I watch old movies, visit neat restaurants in Tennessee and Georgia, occasionally hike, and will miss reading you when this place collapses.
The South, darlin'!
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I’m keeping this acct open to prevent it being hijacked, but I have at last unfollowed the last of you lovely people. Look me up where the skies are blue as @Firebreathing. If you’re not there already, I miss you. And if you’re not coming, take care.
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It's hard to let go of engagement & followers, but I'd like to stop reading you here and read you at B---S-y instead. I hope you'll consider joining there, or copy-pasting there, so we spend less time on this site. LMK if you need an invite code, and let's unfriend on this site?
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Sad to hear that Chris Boucher, the last surviving writer of 1970s Doctor Who, has died. He had a gift for sharp, witty dialogue and sardonic characters, as evidenced further by his work on Blake's 7. He also did good work on Juliet Bravo, Shoestring & Bergerac. TV legend - RIP.
Marie and I watched The Hidden Fortress tonight. Haven’t seen it since 1990ish and I misremembered quite a lot. It’s a fantastic movie!
I picked up Forgotten Gialli vol. 1 in VinSyn's Black Friday sale. I watched 1978's Trauma, which is a quick-n-dirty ripoff of Psycho, and hope the other two movies are at least a little better.
I rewatched 1969's The Oblong Box this morning, enjoying its detailed commentary by Steve Haberman. It's one of my favorite Vincent Price performances. Now I want to see Scream and Scream Again, which Price made with this director the next year. Any of y'all seen that one?
Friends and fiends, you definitely want to pick up @2000AD Prog 2312. It's the year-end 100-page special edition and it contains the late, great Kevin O'Neill's final comic. It is funnier than the law should allow.
Not sure about 1971's Don't Deliver Us From Evil. Massively unpleasant, extremely well-made. I haven't seen Heavenly Creatures, based on the same case, in ages. Used to love that film, but I think I need more light, and it's far too heavy for me to lift these days. May sell on.
One horrible trick that Peter Jackson used in Creatures was to stop the music for simply ages, ramping up the tension. When it starts again, and you know what's about to happen, it's absolutely devastating. Joël Séria did something similar in Evil; equally skin-crawling silence.
Fudd? I thought they took that stuff off the market after all them hillbillies went blind.
Have we got a video? It’s here!! And it’s so nice, the film sequences in Nasty look gorgeous. Marie was… a little less impressed (“They’re all horrible!”) but the kid just howled. Looking forward to digging in to all the extras!
I’ve said many times they’ll take my 404 number from my cold, dead digits, but holy crap, Herschel Walker’s campaign came real close to sending me someplace like Fiji or Finland or the Falklands for a new number those shitheels wouldn’t text.
