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Rebecca Stone Gordon
@meanlouise.bsky.social
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Coffee enthusiast. Gothicist. Biocultural archaeologist - history of anatomy & museums, forensic anthro, mummies, Nuclear Culture

Writes about archaeology horror, mummy films, Scooby-Doo

Also @excavatinghorror.com

Not weird at all
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Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social · Feb 17
I need to quit watching this but it’s too delightful to fade away yet so I’m pinning it for a spell.
meanlouise.bsky.social Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social · Feb 13
The Ninth Configuration (1979) is a gothic horror-comedy set in a secret military asylum in a gothic castle on an island in the Pacific NW. Jason Miller understood the assignment. His intensity & commitment is a marvel. youtu.be/_hAA_ppWwks?...
The Ninth Configuration - Jason Miller Scene
YouTube video by Journey To The Center Of The Cinema
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Day 8, in which @fishinnards.bsky.social stands in front of the Christmas tree with today’s #alxbeercember offering & I once again wonder why I don’t turn another lamp on before taking these pictures.
The middle aged man with the long blond ponytail wears a black sweater. He stands in front of the Christmas tree, which vibrates softly for no reason we can discern. The wicker monkeys assure us there’s nothing to be concerned about, but they’ve never been particularly trustworthy. The faint blue glow that was emanating from the doorway to the basement diminished significantly overnight and now appears to have been extinguished. We’re leaving the padlock on the door for another 24 hours, just in case. Pay no attention to the man in the leather jacket and Santa hat. He’s been standing out there on the sidewalk for a while, but surely he’ll leave eventually.
December 8, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Reminder
meanlouise.bsky.social Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social · May 27
While everyone in the US who believes in preventative medicine is scrambling for vaccines, I’ll remind that the shingles vax is authorized in the US for ages 19+ for individuals w [a laundry list of conditions] & it’s absolutely worth advocating for yourself to get/get this covered by insurance.
Shingles Vaccine Recommendations
Find routine recommendations and timing considerations for the shingles vaccine.
www.cdc.gov
December 8, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Was going to share this under @beckyhammer.bsky.social’s recent book post but I can’t find it now so this will do: these 2 talented & strange writers from Virginia are gonna do a thing & I can’t say for sure it’ll be of interest to bookish ALXskeeters but I bet it’s gonna be fun 👻
claymcleod.bsky.social Clay McLeod Chapman @claymcleod.bsky.social · 14h
For our final Fearmongers of the year, S.A. Cosby and I are gonna share the ghost stories from our childhood, adulthood and everything in between. Bundle up, ‘cause this one’s gonna get spooky. Thursday, December 18th at 7 PM/ET. Register via Zoom: bit.ly/48GwdF4
December 8, 2025 at 9:32 PM
meanlouise.bsky.social
I know the reason this book made both of these lists:

