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Last year we bought a dismembered Edgar Allan Poe from TK Maxx. My wife restored his missing limb in time for Halloween.

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That is absolutely hilarious..can imagine my cat trying this method if he hadn't decided upon his particular laborious path.

Seems like a lot of added physical and emotional labour!

This is how our cat chooses to exit the cat flap despite knowing the normal, more accessible option.

Just been reminded of the time I was racially abused in Hither Green. I was listening to music and didn't hear anything so I asked him to repeat himself. He did so whilst looking really confused.

I've finally seen Dario Argento's Dark Glasses. It was brilliant. I was not expecting a really sweet relationship between a blind sex worker and an orphan migrant child to be at the heart of the story. If this is to be his final film, it is a worthy end to an amazing filmography.

He is not a happy kitty right now!

Cat has to look like this until his abscess heals.

Saw Melvins and Redd Kross last night. Absolutely amazing. First time seeing Melvins. Have they always had that showmanship and visual panache? Or has Steve McDonald contributed to that?

And there will never be another Margot Kidder

They will never find a more perfect Clark Kent/Superman than Christopher Reeves

Power of the Potato

Snake at Sidcup Station

Charlotte Gill on X: "Cheadle Primary deleted their account very quickly So many schools, councils and otherwise seem to think no one will ever scrutinise their output. Doesn’t speak well that they often hide things pronto! https://t.co/wuyOs3EbAx" / X Cheadle Primary deleted their account very quickly So many schools, councils and otherwise seem to think no one will ever scrutinise their output. Doesn’t speak well that they often hide things pronto! https://t.co/wuyOs3EbAx

Dog whistles are no longer needed in modern Britain.

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Mario Bava by Leon Hunt (@darklonelywater.bsky.social), a fascinating deconstruction of the cult mythos of the Italian director. Hunt looks at what goes into a genre filmmaker becoming a cult icon. Exploring the reality of critical & commercial reception & how the reception evolved & feeds on itself

Suzuki Seiju And Postwar Cinema by William Carroll places the titular director in the social, cultural and political contexts he was working in while also exploring how this impacted on the evolution of his techniques and themes. A vital book on Japanese cinema.

Pleading The Blood by Christopher Sieving (@soulburger26.bsky.social) is the perfect companion piece to Bill Gunn's masterpiece, Ganja & Hess. It is a thoroughly researched tome that gives life to a film finally finding an audience and a director still deserving of a greater one.

Whenever people swear around me, they apologise to me. Don't really understand what vibes that I give off.

Trying to watch Innerspace with the 7 year old on Father's Day and I've been forced to turn it off because of the 'inappropriate language". He was angrily counting the curse words like some infant Mary Whitehouse.

Sitting on a sofa: a man with *almost* rockabilly hair; he is wearing an Iron Maiden T-shirt, studded wrist band and shades.

Shaun Hutson, author of SLUGS ("They slime, they ooze, they kill") London, 1982. Photograph by Anne Billson.

Amnesty International promotional material stating ‘Trans rights are human rights’

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#OtD 15 Apr 1920 the Braintree robbery took place in Massachusetts. Italian anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were tried and executed on circumstantial evidence in what is widely considered a miscarriage of justice stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7760...

Dan Stevens' introduction was so perfect. Really wanted more of that.

That would be amazing!

I need to read all those books! Been after Destroy All Movies for years.

Tim Lucas's monograph on the portmanteau Spirits Of The Dead is a personal memoir of the blossoming of a budding film obsessive, a detailed production history of a unique film & incisive critique. Spirits Of The Dead has existed in a strange, neglected netherworld of film until this wonderful book.

Wish that the Godzilla Kong film had more Dan Stevens and more depressed dude Kong.

Remembering Elisabeth Lutyens who left us on April 14th 1983, but not without leaving a staggering body of work in both the concert halls of Europe & British horror cinema for decades. Her contributions to Hammer & Amicus Films remain breathtaking.

Hear her incredible story here

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Maybe Sanders could first apologise for decades of anti-migrant pronouncements