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Steve Burnett
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Writer, musician, technical anthropologist in RTP NC. I do not speak for my employer or anyone else. He/him.
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You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?

Umm...I think I'd be much better off rescuing myself before they get here.
The words "House of Guinness" above a group of four men and one woman dressed in nineteenth-century fashion. From the fictional series.
November 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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I am on vacation. I was out of hummus.

I don't like beets but we have some in the recent CSA box and I hate to throw away food and I thought with enough garlic and other spices it might be okay and I overspice the hummus anyway so it'll be fine. Right?
A crimson mass of glop that is beet hummus, in a clear plastic container in the sunlight for the full intensity of the color
November 24, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Block suggestion: I just received the following chat request from @ pureinhomepet.bsky .
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November 13, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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Tonight's movie was a depressing exploration of how the need of money corrupts, directed by Johnnie To.
The words Life Without Principle, in Chinese and English, in gold against a black background. Title card of the 2011 movie of the same name.
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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Nice! My Friday night movie (Breakfast of Champions, adapted from the Vonnegut novel) was full of music by Martin Denny.
screencap from the opening credits of Breakfast of Champions (1999). A black background, and a sketch of a coiled rattlesnake in white. Below the sketch "songs performed by" in small red lower-case, then in yellow-white all caps "MARTIN DENNY"
November 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Today's greenway sighting was a very muddy snapping turtle. Shell was 17-18", nose to tailtip was 2ft 4" to 2ft 6".
A snapping turtle, coated in dried and drying mud, in a grassy area with lots of dead leaves.
October 30, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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As part of my reading for spooky season, the recently-released Why I Love Horror collects eighteen contemporary horror writers each answering the question for themselves.
An inhumanly tall silhouette of a boogeyman-like figure, with spiky hands reaching below its knees, holding hands with a child's silhouette. The child is approximately knee-high to the apparition. The background is off-white. The words "Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature" and "Edited by Becky Siegel Spratford" are also displayed on the cover.
October 29, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Post a vampire that isn’t Dracula.
Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston in Only Lovers Left Alive (2013). Against a background of ornate geometric tiling, a man in black clothing and long black hair and a woman dressed in white with long white hair stare at you.
October 28, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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TIL that the opening credits sequence for Vincent Price's Cry of the Banshee (1970) were animated by Terry Gilliam.
A blue-colorized picture of Vincent Price, spliced into a background of lavender and orange trees and other plants against a blood-red featureless sky. The words "starring VINCENT PRICE" are in white lettering in the upper left corner.
October 27, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Food banks are going to need even more help than usual when 41.7 million Americans lose SNAP on Nov 1 because of the Republican shutdown of the US government. If you can help in any amount, please do. You can find a nearby food bank using www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...
receipt from the Food Bank of Central and eastern North Carolina saying thank you for a donation of $123.94
October 26, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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Tonight's spooky season show was an unexpected Halloween episode of The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin, guest starring Natasia Demetriou of What We Do in the Shadows series fame - although not as a vampire. Silly, fun, supernatural.
Title card for The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin Halloween Special, where the title is superimposed over a halloween-enhanced version of the usual title card art. There's way too much in here to describe it all. A man in a black greatcoat and triangular hat (hat has a huge red feather) holding a ridiculously small pistol. He's smirking, and riding a white horse. Around him is a careening stagecoach with a woman in red riding the roof aiming a rifle, a Black man sitting on the steering seat of the coach wacing a pair of pistols, a man wearing a black jacket and purple skirt swinging on a swing, another man with his arms stretched out and glowing lights in his hands flying with a huge eagle holding his shoulders in its claws, and more. Above the central highwayman's head a full moon rises, with a few bats flying down and away from the Moon.
October 21, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Another recently-watched for spooky season movie is The Bat (1959). A murder mystery writer rents a house as a writing retreat, but a serial killer called The Bat murdered people there recently and hasn't been caught. Vincent Price plays a medical doctor and friend of the rental's owner.
A black and white screencap of the title card for The Bat (1959): a light gray background, with a bat silhouette, and the words "The Bat" superimposed on the silhouette. screencap from The Bat (1959): Vincent Price, with a mildly surprised look on his face. He's wearing a plaid shirt, and holding a white dinner plate. Behind him on the cabin's wall is a gun rack with one hunting rifle, some curtains, and a framed picture of a woman.
October 20, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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Who robbed the Louvre, wrong answers only.
Danny Aiello and Bruce Willis standing in a room next to a big locked door. Aiello is pointing and talking, Willis is holding a skateboard with neon green wheels and "SHARK" on the underside. He's smirking. Both are wearing black clothes. from Hudson Hawk (1991)
October 19, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Note: a line in the closing credits states "No Artificial Intelligence was used in the creation of this film." 5/end
Closing credits of SLOTHERHOUSE screencap, showing: "No animals were harmed in the making of this film. No Artificial Intelligence was used in the creation of this film. www.slotherhouse.com"
October 19, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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I'm between sets two and three of nineteen in the 24hour Ragas Live stream, so to continue spooky season an extra movie I watched this week was Slotherhouse (2023).

