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Rob Sheppe
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Writer of chills and thrills in both fiction and film: THE LONG NIGHT (2022). Another GHOST HOUSE is coming. Lover of science, nature, horror, books, comics, movies. | Los Angeles, CA Be kind. Lift others. Make stuff. https://linktr.ee/robsheppe
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Hey, I’m at #BobsBigBoy in #Burbank for lunch w the family and they of course have cool seasonal figurines. 🎃👍 #Halloween
Um... #MichaelCrichton wrote a 2002 book called #PREY that used insect swarms as the foundation for its distributed intelligence biotech terrors. Scary stuff.
Here Come the Robot Swarms!
A field called swarm robotics is taking inspiration from ants, bees and even slime molds.
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Few pics from our Burbank neighborhood--always enchanting and wildly fun at Halloween. So much artistry and craftsmanship in costumes, yards and cars, too. Coolest costume I saw: La Muerte from "The Book of Life."
#Halloween2025 #Halloween #Burbank
#Burbank #Halloween is, as always, insanely awesome. Just incredible artistry and craftsmanship.
I watched the trailer w/ my daughter. She loves Queen, like me, and I explained the song, a lament about immortality, was from HIGHLANDER. She's aware of that film, but I had to show her THAT scene....and dang if I didn't tear up. It always gets me. Anyway, #StrangerThings S5 looks grim but fun:
At long last… we can begin.

The trailer for the epic final season of STRANGER THINGS is HERE.
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That’s not a trick in your podcast feed, boils and ghouls — it’s a TREAT! Live from Fantastic Fest, it’s a *surprise* Post Mortem just in time for Halloween:

The 20th Anniversary MASTERS OF HORROR panel featuring Joe Dante, Don Coscarelli, Ernest Dickerson and ME! Listen NOW!
1,000%... No, make it 10,000% this.
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
I've seen this movie. It's called OUTBREAK (1995), about an infected monkey that gets loose. A lot of people die a horrible death from an Ebola-like virus.
#monkey #virus #herpes #covid #hepatitis
A truckload of rhesus monkeys from Tulane university escaped after a crash. The university warned they’re highly aggressive toward humans and infected with hepatitis C, herpes, and COVID.
Monkeys on the loose after truck overturns in Heidelberg; public urged to call 911
A truck transporting monkeys from Tulane University overturned on I-59 near Heidelberg, with several monkeys reportedly on the loose posing health risks.
www.wapt.com
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Trick or treat 🍬🎃

Art by Jack Kamen. From the story The October Game, written by Ray Bradbury
I love that place. 😀
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All these TikToks going after screenwriters for shitty dialogue without any awareness that the on-the-nose dialogue is a directive of studios *because* of viewers on TikTok during their shows.
This stings. I grew up in FL, live in CA, and care so much about ocean ecology I wrote a horror novel where it goes haywire. While querying, I've characterized it as fiction, but barely. The coral descriptions here could've come from ch5. 😟
🪸 🐟
#Florida #oceans #booksky
What scientists saw underwater in Florida left them “shocked” — and devastated
Two incredibly valuable animals are now “functionally extinct” in Florida. That should alarm all of us.
www.vox.com
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According to Tubi's head of acquisitions, "LOONEY TUNES" has become one of their "top-ten best-performing series," and is popular with viewers across generations.

He says they are in "active negotiations" to ensure that Tubi can be the home of Looney Tunes for "quite a while — likely years."
They need the new building to hold the Epstein Files Library.
Trump's White House remodel project is underway:
#BacktotheFuture is one of my favorite films and coincidentally I'm at this BK all the time for its counter-height tables, which I prefer when I'm doing a writing sprint. I didn't realize this was in BTTF until we rewatched the movie earlier this year. 😀
#BacktotheFutureDay
Photo: City of Burbank
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One of the name gags on last night’s Treehouse of Horrors.

There is no higher honor.
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World War 2 veterans, the original antifa, took part in the nationwide protests against the fascist Trump regime. #3E #NoKings #50501Movement #indivisible #wearetheflood
Define “Perfect Ending”?
Massive #NoKingsDay in #Burbank at Abraham Lincoln Park today. Lots of greats signs, costumes, and good vibes celebrating America. A famous face in the crowd...can you spot who?
I have 2 versions of this: my original, which I keep sealed away in its bag, and a reprint so I can read it whenever I want. The opening scene of this is so dark…shocking that Claremont got it published in 1982. Still highly relevant, especially for 2025.
Damn. Now #AceFrehley is gone. Here's my favorite Ace song, from his solo album. It's a great song about NYC, kind of a personal anthem for me. I listen to it often. RIP, Spaceman. 🤘
#Kiss #NYC
New York Groove
YouTube video by Ace Frehley - Topic
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