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Kelly Robinson @kellyrobinson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I once found a 1930 diary while working in a used bookstore, & I'm finally ready to talk about it. Read this free Patreon post for an intro to a true story about vaudeville, race, gender identity, female impersonation, loneliness, carnivals, & Depression-era Los Angeles. #history 🗃️ #ViviansDiary

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Vivian’s Diary: What It Is and How I Found It | Kelly Robinson

About 20 years ago, I found an old diary. I would soon find out that it has significant cultural and historical significance, due to the fac

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Vivian’s Diary: What It Is and How I Found It | Kelly Robinson

About 20 years ago, I found an old diary. I would soon find out that it has significant cultural and historical significance, due to the fac

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Kelly Robinson @kellyrobinson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

RIP Bob Mackie. You made Cher, Barbra, and Diana Ross even more iconic, but this will always be your masterpiece. #FilmSky

Green velvet curtain rod dress from The Carol Burnett Show sketch "Went with the Wind."

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Kelly Robinson @kellyrobinson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"The apartment was haunted by the ghost of long-departed cabbage." Stephen King is underrated as a comic writer. He delivers laughs as deftly as he dishes out the creeps. #BookSky📚 #writing

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Kelly Robinson @kellyrobinson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The white streak in Peter Lorre's hair in THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1934) is the greatest in cinema until THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN came along. #FilmSky🎥

Photo of Peter Lorre with a facial scar and a white streak in his hair.

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Kelly Robinson @kellyrobinson.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Strap on your rocket skates, tie yourself to a missile, or use a giant magnet to pull the theater to you. Do whatever it takes to see COYOTE VS. ACME. How was this gem shelved for 3 years as a tax write-off? Best courtroom comedy since MY COUSIN VINNY & easily a top 5 film of the year. #FilmSky 🎥

Poster for COYOTE VS. ACME, depicting a stop sign with a Wile E. Coyote-shaped hole in it.

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Kelly Robinson @kellyrobinson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Stephen King's CUJO is good and gory, a true monster story, but upon a re-read, a sentence in the last paragraph made my eyes well up: “It would perhaps not be amiss to point out that he had always tried to be a good dog." 😭 #Writing #Books #BookSky #Horror 📚

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Kelly Robinson @kellyrobinson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Ardath Bey is torn between which is his favorite text: The Egyptian Book of the Dead or issue #1 of Super Creeps. (See pinned post to subscribe to the world's tiniest monster mag. Issue #1 has shipped. Check your tombs!) #FilmSky🎥 #classicmonsters #horror #zines

An action figure of Boris Karloff as Ardath Bey in The Mummy, holding a miniature Book of the Dead in one hand and an issue of a miniature monster magazine titled Super Creeps in the other.

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Kelly Robinson @kellyrobinson.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I'm reading an advance copy of a book from a major press that discusses "grizzly rituals," and no, it is not about rites involving bears. #Writing #Books #BookSky 📚 #Editing

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Kelly Robinson @kellyrobinson.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

One of the best writers I know is fundraising for this cozy animal-populated Appalachian novel. A few more backers would get her to the amount needed to fund an audio version. The world needs this!

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Kelly Robinson @kellyrobinson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

SUPER CREEPS, the miniature monster magazine, has gone to press & is shipping soon! Tiny contributions from award-winning horror historians, LITTLE-known facts, itty-bitty bios, and even a compact crossword. 🧛‍♂️ See pinned post to subscribe via Patreon. #FilmSky🎥 #classicmonsters

A human hand holding a tiny 2" magazine. The red cover reads "SUPER CREEPS #1" in a spooky font and has an image of Elsa Lanchester as the Bride of Frankenstein.

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Kelly Robinson @kellyrobinson.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Best birthday gift ever: a teeny tiny version of the Leg of Mutton from Through the Looking Glass. #BookSky📚

A tiny ceramic replica of the John Tenniel illustration of the anthropomorphic Leg of Mutton from Through the Looking Glass.

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Kelly Robinson @kellyrobinson.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The original 1932 SCARFACE is great pre-Code stuff. Dir. by Howard Hawks & with skilled acting all around (esp. Paul Muni, George Raft & the first Osgood Perkins). Boris Karloff shows up, & we get to see him bowling! Lots of snarly gangster dialogue and "Oh yeah?" Lots of bang-bang. #FilmSky 🎥

Paul Muni with a brown paper-wrapped machine gun, flanked by gangsters.

Paul Muni shooting from an apartment window.

