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Sam Weller @samwellerauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is the most remarkable story Ray Bradbury ever shared with me. He told it to me late one night, sitting in his den of antiquities and mementos. Take five minutes to read this. It’s pure magic. #Writing #Living #Creativity #RayBradbury #BookSky

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Christian A. Dumais @cadumais.com · 28/09/2026

I hope those kids finally get off your lawn, Mike.

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Christian A. Dumais @cadumais.com · 28/09/2026

She's already a big horror fan, and I thought this movie would be perfect to experience with an audience. And it's generational. Part of my phone calls with my dad is swapping the horror movies we've seen.

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Christian A. Dumais @cadumais.com · 28/09/2026

Just booked tickets for the 4K restoration of EVIL DEAD 2 in October. It's time my daughter experienced this classic on the big screen. It's going to be groovy. Can't wait.

Polish ad for MARTWE ZLO 2 (EVIL DEAD 2).

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Christian A. Dumais @cadumais.com · 27/09/2026

I think it’s safe to say at this point that all of our privacy has been compromised.

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A West Coast Thing @awestcoastthing.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"GO WEST perfectly combines the happiness of reading these comics years ago with the "what is going on now?!" of going through them now." ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🏹🐦🐅🧲🕶️ www.amazon.com/dp/1500829617

A stack of GO WESTs on a coffee table with Tigra's tail in the background.

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Christian A. Dumais @cadumais.com · 25/09/2026

Someone made a free, first-person walkthrough of the house on Ash Tree Lane from HOUSE OF LEAVES. It's as haunting as you'd hope it would be... pazificateur69.github.io/ash-tree-lane/

pazificateur69.github.io

Ash Tree Lane

An unofficial retelling of Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves, in new words, for the web.

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Christian A. Dumais @cadumais.com · 22/09/2026

In another book, I may have thought it was cute. But this book didn't earn it.

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Christian A. Dumais @cadumais.com · 22/09/2026

I usually focus on the positive about the books I've read, but this line made me unreasonably angry when I read it last night.

Highlighted section from book:

"I think I'm out of ammunition," Rachel says. Pete hands her the nine-millimeter and she sets down the shotgun, which has served its Chekhovian purpose.

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Christian A. Dumais @cadumais.com · 18/09/2026

What I love about Reddit is that you can have serious conversations about controversial topics and get lots of upvotes, but when you make an offhand comment about how limited the concept of Michael Myers is as a villain, you get downvoted into oblivion.

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Christian A. Dumais @cadumais.com · 14/09/2026

Spent the last two evenings learning about Rob Delaney's son Henry and just basking in the joy and heartache of A HEART THAT WORKS. It's been a long time a book has reduced me to tears. I wish Delaney never had to write such a book, but I'm thankful he did.

I'm holding a copy of A HEART THAT WORKS by Rob Delaney.

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Christian A. Dumais @cadumais.com · 04/09/2026

This aired nine years ago yesterday. This line alone gave me chills, let alone what came next. Still the absolute best.

A scene from the finale of the third season of TWIN PEAKS. Cooper is asking, "What year is this?"

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Christian A. Dumais @cadumais.com · 03/09/2026

FANS (for the last 30 years): We want our superheroes stories gritty and realistic. People need to finally take the genre seriously! LANTERNS introduces racial politics into its story. FANS (today): NO! NOT LIKE THAT!

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Christian A. Dumais @cadumais.com · 02/09/2026

This is the first time since April of 2025 that I am working with the whole house to myself.

A picture of my office, specifically my blue standing desk with two monitors and a laptop. A Polish Blue Velvet poster is on the wall. There's plenty of blue.

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Christian A. Dumais @cadumais.com · 31/08/2026

Any Night After Night stories that Havey wants to share would be awesome. I just loved that show!

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Christian A. Dumais @cadumais.com · 31/08/2026

Or this is a Get Out of Jail card in case DIGGER goes belly up.

