Tom Kessler

So... Some jowly cheeked fruitloop reckons Arabs don't produce literature... Instead of giving him more breath, let's instead celebrate Arab literature. Starting with 1001 Nights... Which gave literature the embedded narrative technique & without which, Disney would have made far less money.

This me.

Good day, I think this will be a fun season of TV where nothing bad happens and all of the characters learn and grow www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQIY...

My series on the HALLOWEEN films continues with the third installment SEASON OF THE WITCH. I like when these movies get weird and go somewhere strange. This one ripples with paranoia and has a disparaging eye pointed at capitalism in the 80s. Very cool masks too! www.patreon.com/willowcately...

Check out the Fango Fall Class of 2026 🫡❤️ www.fangoria.com/godzilla-min...

A wealth of resources here for anyone trying to understand what’s happening in India.

Indian authorities have launched a major security crackdown in New Delhi, detaining thousands of protesters who intended to hold a mass demonstration against Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government. n.pr/4rY8Yzv

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One Wish Willow is what would have happened if Silver Shamrock leveled up.

Being in your 50s is like a combination of being in your 40s and being dead.

Don’t sleep on “FORGOTTEN ISLAND.” It’s not just the first Hollywood animated family film that’s a deep dive into Filipino culture that I’m aware of. It’s also a total blast of artistic chaos that, while you see obvious influences, manages to be proudly sui generis. youtu.be/f7mFVeWnVLw?...

In a new @npr.org interview, BDP Otis Brawley discusses the stages of prostate cancer, diagnoses and treatments, options for pain management, and quality of life for patients. www.npr.org/2026/08/11/n...

Today's review covers THE DOCTOR (1918), a Danish film about a scientist who struggles to develop a cure for a raging epidemic. He is smeared in the press by his rival and the public turns against him due to a wave of misinformation as the death toll rises. moviessilently.com/2026/09/21/t...

Shout out to my famous artist uncle! John Thornton decided to make a YouTube video about him. youtu.be/8Ioel1qlpsY?...

I saw “TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME” opening night at Fox Sun and Surf in Ocean City, MD. Radio ads were playing for it all week long on Ocean City’s top 40 station. End your vacation by joining David Lynch for some late summer fun. #TwinPeaksFireWalkWithMe

How Baltimore became a rising star in America’s worker cooperative movement baltimorebeat.com/how-baltimor...

Annihilation is about a summer in a beautiful wilderness on the coast that brings four strangers closer together as they work for a crusty old lighthouse keeper.

The White House fired me for being transgender. In 2013 I became the first CIA officer to successfully transition. I worked for Mike Pence for a year. Then I volunteered to serve the second Trump White House.

house of leaves, the most interesting footnote

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Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".

I had not seen Danny Boyle's TRAINSPOTTING since the theater in 1996. God damn does that one hold up! (Also some notes on revisiting Peter Jackson's THE FRIGHTENERS.)

Thing about working with famous epics is that they're famous epics for a reason. Tons of people have had opinions about them for millennia. If you're going to work with one, you know your version is going to piss some people off. Even a *sedate* famous epic inflames some of its audience.

I wrote a tribute to Kaylee Hottle, the deaf actress whose performance as Jia was the heart of two of the Legendary Pictures Kaiju films, Godzilla vs Kong and Godzilla x Kong. Killed at 18 in a car wreck. A staggering loss. www.rogerebert.com/tributes/wha...

The abrupt closure of Baby’s on Fire spotlights Baltimore’s growing worker-ownership movement baltimorebeat.com/the-abrupt-c...

Remember, both the Iliad and the Odyssey were originally audiobooks.

Meet our honorees: Afro Charities Then buy your ticket to our Legacy Gala: shorturl.at/6erUC

It is very surreal that I can now say I've written a booklet essay for a Criterion Collection release. It was an absolute joy to work with everyone at the company. You can read the essay now on their website: www.criterion.com/current/post...

Cuba suffers second island-wide blackout in a week amid Trump fuel blockade https://aje.news/w274gl

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*JUST ADDED* THURSDAY, July 9: Find us on the lot of @mahoningdit.bsky.social for the special 35mm presentation of FREAKED as part of their Thursday Thread-Up! series Tickets here: MahoningDIT.com

I think this might be one of the most incredible, unsettling and symbolic photos of today’s America I’ve ever seen. I can’t stop looking at it. From Reuters, published on the Guardian website.

doseone & Height Keech “Wood Teeth II” OUT NOW! doseone.bandcamp.com/album/wood-t...

Is DC okay? This looks more like an attack than a fireworks show.

Now friends, this has been a post full of schadenfreude We've all had a good time here What if I told you the best was yet to come What if I told you that after waiting for HOURS--miserable, soaking wet, desperate and disappointing hours--our view of the fireworks was.......this

Like many families across America, Jess and I are with family, laughing, giggling, smiling, huddled around the soft glow of a phone screen reading news about the weather in D.C.

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Matthew Cheney (@melikhovo.bsky.social) examines what we can learn from Clive Barker and Joel Lane, two very different queer writers who began carving out new spaces in weird fiction and horror in the dark days of Thatcherism and the AIDS crisis. reactormag.com/poetry-from-...