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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

I think of it as the grey tsunami.

Yonge Street in Toronto looking southeast. The long standing Zanzibar is dwarfed by whatever they call RPI these days.

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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

A very happy birthday to the great man:

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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Share one of your favorite film posters

The Japanese poster for Robert Altman's Thieves Like Us.
Calligraphy cascades down the left of a sepia image of actors Keith Carradine and Shelley Duvall.

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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Tell me your great three album runs

Cover for Stevie Wonder's Talking book ~ 1972

Cover for Stevie Wonder's Innervisions ~ 1973

Cover for Stevie Wonder's Fulfillingness' First Finale ~ 1974

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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

PSA: Gun Crazy (D: Joseph H. Lewis) is currently streaming on Kanopy.

Peggy Cummins and John Dall in a B&W production still for Gun Crazy.

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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Stop scrolling & post two characters who bring you happiness

Fred Ward & Kevin Bacon in a production still from the movie Tremors.
Posed at the driver's side of a pickup Ward looks cocksure and Bacon less so.

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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains. Dusk ~ The The ~ 1992

A monstrous cartoon figure careens forward against a photograph of a skyline and the cosmos.

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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

I miss movie tie-in reprints of the source books. My 1969 edition for the movie launch. I have never seen it in print since, which is a real shame. It's a gut punch of a novella. It sold for 95 cents new, this used copy purchased maybe decade later set me back a buck. #filmsky 📽️

The cover of the movie tie in edition of Horace McCoy's They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
The title and blurb 'The classic American novel by HORACE McCOY now a brilliant ABC Pictures Corp. film dominate the bottom 60% of the spartan white cover.
Placed far left just above, is a tritone image of a gramophone, shot overhead, with the 'platter' an image of struggling dancers during one of the 'derby' portions of the event..

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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

The most bespoke thing I've ever owned. What a marvel of vision and technology.

A Pantone Solid To Process fan book. The special colours down the left column and the nearest CMYK equivalents on the right.

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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

A production still from Aretha Franklin's appearance on the TV Show Room 222 in 1969. That's quite the backing band! (see alt text)

A b&w production still.
Clockwise from top left: Cornell Dupree, Chuck Rainey, Bernard 'Pretty' Purdie and Aretha Franklin.

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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

What a difference a day makes:

World on Fire • OLIVIA NUZZI was a star political correspondent until scandal led her into
exile-and to a California up in flames. In an excerpt from American Canto, our West Coast Editor takes stock of scorched earth

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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Man, demented is a fitting descriptor! You made me flash back to the days of the Vinyl Museum. I was crate crawling the Yonge Street location most every Saturday for years. 3 of my fave finds, all happily racism free:

3 vintage albums unearthed at a long gone Toronto record store, The Vinyl Museum. All first pressings: L to R: Ray Charles~Modern Sounds In Country And Western, Dr. John The Night Tripper~Gris Gris & The Meters~Cissy Strut

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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Ed Harris (also the director) in Pollock (2000) My favourite film about an artist. He was BOTD in 1950

Director/star Ed Harris in a poster for Pollock. In the lower third, Harris is shown at work on a piece. The middle third shows an overhead view of the results. The top third, the central cast names and awards the film garnered.

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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

This NYT headline works just as well reversed. Russia Signals Resistance to Amended Peace Plan And Strikes Ukraine.

A mealy mouthed NYT headline and lede reading: 'Russia Strikes Ukraine and Signals Resistance to Amended Peace Plan

The attack killed at least seven
people in Kyiv, the authorities
said, as Moscow suggested it
would push back against changes
negotiated by Ukraine.'

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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Here are the remnants of the Dufferin Grove eviction in 2020.

2020: A homeless encampment in a city park has been cleared and the cost of the measure rings a tree: countless children's shoes, plush toys, trikes and more.

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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Leave Her To Heaven~1945 Starring Gene Tierney - BOTD in 1920

A production still shows Gene Tierney in a boat, mid lake. Wearing a white trench coat and large sunglasses, she wears a fierce expression.

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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

It seems the long awaited A Team reboot has hit some financing snags.

A black pickup tows a wagon spray painted 'A Team'.

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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

She smiles and says "I will always love you" #grok

Peggy Cummins as a sideshow sharpshooter in Gun Crazy. With a gun cocked in her left hand, she smiled lazily with the gun in her right pointed directly at the viewer.

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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

A most welcome Boo! in the neighbourhood this morning. 🧡 #bloorcourt

On a bright October morning, a side street of one of the city's main drags is festooned with ripe pumpkins and a massive 'Boo' sign. #bloorcourt

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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Name a great film set mostly in the snow Never Cry Wolf (1983)

The original poster for the 1983 film Never Cry Wolf directed by Carroll Ballard.
A man, holding binoculars, stands in a stark arctic landscape dominated by a tempestuous sky.

