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Puffer @digitallofi.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

I don’t know if this is the next movie but it’s back on Shudder and it’s an excellent movie. #TheLastDriveIn

A movie poster for "Season of the Witch" by George A. Romero, featuring a close-up of a woman's face with long hair and an intense expression. The background is black, and the text includes "EVERY NIGHT is HALLOWEEN

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Puffer @digitallofi.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Me & the 4 people who read me

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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

This is not wrong.

dhuartson:

Don't let anyone talk you out of spending $15 on a new hobby. That $50 will be the best $400 you ever spent.

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 21/04/2026

This is one of the best pieces of pop culture writing I've read in the past couple of years. These excerpts are great but you need to read how the build to that last one. Goddamn. Thank you @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social and @popheist.com

I hate predicting what will happen in a story.

I like thinking about what will happen, sure, and I like analyzing how each piece of the story contributes to the greater whole when all is said and done, but if you ask me "Who's gonna be the new King of Westeros?" or "Who's the killer in this season of True Detective?" or even "Will Captain America say 'Avengers Assemble'?" I am simply, deeply, almost obsessively uninterested. I just want to let the story tell me what it's gonna be.

This view, unfortunately, is incompatible with vast swaths of modern fandom, whether we're talking about Star Wars, The White Lotus, or the reason we're here today: The Pitt. Fandom — and I'm using the term very generally here, so if this doesn't describe you, please assume you can go about your business — is obsessed not just with what will happen, but with what should happen, and while there's nothing wrong with playing detective while watching your favorite shows, at a certain point it all gets a bit poisonous.

Poisonous for who? Well, I hate to sound like your high-and-mighty Nerd Dad here but A) I kinda am, and B) for you. It's poisonous for you, the person out there trying to get the most out of stories you enjoy in a world that keeps paring movies, TV, books, comics, and more down to the barest algorithmic essentials in favor of ratings and ticket sales rather than narrative. In an age when social media fandom has demonstrably tipped the scales for various creative decisions ranging from Sonic's teeth to the Snyder Cut, we risk losing whatever substance mass-produced media has left because we're too obsessed with plot and not obsessed enough with story. The Pitt is not the first case of this happening, but it is the latest and the loudest, so allow me to make this as simple as I can:

The Story Owes You Nothing.

Fiction really is a form of magic. Every book you've ever read, every film you've ever seen, every comic book you've ever slipped from a spinner rack is an exercise in concentrated will imposed by its creators on a creative medium and then, finally, on to you as a reader or viewer. It's not there to be second-guessed. It's there to take you places, draw out emotions, and leave you with a head full of ideas that weren't there before. Like Hunter S. Thompson said: Buy the ticket, take the ride. Let a story happen to you rather than second-guessing every plot point in favor of some imagined version you'd rather have and will never get to see (unless you write fanfic, which is an entirely different can of worms beyond the scope of this essay). Allow yourself the luxury of putting down your accounts book and your checklist and expecting something, and simply be open to anything. Do that, and not only will the stories get better, but you'll understand them better and feel them more.

The story owes you nothing, but if you let it, it will give you everything.

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Puffer @digitallofi.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Maybe history will prove me wrong, but it seems apparent to me that he doesn’t have much to do with his social media post. Pretty sure it’s a team 4chan trained DOGE trolls or something actively engaged in hypernormalization.

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Jon Amadeus Markley @xjamarkleyx.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

any record can be a noise album if you modify it the right way…,

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Puffer @digitallofi.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Preparing for another week of news

Still from the movie A Dark Song where a man in a sweat stained shirt is looking defeated against a wall of painted glyphs

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George Middlebrooks @gmiddleb.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Guys I'm starting to think we're never gonna see vol. 2

Photograph of the "DGC Rarities Vol. 1" CD case

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Art Of Coop @artofcoop.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

when Beastie Boys signed with Capitol, they were offered a big advance, which they turned down in favor of owning their masters - now, years later, they're still making money off those records - always bet on yourself, not a corporation

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Annie @badgrgrl21.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Michael Greer was actually one of the few out gay actors in Hollywood in the 60s and 70s. Fun watching him be such a ladykiller here #TheLastDriveIn

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Annie @badgrgrl21.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

I always include this movie with the subgenre of “West Coast Occult” 70s films. Messiah of Evil, Mephisto Waltz, Norliss Tapes, Deathmaster, Simon, King of the Witches… #TheLastDriveIn

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Observations of Deviance @obsofdeviance.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

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Brian W. Collins @brianwcollins.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

The @fangoria.bsky.social Compendium kickstarter is still going and within spitting distance of hitting that magic million mark! Have you ordered yours yet? If you like me, it's got new Collins Crypt-y type pieces! If you hate me, it's so big there's lots more! www.kickstarter.com/projects/fan...

