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Howdy Doomsday

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Escapism • Ephemera • Absurdity 70s/80s kid, now middle age crazy. Folks call me Del. I go where the day takes me. Movies/Television/Comic Books/Video Games - Bronze Age Emphasis Cult, Horror, Westerns, Post Apocalyptic, 70s Cop Shows, MST3K, RiffTrax

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Stephen Schwartz@atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 2h ago

At this instant in 1945 (8:15 AM August 6, local time), Little Boy—a 15-kiloton, uranium-fueled atomic bomb—destroyed Hiroshima, killing (per official US military estimates) ~70,000 men, women, and children, incl. 12 American POWs. Independent estimates later maintained ~140,000 people were killed.

A color photograph of a damaged Iras wristwatch with a leather band on display in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, its hands frozen at 8:15 AM.A photograph of a shadow of a person living in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, who was killed as they climbed the steps of the Sumitomo Bank building while using a cane, leaving behind only their shadow imprinted on the steps (because their body and cane momentarily blocked the light from the intense thermal flash, burning away everything on the steps that was not in shadow).A color photograph of a damaged and partially melted child’s tricycle on display in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. On the morning of August 6, 1945, Shinichi Tetsutani, who was one month shy of turning four years old, was riding this tricycle, playing with his best friend, a girl named Kimi, 1,500 meters away from where the Little Boy atomic bomb exploded overhead. When found in the wreckage of his house, he was still grasping the red handlebar grip from his tricycle. Severely injured and burned all over his body, calling out, “Water, I want water,” he died that night. Shinichi’s father buried him in the backyard with his favorite toy, and his best friend Kimi, so he could ride it and play even after death. Forty years later, in 1985, Shinichi’s father, Nobuo, decided to rebury his son in the family’s gravesite. Unearthing the backyard grave with Kimi’s mother, Nobuo rediscovered the tricycle and donated it to the museum.
Howdy Doomsday@howdydoomsday.bsky.social · 3h ago

On the one hand, I am curious as to how exactly they'd regulate premarital relations in the Sex Purge movie. On the other hand, I'd rather have someone use my head as an archery target than hear one more goddamn word about it.

Guardian US@us.theguardian.com · 4h ago

‘What if The Purge was for premarital sex?’ is the odd, gimmicky elevator pitch for this slickly made yet ungainly oddity that can’t quite get past the grimness of its conceit

Howdy Doomsday@howdydoomsday.bsky.social · 6h ago

Law & Order Season 20, and Lieutenant Van Buren announces that she's been diagnosed with cancer. After 17 years, I finally notice the framed photo behind her, which appears to be one of Edmund Kemper, The Co-ed Killer. I was unable to confirm this to a certainty, but it sure does favor Big Ed.

Lieutenant Van Buren standing in the squad room of the 27th Precinct, behind her are several framed photos hanging on the wall, one of which appears to be of Big Ed Kemper. S. Epatha Merkerson as Lieutenant Anita Van Buren in Memo from the Dark Side Law & Order Season 20, Episode 1 aired September 25, 2009
Howdy Doomsday@howdydoomsday.bsky.social · 9h ago

Yeah but in the way that The Best Years of Our Lives is better than First Blood. Sometimes you want a quiet, thought provoking story of men returning home from war. Sometimes you want a vet consumed by ptsd pushed too far by local law enforcement until he breaks and tears their little town apart.

Rob Hunter@fakerobhunter.bsky.social · 10h ago

This isn't timely, and I don't think it's even controversial, but "Wishing" and "Space Age Love Song" are both far better than "I Ran" (which is still a good time). Thank you.

Me, with a topical observation.
Howdy Doomsday@howdydoomsday.bsky.social · yesterday

We can all agree that the Satanic Panic was awful and destroyed lives and never should've happened. However, as far as awful life destroying things that never should've happened go, the Satanic Panic was pretty awesome. Sure beats the Hell out of whatever all it is we've got going on now.

Geraldo Rivera 2-Hour Special! Devil Worship Exposing Satan's Underground Geraldo reveals the many faces of Satanism: Human Sacrifices, Ritualistic Killings, Black Mass, Satanic Teenagers, Bizarre Cults! Tonight, learn what evil can do. 8PM 2, 4, 25 NBCTonight 20/20 SATANIC CULTS Why are more people going to the Devil? ABC 10:00 PM 6, 7The Oprah Winfrey Show It could be the plot of a horror movie, but it's not. Cults are growing, especially among young people. Find out how to save your kids from... Satanic Worship! Tuesday 3PM 7DECEPTION Of A Generation Satan is waging war on our children's minds. Cute and seemingly innocent toys are opening your home to the occult. Witchcraft may well have gained an inroad into your family. Eagle's Nest Ministries 1984