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junk-monkey.bsky.social @junk-monkey.bsky.social · 12h

pour moi c'est Ninja Terminator. C'etait le premier des films du M. Ho j'ai vu et il me donne plus du WTF!?s par minute que n'importe quel film que j'avais jamais vu.

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junk-monkey.bsky.social @junk-monkey.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Great god you got there. Gives you a free dog and lets Zionists kill Palistinian babies. Nice to know 'He' has got his priorities in order.

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junk-monkey.bsky.social @junk-monkey.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

... and is now almost totally forgotten. Like most of Blake Edwards' films which have dated very badly.

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junk-monkey.bsky.social @junk-monkey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I know this isn't going to helpful but I usually give up on a series as soon as I discover it IS a series, which is usually before I have even finished reading the blurb. Stand alone books which spawn a sequel, and then another, are one thing; but books that start out to be 'Episode One'. Forget it.

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junk-monkey.bsky.social @junk-monkey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

... but have no idea how to order a cup of coffee.

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junk-monkey.bsky.social @junk-monkey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

reading trash is a great way to learn a language. I'm learning French by reading comics and pulp SF (the kind of stuff I read in my native English. It does mean however I know how to say things like 'the dragonship hurtled their powerful craft through the immensity of the interstellar void'...

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junk-monkey.bsky.social @junk-monkey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

bang on. I read the first when it came out as an adult. thought it was okay, if derivative, about a third of the way through the second I gave up; it was the same book. My wife, never a great reader (unlike me), avidly read them all - and I don't think has picked up a book since.

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junk-monkey.bsky.social @junk-monkey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

As one of those salty old men (I am older than the show and. remember watching now lost episodes) I welcome this. At least it has a clear target audience in mind. Something the 'real' show hasn't had for years.

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junk-monkey.bsky.social @junk-monkey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There is only one real 'rule' worth a damn in any art: 'Don't be boring.'

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junk-monkey.bsky.social @junk-monkey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The great American public does have an amazing track record on being spectacularly wrong. So why not?

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junk-monkey.bsky.social @junk-monkey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

and suffering chronic diseases caused by mineral and vitamin deficiencies.

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junk-monkey.bsky.social @junk-monkey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I am suspecting you haven't seen enough of 'The Asylum''s product. (I cannot with the best will in the world call them 'movies' and I've watched more Albert Pyun movies than any one person should ever watch.

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junk-monkey.bsky.social @junk-monkey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I AM chemicals. (and please don't read that in a sexually seductive way.)

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junk-monkey.bsky.social @junk-monkey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

H2O is indeed a chemical and as it made up of two other chemicals, H and O, and they combined in a reactive process you could even describe water as a 'processesed chemical' if you were so minded.

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junk-monkey.bsky.social @junk-monkey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

'I couldn't have put it better myself... but I'll try.'

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junk-monkey.bsky.social @junk-monkey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

most people 'overthink'? or most people think, 'why am I doing something I don't want to do and is ultimately pointless?' and go off and do something else that they do want to do, and isn't pointless, and achieve something that makes them happy?

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junk-monkey.bsky.social @junk-monkey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

and from the sublime to the rediculous. I alternate books in French and English. After finishing the last book (in English) and not wanting to go downstairs I asked my son to bring up a random book from the shelves of, as yet, unread French SF... Perry fucking Rodhan... ah well, at least it's short.

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junk-monkey.bsky.social @junk-monkey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

currently rattling through this again and it's making me want to reread her Johnathan Strange & Mr Norrell, and Gaiman's Stardust, and Townsend Warner's The Kingdoms of Elfin - all at the same time!

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junk-monkey.bsky.social @junk-monkey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm a long time SF reader and Futurama casually throws in more interesting SF concepts per episode than Star Trek manages in a whole season. I still can't get my head round the end of 'The Farnsworth Parabox'.