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Kickstarter >> First in Fright: The FANGORIA Compendium by FANGORIA

FANGORIA is raising funds for First in Fright: The FANGORIA Compendium on Kickstarter! The Complete History of Horror from the Pages of the #1 Horror Magazine

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Puffer @digitallofi.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

So this “holy war” story’s source is a single Substack article? Sure it tracks; Hegtheth is that ridiculous and dangerous. It could just as easily be hypernormalization, getting the meme out there to add to ambient fud.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Devastation of alt-weeklies by VC capital has only made this problem more apparent but the news should employ more barely functional alcoholic townies and fewer striving nerds.

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Siri // 🥀🐺 @sirivplouff.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Hey, if you wanna support what’s going on in Minnesota to fight fascism, here’s a verified list of organizations and people doing the work as well as mutual aid funds: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Stand With Minnesota: Resource Hub

Causes to Donate to in Minnesota to Help Our Communities Defend Themselves from ICE Buy/Donate Materials: Help buy dashcams for legal observers Bethel Church Food Pantry TC Food Justice: Donate food ...

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Puffer @digitallofi.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Bluesky folks are watching Friedkin’s Sorcerer. One of my favorite “they don’t make movies like that any more” movies. Top soundtrack. #fullmoonfrights #vinylcollection

Cover of the vinyl record for the movie. A truck on a buckling bridge.

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Puffer @digitallofi.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

So much respect for the people of Minneapolis.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I love the loaded baked potato soup at CBS News. Made with real ale from a local brewery.

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Puffer @digitallofi.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

@brianwcollins.bsky.social Maybe start a crowd funding campaign to get you some new digs.

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Puffer @digitallofi.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

A sixth stage of grief where you’re relieved they don’t have to live through this shit.

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Puffer @digitallofi.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Anyone know what Sunn O))) is up to these days?

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C Puffer @puffer.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 13/01/2026

Watching a music nerd YouTuber with a 5 string bass and a Berklee haircut react to Morphine is funny shit. “I don’t have a slide here…” haha, come on dude.

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Bruce Levenstein @brucelevenstein.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Golan-Globus > Golden Globes

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Abby @arobertswrites.com · 10/01/2026

Another strength of The Dispossessed is that Le Guin asks “what if the folks in the anarchist commune are sometimes annoying and kinda suck”

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Puffer @digitallofi.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Ha! I suspected the priest from his first appearance. #TheLastDriveIn

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Puffer @digitallofi.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

I mean, the lyrics are a tonic to our jaded, irony drenched times. How is this song not legendary?

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Puffer @digitallofi.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Just preface anything I write or post about for the foreseeable future with “goddamn this criminal regime and the sadists, racists, and greedy fuckers that support them.”

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

I was surprised to see so few references to Heather Heyer as I doomscrolled yesterday; she was the first person I thought of once I saw the footage of the car and the protestors and the armed goons, and will be back in my nightmares like usual tonight.

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Puffer @digitallofi.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

And telling you exactly what you want to hear.

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Puffer @digitallofi.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

The Killer is a better John Woo movie than Hard Boiled.

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Annie @badgrgrl21.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

First pulp-y horror paperback of 2026– I love it has one of the little cut-out covers

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Puffer @digitallofi.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

“He doesn’t suck enough to suck” is as biting and concise a description of mediocrity as I’ve ever heard.

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Puffer @digitallofi.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

A week ago I released the latest Urike Mod album, Quatre. ulrikemod.bandcamp.com/album/quatre

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Quatre, by Ulrike Mod

10 track album

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C Puffer @puffer.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 21/12/2025

Happy solstice. Coast Guard Beach, Eastham, Cape Cod.

A serene beach scene at sunrise, featuring a bundle of tangled ropes in the foreground, paw prints in the sand, and gentle waves lapping at the shore. The sky is filled with soft clouds and warm hues.

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Puffer @digitallofi.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

All right. We’re going to see how far we can make it through the movie Cats.

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Scream, Cultura, Scream! @culturalgutter.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Eli Wallach wears a glorious gold tie in The Sentinel (1977).

Eli Wallach looks thoughtful at the scene of an accident. He holds a cigar whose thickness is almost impossible to determine because it is held against his colossally wide gold patterened tie. It is as wide or possibly wider than the other ties. The light color makes it seem as if it were expanding. What is the pattern? Are they gold lilies? Is it an abstract pattern of gold on gold against a gold shirt? Stare into the vastness of the gold tie and try to understand. Christopher Walken, wearing a badge and a thinner but hardly thin wide tie stands next to the wreckage of a car and watches Wallach.

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Puffer @digitallofi.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Gave the MPC 1K a facelift.

MPC 1000 on the workbench with the new, beige case beside it.

The powered up MPC with its new light case

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Puffer @digitallofi.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Speaking of Bandcamp, I put up my live set from the Circuits In The Woods festival. Not my actual performance as the soundboard recording was lost for technical reasons. But this rehearsal performance was played straight through, no edits, no overdubs. cpuffer.bandcamp.com/album/live-a...

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Live at Circuits In The Woods, by C Puffer

7 track album

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