Tom Breen
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UConn news director, former reporter, permanent Nutmegger.
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BREAKING: The US is rolling back tariffs on “products that cannot be grown, mined, or naturally produced in the United States," per WSJ
Boys chat gets a little too raucous and the next thing you know we’re boosting jewels from the Louvre
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We just live in a john carpenter movie now.
A few days before I broke my foot, I was in a used bookstore and saw a stack of horror paperbacks on the floor. “Have those been priced yet?” I asked. “Nah, but how does two bucks a piece sound?” asked the person behind the counter. My friends: it sounded very good indeed
Also, the filmmakers clearly have a lot of psychological issues regarding puppets and puppeteering
I thoroughly enjoyed this. Both suitable for all ages and full of necessities imposed by a minuscule budget that only add to the weirdness, like nighttime segments shot in broad daylight and interiors of abandoned buildings that start to blend together
CIRCLE CITY SUPERNATURAL (2023) | I've hardly seen anyone talk about this charming oddity that's like an anthology of family friendly, extremely homemade ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARK segments, all told entirely through voiceover and dialogue-free reenactment, making for a consistently odd experience.
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have bizarrely gotten a grudging respect for Curtis Sliwa, who is an insane person who talks like one of the Penguin's henchmen
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BREAKING: Microsoft, $MSFT, leaders worried that meeting OpenAI’s rapidly escalating compute demands could lead to overbuilding servers that might not generate a financial return, per the Information
This sign only makes me think of one thing
March 1970 was a great month for exploring American high weirdness in the pages of glossy magazines. Post-Manson counterculture paranoia, the long shadow of prewar occultism, a suspicion that the previous decade’s Utopianism had curdled into something ugly and dangerous.
Looks like it’s streaming on Tubi! I’m going to watch it today. Thanks for this post, I’d never even heard of this before
These are all great stories! It’s funny - maybe because I listen to so many horror fiction podcasts and their Halloween stories always seem so predictable, I’ve been down on the concept for a few years. But talking about Etchison has reminded me of his great novelization of Halloween III
Such a good writer. That first collection is one of my all-time favorites. His screenplay for Halloween IV is one of the great what-ifs of horror movies
May the scanning never stop
That’s a fantastic cover! I use a Canon CanoScan LIDE 400. Easiest thing in the world to set up, produces great image quality, and I paid less than $100 for it, although that was three years ago
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Reading up on Weapons (the movie) after watching it, and I see people clamouring for a sequel?

And that there's the possibility of a prequel happening?

Just... just let good movies be single one-and-done things.
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It's actually remarkably easy to not ever use ChatGPT.
Apparently an anthology with stories by Arthur Machen and Algernon Blackwood, among others, is TOO HOT FOR BLUESKY
Do I have “Masters of Darkness I,” you ask? Shamefully I do not.
I got that copy of the Lieber collection at one of the worst “friends of the library” sales I’ve ever attended. That book and nothing else of the remotest interest
The title of this makes me laugh every time I think about it. It sounds like the name of a movie Troy McClure would star in
[finger to earpiece] I’m being told now that people would like to see more random anthology covers