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Don Marks @captfuzz.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

My first 3 cassettes, purchased together at the local department store's music section.

The Cheap Trick album At Budokan on cassette.

The Knack album Get The Knack on cassette.

The Supertramp album Breakfast In America on cassette.

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Don Marks @captfuzz.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I passed this Mystery Spot many times as a child, but I don’t think I ever stopped. Might’ve been wary of the mystery aspect. Castle Rock, on the other hand, was a regular stop, much clearer what you were signing up for.

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Don Marks @captfuzz.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Black Cat Friday! Look at this lovely little girl, the most enthusiastic receiver of pets you will ever meet.

A small black cat gazes at the camera, flanked by a carved pumpkin.

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Don Marks @captfuzz.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Accompanied on this outing by my no-longer-little little girl.

A young woman stands next to a mural of Totoro, her hair blowing in the wind.

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Don Marks @captfuzz.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Starting the family’s Christmas vacation to London with a little stage magic.

The exterior of the theatre playing the My Neighbor Totoro stage show in London.

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Don Marks @captfuzz.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Very strange! On the far right hand side of my bracket, I see a checkmark beside Doolittle but on the far bottom of my bracket, it says I picked Paul's Boutique to be the winner. I'm not too familiar with the Challonge interface - does this make any sense?

Image from the far right hand side of my Challonge bracket showing I picked the Pixies to triumph over the Beastie Boys in the final round of the Best Album of 1989 tournament.

Image from the far right bottom of my Challonge bracket showing I picked the Beastie Boys to triumph, contradicting the information in the previous image.

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Don Marks @captfuzz.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

post a perfect album from 1989 that somehow didn’t make it into @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social Also 100% agree with the post quoted.

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Don Marks @captfuzz.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

If you see this, quote with an image from a game that released the year you were born. (Have never, ever seen this game before, but it does look very much like a product from 1967.)

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Don Marks @captfuzz.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Also picked up one of the most singular pieces of merch I have ever seen, a Stereolab drinks tray!

A metal tray for serving drinks emblazoned with the cartoon image seen on some of Stereolab’s early releases.

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Don Marks @captfuzz.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

September 2025 Viewing New - 31 features (mostly TIFF) Old - 27 features, 3 shorts New Favourites: Detective Story (1951) The Passionate Friends (1949) The Secret Agent (2025) Sudden Fear (1952) The Law and the Lady (1951) Renewed Ardor: Bullet in the Head (1990) Rififi (1955)

Movie poster for Detective Story (1951).

Movie poster for The Passionate Friends (1949).

Movie poster for The Law and the Lady (1951).

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Don Marks @captfuzz.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

The scratch-n-sniff (actually stink-o-vision) card:

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Don Marks @captfuzz.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

August 2025 Viewing New - 10 features Old - 30 features, 2 shorts New Favourites: Rouge (1987) The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) Dead End (1937) Together (2025) Renewed Ardor: High and Low (1963) The House of Mirth (2000) High Noon (1952)

Movie poster for the Hong Kong film Rouge (1987).

Movie poster for the film The Ox-Bow Incident (1943).

Movie poster for the film Together (2025).

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Don Marks @captfuzz.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Using one pic already on your phone, what is the announcement at 2:00 p.m.?

A panel from the comic book Love & Rockets where Hopey’s band is playing and the drummer is singing “We want the world and we want it bald”, which I take to be a riff on the line “We want the world and we want it all” from the Ramones song We Want the Airwaves. I used to have this image on a t-shirt.

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Don Marks @captfuzz.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

I swear I don’t go looking for cinemas, they just find me.

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Don Marks @captfuzz.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

July 2025 Viewing New - 4 features Old - 13 features, 1 short New Favourites: The Phoenician Scheme (2025) Renewed Ardor: My Winnipeg (2007) Do The Right Thing (1989) Rabid (1977) (Light month, spent much of it traveling with the family.)

Movie poster for The Phoenician Scheme (2025).

Movie poster for Do The Right Thing (1989).

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Don Marks @captfuzz.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

You’ve inherited a movie theatre. What’s your first double feature?

Movie poster for the Canadian dark comedy about writer’s block Crime Wave.

Movie poster for the Canadian sci-fi/horror/musical oddity Big Meat Eater.

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Don Marks @captfuzz.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

June 2025 Viewing New - 10 features Old - 28 features, 6 shorts New Favourites: THE GO-BETWEEN (1971) TORNADO (2025) THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO (1985) Newfound Affection: THE REMAINS OF THE DAY (1993) SINNERS (2025) Renewed Ardor: EIGHT MEN OUT (1988) TRADING PLACES (1983)

Movie poster for The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985).

