Matt Wanat

The Trouble With Ohio Politics and Inadequate Service Stall Potentially Strong Market for Intercity Passenger Rail

#ohio

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The Boiled Guts of Birds Originally published in Coffin Bell 6:3

#postapocalyptic, #fiction, #horror, #postapocalypticfiction

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Two Works of Fiction Links to stories in Burningword and The Wax Paper

#OhioFiction, #Fiction, #Ohio

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Was Emerson an “Influencer”? From egoful influencer to critical consumer...

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#RockfordFiles

#Ohio

Donate to Support Moe's Heartfelt MFA Thesis Film Project, organized by Moe Essam I’m raising funds to complete my MFA thesis film, One Round Underground, a p… Moe Essam needs your support for Support Moe's Heartfelt MFA Thesis Film Project

#immigration, #palestine, #undergroundboxing

One of our MFA film students, Moe Essam, is doing a GoFundMe for a film project: One Round Underground, about an immigrant experience and underground fighting.

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Smoking Prevents Polio A Review of Never Fear (Ida Lupino, 1949)

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Touching book review by my buddy Curtis. bsky.app/profile/curt...

Thanks for sharing.

One Bridle after Another Hikes & Media, 27 September 2025

#OneBattleAfterAnother, #ForWhomtheBellTolls, #Hemingway, #hiking, #OhioTrails, #Thoreau open.substack.com/pub/docwanat...

Tree of Heaven. Deanthropocentrism. The Human and the Humane in Bruce Conner’s “A Movie” (1958) A tomato plant growing from a dish rag on the basement floor; based on this discovery, I give the rest of the non-extinct biosphere about six months for a sixty percent recovery after humans make them...

#BruceConner, #RobinsonJeffers, #Anthropocene, #Trees

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The Moral Complexity of Hitchcock’s Confessions I Confess (Alfred Hitchcock, 1953)

#Hitchcock

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Our World is a Violent City (Sergio Sollima, 1970) "You see that bank, for example.

#DadMoviesAgainstFascism, #polizieschi, #CharlesBronson, #TellySavalas, #JillIreland, #SergioSollima, #CrimeCinema

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Labor and Charlatanism Every Day is Labor Day

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On “Movie Chronicle: The Westerner” (Robert Warshow, 1954) First appearing in Partisan Review in 1954, Robert Warshow’s “Movie Chronicle: The Westerner” shared table of contents with part of a story by Isaac Bashevis Singer in a journal whose editorial board ...

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Expedited Research: Uses of Memoria, Uses of Social Media, Uses of the Dead Letter Office Since many of us have no doubt read (especially the ending of) Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury, 1953), many of my film and book friends prefer physical media, as do I.

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"Who Stole the Kishka?" Hoolihan, Big Chuck, Lil’ John, and Place-Based Belonging Hoolihan’s (i.e., Bob Wells’s) last night (August 31, 1979) before The Hoolihan and Big Chuck Show (1966-1979) became The Big Chuck & Lil’ John Show (1979-2007) includes classic sketches, the first a ...

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Police Woman / Get Christie Love! ...in three episodes

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Yes and yes.

Not an Essay on Stereo (David Cronenberg, 1969) This is not an “essay” on Stereo (David Cronenberg, 1969).

#AI, #Cronenberg

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The Common Man Is Coming into His Own | Los Angeles Review of Books Michael Kobre considers the Fantastic Four superhero “The Thing” and Jack Kirby’s relationship to his own Judaism.

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“He likes to go to movies”: Dillinger (John Milius, 1973) —for Mike Smrtic, cinematic secret sharer.

#ActionFilms, #JohnMilius, #WarrenOates, #BenJohnson, #GangsterFilms

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At my ninth birthday party, a kid in my crew got scared at The Dark Crystal and threw a giant tub of popcorn in that air. Not the winner here, I hope, but it has stuck in my mind for decades.