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Kent M. Beeson
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Creator of AGAINST THE '70S (https://againstthe70s.blot.im/), a blog about mashing together '70s cinema & today's TTRPGs, and manager of The Best Album Brackets (@bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social).
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Screen grab from The Simpsons episode where Homer watches TWIN PEAKS. It shows The Giant (a tall balding white man in a waiter-esque outfit with a bowtie) dancing with a white horse on grass under a moonlit sky. There is a tree behind them with a stoplight hanging from a branch. The light is red. Above them, the moon is a crescent.
November 26, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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The universe works on a math equation
That never even ever really even ends in the end
Infinity spirals out creation
We're on the tip of its tongues, and it is saying "Well,
we ain't sure where you stand
You ain't machines and you ain't land"
November 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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*thinks about it, then:*
A painting of a man with an open book in front of him. He has an incredibly annoyed scowl on his face, and a hand on his forehead, like he just read the worst pun in existence.
November 24, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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A series of posts from me about ALIEN: EARTH Was under the impression, clearly wrong, that ALIEN: EARTH was one & done. Disappointing, especially since I'm not 100% sure I'm interested in returning. ALIEN: EARTH could join s1 of CASTLE ROCK in shows that I watch 90% of then give up on at the last minute. Genuinely can't tell if the stupidity level of a number of characters on ALIEN: EARTH is a conscious artistic choice or bad writing or if it's the former in certain cases and the latter in others. ALIEN: EARTH was fine for the first 3 episodes, but no. 4 is starting to lose me.
November 22, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Dana Carvey as Bill Clinton in the infamous DANA CARVEY SHOW sketch where he has several lactating nipples and is feeding a fake plastic baby and three real puppies.
November 21, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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This may be the most 70s photo ever.
A Polaroid of me, probably 6 or 7, standing in front of a Space Invaders cabinet. The Polaroid is contained in a paper frame that came from the back of an issue of Dynamite magazine. The Dynamite logo (cursive in rainbow colors) is at the top of the frame, and then there’s a Monty Pythonesque hand with a multicolor sleeve holding the frame.
November 21, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Here’s me on two separate Christmas mornings (I assume, because I have different clothes on), with two toys and a game I have absolutely no memory of.
Me, a little 5-7 year old holding up a Godzilla board game. I’m making claw gestures. Me at about 4-6 years old in front of a Christmas tree, with two giant action figure type guys. One is apparently called “Zogg the Terrible” and apparently had a light gun and you shot at this orange Hulk-like monster with a big white eye? The other is called maybe “Electricman”? (The photo is damaged.) He looks kind of like a Jet Jaguar type robot dude.
November 21, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Was going through a pile of old photos and found some that are… well, interesting to me at least. First up: a series of Polaroids from Universal Studios c. 1977. The JAWS ride scared me when I was five; I now understand why.
Me, about five or six years old, on one of those giant net play things in an outside area. I’m *pretty* sure this was at Universal Studios, but I could be wrong. Me about 5 standing next to a giant replica of the Jaws shark hanging upside down as if caught. It looks ginormous next to me. Next to it is the JAWS movie poster. The Universal Studios tram roadway entrance to a Battlestar Galactica exhibit. Off to the side is a Cylon in some kind of white, one person vehicle, and the road curves to the left towards some kind of large spaceship, like maybe you go into it. The sharks from the Universal Studios JAWS ride, jumping out of the water, shot from inside the tram. Its mouth is wide open and black, and full of giant white triangular teeth. It doesn’t look “real” but holy shit it looks terrifying.
November 21, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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fucking to the twin peaks soundtrack
Bobby Briggs crying
November 20, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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So there’s a bluesky screenplay community thing going around about pitching your WIP with two movie posters. I’m not really doing that, but I do want to give a preview of something I’ve been working on & off for over a year now, and it’s *so* close to being done.
Horror movie host Svengoolie, a white man wearing a dark jacket with a red shirt underneath, and a black top hat. He has dark circles painted around his eyes, as well as a mustache and skinny beard that dips down. He’s holding a rubber chicken by the throat. He has a serious if bug-eyed look on his face, which is funny because he’s not a very serious guy. The title screen for the 1973 made for TV horror movie “The Horror at 37,000 Feet”. The title is in yellow and behind it is a shot of outside of an airport but it’s difficult to make anything out, it’s too dark.