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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

The still image montage from Alan J. Paula's The Parallax View. youtu.be/vhztDt7-QT8

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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Describe your Bluesky account in a single image

A black and white production still from Tod Browning's Freaks.

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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Yeesh. Here's an image after the 2021 'cull'.

An unhoused encampment was forcibly from the same public park space in 2021, but they left a record of how rich their culture was: dozens and dozens are child's shoes ring the trunk of a tree.

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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

This reminds me of the genesis of Randy Newman's Good oLd Boys song, Naked Man:

A screen capture of Randy Newman's inspiration for the song Naked Man.
tl:dr a second naked man done it!

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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Wow, Christie Pits. That's a grotesque move.

A plaque marking a race riot at Christie Pits in 1933.

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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

I was! Even peeled this poster off some hoarding and decorated my room with it. Crazy thing, despite all the vaunted acts, I thought Rockpile was the standout.

New Wave style poster promoting the upcoming Heat Wave show at Mosport Park, east of Toronto in the 80s.

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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you? I may be in a spot of trouble.

A production still from the BBC series Detectorists. The 2 principals shown appear perplexed.

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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

In honour of the great Randy Newman album, his anecdote about the genesis of the song Naked Man:

In the 2003 remastered version of Good Old Boys, Newman explains that this song is based on a true story as told to him by a friend who was a public defender. A woman had her purse snatched by a naked man running down the street. Police found a naked guy a few blocks away with her purse, but he insisted that he didn't take the purse, but that another naked man handed it to him. The guy's excuse for why he was naked: he was having an affair with his friend's wife, and when his friend came home, he fled out the fire escape and didn't have time to put his clothes on. It didn't hold up in court, and the guy was convicted.

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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

This vine like plant has some big plans. #firstwetakemanhattan

In a Toronto laneway, a vine like plant has sprouted from the gravel at the base of a wall, grown approx 18" vertically and then arced left for another metre.

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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Not sure if you have had a chance to read 'Everybody Thought We Were Crazy'? Terrific account of the culture scene in L.A. in the 60s. Pre Easy Rider especially, there was a wild commingling of old and new Hollywood.

The cover of Mark Rizzo's stellar Brooke Hayward/Dennis Hopper biography.

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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

I'd love to read it, but it's too damn popular in the TPL system! It's been on hold about 6 weeks and I have a long way to go yet. Congrats!

A screen shot showing the hold queue for the book:
Bad company : private equity and the death of the American dream by Megan Greenwell

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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

One of the little nuances that make a neighbourhood. #bloorcourt #streetscape

A window cling proudly announcing 'Expert Work' and 'Shoes Dyed'.

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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

HBD. Creator of my favourite photo.

A waitress in a restaurant, seated on the left most stool at the bar, smokes a cigarette.

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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Happy Birthday to the GOAT Raymond Chandler was BOTD in 1888

A photo of Raymond Chandler's Playback. First edition copy from the late 50s.

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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

If you see this, post a vampire

A production still of actor Willem Dafoe as Schreck in E. Elias Merhige’s 2000 film “Shadow of the Vampire”, a reimagining of F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu.

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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Not only shoulda, coulda! Cross pollination a go go in those days:

The vibrant yellow cover of Mark Rozzo's biography, Everyone Thought We Were Crazy, a chronicle of Brooke Hayward and Dennis Hopper in the late 50s-60s art culture scene.

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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Just for fun, name two completely unrelated movies that share the same director.

Illustrated poster for the Carroll O'Connor Ernest Borgnine feature Law and Disorder.

Duotone (blue/black) poster for the great Cutter's Way.

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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

What we've got here is failure to communicate Strother Martin ~ Cool Hand Luke.

A neighbourhood laneway door with an erect penis (top) and heart (below) spray painted on it.

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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Dateline: July 8, 2025. NYT: youtu.be/XfELJU1mRMg

A 6 minute NYT read rehashing months old news.

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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Always unnerving to see the tiny stained glass portal to lord knows where ajar. #bloorcourt #pandora 📷

A tiny stained glass window on the 3rd floor of a 1910 era commercial building in Toronto's Bloorcourt neighbourhood. The glass portion of the window is slightly larger than a trade paperback.

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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

For any #crossword fans, I'm making my way thru the NYT archive. This Friday beaut from 2003 is as bifurcated as I have ever been during a solve. @rexparker.bsky.social

A screen cap where the right half has been filled and there are no entries on the left

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