Marcus Johnson

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Late Gen X. Author Blu Rays for OCN Distribution and occasionally Vinegar Syndrome. No I can't tell you about the upcoming releases. They / Them

Looked into this more and I think they might have made them to keep up morale for the cast and crew? The shoot started in late March 1983 and didn't finish until early February 1984, so maybe they made these as gifts at the beginning of 1984 to be like "we're almost there, it will be worth it"

Marcus Johnson@mpjohnson.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Looks like something they had made up as promotional items for David Lynch's Dune, but I'm not sure about the Happy New Year part

Picture of a young Kyle McLachlan wearing a promotional Dune t-shirt with no sleeves and a bandanna

when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor

Polymarket tweets: "BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani to require all New York elementary school students to learn Arabic numerals."

Laura Loomer replies: "You know things are bad when you can't tell if this is real or a joke. 

Dear God. It's real. Isn't it?"

Obama won in part because people were sick and tired of Bush’s approach to governance, including the attacks on civil liberties and starting illegal And Obama promised change and then didn’t even stop the abuses of executive power If you want to ask how we got here, we can’t memory hole that