November 19, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Finished my rewatch of THE X-FILES Season 2. Here’s my rankings of the episodes, in tier and then within tier.
THE X-FILES SEASON 2 RANKED S "End Game" (S02E17) "Colony" (S02E16) A "Blood" (S02E03) "Duane Barry" (S02E05) "Sleepless" (S02E04) "The Host" (S02E02) "Ascension" (S02E06) "Anasazi" (S02E25) B "Aubrey" (SO2E12) "Red Museum" (S02E10) "Humbug" (S02E20) "One Breath" (S02E08) "Die Hand Die Verletzt" (S02E14) "Little Green Men" (SO2E01) "3" (SO2E07) "F. Emasculata" (S02E22) "Irresistible" (S02E13) "Soft Light" (SO2E23) "Firewalker" (S02E09) "Our Town" (S02E24) "Fearful Symmetry" (S02E18) "Dod Kalm" (S02E19) "Excelsis Dei" (S02E11) "The Calusari" (S02E21 D "Fresh Bones (S02E15) F (none)
November 19, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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and here it is… again… four types of guys online… no exceptions
The band Wire from 1977. From l to r: Colin Newman, Bruce Gilbert, Graham Lewis, Robert Gotobed. They all kind of look like the same guy.
November 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Really, aren’t we all
A model semi truck with the phrase “Humpin’ to Please” on it
November 14, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Dr. Naomi Wolf saying “No! No!! Nó!!!"
November 13, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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old roadside pics
dunes cantina, huntington beach, california 1979
Dunes Cantina, a bar that looks like an Old West building in a ghost town, full of weathered wood and looks about to fall down, but apparently was an operating business. It looks like it was built in a parking lot but apparently the beach was just in front of it.
November 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Got a new shirt (iykyk)
Me, a 53 year old white dude wearing glasses and a blue baseball cap, and a brown shirt that says “Dunes Cantina Est 1936"
November 12, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Naomi Wolf tweet that says No! No!! Nó!!!
November 11, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Poisoned AND blown to smithereens? Oh well fuck, throw in the towel. Blown to smithereens would’ve been fine, but not if they’re also poisoned.
November 11, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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This one made me laugh out loud: “2008: Movies to See” I get that I started it and didn’t finish it, but what the hell even are these choices. No idea what the first two are, and then the American remake of ONE MISSED CALL? What?
2008: Movies To See • A Bloody Aria (Won Shin-yeon) • The Killing of John Lennon (Andrew Piddington) • One Missed Call (Eric Valette)
November 11, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Depending on the breaks
George C. Scott in DR. STRANGELOVE as General Buck Turgidson, telling the president we’d only lose 10-20 million people in a nuclear war, tops.
November 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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I’m not hep enough to know who this is. Who is it?
"Mood" was arguably the culmination of that moment that pop-punk and SoundCloud rap found each other, and it sure feels like that moment is over now. But that 00s pop-punk revival didn't go away. Instead, it trickled into other styles of music. Pretty soon, we'll see the rise of another young artist who applied that influence to Taylor Swift-style stadium pop. She scored a huge hit of her own right away, and she stuck around, unlike 24kGold or lann Dior. We'll get to her soon enough.
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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A shot from Portishead’s video for “All Mine”, showing a black and white screen with a giant dark “P” on it. At the corner, Prickle is holding a microphone, taking the place of the young girl who lipsyncs in the video.
November 9, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Every year, I play this album when outside my window looks like the cover of this album. This year it came way early. You can listen along here: planningforburial.bandcamp.com/album/below-...
The cover for Planning for Burials’s BELOW THE HOUSE. It shows several midwestern-looking two-story houses, look like they were built in the 40s or so, all with snow-covered roofs. The few trees around are bare of leaves. About 70% of the picture is the cold grey sky above the houses.
November 9, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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November 8, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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A painting of a man holding his forehead and a disgusted expression, with a giant book in front of him. He looks like he’s saying Oh for chrissakes
November 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM