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QuasarSniffer @quasarsniffer.bsky.social · 1d

On The Pink Smoke, the brilliant Chris Funderburg and @thelastmachine.bsky.social discuss the ARTHUR films, their pop culture legacy, and how a modern audience might view them today!
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Ep 157 Arthur and Arthur 2: On the Rocks

Podcast Episode · The Pink Smoke podcast · 10/06/2025 · 1h 47m

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Steven Sheil @scsheil.bsky.social · 5d

This was my first feature film as writer/director, released back in 2008, a horror inspired by The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and 70s British horrors like Frightmare and Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly, about a murderous family who live in a house at the end of a Heathrow Airport runway.

John Cribbs @thelastmachine.bsky.social · 5d

Fellow used bookstore explorer @scsheil.bsky.social will appreciate how awesome it is that I found this at a used shop in Poughkeepsie, NY.

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John Cribbs @thelastmachine.bsky.social · 5d

Fellow used bookstore explorer @scsheil.bsky.social will appreciate how awesome it is that I found this at a used shop in Poughkeepsie, NY.

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QuasarSniffer @quasarsniffer.bsky.social · 13d

I had the honor of joining the one-and-only @thelastmachine.bsky.social to record a commentary for the 1981 James Bond film FOR YOUR EYES ONLY! Combat skiing! Monastery assaults! A surfeit of pistachios! Available only on The Pink Smoke's Patreon!

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FOR YOUR EYES ONLY audio commentary | The Pink Smoke

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QuasarSniffer @quasarsniffer.bsky.social · 17d

I join Matt on the Time Enough Podcast to discuss the 1962 film REQUIEM FOR A HEAVYWEIGHT, where it stands in Rod Serling's writing oeuvre, and if there is any fate for a veteran boxer that is not poverty and physical degradation...
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Time Enough Podcast: A Twilight Zone Podcast | Requiem for a Heavyweight (w/ John Arminio)

Ever wonder what happens after you punch Anthony Quinn too many times in the head? Perhaps Jack Palance if you're a fan of television?You'll find John doing his spiritualist/leftist take on film a...

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Bad Books for Bad People @badbooksbadppl.bsky.social · 17d

We're back with some olde timey Appendix N fantasy for you! Gather the party for Poul Anderson's Three Hearts and Three Lions badbooksbadpeople.com/episodes/epi...

Episode 87: Three Hearts and Three Lions - Scary Rubbery Trolls — Bad Books for Bad People

Poul Anderson’s 1961 novel Three Hearts and Three Lions is one of the cornerstone influences on Dungeons and Dragons: a medieval-inflected romp through creature encounters and chivalric romance,...

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John Cribbs @thelastmachine.bsky.social · 25d

What was the double feature?

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John Cribbs @thelastmachine.bsky.social · Sep 8

I'm back on @authorizedpod.bsky.social talking about Phillip Rock's pretty excellent adaptation of Don Siegel's DIRTY HARRY. It's the @hsblechman.bsky.social season, for which all of you punks should feel lucky.

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artwork by Tony Stella

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John Cribbs @thelastmachine.bsky.social · Aug 26

Hello again, sir. I've contacted several convention runners but haven't heard back from any yet.

Alternatively, would it be possible to mail you a comic to sign, with pre-paid return packaging etc?

John Cribbs @thelastmachine.bsky.social · Aug 6

THE PINK SMOKE PODCAST
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

We sit down to discuss one of the warmest titles from the colder-than-death filmography of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, a story of how the misery of unaccepted love is made even more miserable when it is accepted.

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Westerns & the Old West @davidlambertart.bsky.social · Aug 5

Listen to me talk about Law and Order, Saint Johnson & just about every movie about Wyatt Earp that doesn't use the name Wyatt Earp on The Pink Smoke podcast with @thelastmachine.bsky.social & Christopher Funderburg. That means 40 Guns, Warlock, Dodge City & more...

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Jordanna Kalman @jkalman.bsky.social · Jul 30

www.cpw.org
Photo book and zine fair August 9 + 10!

poster for cpw.org photo book and zine fair august 9th and 10th.

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John Cribbs @thelastmachine.bsky.social · Jul 27

My friend and I went to see WATERWORLD but it was sold out, saw CLUELESS instead and loved it - would not have gone specifically to see it otherwise. It was a true turning point to realize I should be looking at movies outside my usual interests.

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John Cribbs @thelastmachine.bsky.social · Jul 23

I definitely will, thank you!

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John Cribbs @thelastmachine.bsky.social · Jul 22

Hope you had a great weekend in Atlanta, sir! Any chance you'll be appearing at other conventions this year?

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John Cribbs @thelastmachine.bsky.social · Jul 15

Johnny name-dropping The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag: A

Johnny's story about Jonathan Winters making prank calls: A+

John Cribbs @thelastmachine.bsky.social · Jul 10

Outstanding episode.

And Bilge pulling out Raoul Walsh playing John Wilkes Booth in BIRTH OF A NATION was high five-worthy.

Wondering if Hannah would have accepted Jason Schwartzman.

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Patrick Horvath @patrickhorvath.bsky.social · Jul 9

Today's the day! Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees - Rite of Spring is available for purchase in all fine shops where comics are sold.

Immense gratitude to all of the critics, retailers, and readers who have supported this book ❤️❤️❤️

Still can't wrap my head around it!

Patrick holding issue 1 of Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees - Rite of Spring

A panel from the comic with a pull quote from John Harris Dunning that says, "A killer return to this beautifully unsettling world... bloody unmissable!"

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Bad Books for Bad People @badbooksbadppl.bsky.social · Jul 6

We're back with a new episode on Keith Rosson's Smoke City! Road-trippin' to a funeral and in search of the reincarnated spirit of Joan of Arc. Listen in to hear all about hot dog burritos, redemption, and a jazz records as legal tender badbooksbadpeople.com/episodes/epi...

Episode 85: Smoke City - Everybody’s Got Their Own Apocalypse — Bad Books for Bad People

Keith Rosson’s 2019 novel Smoke City is a supernatural character study that somehow makes the road trip adventure shared by a loose-cannon pop artist, a reluctant immortal, and a would-be ghost ...

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John Cribbs @thelastmachine.bsky.social · Jul 2

THE PINK SMOKE PODCAST
Earp Adjacent Westerns

We're joined by @davidlambertart.bsky.social to discuss movies where they don't call him Wyatt & they don't call it Tombstone but he still cleans up the streets!

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Westerns & the Old West @davidlambertart.bsky.social · Jun 22

Is Marlon Brando the most interesting part of The Missouri Breaks, or does he ruin what could have been a rich, laidback 70s Western?

Or both?

I got hammered & went on @menonfilm.bsky.social with fellow guest @thelastmachine.bsky.social to figure it out

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John Cribbs @thelastmachine.bsky.social · May 26

I only need one show. #AllHailHypnotoad

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Jordanna Kalman @jkalman.bsky.social · May 16

three baby mantises on a plant with a black and white photograph of a woman's face in the background

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Authorized Novelizations Podcast @authorizedpod.bsky.social · May 15

OUT NOW! The world's most famous novelization author wrote a memoir. @thelastmachine.bsky.social and @patrickhwillems.bsky.social join to dissect Alan Dean Foster's treatise on adaptations. Hannah loses her mind. Listen: shorturl.at/j15hf

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John Cribbs @thelastmachine.bsky.social · Apr 25

If you realize that May Day has obviously hidden in the back seat of the Rolls intending to pop out and murder you, turn to page 17.

If you decide that ladies just be disappearin' up in here and choose to go get the car washed, turn to page 32.

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