Bob Calhoun
@bobcalhoun.bsky.social
Author of The Murders That Made Us, a true crime history of San Francisco. Co-host of Old Movies for Young Stoners, the podcast that pairs cannabis with classic cinema. Former SFWeekly, Incredibly Strange Wrestling. He/him www.murdersthatmadeus.com
"If this is what it takes to get a rom-com greenlit these days, maybe we should just let them die. Death with dignity is surely a better fate for the genre than fascist capitulation." Zero stars for this piece of shit movie. My review of ONE NIGHT ONLY for @ebertvoices.bsky.social
One Night Only review: Pull out from this sex-negative rom-com
If this is what it takes to get a rom-com greenlit these days, maybe we should just let them die.
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This is the most loser-coded image imaginable, big "villains in an '80s breakdancing movie" energy
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8h agoJD Vance: "We don't want the next administration, whoever -- god forbid you're gonna have President El-Sayed in three years ... "
"The fire crackled up the stairs. It fed upon Picassos and Matisses in the upper halls, like delicacies, baking off the oily flesh, tenderly crisping the canvases into black shavings."
Matt Zoller Seitz@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 23h ago"The events of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” occur today: August 4, 2026. Like so many dates in science fiction, this one probably seemed far away when it was chosen, but once it was finally upon us, it passed like all days." www.rogerebert.com/mzs/silhouet...
"No amount of spin can sugarcoat the utter disaster of layoffs, creative consolidation, and sheer mediocrity that awaits if Richie Rich runs roughshod over the industry he claims to love so much." Get 'im, @mcastimovies.bsky.social!
Not only is David Ellison lying about his film plan, it's not even a good lie
Paramount Skydance CEO and heir apparent David Ellison is very upset that the media landscape can see right through him.
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Dodgers lose 5 in a row. Thats too bad.
Man with Mustache Smirks and Bites Lip
ALT: Man with Mustache Smirks and Bites Lip
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New idea just dropped: a cat library. Like a cat cafe, but with books. Read your library book with a cat in your lap.
"Moving readers is not a skill one can learn through practice. It’s a trait, like charisma or rhythm. You either have it or you don’t." About re-reading Ray Bradbury's classic short story There Will Come Soft Rains on the exact day when it's set: August 4, 2026. www.rogerebert.com/mzs/silhouet...
Silhouettes and Warnings: On Reading Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" On the Exact Day When It's Set
The events of Ray Bradbury's short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" occur today: August 4, 2026.
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Read it here if you haven't yet. Today is the very best day of all days to read it for the first time. short-stories.co/@raybradbury...
There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
The voice-clock sang, breakfast was ejected, but no doors slammed. The garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car. The house sat alone in a city of rubble and…
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Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · yesterdayToday, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
@rpicado.bsky.social cue this up after we finish the Assantedy.
Nick The Time Miser@nscottg.bsky.social · 3w agoit slapped see also the Merlin miniseries with Sam Neill
Aggressive autocorrect in today's updated word processing apps makes it really hard to quote Zodiac Killer letters and leave in all of his spelling errors. Stop changing "victom" to victim god dammit. I'm writing true crime here.
Steve Ditko’s fabulous cover for the 1965 fanzine “all stars!” #
Giants are awful largely because of how antiquated they are. And they just traded 1 of the 3 guys on their 40 man roster who actually hits the ball hard, with no replacement behind him. I am biased as an Heliot Ramos lover but … I just don’t think this is how smart teams operate
@adamscantwell.bsky.social It looks like they got hitched at RWC's classic courthouse according to the RC Trib on the left. The Examiner on the right got a little salty with the prose there.
@adamscantwell.bsky.social!!!! Bela Lugosi got hitched in REDWOOD CITY in 1929!!!! This is no doubt the coolest thing to ever happen in RWC!
talking more linear tv nostalgia—a pre-dvr, pre-internet thing i miss was joining a series late or just missing episodes and stumbling across something classic on a random uhf rerun. like seeing the x-files "home" for the first time on the 1am monday morning rerun, still hungover and scared to death
Robert Downey, Jr. showed so much promise in Zodiac in 2007. I wonder what happened to him.
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
There’s an Incredible Hulk episode on the Universal Action Channel right now where the Hulk fights a bear and David Banner falls into quicksand. Disney could be just cranking these things out right now with sad Mark Ruffalo wandering America, turning into Hulk and helping people.
It's always a good thing when you run across a news report by Belva Davis. diva.sfsu.edu/collections/...
Preparations for the Altamont Speedway Free Festival - Bay Area Television Archive
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Think of all the Mary Shelley scholar smack down we could've enjoyed if only Netflix had given Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein a longer theatrical run instead of dumping it onto streaming.
Frankenstein 2025
ALT: Frankenstein 2025
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John Buscema (pencils & inks, cuz he’s the Michelangelo of Comics) covered Ka-Zar 1 (1974).
Gavin Newsom will always find a way to further revolt you.
Will McKinley@willmckinley.bsky.social · 5d agoParamount's acquisition of Warner Bros. will be good for employment in California, Gov. Gavin Newsom says. And he's pushing for a settlement to get the deal done. www.thewrap.com/industry-new... #Paramount #WBD
reupping my proposal to just hire Wesley Snipes and make OLD BLADE
Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · 5d agoMahershala Ali says he’s moved on from ‘Blade’ “I have moved on … I'm good … you had me under contract … if they wanted to do the movie, we would've done the movie. So we're not doing the movie … They didn't want to do it, so they should answer that question” (via GQ Magazine)
Big thanks to @rpicado.bsky.social for crafting the thumbnail image here...
Old Movies for Young Stoners@oldmoviesystoners.bsky.social · 5d agoOur ODYSSEY-SPLOITATION episode with @ngaio420.bsky.social is now on YouTube! You can watch both of these movies in less time than it takes to watch Nolan's THE ODYSSEY + you can stay home and get high!
I'm guessing Harrison Bader has played his last game as a Giant, and his tenure is going to be one of the most hilarious footnotes in franchise history
Danielle Blake SUPPORTER OF ARSENAL FC, CHAMPIONS@abradacabla.bsky.social · 6d agoSo, Harrison Bader having a “scooter accident” with an already injured foot easily met the clown threshold, the details make it a five ring circus.
