Happy THE FOG Day everyone! Last year, I celebrated its 45th anniversary & thought I’d share my piece again today on this, the 21st of April. from-the-desk-of-the-horror-chick.ghost.io/45-years-lat...
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If you want to see any life drawing work on this site you have to enable "sexually suggestive" work to be seen by you because uneducated puritans set the AI parameters.
I am not saying the guys running OpenAI are serial killers. I'm just saying the worldview they present, and the way they talk about their own actions, reminds me a lot of one of the most iconic serial killers in the history of film.
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PAUL FISCHER in conversation with DREW MCWEENY. APRIL 20, MONDAY at 7PM. VROMAN'S BOOKSTORE. You can RSVP@VROMAN'S BOOKSTORE for free.
Tomorrow night, I'm going to have a great conversation with the author of an amazing new book called THE LAST KINGS OF HOLLYWOOD. If you're a Lucas/Spielberg/Coppola/Scorsese fan, you are going to want to get this book!
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Happy 80th birthday (!!) to the incomparable Tim Curry.
Here he is at age 27 in an early pre-Rocky role.
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wrote a thing yesterday and bummed everybody out when I read it on stage, and now here it will live on my patreon for the rest of its days
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Happy calendar day! This weekend, driving between SF and the East Bay is going to be hella challenging — so take BART or enjoy all the amazing stuff happening in your own backyard.
This week we've got whales, kimchi, sea shanties, and scent foraging.
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a man is seen laying on the sidewalk in a puddle of blood. In narration he tells the audience "I mean, yeah, sure, to be honest, it's not my blood per se- I just found it on the sidewalk and got on it. People keep asking me if I'm okay, if I need medical help. Yeah, ok, fine, i'll admit it, I like the attention." We see the man closer up now, looking distraught. "Everyone's just been so nice to me because they think it's my blood."
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I wrote a story of two doctors to illustrate what it really means to meet MAGA defectors where they are.
We live in a sick nation, so we should pursue a culture of healing. And every movement toward health begins with a confrontation. www.the-reframe.com/a-confrontat...
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So... this takes a whole lot longer to climb out of than you might imagine. We've managed to keep things going for the time being—thanks to so many of you!—but we're definitely not out of the woods yet.
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![Quiz Time: Name That Bellicose Babbler
1. "God Will Roast Their Stomachs in Hell."
2. "Don't Push It, or I'll Give You a War You Won't Believe."
3. "You Should... Totally Cut Their Windpipes and Thus Clearly Show Them What a Real War Is Like."
4. "I Am Altering the Deal. Pray I Don't Alter It Any Further."
5. "[They] Will Become Good Food for the Sharks."
6. "Open the F#@*&N' Strait, You Crazy Bastards, or You'll Be Living in Hell."
7. "Ithe Best in Life Is] to Crush Your Enemies, See Them Driven Before You, and to Hear the Lamentations of Their Women."
8. "If You Start Throwing Hedgehogs under Me, I Shall Throw a Couple of Porcupines under You."
A. Kim Jong Un
B. Nikita Khrushchev
C. "Baghdad Bob"
D. Rambo
E. Conan the Barbarian
F. Iranian Spokesperson
G. Trump
H. Darth Vader
Answer Key: 1-c, 2-d, 3-a, 4-h, 5-f, 6-g, 7-e, 8-b](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ro3ei2p7enbhdksdkcyzwtxf/bafkreiddytxlj35767odezikbpos4clrrtfpoz62q7lkkbqvv67lded75a)
Quiz Time: Name That Bellicose Babbler 1. "God Will Roast Their Stomachs in Hell." 2. "Don't Push It, or I'll Give You a War You Won't Believe." 3. "You Should... Totally Cut Their Windpipes and Thus Clearly Show Them What a Real War Is Like." 4. "I Am Altering the Deal. Pray I Don't Alter It Any Further." 5. "[They] Will Become Good Food for the Sharks." 6. "Open the F#@*&N' Strait, You Crazy Bastards, or You'll Be Living in Hell." 7. "Ithe Best in Life Is] to Crush Your Enemies, See Them Driven Before You, and to Hear the Lamentations of Their Women." 8. "If You Start Throwing Hedgehogs under Me, I Shall Throw a Couple of Porcupines under You." A. Kim Jong Un B. Nikita Khrushchev C. "Baghdad Bob" D. Rambo E. Conan the Barbarian F. Iranian Spokesperson G. Trump H. Darth Vader Answer Key: 1-c, 2-d, 3-a, 4-h, 5-f, 6-g, 7-e, 8-b
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Noah Wyle as Dr. Robby, peaking his head into an examination room, on "The Pitt."
