Little known fact, Australian garbage cans (rubbish bins or wheelies) are made from blue plastic and when the garbage (rubbish) trucks would do their rounds it's referred to as a rubbish harvest leading to the original term for this series being Blue Harvest

Feeling inspired after my last creative writing class for teens. Without a prompt every student wrote a piece where the character arc was becoming kinder, more thoughtful, and more empathetic.
Maybe there's hope for us yet

Lol everything by the book except the punch?
Operation was textbook except they removed the wrong organ.
Perfect driving until they ran that red light.
Kitchen has great reviews until serving peanuts to the person who warned of allergies.
It's okay to focus on the problem in order to fix the problem

Intersectional Incantations (@intersectionalincantations) Mr. Crocket is a fun, gory movie with an amazing performance by Elvis Nolasco. It's also an exploration of how past childhood trauma affects adults and future generations of kids.

Mr. Crocket is a fun, gory movie with an amazing performance by Elvis Nolasco.

It's also an exploration of how past childhood trauma affects adults and future generations of kids.

Is there a term for when people immediately forget someone was a bad person the moment they die?
Seeing so many tributes to Hulk Hogan today after feeling certain everyone understood he was an A-hole yesterday

Things I learned today:
1. An enslaved child in a French colony (Edmond Albius) invented a process to artificially pollinate vanilla plants in 1841
2. Jim Crow banned black folks from eating vanilla ice cream in the Southern US
The world is horrible and ironic That's not #3, I knew that already

There's a lot of talk about how men are incapable of talking about their feelings but I'm reading Raymond Chandler's "The Long Goodbye" and every guy in that is constantly divulging shameful secrets and talking about how it makes them feel.
It was published in 1953.

Luke 12:25 Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to your life?

The man who sees his doctor for regular checkups and has that weird lump looked at.

The least subtle thing I think I’ve ever written. Flash fiction in conversation with John Martin's Pandemonium.

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Joyeux Le 14 Juillet
14 HorrorFilmsforLeFeteNationale
Day 14
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
(2023)

Is it ironic that it's Quebecois or evidence I didn't research it before watching, and it's a great movie, so I'm including it anyway.
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A ★★★★ review of Diabolique (1955) A really effective thriller that falls apart in the last 3 minutes. I love Christina and Nicole plotting Michel's murder. They're frenemies in every way, and it's fun to watch. When Michel's body disa...

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Day 13
Diabolique (1955)

A really effective thriller that falls apart in the last 3 minutes.

Christina and Nicole are great frenemies, and it's fun to watch them plotting.

This would be a fun pairing with Death Becomes Her.
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Dead Run Part 3

Part 3 of my YA cross-country zombie novel is available on Substack.
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A ★★★ review of Eyes Without a Face (1960) A classic for a reason but very slow by modern standards and not a lot happens. I do love a cops are bad at their jobs movie. Sir, this woman was found with her face cut off, you're a world renown exp...

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Day 12
Eyes Without a Face (1960)
A classic I wouldn't recommend to modern viewers unless you want to see the most inept cops put to film.

It's slow, moody, without any scares, and not enough character development to worry about the victims.

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A ★★★★ review of The Swarm (2020) The poster implies a creature feature about killer insects but the actual film is better. It's a film about coping with trauma and what happens to your ideals when capitalism gives you motivation to g...

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Day 11
The Swarm (2020)

Less a creature feature than a film about coping with trauma and what happens to your ideals when capitalism gives you motivation to go against them.

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A ★★★½ review of The Night Eats the World (2018) I saw this and #Alive at around the same time and had conflated them in my mind despite this being considerably more bleak. The two titles should give that away. This isn't a zombie film but a film th...

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Day 10
The Night Eats the World (2018)
A film about the horrors of isolation and loneliness.
Even post-COVID, this resonates in a world where we're isolated from IRL experiences. Talking to the internet often feels like a conversation with a zombie.
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It's wild that we came up with the term "cost of living* to describe the minimum amount of money you need to stay alive but there's no term for the maximum amount before others start to die.
Nevermind, that term is billionaire

A ★★★ review of Martyrs (2008) I understood that Martyrs was going to be a tough watch, but I was not prepared. It's a mean movie and I don't think it justifies its meanness. Is it a movie about how hurt people, hurt people? Not if...