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Kelly Robinson @kellyrobinson.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Today I'm seeing loads of responses to Joyce Carol Oates' response to Emily Wilson's response to Christopher Nolan's THE ODYSSEY. Where does this human centipede of criticism end? #FilmSky🎥

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Kelly Robinson @kellyrobinson.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

My figures are anxious for SUPER CREEPS, the mini monster mag. Just over 2" wide-the perfect size for them. Paid subscribers to my Patreon (see below) will be subbed to SUPER CREEPS. #1 is printing and is coming SOON in August. Your own little monsters deserve more than junk mail and bills!

Action figures of Frankenstein's monster and the Mummy posed by a miniature mailbox full of bills.

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Kelly Robinson @kellyrobinson.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

One of the best writers I know is fundraising for this cozy animal-populated Appalachian novel. A few more backers would get her to the amount needed to fund an audio version. The world needs this!

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Kelly Robinson @kellyrobinson.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

My local movie theater spared no expense on the lobby display for THE ODYSSEY. #Odyssey #FilmSky🎥

Image of a huge horse shape cut from cardboard and taped together, hanging on a movie theater wall.

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Kelly Robinson @kellyrobinson.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

My local movie theater spared no expense on the lobby display for THE ODYSSEY. #Odyssey #FilmSky🎥

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I spent the whole weekend with Mitch McConnell, partying in his luxurious beach house in the Hamptons. It was a great time, just ask our pal Andrew McCarthy.

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Kelly Robinson @kellyrobinson.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

For Patreon subscribers, I continue my foray into the history of gorilla horror films, starting from the beginning of motion pictures. I'm up to the year 1908, with an entry that represents a lot of film firsts—and probably the first TRUE gorilla horror film. #history #filmsky #gorillas #film 🎥 🗃️

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A Sherlock Holmes Gorilla Flick from 1908 | Kelly Robinson

True gorilla horror starts here. I’ve stated often that I believe there’s something to glean from even the oldest and dullest film short —

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Flat Pluto Coven @adhdgobl.in · 28/06/2026

Mel Brooks has been around for 40% of the US's existence.

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Kelly Robinson @kellyrobinson.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

This is why I adore William Steig. Who else would begin a children's book with the word "moseying?" (From ZEKE PIPPIN) #childrensbooks #illustration #books #kidlit #writingandbooks 📚

Illustration of a pig finding a harmonica in the street, with the text "Moseying down the street one morning ..."

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Lynda Barry did not squeeze your heart and simultaneously explain the point of all art with the barest of line drawings so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

HOW TO LOOK AT ART by Lynda Barry

In the first panel, a dog-headed woman, a mother, looks at a painting in the "Madonna with Baby Jesus" vein. A small blobby child is standing next to her.

Mother: IM NOT SURE HOW TO LOOK AT ART.
Child: WHATS SPOSTA HAPPEN?

In the second panel the dog-headed mother holds up her hands (paws?) trying to explain to the child.

Mother: SOMETHING BIG. A REVELATION.
SUDDENLY YOU JUST UNDERSTAND.

In the third panel dog-headed mother goes back to looking at the painting. The child holds up their arms to be lifted.

Mother: NOT SURE HOW TO MAKE IT HAPPEN
Child: HOW BOUT LIFT ME UP SO I CAN SEE BETTER

In the last panel, the dog-headed mother is holding the child, their position mirrored by the Madonna and baby Jesus in the painting.

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Kelly Robinson @kellyrobinson.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Whoever came up with putting short story titles in quotation marks instead of italicizing them like "major works" clearly never wrote a short story. #BookSky #writing #writers

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Kelly Robinson @kellyrobinson.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I'm thrilled to have written about one of my longest-held obsessions for Reactor. BTW, did you know there was an ape in Wonderland? #BookSky #AliceInWonderland

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Kelly Robinson @kellyrobinson.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

My hot take about the casting for THE ODYSSEY is that no one will top this performance of Odysseus. #FilmSky 🎥

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 21/05/2026

“When Jennie first meets the 𝑡𝑜𝑑-𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑒𝑙, she cries enquiringly 𝑄𝑢𝑎𝑖𝑐𝑘? This Scots equivalent of English 𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑐𝑘 has been used to represent duck noises since the 17th century” —Susan Rennie on creating a Scots #translation of Beatrix Potter’s 𝐽𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑚𝑎 𝑃𝑢𝑑𝑑𝑙𝑒-𝐷𝑢𝑐𝑘 #kidlit scrennie.com/2026/05/16/t...

