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What I Saw at the Battle of Minneapolis The national media has moved on. Minnesota is still under siege.

This piece from The Bulwark is a must-must-read. Minnesota is still under siege. The regime is saying publicly that the operation is over, but nothing has changed on the ground. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

@michaelhobbes.bsky.social I heard you complaining about Peter’s mouth noise. Are you using RX11 to clean it up? I have found the “Remove Mouth Clicks” feature to be extremely helpful.

Song for Renee, by Sci-Fi Romance from the album Mother of Exiles

Anyway, this is the song I wrote about Renee Good, the coward who murdered her, the liars that enabled him, and the new Nuremberg Trials to come.
scifiromance.bandcamp.com/track/song-f...

I am eligible for Best Fanzine for @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social as one of the editors.
The G and @scifiromance.bsky.social are the co-creators, senior editors @joesherry.bsky.social @adrijjy.bsky.social , editors me, @chloroformtea.bsky.social and @carturo222.bsky.social

Guys, after dinner my adult son said, “Donald Trump’s future grave is my favorite gender-neutral bathroom,” and I feel like I did ok.

If you’re going to have a Woody Guthrie sticker on your guitar for years and years (like me) and times like these descend, I don’t think you get to stay quiet. Or at least I don’t. The example of Woody, Pete, Phil, Bob, and even Bruce is clear. So this is the song I wrote for Renee Good. #reneegood

YouTube video by vance kotrla "Mother of Exiles" (Lyric Video) - Sci-Fi Romance

I kept thinking about how Jesus, Shakespeare, and the words inscribed at the Statue of Liberty demand we welcome strangers, immigrants, and refugees. Last week I wrote this song, “Mother of Exiles,” and raced to get it out. I hope you’ll share it. #protestsongs

youtu.be/i7l-uZDOIH4?...

YouTube video by Aaron Parnas BREAKING: Massive CORRUPTION Exposed as Trump Sues IRS for Ten Billion TAXPAYER DOLLARS

This is insanity. Trump already went after his own government for millions in damages for his criminal cases, and now he’s going after his own government again for $10 BILLION, when he oversees all the parties. youtu.be/C1uKSXaUWYQ?...

A couple days behind in Jeopardy, but I love that @kenjennings.bsky.social loves the Jesus and Mary Chain. Also, Melvins and Primus in the same category made me very, very happy.

Like so many of us, I’ve been horrified & outraged over the shooting in Minnesota and the response to it. I’ve been thinking about it constantly, trouble sleeping, and then this weekend these words just poured out all at once and I wrote a song about it. So here’s my song for Renee. #reneegood

@nnedi.bsky.social Just finished SPACE CAT. Absolutely adored it. Please give Periwinkle extra scritches from me 😸

@jodyavirgan.com I loved the Christine Jorgensen episode! But no aside about Ed Wood and how Jorgensen inspired GLEN OR GLENDA? My film nerd heart breaks. 😁

Hollywood is Dead. Long Live Hollywood. Netflix's Potential Purchase of Warner Bros. and the End of Hollywood (As We Know It… Now) Last week, on December 4, 2025, news broke that N...

Hollywood is Dead. Long Live Hollywood.
Netflix's Potential Purchase of Warner Bros. and the End of Hollywood (As We Know It… Now)
NOAF co-founder @scifiromance.bsky.social has a piece on this at the NOAF blog
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/12/holl...

Today I take on the sale of Warner Bros. over at @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social. Whoever wins, the audience loses, and Hollywood will be changed forever. “Hollywood is Dead. Long Live Hollywood.” www.nerds-feather.com/2025/12/holl...

I showed two of the kids PLANES, TRAINS, AND AUTOMOBILES. Their favorite gag was reversing through the motel room, and favorite lines were:

“Those…aren’t…pillows!” and

“You play with your balls a lot.”

Good choices.

Also, they gave Elle Fanning fuck-all to do in that movie. “Stand here and try not to cry, cool?”

Finally watching A COMPLETE UNKNOWN as a big ol’ folk nerd. I liked it, but felt like the better project is a Cinematic Universe where Lead Belly gets the first movie, then Woody, then Pete, then Odetta, then Joan and Johnny and Bob in no particular order.

Two cats on either side of a lap and a sci-fi novel collection.

The cats don’t like each other, but they both like me, and I guess 1950s science fiction.

Book Review: EC Comics Library: Weird Science Vol. 1 (Taschen) The Rolls-Royce Collection of Era-Defining Sci-Fi Comics Photo: Taschen  When you close your eyes and think of 1950s comics, you're probabl...

Book Review: EC Comics Library: Weird Science Vol. 1 (Taschen)
The Rolls-Royce Collection of Era-Defining Sci-Fi Comics
NOAF co-founder @scifiromance.bsky.social has our review at the blog:
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/10/book...

…and Alfred Molina.

Somehow SPECIES — the 1995 sci-fi alien boob movie — stars Ben Kingsley, Forest Whitaker, Michael Madsen, and Michelle Williams.

I don’t know. I’ve been rocking this playlist at Halloween for a few years and I dig it. Hard to go wrong with Type O Negative at Halloween. open.spotify.com/playlist/41t...

I did a little bit of reading about it last week, and it was neat to think that odd building was just out there existing somewhere, but it’s even weirder to think it’s now surrounded by tract homes. Very Edward Scissorhands.

That’s awesome!

Cult Film Review: In The Mouth of Madness (1994) Cosmic horror without the Lovecraft   This month, just in time for Halloween, the Criterion Channel launched a John Carpenter retrospective....

Cult Film Review: In The Mouth of Madness (1994)
Cosmic horror without the Lovecraft
@scifiromance.bsky.social has our look back at the movie at the NOAF blog
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/10/cult...

YouTube video by Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department You Matter - 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline

September is Suicide Prevention Month, and this is a reminder that you matter. You do. But if you’re struggling and need to talk to somebody, please reach out in the US to the 988 crisis lifeline via phone or text. youtu.be/86TGHzKWXsI?...

Tomas Lindberg, vocalist for At the Gates, has died at 52. It’s impossible to overstate the impact At the Gates had on me musically. I even arranged their song “And the World Returned” for string quartet and that’s what my wife walked down the aisle to at our wedding.

He will be deeply missed.

Book Sale Finds: Mental Hygiene by Ken Smith I haven’t had this much fun with a book in quite some time     I first heard about this book, which chronicles the many hundreds of classroo...

Today @nerdsofafeather.bluesky.social I discuss MENTAL HYGIENE, the last word on 1950s-1960s classroom educational films. It’s a blast to read, and also helps illuminate the broader social dynamics of the time.

Hint: the 1950s weren’t some golden paradise.

www.nerds-feather.com/2025/09/book...

Book Sale Finds: Mental Hygiene by Ken Smith I haven’t had this much fun with a book in quite some time     I first heard about this book, which chronicles the many hundreds of classroo...

Book Sale Finds: Mental Hygiene by Ken Smith
Editor @scifiromance.bsky.social has not had this much fun with a book in quite some time. It chronicles the many hundreds of classroom educational films produced in the mid 20th century
His piece at the NOAF blog:
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/09/book...

Groypers CANNOT be allowed to have Bella Ciao