Robert Mackenzie

So, given the boom around here, I thought it might be useful to have an easy access guide to who I am and what I'm about. If you're like me and you see a good post or get a follow, you do a quick timeline scan to see whom you've come across. Hi! I'm Robert Mackenzie. Thread follows.

"Today's reading is from Psalm 23. The Lord is my..."

Genuine patriotic stirrings.

My Mythic Bastionland philosophy

Ah, goddamn it. They got me.

Today I learned that the first 29 or so of the "Lone Wolf" books (choose-your-own-adventure style books, where you have stats and keep track of your equipment and such) were made available free online by the author: www.projectaon.org/en/Main/Books

Escape from New York, the glider scene. It's '81, a year before Tron revolutionised CG and Carpenter has 1/3 of Tron's budget...so how did he pull off an absurdly sophisticated wireframe simulation?! It's actually a cardboard city painted matte black, lined with reflective tape and lit with UV.

Re the last repost, one of the things that has stuck from my time in the behavioural science snake oil mines was an experiment where if people planned a week of movie viewing they would pick a mix of genres, some 'highbrow' etc but if they picked day to day it was all the same stuff

Farewell, Batai. RIP.

Dick Wolf

“In the cartoon justice system, disenfranchised toons are represented by by two separate yet equally important groups; the washed out PIs who investigate the cases, and the low rent personal injuries lawyers who take their cases to trial. These are their stories.”

Apologies to @tkingfisher.com

Just explained my ideal vision of Hawkman to a non-comics person as "What if Reacher was the Highlander?" and honestly I feel as a pitch line that's so strong that now I'm annoyed I can't do anything with it.

"Maybe the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of BLANK in this crazy world. To a hill...of BLANK."

Sending this one back in time to Jonathan Safran Foer

Oh shit, good Jonah Hex stuff is coming back? I'm such a man out of time, much like Jonah himself

Hello! I'm Symon, traditional line artist My portfolio: cara.app/symonheilogu #portfolioday

If you enjoyed Hob's Barrow please consider posting a very quick little review on Steam, they really help to keep us afloat! 🙏💜 Incredibly much appreciated. store.steampowered.com/app/1182310/...

"I think you can tell I'm in the *SECRET* Service based on my descriptive t-shirt which loudly proclaims it."

In just over two weeks I’ll be sitting down live with Queenie Chan & Evie Hilliar to talk about what it takes to make comics in and from Australia Comic Conversations Haberfield Library, Thurs Oct 29, 6.30pm Free event but book yourself a seat!

*in my best Joan Jett voice* Bird shit on the deck Scrubbin' it off with a wipe for babies Bird shit on the deck While there's sunshine, got to get it clean.

'As the new regime's symbols are raised above their capital, our reporters are being told that Yakko, Wakko and Dot have already sought to establish a government-in-exile. Speaking from his villa in Montenegro, Yakko was said to remark. "Farewell, my country, core of my heart. Goodbye, nurse."'

Twenty years?!

Honestly, still creeps me out. Saw Candyman around the same time (let's not dwell on that) and it didn't phase me one jot.

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[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right

35 years ago on September 28, 1991, TV show 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' aired episode "Darmok"

Rick: "Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world." Dr. Strange: "But perhaps...in ANOTHER WORLD...they *do*."

What happens when economic change feels like a threat to masculinity? In Contexts, Dan Cassino examines how men’s political preferences change when the traditional breadwinner role becomes less secure. ➡️ doi.org/10.1177/1536... #Sociology #Masculinity #Gender #PoliticalSociology

Stephen Fabian, “Rhialto the Marvellous”

He's escaped containment!

New Susannah Clarke! Fans of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, and Piranesi - this may be news to you, it was to me.

Legitimately thought this was Michael Myers

"But we do have one surprisingly effective punishment..."

Puzzles. Vampires. Wizards. Horrors from the Beyond. Pathos. Puns. Redemption. Folklore. John Rhys-Davies. Jennifer Hale. You wouldn't want to say there's a single definitive Ur-Text for you as a person, but--

"How well did you know Bruce Wayne?" Play it cool, don't give away your secret ID. "Slightly!" Shit, too casual. He's supposed to have just died and Gordon was his friend. "I'll miss him..." No, too much. Can't let Gordon know there's a link. "I guess!" Nailed it.