Nadia Bulkin

Thanks Alex!

Ooooh this sounds really cool!!

RABBIT TRAP: A musician couple recording nature sounds in Wales have their lives trespassed upon by a strange and lonely child. Best-suited for fans of vibey eco-horror (e.g. IN THE EARTH, ENYS MEN) who also don't mind a plot that's more fairytale than horror movie. Grade = B.

Dairy... guy. And textile... guy. I don't know, I saw them like 4x total. I do know that as a kid, dairy grandpa felt like such a disappointment because he wasn't a strong rugged farmer type like his brothers that he left the Mennonite church and married a Methodist.

He's magic. I genuinely don't know how he did it.

I've gone through most of your replies in this thread. Believe it or not, I see where you're coming from: you were vulnerable to fascist thinking (e.g. having faith in authority). But the fact that your biggest concern is defending that vulnerability says to me you've still got unlearning to do.

As someone who grew up in an authoritarian klepto-state, sometimes I read the headlines and think of that Bane quote, you know, the whole I-was-born-in-the-darkness thing

~*~ nationalism is a mindkiller ~*~
~*~ relinquish its hold on you ~*~
~*~ yes you too and even you ~*~

Thanks Eva -- great list!

Albert Rosenfield: "Great. After the square dance, maybe we can all take a hayride."

Log Lady: "One day, the sadness will end."

[Question: "What do you fear most in the world?"] Major Briggs: "The possibility that love is not enough."

Audrey Horne: "God, I love this music."

Happy Twin Peaks day!

(Featuring four of my favorite characters, although I'm very fond of many)

Thanks Corey ☺️

Lol right, it's like "learn on your own time" and "show me the change"

I promise this is not related to anything in particular, but "we will learn from this" and "we are still learning" really grate on me when used as part of an apology.

OTHER: A former beauty queen uncovers memories and secrets in her cruel dead mother's house. Painfully retrograde view of what it means to be a woman (hint: beauty and wombs) made extra disappointing by the fact it was made by the same guy that made MadS. Grade = F. (Shudder)

BLACK PHONE 2: Plucky teens battle a dead serial killer with Freddy Krueger powers. Admittedly, 80s fan service is my least favorite horror subgenre, but this felt more disjointed, empty, and dare I say -- phoned in -- than most. Grade = C-. (Peacock)

MOTHER OF FLIES: A young woman tries to heal her cancer with the help of a woodland witch. Made by the impressively DIY Adams family, this one was a little too lackadaisical for my taste, but some cool visuals nonetheless. Grade = B-. (Shudder)

DON'T FOLLOW ME: An unhappy paranormal content creator starts documenting ghostly activity in her own apartment. What starts as a pedestrian FAFO story takes several surprising turns that lift this into "worth a try" territory. Grade = B. (Hulu)

Ok, some belated horror movie reviews while I'm cleaning out my Letterboxd:

If you hear/read a viral factoid about something you don't know much about that aligns perfectly with your priors --

(shows how EVIL your enemies are, shows how WONDERFUL your prescribed heroes are) --

check it yourself before repeating it. If it sounds too good to be real, it probably is!

I have a whole playlist for this.

Short program: "stranger than earth," Purity Ring
Free skate: "Hollow," Zola Jesus
Rhythm dance: "Lies," MARINA
Pairs: "Drops of Jupiter," Train

It's giving calisthenics in Nuremberg

A photo of me holding haunted ecologies in front of my face with the words Haunted Ecologies Turns 1 written above it.

Haunted Ecologies turns 1 today!

It’s weird to have a spooky eco-horror book birthday on Valentine’s Day…but maybe it’s fitting.

Each story is a love letter to some part of the environment I want to see preserved/cherished off the page. The forest and oceans and birds and werewolves. All of them!

Been watching Olympic figure skating since 1998 and never witnessed a final as shocking as this men's free skate. My gob is officially smacked.

Haha you've been protected from my posts you mean!

I absolutely love when teachers assign my stuff in class. Partly because I remember being a student and struggling to see myself in assigned reading. So thank you ❤️

I'm so glad they're loving it! (Or at least pretending to.)

Female luger in a white helmet holding up her gloved hand, on which "Remembrance is not a violation!" has been written

Olena Smaha, a Ukrainian luger, competes with "Rememberance is not a violation!" written on the palms of her gloves. This follows the IOC forbidding her teammate Vladyslav Heraskevych from competing in a "helmet of memory" featuring images of Ukrainian athletes killed in the Russian invasion.

That ad was an insult to Jurassic Park and all that it stands for. Literally. After the park goes offline, this conversation happens:

Hammond: When we have control...
Sattler: You never had control, that's the illusion!

It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me.

Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?

Uh, yes, I'm aware it doesn't matter how I feel. Social media is the land of stating opinions that don't matter.