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Frank Reardon

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Short stories in Stand, Bull, Tough, Starlite Pulp, CJ, Enclave, a bunch of other places. Columns in Hobart & Bull. Five collections of poetry w/ Punk Hostage, Blue Horse, NeoPoiesis.

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Frank Reardon @frank212.bsky.social · 4d

Issue # 7 of my monthly column, MOANS FROM THE CONDIMENT FRIDGE, with @mrbullbull.bsky.social dropped today.

This issue is titled ALL OF MY FEVER DREAMS ARE UPSIDE DOWN. It's about the absurd & getting asthma in 1980.

You can click the link below, 👇👇

mrbullbull.com/newbull/moan...

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Frank Reardon @frank212.bsky.social · 9h

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Frank Reardon @frank212.bsky.social · 9h

Anyone feel like meeting up at LesterCorp, push aside a few filing cabinets, and taking a portal the fuck out of here?

Frank Reardon @frank212.bsky.social · 17h

Read this, excellent 👌 get you some when it drops 🔥❤️

Laurel Hightower @laurelhightower.bsky.social · 18h

Absolutely thrilled seeing this lil gal out in the world!!

Dana @thatdana.bsky.social · 4d

Tonight's bedtime story is one of my most anticipated reads of the year. @laurelhightower.bsky.social is a horror treasure. 🩸📚💙

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Frank Reardon @frank212.bsky.social · 20h

“If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.”

― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

Frank Reardon @frank212.bsky.social · 1d

I do prefer the peace of Bluesky, but right now it seems Threads is beating out this place as the new Twitter w a hell of a lot more posts and interactions from all kinds of ppl. I wish this place would pick up but it's slow moving for most ppl. Especially ppl like me who don't post 300 times a day

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Frank Reardon @frank212.bsky.social · 2d

One of them for sure. Been wanting to revisit some. Been 20 years since I read him. I won't need to buy again. Every damn library has his stuff.

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Frank Reardon @frank212.bsky.social · 2d

My weekend started two hours ago. The vibes I'll be bringing for the next 56 hours:

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Frank Reardon @frank212.bsky.social · 3d

FANTASTIC documentary streaming on PRIME and MGM. John was a favorite of mine. Not only as a comedian but actor. No scandals. It's just a wonderful documentary about the life of an immense talent.

Frank Reardon @frank212.bsky.social · 3d

RIP, Diane Keaton.

Here she is in a super underrated performance, 1977's LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR.

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Frank Reardon @frank212.bsky.social · 4d

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Frank Reardon @frank212.bsky.social · 4d

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Frank Reardon @frank212.bsky.social · 4d

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Frank Reardon @frank212.bsky.social · 6d

100%

Frank Reardon @frank212.bsky.social · 6d

The other movie I'm dying to see in 2025. The only one I believe that can give ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER a run for best of 2025. I need to reread the novella before it drops.

Frank Reardon @frank212.bsky.social · 6d

Some of the things she's done: Imagination Library; school music programs, Dollywood Foundation; numerous scholarship programs; donated a million to COVID research; giving tons to environmental causes; uses music royalties to help rebuild neighborhoods, etc.

Frank Reardon @frank212.bsky.social · 6d

I love Dolly Parton. I LOVE a handful of her tunes, but what I always admired about her is the humanity.

She's a saint during a time when a lot of people want to silence saints. I hope she'll be okay.

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Frank Reardon @frank212.bsky.social · 8d

I LOVE Shane Black but didn't like this one. My 2 fav Parkers are Lee Marvin & Duvall, even though back then Stark wouldn't allow them to use the name Parker. I liked Mel Gibson's take more than I liked Wahlberg's; I don't think Marky Mark has done a good film since THE FIGHTER. Lee Marvin forever!

Frank Reardon @frank212.bsky.social · 8d

That's some O.G. shit right there!

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Frank Reardon @frank212.bsky.social · 9d

a cartoon of grinch standing on top of a snow covered cliff

ALT: a cartoon of grinch standing on top of a snow covered cliff

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Frank Reardon @frank212.bsky.social · 9d

The vibes I'll be bringing to my few days off starting in 30 minutes:

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Frank Reardon @frank212.bsky.social · 11d

My pleasure.

Frank Reardon @frank212.bsky.social · 11d

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Frank Reardon @frank212.bsky.social · 11d

Next up in my all of 2025 interview series is with the fantastic Jonathan Ames. Author of books such as YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE (made into a film by Lynne Ramsay.) He also wrote the fantastic HAPPY DOLL series
@jonathanames.bsky.social

Click on the link to read

mrbullbull.com/newbull/the-...

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Frank Reardon @frank212.bsky.social · 11d

Spell your name w movie titles

Frailty
Rebecca
Affliction
North by Northwest
Kill Bill

Rear Window
Eastern Promises
Alien
Raising Arizona
Drive
Once Upon a Time in the West
No Country for Old Men

Frank Vatel @frankvatel312.bsky.social · 12d

Spell your name with movie titles

Fear in the Night
Ruthless
Act of Violence
No Escape
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye

Victim
Appointment with Danger
Touch of Evil
Edge of Doom
Larceny

Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 12d

Gregory’s Girl (1980)
Race With the Devil (1975)
eXistenZ (1999)
Gothic (1986)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1969)
Rear Window (1954)
You Can’t Take It With You (1938)

Frank Reardon @frank212.bsky.social · 11d

One of the greatest revenge films, a 5 star movie for me.