A major coalition is launching a general strike in Minnesota tomorrow, aimed at pushing out ICE.
It includes:
-Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005
-The MN AFL-CIO
-SEIU Local 26
-UNITE HERE Local 17
-CWA Local 7250
-Saint Paul and Minneapolis Federations of Educators
-Faith leaders
And more. 🧵
Carnegie Mellon’s literature PhD is being liquidated in favor of “computation,” casualized labor, and AI.
That has profound ramifications for, students, faculty, and program alums like myself.
I wrote it about it (w/ Catherine Evans, a current PhD student).
www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...
👍 "State-related" -- same status as Penn State
University of Pittsburgh staff last September--6300 www.wesa.fm/education/20...
No crossing picket lines, folks! #NoContractNoCoffee
Watch #10 for #hooptober12
Jacques Tourneur's Cat People (1942)
Beautiful film, both in what is shown and what remains only suggested, unseen, obscured by shadow. Alice being followed through the park and later trapped in the pool are masterclasses in creating suspense.
Watch #9 for #hooptober12
Brandon Cronenberg's Antiviral (2012)
In the attention/influencer economy, we all want what celebrity personalities have got. Cronenberg’s feature debut is a hyper-stylish extension of this idea, spinning it out to its horrific conclusions. Bloody, painful, wince-inducing.
Hell yeah 🔥🔥🔥
We are beyond thrilled to announce the official opening of Vinegar Syndrome Pittsburgh this Friday!
Store hours will be Wednesday to Sunday, 12pm to 7pm.
1410 E. Carson St.
Pittsburgh, PA 15203
LONG LIVE PHYSICAL MEDIA 🔥
French language film poster for The Grapes of Death. At the bottom, a group of zombified French villagers with pale, infected-looking faces hold their arms out in pursuit of the living. Above this is a an illustration of a giant hand clutching smashing a cluster of purple grapes, as well as the screaming figure of a woman with dark brown hair.
A blond woman wearing a white dress stares in defiance. Half of her face has been scraped off to reveal red, blistered, oozing infection beneath.
Watch #8 for #hooptober12
Jean Rollin's The Grapes of Death (1971)
Winemaking practices have really improved since the 70s. My favorite Rollin? Far more plot than typical for R (& less nudity). Great atmosphere- post-harvest vineyards, crumbling villages, rugged mountains of the French countryside.
Film poster for Ghost Story featuring a plain, totally black background and, in the lower right corner, a small, black and white outline of the upper stories of an old Victorian house with a cloud-obstructed moon over top of it
Four elderly men, all with white hair and in black tuxedos, stand in a very fancy room (with leather chairs, wood paneling, and heavy drapes) and toast each other with their whiskey glasses.
Watch #7 for #hooptober12
John Irvin's Ghost Story (1981)
Shocking that the director of Raw Deal wasn’t 100% successful adapting Peter Straub’s novel. Overlong with lots of plot points left hanging. Some very charming moments, especially from Fred Astaire. And Alice Krige 🤓
Film poster for Kill List. The face of a concerned looking man is superimposed over the image of dark, spindly looking pine trees with an orange sunset (or possibly a fire) shining behind their trunks. Traced over top of the forest is a symbol--a circle crossed by 2 intersecting lines and with a triangle in the top half.
A shirtless man wears a frightening mask made from twigs and straw.
Watch #6 for #hooptober12
Ben Wheatley's Kill List (2011)
Unsettling cult mystery, with a dash of folk horror. Shockingly violent. Wheatley is a master of creating real-feeling relationships between his characters. Excellent!
![Film poster for [REC]. A woman with her hair partially obscuring her face looks up in fear as she lifts her hands up to protect herself from an unseen assailant. In the background a zombie-like figure can be seen outlined in a window.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:awx4rltgpv6g4kg6ll3aqbyb/bafkreibu6zmfqhnwhbg73yp3n64lkwopltcxlinhedxocg4jzcl6n3kmlq)
Film poster for [REC]. A woman with her hair partially obscuring her face looks up in fear as she lifts her hands up to protect herself from an unseen assailant. In the background a zombie-like figure can be seen outlined in a window.
