro was supposed to be the insurance backup, but it ended up being the best video recording despite being too tightly framed for the first few minutes (and the ISO is up way too high).
It always feels weirdly self-aggrandizing to share this, but tonight seems worthy of an exception.
10 years ago, some splendid people threw me a party so big that it can be freshly thrown again a decade later.
youtu.be/PIpCuFja098?...
Here’s to 50 years.
“Be just and fear not.”
youtu.be/TMqFVXszRLg?...
grateful that GDT continues to make movies expressly for my demographic, i.e. girls who love books, bugs, and sexy monsters
06.10.2025 05:46 — 👍 166 🔁 10 💬 3 📌 0
Benz of freshly picked apples
H-2A apple workers in upstate NY tell us a lot of farms are getting rid of piece rate pay, but are still forcing outrageous daily bin requirements. If workers don't meet the requirements, they won't be rehired next year. That's why they want a union to protect them. #WeFeedYou
19.10.2025 14:00 — 👍 575 🔁 164 💬 12 📌 7
Screenshot from Columbo. He his talking to his dog, which is sitting is the drivers seat of a car. “Okay, I’m gonna put you in charge. You take care of the car. You’re a responsible dog. When I get back, if the car’s okay, I’ll give you another cookie.”
“If the car’s gone,”
“I’ll give you another cookie anyway”
“because I love you.”
Happy Columbo’s Day
13.10.2025 11:28 — 👍 7712 🔁 2594 💬 32 📌 55
"i made a x" "new x or old thing?" meme from donnie darko donnie darko: i made a new VEGETABLE mother: new vegetable or brassica oleracea? donnie: rassica oleracea again (inset with a graphic showing cabbage, brussels sprouts, kohlrabi, kale, broccoli and cauliflower are all brassica oleracea)
13.10.2025 03:26 — 👍 900 🔁 155 💬 6 📌 4Libra season is upon us. My power is now infinite and fall has finally fallen. Crisp and clear today. Praise Beyoncé.
10.10.2025 11:59 — 👍 720 🔁 25 💬 11 📌 2
A woman with long brown hair and a vest seen from behind and the cat is being carried in the vest with only its face showing at the back of the woman’s head, reminiscent of Gabriel in Malignant (2021)
Meowlignant (2021)
08.10.2025 23:22 — 👍 591 🔁 90 💬 6 📌 2
The UHD disc can now be obtained inexpensively and the transfer looks great.
www.blu-ray.com/movies/Chris...
Halloween is the only US holiday where interaction and communion between strangers is the key ritual
04.10.2025 14:16 — 👍 102 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 3
Yearly reminder that my weird talky slasher flick Camp Killer is available for FREE on Tubi, Fandango & Plex for all your #31daysofhalloween #31daysofhorror needs
03.10.2025 22:30 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 2
I also have advice. Everybody loves reading advice on the computer, so I'll share it: the best thing you can do right now is log off as hard as you can. Go outside, talk to people in real life where it's actually kind of rude to talk about the news, try to actually see the friends you usually just text message. Go for a long drive and turn the phone off while you do it. Get back into your hobbies or pick one and learn it for a while. Watch one of those studio movies that reviews called "wildly miscalculated" and you haven't seen since high school. Play an album you like but find embarrassing. Go to free community events even if they sound stupid. If you take the freeway, try the surface streets. Go to a bad diner and just order some bad coffee because even bad coffee is good coffee. You can't help anybody when you're exhausted and keep posting one million college-educated rewordings of "I would love to be dead right now" on the computer. Walk away from the thing and try out some of those normal things you hear about and if you get bored that's wonderful because we're not supposed to get bored anymore. It turns out boredom is the Cadillac of feelings.
RIP Kaleb Horton
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/
Our constitutions are not the same. We have been very proud of always holding elections, no matter what else was going on. I am so tired of Trump shitting on the United States of America.
18.08.2025 17:40 — 👍 4753 🔁 814 💬 104 📌 26
1. In a groundbreaking legal filing, transgender patients, represented by Women's Law Project, have filed a legal complaint against UPMC for capitulating to Trump and dropping trans care.
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Illustration of three people standing on a hill beneath a huge orange sun. Large black text at the top reads: ‘It’s a Beautiful Day to Yell At God.’ One figure raises their arms and shouts ‘WHAT THE FUCK?’ while another says ‘COME OUT! WE JUST WANNA TALK.’ Bold text in the corner says ‘FACE US YOU COWARD.’
Happy Rosh Hashanah y'all.
22.09.2025 22:53 — 👍 2384 🔁 549 💬 25 📌 31
Redford at a slightly canted angle wearing a baseball cap and a Knights uniform, backlit by a giant explosion and sparks
closeup on Redford, who is sitting down, wearing a hat, his face and shoulders striped by shadows & light filtering through a window's blinds on the right side of the frame
Redford standing in a locker room, a few other baseball players behind him. he's leaning against a column on the right side of the frame, his other hand in his pocket. he's smiling slightly, wearing a Knights baseball/varsity jacket. light filters through windows above him, haloing him
Redford seen from the side - his face turned away from us - wearing an argyle sweater vest over a striped collared shirt. he's outside, the background is out-of-focus trees during golden hour - the sun almost exactly in the middle of the frame, its light touching his shoulder
a few of Caleb Deschanel's astonishingly beautiful shots of Robert Redford in The Natural
16.09.2025 23:57 — 👍 904 🔁 166 💬 20 📌 13