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Day 9
Martyrs (2008)

I understood that Martyrs was going to be a tough watch, but I was not prepared. It's a mean movie and I don't think it justifies its meanness
I try to find the deep meaning in every movie; this one isn't as deep as it thinks it is
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The Advent Calendar (2021) Eva, an ex-dancer, is now living in a wheelchair, unable to walk. When her friend Sophie gives her an old wooden antique advent calendar before Christmas, she realizes each window contains a surprise ...

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Day 8
Le Calendrier (2021)
One of my favorite Christmas movies.
It's moody, visually striking, and very bloody.
In the end, it's about what you would sacrifice to get what you want, or who you would sacrifice.
No gifts come without a price, even a Noel

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"because I have integrity" lol be f'n for real

A ★★★★ review of Saloum (2021) A Senegalese/French production that doesn't really feel like a horror movie. It's a thriller about mercenaries on the run, and the tension comes from wondering if they'll be found out or who they'll h...

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Day 7
Saloum (2021)

A Senegalese/French thriller more than a horror movie that plays on the dangers of vengeance, even if here revenge feels necessary, even at the cost

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A ★★★★ review of The Tower (2022) This movie is bleak. The horror isn't what's trapped them inside it's the people and what they do to each other. The horror of our real world are the people and what we do to each other. La Tour warns...

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Day 6
La Tour (2022)
A film with the ethos that hell is other people.
We don't know what traps them in the tour but we do know what being trapped does to its residents.
Bleak and realistic.

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A ★★★★½ review of Lux Æterna (2019) Somehow, this is my first Gaspar Noé film. It's brilliant. The lighting, split shots, and documentary style filmmaking all work to heighten what's happening. While filming a literal witch hunt, a meta...

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Day 5
Lux Æterna (2019)
While filming a literal witch hunt, a metaphorical witch hunt is happening behind the scenes, targeting the female director.
It's a feminist horror film about the way even powerful women can be sidelined

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A ½ review of Requiem for a Vampire (1971) What I learned about 1970's France according to Jean Rollin 1: Women don't need to speak 2: If a woman is walking near you, she's flirting and you should grapple her 3: Women like nothing more than ha...

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Day 4

What I learned about women in 1970's France, according to this bad movie
1: Women don't need to speak
2: If a woman is walking near you, she's flirting and you should grapple her
3: Women like nothing more than having their breasts mashed

boxd.it/acIJAJ

A road lined with old growth trees clovered in Spanish moss. The title, Plantation Soil, is at the top and under the reads rotten seeds will always grow strange fruit.

New story is up tomorrow on Substack, but you can read it today tinyurl.com/IIncantations2

Very little online feels as good as arguing with a troll, leaving your mic drop... and blocking them as they type their response.

A ★★★★ review of Revenge (2017) The downside of a rape/revenge movie is having to sit through the inciting incident. The upside is watching a woman find her power and eviscerate the men who assaulted her. There are films in this gen...

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Day 3
Revenge (2017)
Downside of a rape/revenge movie is the inciting incident The upside is watching a woman find her power & eviscerate the men who assaulted her.
Writer/director Coralie Fargeat gives us First Blood’s Rambo rather than a final girl
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Girls with Balls (2018) All girls volley ball team The Falcons end up stranded in the middle of nowhere after their mini-van breaks down. Little do they know they landed in degenerate hunters' territory and the hunt is on. T...

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Day 2
Girls with Balls (2018)
Proof you can make a film starring and about women, and passes the Bechdel test, yet it still doesn’t like women.

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A ★★★★ review of The Vourdalak (2023) A French film set in the 18th century that seems to speak to present day America. A family that includes a gay brother, a sister searching for freedom from the patriarchal control of her father, and t...

Le Vourdalak(2023)
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When the patriarch returns a literal monster (a gorgeous skeleton puppet) siblings are trapped by allegiance to their father in a cycle of trauma.
a film about feminist & queer identity where family is the cage that traps you in abuse
boxd.it/ab4MPj

The best part of being a writer is teaching kids and finding out so many of them are better than you are.

AI is a problem but there are great writers coming.

A martini on a dark bar, smoke billowing off of and around the glass.

She loved bars like this. Not the fancy upscale bars downtown that are visited by lawyers and businessmen, the kind of people who, by their very nature and training, have no shame. It’s hard to shame a man who, during work hours, denied an ailing person’s medical care.
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