IT’S AWESOME.
wnwagner.bsky.social Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 18h
I'm reeling from the news that GIRL IN THE CREEK made both The Lineup's Best Horror Books of 2025 and Library Journal's Best Books 2025 lists!!!
the-line-up.com/best-horror-...
www.libraryjournal.com/story/Stella...
Screenshot from The Lineup, featuring a bunch of book covers and a headline reading "THE BEST HORROR BOOKS OF 2025."
December 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Searching for a new litterbox and dying laughing at this cat who looks like a toilet astronaut.
A white long-haired cat sitting proudly in a litterbox that looks like a space shuttle.
December 7, 2025 at 6:53 PM
meanlouise.bsky.social
Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn’t a selfie
A medium-large alligator resents being awakened from a pleasant snooze in a sunbeam on a fallen tree trunk in a Florida wetland. She wishes you’d move along so she can resume dreaming of summer.
December 8, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Take a journey Eli Wallach’s extremely wide ties, given the descriptive treatment they so richly deserve in the alt-text. Maximalism, baby!
culturalgutter.bsky.social Gruß vom Cultura @culturalgutter.bsky.social · 1d
For Eli Wallach's birthday, please enjoy his ties in The Sentinel (1977)!
Eli Wallach stands next to a doctor in a room. Wallach's tie is very wide--at least half as wide as Wallach's torso. It's diagonally striped in shades of blue. Some of the stripes are also patterned. You Christopher Walken peers through a window in the door. He is in the hall outside. He is not yet rated to be a room with this tie.
December 7, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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New Bad Brains discovered! culturalgutter.com/2025/12/07/b...
Banned in the District: New Bad Brains
Local news in Washington, D. C. has a story about newly uncovered music from seminal punk band, Bad Brains. The story includes brief interviews and footage of Bad Brains performing. Watch here.
culturalgutter.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Day 7 #ALXbeercember brings forth Baby Kittens for @fishinnards.bsky.social. Look, I don’t name these beers.
The middle aged man with the long blond pony tail holds up a can of beer in one hand & a goblet in the other. He wears a Star Wars Christmas sweatshirt and stands in front of a Christmas tree. Because it’s Christmas & this is an advent calendar of beer. In the background, the wicker monkeys grow suspicious of our compulsion to take a daily photo in front of the Christmas tree with a beer. Nevertheless, the beer photos are significantly less disturbing than the photos with tea. Do you know what happens when you brew chamomile tea and put it in your beautiful footed glass mugs? It looks like you’re drinking a steaming mug of urine to ring in the holiday season, that’s what it looks like. Trust me when I say that no one wants that. Not even the Wicker Monkeys.
December 7, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Happy birthday, @wnwagner.bsky.social!!!
December 7, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Just tons of love & sympathy & shared grief for all our (now unemployed) friends who devoted years/decades of their careers to making the Kennedy Center & the KenCen Honors amazing. This weekend feels like the cherry on top of a shit cake & I’m so sorry you have to keep seeing these pictures.
December 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Just got my copy of the fab @katelaity.bsky.social’s translation & introduction to this peculiar & fascinating 1826 volume, The Art of Drawing Cards and The Tarot, by Aldegonde Pérenna, the Polish Sybil (aka Gabrielle Paban). Mothman has more of a comment than a question. He can tedious, I’m sorry.
A small plush Mothman stands next to a stack of Alice in Wonderland themed Tarot & oracle cards on a black laquered tray. A pink plush Disney version of the Cheshire Cat snuggles up to a copy of Kate’s book, a paperback with cover by the exceptionally talented SL Johnson.
December 6, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Day 6 of #ALXbeercember, in which @fishinnards.bsky.social begins to ask questions about all of these photos & I begin lobbying @deptofbeerandwine.bsky.social to carry Zeke’s Coffee beans bc I can’t be expected to write without Tell-Tale Dark roast coffee & the roastery is several miles away!*
The middle aged man with the long blond ponytail and glasses is starting to ask too many questions about why I’m taking these pictures. The wicker monkeys created a distraction, bursting into a rousing chorus of the 12 Days of Christmas. Their sinister simian language remains unintelligible to the middle-aged man with the long blond ponytail so he is vaguely unsettled but as yet unaware that the familiar melody conceals a darker truth about this reality for which he is not yet ready. He stands in front of a Christmas tree holding a beer can and a goblet of winter ale.
December 6, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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🎶 Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree 🎶
#IndianaBones&Friends
A 12 foot skeleton getting gussied up in a Christmas tree dress with a hood. This isn’t the best photo but it’s the one where he looks like he’s smiling. A 12 foot skeleton getting gussied up in a Christmas tree dress with a hood.
December 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Day 4 of #Alxbeercember is NOT from Bradenton, Florida as my now-deleted previous post mistakenly stated. That’s because this beer is from New York. And because Bradenton, and I cannot emphasize this strongly enough, does not exist.
The middle aged white man with the long blond ponytail and glasses stands in front of a lit Christmas tree in a Monarch tshirt and grandpa cardigan. He’s just opened the beer. Despite his exaggerated expression to get me to take the damn picture already, only the Christmas tree is actually lit at this time. The wicker monkeys hang in the background, studying my fevered efforts to just take the damn picture. But for alxbeercember I shall prevail in reporting his progress through the days.
December 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Day 5 of @fishinnards.bsky.social & DBW #ALXbeercember. This one is from Bradenton, Florida, which everyone knows is not a real place.
The middle aged man with the long blond ponytail and glasses is doing something in front of a lit Christmas tree that involves holding a can of beer and praying to the beer lord. Or maybe he’s praying to the wicker monkeys. They’d like that, wouldn’t they?
December 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Fact
theasabin.bsky.social Thea Sabin @theasabin.bsky.social · 4d
John Agar made a whole movie warning us not to mess with the Mole People. Does no one pay attention anymore? (Rhetorical question.)
Still from the black and white film The Mole People. Two men are lying on the floor of a temple situated in an underground city. A dancer who looks like a cross between Audrey Hepburn and CindyLou Who, with her hair bound up in a very Seussian updo, is standing over the men, arms outstretched. She is wearing a diaphanous, nearly translucent gown and cape, so she looks almost as if she has wings when her arms are extended. Guards stand in the background in short white tunics and sandals.
December 4, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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We should absolutely laugh at this hollow earth motherfucker, but maybe we shouldn’t lose sight of the fact Matt Gaetz’s brother-in-law has billions in US defense contracts & is gonna waste a lot of tax money antagonizing the Mole People, which didn’t go so great for these (movie) archaeologists.
Still from the black and white B-movie, The Mole People (1956). Actors John Agar, Phil Chambers, Nestor Paiva, and Hugh Beaumont are shown playing a group of archaeologists who venture into the earth and tangle with the Mole People. It doesn’t go well for anyone, including the viewer. Most viewers, anyway. I rather enjoy this strange plodding adventure in which the guy most GenXers such as myself think of as the befuddled & largely ineffective patriarch of the Cleaver family, marches off to adventure. Low-budget adventure. Adventure filled with a lot of expository dialogue, b-roll of real expeditions but with none of the discovery & all the slow plodding wide-shots, and actors in cheap rubber masks and suits.
December 4, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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In an effort to get into the spirit of the Christmas season, I bought some festive fair isle sweaters. Am I doing this right?

