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Chris Otto (Papergreat)
@papergreat.bsky.social
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Journalist by day. He/him. ALLY.
Blogs about books, ephemera, movies & history at papergreat.blogspot.com
Digs folklore, Ruth Manning-Sanders books, cinema from Japan and lots of other niche stuff
Has 23 indoor cats & takes care of the feral cats & skunks
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November 27, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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OK, that's a great poster
Movie poster for One Battle After Another returning to IMAX 70mm theaters on December 12. The post shows the up and down roadway from the film. It's adorned with Christmas lights and the new tagline "Looking for a Christmas Adventure?"
November 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Welp.
In addition to the 3 cats in the cat bed, there's now a cat wrapped around my left arm.
November 25, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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How am I supposed to get any work done next to this morning nap cuddle puddle of cuteness?
Three sisters cats, striped with blacks, grays and oranges, sleep together in a large cat bed. Their names are Nebula, Autumn and Dusty.
November 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Wait. Is that ....
November 24, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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I had the high (only?) bid on this thing at a charity auction, and I've read enough short stories and seen enough episodes of Night Gallery to realize that this probably my final post.
A small concrete sculpture, certainly cursed, sits on a bookshelf. It's about 5 inches by 4 inches and may at one point have been an attempt to craft the face of a clown. But unspeakable things have happened to the eyes, nose and mouth.
November 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Timeline cleanser
Two cats are sleeping and cuddling in a cat bed. On the left is and orange and white male cat named Bandit. On the right, he is being hugged by his little sister Nebula, a gray/brown/white cat.
November 20, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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My comment got eaten by Wordpress. Here's what it was:
November 18, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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I was not prepared for the third act of Kurosawa's "High and Low" to become a harrowing deep dive into Japan's heroin problem
Still from the movie "High and Low" ... In "Dope Alley," heroin addicts, mostly women, sit despairingly on the ground in a filthy alley
November 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Now I'm going to obsess over the imagined Kurosawa/Ozu crossover. ... The closest I guess we had is that there are a few movies that co-starred Toshiro Mifune & Setsuko Hara (all worth watching)
Setsuko Hara (wearing a beret) draws a sketch of dapper businessman Toshiro Mifune in the 1952 movie Tokyo Sweetheart, which was as close as you'd get to a rom-com in 1950s Japan.
November 16, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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November 15, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Uncommon Places, a coffee table photography book by Stephen Shore. The cover shows a dreary mid-century parking lot and a Sambo's Restaurant. The dense paperback Movies on TV, by Steven H. Scheuer. This the 1978-79 edition with Al Pacino from The Godfather Part 2 on the cover.
November 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Mercury was not impressed.
November 10, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Stubby has been friendlier than usual today.
November 10, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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I'm sorry. The Backrooms movie coming out next year has WHO in its cast??!
Chiwetel Ejiofor Renate Reinsve Mark Duplass Finn Bennett Lukita Maxwell Avan Jogia
November 9, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Album cover
In a pretentious artsy phoot, three cats sit on kitchen counters. In the foreground is a gray and white cat ridiculously named Osmond "Bounds" Portifoy. He's the prima donna lead guitarist. In the middle ground, doubled by the counter reflection, is a floofy orange cat who simply goes by Oliver and does not do interviews. He is the vocalist. Way in the back, blurry, is a black, orange and white cat named Snugs who is Oliver's sister and will probably only be in the band as a drummer until they find a replacement. This is the cover of their album "Dreams of the Iron Age."
November 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Granted, this is a very obscure bit of raunchy wordplay from the 1980s show St. Elsewhere, but instead of giving me links Google AI just barfs out an incredible string of absolutely insipid & false nonsense.
GOOGLE SEARCH QUERY: st. elsewhere tulips on the organ GOOGLE AI REPLY: The user is likely asking about the organ in the finale of the TV show St. Elsewhere, where a janitor named Donald (played by Edward Asner) plays "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" on an organ. The scene is often misinterpreted, with a recurring "bug" in the episode involving a "St. Elsewhere tulips" title card, which is not an official title but was a glitch or a joke that spread online. In the final scene, Dr. Westphall's father, Thomas, is seen in a hospital room with a woman, and a flashback reveals the organ playing, which Donald performs as he plays "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" in the janitor's closet. The "tulips" are not a real scene from the show, but a recurring glitch. The scene is often misinterpreted. Some fans believe that a "St. Elsewhere tulips" title card is shown in the final scene, when in fact it's a recurring bug that was a joke. In the final scene, Dr. Westphall's father, Thomas, is seen in a hospital room with a woman, while a flashback shows Donald, played by Edward Asner, playing "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" on an organ in the janitor's closet.
November 8, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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I can't believe this was me and Mr. Bill 15 years ago at Halloween. Time flies.
A man dressed as a scarecrow holding in a broom sits in the front yard within a pile of hay. He's holding a black cat named Mr. Bill. There's a gravestone to his right that says RIP. After the cat went back inside (much to the cat's relief), the man sat very still and then would occasionally say hello to trick-or-treaters as they walked past, given them a good startle.
November 3, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Mark Walter, the principal owner of the Dodgers, holds a stake in the GEO Group, a private prison corporation that operates ICE detention centers. Walter also leads TWG Global, which partnered with Palantir Technologies, which built a data analytics platform including facial recognition to track immigrants and support deportation efforts. ICE is reported to have paid Palantir Technologies $39 million to develop the surveillance platform ImmigrationOS.
November 2, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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For a certain oddball segment of Gen X, there is only one answer. IYKYK.
October 30, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Afternoon scenes from the cat sunroom
Sister cats atop and inside a cat bed. Gray Nebula on top, gray-and-white Bounds below. Stubby the half-feral black cat grudingly allows a photograph Orange cat named Orange lounges in the sun on a high shelf Orange boy Panda (cat) sits in a rocking chair.
October 30, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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We're gonna need a bigger bed
4 cats are smushed into a rainbow cat bed
October 29, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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In today's too-small-bed adventure, Nebula squeezes into a bed with her big brother Bandit.
Grey cat Nebula squeezes into a cat bed with her orange-and-white brother Bandit Grey cat Nebula squeezes into a cat bed with her orange-and-white brother Bandit
October 28, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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No Face from Spirited Away (a spirit with a white face and black shroud) astanding on a wooden bridge with red railing.
October 28, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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They made it work
October 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM