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Heidi MacDonald
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Eisner Award winning EiC ComicsBeat.com and KComicsBeat.com. NYC. https://linktr.ee/Comixace
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Want a great example of how tariffs have created or emboldened soaring prices?

Last year I got a storage shelf from @homedepotofficial.bsky.social on sale for $29.99. Same shelf this January is $65.88.

Unsustainable.
January 16, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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If you are so incompetant/untrained/mentally challenged that you can't write this simple letter, AI will not save you.
January 15, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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33 hour flight? to go 350 miles? Sounds awesome.

Why do they even offer these things?
January 9, 2026 at 6:45 AM
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Mitchell and Webb still of Mitchell in a Nazi uniform asking "Are we the baddies?"
January 6, 2026 at 10:33 PM
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I come from sort of a “showbiz“ family with a lot of writers and they all look down on actors and this is why.
Jack Black: “I was offered, and I do regret it, saying no… I was offered Syndrome in that fantastic movie ‘The Incredibles’ — one of my favorites of all time, by the way. And I said no because I was like, ‘Uhhh, [director] Brad Bird? Never heard of him!’ [I said to him], ‘This character that you’re offering me is like a villain, but he’s kinda one-dimensional. I’m interested but I’d like to see a rewrite ‘Will you add some dimensions to this character?’ And he was like, ‘Yeah, you’re done.'” “I learned a valuable lesson because when that movie came out, it was one of the best movies ever made. I was like, ‘Why was I being so difficult?'”
January 5, 2026 at 10:08 PM
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January 3, 2026 at 2:32 PM
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Wow I just learned of the awesomeness of Red Cap service at Boston South Station! The only way when you have a long bus2train layover

I also had time for a stop at Phin Cafe for a banh mi and matcha. It is too cold for a Vietnamese iced coffee! As I walked over the wind nearly blew me off my feet.
Phin Cafe in Boston.
December 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Gorillaz doing Caspar David Freidrich. OK! Got something to look forward to in '26!

Wonder who did the art?
The three main Gorillaz seen from the back atop a mountain looking out over clouds, reminiscent of Wanderer above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich which shows a similar view.
December 30, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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The MCU needs to seriously rethink their approach to more realistically, their day is done.

More on Frankenstein on my Letterboxed.

PS: snowed in so watching a lot of movies.
Still from 2025 Frankenstein showing Victor in his lab and the creature on a slab.
December 25, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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The cruelty of this when people in Trump's inner circle are allowed to have endless "humanity affirming" surgeries is so hypocritical.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/h...
December 18, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Meta just killed their desktop app for Messenger. So I have to go in to FB on my browser to chat. More forced engagement.

The below image is truly where the state of humanity is headed if the Tech Bros have their way and we're already there, just being farmed for our brain waves and attention.
scene from the Matrix where Neo is awakened from a farm of human batteries who power the mechs.
December 16, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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If you are talking about Rob Reiners incredible run of masterpieces and NOT starting it with This is Spinal Tap, you are neglecting one of the funniest and most influential comedies ever made! It was absolutely Reiner's most groundbreaking film.

THIS ERASURE MUST STOP.
December 16, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Holy cow COMICS!!!

New pilot from @carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social - support them on patreon to get more of this magic.

www.patreon.com/cw/carlaspee...
intricate image of a horse, a pool, magic whorls and a man.
December 16, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Crying more now.
December 9, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Grotesque payout for David Zaslav who has never created or made anything.
Hence the separation of assets, which ultimately led to Netflix’s interest in the good parts. Now, after firing thousands and destroying two-thirds of the company’s value, Zaslav is poised for one of the all-time grotesque paydays in a hall-of-fame career of grotesque paydays. He currently owns more than 4.2 million shares of the company, per CNBC, citing Equilar numbers. He’s got another 6.2 million shares coming, and a grant of almost 20.9 million options with a strike price of $10.16. You can do the math. If the Netflix deal happens at $27.75 per share, that’s more than $550 million for Zaz. If Ellison succeeds with his $30-per-share bid for the whole company, or if the Ellisons go even higher—clutch your pearls—Zaslav’s personal windfall would spike even further. Bloomberg declared he’ll be one of the “rare non-founder executives to reach $1 billion in net worth.” Forget non-founder, he’s actually a non-builder. When the book about late-stage Hollywood is written, Zaslav has secured his spot on the cover.
December 9, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Here I am wandering around his classic Disney Concert Hall earlier this year:
December 5, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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One of my idols, an absolute titan who made the world a more beautiful place.

RIP Frank Gehry

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/a...
December 5, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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One of the biggest drivers in our ongoing Enshittification: dudes who get rewarded time after time for abject failure

#netflixwb
During the expedited process, Netflix operated efficiently and Sarandos effectively leveraged his friendship with Zaslav, who seemed more than eager to extend a middle finger to the overzealous Ellison kid. In the end, Netflix kinda flipped the Ellison strategy and used it against Paramount, moving faster and more cleanly and ultimately offering $27.75 per share ($4.50 of that in stock). Not the $30 that investor/puppet master John Malone thought was “possible,” but what Zaslav and his board needed to say yes to a take-it-or-leave-it ultimatum. And once again, a remarkable turn of events for Zaz, who in more than three years, managed Warner Discovery from $24 a share down to around $7 or $8, only to be rescued by this sale. The guy destroyed so much value and so many jobs to save his flailing Discovery Communications, all while keeping his eye on his own outsize compensation, and he’ll probably end up with well over $100 million in additional winnings and either a cushy role at the new company or a spot on the Netflix board. Kinda unbelievable.
December 5, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Moving all my stored comics (all 200 boxes of them) into a new cheaper storage unit today and this book was on top of a box. Truly one of the most heartbreaking 💔 comics I’ve ever read.
Stargazing Dog by Takashi Murakami and no, not that one.
December 4, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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If he was around today Descartes would just be a big jerk on the internet, wouldn’t he? Great work by @fredvanlente.bsky.social and @ryandunlavey.bsky.social
Action Philosophers Omnipotence for Dummies by Fred van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey
December 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Also can we actually push back against the bot trolls claims that the anti immigrant movement is to get rid of drug dealers and criminals? Because we have hundreds of cases that show this is not true.
December 1, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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So I’ve finished two seasons of my Stranger Things rewatch. The show is totally bingeable. Poor Bob!

I like how different characters keep getting thrown together in different dynamics, something that really took over in S4.
Sean Astin as Bob from season 2 of Stranger Things.
November 30, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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I just did a rewatch of Stranger Things Season 1 and first off they were so young!

Also, Hawkins is a supremely perilous place. It seems there is no place that is cozy and safe.

Not sure the Duffers told the tale in the exact shape they wanted to but it’s still good fun.
November 29, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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Cleaning-up special: mini comic I made with Greg Benton, Robbie Busch and @stephendestefano.bsky.social 30 years ago.

This was the 90’s.
Slacker Con ‘96 “I’ve been working on this thing for a couple of weeks now, and I think it’s really beginning to come together.”
November 28, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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I missed that @samthielman.com wrote a great piece about the genius Gilbert Hernandez for the NYTimes!

Look, there are a lot of characters, but if you can keep up with Marvel you can keep up with the Luba/Fritz-verse.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/b...
November 26, 2025 at 7:50 PM