Bob Calhoun
@bobcalhoun.bsky.social
Author of The Murders That Made Us, a true crime history of San Francisco. Co-host of Old Movies for Young Stoners, the podcast that pairs cannabis with classic cinema. Former SFWeekly, Incredibly Strange Wrestling. He/him www.murdersthatmadeus.com
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S5E1 My Stoney Valentine w/ Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1968) and Victims of Sin (51)
We are back for our FIFTH SEASON!!! Can you believe that we've been at this for five years now??? I know we can't, but we have 58 episodes where we've paired pot with 117 movies as evidence here. Our
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Listening to the Canadian rock god Thor because @chaki.bsky.social, @gregfranklin.bsky.social & I talk a lot about him a lot at the beginning of the latest episode of @oldmoviesystoners.bsky.social. We also pair weed with movies, which is kinda our thing.
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Listening to the Canadian rock god Thor because @chaki.bsky.social, @gregfranklin.bsky.social & I talk a lot about him a lot at the beginning of the latest episode of @oldmoviesystoners.bsky.social. We also pair weed with movies, which is kinda our thing.
S5E1 My Stoney Valentine w/ Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1968) and Victims of Sin (51)
We are back for our FIFTH SEASON!!! Can you believe that we've been at this for five years now??? I know we can't, but we have 58 episodes where we've paired pot with 117 movies as evidence here. Our
soundcloud.com
February 10, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Listening to the Canadian rock god Thor because @chaki.bsky.social, @gregfranklin.bsky.social & I talk a lot about him a lot at the beginning of the latest episode of @oldmoviesystoners.bsky.social. We also pair weed with movies, which is kinda our thing.
This one’s got my vote. www.imdb.com/title/tt0074...
At the Earth's Core (1976) ⭐ 5.1 | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
1h 29m | PG
www.imdb.com
February 12, 2026 at 2:26 AM
This one’s got my vote. www.imdb.com/title/tt0074...
Some friends of mine met Walter Koenig at the North Hollywood Diner. I saw Ned Beatty at the Tallyrand once but didn't talk to him. He just ate pancakes.
February 12, 2026 at 1:01 AM
Some friends of mine met Walter Koenig at the North Hollywood Diner. I saw Ned Beatty at the Tallyrand once but didn't talk to him. He just ate pancakes.
I think we're just getting to the Hister part.
February 11, 2026 at 11:40 PM
I think we're just getting to the Hister part.
I was at San Diego Comic-Con a while back. I covered the WWE Hasbro events and interviewed the Miz. Later the nerdy media types I was hanging out with were shocked that working for WWE was not my dream job. "Working for Vince McMahon is like working for Whitey Bulger," I explained.
February 11, 2026 at 11:38 PM
I was at San Diego Comic-Con a while back. I covered the WWE Hasbro events and interviewed the Miz. Later the nerdy media types I was hanging out with were shocked that working for WWE was not my dream job. "Working for Vince McMahon is like working for Whitey Bulger," I explained.
It's crazy how vibes-based policing is. You just have to look like you're keeping us safe without actually keeping us safe.
February 11, 2026 at 11:02 PM
It's crazy how vibes-based policing is. You just have to look like you're keeping us safe without actually keeping us safe.
There's a cool 50s Harryhausen sci-fi double feature in there somewhere.
February 11, 2026 at 11:00 PM
There's a cool 50s Harryhausen sci-fi double feature in there somewhere.
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Today's #SanFrancisco photoblog post: Congo at Joost. Our former neighbors! webuiltthiscity.tumblr.com/post/8082805...
February 11, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Today's #SanFrancisco photoblog post: Congo at Joost. Our former neighbors! webuiltthiscity.tumblr.com/post/8082805...
I just want the police to deal with management consultants as much as every other public agency. Like they might discover that having massive armored troop transports doesn't really help with their clearance rates and the funds could be better spent elsewhere.
February 11, 2026 at 10:09 PM
I just want the police to deal with management consultants as much as every other public agency. Like they might discover that having massive armored troop transports doesn't really help with their clearance rates and the funds could be better spent elsewhere.
He's making it really hard to watch the opening segments on the Daily Show while usually skipping the guest interviews like I had been doing. The guest interviews have spilled into everything he does now.
February 11, 2026 at 10:05 PM
He's making it really hard to watch the opening segments on the Daily Show while usually skipping the guest interviews like I had been doing. The guest interviews have spilled into everything he does now.
