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Rewatching a longtime favorite with slightly different eyes. The dialogues not great and there are a couple of draggy points. But the casting is perfect, the effects look great and it’s beautifully shot. Still a gem under the flaws.
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Anthony Bourdain: “…the world is, in fact, filled with mostly good and decent people who are simply doing the best they can. Everybody, it turns out, is proud of their food (when they have it). They enjoy sharing it with others (if they can). They love their children...”
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The tea learns the cult is actually run by the KGB, complete with killer satellite and….I’m going to say cyborgs? Moench and Zeck are on an epic run at this point, doing everything right in each issue.
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20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)
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Fraud should be rooted out. Things like a medical pavilion existing, or bog-standard effort to cure ballots are not fraud or even indicators of it and pretending otherwise only hurts the credibility of people doing so. None of this should be controversial.
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70s comic book horror could have some very dodgy writing but in terms of art there was pretty near uniform good work. I hope someone cleverer than myself does a popular study along the line of Paperbacks From Hell someday.
Ron Wilson and Pablo Marcos
Tomb of Darkness No. 19: A Child Dies in Mourning
Marvel comic cover, 1976.
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Michael among along with a lot of other interesting stuff is terrific at finding examples of classic genre paperback art that’s helped add quite a bit to my TBR pile. Worth a follow.
Born on this day, Star Wars concept artist Ralph McQuarrie (1929-2012).
Here's his cover art for the 1986 Del Rey edition of Sinister Barrier by Eric Frank Russell.
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Arcane is one of the best horror villains to ever hit comics.
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In honor of Len Wein's birthday, I'd like to share this classic story by Len Wein, Berni Wrightson, and Joe Orlando.
Fifty-two years ago, Swamp Thing was reunited with Anton Arcane, "The Man Who Would Not Die!"
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Yes, humans are always the worst monsters, but also…pease give me monsters once in a while, you know? A creature here, an indescribable abomination there, something in the woods. Give me big teeth and things hiding in the sewers or abandoned subway tunnels. Monsters are awesome.
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You can feel however you want about this specific case, but don’t miss the underlying lesson: being active in local politics can produce change.
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Local resistance to data centers blocked or delayed projects worth nearly $130 billion in the first three months of 2026, according to Data Center Watch.
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I submit 99% of the people who read this now know everything they ever need to know about IPO investing
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SpaceX is the most overhyped IPO of the decade and it will end exactly the way every overhyped IPO ends. Facebook IPO’d at $38 and traded under that for 15 months. Uber IPO’d at $45 and is still below that adjusted seven years later for a while. WeWork tried at $47 billion and ended at zero. Robinhood IPO’d at $38, hit $85, then $7. Coinbase IPO’d at $381 and was at $40 two years later. Rivian IPO’d at a $100 billion valuation with no meaningful revenue and gave back 90%. Beyond Meat. Peloton. Lyft. DoorDash. Bird. Each one a “generational company” the day it priced.
Each one a wealth destruction event for retail within 18 months. The pattern is not a coincidence. Hype IPOs are designed to transfer wealth from the people buying the story to the people who built the story. The bankers get paid. The early employees get out. The VCs get a markup they can show their LPs. The retail investor gets the bag. SpaceX is a great company. That has nothing to do with whether it’s a great stock at IPO. Greatness was already priced in five funding rounds ago. You are not getting in early. You are buying the exit. The only IPO worth chasing is the one nobody is talking about. Those don’t exist anymore because every IPO is marketed like a movie release. So the answer is: don’t chase. Wait two years. Buy it down 70% when the lockup unwinds and the narrative breaks. Or don’t buy it at all and put the money somewhere the bankers haven’t already extracted the alpha. Hype is not an asset class. It’s a tax.
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I love this so much
Michael Golden created one of the greatest Marvel Universe posters of all time, "The Merry Marvel Marching Confusion" (1982)
This poster is also a perfect time capsule of one of Marvel's best creative eras.
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Wealthy and powerful people becoming more whiny even as they become more wealthy and powerful seems like a story arc that will not end well
Oh my god cry me a river. You get to walk around unburdened and have tense phone calls and email chains. Your biggest concern is whether CNN quotes that you’re going to eliminate white collar labor. Other people do the real work and you get interviewed
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I've seen this movie like 5 times and I'm still not clear about what's going on but it's glorious.
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Among many other compliments, one of my favorite play fair mysteries- the viewer is legitimately given what they need to solve the mystery.
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On June 11, 1976 “Deep Red” was released in the United States! Directed by Dario Argento.
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I personally prefer this to the original
Fright Night 2 (1988)
I completely underrated sequel.
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Deleted a joke that too morbid even for me. Maybe I’m maturing after all.
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