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Evil Mike

@frogshunnedshadows.bsky.social
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Middle-aged graphic designer, pop culture consumer, and occasional cosplayer. Just trying to make it to Friday.

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Dinosaur Dracula 🦖🧛 @dinosaurdracula.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Things got lit at Jo-Ann Fabrics during the 1992 Halloween season. You could sew costumes from Batman Returns, Toxic Crusaders, *and* The Addams Family!
Jo-Ann Fabrics Sunday circular from October 1992.
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Evil Mike @frogshunnedshadows.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
1988 comic book ad from #ultragames for their upcoming #NES titles: #TMNT, #defenderofthecrown and #skateordie #videogames
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Evil Mike @frogshunnedshadows.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Comic book ad for #QuickShot brand joysticks and #videogame controllers from #Bondwell in 1988 :
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Posts to Give You Goosebumps @saycheeseandsky.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Snorting the Goosebumps roller skate wheels that have disintegrated into powder
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RetroNewsAds @retronewsads.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Fast Food meets The Movies (that cartoon is the most 1989 thing possible) (Star-News, Wilmington, NC, 7/9/89)
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Nitro 🐻‍❄️ 🔜 Asfurmeet @es.nitrobear.gay · 06/08/2026
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Evil Mike @frogshunnedshadows.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Finally found the #monstercereals at a local grocery store – now #halloween can begin!
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Evil Mike @frogshunnedshadows.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Lovely art on this giant cardboard container of pumpkins at the grocery store.
Simple, two-color art of jack-o-lanterns and candles printed in orange and black on a cardboard surface.
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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Michael Abels, composer of the rousing score for the new Korean monster movie Hope, also wrote the music for Nope, making him the obvious choice if someone decides to remake Rope.
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Evil Mike @frogshunnedshadows.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Ready to start making your #HalloweenPlaylist? Don't forget The Frankenshteiner Polka, a very gimmicky #noveltysong from 1958 that somehow never caught on. Paging Doctor @dinosaurdracula.bsky.social and Doctor @sludgecentral.bsky.social – You're welcome and I'm sorry. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDDQ...
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1958 Eddie Lawrence - Frankenshteiner Polka
YouTube video by The45Prof
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Evil Mike @frogshunnedshadows.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Hit #tbcc #TampaBayComicCon on Sunday – had a really good time. I was #RylandGrace, and Rocky was Rocky. Met a lot of #projecthailmary #phm fans, and chatted with a few special guests. Attached is the only pic I have of me (on the left) with another Grace and _their_ homemade Rocky
Two cosplayers dressed as Ryland Grace from Project Hail Mary, one in a yellow flightsuit and one in red; both holding homemade plush Rockys.
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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The blue bunny Mokoron is the mascot for the Odakyu Railway Line.
A pale blue bunny with orange feet and a black and orange shoulder bag stands in front of a red and white express train.
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74XX Arcade Repair @74xx.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
What sums up 2005 more than a Yahoo! branded DivX and Kodak PictureCD compatible DVD player with an analog VU meter for (digital) bitrate?
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Evil Mike @frogshunnedshadows.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Me, delighted to discover a CD of spooky music from 2009: "Oh boy! I hope I have enough #Halloween music now." Reality:
Screencap of a playlist titled "Halloween Long" with the data: 148 songs, 9 hours and 4 minutes.
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JosephScrimshaw @josephscrimshaw.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Finally, it is once again Baby Dracula Mandarin season. My favorite product that was created by a Mad-Lib.
A package of mandarin oranges with a weird baby Dracula on it. The text reads: Dracula, baby mandarins. Easy to peel
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Evil Mike @frogshunnedshadows.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
In late 1988 / early 1989, the new #FruityYummyMummy #monstercereal was revealed via a Mad Magazine style fold-in ad in the back of comic books. @dinosaurdracula.bsky.social @sludgecentral.bsky.social
Cartoon ad with Frankenberry and Count Chocula about to reveal the new Monster Cereal: Fruity Yummy Mummy.
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Evil Mike @frogshunnedshadows.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Comic book ad for the #Nintendo #Game&Watch handhelds, from January of 1989. Featuring #DonkeyKong, #Mario, #DonkeyKongJr and a regular child. The #GameBoy would be on shelves within months.
Comic book ad for the Nintendo Game & Watch handheld LCD games, featuring an illustration of Donkey Kong, Mario, Donkey Kong Junior, and a normal kid, from January of 1989.
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Evil Mike @frogshunnedshadows.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
#Spiderman had his own 900 number / contest in 1991. Who knew?
Full page comic book ad for a Spiderman 1-900 number contest, from 1991.
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Evil Mike @frogshunnedshadows.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
PSA for @dinosaurdracula.bsky.social and @sludgecentral.bsky.social : Fred Travalena loved Sinatra, and made a Sinatra tribute album. That is all.
Photo of a CD jewel case, containing "Travalena Sings Sinatra," a Frank Sinatra tribute album.
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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Manekineko Duck is AFLAC’s duck mascot in a lucky cat costume.
A white duck mascot wearing yellow cat headgear  and a bell around its neck stands on a city street.
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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Gather round fellow dolphinoids and I shall tell you the great myth of the humans, as recovered from their Trove of Shiny Discs.
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Evil Mike @frogshunnedshadows.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Interesting #vampire #movie, maybe? variety.com/2026/film/re...
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‘Los Vampires’ Review: Dueling Draculas Spar in an Alluring if Unevenly Executed Flashback to Early-Talkie Hollywood
Craig Mitchell’s 'Los Vampires' imagines sinister doings on the shared set of Universal’s famous 1931 “Dracula."
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Derek Faraci @whwoolhat.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Bet you didn't know that the Little Morton Salt Girl is an immortal being who existed before there was life on Earth.
An ad for Morton Salt that shows the Little Morton Salt Girl with her umbrella. The text reads "She was there when life was created."
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The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society @hplhs.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
www.rascal.news/larping-cthu...
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Larping Cthulhu-style
How the HP Lovecraft Historical Society dressed up, solved mysteries, and lost their minds having fun
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Dinosaur Dracula 🦖🧛 @dinosaurdracula.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
On the latest Purple Stuff Podcast, we're diving into an old pharmacy's Sunday newspaper circular from the 1990 Halloween season! Absolutely concentrated nostalgia in this one! Listen here: dinosaurdracula.com/blog/halloween-1990/
Halloween newspaper advertisement from October of 1990.
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
So you've got a fishpond, & you love eels. Should you put eels in your fishpond? The Fleta, a 13th C. book on English common law, says NO. They'll eat the other fish, then eat each other. Then the remaining ones will just leave overland for a better home. Don't do it, friends. 🗃️🧪
Meme. Medieval drawing of a fish, looking rather worried. You are looking at in in profile, so you can only see one eye. But it is open wide with concern. The fish's mouth is turned down in a fearful frown, and it radiates an "Oh shit!" vibe. The fish has something a cute little nose, and some lovely scales, but it doesn't care at about that right now. Vanity takes second place to existential threats. The fish feels like he should be named Clem. And Clem is full of shock and despair just now.