An angry looking young woman with long hair tied back in pigtails and wearing a bloodstained white tank top points back at a blood covered police officer preventing a fireman from trying to get past him toward a caution-taped building exit.
Watch #5 for #hooptober12
Jaume Balagueró & Paco Plaza's [REC] (2007).
Feels so familiar in 2025– shaky camera, screeching zombies, viral outbreak lockdown. But in 2007, REC was breaking ground in its visceral, claustrophobic, high intensity approach.
Film poster for Dead Heath. A zombie hand floats clutches a badge with bullet holes in it. On either side of the badge are Treat Williams and Joe Piscapo holding their pistols, ready for action. Under the zombie hand is a machine with lightning bolts zapping a shocked looking woman.
A woman with hair still wet from a bath looks sad as the right side of her face droops as it rapidly decomposes, the flesh of her lower jaw sliding off revealing her lower teeth and jaw.
Watch #4 for #hooptober12
Mark Goldblatt's Dead Heat (1988). Buddy cop horror-comedy with a slowly rotting Treat Williams and partner Joe Piscapo. Unfortunately, the film (dialogue, plot, Piscapo’s acting) feels pretty flat. Stick with it for a pretty gnarly rapid decomposition scene.
Who wouldn't want to sleep in an open face coffin?!
(drawer base extra)
Pupi! Instant buy for me.
"The colours, my colours, flow in my veins. They are sweet, my colours, sweet as Autumn, hot as blood, pure as syphilis, and enter into the eyes, infecting all"
"Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Wednesday he will join Italy in sending a military warship to protect an international flotilla seeking to deliver aid to Gaza after it was attacked by drones off Greece."
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Spanish language film poster for Tombs of the Blind Dead featuring illustrations of 4 zombie knights templar in rags. One is holding the top of a sword while 2 others bite and grab a screaming woman in a blue blouse.
A group of zombie knights templar look on while another carries an unconscious woman with long red hair wearing a white nightgown.
Watch #3 for #hooptober12
Amando de Ossorio's Tombs of the Blind Dead (1972). Slow going at times, but Ossorio makes the most of a small budget, creating some memorable nightmarish sequences of desiccated-looking zombie Knights Templar pursuing their victims on horseback (in slow motion).
Left-Wing Group Too Disorganized For FBI Agents To Infiltrate
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Film poster for The Children, featuring illustrations of 3 creepy children's faces next to a notebook and ruler, a cemetery in front of some leafless trees, and a school-bus driving away.
In an old cemetery with white headstones, a little boy wearing a striped shirt hugs his mom, as she makes a terrified face due to the radiation burns on her face and hand resulting from the hug.
Watch #2 for #hooptober12
Max Kalmanowicz's The Children (1980). Fear of nuclear disaster (ala Three Mile Island) + grumpy aversion to kids getting their grubby fingers all over you = The Children. A school-bus of kids is exposed to radioactive smoke, resulting in black fingernails and deadly hugs.
Title still for The Plague of the Zombies. Title is in yellow over the image of a voodoo doll dripped with vibrantly red blood, a bone, and a small jar of blood.
A very gray, crusty looking zombie with his mouth open carries the body of a recently killed young woman in a dress. Behind them, you can see a winch for lifting things in and out of a mine shaft.
Watch #1 for #hooptober12
John Gilling's Plague of the Zombies (1966) for Hammer Films. The Caribbean voodoo zombie plot (I Walked with a Zombie, White Zombie) is brought to Cornwall. Local squire uses black magic to enthrall the plebs and, after death, enlist their crusty corpses to work his mine.
Ready to kick off spooky season with my #Hooptober12 list #horrorsky
The time draws near...
I fixed the Cracker Barrel logo if anyone is interested! #illustration #branding
Screenshot featuring the movie posters for the last 4 films I logged on Letterboxd: Bay of Blood, Shock, Petey Wheatstraw, and Mothra vs. Godzilla.
🔪👻😈🦋
#LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday
Screenshot featuring the movie posters for the last 4 films I logged on Letterboxd: Bay of Blood, Shock, Petey Wheatstraw, and Mothra vs. Godzilla.
🔪👻😈🦋
#LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday
It has been found.
4K restoration coming soon.
Free David, free all workers, end the raids