When I was writing Murders That Made Us, I wanted to devote a chapter to some storied detective, but digging around, I almost always found stories about people they arrested and helped put away being released on appeal because the investigator withheld or falsified evidence.
February 11, 2026 at 8:57 PM
When I was writing Murders That Made Us, I wanted to devote a chapter to some storied detective, but digging around, I almost always found stories about people they arrested and helped put away being released on appeal because the investigator withheld or falsified evidence.
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It is Wednesday, February 11. The Super Bowl was three days ago. The sun will die in approximately five billion years. Death comes inexorably for us all. And large portions of MAGA and the Trump administration are still talking about Bad Bunny's halftime show: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
MAGA absolutely cannot let Bad Bunny go
Denying his Super Bowl success is a way to try to assert Trump's cultural control.
www.motherjones.com
February 11, 2026 at 8:33 PM
It is Wednesday, February 11. The Super Bowl was three days ago. The sun will die in approximately five billion years. Death comes inexorably for us all. And large portions of MAGA and the Trump administration are still talking about Bad Bunny's halftime show: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Knowing freelancer rates as well as I do and how much work it takes to place a story, I don't understand how this scam is profitable enough for anyone even with AI. It ends up being a terrible sabotaging of the few news outlets we have left.
February 11, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Knowing freelancer rates as well as I do and how much work it takes to place a story, I don't understand how this scam is profitable enough for anyone even with AI. It ends up being a terrible sabotaging of the few news outlets we have left.
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Damn
"Someone had fabricated an identity and put our call for pitches into a large language model like ChatGPT, just to make a fake story that we’d feasibly pay for. When I started asking too many questions, that someone evaporated."
"Someone had fabricated an identity and put our call for pitches into a large language model like ChatGPT, just to make a fake story that we’d feasibly pay for. When I started asking too many questions, that someone evaporated."
Aided by genAI models like ChatGPT, “writers” hoping to get paid for fake stories have become an even bigger problem for publications big and small. One such writer almost pulled one over on COYOTE — until @soleilho.com, who is a nerd, spotted a key idiosyncrasy.
How COYOTE Almost Got Slopped by AI
The sordid tale of the freelancer who never was.
www.coyotemedia.org
February 11, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Damn
"Someone had fabricated an identity and put our call for pitches into a large language model like ChatGPT, just to make a fake story that we’d feasibly pay for. When I started asking too many questions, that someone evaporated."
"Someone had fabricated an identity and put our call for pitches into a large language model like ChatGPT, just to make a fake story that we’d feasibly pay for. When I started asking too many questions, that someone evaporated."
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I love this resistance to journalistic “objectivity” in Noor Tagouri’s presentation at the Knight Media Forum
February 11, 2026 at 4:36 PM
I love this resistance to journalistic “objectivity” in Noor Tagouri’s presentation at the Knight Media Forum
Never been more happy to see a paywall.
February 11, 2026 at 2:28 AM
Never been more happy to see a paywall.
Think of all the knowledge that was once preserved so freely on therifleman.net. What's even the point of the internet anymore?
February 11, 2026 at 1:02 AM
Think of all the knowledge that was once preserved so freely on therifleman.net. What's even the point of the internet anymore?
Okay, I almost fell out of my chair laughing at that one.
February 10, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Okay, I almost fell out of my chair laughing at that one.
He invited Epstein to meet him at a high school!?! He shouldn’t have been allowed within 100 feet of one!
February 10, 2026 at 9:38 PM
He invited Epstein to meet him at a high school!?! He shouldn’t have been allowed within 100 feet of one!
Eddie Muller assured me it would at the Noir City Xmas show in Oakland FWIW.
February 10, 2026 at 8:46 PM
Eddie Muller assured me it would at the Noir City Xmas show in Oakland FWIW.
I also enjoyed Live Free or Die Hard. Fun if silly action movie throwback.
February 10, 2026 at 8:38 PM
I also enjoyed Live Free or Die Hard. Fun if silly action movie throwback.
I have not seen this movie, or even heard of it. Thanks!
February 10, 2026 at 8:25 PM
I have not seen this movie, or even heard of it. Thanks!
So much rum, sodomy and the lash in that one.
February 10, 2026 at 8:23 PM
So much rum, sodomy and the lash in that one.
I watched this in the context of one professed Christian grilling another but it gets thorny in a hurry if one of them isn't a Christian.
February 10, 2026 at 7:57 PM
I watched this in the context of one professed Christian grilling another but it gets thorny in a hurry if one of them isn't a Christian.