To get a sense for his expression, imagine a mid-teenager accidentally walking in on their parents having sex. And not, like, plain ol' vanilla sex. Something wildly, inappropriately, off-the-charts kinky. Devices and lotions and spare batteries are strewn about. The sheets are rubber, and the neighbors are in the corner filming. There are tins of Spam. Now...pan the camera back to the teenager. That look...that expression? That's Clem right now.

Meme text reads:
"TFW
They put eels in your pond"
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Alex Jaffe “Alex Jaffe” Alex Jaffe @alexjaffe.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Marvin, it’s your cousin Chuck! Chuck the Martian! You know that Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator you’ve been looking for? Well listen to THIS! [phone is actually just a stick of dynamite, explodes]
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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 28/07/2026
Technicians completed fueling #NASARoman, bringing it an important step closer to launch. 🚀 On July 25, the team completed operations that carefully loaded 290 gallons of hydrazine fuel into the observatory at the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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NASA Fuels Roman Space Telescope for Late August Launch
Technicians have completed fueling NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, bringing it an important step closer to launch.
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Bumbl buzz 🔜TFF @bumbl-buzz.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Bee-witched! #furry #furries #fursuit #fursuiter #fursuiting #fursuitmaker #fursuits #bee #beefursuit #beefurry #bumblebee
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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
You can kill a French vampire with a baguette. It's a painstaking process but it works.
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Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
This humorous illustration from Marvel's short-lived Blip magazine in 1983 (archive.gamehistory.org/item/da656e…) miiight have been goofing on the number of Pac-Man spinoffs already in the market, huh?
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Micah @rincewind.run · 13/07/2026
re-upping this thread on the wonder of jurassic park because the great sam neill has left us an incomparable actor who truly understood the magic of cinema thanks, sam, for sharing that magic with all of us
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Evil Mike @frogshunnedshadows.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
A simple tribute to #samneill, our #alangrant
A dimly-lit, de-saturated photo of Dr. Alan Grant's distinctive hat, resting on the corner of an empty chair.
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Bassano @bassano.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer
A Japanese mascot dressed as Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring in front of a promotional poster for the same at a press conference in Japan
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 10/06/2026
Nostalgia Content xkcd.com/3256/
Comic. [Person in front of images of pogs, a Tamagotchi, and huge fungal tower over mossy ground.] PERSON: Who else remembers pogs? Tamagotchis? Vast forests of prototaxites towering over the mossy landscape as armored fish stir in the deep? [caption] Due to a database error, millennial nostalgia now includes a portion of the Early Devonian.
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Evil Mike @frogshunnedshadows.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Wishing a #happybirthday to #RobbytheRobot!
Screencap of an IMDB page, with Robby the Robot listed among the July 1st celebrity birthdays.
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Do you dream about eels? I mean...come on. Who doesn't? But what does it mean? Well...in his 1576 book on dreams, Thomas Hill wrote that visions of eels signify labor. So when eels slither into your dreams, it's really your work creeping in to bother you. Checks out for me! 🗃️🧪
Meme. Picture of an eel underwater, along the bottom of a lake, or stream, or tank. We should call him Brominaux. He is yellowish in color, and blends into to the background (though not so well as be be invisible). His fin is just at the edge of the picture, and you may imagine that he is moving gently in the water.

