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Bob Calhoun
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Author of The Murders That Made Us, a true crime history of San Francisco. Co-host of Old Movies for Young Stoners, the podcast that pairs cannabis with classic cinema. Former SFWeekly, Incredibly Strange Wrestling. He/him www.murdersthatmadeus.com
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Bob Calhoun @bobcalhoun.bsky.social · 17d
So proud of the #Noirvember episode of @oldmoviesystoners.bsky.social with @eddiemuller.bsky.social talking Jane Greer's parrots, Evelyn Keyes' hair and Ann Savage's, um, savagery. It's all DARK CITY DAMES with Eddie for a FULL TWO HOURS! soundcloud.com/omfys/s4e11-...
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Private equity is already ruining the SF Giants.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/685...
Text reads: But private equity tends to take a different view, and the Giants sold 10 percent of the team to Sixth Street Partners in March. While announcing the transaction, the Giants said the organization would use the cash to fund stadium upgrades and other facilities, including the Mission Rock development in which the Giants are partners in restaurants and other ventures. Private equity investors are walled off from making cash-flow decisions, according to comments that Chicago Cubs Chairman Tom Ricketts made to The Athletic in January. But the Giants might be concerned that taking substantial operational losses on paper would fail to demonstrate responsible corporate governance so soon after entering their partnership with Sixth Street. And that’s a particular concern when the revenue-generating picture is far from clear.
December 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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@rpicado.bsky.social @adamscantwell.bsky.social Horror of Dracula was in Sammy Davis Jr.’s all-time top 10!
letterboxd.social Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 5h
Sammy Davis Jr.’s Top 10 Films 🎵

With the Sammy Davis Jr. estate, we’re sharing excerpts from the entertainer’s 1980 memoir ‘Hollywood In A Suitcase’ and highlighting his top ten favorite films.

See what Sammy had to say about each selection: boxd.it/QkNBE/detail
December 1, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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"Strong floor, no ceiling" is very literally the basis of like every Gilded Age political cartoon
Gilded Age political cartoon titled "the protectors of our industries" A mass of workers strain under the weight of supporting a boat containing rich top-hatted monocle wearing capitalists sitting atop huge sacks of cash
November 30, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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people think “no ceiling” means “lets the rich keep getting richer” because it’s an idea taken from a venture capitalist by a party that has shown no stomach for reining in the worst excesses of 21st century capitalism. It’s not that people don’t know what it means. It’s that they do.
mmasnick.bsky.social Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 23h
I think people are negatively reacting to the "no ceiling" part as shorthand for "let the rich get richer," though I don't think that's what's meant at all. It's an aspirational claim that *can* resonate with plenty of people. It's about opening up opportunity for everyone, which is good?
December 1, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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So my book about Howard Zinn’s outsized life comes out August 2026. That’s now official. If you want me to come to your bookstore/library/community center/house party to talk about Zinn’s life and and what teaches us about how to beat back the bastards, please email [email protected]
Book cover of “The People’s Historian”, my book about Howard Zinn.
November 30, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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dmercer.bsky.social dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 1d
Finally enough snow to break out the squirrel picnic table!
Squirrel sitting at a miniature wooden "picnic table" that has a red cup on top of it. The cup is full of seed, which the squirrel is eating. The ground is covered with snow.
November 30, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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It’s time Pete Hegseth became Pete Hague-seth.
November 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Cleaning out my home office that I've never cleaned out. It looks like I'm making progress but it sure doesn't feel like it.
November 29, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
Pope stands holding a baseball bat on a plane
November 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Watch out for the göringutans.
chrismohney.bsky.social Chris Mohney @chrismohney.bsky.social · 3d
really went dark for the sequel
A movie marquee advertises for the films Nuremberg in Zootopia 2
November 28, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Writer-painter Josh Hickman, my friend since high school, wrote a powerful book about being his mother's caretaker during her decline from dementia. Reading it healed me after going through a similar experience. I recommend it to all caregivers. We carry it signed by Josh. mzs.press/SIGNED-Forge...
Screenshot of a section of Josh Hickman's book Forgetting: She was… difficult," I have caught myself, sighing weakly, in unguarded and honest moment since my mother's passing. In fact, she was probably the most difficult person I've ever known. She was difficult to deal with, difficult to communicate with, and difficult, if not impossible, to please. When I asked about her by those who had never met her, she also remained somewhat difficult to describe. For me – especially the younger version of me – she was a frightening and enigmatic contradiction, only predictable in her unpredictability. She affected a misplaced aristocratic, even snobbish air, such that many, who didn't know her well thought her well educated, or perhaps some sort of blue blood, but she came from a poor, broken Canadian home and never attended college. She strive to appear polished and controlled, though she possessed a virtually unveiled violent temper. She was endlessly critical, overbearing and argumentative. She always acted as if she deserved better, no matter what she was getting. Where did all this come from? At times I still catch myself struggling to figure it out." Excerpt from forgetting, Josh Hickman's memoir about caring for his mother as she declined from dementia: "One evening, she rose from the couch to go to the bathroom, stumbled, wobbled for a long moment, then collapsed in a heap on the carpet. Horrified, I jumped up and examined her, trying to rouse her, but she was unconscious. Panicking, I dragged her by the armpits back onto the couch, noticing she had soiled her underwear. Yanking the underwear off and throwing them in the bathtub, I pulled her sweatpants up and stared into her ashen face. Was she dying? My mind raced as I tried to figure out what to do. For the moment, I handled things myself in lieu of calling 911. Remembering a brief conversation from months carlier, I recalled her vagucly mentioning she had been diagnosed with a heart condition, a diagnosis she had of course brushed off as "bullshit." She had been given a prescription for this which she wasn't taking. The ailment was atrial fibrillation, which can cause sudden tachycardia and subsequent fainting, My mind shot to the incident of her "falling" on the balcony and breaking her wrist. I hurriedly scoured her voluminous medicine closet, found the medication she had shown me, pulled a pill out, then tried to jiggle her awake so I could force it in her mouth. Her eyes finally opened after several tense seconds, widening as she stared blankly at me. As I yelled at her to wake up and take the pill, she gazed at me vacantly, as if she had no idca who I was. Was she having a stroke? My mind raced. I knew strokes were also possible due to blood pooling in the atrium, especially if one..." Excerpt from Josh Hickman's book Forgetting, about caring for his mother during her decline from dementia: "I had barely I finally informed my mother that she had had nearly two months to mentally and physically prepare herself for this last move, and the time had arrived. Still, she claimed that she hadn't understood that we were actually moving to the condo. She said she thought that was just an "idea." Forced to ignore her protests yet again, I told her she could wait on her couch, and I would do my best to have it packed last. I thought it might help her to actually see the boxes and furniture physically leaving the apartment, that it might aid her in comprehending the inevitable was actually happening before her eyes. I figured it might be best to depart the empty apartment together, mysclf, my mother, and Sammy driving last to the new place as it filled up with our belongings." The cover of Josh Hickman's book Forgetting: The Trials and Tribulations of Caring for a Difficult Parent with Dementia. The cover on the photo shows the author's mother, a woman with brown hair, wearing a black pullover, holding the author as a toddler. He is reaching out to touch her collar. Behind them is a Texaco station in front of a shopping mall in Dallas in the 1970s.
November 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Boris Karloff is just giving brain transplants away in our BLACK FRIDAY (1940) episode! Beat the lines on Apple and other podcasts apps. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
a man in a suit and bow tie is saying i swear it
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November 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen at the Circle Star Theater in San Carlos. cc @peterhartlaub.bsky.social
Harry Belafonte
B.B. King
Tom Jones
The Everly Brothers
Chuck Berry
November 28, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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There was a typhus outbreak in the episode of Gunsmoke l just watched but if they didn’t kill DeForest Kelly in the episode before this one, then they’d have an extra doctor to deal with it.
November 28, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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Dear QT: It’s all Most Dangerous Game mother fucker. Happy Thanksgiving 🦃.