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junk-monkey.bsky.social @junk-monkey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I can't find my paperback copy see its page count - I remember it being chunkier. It's a book that probably improves dramatically with all the pedagogical cataloging removed. I heard a Verne expert refer to him as 'Le roi du copier coller' (the king of cut and paste) in a Radio France documentary.

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junk-monkey.bsky.social @junk-monkey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I thought Southland Tales tried that many years ago - but without making the background material easily available

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junk-monkey.bsky.social @junk-monkey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

An edited version or the full endless lists of every mollusc crustacian and 'polyp' they see, with the entire history of every island they pass version? I listened to the full original text in French recently and boy does it drag in places.

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junk-monkey.bsky.social @junk-monkey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

panning? or tracking? or both? A favourite is in Argento's Deep Red when a tracking shot follows David Hemmings across a deserted square. He stops - a sudden revelation hits him. The camera keeps moving, dollies around him so he ends up facing the other way on the screen I hated Goddard's Weekend.

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junk-monkey.bsky.social @junk-monkey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I have just scrolled through the NY Times 100 best TV shows of the 21st Century. I have seen one show (in its 5 season entirety) and one episode of another - and that is it. And looking at the list I don't feel like I've missed out at all.

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junk-monkey.bsky.social @junk-monkey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I love repairing books & recently did my first decent rebacking (that, as the name might suggest, is reattaching a detached spine to a hardback). A very battered Victorian, broken spined, 1st ed. of Valdar the Oft Born by George Griffith is now complete and readable again. (It's compulsively awful!)

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junk-monkey.bsky.social @junk-monkey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

or a scientist if they're not wearing a lab coat? or a superhero if they've not put their underpants on last?

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junk-monkey.bsky.social @junk-monkey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

But are you really drawing a TV or a hyroglyph of a TV?

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junk-monkey.bsky.social @junk-monkey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

People are still reading Homer and Shakespear.... and some of us are still reading Sax Rohmer and Vargo Statten. (Though quite why is a good question.)

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junk-monkey.bsky.social @junk-monkey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

As long as you don't stop to think for one second about how the film doesn't make any sense at all, and is just an series of eye candy moments... it is a fantastically dumb movie.

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junk-monkey.bsky.social @junk-monkey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Personally the types of books I love most are the ones where there aren't any previous books. I don't like soap operas either.

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junk-monkey.bsky.social @junk-monkey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Coyuld you become a reader for something like Librivox? reading public domain books for release as free audiobooks?

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junk-monkey.bsky.social @junk-monkey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

...are you trying to camouflage them?

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junk-monkey.bsky.social @junk-monkey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I once found three identical copies of a the same 1960s SF book on my shelves within a half meter of each other. Same cover (same edition). I'd never read it either.

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junk-monkey.bsky.social @junk-monkey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

comictropes on Youtube is a good one; not so much collecting as history and oddities. informative and fun

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junk-monkey.bsky.social @junk-monkey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I saw it before Trump was elected anbd it was funny. Now it is unwatchable because it isn't. It was one of the most prohetically accurate SF films ever made.

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junk-monkey.bsky.social @junk-monkey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If there is a word guaranteed to make me stop reading an article is this. That and 'devistated' and the phrase 'let's dive into..'

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junk-monkey.bsky.social @junk-monkey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I take it then you have never been attacked by one of the fuckers. Having a chunk taken out of you in an unprovoked attack does tends to colour your judgement slightly.

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junk-monkey.bsky.social @junk-monkey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

yes they are. there are a lot of people, me included, who can't stand dogs and think perople who treat them like children are seriously fucking weird in the head.

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junk-monkey.bsky.social @junk-monkey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

...or like, approve, or even be interested in it. None of our damn business.

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junk-monkey.bsky.social @junk-monkey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It's Bob Fossil from the Mighty Boosh!

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junk-monkey.bsky.social @junk-monkey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

the weirdest example of this I have seen was a few deades ago (sob!) - as a UK movie tie in to the movie Flash, 6 Flash Gordon pulps were reissued - all with same still of Sam Jones from the movie on the cover. Only the titles were different and the FLASH logo was in a different colour on each

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