Vanessa Armstrong

DIG Trailer is here and how did they get the image of me spending more than 15 minutes at the beach this summer

Blake Crouch told me he started thinking of Dark Matter season 2 as an album; episodes 5 & 8 are its “two radiant ballads.” I love them! For @reactorsff.bsky.social, we talked about those two standalones. A nice appertif before the season 2 finale this Friday! reactormag.com/blake-crouch...

Latest round of "WTF is this patent?!" Best wrong answer gets a shoutout in my next newsletter.

Two people who happen to be parents said this was a device to hide from their children. What do you think?

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Im absurdly proud of my thumbnail image here

Beaked plague masks: They're all around us! This week I did into their origins, including whether doctors ever actually used them (and if they did, whether they worked). Get into it: www.tubetalk.media/p/plague-doc...

I'm starting something new at Tube Talk called WTF is this patent?! Each week, I share a photo from a real patent and readers submit their guesses (WITHOUT LOOKING IT UP) & get acknowledgement the following week. Good wrong answers encouraged! Submit here: www.tubetalk.media/forms/00a892...

I'm starting something new at Tube Talk called WTF is this patent?! Each week, I share a photo from a real patent and readers submit their guesses (WITHOUT LOOKING IT UP) & get acknowledgement the following week. Good wrong answers encouraged! Submit here: www.tubetalk.media/forms/00a892...

for the monday crowd

Appreciate Andy sharing my piece about women beating scientific seances AND giving me some great hedgehog facts in this thread!

Woohoo! Someone just became a Tube Talker! Want weird history, offbeat TV, and/or other fun stuff delivered weekly to your inbox? Subscribe to Tube Talk & join us! www.tubetalk.media/subscribe

Excited to share my interview with @annaleen.bsky.social about their latest novel! A Wall Is Also a Road brings an alien slime mold to ancient Pompeii. It's weird, it's earnest, it's a good read. Check out our interview below, and buy the book! www.tubetalk.media/p/annalee-ne...

"Eternally Yours" asks: What if "Ghosts," but vampires? (REVIEW) www.avclub.com/eternally-yo...

Pan's Labyrinth turns 20 this month and a 4K version is heading back to theaters. I talked to Doug Jones and Ivana Baquero about their first scene together (which is also the movie's last), practical effects, and what makes the movie so resonant today. www.tubetalk.media/p/pans-labyr...

Have you ever tried to summon a ghost? In 1864, a book could make you see one. (Well, kind of.) Day 2 of Tube Talk Is Haunted! Story here: www.tubetalk.media/p/spectropia...

Woohoo! Someone just became a Tube Talker! Want weird history, offbeat TV, and/or other fun stuff delivered weekly to your inbox? Subscribe to Tube Talk & join us! www.tubetalk.media/subscribe

The shoe! This image brought it all back to me 😭

It's October & Tube Talk is officially haunted! All week I'm reviving Tube Talk's spookiest stories: spirit phones, ghost-summoning books, a medium who beat a Victorian lie detector. The goal: 5 new paid Tube Talkers by 10/11. Witches flying 0/5. Join us! www.tubetalk.media/upgrade?offe...

It's October & Tube Talk is officially haunted! All week I'm reviving Tube Talk's spookiest stories: spirit phones, ghost-summoning books, a medium who beat a Victorian lie detector. The goal: 5 new paid Tube Talkers by 10/11. Witches flying 0/5. Join us! www.tubetalk.media/upgrade?offe...

Pan's Labyrinth turns 20 this month and a 4K version is heading back to theaters. I talked to Doug Jones and Ivana Baquero about their first scene together (which is also the movie's last), practical effects, and what makes the movie so resonant today. www.tubetalk.media/p/pans-labyr...

Woohoo! Someone just became a Tube Talker! Want weird history, offbeat TV, and/or other fun stuff delivered weekly to your inbox? Subscribe to Tube Talk & join us! www.tubetalk.media/subscribe

For the Monday crowd

I know it’s fall because I just spent $96 I don’t have on scented candles

Most riveting thing I've seen all week

let me proclaim with my WHOLE CHEST that @erikaishii.bsky.social is a true buckaroo who proves love. we actually know each other in my unmasked way (i dont think she was aware of this so SURPRISE) and erikas just SO kind and creative and enthusiastic about makin art. any project is lucky to have her

Happy Monday! Let’s talk vampires

Wrote about the Lucas Museum for @smithsonianmag.bsky.social ! Got to dig in a bit about what narrative art is, exactly, and the curation style of the space. Give it a read: www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/the-l...

M. A. Carrick's The Eye of Leviathan reimagines the Spanish Golden Age in rich detail, folding the fae into a story of magic, religion, and brutal colonization. @vanessa-armstrong.com reviews a new series from the authors of The Mask of Mirrors: