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Ian Curtin
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merritt @merrittk.com · 4h
not now, kitten. daddy ate an egg that fell on the ground and a street-smart white blood cell and a by-the-book cold pill are currently fighting a virus voiced by laurence fishburne inside his body
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Ian Curtin @iancurtin.bsky.social · 7h
[Chef's kiss]
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Ian Curtin @iancurtin.bsky.social · 9h
- Finnegans Bake
- The Bun Also Rises
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Loaf
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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 9h
My top suggestions of books to read this World Bread Day...

- The Focaccia in the Rye
- Yeast of Eden
- Flours for Algernon
- The Lion, the Witch and the Warburtons
- Pannetonement
- The Naan in the High Castle
- Leaven Las Vegas
- Pitta Rabbit
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Ian Curtin @iancurtin.bsky.social · 9h
A nice morsel from Leahy.
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Ian Curtin @iancurtin.bsky.social · 9h
I'm doing just that with Chandler - haven't read him in at least 25 years, going back to him (2 books so far) is a treat. Not obscure but the principle applies!
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Ian Curtin @iancurtin.bsky.social · 11h
Damon Runyon being quoted in a polling analysis is my first and likely only highlight of the benighted #aras25 campaign.
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Andrew Nette @pulpcurry.bsky.social · 15h
Long live cinema!
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Ian Curtin @iancurtin.bsky.social · 22h
Alas my choices have received no such approbation.
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Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 1d
Today is the 26th anniversary of The Straight Story and an ideal opportunity to watch this true little miracle of a film by the great David Lynch.

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cinephiliabeyond.org/straight-sto...
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Ian Curtin @iancurtin.bsky.social · 1d
Audition
Lost Highway
Midsommar
The Shining
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Rob Tyers @thexclaim6.bsky.social · 1d
Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

- Texas Chainsaw Massacre
- The Wicker Man
- Halloween
- Suspiria
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 1d
Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

I'll go first:
-Silence of the Lambs
-I Saw the Devil
-Coherence
-Jaws
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Ian Curtin @iancurtin.bsky.social · 1d
It's great - have read six of his and struggling to recall any that were duds. His story-through-dialogue style is marvellous, almost (and I know this is a stretch) avant-garde in ways.
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Ian Curtin @iancurtin.bsky.social · 1d
Never seen the movie, but the book is fantastic. Higgins definitely under-rated these days.
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Ian Curtin @iancurtin.bsky.social · 1d
'After years writing westerns, in 1972 Leonard read George V Higgins’s The Friends of Eddie Coyle – “I finished the book in one sitting and felt as if I’d been set free” – and everything changed.'

www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Elmore Leonard: the Dickens of Detroit who captured the downside of the American dream
To celebrate the centenary of the great American crime writer, here are 10 of the best of his 40-plus tautly written, finely crafted novels
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Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social · 2d
Béla Tarr’s ‘One War, One Battle, One Conflict After Another’, anyone?

(Quote from The Melancholy of Resistance by László Krasznahorkai- which, yes, has already been adapted as ‘Werckmeister Harmonies’)
A page of text with one line underlined: ”It was one war, one battle, one conflict after another”
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Ian Curtin @iancurtin.bsky.social · 3d
"The husband is annoyed by these machinations, even when he ostensibly benefits from them ... Ultimately he would like the status of doors not to be an issue in their marriage, and this desire sometimes takes the form of a rigid code of conduct that directly contradicts his best interests."
Short stories: Let Me Think by J. Robert Lennon
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Ian Curtin @iancurtin.bsky.social · 4d
!!
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Ian Curtin @iancurtin.bsky.social · 4d
Hard to know which is worse - the instinct to use Chat for this purpose, or the feeble nature of the final "output".
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Ian Curtin @iancurtin.bsky.social · 4d
Yes really well done.
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Ian Curtin @iancurtin.bsky.social · 5d
Beyond football I always enjoy the Gavs Casey and Cooney. Jeff Passan on baseball. Zane Lowe on hoops.
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Ian Curtin @iancurtin.bsky.social · 5d
Agree with names mentioned. There's another chap who writes fluently and thinks cogently.
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Ian Curtin @iancurtin.bsky.social · 5d
Tbf I think you have a head start on him re the essential futility of all sporting and indeed human endeavour, John.
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Ian Curtin @iancurtin.bsky.social · 5d
Very true
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Ian Curtin @iancurtin.bsky.social · 5d
People are so *odd*. I recognise the redundancy of that statement given you are curating one of the greatest testaments to human oddity I've come across.
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Ian Curtin @iancurtin.bsky.social · 5d
Marvellous, I can picture it. My father-in-law is easily riled out of all proportion by people he considers loud; but he once had to be dissuaded from going and complaining to someone not for volume but because he found their voice itself annoying.
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