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Kent M. Beeson

@kentmbeeson.bsky.social

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Creator of AGAINST THE '70S (https://againstthe70s.blot.im/), a blog about mashing together '70s cinema & today's TTRPGs, and manager of The Best Album Brackets (@bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social).

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Kent M. Beeson @kentmbeeson.bsky.social · Jul 7

Hey folks! A new AGAINST THE ‘70S already! Film #2 in my Animal Apocalypses series is PROPHECY! I think I go longer on this than anyone ever has before. That doesn’t necessarily reflect well on me. Another new post next week, then back to the every-two-weeks schedule.

Prophecy (1979, John Frankenheimer) - Against the ‘70s

Hey folks, and welcome to the second film in this new six-film series, Animal Apocalypses. I’ll be looking at a bunch of “nature run amok” movies

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Kent M. Beeson @kentmbeeson.bsky.social · 3h

David Leopard Gourdbase

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Mike D’Angelo @gemko.bsky.social · 8h

Been mourning Twitterrific for 3 years, so was happy to belatedly discover that its creator now offers a reader, Tapestry, that makes this joint considerably less bland, with color-coded list integration and customizable font / text size and such. Can’t post/reply yet, but they’re working on it.

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Travels With Brindle Takes Manhattan 11/9 @travelswithbrindle.bsky.social · 15h

Caroline Munro as a Leader Lady

Caroline Munro making a stankface as a Cinecitta Leader Lady

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Kent M. Beeson @kentmbeeson.bsky.social · 10h

That’s filthy.

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Ned Flanders in the driver’s seat of a RV, looking back through the window and smiling. He says, “Yes, bang all of our gongs!"

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 11h

This is great both in its specific arena but also in thinking about work -- longtime readers know I proselytize about "notebook time", which is not only time for just thinking, but I specifically do it in a way that creates a little friction, forces concentration.

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 14h

This hits a lot of the notes I've been shouting from the rooftops: the frictionlessness of both producing and consuming slop, and the value of labor as friction that lets us slow down and think. Rather than "unlocking creativity" it's rendering our collective creativity down into a big vat of slop.

Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 1d

Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.

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Kent M. Beeson @kentmbeeson.bsky.social · 12h

I lived through the era and never heard any of those until I constructed my Journey Hot 100 singles Apple playlist.

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The Best Album of 1989 @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social · 13h

The Best Album of 1989 Round 3 Match #102
#13 Janet Jackson, JANET JACKSON'S RHYTHM NATION 1814
vs.
#20 Julee Cruise, FLOATING INTO THE NIGHT

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The Best Album of 1989 Round 3 Match #102: Janet Jackson vs. Julee Cruise

This is the Best Album of 1989 match for Tuesday, October 21st 9am CST. It will be open for 24 hours, and the winner will move onto Round 4 of the bracket. If you haven’t heard either album, I highly ...

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The Best Album of 1989 @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social · 13h

DISINTEGRATION defeats SONIC TEMPLE, 168-26-1.

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Matthew Perpetua @fluxblog.bsky.social · 15h

New playlist JAZZ BEATLES 1965-1971, jazz renditions of Fab Four classics recorded by the band's contemporaries

🎺Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/4bd...

🎸Apple: music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

🎷YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 14h

Official Sticking Place Books publisher page for HEADHUNTER is up! This is my baby being birthed. Well, Larry Cohen's baby, but I adopted it and have gotten it out into the world!

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Kent M. Beeson @kentmbeeson.bsky.social · 1d

Dammit, thank you!!

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The Best Album of 1989 @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social · 1d

The Best Album of 1989 Round 3 Match #101
#4 The Cure, DISINTEGRATION
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#36 The Cult, SONIC TEMPLE

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The Best Album of 1989 Round 3 Match #101: The Cure vs. The Cult

This is the Best Album of 1989 match for Monday, October 20th 9am CST. It will be open for 24 hours, and the winner will move onto Round 4 of the bracket. If you haven’t heard either album, I highly s...

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Kent M. Beeson @kentmbeeson.bsky.social · 2d

STAVISKY… (1974, Alain Resnais)

Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 2d

This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.

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Hunter Felt @hunterfelt.bsky.social · 2d

Okay. This is probably the last time I will do this because I don't want to be obsessive about it but if anybody has any contact information for Roz Milner, I would appreciate it so much.

Jeneral Anxiety @jenyetagain.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 13d

she's not active on here but maybe my bluesky mutuals won't yell at me: does anyone have a discord or email contact for roz milner? i'm worried about her and she's deleted her bluesky.

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Kent M. Beeson @kentmbeeson.bsky.social · 2d

fuck yeah soul coughing

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Michael Sicinski @msicism.bsky.social · 3d

I just realized that when Carl Theodor Dreyer went to Germany, they called him “Herr Dreyer.”

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Kent M. Beeson @kentmbeeson.bsky.social · 3d

How did I not know/realize that the obnoxious med student at the beginning of YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN was the voice of Brainy Smurf??

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The Best Album of 1989 @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social · 3d

New newsletter! Here was the week that was in the Best Album of 1989 tournament. Plus: changes on the Best Album of 1989 Prediction Bracket Top 20!

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#358 Best Album of 1989 Tournament: Week #20 Wrap-Up

Hey folks! Spacemen 3, you got burned. Someone else can do it better, D.O.C. Faith No More no more. Prince, this album needs an enema. The Mekons rock ’n...

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Viva Physical Media @vivaphysicalmedia.bsky.social · 3d

We are in store recording! Say hi if you dare, but don’t fuck up these impeccable vibes!!!! @colonelmortimer.bsky.social @scarecrowvideo.bsky.social this is chaos over here

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Valancourt Books @valancourtbooks.bsky.social · 3d

Today's $2.99 spooky Kindle deal is a good one! Get Ken Greenhall's unsettling novel ELIZABETH (1976) at a bargain price today only: www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/...

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Kent M. Beeson @kentmbeeson.bsky.social · 3d

Joel Kinnaman IS Horst Icefall

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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 3d

Zohran Mamdani: I want to make housing and transportation affordable for the common person

Andrew Cuomo: if you elect Zohran we will have 10 9/11s a day

Curtis Sliwa: The events of Godzilla 1998 actually happened and I lead the team of French mercenaries that killed her babies in MSG

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Dan Arndt Is Budgeting For PAXU @danarndtwrites.bsky.social · 4d

D&D is satanic again let's go

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