A nice young woman in college decides to run against the incumbent-and-forever Mean Girl for the sorority presidency, but... 1/n
SLOTHERHOUSE in sloppy brush strokes, in blood red on a black background.
October 19, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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The 14th annual Ragas Live Festival w/"more than 50 artists and legendary maestros of the South Asian classical tradition" is tonight 18oct 7pm Eastern for 24 hours until 7pm Sunday. More info ragaslive.com/2025
If you're not in Brooklyn, the youtube livestream is www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeIL...
Dark purple background, over which the words "Ragas Live Festival: Pioneer Works" and a logo resembling a looped sine wave pattern are in light purple.
October 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Tonight's spooky season movie was The Black Phone (2021), set in 1978 Denver but filmed in Wilmington NC.
A close up of a poster, showing the word `MISSING` and the top edge of a picture, showing the hair on the top of a person's head. The word and the photo are cut off by the edge of the picture. In the bottom right, the words "The Black Phone" are superimposed in white over the dark brown-black and sepia of the picture of the poster.
October 18, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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Tonight's spooky season movie was Brooklyn 45. Five US military veterans gather in late December 1945 for a seance and realize the war isn't over as much as some of them want it to be.
A screencap from the beginning of Brooklyn 45 (2023). A black and white picture of a street in Brooklyn, showing a brownstone. Two cars of the 1940s are parked at the curb.
October 17, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Tonight's spooky season movie is Attachment (2022). Two women meet, fall in love, and move in with one of the pair's intense and superstitious mother. A very sweet romance combined with secrets, sacrifice, and a lot of salt. Great performances from the two leads and two supporting cast.
The word `Attachment` in a blackletter-like calligraphic typeface in a pale golden color, against a black background.
October 16, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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I had the roof replaced (and the chimney shell redone) over the last week. They cautioned me that because they were throwing the old shingles off the roof into a garbage skip, the area I park in shouldn't be used until they picked up all the shingle fragments with old nails in them.
A white metal post top 6" square, with 23 nails and staples of varying rust levels. A narrow rectangular strip labeled "Hillman Power Pick Magnet" rests next to the pile, with a handle trailing offscreen.
October 15, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Tonight's spooky season movie was From Black (2023). A man tells a grieving mother how she can bring her child back with a ritual. Of course, he's not telling everything he knows.
Hands holding a yellow pad and a pen. The pad shows the words "To Get: pine soap bucket scrub brush kosher salt chain hardware" with only the last two not crossed out.
October 15, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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Tonight's spooky season movie was They Live in the Grey (2022), a ghost story wherein a CPS social worker can see ghosts.
Screencap from They Live in the Grey (2022). Just before sunrise, a field stretching to the horizon, with power line towers scattered across the expanse. The words "They Live in the Grey" are in white across the screen.
October 14, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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For the intersection of spooky season and Indigenous Peoples Day, may I recommend Never Whistle At Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology? I'm about halfway through it at the moment and have liked everything I've read so far.
The cover of Never Whistle At Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology, edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. The title is centered and in white, the subtitle and edit credits are in smaller orange text above and below, and the words are surrounded by a lush and brightly colorful border of plants and animals and...things.
October 13, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Tonight's spooky season movie was The Innocents (2022), in which a group of kids in an apartment complex show each other their psychic abilities. Things get bad. Chilling, intense, excellent.

Double feature?
Let The Right One In (2008, Swedish original), or
Village of the Damned (1960)
A black screen displaying the Norwegian words `De Uskyldige` (The Innocents).
October 13, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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Last night's spooky season movie was Black Roses (1988), a Troma Team Release about demons from Hell forming a rock band and recruiting America's youth through devil music.
A demonic-faced figure in a black leather jacket snarling into a microphone. Lavender smoke partially shrouds the rack of amps behind him. A demonic-faced figure holds a microphone to its face as its left arm is raised outwards and upwards in a big gesture to an unseen audience. A spotlight glares in the left area of the upward-angled picture.
October 12, 2025 at 3:46 PM