Gabriel Mckee
@secret-terror.bsky.social
Print culture, libraries, religion, science fiction, comics, PKD, Coptic language. "The Saucerian: UFOs, Men in Black, and the Unbelievable Life of Gray Barker" available now from the MIT Press.
The CFP for the 2027 meeting of the Popular Culture Association (to be held in Boston in March) is open-- and I'm thrilled to be co-chairing a special topic area on "UFOs, Cryptids, Conspiracies, and the Paranormal"! pcaaca.org/page/submiss...
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If you had to sum up 2026 in a single sentence, you could do worse than:
IGN@ign.com · 2w agoJohn Cena stars in Matchbox The Movie, an action-packed, globetrotting adventure about the iconic Mattel toys streaming on Apple TV on October 9! #SDCC
Received a doozy of a fake marketing email --- 1000 words of 100% AI generated text. I usually just ignore things like this, but there's a very strong temptation to respond to this one with: "Why would I bother to read what you didn't bother to write?"
"You crossed the wrong people, motherfucker."
Andrew Otis Weiss@thatweissguy.bsky.social · last yr."You crossed the wrong people, motherfucker."
Odyssey coverage has reminded me of this thing that actually happened: A few weeks after 300 came out, I was walking with some friends near Astor Place, and two teenagers rode by on bikes. One of them yelled, "We ride FOR SPARTA!" and the other followed up with "We ride FOR MARTHA!"
CFP: Spielberg's Alien Imaginary and American Spirituality popularcultureandtheology.com/2026/06/11/c...
Call for Papers: Spielberg’s Alien Imaginary and American Spirituality
Call for Papers From Close Encounters to Disclosure: Spielberg’s Alien Imaginary and American Spirituality Proposed Edited Volume for the Pop Culture and Theology Series Since the release of …
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Ok, so I kind of want to talk out the implications of if The Minions were present at the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ
He wants to get excommunicated so bad Like Henry VIII levels of wanting to be excommunicated
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.JD Vance says his faith makes him averse to “low wage foreigners”
"I'm Officer Waste, this is Officer Abuse"
Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · last mo.Two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why? They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...
Real Streisand Effect vibes from ICE this week, which will go to any length to get people not to remember the name of murderer Jonathan Ross
Looks like Alan Moore is still mad about "eggy in a basket"
From Michael D. Gordin's "The Pseudoscience Wars" (U. Chicago Press, 2012), Einstein's brilliantly bitchy response to Immanuel Velikovsky's "Worlds in Collision":
The explicit goal of the people happily setting fire to the internet in order to burn trans people, is that the only internet a child gets to experience is one specifically shaped by the whims of a billionaire freak.
CFP extended to July 1 for the Northeast Popular Culture Association's virtual conference, which will be online on Oct. 15-17-- www.northeastpca.org/call-for-pap...
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Graham Platner removes lifelike silicone mask, reveals he's actually John Fetterman
It's fascinating what words in PKD's handwriting the HTR engine in Zebrapedia consistently can't recognize: "Tears" (as in "Flow my...") is pretty consistently rendered "Flars." "Knowledge" usually comes out "hroulege." "Camouflage" is interpreted all kinds of ways, all of them wrong.
The same Trump-appointee who fucked with the Broadview 6 grand jury is the one going after E. Jean Carroll.
Elder abuse doesn't end with death, apparently. Also, the mere thought of listening to an entire audiobook narrated by Stan Lee-- real or AI slop version -- gives me a cluster headache. The maximum safe dosage is like 3 minutes.
Kotaku@kotaku.com · 2mo agoStan Lee's Voice And Likeness Have Been Sold Off To An AI Company For Audiobooks And Comic Slop https://kotaku.com/stan-lee-marvel-voice-likeness-rights-ai-elevenlabs-2000699882
Many thanks to @colindickey.com for reviewing "Behold the Behemouth" for Poetry Magazine-- Colin gets why this writing is important & does a great job of making you get it too. (It also opens the door for a weighty debate on the meaning of Gray Barker's fart jokes.)
Colin Dickey@colindickey.com · 2mo agoGray Barker—the 1st person to write about the Men in Black & Mothman—changed your world, even if you’ve never heard of him. A vital ufologist, he was also a hoaxer, & lived a closeted gay life in postwar West Virginia. It’s what makes his poetry so weird & fascinating. My review of a new collection:
Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.
Chris Morran@themorrancave.bsky.social · 2mo agoA US-born woman born was confronted by sheriff deputies in Louisiana who were convinced her ID and social security card were fakes. They turned her over to ICE, who shackled her & took her an hour away. Even after a lawyer convinced ICE of the woman's citizenship the sheriff says they did no wrong
If I ever become one of those people who responds to someone's question by posting a screenshot of AI chatbot text, please drop me in a weighted barrel directly into the Mariana Trench
I would prefer not to I reject your assumptions I deny your premises I refuse your authority I do not capitulate Be ungovernable my friends
It is our sacred duty to ensure that this entire class of goons becomes penniless
Jenny Cohn@jennycohn.bsky.social · last yr.“A blind man cld see that the upcoming administration is stacked with ‘our guys’ from tech, specifically from Thiel's camp *** Our cover is blown [so stop apologizing] … We are the new elite because we are the most capable…” - Rainmaker founder Augustus Doricko, 12/14/24 1/
