Chris Otto (Papergreat)
@papergreat.bsky.social
Journalist by day. He/him. ALLY.
Blogs about books, ephemera, movies & history at papergreat.blogspot.com
Digs folklore, Ruth Manning-Sanders books, cinema from Japan and lots of other niche stuff
Has 23 indoor cats & takes care of the feral cats & skunks
Blogs about books, ephemera, movies & history at papergreat.blogspot.com
Digs folklore, Ruth Manning-Sanders books, cinema from Japan and lots of other niche stuff
Has 23 indoor cats & takes care of the feral cats & skunks
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I've moved here from X, where I had the same username and liked to discuss books, movies, ephemera, 1970s nostalgia, folklore, folk horror and, when their bullpen wasn't melting down, the Phillies. Hope to eventually find all those great people from X here.
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Hey, if your library has Kanopy (we just accessed it last night for the first time, holy molee, it's like the Criterion Collection in there, SO many excellent and classic films), they've got James Goldman's Christmas classic THE LION IN WINTER, which is essentially SUCCESSION, at Christmas, in 1187
November 28, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Hey, if your library has Kanopy (we just accessed it last night for the first time, holy molee, it's like the Criterion Collection in there, SO many excellent and classic films), they've got James Goldman's Christmas classic THE LION IN WINTER, which is essentially SUCCESSION, at Christmas, in 1187
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Ya gotta support indie creators. It's more important than you know 🖤
UNEARTH YOURSELF
at UNDERTAKE HER, being off-beat is an asset. we’re focused on looking where others aren’t for fresh takes and devastating imagery.
take a look at a new indie press: undertakeher.com
current titles include 🔽
at UNDERTAKE HER, being off-beat is an asset. we’re focused on looking where others aren’t for fresh takes and devastating imagery.
take a look at a new indie press: undertakeher.com
current titles include 🔽
November 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Ya gotta support indie creators. It's more important than you know 🖤
Hopefully this is one of those offseasons where the Phillies' penchant for stealth and lockdown silence pays off with a bunch of surprising stuff they're working on.
November 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Hopefully this is one of those offseasons where the Phillies' penchant for stealth and lockdown silence pays off with a bunch of surprising stuff they're working on.
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No repeating the whole story but I got to watch King Kong at the Smithsonian sitting behind Fay Wray and her reaction after not having seen it in years was delightful. #driveinmob
November 28, 2025 at 1:23 AM
No repeating the whole story but I got to watch King Kong at the Smithsonian sitting behind Fay Wray and her reaction after not having seen it in years was delightful. #driveinmob
From the archives: Thanksgiving memories from the times when everyone didn't take 100 photos per day www.papergreat.com/2019/11/miss...
(Missing) snapshot & memories: Thanksgiving
Papergreat, established in 2010, is a daily blog about ephemera, books, history, postcards, all things paper, vintage advertising, and folklore.
www.papergreat.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM
From the archives: Thanksgiving memories from the times when everyone didn't take 100 photos per day www.papergreat.com/2019/11/miss...
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Just over a week to Thanksgiving. Time for another WEIRD ASS VINTAGE THANKSGIVING POSTCARD. “Put all care away on Thanksgiving Day” says the turkey-toddler hybrid that’s giving strange feathered xenomorph vibes.
November 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Just over a week to Thanksgiving. Time for another WEIRD ASS VINTAGE THANKSGIVING POSTCARD. “Put all care away on Thanksgiving Day” says the turkey-toddler hybrid that’s giving strange feathered xenomorph vibes.
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The Thanksgiving menus at the grand hotels of Hyde Park #Chicago in 1928 and the postcards folks used to send each other. You didn't have to have turkey! (separate link to the Newberry postcard page in replies) open.substack.com/pub/patricia...
Thanksgiving, 1928 style
Thank you all for reading along!
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November 23, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The Thanksgiving menus at the grand hotels of Hyde Park #Chicago in 1928 and the postcards folks used to send each other. You didn't have to have turkey! (separate link to the Newberry postcard page in replies) open.substack.com/pub/patricia...
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remember folks thanksgiving is the one day that your dog is allowed to plug in all twenty of your toasters on the same circuit as a treat
November 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
remember folks thanksgiving is the one day that your dog is allowed to plug in all twenty of your toasters on the same circuit as a treat
They are so beautiful.