Brominaux is looking at the camera with a wide, wild eye, and the corners of his mouth seem to be lifting in a smile. The general vibe here is slightly crazed. He is a rather small eel, but he has aspirations of grandeur when it comes to terrifying you in your sleep. Brominaux sees himself as a Shrieking Eel, and probably has a kind of Napoleon complex. He would be dangerous in a street fight because he doesn't give a fuck and doesn't have a sense of his own limitations.

Alternatively, gentle Brominaux is a friendly eel with a slightly hopeful smile, and you are being swayed by an unfaithful narrator.

Meme text reads:
"Dare to dream, folks.
Dare. To. Dream."
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anita the last vcr @saleintothe90s.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
BATH AND BODYWORKS IT IS JUNE 30th.
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Nicholas @thekroog.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Realized I was in an entirely different social group at the neighborhood block party when someone asked me what I was drawing, and gave me a blank stare when I replied, "a biblically accurate cat".
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
What a genius. What really sticks with me, of everything he's ever done, is his example of tragedy versus comedy (slightly paraphrased): Tragedy is when I cut my finger; comedy is when you walk into an open manhole and die.
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chelsea bridge @secretaboutbox.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
IF YOU SEE THIS CLOSE THE TAB IMMEDIATELY this is a trick to install malware on your machine. it is not a real captcha system.
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Evil Mike @frogshunnedshadows.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
#picklebeer ?
Can of pickle brine beer.
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Evil Mike @frogshunnedshadows.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Quickie overview of some of the old school #foley work in #RaidersoftheLostArk, with #BenBurtt! www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vE7...
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The Sound Of Raiders Of The Lost Ark with Ben Burtt and John Roesch
YouTube video by Skywalker Sound
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Maxwell Yezpitelok @mrmxy.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Why am I so bad at speedrunning? I always practice on...
A Famicom cartridge with a simple label that says "SUPER MARUO".
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Alex Elizabeth Byrne McMillan @undeniablyalex.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK
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Evil Mike @frogshunnedshadows.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
What if they had cast Christopher Walken as Forrest Gump?
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
In pre-modern England, everyone ate eels. And not knowing how to deal with them was a literary trope -- a marker of culturally visible stupidity. There's a great example in Shakespeare's KING LEAR. Fun fact: there are more eels in Shakespeare's writing than any other fish! 1/3 🗃️🧪
Meme. Painting of Shakespeare, paused mid-writing, and looking thoughtful. He is leaning on a table with his left elbow, and his left hand is supporting his head. His right hand holds a quill, and there is paper on the table. There is also a fancy hat on the table, and the Bard is dressed in for a funeral, with a white collar and cuffs peeking out from under his black coat.

His forehead is enormous, and he has exaggerated his receding hairline by brushing his hair back. Light would bounce from his forehead in a most distracting way, esp. if he waxed it up. His hair is wild behind his head, but his beard is neat and tidy. His eyebrows are flat like flounders above his eyes, and his gaze is fixed to your left, where imagined words float in the air like fireflies that only he can see.

Likely, he is thinking of just the right penis joke to include in his new play.

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"To eel or not to eel...
That's not even a question"
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Nicholas @thekroog.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I remember seeing ads for "Abe Lincoln smoking a pipe" pennies in old comic books. Finally came across one in the wild.
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anita the last vcr @saleintothe90s.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
My eyes going straight to the paper towels, dak ham, and blank vhs tapes.
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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
"Three young Barn Owls looking out of the quatrefoil of a church in North Norfolk."
Richard Brooks photographed the three young Barn Owls looking out of the quatrefoil of a local church one evening in July after staking out the site most evenings over a three week period. Anglia News on 23 February 2010.  http://www.richard-brooks.co.uk/3BarnOwls.html
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