Bob Calhoun
bobcalhoun.bsky.social
Bob Calhoun
@bobcalhoun.bsky.social
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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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-...
Private equity is already ruining the SF Giants.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/685...
December 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
@rpicado.bsky.social @adamscantwell.bsky.social Horror of Dracula was in Sammy Davis Jr.’s all-time top 10!
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
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.
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]
November 30, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Finally enough snow to break out the squirrel picnic table!
November 30, 2025 at 8:05 PM
It’s time Pete Hegseth became Pete Hague-seth.
November 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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
November 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Watch out for the göringutans.
really went dark for the sequel
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...
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
ALT: a man in a suit and bow tie is saying i swear it
media.tenor.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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
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
Dear QT: It’s all Most Dangerous Game mother fucker. Happy Thanksgiving 🦃.

xoxo,

Bob
November 27, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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
November 27, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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
He wore a cane and derby hat
They called him Bat, Bat Masterson
@rpicado.bsky.social
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...
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.
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
🎶 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
It's gotta be Willis O'Brien's WAR EAGLES! bristolbadfilmclub.co.uk/war-eagles-t...
November 25, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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