I haven't eaten once since 2012 and I wish I had changed my ways far earlier than that.
I haven't eaten once since 2012 and I wish I had changed my ways far earlier than that.
9. Their regal walk. They have an elegant stride like little kings and queens strutting around. 👑
November 26, 2025 at 8:46 PM
They are so beautiful.
I haven't eaten once since 2012 and I wish I had changed my ways far earlier than that.
I haven't eaten once since 2012 and I wish I had changed my ways far earlier than that.
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This Thanksgiving we are so grateful that we get to know turkeys in ways that most people don't. Here are ten awesome things we love about turkeys! 🦃
1. Their gorgeous plumage. Most people think turkeys are just "brown" but their feathers have beautiful patterns, colors, and iridescence!
1. Their gorgeous plumage. Most people think turkeys are just "brown" but their feathers have beautiful patterns, colors, and iridescence!
November 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
This Thanksgiving we are so grateful that we get to know turkeys in ways that most people don't. Here are ten awesome things we love about turkeys! 🦃
1. Their gorgeous plumage. Most people think turkeys are just "brown" but their feathers have beautiful patterns, colors, and iridescence!
1. Their gorgeous plumage. Most people think turkeys are just "brown" but their feathers have beautiful patterns, colors, and iridescence!
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Two really important, fascinating books to add to the slimmest of cannons, of rural, working class women. @abrackenbury.bsky.social’s Village is a glorious compendium!
[email protected]’s ‘Village’ & a re-issue of Mary Chamberlain’s ‘Fenwomen’ give voice to an otherwise largely silent corner of England, writes @nicolawriting.bsky.social, telling the evocative, hard-lived stories of rural working class women www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/11/vill...
November 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Two really important, fascinating books to add to the slimmest of cannons, of rural, working class women. @abrackenbury.bsky.social’s Village is a glorious compendium!
One thing to remember on the Phillies & the Ketel Marte rumors is that the Diamondbacks are being portrayed as reluctant to trade him. That's posturing. I'm not sure this is about dollars. Marte caused problems in the clubhouse last summer & Arizona may ultimately just take the best deal it can get.
November 26, 2025 at 8:05 PM
One thing to remember on the Phillies & the Ketel Marte rumors is that the Diamondbacks are being portrayed as reluctant to trade him. That's posturing. I'm not sure this is about dollars. Marte caused problems in the clubhouse last summer & Arizona may ultimately just take the best deal it can get.
If the Phillies are willing to wait on Schwarber, I think this means their backup plan to not signing him might be rotating guys through the DH spot for matchups and to keep them from wearing down in the field. Would require a deeper, better 25-man roster than they had last year.
MLB.com's Todd Zolecki still thinks the the Phillies are still the favorites to sign him. But it might take a while.
MLB rumors: Phillies, Kyle Schwarber 'not close to a deal,' report says
MLB.com's Todd Zolecki still thinks the the Phillies are still the favorites to sign him. But it might take a while.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
If the Phillies are willing to wait on Schwarber, I think this means their backup plan to not signing him might be rotating guys through the DH spot for matchups and to keep them from wearing down in the field. Would require a deeper, better 25-man roster than they had last year.
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NEW: When Propecy Fails is one of the most famous social psychology books of all time, a look at a small group of UFO believers when the “spacemen” failed to land. I wrote about a new study from an independent researcher who says the book is not what it seems. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
It’s one of the most influential social psychology studies ever. Was it all a lie?
A classic book on UFO believers and their "cognitive dissonance" after aliens failed to land is called into question.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:36 PM
NEW: When Propecy Fails is one of the most famous social psychology books of all time, a look at a small group of UFO believers when the “spacemen” failed to land. I wrote about a new study from an independent researcher who says the book is not what it seems. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Related: My son is in his bedroom right now listening to "Domino" from this album, on cassette tape. I'm feeling a bit wobbly.
Some people don't like this era of Genesis. I am not one of those people. The title track is the goofiest song on the album, but the rest is amazing.
#nowspinning #vinyl #vinylcollection #genesis
#nowspinning #vinyl #vinylcollection #genesis
November 26, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Related: My son is in his bedroom right now listening to "Domino" from this album, on cassette tape. I'm feeling a bit wobbly.
This makes me miss Pennsylvania even more.
