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People! It's official: our all-new album is called The World Is to Dig. It's all bangers. The first preview single Wu-Tang is out today as a download at TMBGshop and is FREE TO ALL. Pre-order or just get the shirt. And we would appreciate it if you told a friend.

Yeah! It’s great, isn’t it?

Now you tell me…

There are jokes we tell because of the delight we feel when everybody laughs. There are jokes we tell because of the delight we feel when *nobody* laughs.
It’s the same joy.

If you are reading this, then you made it through 2025.
Congratulations, you badass. Here’s to change and growth in 2026.

TWO?!

I’m waiting for a call from Clooney.

Ocean’s 14: Lobster Mobsters

At least those tapes are easy to find in the dark…

I’ve spent decades training for this.

Make a Bond film casual

You Only Live Down the Street

He was the best of Tims, he was the worst of Tims, he was the Tim of wisdom, he was the Tim of foolishness, he was the Tim of belief, he was the Tim of incredulity, he was the Tim of Light, he was the Tim of Darkness…
(Dickens was paid by the word)

Grinch! (The Broadway Musical)

To anyone receiving this transmission: you have but hours to become the patron of the arts that kicks the Bonebat 2026 “Comedy of Horrors” Film Festival over the top into reality! Click on over and be part of a most excellent film festival!

I only trust what can be haunted First of all, I highly recommend this article from the New York Times about a local typewriter shop I visited (a couple of times) just this last summer. Go ahead and click the link below to read it n...

In the latest (rf) Transmissions, I lay bare my love for mechanical tools, especially typewriters and pianos, and how they can connect us personally with the past. And I introduce a new unit to measure one’s typewriter collection: the Hanx (hx).
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BoneBat "Comedy of Horrors" Film Fest 2026 Seattle's 15th "Comedy of Horrors" Film Fest, presenting features, shorts & live music, to be hosted 4/11/26 by The BoneBat Show!

Just got my tickets to BoneBat "Comedy of Horrors" Film Fest 2026. Did last year’s festival change my life? QUITE POSSIBLY. Now YOU TOO can feast on this exquisite array of horror/comedy awesomeness hosted by good folk in a beautiful theater. www.kickstarter.com/projects/bon...

“I wanted this to be easy” Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to [write a newsletter post] - William Shakespeare[ish] When you get a new (required field) Productions post, it has usually been created using ...

This is a post about a post about a post: Just dropped a new issue of the newsletter, discussing the wild ride it took to corral same. Comes with a weird Jurassic Park simile, and many, many colors of pen. Have a read here:
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“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could that they didn’t stop to think if they should….”
(& congrats)

Where is my werewolf? When I was kid, we had a werewolf problem in our backyard. Okay, I had a werewolf problem. Then I moved and the problem went away. Or did it? I had a whole other topic planned for this week, then I...

When I was a kid, we had a werewolf problem in our backyard. Then it went away. Or did it? Just in time for Spooky Season, I ask the perennial question, “Where is my werewolf?"
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Marketing has some notes.

Just kind of like a bad cold—miserable but not menacing. And no cough, for which I am extremely grateful. I’ve done pre-vaxxed COVID, I’ve done vaxxed, and vaxxed is a lot less terrible.

In other news, the next issue of the (required field) Transmissions newsletter will be a little late.

Brands & Humour | Paddy Gilmore | HumourScope® | Substack Every week I look at how brands can use humour to be more likeable, memorable and — above all — profitable. Click to read Brands & Humour, by Paddy Gilmore | HumourScope®, a Substack publication with ...

Hey, I did a short, fun interview for
@paddygilmore.bsky.social’s most excellent Brands and Humor newsletter. What do I feel is the secret ingredient to humor that connects with your audience? Click and read!
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How Microsoft turned me into a horror fan You’ve probably already figured out I'm a horror fan. I mean, I wrote a 1,000-word essay around my Alien head canon. And described my Predator growth theory in the Lightning Round. And heck, it’s righ...

The (required field) Transmissions newsletter is about “Creativity. Technology. Occasionally monsters. With jokes.” And it’s “occasionally" today — the new issue is out and it’s about the joy and solace of horror movies. Enjoy!
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30th H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival: Cthulhu on the High Seas Celebrate 30 years of Cosmic Horror Cinema with us in the theater Sept 19-21, or streaming at home December 5-9.

The good folks at #HPLFF2025 have their Kickstarter going, so this is a great time to get your tickets and support the festival. Can't make it Portland? No worries, there’s a streaming festival, too! Go support some good people and join a warm and welcoming audience: kck.st/41nXysJ

I think you’re already ahead of the game with the duck…

In past days, a traditional offering was human tears on a blank page in a typewriter, left overnight on a rock under a waning (preferably gibbous) moon.

Fresh newsletter out today: “What I Learned (again) at Jazz Camp.” It’s got jazz combos, scuba diving, screenplay writing and more, plus some of the weirder Fun Facts I’ve ever posted. Enjoy!
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