"The Pitt" vs. its fandom: Why is the show's vocal fandom putting "The Pitt's" characters on trial to be deemed “good” or “bad"?
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Ho dang, was that a great read or what? A brilliant concept for some mighty fearsome Big Bads, teenagers being teenagers even during an alien apocalypse, plus tantalizing hints of more to come! Gonna rate @kristalstittle.bsky.social's KAYAK as Very Highly Ratty-Recommended Indeed!
UPDATE: I done did it! Lately I've been in a readingless slumphole, but thanks to an unexpected medical “crisitunity,” I managed to spend two consecutive days in a bed, but not before grabbing frantically at one of my TBR piles, resulting in a fistful of @kristalstittle.bsky.social's KAYAK, which...
I thought this was just an amusing bit when I came up with it 12 years ago or whatever but man it's just my daily mantra now
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This story started as a question: what crime superheroes battle if they started in 2026? Bank robberies are less common than banks defrauding their own customers.
That led to a second question: who would get to define heroism?
Enter… The Dare.
COYOTE CALENDAR THU: 4.9 Aku's BBQ@DTSJ Brewing DTSJ BREWING, SAN JOSE → 6-9PM Roll through for some tasty yakitori, prawn toast, and other izakaya snacks while you sip on local beer. Sometimes happiness really is that simple. FRI: 4.10 Trans Femme Community Workout RADICALLY FIT, OAKLAND → 5-6PM Working out can be fraught as hell if you're trans, and doubly so for trans femmes. But it does not have to be so! No nervous sweating here: only the good kind with a sweet community. Bring a water bottle and be ready to move. COVID SAFE, masks required and provided FREE MORE →
COYOTE CALENDAR SAT: 4.11 "Sheep to Sweater" at Petaluma Adobe's Sheep Shearing Day PETALUMA ADOBE STATE HISTORIC PARK → 11AM-2PM FREE My grandparents were sheep farmers so this one is close to my heart — learn how wool actually comes off the sheep! Spring means shearing and you can witness what that looks like under the expert guidance of shearer John Sanchez. Then, learn how that (honestly often pretty disgusting) pile of wool gets turned into yarn. ¡Feliz Cumple, Selena! CRYBABY, OAKLAND → 10PM ~ $10+ It's time again to celebrate the queen of Tejano, taken from us too soon. Celebrate the lovely Selena with a playlist of banda, regional, corridos, cumbia, y más all night as well as a Selena look-alike contest hosted by KQED. MORE →
COYOTE CALENDAR SUN: 4.12 Bring A Puppet to Life PLANETARIUM, RICHMOND → 2-4:30PM ~ $30 I wasn't lying when I said I was in my puppet era. And you can be too with this class on puppeteering! BYOP (Bring Your Own Puppet, obviously) or borrow one and learn the ins and outs of how to bring a bit of fabric to life with movement, voice, and more. MON 4.13 Made in Sichuan Pop-up FOUR KINGS, SF → 6PM ~ $125 "Look forward to ingredients, techniques, and stories not often encountered here: pungent fresh-pressed rapeseed oil discovered while biking through villages in rural Sichuan, pao cai fermentation that date back millenia to the Zhou dynasty, and flavors bound to make you say "Bì15 tx!" (Bã shì dé băn) - one of the highest compliments in Sichuan dialect." MORE →
COYOTE CALENDAR TUES: 4.14 May Day Security Training FREE SOUTH BAY LABOR COUNCIL, SAN JOSE → 6:30-8:30PM May Day is coming up and we hope you're figuring out how you're going to plug in, stand up, and opt out. To get ready for whatever action you might be taking, you're going to want to have a bit of training and thinking under your belt to keep your actions and community safe. This event will teach you all of that! WED: 4.15 Destroy This House Book Talk FREE MILL VALLEY LIBRARY → 6:30PM Hear McSweeney's ED Amanda Uhle talk about her memoir chronicling "the challenges of growing up with a desperately scheming father, a mother plagued by an acute hoarding disorder, and parenting parents while seeking independence." (Especially good for those with conflicted and complicated relationships with their parents.)
It's time again for the COYOTE Calendar! Here are this week's hand-picked Bay Area events, just for you. On our calendar this week we've got Japanese BBQ, sheep shearing, puppetry lessons, and more. We'll post new events each Wednesday.
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Fun Fiction Facts!
Happy Birthday, John Waters. Can't say I like living in Mortville, but your films got me ready for it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqcE...
