Andrew McRae
@andrewmcrae.bsky.social
Writer. For Cracked.com, GameRant, and others. Likes dinosaurs, crime novels, horror, and collecting tiki mugs.
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Andrew McRae
@andrewmcrae.bsky.social
· Jun 12
NoSleep Podcast Summer Hiatus 2025 #1 - The NoSleep Podcast
The NoSleep Podcast finds darkness in the sunlight as we take a break between seasons. Enjoy some stories from our premium episodes. "Dead Man's Hands" written by Andrew McRae (Story starts around 00:...
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My story Dead Man's Hands is now free to listen to on the @thenosleeppodcast.bsky.social summer hiatus episode. Give it a listen if you like Weird Westerns, old timey carnivals and freak shows, and a heaping helping of a gory good time:
Why is it called testicular torsion instead of twist and shout?
January 10, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Why is it called testicular torsion instead of twist and shout?
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The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
January 7, 2026 at 8:26 PM
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
On the one hand it's not okay to spank your wife for her coffee purchases, but on the other you do need to ensure a quality enema
January 1, 2026 at 2:04 AM
On the one hand it's not okay to spank your wife for her coffee purchases, but on the other you do need to ensure a quality enema
The only time the words trump and class will be put together in a non sarcastic way
Trump Class battleship illustration, as released by the White House.
December 23, 2025 at 1:35 AM
The only time the words trump and class will be put together in a non sarcastic way
It's awesome living in a future where tiny robots can perform surgery on a grape. It'll really help prevent all the grape deaths of previous centuries
December 21, 2025 at 2:08 AM
It's awesome living in a future where tiny robots can perform surgery on a grape. It'll really help prevent all the grape deaths of previous centuries
Wake up babe, new 2001: A Space Odyssey monolith just dropped
December 19, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Wake up babe, new 2001: A Space Odyssey monolith just dropped
THE STRANGER, a 1946 Orson Welles noir, plays like the nightmare version of Bedford Falls. Welles shines as a paranoid Nazi hiding in a small town by marrying Loretta Young while being hunted by government agent Edward G. Robinson. Uses real concentration camp footage shot by Billy Wilder. Terrific.
December 19, 2025 at 4:35 AM
THE STRANGER, a 1946 Orson Welles noir, plays like the nightmare version of Bedford Falls. Welles shines as a paranoid Nazi hiding in a small town by marrying Loretta Young while being hunted by government agent Edward G. Robinson. Uses real concentration camp footage shot by Billy Wilder. Terrific.
THE TRAIN, John Frankenheimer's other 1964 thriller, is for people who either loved or hated fluff like THE MONUMENTS MEN and want a much more grounded, nearly documentarian version. Stars Burt Lancaster in one of his best performances as a man who keeps derailing Nazi art trains at the end of WWII.
December 19, 2025 at 1:23 AM
THE TRAIN, John Frankenheimer's other 1964 thriller, is for people who either loved or hated fluff like THE MONUMENTS MEN and want a much more grounded, nearly documentarian version. Stars Burt Lancaster in one of his best performances as a man who keeps derailing Nazi art trains at the end of WWII.
Having just watched SPINAL TAP II: THE END CONTINUES (excellent and hilarious, btw) the news about Rob Reiner is shocking and heartbreaking
an elderly man wearing a uss coral sea cap says hi
Alt: Rob Reiner saying, "Hi."
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December 15, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Having just watched SPINAL TAP II: THE END CONTINUES (excellent and hilarious, btw) the news about Rob Reiner is shocking and heartbreaking
Getting older is when you make a noise like one of the Cowardly Lion's growls when you get up from a chair
December 5, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Getting older is when you make a noise like one of the Cowardly Lion's growls when you get up from a chair
If they didn't keep having the cast rehash the plot for the people scrolling their phones, these Stranger Things episodes would be 44 minutes each
December 3, 2025 at 4:39 AM
If they didn't keep having the cast rehash the plot for the people scrolling their phones, these Stranger Things episodes would be 44 minutes each
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All four of the boys from #StrangerThings, especially will, basically look like Stewart from MadTV. 📺
December 1, 2025 at 3:30 AM
All four of the boys from #StrangerThings, especially will, basically look like Stewart from MadTV. 📺
'Gramma, what advice do you have from the '90s?'
"Don't go chasing waterfalls."
"Don't go chasing waterfalls."
December 1, 2025 at 3:03 AM
'Gramma, what advice do you have from the '90s?'
"Don't go chasing waterfalls."
"Don't go chasing waterfalls."
This ignores that the Nazis were openly hypocritical: Goering was a fat, effete boor; Himmler a gawky, chinless, myopic obsessive; Hitler dark-haired and Austrian; all of them far from the supposed German Aryan ideal they preached...hypocrisy is baked into their belief system
I think that somewhere along the way something in Stephen Miller got fundamentally damaged. This is neither an excuse nor a mitigating factor; the dude is genuinely fucking evil and he and everything he stands for should be fought against and stopped. But he is something beyond mere sociopathy.