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Christian A. Dumais @cadumais.com · 31/08/2026

I know what you mean, but I’m locked in with Cruise despite all that. It is interesting to see these older actors willing to do sequels for properties they’ve earned the right to ignore. I’m guessing there’s some kind of stunt with DoT2 that he can’t wait to do.

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Christian A. Dumais @cadumais.com · 31/08/2026

Cruise seems only interested in making popcorn movies (though DIGGER seems like an interesting sidestep), but the culture has shifted so much that I think it'll be impossible for DoT2 to get out the other side unscathed. I mean, look at Randy Quaid responding to the announcement...

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Christian A. Dumais @cadumais.com · 30/08/2026

Actually, 14 months. I have two 14 years olds and one 14 month old. It’s all a blur, as you know.

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Christian A. Dumais @cadumais.com · 30/08/2026

A lazy Sunday on the trampoline…

A one year old is sitting on a trampoline with two balls.

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Christian A. Dumais @cadumais.com · 29/08/2026

I bet she’s the daughter of Robert Duvall’s character.

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Christian A. Dumais @cadumais.com · 29/08/2026

Is it possible for the sequel to be non-political in this day and age, or will they thread the needle the same way TG2 did?That is, make the politics so blurry and the antagonists so abstract and faceless that the audience can imagine their own enemy?

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Christian A. Dumais @cadumais.com · 29/08/2026

On the one hand, NASCAR is a bigger part of the culture than it was in 1990. So I can see why someone wrote the check for the sequel. But on the other hand, NASCAR is also synonymous with things like MAGA and Trump.

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Christian A. Dumais @cadumais.com · 29/08/2026

Now here we are with DAYS OF THUNDER 2, I suspect, because Cruise is hoping to recapture the magic he created with TOP GUN 2 (a movie that had no business being half as good as it was). There will be 6 years between them when DoT2 premieres in 2028.

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Christian A. Dumais @cadumais.com · 29/08/2026

(I saw a sneak peek double feature of DAYS OF THUNDER and GHOST at the end of May 1990. I went because of was excited about DoT. When I left, I was only talking about GHOST. It took everyone at the screening by surprise.)

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Christian A. Dumais @cadumais.com · 29/08/2026

The movie didn’t make half of what TOP GUN made. Some of it had to do with the simple fact that the culture shifted dramatically between 1986 and 1990. Most of it had to do with a little movie called GHOST coming out two weeks later and eating it for lunch.

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Christian A. Dumais @cadumais.com · 29/08/2026

This is fascinating. The original was meant to recapture the lightning in the bottle Tony Scott and Tom Cruise achieved with TOP GUN by cutting and pasting the story with different vehicles. It should’ve worked, but the 90s looked at that rehashed 80s bombast and said no thank you.

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Christian A. Dumais @cadumais.com · 28/08/2026

This would have hit harder if you hadn't dropped that wombat fact just before this one.

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Christian A. Dumais @cadumais.com · 27/08/2026

Sorry to hear that. Taco, among other things, has dementia. So it’s been a real journey the last six months learning how to manage him.

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Christian A. Dumais @cadumais.com · 27/08/2026

This might be one of my favorite Reddit posts.

A Reddit post from the Whatthismovie subreddit:

An attractive man kisses an attractive woman

I saw this movie some years ago and there was an attractive man who kisses an attractive woman in one scene and then in another scene they were arguing. The man had dark hair and was good-looking, like actor-handsome, if that makes sense, and the woman had blonde hair and was very pretty, like celeb-level gorgeous, if that makes sense. Im also pretty sure that the man said something like "I love you so much" to her after the kiss and she reciprocated with a similar "love you, too." They seemed like they could actually be in love, the kiss was so passionate, but maybe they were just good actors, and the fight seemed believable too, but i cant remember the actual context of the argument, just that they were really upset with each other, and there may have been crying, by one, or both, characters, but there may not have been, im not entirely sure. The movie seemed newish, but not too new, but also not too old, Id say it was made sometime between the 1990s and the 2010s and it was at least 5 years ago that I saw it. Im thinking the film was either PG or PG13 but it could have been rated R but I dont remember anything in it that would make it restricted, but then again I dont really remember much of it at all. It was definitely a romance/drama but also had comedic elements. Any help with this would be great! Thanks!

