Tyler Dean
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Tyler Dean
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Literature professor and writer with a penchant for the Gothic, vampiric, and decadent. Guillermo del Toro but sadder and hornier. Check out my pop culture articles on reactormag.com/author/tyler-dean/
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#Alien:Earth uses #PeterPan as a focal point and uses the same quote from #PeterandWendy to anchor its read as I used for the backbone of my dissertation chapter on it. Noah Hawley’s a smart guy—what can I say?
My #80sFantasyFilmClub article on the Bakshi and Frazetta “masterpiece,” #FireandIce, is up at @reactorsff.bsky.social As one canny commenter already said, “it’s the only film where every frame could be spray painted on the side of a van.” Go and comment!
Fire and Ice: Swords, Sorcery, and Very Little Clothing – Reactor
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Definitely my dear. I’m safe. My people are safe. I hope you are doing well in these strange times.
It’s not Mad Max out here, even a little bit. But it’s feeling more and more like Logan’s Run
Police carrying guns with less-lethal and gas canister rounds looking at suspicion at anyone who drives by them. Police looking intently at a man on an overpass waving a Mexican flag.
But it’s not quite fair to say “business as usual.” What there is is a LOT of is police. Police in riot gear blocking freeway entrances. Police cars, sirens on, in quarter mile lines barreling down the freeway.
I live just north of Downtown and have to pass through the curfew zone to get almost anywhere. It’s not Mad Max out here.
I’ve seen a lot of posts, aimed at non-Angelenos, about how it is all business as usual here. About how there are no rioters, no looting, no urban warfare with “military-aged illegal aliens.” The details are true.
Always happy when the winds of fortune blow our sociopathic opportunist governor back onto the vaguely right side of history. I’ll enjoy the next few days of it!
I definitely could see the puffs of gas rounds going off from the Freeway earlier in the ride. This is what fascism and resistance to it looks like. I am so proud of my city for standing up to Trump’s jackbooted thugs and I hope we can continue to resist the tide of inhumanity he he sends our way.
Fire at the Protests in DTLA. Was not close enough to see the source though, if reporting is accurate, I believe this is a burning WayMo (Google’s self driving rideshare vehicle).
#BurkeAndHare (2010) the wacky, buddy comedy about the famous graverobbers turned murderers is #GreatestShowman levels of tonally misguided.
Update. Mark Zuckerberg was the hidden through line
This #ARealPain #AlienRomulus double feature I accidentally arranged for myself is real weird
Interesting! I hadn’t considered the Monty Python of it all. Also, it is easier to have ruins and set dress then less than build a full castle set or refurbish an existing one.
#TheGorge has big “this was written during Summer 2020” energy
This is how we sleep when I sleep alone: CPAP in, flat on back, cat on chest
#catsofbluesky