"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...

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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very yes

Magnolia Pictures@magnoliapics.bsky.social · yesterday

THE HISTORY OF CONCRETE. John Wilson. September 18.

Today, 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.

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Jessica Ritchey@jmritchey.bsky.social · 2d ago

"Cat People," Tina Turner. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eET6...

I had more things I hoped to accomplish this AM but I did squeeze Videodrome into a Save The Cat beat-sheet and finally noticed (after watching many times over decades) it both starts and ends with video wake up calls beckoning Max into new states of consciousness. Did you guys always see that?

Now listening:

It’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better

Glob bless The Philosophical Research Society (prs.org) one of LA's true post-pandemic miracles (alongside the Elysian, Vidiots and the Vista.) I can't imagine anyone else programming talks like this (one about a record I very unsuccessfully pitched a doc about.) www.eventbrite.com/e/lou-reed-m...

Lou Reed: Metal Machine Mystic - An Online Talk with David Holzer

Take a walk on the occult side with “wild scholar” David Holzer in this online talk hosted by PRS!

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Jack Kirby, artist & killer of Nazis. #JackKirbyMonth

the best Neil Young album is

lil miss big boy@lighter.bsky.social · 5d ago

Post your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.

My 2¢? The woman that Paul claims told him how easy it was to leave his lover when she put the moves on him while he was attached is a fiction he created while asking out a new woman who is also other-than-single. I think he made up this whole '50 ways' thing himself. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z64b...

Paul Simon "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover" TV Special (1975)

YouTube video by Joe Cool

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Watch the trailer for BOORMAN AND THE DEVIL, exploring the making of the infamous sequel EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC.

BOORMAN AND THE DEVIL Trailer Investigates Horror’s Most Infamous Sequel

Watch the trailer for BOORMAN AND THE DEVIL, exploring the making of the infamous sequel EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC.

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FINALLY

Bombs over Oshkosh

Celebrity sighting

They keep telling me media literacy is dead but then I see videos like this and I know it jot to be true

Meanwhile in Osh Kosh

The Mitchell Park Domes Horticultural Conservatory is so beautiful I wanted to burst into tears

MILWAUKEE

Still struggling to figure out this thing I'm supposed to write but happy to report that I've figured out how I'd revise Day of Disclosure

Now screening:

Now this is an interesting podcast episode. A dark ride that begins with what’s-his-face’s idea for a sculpture garden and then winds its way through history and culture explaining why it ain’t as easy as he might’ve thought. slate.com/podcasts/dec...

Have Statues Fallen Off Their Pedestal?

Trump wants 250 new statues of American heroes. Here’s why he’s not going to get them.

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@criterion.bsky.social releasing THE SHOUT!?!?!? www.criterion.com/films/27993-...

Oh God Oh Man: Man Worried by the Ocean

ALT: Oh God Oh Man: Man Worried by the Ocean

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Although it certainly was adjacent to my interests, I never got into The Crow (the comic or the movie). Nonetheless this is a great review connecting it with everything from Thomas Ligotti to Clown Logic, Alexandra-Heller Nicholas and Fight Club. www.tcj.com/clown-logic-...

R&R: Clown Logic: The Crow Nears Forty - The Comics Journal

Rebuttals & Regrets: Looking back at James O' Barr's The Crow through Anya Davidson's response to Ng Suat Tong's Violence is Good, Says The Crow (TCJ #143,1994).

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Glad to see the library honoring the memory of Sam Neill.

Holy cow! This is a little meta but I got the chills myself when this @radiolab.bsky.social podcast ABOUT getting the chills dovetailed with what I took from Craig Mazin’s storytelling theories! (johnaugust.com/2019/scriptn...) radiolab.org/podcast/the-...

The Holy Shiver

What your body knows that your brain doesn’t  … yet.

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Outstanding journalism.

Stefan E. Jones@stefanejones.bsky.social · 3w ago

Comics scholar Dan Raeburn's zine THE IMP had an issue about Chick and his illustrators. It is fascinating. Chick got religion after WWII, where he saw action on Okinawa. Links in page below to a PDF: danielraeburn.com/jack-chick.h...

from your lips to God's ears

Benito Cereno@benitocereno.bsky.social · 3w ago

I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about who should be the new Abbott and Costello wrt meeting Frankensteins etc and I have landed on the definitive answer: Tim Robinson and Sam Richardson “The Detroiters Go to the Backrooms” is a license to print money