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A West Coast Thing @awestcoastthing.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

"A humorous romp through your 6th favorite Marvel super team. Dumais delivers the goods again. Add this to your summer pull list!" ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🏹🐦🐅🧲🕶️ www.amazon.com/dp/1500829617

A copy of my book GO WEST with a dynamic red background.

A funny and nostalgic look at The West Coast Avengers - the greatest and worst Marvel comic book series of all time.

Includes reviews and thoughts on

✓ West Coast Avengers Vol. 1, #1-4
✓ West Coast Avengers Vol. 2, #1-102
✓ Annuals #1-8
✓ Avengers Vol. 1, #250, #312-313; Annuals #15-16
✓ Avengers Spotlight #38
✓ The Vision and Scarlet Witch #1-2
✓ Iron Man Annual #7
✓ Silver Surfer #3!

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Christian A. Dumais @cadumais.com · 15/08/2026

To me, my X-Men, or not to me.

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Christian A. Dumais @cadumais.com · 15/08/2026

I appreciate the kind messages about not getting cast in the new X-MEN. There are lots of reasons why I wasn’t picked, but it mostly came down to not auditioning, not being an actor, and looking nothing like Rogue. Thanks again, everyone!

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A West Coast Thing @awestcoastthing.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

One of my favorite running bits in AVENGERS WEST COAST was Wonder Man angrily flying away either from Wanda or because of Wanda. I was delighted that the trend continued in WONDER MAN (V2). AVENGERS WEST COAST #63, #66, and #69-70. WONDER MAN #12

Three panels from AVENGERS WEST COAST #63 where Wonder Man is crashing through a window at the Avengers West Coast compound and flying off.
WONDER MAN: I'm in love with a woman who loves a husband who's dead to her, and always will be!
WONDER MAN: So how do I fight--
WONDER MAN: --a ghost?
HANK: He's really upset! we'd better--
JANET: Let him go, Hank.
JANET: There's nothing we can do for him tonight.

A panel from AVENGERS WEST COAST #66 where Wonder Man is angrily flying away from Wanda.
WONDER MAN: Well, to blazes with you-- all of you! I'll find Eric by myself!
WONDER MAN: I don't need any of you!

Three panels from AVENGERS WEST COAST #69 where Wonder Man is angrily flying away from Wanda.
WONDER MAN: Huh? Why not? I thought we--
SCARLET WITCH: I like you very much– as a friend. I don't know if I could've got through all that's happened without that friendship. But I'm afraid I don't feel --
WONDER MAN: You don't have to say any more. I get the picture. Now that the bandages are coming off, exit Wonder Man, stage left.
SCARLET WITCH: Please, Simon- I don't want to hurt you...
WONDER MAN: Don't worry about me.
WONDER MAN: Simon Williams won't exactly be lonely.

Two panels from AVENGERS WEST COAST #70 where Wonder Man is angrily flying away from Wanda.
SCARLET WITCH: Simon, I'm sorry. i didn't mean to--
WONDER MAN: Some other time, Wanda, okay?
WONDER MAN: I've got a date.

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Christian A. Dumais @cadumais.com · 12/08/2026

I listened to this last night and just loved the hell out of it. Even though I have a reading pile that looks like the ass-end of a game of Jenga, I just ordered another copy of MOBY DICK (with the Hester Blum intro) and plan on reading along.

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Christian A. Dumais @cadumais.com · 08/08/2026

One of the most transcendent movie scenes I've ever seen. If you haven't watched ANOTHER ROUND, don't click the link to the scene. See it in context and thank me later.