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Don Marks @captfuzz.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Images like the last panel of this page here remain seared into my brain.

Page 2 of the story "Mole!" from the 1950s Mad comic book, art by Will Elder. The villain known as Mole tunnels into a bank to rob it, but finds himself surrounded by cops when he emerges from his tunnel into the valut. The page culminates with the Mole pulling out a tommy gun and mowing down all of the cops, calling them "John Law" as he does so.

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Don Marks @captfuzz.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

I don't think my Dad ever recommended a book to me, but one day, after a long day of work, he came home and threw this in my direction. Don't know why, not sure how it came into his possession, he certainly hadn't read it, but I was ready for it, and there was no looking back.

The cover to Mad Super Special #24, a magazine reprinting somewhat recent material from Mad magazine with an insert comic reprinting some classic stories from the 1950s Mad comic book.

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Don Marks @captfuzz.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

May 2025 Viewing New - 3 features Old - 22 features New Favourites: Norma Rae (1979) Alambrista! (1977) Riff-Raff (1947) Ordinary People (1980) Renewed Ardor: Touchez Pas au Grisbi (1954)

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Don Marks @captfuzz.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Northern Ontario Beer Run (If I have to drive all the way to Sault Ste Marie, might as well make it worth my while.)

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Don Marks @captfuzz.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

April 2025 Viewing New - 10 features Old - 37 features, 7 shorts New Favourites: Z (1969) They Shoot Horses, Don't They (1969) Renewed Ardor: The Godfather (1972) The French Connection (1971) Red Rooms (2023) Sherlock Jr. (1924) A Night At The Opera (1935) The Long Good Friday (1980)

Movie poster for They Shoot Horses, Don't They (1969).

Movie poster for The French Connection (1971).

Movie poster for The Long Good Friday (1980).

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Don Marks @captfuzz.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Struggling to think of any films actually set in my hometown of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada, but RITUALS is set in the Northen Ontario wilderness and was shot just up the highway around Batchawana Bay.

Movie poster for the film Rituals (1977). A group of men begin to cross a fast-moving river in the Northen Ontario wilderness unaware of the animal traps lining the river bottom.

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Don Marks @captfuzz.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Starting Canadian Film Day off with a wander through GLENN GOULD’S TORONTO at U of T’s Media Commons!

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Don Marks @captfuzz.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

March 2025 Viewing New - 8 features Old - 39 features New Favourites: Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf (1966) The Circus (1928) Craig's Wife (1936) Renewed Ardor: Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) Ball of Fire (1941) Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)

Movie poster for Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf (1966)

Movie poster for Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)

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Don Marks @captfuzz.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Age yourself with a cartoon you watched as a kid.

The animated cast of the cartoon Speed Racer posing in the series' iconic automobile The Mach 5.

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Don Marks @captfuzz.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Next 3, when I was 12, all on cassette.

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Don Marks @captfuzz.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Repost with the first album you bought with your own money I was 10 years old.

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Don Marks @captfuzz.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

January 2025 Viewing New - 16 features Old - 23 features New favourites: Black Gravel (1961) Blackmail (1929) The Count of Monte-Cristo (2024) Red Rooms (2023) Sylvia and the Ghost (1948) Night Must Fall (1937) The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More (2024)

Movie poster for Sylvia and the Ghost (1948)

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Don Marks @captfuzz.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

December 2024 Viewing: New: 4 features Old: 26 features, 5 shorts New Favourites: High Heels (1991) The Brutalist (2024) If I Should Die Before I Wake (1952) Newfound Love: The Flower of My Secret (1995) Lifeboat (1944) Renewed Ardor: Comfort and Joy (1984)

Movie poster for The Flower of My Secret (1995)

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Don Marks @captfuzz.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

As a free Christmas treat to yourself, wander around your residence and note something that delights you that you haven't taken notice of for a while. (h/t @dillamonster.bsky.social) “Chinatown Cold Snap” by Christopher Hutsul

A colour drawing of a street in Toronto’s Chinatown on a particularly cold, dark day entitled “Chinatown Cold Snap”, drawn by Christopher Hutsul

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Don Marks @captfuzz.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

November 2024 Viewing: New: 6 features Old: 29 features New Favourites: One Way Ticket To Love (1960) The Hanging Tree (1959) Blitz (2024) Anora (2024) Winter Kept Us Warm (1965) The Mark of Zorro (1920) Renewed Ardor: Matador (1986) Le Deuxieme Souffle (1966) Heavenly Bodies (1984)

