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Dracula’s Dog’s Groomer (1979)

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Dracula’s Dog’s Groomer (1979) @jamiroqueer.bsky.social · 12h

📽️ Tonight at the indoor drive-in: Universal monsters old and new

A “marquee” in refrigerator magnets made to look like Scrabble letters:

STAR LITE DRIVE-IN

SATURDAY

THE MUMMY

WOLF MAN

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KJ "October Name" Shepherd @kjshepherd.bsky.social · 7h

look I am sending agents query letters I am but if any of you are or know literary agents who would fuck with someone who has a full shorts collection they are trying to sell, is actively working on another fiction ms, and has just cowritten a NF essay collection then just DM me?

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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 11h

Some of these people have now been fired and rehired TWICE since January. The current state of dysfunction is mind boggling.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 13h

OOOPS! UPDATE: Two HHS officials tell me that disease detectives, measles response officers, global health officials and the MMWR staff were laid off by mistake and will be reinstated. But Washington office is still RIFed

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Dracula’s Dog’s Groomer (1979) @jamiroqueer.bsky.social · 7h

He was saying the same thing! Got him the whole DVD set once and we might continue from here

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Dracula’s Dog’s Groomer (1979) @jamiroqueer.bsky.social · 8h

THE MUMMY is creaky and silly (its handsome protagonist is such a twit!), with scenes that your modern sensibilities tell you are crying out for music, but it’s great pulp that doesn’t take long about it. Boris Karloff is so formidable, and Zita Johann fun to watch

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Dracula’s Dog’s Groomer (1979) @jamiroqueer.bsky.social · 8h

WOLF MAN was a thumbs down from us both. It’s juiceless and depressed, which I’d like as an interesting angle but doesn’t seem to fit—it revolves around an emotional bond we always seem to be catching at a bad time. And its plot is old-fashioned in all the wrong ways

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Dracula’s Dog’s Groomer (1979) @jamiroqueer.bsky.social · 12h

It's the 1933 THE MUMMY we're seeing, and this year's WOLF MAN. WOLF MAN we haven't seen before, and the response is so mixed I've got no clue how we'll feel about it. Loved Whannell's THE INVISIBLE MAN, why not

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Dracula’s Dog’s Groomer (1979) @jamiroqueer.bsky.social · 12h

DMs are open!

Dracula’s Dog’s Groomer (1979) @jamiroqueer.bsky.social · 12h

📽️ Tonight at the indoor drive-in: Universal monsters old and new

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Dracula’s Dog’s Groomer (1979) @jamiroqueer.bsky.social · 15h

I find the ending jarring not just because it's designed to be but because it really doesn't seem like where it was going (which is not what the book is like). The work I mean in the OP is hers, I don't think it would be the same story if it had followed her where she was taking it

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Dracula’s Dog’s Groomer (1979) @jamiroqueer.bsky.social · 15h

Right haha ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Dracula’s Dog’s Groomer (1979) @jamiroqueer.bsky.social · 15h

They were all class too, when I got it direct from the VS website they sent out a recall/replacement 4k disc without making you ask. Getting in the mail was how I heard

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Dracula’s Dog’s Groomer (1979) @jamiroqueer.bsky.social · 15h

But that recently got cleared up and it’s out on 4K and Blu-ray (idk about digital) from a pristine new master, and there is no way to regret seeing it that way

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Dracula’s Dog’s Groomer (1979) @jamiroqueer.bsky.social · 15h

Also difficult to see for a long time, prevented from a DVD release by its expensive songs (including one withheld from SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER because Paramount thought this would be bigger!). No one took the step of trying to get it out with replacement music, which was correct imo

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Dracula’s Dog’s Groomer (1979) @jamiroqueer.bsky.social · 16h

read the book while living as a young singleton in the same places she was and it was a big deal to read, but missed out on that window when the movie was seeable and only just caught it recently when Vinegar Syndrome cleared up the rights and put it out on 4K. Amazing

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Dracula’s Dog’s Groomer (1979) @jamiroqueer.bsky.social · 16h

it’d be bad timing today, but if you haven’t seen this one you should. Remarkable, brilliant work that goes places Woody Allen never had the space for

Dracula’s Dog’s Groomer (1979) @jamiroqueer.bsky.social · May 4

Poster for 1977’s LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR: A photo of Keaton in a dark, smoky and crowded bar, handing over cash for a drink, takes up the top half of the poster and a bit more. Below is the title in large white capital letters, and credits in smaller type, all against black.

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Dracula’s Dog’s Groomer (1979) @jamiroqueer.bsky.social · 17h

Ah goddamn

Scout Tafoya @honorszombie.bsky.social · 17h

Some very brief thoughts on Diane Keaton. rest in peace to an icon defined by easy charm and warmth

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Dracula’s Dog’s Groomer (1979) @jamiroqueer.bsky.social · 18h

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ dud openings happen, and I don’t find marketing very interesting so I don’t care why; using that as a barometer of quality would be a mistake

But no way we weren’t going to see it unless it was colossally bad, and that isn’t what I hear, and it seems like the big screen is the place

Dracula’s Dog’s Groomer (1979) @jamiroqueer.bsky.social · 18h

okey dokey so we’re going to have to rush to catch TRON: ARES in theaters it looks like

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Dracula’s Dog’s Groomer (1979) @jamiroqueer.bsky.social · 20h

Definitely

Dracula’s Dog’s Groomer (1979) @jamiroqueer.bsky.social · 20h

but we do kinda like that alternate ending so we're probably sticking to watching it with that edited in haha

Dracula’s Dog’s Groomer (1979) @jamiroqueer.bsky.social · 20h

Felt the same about that; I didn't particularly hate that part, but if that's the ending you *were* going to do I don't think her last scene works. You follow her out, but only a little? The rated and unrated have different versions of it but I don't think either quite makes it

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Dracula’s Dog’s Groomer (1979) @jamiroqueer.bsky.social · 20h

damn right

Dracula’s Dog’s Groomer (1979) @jamiroqueer.bsky.social · 20h

The book does edge it out imo, but it was a lot closer than I first expected back in the day. Not trying to juice things up with flashy editing or camerawork because it's stuck in the same place for an hour and a half, that was a good move. It's simply well done

Dracula’s Dog’s Groomer (1979) @jamiroqueer.bsky.social · 20h

not naming what's at The Ruin 👻 is also kind of a silly affectation, I don't think it's even possible to have heard of this story and not know. But on the off chance you don't, that would be a cool way to see it probably

Dracula’s Dog’s Groomer (1979) @jamiroqueer.bsky.social · 20h

writing's a bit pretentious but what the hey, it's a good movie

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