xoxo,

Bob
November 27, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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shurwitt.bsky.social Sam Horrorwitt @shurwitt.bsky.social · 3d
149. A poetic coming-of-age story of the Greek goddess of witchcraft finding her power in the land of the dead, this start of a Goddesses of the Underworld trilogy is full of fascinating portrayals of gods and Titans from Cronos and Hades to Thanatos and Styx. #booksky
Book cover: Hekate the Witch by Nikita Gill
November 27, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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I’d be so much more tempted to give all these Democrats money if they had the Detroiters make their ads.
November 27, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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He wore a cane and derby hat
They called him Bat, Bat Masterson
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Happy Birthday to Bat Masterson, born Bartholemew William Barclay Masterson 172 years ago today
November 27, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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I've almost got enough saved up
November 26, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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There's still time to download our latest episode with EDDIE MULLER talking #Noirvember Dames for a FULL TWO HOURS before you get on that flight. You'll be glad you did! Streaming on Spotify and wherever you cast pods. open.spotify.com/episode/74ms...
Large, bearded man (Bob Calhoun) wearing Santa cap with leopard trim, a red sweater and a green, plaid sport coat standing next to a sophisticated gentleman (Eddie Muller) wearing a suit with a blue tie and grey scarf with a red boutonniere pinned to the lapel of his black coat.
November 26, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Saw a crowd work short from a performer where she picked on a “Jason Mamoa look alike” who was indeed hot and adorable and she asked what he did for work and he said “I teach companies to use Chat-GPT” and then the entire audience groaned in disappointment and I thought my god maybe there is hope.
November 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
blipstress.bsky.social violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · 7d
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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tusk81.bsky.social Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 5d
🎶 San Francisco
Let me beat my feet
Up and down Market Street
I'm gonna climb Nob Hill
Just to watch it get dark
From the Top of the Mark 🎶
November 26, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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It's gotta be Willis O'Brien's WAR EAGLES! bristolbadfilmclub.co.uk/war-eagles-t...
November 25, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Judo Gene LeBell is the cabbie pointing the gun at Chan and Tucker here, and that Hercules movie way sucked BTW.
November 25, 2025 at 7:11 PM