Halloween 2025!

Well, in real-world horror, the pumpkin-headed despot got re-elected by the morons of America.

Because of course he was, and of course they did.

I could feel it in the air that it was going to happen.

You can check last year, the gloom I had going.

Every year I live will be a miracle, since Carrot Caligula has declared liberals, atheists, anti-racists, anti-pedos (release the files!!), and LGBT allies terrorists.

Y'know, because that's what Jesus would want. 🙄🤦‍♂️

Anyway! Like I said last time, I'm gonna do this for as long as I can, and not change my tone.

The alternative is kissing the ring, and no thanks to that bullshit.

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RIP Drew Struzan

From my future self in 6/7/26.

Like I said yesterday in the Ozzy Osbourne and Rob Reiner ones, I was still reeling from the loss of my mother, so I didn't keep up on these. Almost a year later, I can finally tackle 'em now.

Struzan did more movie posters than you can shake a stick at.

The protagonist in "The Mist" was a poster artist, so they got Struzan to do the poster, and had David be the Struzan of the King-verse, and have his art up in his studio. Including the ones for "Shawshank" and "Green Mile".

I'll always love that weird little meta-tribute.

It made me smile when I re-watched "The Mist" for my latest read-a-thon of King books.

Off the top of my head....

He did the 9 Star Wars saga films.

He did the Indiana Jones-es.

He did The Harry Potters. (Yeah, I know, JK sucks)

He did a honking shitload of the Star Wars novels without anyone blowing the trumpet

Yeah, he got around.

Do a Google deep-dive yourself, you'll have a great time.

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Poe 3: Poe/Pym spinoff-a-thon (Part 3).

Part 1.

Part 2.

Read/watched these during "Lovecraft Country" cuz they were quickies.

Putting them after. Could have just lied by omission, and pretend I just did 'em. Nah. 

Anyway, here they are.

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Poe 3: Poe/Pym spinoff-a-thon (Part 2).

Part 1.

Sorry I was a slowpoke. Here we go!

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Birthday loot 2025, Part 7.

-Part 1.

-Part 2.

-Part 3.

-Part 4.

-Part 5.

-Part 6.

Ordered these from Bullmoose the day before "Helen's Story" came in the mail.

Two of them were already in-store. The one that had to be ordered was the 10-day slowpoke.

Just picked them up.

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RIP Diane Keaton

From my future self in 6/8/26.

Like I said in the Terence Stamp and Graham Greene ones, I had too much grief over my mother to do any of these.

I can tackle them now. 

*Skimming her filmography*

Jesus, none of this is my bag.

She's in the whole Godfather trilogy, but I can't say I'm a fan of those.

I saw "Annie Hall" in high school film history class, and I didn't love it, but it really skeeves me out now that Woody Allan is outed as a pedo.

Which is a bummer, cuz, "Annie Hall" is for her what "Superman" is for Christopher Reeve.

It's her signature role.

Oh!! Wait!! She directed an episode of "Twin Peaks"!!

Good enough!

Margaret Bonanno hated her everliving guts.

That tickled me for some reason.

I told her to avoid "Because I Said So" unless she wanted to jump in a vat of acid afterward.

She laughed.

That is a miserable movie, as the link title says. I did find Keaton...esthetically pleasing though.

I....put it more crudely at the time. 😏

You know what? Screw it, I'm gonna consider it an honorable tribute.

😆

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Birthday loot 2025, Part 6.

-Part 1.

-Part 2.

-Part 3.

-Part 4.

-Part 5.

Just dropped in the mailbox 30 minutes ago!

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So, Punisher...(Part 2)

Part 1.

Dammit, Disney. You haven't made me exactly love this character, but you've made it complicated.

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"The Stand" revisited.

Way back in "Oh-Em-Gee-Too!" I shredded the shit out of the theology of "The Stand" such as it was.

I'm fine with it now, and here's why.

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RIP Patricia Routledge

From my future self in 6/9/26.

We got hit with a lot of celebrity deaths leading up to and after my mother's passing.

It was really a numbing beat-down.

Routledge was Hyacinth Bucket on "Keeping Up Appearances".

My mother, grandmother, and father were really into that show.

I thought it was cute, but I didn't love it like they did.

My dad named one of his chickens after Hyacinth.

Chicken-Hyacinth died a hero saving her sister Violet from getting chomped by a fox.

I didn't know human-Hyacinth was alive, but she was friggin' 96.

Needless to say, her passing stirred up a lot of memories.

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