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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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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
meanlouise.bsky.social
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
meanlouise.bsky.social
🎶 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
meanlouise.bsky.social
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
meanlouise.bsky.social
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
meanlouise.bsky.social
Fact
theasabin.bsky.social Thea Sabin @theasabin.bsky.social · 2d
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
meanlouise.bsky.social
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
meanlouise.bsky.social
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
meanlouise.bsky.social
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
meanlouise.bsky.social
🖤🖤🖤
littleghostsbooks.bsky.social Little Ghosts Books @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social · 3d
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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communiess.bsky.social
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
meanlouise.bsky.social
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 · 3d
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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cpgorski.bsky.social
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
meanlouise.bsky.social
Day 2, observed, #ALXBeercember because I apparently can’t be trusted to keep up with this any better than @fishinnards.bsky.social - he can supply his own review in the replies. I’m not even sure what it is (other than beer).
That middle aged white white guy with the blond ponytail and glasses wears a Greendale Community College tshirt under that same grandpa cardigan he was wearing the day before. Still in the yellow kitchen but now holding up a can of Albino Rhino and a glass with beer in it.
December 3, 2025 at 10:51 PM
meanlouise.bsky.social
Stay weird, Alexandria crosswalk beg buttons.

(W Mt Ida + Commonwealth)
December 3, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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histoftech.bsky.social
Scientists recently combined DNA of a cheetah with the DNA of a crab.

It went sideways real fast.
November 22, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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disabilitystor1.bsky.social
I love it when people talk to me as if I neither am disabled nor actually study this in my own work. But let me pitch someone else's work here, Doron Dorfman's "Fear of the Disability Con."
Sharing it for everyone feeding the fear of the disability con right now:

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Fear of the Disability Con: Perceptions of Fraud and Special Rights Discourse Law & Society Review, Vol. 53, No. 4, 2019 41 Pages Posted: 18 Oct 2019 Last revised: 18 Dec 2019 Doron Dorfman Seton Hall Law School Date Written: October 3, 2019 Abstract This Article presents a new framework for analyzing the development and implementation of disability law: the prism of the fear of “the disability con” — popular perceptions of fraud and fakery. We all encounter disability rights and accommodations in everyday life. However, people with disabilities pay a price for the legal recognition of their rights. People who park in disabled parking spots, use service dogs, move to the front of lines, receive Social Security benefits, or request academic accommodations are often viewed as faking disabilities and abusing the law. This disability con stereotype thus serves as an important invisible barrier preventing Americans with disabilities from fully taking part in society, as it not only undermines the public legitimacy of rights but also restricts the design and implementation of the legal regime illustrating those. Nevertheless, this moral panic around disability con in American society and its manifestations has yet to be studied in a systematic-empirical way, nor has it been addressed in socio-legal scholarship. Using a mixed-methods approach composed of an original nationally representative survey along with in-depth interviews, this article fills this gap. The data suggest that the stereotype of disability con applies to multiple disability rights across venues and contexts; that nearly 60% of Americans with disabilities feel that others question their disability; that the stereotype of disability con extends to visible disabilities and to less apparent ones; and that, counterintuitively, the people most suspicious are nondisabled individuals with a personal connection to a disabled person and disabled people who experience suspicion themselves. Based on the richer un…
December 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
meanlouise.bsky.social
Meanwhile, on my friend’s IG a dude’s berating us that we can’t just make up a word & say it means something. I mean, you sort of can. They’re words. But whatever. In conclusion radio publicity stunts (stunting) have a long silly history we definitely didn’t make up. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuntin...
Stunting (broadcasting) - Wikipedia
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December 3, 2025 at 3:41 AM
meanlouise.bsky.social
A true classic
mollytanzer.bsky.social the idea slumlord✨ @mollytanzer.bsky.social · 4d
Was reminded of my very favorite tweet of all time today:
Philip K Dick movies all have names like CORTICAL IMPASSE and are based on short stories called like "Let's See What's Going On Down at the Brain Factory"
December 2, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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sepinwall.bsky.social
For Wired, I wrote about this week's stomach-churning Mad Men snafu, and about the larger perils of transferring classic shows into new formats:
HBO Max’s 'Mad Men' Barf Scene Proves ‘Remastered’ Doesn’t Mean ‘Better’
The errors in one of the most beautiful shows ever made continue a modern tradition of reformatting things that are better off left alone.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:53 PM
meanlouise.bsky.social
I feel bad for the crew of this series, who brought so much collective experience, skill, & artistry, working so hard to make Mad Men look & sound great. But I also laughed at this image for a solid 5 minutes.
poniewozik.bsky.social James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 4d
God help me I had to check for myself if this is real, and it is. But also: this episode is "Red in the Face" and it's on the HBO Max site as "Babylon"! We used to be a proper country.
paulhaine.bsky.social Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 4d
HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right
December 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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katelaity.bsky.social
Need a gift for a tarot fan in your life? bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
The Art of Drawing Cards and The Tarot
Check out The Art of Drawing Cards and The Tarot - <p>There's nothing quite like this tarot book. The original editors of this curious volume threw in every method they could find for reading and play...
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December 1, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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katelaity.bsky.social
Deadline extended to December 5th!
November 28, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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This whole story is pretty fascinating
What Is the Mysterious New Group Behind Trump's Venice Biennale Pick? | Artnet News
What is the American Arts Conservancy? Who are its advisors? Why is a pet foods entrepreneur in charge of the U.S. Venice Biennale pavilion?
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December 1, 2025 at 2:03 PM