Imaginary Voyage

It’s worth noting that this story, by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning, is far better than Age of Revelation.

Plus, Abnett and Lanning found a plausible way to make Doug’s heel turn (well, really a future Doug’s heel turn) in-character and plausible, rather than an ill-advised event gimmick.

I’m howling.

Every single Republican president in my lifetime has crashed the goddamn economy. Trump’s the first to do it twice.

7/Portland has reclaimed the frog as a symbol of its resistance to Trump’s efforts to militarize the city. Perhaps women should claim the glamorous, sassy Muppet Miss Piggy, a known diva with a fierce karate chop, as their own symbol

Current mood.

From Michael Keane’s book “Charlie Brown’s Christmas Miracle.”

Because of a tight deadline, history is made. Ironically, the gibberish *does* sound very much like a dog communicating through growls, barks and yelps.

#ACharlieBrownChristmas #Snoopy

Two excellent novels that had been out of print for quite some time, until they were republished recently (by Vintage and Valancourt, respectively).

I picked up both at McNally Jackson, a wonderful book chain in Manhattan.

#McNallyJacksonBooks

TRANS IS BEAUTIFUL HATE IS UGLY

November 13-19 is
Transgender
Awareness Week, a special week of
celebration, advocacy, and education to honor the lives and stories of trans people.
Trans and nonbinary people are essential parts of our communities — the fight for trans rights is all of our fight.
#MomSky
#NoFascistsUSA

Post a shot from a film that blows you away 🖤

YouTube video by TopPop TOPPOP: Meri Wilson - Telephone Man

The Alamo Drafthouse running the video for Meri Wilson’s “Telephone Man” before The Black Phone 2 is my kind of lunacy.

#meriwilson #theblackphone2

I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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I’d like to see Hellzapoppin’ (or Gremlins 2: The New Batch), but also Star Wars.

A surreal David Lynch movie, by Lynch’s standards, might be The Straight Story.

Picture this - Stars Hallow, 1936.

If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.

Drop something SILVER 🛸💍🖤🪙🥈

Same! I love her film The Namesake (Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel is excellent, as well).

Drop something purple

They’re here…

A movie you've seen more than 7 times with a gif

[the only gif I could find, so I have to give the title away]

So the World Series MVP is an… immigrant

The world's 10 richest people (nearly all from the U.S.) are collectively $500 billion richer this year thanks to growth in stocks tied to AI.

Meanwhile, data centers are sucking up communities’ water and electricity.

AI is making the rich even richer while everyone else pays the price.

Happy Native American Heritage Month! Use these lessons, activities, and videos to learn about indigenous culture, history, and heritage. sharemylesson.com/collections/...

It's the perfect costume for grifting gullible MAGAs out of their hard-earned candy (and money).

I’m a big fan of Dan Abnett and Andy Lannning’s Doug, from the third New Mutants.

They increased his abilities in good ways (pattern recognition, spell casting), and wrote him very in-character with Claremont’s version.

Subsequent writers ignored this earlier (pre-Krakoa) glow-up.

YouTube video by Rodrigo Cantillano John Carpenter - Halloween 1978 (main Theme)

For the Halloween season, I will post the main title theme of a horror movie I love every day, for 31 days.

Day #31

“Halloween” 1978, John Carpenter.

#Halloween #maintitlethemesofhorrormovies #horrormovies #moviesky

It’s a movie that feels hallucinatory and surreal almost by an unconscious process. None of the sequels recapture that magic.

YouTube video by John Carpenter - Topic Halloween II Theme

For the Halloween season, I will post the main title theme of a horror movie I love every day, for 31 days.

Day #30

“Halloween II,”1981, John Carpenter & Alan Howarth.

A day late, again. Apologies.

#Halloween #maintitlethemesofhorrormovies #horrormovies #moviesky

An estimated 15.7 million workers use SNAP. It’s a lifeline for those in low-wage jobs.

Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker.

Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps.

Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.