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Cody P @unkemptfilmfan.bsky.social · 7h

From the classics by the Big Names to stories and authors I have never heard of.
I discovered it by looking up the short story “The Graveyard Rats” by Henry Kutter after rewatching the adaptation of it in Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities. It’s one of the stories included in the podcast.

Cody P @unkemptfilmfan.bsky.social · 7h

Maybe this is old news and I am just late like always, but I just discovered this podcast, The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast hosted by Tony Walker.
Each week he reads, as you may have guessed, a classic scary story, mostly from the 1800s and early 1900s.

Screenshot of the Pocket Casts app showing an in-progress episode of The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast - “Episode 4: Bewitched by Edith Wharton”

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Francesco Francavilla @ffrancavilla.bsky.social · 3d

CANDLE COVE
(a favorite from the great creepypasta series that was CHANEL ZERO)

a skeleton face wearing a tricorn hat and a cape, with a bloody hook in the front and a couple of teeth

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Cody P @unkemptfilmfan.bsky.social · 8d

With everything else going wrong in the world Taylor Swift has the audacity to release an album that is so fuckin ass into a discography that is already pretty ass.
Girl read the ROOM.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 10d

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

A few days after this cartoon was published, my syndicate received a very indignant letter from someone representing the Jane Goodall Institute.
Not only did my syndicate and I both get read the Riot Act, there was a vague implication that litigation over this cartoon might be around the corner.
I was horrified. Not so much from a fear of being sued (I just couldn't see how this cartoon could be construed as anything but silly, but because of my deep respect for Jane Goodall and her well-known contributions to pri-matology. The last thing in the world I would have intentionally done was offend Dr. Goodall in any way.
Before I had a chance to write my apology, another complication arose.
The National Geographic Society contacted my syndicate and expressed a

desire to reprint the cartoon in a special centennial issue of their magazine. My editor, aware of what had just occurred, declined, explaining why.
Apparently, whoever it was that sent the inquiry from National Geographic was shocked. They told my editor that "that doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know." They did some checking themselves, and an interesting fact was eventually discovered: Jane Goodall loved the cartoon. Furthermore, she was totally unaware that any of this "stuff" was going on. Some phone calls were made, and the cartoon was not only reprinted in the centennial issue of National Geographic, but was also used by her Institute on a T-shirt for fund-raising purposes.
I've since had an opportunity to visit Dr. Goodall at her research facility in Gombe. It's a wonderful place (sort of like right out of National Geographic).
"To refer to Dr. Goodall as a tramp is inexcusable even by a self-described 'loony' as Larson. The cartoon was incredibly offensive and in such poor taste that readers might well question the editorial judgment of running such an atrocity in a newspaper that reputes to be supplying news to persons with a better than average intelligence. The cartoon and its message were absolutely stupid." —Excerpt from the above-mentioned letter that started the ruckus

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Cody P @unkemptfilmfan.bsky.social · 11d

Hear me out…
A double feature of ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER and UNDER THE SILVER LAKE.

Cody P @unkemptfilmfan.bsky.social · 17d

That’s what my iPad tells me.

Photo of an iPad with a purple case covered in stickers

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Cody P @unkemptfilmfan.bsky.social · 17d

One time I had a dream that I would refer to phone or online therapy as boneless sessions and in-person therapy as bone-in sessions.

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Heckin Spoopy Mutilated Corpse @jrbolt.bsky.social · 19d

Haha I'm being Raptured! This is wonderful, ha ha goodbye losers [It is revealed that the events of the film Nope are happening to me] fuck shit

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ETPC with realistic blood @etpc.bsky.social · 23d

THROUGH THE DARKNESS

OF FUTURE PAST

THE MAGICIAN LONGS TO SEE

ONE CHANCE OUT

BETWEEN TWO WORLDS

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Cody P @unkemptfilmfan.bsky.social · 23d

If I see an ad on a refrigerator I’m killing myself in front of the hidden camera built into the screen to track my malnutrition levels and ruining an underpaid Samsung employee’s life.

The Verge @theverge.com · 24d

Samsung brings ads to US fridges

Samsung’s ‘screens everywhere’ initiative is morphing into ads everywhere.

buff.ly

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Cody P @unkemptfilmfan.bsky.social · 24d

It would be very hot and sexy of you, yes you, the [GENDER] reading this, to invite me to your Plex server.
I love da movies.

Cody P @unkemptfilmfan.bsky.social · 25d

Thanks! I haven’t drawn anything like this in a while and it felt Good.

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Cody P @unkemptfilmfan.bsky.social · 25d

I’m not sure what else I wanna do to it, but this started out as a sketch and turned into something bigger because it’s just fun to look at Dev Patel for many hours.

Digital illustration of Dev Patel as Gawain from the movie The Green Knight with a medieval-style border around the portrait

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Cody P @unkemptfilmfan.bsky.social · Sep 11

Another day proving Bluesky simply does not have the juice.
Twitter sucks but it’s got jokes.

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Cody P @unkemptfilmfan.bsky.social · Sep 8

It is! For some reason though my hotel didn’t have these diagrams anywhere in the rooms. It would have saved me from a lot of angry guests who were being stumped by their unintuitive showers.

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Cody P @unkemptfilmfan.bsky.social · Sep 8

I worked in a hotel for many years and SOME BUT NOT ALL of the rooms had showers like these so I would get calls from people in the morning about how to get their shower to work and do you know how hard it is to describe doing this over a phone?

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · Sep 8

Oooh, a promising entry in the always-competitive category “insanely counterintuitive and user-unfriendly designs for hotel bathroom fixtures.”

If I hadn’t found the diagram— which is in the check-in materials, not posted— there is simply no way I *ever* would have found this solution.

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Hagai Palevsky (he/him) @dialhforhagai.bsky.social · Jun 9

I tell ya, marriage ain’t easy, it ain’t easy but it works better if you find things you both like. my wife and I, we like the work of Mark Z. Danielewski. every time I’m in the House, she Leaves

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Cody P @unkemptfilmfan.bsky.social · Aug 30

Hear me out: Robert Longstreet as Father Callahan in Mike Flanagan’s Dark Tower series.

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · Aug 30

🚨TOSHIRO MIFUNE IN A CROP TOP🚨

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Cody P @unkemptfilmfan.bsky.social · Aug 30

People are listing some fine movies, sure, but no one has recommended FOES (1977) and that’s a shame.

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Cody P @unkemptfilmfan.bsky.social · Aug 30

I ain’t believing shit until I hear it from the only reliable news source of the past five years.

Destiel “I love you” meme, blank, naked, waiting to be written on with the news we’re all hoping to hear

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Cody P @unkemptfilmfan.bsky.social · Aug 30

I’m sure once I post this I will think of different choices I wish I would have gone with, but these are the first ones that came to mind.
(Names and movies in alt text.)

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Cody P @unkemptfilmfan.bsky.social · Aug 29

My lifelong hate of James Cameron remains justified.

Cartoon Brew @cartoonbrew.bsky.social · Aug 28

“I’d like to see the cost of VFX artists come down.” — ‘Avatar’ director and Stability AI board member James Cameron claims effects workers are too expensive, putting blockbusters and the VFX industry at risk.
www.cartoonbrew.com/vfx/vfx-arti...

James Cameron Says VFX Costs Threaten Future Of Blockbusters

In a recent interview, Stability AI board member James Cameron warned high budgets threaten theaters, urging cheaper VFX and new tech to cut costs.

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Pyramid Chad @pyrameadhead.wifeguy.online · Aug 23

I have an idea to make up $100M in market value

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