Bob Calhoun

Bob Calhoun

@bobcalhoun.bsky.social

Author of The Murders That Made Us, a true crime history of San Francisco. Co-host of Old Movies for Young Stoners, the podcast that pairs cannabis with classic cinema. Former SFWeekly, Incredibly Strange Wrestling. He/him www.murdersthatmadeus.com

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Just got back from the TCM Cruise and we’ve already got a new episode of @oldmoviesystoners.bsky.social! It’s like we taped in advance or something. We’re prepping for #Halloween with Vampire Sex Flicks of the 70s. Streaming on 🍏 etc. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

Old Movies for Young Stoners@oldmoviesystoners.bsky.social

NEW EPISODE: We're talking VAMPIRE SEX movies of the 70s with Anthony Lee Head, author of BLOODBOUND: QUINCEY MORRIS AND THE HUNT FOR DRACULA. We've got Udo Kier, Hammer horror and boobies! Streaming on SoundCloud and other pod apps: soundcloud.com/omfys/s5e13-...

I'm pretty sure Pluto altered the programming on its #StarTrek TOS channel to pay tribute to Walter Koenig. They usually show all three seasons in order but today they showed Spectre of the Gun, Who Mourns for Adonais?, and Mirror Mirror--all pretty good Chekov episodes. Thanks Pluto!

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My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

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RIP, Walter Koenig.

Jesse Thorn@jessethorn.bsky.social

My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

I don’t want to believe it but there it is on his Facebook page. Eric Bauza kept Bugs, Daffy & so many other Loony Tunes characters alive. The Lord’s work really. The best thing a person could do. This is a devastating loss. My heart goes out to Bauza’s family and his many friends.

Ken Plume@kenplume.bsky.social

Unbelievable loss. An amazing talent, and just a really, really good person. www.instagram.com/p/De8RFy4pyov/

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Hey Santa I know what I want for Christmas

The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

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The Who: Pete Townshend, about to catch a guitar he’d hurled into the air, Roger Daltrey & Keith Moon, San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom, late March 1976, by Michael Zagaris.

Peter Hartlaub found a way to write an essay on Rush that can be described as touching. Read it in the paper today and the father and son bonding over a non-toxic band still hated by most moms got me choked up.

Peter Hartlaub@peterhartlaub.bsky.social

I wrote about parenting, passing down traditions and that moment when an inspiring cultural narrative transcends musical taste. My tribute to Rush, the anchovies-on-pizza of rock. For Rush fans, but also non-Rush fans. Gift link 🎁 🤘 www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...

TV show ads behind home plate are too distracting. A corporate logo I can deal with but actors with anguished expressions shouldn’t be staring at me from behind the ump.

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I'll hand it to Obama here, this is a great line

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

OBAMA: He's got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory. It's gold everywhere.

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Yeah but nothing is perfect.

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social

Just to be clear... Prop 40 is a ONE-TIME retroactive tax. It applies ONLY to billionaires and would tax just 5% of their wealth — which grew 30% in 2025. California's billionaires would still be worth $2T+ AFTER the tax. The revenue will fund healthcare for millions of Californians. Vote YES.

I haven’t seen the end of Suddenly Last Summer yet, so this can’t be a spoiler, but this thing needs to end with Katharine Hepburn falling into the maw of one of those meat-eating plants in the hothouse. #TCMParty

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more like Children of the DAAAAAAAMMMMMNNN (sorry)

WuTangIsForTheChildren@wutangforchildren.bsky.social

Iron Maiden's Nicko McBrain was invited to play golf with Trump and he declined: "Trump should have been in jail long ago. I see no humor whatsoever in his narcissism, in the Epstein files, and especially in the depraved war he unleashed against Iran" 💪🤘 variety.com/2026/music/n...

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Our VAMPIRE SEX PARTY episode drops TONIGHT at the STROKE OF MIDNIGHT. Author Anthony Lee Head joins us to pair pot with BLOOD FOR DRACULA (1974) and VAMPIRE CIRCUS (72). Subscribe on your favorite podcast app so you don't miss it.

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Tor Johnson (1903-1971) was #BOTD. When I was 13, my father took me to a screening of Ed Wood’s PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE in a high school gym. We all cheered when Tor came on screen. And I remember my dad looking at me like he knew the type of adult I would become. He was right. #FilmSky #HorrorSky

Great Satanic Panic thread….

So, the Satantic Panic story: back in the 80s, my mom freaked out about all things occult-adjacent because she’d seen a talk show that told her kids into such things were all Satanists, etc…so all the ghost books & the D&D stuff got chucked out while I was at school one day. But wait, there’s more…