In unrelated news, I’ve discovered my 12 foot skeleton can get (almost) matching eyeglasses. Don’t tell him, they’re going to be a surprise!
Living room mirror selfie of a middle aged woman wearing a pink and red fair isle style sweater from Modcloth with a row of ghosts around the yoke. 12 foot skeleton’s skull wearing red cat eye glasses.
December 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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I thought I could maintain momentum last night long enough to post @fishinnards.bsky.social Day 3 #ALXbeercember, but I was mistaken.
The middle aged white man with the long blond ponytail holds a beer can and a goblet of beer. He stands in front of a festively lit Christmas tree. He’s still wearing his wool coat and a scarf for some reason that escapes me now. The wicker monkeys align on a wicker chain that hangs from the ceiling and stretches across the room. Are they plotting an assault on the Christmas tree or wishing that they too had an advent calendar of curated beers. No one will ever know because I just spent an outrageous amount of time fighting autocorrect, which was certain the wicker monkeys would prefer a curated collection of “bears” or “beets” but not beer. The middle aged man with the long blond ponytail will need to comment on the type of bear he received and his enjoyment of same.
December 4, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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🖤🖤🖤
littleghostsbooks.bsky.social Little Ghosts Books @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social · 5d
New in the shop-

The Little Ghosts Books Reading Journal! Log your horror reads in 2026 with 20 two-sided guided journal pages and a recap at the back. Printed locally, designed in-house.

This journal also serves as our new loyalty card! Bring in pages for stickers that translate to % discounts. 🖤
The Little Ghosts Books Horror Reading Journal in front of the “A Good Story Will Haunt You” Mural The front inside page of the Little Ghosts Reading Journal, featuring a bunch of book ghosts. First pages of the journal, with book report pages including Overall Rating and Scare-O-Meter Reading Journal Recap with 20 books and ratings
December 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Just a reminder to not over do it on #NationalCookieDay
Donald Glover in a grey suit as Troy looking uncomfortable after eating 3 quarters of a giant cookie.
December 4, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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This is still happening. Every Wednesday.

The Eagle has landed. Etc etc
A large coffee mug with a cartoonish eagle head and the words “thank clawed it’s Wednesday.” It’s a very nice mug.
December 4, 2025 at 12:45 AM
meanlouise.bsky.social
To live with a professional DJ with an incomprehensible knowledge of current popular music (in multiple genres!) is to wonder “Is he having a stroke, studying Ancient Greek, dabbling in the dark arts, or speaking in tongues?” pretty regularly.
alexgoyette.bsky.social Alex Goyette @alexgoyette.bsky.social · 5d
I see child free friends sharing their wrapped and it is all either Taylor Swift or made up words I never heard of 😭👴🏼

I knew id gotten out of touch but dang these artist lists are like

1) zopopu
2) Monjapan
3) Dale Dady Donder
4) X3rP
5) Lashiter Mongle
December 4, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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It's only been 3 days and I am ready for a weekend
Wednesday Addams with The Weeknd's face photoshopped on Text: WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT WAS THE WEEKND BUT ITS ONLY WEDNESDAY
December 3, 2025 at 9:58 PM