Since Stephen Miller is in the midst of another of his Aryans-only trantrums, we should note that his family are 20th century immigrants from the shtetl of Antopol (Антопаль) then in the Hrodna gubernia of Russia. Applying his immigration rules, they would all have perished in the Holocaust.
November 29, 2025 at 2:06 AM
This ignores that the Nazis were openly hypocritical: Goering was a fat, effete boor; Himmler a gawky, chinless, myopic obsessive; Hitler dark-haired and Austrian; all of them far from the supposed German Aryan ideal they preached...hypocrisy is baked into their belief system
It Puts the Lotion On Its Skin, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 7:36 AM
It Puts the Lotion On Its Skin, Charlie Brown
Book Pennywise: one time I became The Wolfman
Welcome to Derry Pennywise: once I became a station wagon complete with a crazy family including a raw liver-eating daughter and a mom who gave live birth to a flying demon baby
Book Pennywise: thats...that's cool. Another time I became a Dracula
Welcome to Derry Pennywise: once I became a station wagon complete with a crazy family including a raw liver-eating daughter and a mom who gave live birth to a flying demon baby
Book Pennywise: thats...that's cool. Another time I became a Dracula
November 17, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Book Pennywise: one time I became The Wolfman
Welcome to Derry Pennywise: once I became a station wagon complete with a crazy family including a raw liver-eating daughter and a mom who gave live birth to a flying demon baby
Book Pennywise: thats...that's cool. Another time I became a Dracula
Welcome to Derry Pennywise: once I became a station wagon complete with a crazy family including a raw liver-eating daughter and a mom who gave live birth to a flying demon baby
Book Pennywise: thats...that's cool. Another time I became a Dracula
Ernest Goes to Camp, Ernest Saves Christmas, Ernest Scared Stupid, and Salò are interesting choices
Pope Leo has shared his four favorite movies of all time, as the Vatican prepares to host dozens of actors and directors in a “World of Cinema” gathering on Saturday at his official residence. See which films made the pope's list. nyti.ms/4p3exK9
Pope Leo Shares His Favorite Movies Ahead of Vatican Event
The list leans heavily on uplifting classics.
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November 12, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Ernest Goes to Camp, Ernest Saves Christmas, Ernest Scared Stupid, and Salò are interesting choices
WEAPONS reminded me a bit of BARBARIAN so I was pleasantly surprised to see they were by the same guy. Two for two. A modern day take on Hansel and Gretel wrapped in a Twin Peaks-style mystery skin, it's a great take on old white monsters destroying everything embodied by Amy Madigan's Aunt Gladys.
a woman with red hair and glasses is sitting on a couch next to a lamp
Alt: Amy Madigan as Aunt Gladys
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November 11, 2025 at 6:28 AM
WEAPONS reminded me a bit of BARBARIAN so I was pleasantly surprised to see they were by the same guy. Two for two. A modern day take on Hansel and Gretel wrapped in a Twin Peaks-style mystery skin, it's a great take on old white monsters destroying everything embodied by Amy Madigan's Aunt Gladys.
Bizarre seeing all the interviews with Guillermo del Toro about FRANKENSTEIN asking for his take on AI as if the film doesn't have Christoph Waltz as the 1850s equivalent of a tech billionaire trying to fund a plan to make his syphilitic self immortal
November 10, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Bizarre seeing all the interviews with Guillermo del Toro about FRANKENSTEIN asking for his take on AI as if the film doesn't have Christoph Waltz as the 1850s equivalent of a tech billionaire trying to fund a plan to make his syphilitic self immortal
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democrats winning would cut into their fundraising
November 10, 2025 at 1:02 AM
democrats winning would cut into their fundraising
Guillermo del Toro's FRANKENSTEIN is up there with Coppola's DRACULA, THE WOLFMAN, Egger's NOSFERATU as a sumptuous, gothic, and definitive take on the material. Just enough Hammer Frankenstein to stay fun, it's a tragic, horrific, gory monsterpiece of a film. Solid cast, costumes, effects. See it.
a man wearing a hood and a mask looks at the camera
Alt: Jacob Elordi as Frankenstein's Monster trudges inexorably through the arctic
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November 9, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Guillermo del Toro's FRANKENSTEIN is up there with Coppola's DRACULA, THE WOLFMAN, Egger's NOSFERATU as a sumptuous, gothic, and definitive take on the material. Just enough Hammer Frankenstein to stay fun, it's a tragic, horrific, gory monsterpiece of a film. Solid cast, costumes, effects. See it.
When you find a stranger's hair and realize the prostitute you're sleeping with has been seeing other people
November 8, 2025 at 1:31 AM
When you find a stranger's hair and realize the prostitute you're sleeping with has been seeing other people
Aww, she's retiring to spend more time with her insider trading
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nancy Pelosi won't seek reelection, ending her storied career in the US House.
November 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Aww, she's retiring to spend more time with her insider trading
Aside from the lazy idea of ignoring the unfairly maligned third one, this is a pretty solid team
November 4, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Aside from the lazy idea of ignoring the unfairly maligned third one, this is a pretty solid team
Dick Cheney got a memorial library:
November 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Dick Cheney got a memorial library: