One hundred years ago today. What a legacy. 2026 must have seemed like a science fiction setting to Hugo Gernsback, and I doubt he could have imagined the potential extinction crises to come with climate change, A.I., and nuclear proliferation.
Urgent care center?
What a gorgeous cover!
Inside: A heavily researched, guided tour of Batman: The Animated Series, with plenty of behind-the-scenes revelations.
Not familiar with this one—what a gorgeous cover!
THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!
"[Dems] should say it now: The blood of Americans who die because of this illegal war—in the theater, while traveling abroad, or within the United States—is all on Donald Trump’s hands."
Thank you for stepping up!
This morning, I qualified to run for the DeKalb County Board of Education, District 4.
I did not plan to run and made my decision yesterday based on the chaotic rollout of redistricting. We need good representation.
Pokémon Go to the polls, y’all.
You might enjoy the opening of NOCTURNE (1946), as well!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDzJ...
Wow, I haven't seen it, and the description sounds terrific, right down to the locale. Thanks!
Found another noir for @seanhowe.bsky.social. THE SCARLET HOUR, Michael Curtiz. (1956). Based on a story by cartoonist, animator, gag writer, screen writer, director (ARTISTS AND MODELS) Frank Tashlin. Ideal Hollywood Hills setting.
www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/oM4Mz7...
Will not go back down the Louis Tackwood rabbit hole
Will not go back down the Louis Tackwood rabbit hole
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGeY...
Stanley Kubrick wanted to adapt Foucault's Pendulum
The Spectre by Jerry Siegel and Bernard Baily, More Fun Comics #64
"The prosecutor displayed photos on a courtroom television of evidence seized from the garage of defendants on trial for alleged involvement in a radical left-wing conspiracy:
Photocopiers, a bookbinding machine and leaflets called 'zines.'”
Gift link:
wapo.st/4cYZWN6
Pretty fucking difficult when you call it the Department of War!
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...
"derange-o"
Jim Starlin’s cover for 1973’s Captain Marvel #33. At the time, I never could have imagined a future in which Thanos was embedded prominently in world pop culture & my beloved Mar-Vell was largely forgotten.
The Spectre interviews Neal Adams
You thought Isaac Chotiner was tough?
A Treatise on Reality in Comic Literature by Mark Gruenwald
"Altho the pictorial representation of the two Earths about to collide was symbolic, in both stories the Spectre attempted to keep the Earths separate by wedging his ectoplasmic body between them. How the ghost managed to wedge himself between two planets that occupy the same space is puzzling."
Makes a good double header with Track of the Cat!
deathly stupidity
Paul Lukas isn't on here, but that doesn't mean you should miss out on his reporting...
www.inconspicuous.info/p/a-very-dai...
October 15, 1966:
Kenneth Rexroth attends the launch party for the International Times, dismisses the Soft Machine as a pickup band, and bolts before Pink Floyd takes the stage.
DC HOUSE AD: DC's NEW BRAND OF HUMOR IS COMING YOUR WAY! OUR OWN MAD ONE, JOE ORLANDO, HAS SENT US THE ZANIEST INFERIOR FIVE WE'VE EVER READ!... AND HE'S TOPPING IT WITH SCOOTER! AND THE WILDEST NEW ONE IS YET TO COME!
Washington Post article about Penthouse article about CIA/press connections, 1977
In 1977, Joe Trento and Dave Roman reported on ties between Copley News Service and the CIA. It's been reiterated many times as fact, but did confirming documentation ever surface? Were any of the 23 employees ever named?
(FYI: This is different than Carl Bernstein's Rolling Stone reporting)
Does anyone know where I can stream this with English subtitles?
kolektiva.media/w/hNrWL7rbWS...
“Not in Our Name” Full-page ad in the New York Times September 19, 2002 “Let it not be said that people in the United States did nothing when their government declared a war without limit and instituted stark new measures of repression.”
“Not in Our Name”
Full-page ad in the New York Times
September 19, 2002
“Let it not be said that people in the United States did nothing when their government declared a war without limit and instituted stark new measures of repression.”