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Tods, Plaidies and Fairy-Thimmles

Translating Beatrix Potter’s classic Farmyard Tale The rural setting and classic style of Beatrix Potter’s tale of the hapless Jemima Puddle-Duck makes it a natural candidate for transl…

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Kelly Robinson @kellyrobinson.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I love the "seal" on this intertitle from the 1910 Alice in Wonderland. #FilmSky #silentfilm 🎥

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Kelly Robinson @kellyrobinson.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I love that the 1903 Alice in Wonderland uses a real cat, but it is cracking me up how much it is NOT amused. So much for a grinning Cheshire cat. This one wishes death to humans. #FilmSky 🎥 #AliceInWonderland #ChildrensBooks

Black and white film screenshot with girl dressed as Alice talking to a real cat in a tree.

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Kelly Robinson @kellyrobinson.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Happy Mother's Day to all the cat moms (of any and all genders). They appreciate all that you do for them, even if they are pretending to be aloof and ignoring you all day. Portrait of a Woman With a Cat, by Juan Cordero (1822-1884).

Painting of a woman with a flower crown holding a cat and teasing it with a sprig of ivy.

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Kelly Robinson @kellyrobinson.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

The Secret Life of a Sea Turtle (By Maddalena Bearzi, Illus. by Alex Boersma) is among the most beautiful children's books I've ever read. Truly immersive, no sugar-coating. A moving experience. #BookSky #ChildrensBooks

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Kelly Robinson @kellyrobinson.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

This remains the greatest story headline I've ever stumbled upon in an old newspaper. (From The San Francisco Call Bulletin, 1892) #research #writing #What'sHistory 🗃️

Clipping says: The Cat Talks/Didn't Like Pork and Beans and Said So/The hermit-like existence of a woman who says her cat speaks three languages.

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Kelly Robinson @kellyrobinson.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I would like for my subconscious to explain to me why I had a sex dream about F. Murray Abraham.

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Hiro Ohta @xlix.me · 19/04/2026

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. - Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

PHOTO by Quang Vuong. A narrow aisle stretches deep into a monochrome labyrinth of tall bookshelves, packed tightly with aged spines and endless stories. Overhead signs mark categories—Poetry, U.S. History, Literary Bios—dangling above the quiet corridor. A lone step ladder waits mid-path, inviting the seeker upward. Fluorescent lights cast a sterile glow, yet the space feels timeless, suspended between thought and memory. The silence is thick, broken only by the imagined rustle of turning pages.

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Kelly Robinson @kellyrobinson.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Little William Henry Pratt, long before he would become known as Boris Karloff. #FilmSky 🎥 #UniversalMonsters

Photograph circa 1900 of a small boy in a velvet dress and white boots, holding a a toy horse on a string. The caption says: William Henry Pratt, age 3 1/2.

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Kelly Robinson @kellyrobinson.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I'm watching a movie where a kid asks his old granny why she doesn't want to go to the county fair, and she replies, "Cause I ain't a traipsin' woman." I am going to remember this response the next time I don't want to go somewhere. #NoTraipsin

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 30/03/2026

Books should take forever to write. They should torture you your entire life and the things you could have said slightly better should haunt you forever. This is what art is for, transferring the discomfort of being human into something relatable to the other humans

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Kelly Robinson @kellyrobinson.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

"You're so beautiful. Sometimes you're so beautiful it just gags me."—Jimmy Stewart to Jean Arthur, YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU (1938) #FilmSky 🎥

James Stewart and Jean Arthur. Stewart is lifting Arthur's beanie cap.

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Dez Fenton @butisitart.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

You know how in a library no one’s trying to sell you anything? That’s how the internet was.

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Kelly Robinson @kellyrobinson.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

JACKsploitation! ships April 2! W/ a stellar lineup of writers, intro by Jack Hill, & essays on films from SPIDER BABY & FOXY BROWN to MONDO KEYHOLE. I'm over the moon to have talked to Jack for an essay on his self-confessed best film PIT STOP. Pre-order ebook, PB & HB. #FilmSky 🎥 #Film #Books

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JACKsploitation! The Films of Jack Hill

JACKsploitation! The Films of Jack Hill, a Headpress book edited by Anthony Taylor

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Alison Eales, Nerves of Steel @alisoneales.com · 28/02/2026

‘I thought we agreed to call it The Best of REO Speedwagon’

A photo of a packet of 15 CHEESY SINGLES

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Kelly Robinson @kellyrobinson.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Covering the history of ape cinema film by film on Patreon brings me to 1908, w/ a lost short that capitalizes on the man-to-monkey/monkey-to-man craze. Also: why IMDB is GARBAGE for early silents & a stage play about a doctor bent on dismembering people. #FilmSky 🎥 #History 🗃️

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The Doctor’s Experiment or Reversing Darwin’s Theory (1908) | Kelly Robinson

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