🟠just got done driving through the most haunted fucking town in nowheresville PA, whole town was locked down tight basically no lights except for the creepy imposing industrial plant and no one on the street driving or walking except the one abandoned car
November 25, 2025 at 11:26 PM
This makes me miss Pennsylvania even more.
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"Personal libraries are assembled for reasons that are different from other collections."
Nothing Better Than a Whole Lot of Books: In Praise of Bibliomania
Desiderius Erasmus lived his happiest months from late 1507 into 1508 at the Venetian print-shop of Aldus Manutius. A peripatetic scholar, the Dutch scholar had lived in Rotterdam and London, Basel…
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November 25, 2025 at 10:53 PM
"Personal libraries are assembled for reasons that are different from other collections."
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'70s fashion crimes came in two flavors: home crafts that should have stayed at home and really really terrible synthetics in trendy colors.
'00s fashion crimes included bleached jean seats, plastic gems stuck on all tops (some the size of kumquats), most men thinking they could carry off bangs
'00s fashion crimes included bleached jean seats, plastic gems stuck on all tops (some the size of kumquats), most men thinking they could carry off bangs
November 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
'70s fashion crimes came in two flavors: home crafts that should have stayed at home and really really terrible synthetics in trendy colors.
'00s fashion crimes included bleached jean seats, plastic gems stuck on all tops (some the size of kumquats), most men thinking they could carry off bangs
'00s fashion crimes included bleached jean seats, plastic gems stuck on all tops (some the size of kumquats), most men thinking they could carry off bangs
By my calculations, Gramma was alive for 11,311 of the Phillies' 11,392 regular seasons losses and saw only 2 Phillies world championships in her 141 years. .... The only regular season she missed was when the inaugural Phillies went 17-81 in 1883, with John Coleman losing 48 of those games.
Gramma the Galápagos tortoise, oldest resident of San Diego Zoo, dies at about 141
After more than a century of munching on her favorite foods of romaine lettuce and cactus fruit, beloved Galápagos tortoise Gramma, the oldest resident of the San Diego Zoo, has died.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:33 PM
By my calculations, Gramma was alive for 11,311 of the Phillies' 11,392 regular seasons losses and saw only 2 Phillies world championships in her 141 years. .... The only regular season she missed was when the inaugural Phillies went 17-81 in 1883, with John Coleman losing 48 of those games.
OK, that's a great poster
November 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM
OK, that's a great poster
How am I supposed to get any work done next to this morning nap cuddle puddle of cuteness?
November 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
How am I supposed to get any work done next to this morning nap cuddle puddle of cuteness?
This is going to get really interesting. I was long a believer that Marte is the perfectly complement for this Phillies offense. But now I worry about his clubhouse stuff last year and the huge dollars he's still owed. If Middleton wants to eat those dollars, fine. But don't overpay in talent.
Morosi: Diamondbacks "actively listening" on Ketel Marte.
Phillies, Blue Jays among teams to have checked in.
Phillies, Blue Jays among teams to have checked in.
November 25, 2025 at 4:24 PM
This is going to get really interesting. I was long a believer that Marte is the perfectly complement for this Phillies offense. But now I worry about his clubhouse stuff last year and the huge dollars he's still owed. If Middleton wants to eat those dollars, fine. But don't overpay in talent.
I guess this is a contract you do if you’re the Cubs and you think there’s a fair chance you won’t be on the hook for Year #2. … Maton doesn’t have the leverage to demand more money in Year 1 and/or Year 3
The #Cubs bolster their pen by signing veteran reliever Phil Maton:
www.mlbtraderumors.com/2025/11/cubs...
www.mlbtraderumors.com/2025/11/cubs...
November 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I guess this is a contract you do if you’re the Cubs and you think there’s a fair chance you won’t be on the hook for Year #2. … Maton doesn’t have the leverage to demand more money in Year 1 and/or Year 3
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There’s a frog shrine near my house. It keeps growing
I don’t know who needed to know that. But here we are
I don’t know who needed to know that. But here we are
March 22, 2025 at 8:20 PM
There’s a frog shrine near my house. It keeps growing
I don’t know who needed to know that. But here we are
I don’t know who needed to know that. But here we are
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Don't know if you'd be interested in a bit of work on Saturday 1st July, they're booking people to roam around in wild animal costumes uptown.
November 24, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Don't know if you'd be interested in a bit of work on Saturday 1st July, they're booking people to roam around in wild animal costumes uptown.