A garbage truck's worth of plastic enters the ocean every 60 seconds. I care about this so much I wrote an eco-horror novel about it, because the more I looked into it the more frightened I became. My family doesn't consume single-use plastics anymore.
#EarthDay #Plastic #microplastics
Happy John Carpenter’s The Fog day! To celebrate, I wrote up a list of exceptionally foggy horror films for Dread to watch alongside the classic haunter.
It’s an engineering achievement, sure, but that’s all. It has no meaning in terms of human performance because a car or bicycle would win this, too. What’s the point? To watch a bunch of androids running races or performing a ballet? No thanks.
Timeline cleanse: marvel at @busterkeaton.bsky.social's
mastery of physical comedy from 100 years ago. Forever the GOAT.
#Funny #BusterKeaton #Comedy #movies
On this day in 2019, I witnessed one of the coolest things ever. A lenticular cloud lit-up by a setting sun over the Perito Morena Glacier in Argentina.
It’s an engineering achievement, sure, but that’s all. It has no meaning in terms of human performance because a car or bicycle would win this, too. What’s the point? To watch a bunch of androids running races or performing a ballet? No thanks.
Caroline Bicks, the Stephen E. King Chair in Literature at the University of Maine, got unprecedented access to @stephenking.bsky.social's archives. The result is a new book: "Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King." The book releases this week.
#StephenKing #Horror
Watching #BEEF S2 and it's fantastic. The first episode is gripping. A middle-aged couple and a young 20-something couple are in conflict and Carey Mulligan delivers this zinger of a line early in E2: "These kids don't know who they messed with. We have so many more years of being petty."
One of my #life #goals is to fill the gaps in my Uncanny #X-Men collection from No. 1 to current. That is a tall order given I have gaps of entire years. But I do make progress, book by book. Today's acquisition:
Yah! Life goals: a home arcade with Zaxxon, Space Invaders, PacMan, Asteroids.
Our movie recommendation for this weekend is #Aliens, which will be celebrating its 40th anniversary later this year! Watch Ripley go up against the Alien Queen in this sci-fi classic! Aliens is available to stream on HBOMax and rent on all major platforms.
I find the reactions to this both funny and galling -- it tells you exactly why it's needed. The effective tax rate for the highest earners in the 1950s (ya know, when things were "better") was around 45-50% w/ deductions and loopholes factored in. And this proposal is only for 2nd homes.
Bring me my Bow of burning gold:
Bring me my Arrows of desire:
Bring me my Spear: O clouds unfold:
Bring me my Chariot of fire!
I will not cease from Mental Fight,
Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand:
Till we have built Jerusalem,
In Englands green & pleasant Land.
And did those feet in ancient time,
Walk upon Englands mountains green:
And was the holy Lamb of God,
On Englands pleasant pastures seen!
And did the Countenance Divine,
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem, builded here,
Among these dark Satanic Mills?
Blake's "Jerusalem" has been on repeat in my head lately. Mainly, I see our current situation in America reflected in its longing for a renewed, more egalitarian society. Probably helps that I've always liked the poem:
Patton Oswalt is going to read the third book in the Talisman trilogy. OTHER WORLDS THAN THESE will be out in October. I'm totally stoked that he agreed to do it. Spoiler alert: There's a character in the book who's a stand-up comedian. His name is...Payton Orville.
Coincidence? I think not.
I didn’t realize this was also an Alien Raiders sequel!
"James Cameron’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day pretty much redefined what a great sequel can be."
#T2JudgmentDay is (in our humble opinion) one of the best sci-fi movies ever so it's great to see it on Mental Floss' best sci-fi movies from the 90s list!
CHRISTINA KOCH GREETING HER DOG AFTER RETURNING FROM THE MOON IM GONNA CRYYY 😭😭😭
I once got to spend a couple of minutes telling Trumbull how his Showscan blew me away. He was delighted I even knew what it was. When a someone says "I used AI," all anyone can do is shrug and say "Ok, cool AI, I guess." because there's nothing crafted to examine...
Six boats surround a space capsule with bright orange balloons on its top.
All four of NASA's Artemis II crew members have been extracted from the Orion spacecraft off the coast of San Diego. Watch live with us as recovery operations continue: www.scientificamerican.com/video/watch-...
As someone who grew up watching Shuttle lunches with my own eyes, I’m ecstatic to see the overwhelming joy about Artemis II. Renewed interest in NASA is long overdue, and brings a lot of hope and national pride at a time when those attributes are in short supply. 👍 🛰️🚀🧑🚀
#NASA #Artemis #splashdown
Just like Scary Field said: He likes me, he really, really likes me! He he he he he!”
#TalesfromtheCrypt
...that every season of his favorite horror anthology show, starring yours truly, will soon be available online, and he’s just DYING to rewatch little old me! Rob's about to discover the crypt is just what the doctor ordered, and we’re going to make sure he takes his medicine!...
"Hello, kiddies. We interrupt your bleary-eyed doom scrolling to tell you that tonight's terrible tale of tumultuous torture is about a man named Rob with an overactive imagination and a deep love of all things rotten and frightful. Well, Rob has just learned...
#TalesfromtheCrypt
Microplastics found in fish in Tuvalu, a remote South Pacific nation news.mongabay.com/short-articl... 🧪🦑🌎🐠
10 characters to get to know me:
Travelin' Jack Sawyer
R.J. MacReady
Wolverine/ Logan
Indiana Jones
Dana Scully
Chief Brody
Ellen Ripley
Guy Montag
Olivia Dunham
Scooby-Doo
Amazing book. I've mourned other creators -- writers, actors, etc. -- but Mead's death hit different. I printed out a bunch of his illustrations across his career on 5x7 cards and put them up all over my place. They're still up. He's the GOAT.
NASA has always exemplified what can be achieved for all mankind. SPACE X has always exemplified what can be achieved for one man.
I was talking to my kids the other day about cyclical patterns of history and pointed out that we're in a mirror of 1968: a pointless war, civil rights battles, a corrupt President, and an awe-inspiring #NASA mission to the moon that illuminates what humanity is capable of achieving.
