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Spooky Jameson 👻

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Author, teacher, bad movie enthusiast books: Star Wars and the Triumph of Geek Culture (FSG), Cinemaps (with Andrew DeGraff, Quirk Books) current project: "The Good Bad Movie Scene" Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/3SnTp

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Spooky Jameson 👻 @adjameson.bsky.social · Dec 1

Folks, I don't know how to tell you this, but CINEMAPS, the book I wrote with artist Andrew DeGraff, is still available and makes a wonderful holiday present:

www.quirkbooks.com/book/cinemaps/

Cinemaps - Quirk Books

This beautifully designed atlas is an essential reference for anyone who loves great art and great films.

www.quirkbooks.com

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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 14h

On the set of PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE w/ Paul Marco (Kelton the Cop), Criswell, and writer/producer/director Edward D. Wood Jr. #BOTD.

"He was so proud of it," Marco said. #FilmSky #EdWood

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 1d

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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Ryan North? But - he died... 30 years ago this very night!! @ryannorth.ca · 1d

Every comic cover since has been trying and failing to reach the heights glimpsed by this Carmine Infantino cover for Flash #133 in 1962. You may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like

Flash being turned into a puppet while thinking "I've got the strangest feeling I'm being turned into a PUPPET!". FUN FACT: it is impossible to see this cover and not want to see more

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Citizen Screen @citizenscreen.bsky.social · 1d

Filmmaker Ed Wood was born on October 10, 1924 #botd

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 1d

JB Pritzker says NO KINGS, SHOW UP ON 10/18

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

Finally, Pritzker says more Dems must sound the alarm, though he notes some exceptions (like Chris Murphy).

"I am surprised that more leaders have not stood up," he says.

He urges people to join No Kings protests to let the country know something's wrong. 5/5

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Spooky Jameson 👻 @adjameson.bsky.social · 23h

One of my all-time favorites. I've always wondered if the shimmering opening credits to Blue Velvet aren't a reference to it.

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X Ray Eyes @xrayeyes.bsky.social · 1d

Puce Moment, Kenneth Anger (1949)

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Spooky Jameson 👻 @adjameson.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah it's a history of people watching bad movies, from Vampira to the present day. "The Good Bad Movie Scene." Am almost done!

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 1d

Introduced the 10 year old to one of our all-time faves tonight

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Spooky Jameson 👻 @adjameson.bsky.social · 1d

I agree and I am writing a book about it! (Well partially about it!)

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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 1d

I have a great idea for someone who can win the Nobel Peace Prize: Andry José Hernández Romero, the gay Venezuelan asylum seeker sent by the United States to an El Salvadoran torture prison for 125 days, with no due process, & who, afterwards, epitomized grace.

english.elpais.com/internationa...

Andry Hernández’s life after leaving Bukele’s terror prison: ‘Our bodies are free, but our minds are still there’

The Venezuelan stylist, one of the 252 men deported by the United States to a third nation for the first time, is trying to rebuild his life after four months of detention

english.elpais.com

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 2d

just talked to Gov. Pritzker who dared President Trump to “come and get me” after POTUS threatened him with arrest. But Pritzker said he thinks Trump will chicken out.

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Spooky Jameson 👻 @adjameson.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah the effects are really terrific

Spooky Jameson 👻 @adjameson.bsky.social · 3d

Tim Hildebrandt's house of all places!

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Joe Ruthvennryte @joelastname.bsky.social · 3d

watching a movie with commercial breaks: loser shit, slop coded, washed, cooked

watching a movie with Elvira breaks: smart, sexy, sophisticated, the height of culture

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Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 3d

Anyone know a good used book store (for science fiction) in Pittsburgh, PA? Visiting at the moment.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 4d

By the time I arrived, Rob was in love with someone else. He had told me he was seeing someone but that it wasn't important. I have been, as you can imagine, devastated & very unhappy.

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Spooky Jameson 👻 @adjameson.bsky.social · 4d

I never stop!

Bill Warren's massive tome KEEP WATCHING THE SKIES!

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Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.com · 4d

Full interview www.moma.org/magazine/art...

Deep Cuts with Trailblazing Filmmaker Ken Jacobs | Magazine | MoMA

An experimental-cinema legend talks about how New York City has inspired more than 60 years of films.

www.moma.org

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Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.com · 4d

Ken Jacobs was the first experimental filmmaker whose work I understood. Not necessarily because the work itself was more accessible but because he presented it as something that was for everyone and could be made by anyone. He, in various ways, democratized the avant garde in a way nobody else had.

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Spooky Jameson 👻 @adjameson.bsky.social · 4d

Good ol' Zontar. I was recently rewatching the SCTV episode inspired by it:

youtu.be/a6Ah9FlmX8U?...

SCTV | Zontar - Final Confrontation

YouTube video by Jacob Kacob

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Tadd Adcox @inauthenticity.bsky.social · 4d

Oct 6 is Zontar, the Thing from Venus! 1967, directed by Larry Buchanan, a (much worse, apparently) remake of Roger Corman’s 1956 film It Conquered the World

Text: "Zontar, the thing from Venus," over a background of... a rocket? It looks like a rocket. It's probably a rocket.

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The Cannon Film Guide @cannonfilmguide.bsky.social · 4d

Criminally underseen star turn from Steve James, directed by Sam Firstenberg off his run of Cannon classics (Revenge of the Ninja, Ninja 3, Breakin' 2, Avenging Force, American Ninja 1 & 2...) and lovingly restored after decades of only being available on a hard-to-find VHS. Mark your calendars!

Disc-Connected: Your trusted news source in physical media @disc-connected.bsky.social · 4d

***RELEASE DETAILS***

Coming in June of 2026 on Blu-ray in the US from @reelblack.bsky.social: #Riverbend (1989)!

In the heat of the Civil Rights era, three decorated Black soldiers return home from Vietnam only to find themselves in another war — this time against racism, corruption, & brutality

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 5d

The brave men and women who serve in our national guards must not be used as political props. This is a moment where every American must speak up and help stop this madness.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 5d

I call on Governor Abbott to immediately withdraw any support for this decision and refuse to coordinate. There is no reason a President should send military troops into a sovereign state without their knowledge, consent, or cooperation.

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