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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 7h

Another third used that one wicker chair

Cover of Funkadelic's Uncle Jam Wants You (1979), with George Clinton as a revolutionary sitting in that one wicker chair that was to 70s album covers what J&B was to trashy Italian films

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Patricia Highsmith walking away nonchalantly

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is all the fault of the Papists (laudatory)

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A just-posted 1979 BBC documentary on electronic music, featuring Malcolm Clarke, Dick Mills, Peter Howell, and Peter Zinovieff among others. Lots of groovy custom equipment and EMS Synthi 100/Delaware, Vocoder 5000, and Polysynthi, and ARP Avatar guitar synth

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1979: The New Sound of Music With Michael Rodd | BBC Archive

YouTube video by BBC Archive

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

While Herk Harvey wasn't able to get his other plans for horror movies off the ground - including one written by James Gunn (not that one, the other one) - he did make the horror infused educational shorts Halloween Safety (1977) and Shake Hands with Danger (1980)

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Featuring both the badass rhedosaurus and the even more badass Lee Van Cleef

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Happy birthday to North Carolina's greatest

John Coltrane Quartet, Africa/Brass (1961)

Coltrane "Live" at the Village Vanguard (1962)

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The Sword of the Lictor (Gene Wolfe, 1982)

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Election multiball mode, where the proper set of achievements gives a state the chance to grab a bunch of extra senators. A ventriloquist's dummy named Rudy should be involved

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Alejandro Arbona 🇵🇷 @alejandrobot.com · 17/09/2026

Who run Beautytown?

A very old-fashioned yellow shingle for a business called MASTER BLASTER HAIR CARE. I took this picture in Cincinnati, Ohio

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Back in the aughts Raymond returned to rec.arts.sf.written after being away for a few years. After first pushing Bell Curve style "race realism," he tried to defend himself with "I can't be a racist - I've slept with all kinds of beautiful exotic women!"

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

S̶u̶s̶a̶n̶ ̶L̶a̶k̶e̶ Jamelle Bouie: Perhaps too pure. Excessive goodness can often blind us to the human failings of those less perfect

Jamelle Bouie confronting the eldritch horror that is the Aella Sankey chart, responding only "what the hell am i looking at". The poor soul

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

BREAKING: Black Roses will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran

Demonic heavy metal band Black Roses from the 1988 movie of the same title. They've got silly monster faces, and I mean it *could* be Sessue Hayakawa under there

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Which Mekon are you? A helpful guide

Mekons, the long-lived Leeds folk-punk band. I certainly wasn't one of the aging punks in the crowd for their show last year, no, for I am young and spry

The Mekon, would-be ruler of Venus and the universe, lord of the Treens, and archenemy of Dan Dare. Created by Frank Hampson, he's a funny lil' green guy with a big head

Beware! This isn't a Mekon, but a Mekom, with a connsumate M - connsumate! By Sidney Sime, this was from the part of his "From an Ultimate Dim Thule" series that appeared in The Idler's June 1897 issue. He's occasionally been called the Mekon in other sources, so be wary.
"No one has gazed upon the MEKOM in his real shape, for he never appears in it...Take warning when you wander in dreams to avoid the MEKOM"

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Germany's wacky Der Plan in Japan, where they were fairly popular, in 1984. Features live footage, street theater, and a mini kaiju movie. Crowdpleaser "Tanz den Gummitwist" starts at 12:57

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Japlan The Video (Der Plan in Japan)

YouTube video by Mitchell Freeway

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Bully, Little Stuffed Bull 🐮 @bullythelsb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

oh no Gumby is trapped in The Village

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Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 14/09/2026

You are speaking irrelevant nonsense and moreover are a man

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It reminds me of claims about nanotechnology a couple of decades back, where people would ascribe basically magic powers to the bots ("They'll disassemble and rebuild anything they come across!"), without explaining how it would be physically possible, or even where they'd get their power from

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Linguists (and former linguistics students) know him as a major figure in Costanoan studies, including an extensive grammar of Mutsun

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

So the fascists marching in England are actually wearing black shorts? Has anyone tried mentioning "Eulalie" to them?