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Christian A. Dumais @cadumais.com · 04/08/2026

Why an editor is important: HEMINGWAY: For rent. Clown shoes. Worn twice. EDITOR: Who rents clown shoes? H: For sale. Clown shoes. Worn twice. E: If they're for sale, they should be new. H: For sale. Clown shoes. Never worn. E: It's still too long. H: For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.

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Christian A. Dumais @cadumais.com · 29/07/2026

Every day I come home I'm worried my family and friends will be gathered for my peanut butter intervention.

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Christian A. Dumais @cadumais.com · 29/07/2026

"It’s a love letter to all myths – even the ones we haven’t invented yet. It’s a book about stories and storytelling. It’s about everything, really – a remarkable accomplishment in 303 pages."

A copy of Nick's MORE ARGONAUTS: ANOTHER ARGONAUTICA sitting on top of my trusty copy of CLASSICAL MYTHGOLOGY IN LITERATURE, ART, AND MUSIC by Philip Mayerson.

MORE ARGONAUTS: ANOTHER ARGONAUTICA is an astonishing book – it’s not just unlike anything Nick has written, it’s unlike anything I’ve read before. It’s colorful and dense, filled with rich detail and twists and turns. It’s at times laugh-out-loud funny, and other times unexpectedly heartbreaking. It’s a rich journey that is as life-changing for the reader as it is for (some of) its characters.

The real delight is how personal MORE ARGONAUTS: ANOTHER ARGONAUTICA is. Just as Heracles’ children are on a journey to confront their absent father, Nick is on a journey to confront mythology itself – how it influenced his writing, impacted the lives of those he loved, and shaped who he is.

Sometimes the answers are lyrical and poetic, and other times harsh: “I’m a person just like you, is all I’m saying. We’re adults here. What did you expect? Advice and encouragement and hugs and apologies? Naaaah. We’re adults here. I’m not gonna bullshit you.”

MORE ARGONAUTS: ANOTHER ARGONAUTICA is about the search for sunlight when you’re trapped in the shadow of those who came before you. It’s about meeting the damaged lunatics who most people see as legendary heroes. It’s about getting out from under the weight of all the stories you’ve been told so that you can start writing your own story. How far would you go to escape the gravity of your past so that you can propel yourself to your future?

It’s a love letter to all myths – even the ones we haven’t invented yet. It’s a book about stories and storytelling. It’s about everything, really – a remarkable accomplishment in 303 pages.

MORE ARGONAUTS: ANOTHER ARGONAUTICA is easily Nick’s best book. You need to read it.

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Christian A. Dumais @cadumais.com · 29/07/2026

As Odyssey Summer heats up, this book should be in the conversation. I can't recommend this one enough.

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Christian A. Dumais @cadumais.com · 27/07/2026

I wanted to read THE KIRA, but my parents could only afford A KIRA.

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Christian A. Dumais @cadumais.com · 27/07/2026

In fairness, Michael Haneke was directing last night's game.

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Christian A. Dumais @cadumais.com · 27/07/2026

I hope Eva Mendes is in the new GHOST RIDER movie. I also hope the new GHOST RIDER movie is a secret FACE/OFF sequel.

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Christian A. Dumais @cadumais.com · 25/07/2026

I remember loving it back in the day. It was different from the movie, but there was a lot to like. I'm thinking about ordering a new one.

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Christian A. Dumais @cadumais.com · 24/07/2026

This one is particularly batshit crazy. You might surprise yourself.

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Christian A. Dumais @cadumais.com · 24/07/2026

I haven’t watched this movie since I was a kid, and I was obsessed with it. I even went to Waldenbooks and got the book. It was the first book I ever had to special order and wait for it to arrive. It was like a whole new world had revealed itself to me.

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Christian A. Dumais @cadumais.com · 22/07/2026

Apparently, most people on Twitter found out about Muammar Gaddafi’s death from me.

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