Movie poster for The Hanging Tree (1959)

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Don Marks @captfuzz.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

October 2024 Viewing: New: 1 feature Old: 34 features New Favourites: Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) The Milagro Beanfield War (1988) The Hill (1965) Yavarum Nalam (aka 13B) (2009) Renewed Ardor: Alfie (1966) Mr. Vampire III (1987)

Movie poster for Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)

Movie poster for The Milagro Beanfield War (1988)

Movie poster for Yavarum Nalam (aka 13B) (2009)

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Don Marks @captfuzz.bsky.social · 11/10/2024

"It can babysit your kids, walk your dog."

The cheap but sinister looking robot Box from the movie Logan's Run.

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Don Marks @captfuzz.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

Oh yes, the Mad Super Specials with the classic comic insert! This one was my first. My Dad brought it home one Friday night after work. No idea where he got it, why he thought I'd like it, he just tossed it in my direction and I was never the same.

The cover to Mad Super Special #24, a regularly published reprint of classic bits from Mad magazine which also included an insert color comic reprinting stories from the EC Mad comic book of the 1950s.

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Don Marks @captfuzz.bsky.social · 30/09/2024

Was also happy to see this back available at Parry Sound’s Trestle Brewery, further encouraging my strange fascination with Charlie Farquharson. tw: Hee-Haw

A can of Trestle Brewery’s beer Charlie’s Pub Ale featuring on the label the character Charlie Farquharson, played on Hee-Haw and other shows by Canada’s own Don Harron (film director Mary Harron’s Dad). Charlie claimed Parry Sound as his hometown, which is where Trestle is located.

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Don Marks @captfuzz.bsky.social · 30/09/2024

The things you can stumble across in a small town book store.

Slim humour paperback Dating & Hanging Out by comics legend Will Eisner, published by Scholastic in 1979.

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Don Marks @captfuzz.bsky.social · 30/09/2024

September 2024 Viewing: New: 23 features, 1 short (mostly TIFF) Old: 10 features New Favourites: All We Imagine As Light (2024) The Big Country (1958) The Substance (2024) Local Legends (2013) Renewed Ardor: Mr. Vampire (1985)

Movie poster for All We Imagine As Light (2024)

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Don Marks @captfuzz.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

August 2024 Viewing New: 7 features Old: 13 features, 22 shorts New Favourites: Close Your Eyes (2023) The Walking Stick (1970) Love Story (1970) Renewed Ardor: Dog Day Afternoon (1975) Army Of Shadows (1969) The Getaway (1972)

Movie poster for Close Your Eyes (2023).

Movie poster for Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

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Don Marks @captfuzz.bsky.social · 09/08/2024

Unlike you, I get my news from a reliable source.

News anchor Brian Pinhead (it's pronounced Pin-aid) from the animated series The Tick.

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Don Marks @captfuzz.bsky.social · 02/08/2024

July 2024 Viewing New: 8 features Old: 20 features New Favourites: Being There (1979) Renewed Ardor: Apocalypse Now (1979) Taxi Driver (1976) Le Samourai (1967) Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977) Slap Shot (1977)

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Don Marks @captfuzz.bsky.social · 03/07/2024

June 2024 Viewing New: 4 features Old: 15 features New Favourites: Real Life (1979) Purple Rain (1984) Renewed Ardor: Hard Boiled (1992) Platoon (1986)

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Don Marks @captfuzz.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

Quote post with an image to show who you heard at your first concert. Name the artist in alt text.

Canadian troubadour Stompin' Tom Connors. Note the piece of plywood on the floor under Tom's feet, which he stomps on during songs to keep the beat.

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Don Marks @captfuzz.bsky.social · 03/06/2024

Re: Hee Haw, not sure if it ever made much of its Charlie Farquharson character's Canadian origins, but he had quite the cultural footprint up here. I came across this book while clearing out my mother-in-law's house. It's written in a cornpone Canuck dialect so dense it puts Trainspotting to shame.

The book Jogfree of Canada by Charlie Farquharson, a comedy character perhaps better known in the United States for his appearances on the TV show Hee Haw.

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Don Marks @captfuzz.bsky.social · 01/06/2024

May 2024 Viewing New: 7 features Old: 15 features New Favourites: Paris, Texas (1984) La Chimera (2023) Challengers (2024) Renewed Ardor: Chameleon Street (1989)

Movie poster for Chameleon Street (1989).

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