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Was this more or less embarrassing for John Agar than appearing in Larry Buchanan movies

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I suddenly have the urge to play some synths and bongos

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Doremus Schafer @doremus-schafer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

At the risk of over-rationalising, I think there's also another element: A politician who promises to harm my enemy is more credible & has a greater chance of delivering on it, while one who promises to help me will both have a harder time actually doing so & his changes can be reversed at any time.

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

JG Ballard considered himself lucky that he spent a chunk of his childhood in a Japanese prison camp instead of a British public school

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

At the radio station I worked at we would get letters where, having run out of space on the enclosed notebook paper, the author would continue writing on to the envelope itself

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

While pretty dismal, it does have an excellent example of a classic in-camera effect, the same one Bava used for the life draining scene in Black Sunday

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

What do you mean the Number of the Beast isn't 2 times the square root of 231? Though as a cradle Catholic who spent several years in Jerry Falwell's town, I had a similar bafflement - and its fake folk Protestantism is on par with actual folk Protestantism

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A different R. Kirk than the one I've mentioned a few times before - Rahsaan Roland Kirk with Stanley Clarke, Lenny White, and the great McCoy Tyner in 1975. Introduced by Quincy Jones

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Roland Kirk with McCoy Tyner Stanley Clarke 1975

YouTube video by ModalCode

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Le Carré smiles a thin smile, knowing he has mastered being all three at once

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Like Vincent Price, Tim Curry knew just how much ham was needed for a role: sometimes you went vegetarian, but other times only a whole goddam bone-in Virginia smoked ham would do

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

You've got to love an RPG where the key mechanic is "Can you the player convincingly speak like a Dying Earth character"

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Sylva Koscina *and* Marisa Mell? In this economy?

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I just found an uwu smol bean Leo Frank truther that does link the two, claiming Cofnas is "the reincarnation of Leo Frank" (in their mind a rapist/murderer) and with alt-text even stupider than usual for their ilk

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Middle aged ex boy band member Discount superhero Hot Vietnamese lady Bald gaunt guy Bald gaunt guy, but senator Zork

Character roster of upcoming FromSoft game Duskbloods, who are exactly as I've described them

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Dorian @dorwright.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"Is this a giallo?" Is there a bottle of J&B prominently in shot? "Yes." Then it's a giallo.

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Or have ever heard of Shirley Bassey

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Not to be outdone, the People's Liberation Army Navy is going truly old school with their carrier catapults

Song era Chinese triple prod bow aka eight oxen crossbow, a siege engine that has three bows, two forward facing, one rearward, linked together to produce a weapon with both high draw weight and a long draw length

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

For Bluesky to survive, it must defeat Emperor Yingzong's assassins - including the fearsome eunuch Cao Shaoqin - at the Dragon Gate Inn on the frontier

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"Dragon Gate Inn" - 2 Excerpts

YouTube video by Shadowplay Adonis

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Move over Wally Wood's 22 Panels, we have a new contender in Panels That Always Work in "Big Barda takes a bath"

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Because the world always needs more Deadly Spawn posting: I learned about the movie from Dragon Magazine #49 (May 1981) in its cover story on Tim Hildebrandt, who co-produced both the film and one of its actors. It would be many years before I actually saw it

Production photos from the Deadly Spawn (1983), from Dragon #49 (April 1981) where it gets a passing mention in the article on Tim Hildebrandt. Pics are of a big ugly monster getting prepped and a bloody dummy readied for shooting
Original caption: "The making of a movie: Before the filming of scenes for “The Deadly Spawn,” fake blood is squirted on the adult-size monster (left), while producer Ted Bohus (photo above) readies a dummy used as the victim of an attack by baby versions of the unearthly beasts"

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

See also: Marina Sirtis's experience working with Michael Winner

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Zombi 2 (Fulci, 1979) and/or Shin Godzilla (Anno, 2016)

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