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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We have a glorious and rare late-season Storrowing this morning — except it’s on Mem Drive, so I think that makes the truck “Memorialized”! Photo from reddit - www.reddit.com/r/boston/s/S...

A white truck under a low Memorial Drive bridge, roof ripped off, front wheels off the ground. Debris is scattered on the pavement. Rescue workers stand nearby and traffic fills the background.

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

My border collie Yoink: four years of difference!

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Years ago I ran across this at a supermarket bread case. My first thought was “CAN DO!” I stuck with tissues instead. Illiteracy is apparently unsanitary.

A (real, not AI) photograph of a sign at a supermarket bread case. It reads

“Please use tongues or tissues
When making your selection
Thank You“

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I dont usually make book recommendations, but I loved THE DUNGEON BOOK by @mytholder.bsky.social enough that I actually said “I sure as f**k did!” to an empty car when the audiobook finished with “Audible hopes you enjoyed this program.”

The cover of Gareth Hanrahan’s THE DUNGEON BOOK looks like a sepia dungeon map with a fire breathing dragon at the bottom.

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

20 hours left to back MERRYSHIRE DETECTIVE CLUB, my favorite rpg from the past few years. It’s a cozy fantasy mystery game where you play halflings from the Shire solving murder mysteries between second breakfast and afternoon tea. Funny to read, a delight to play. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/p...

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

A THREAD. This week lots of my friends will be driving cross-country to Indianapolis for Gen Con, a big gaming industry convention. They'll also be driving home - and they're way more likely to be exhausted! This seems like a good time to pull out my semi-annual standard advice to keep you alive.

Two sleepy tollers, neither of them driving.

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I’m flying back from Sheboygan with fifteen pounds of fresh cheese curds and made-today string cheese. On the other hand, my flight-that-replaced-a-canceled-flight (that itself replaced a different canceled flight) now gets me home at 3 am. At least we know I won’t starve?

15 lbs of cheese curds and mozzarella sticks.

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

You guys, I think I’ve figured out how Avengers: Doomsday canonically resolves! They’re not showing Squirrel Girl… YET. #tippytoes4Eva

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Tommy Wiseau of The Room has made a shark movie, BIG SHARK - and he sent me a love note! Also, on the back side of the love note, I learn that he really wants me to buy his underwear. Didn’t expect that.

Cover of the BIG SHARK dvd (featuring a very big shark) next to an autographed photo of Tommy Wiseau. Eeeeee!

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Crappy shark movie #190 was WATER PARK SHARK, which we ranked at #122 (below Bikini Shark & Ouija Shark 2). It’s the 1st movie where we are convinced the stinker of a script was written by ChatGPT! Acting was fun, CGI sharks were fun, budget was decent, but the script was bad.

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

My dog Yoink loves this lake as much as I do. Today we loved it at 5:30am.

With dawn turning the horizon pink, a border collie swims after a just-thrown floating tennis ball. He leaves a wake behind him.

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

No take only throw NO TAKE ONLY THROW

Close-up of a red dog with a grungy tennis ball in her mouth.

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

If you know Boston, you’ll appreciate this. A perfect Storrowing! (Photo from reddit - www.reddit.com/r/boston/s/R...)

A Ryder truck with the entire roof peeled away by a low bridge on Storrow Drive in Boston.

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Last night we watched SHARKS VS MERMAIDS, coming in at #156 out of the 189 crappy shark movies we’ve seen - right between Noah’s Shark and Sharkula! Were-sharks turn out to be guys wearing a shark mask, and mermaids turn out to wear a surprising amount of eye makeup for people who live underwater.

The poster for Sharks vs Mermaids: a shirtless muscular man with a shark head faces off against a gray, barnacle-encrusted woman with a trident. This poster is better than the movie.

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Tonight’s crappy shark movie #189 is SHARKS VS MERMAIDS, a movie that imdb doesn’t even list as being released (although it’s on Prime). I suspect it will be terrible and we are SO excited. I’ll report in!

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Dignity, says my dog. Always dignity.

A happy border collie with his face obscured by a large donut-shaped toy.

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Today is the best day, because today is the day that we traditionally play the chicken game.

The top of this image reads “chicken game. DON’T LOOK AT THIS CHICKEN”

Then there’s a picture of a chicken, and in the middle of the chicken picture there is text that reads “game over”.

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

BALLAD HUNTERS' Kickstarter is funded & in the last 48 hours. You tackle the mystery of why 19th century folk ballads are coming to life; it is fun, clever, & different from anything else I've seen (other than Shanty Hunters, which I also love). Recommended! www.kickstarter.com/projects/pel...

The cover of Ballad Hunters, showing a glowing lute and the author's name, Tristan Zimmerman.

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Netflix's THRASH comes in at #11 out of the 188 crappy shark movies we've seen and rated! When the levees break in a southern hurricane, a meat truck full of blood splits open. Know what that means? SHARKS EVERYWHERE. It had great chomps, one big sharky leap, a good flood/hurricane. Solid fun.

The THRASH movie poster: a swimming woman holds a newborn baby as a bull shark circles her on a flooded street.

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Dru, that sounds like the kind of thing a shark would say. <squints>

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

To give an example of what I mean about the shore in LONE STAR SHARK, here are two people marooned in open water and being stalked by a shark.

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Crappy Shark movie #187 was LONE STAR SHARK, ranking #151. Our notes: “So bad. Why is it so bad? Mitch, Vida, & hallucinations of Vida's dead sister get stuck in a tiny pond three feet from shore. Soggy paper-mache shark. Useless hacker sub-plot that is never explained. Awful but competently made?”

Movie poster for LONE STAR SHARK shows a girl swimming for a boat with a rising shark right behind her. Unlike in the movie, land isn’t nearby and the shark isn’t soggy and waterlogged. Woo!

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

My border collie Yoink has opinions about his strained tendon. OPINIONS.

Blue merle border collie in a car, looking disgusted about his fully bandaged front leg.

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Ninja vs Shark (#23/186) had everything. Sharks. Ninjas. Sorcerers. Zombies. A lady w/ crazy-eyes. Sentient severed heads. Pearl divers. Eruption blasts. Flippy flippy shit. Gratuitous murder. Undeath curses. Clan betrayal. A youth-stealing guy who turns into a man-shark. And NINJAS FIGHTING SHARKS.

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Tonight we’re watching crappy shark movie #186. This week? NINJA VS SHARK! I’ll report in.

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Right now I am stranded at the Milwaukee airport for four hours, and I an carrying thirteen lbs. of fresh cheese curds and fresh string cheese. This can’t possibly end well.

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

I’m glad I’m not traveling for work this week because I can already hear the snowy wind howling outside. I’m going to stay home, make cocoa, write if I have power, and shovel the damn driveway.

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Flew to Wisconsin before dawn yesterday. There’s beauty in unexpected places.

Sunrise, seen through a plane window at 38,000 feet.

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

I’m currently doing consulting work at several cheese factories, and you know what that means? CHEESE GUITAR.

A framed electric guitar, yellow and designed to look like it’s made of cheese.

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I made sure not to read it before writing TimeWatch. I’m grateful it exists — but I think the things that it thinks are fun aren’t the things that I think are fun, if that makes any sense. Want some weird trivia? The author of Continuum also wrote the wonderful comic Yamara in Dragon Mag.

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Oh! And for corny, Super Shark. Put Super Shark on your list. It’s perfect - washed-up Dukes of Hazzard star faces a walking shark with a clearly drunk “Dy-No-MITE!” Jimmy Walker in a throwaway role. Features a toy tank.

Huge CGI shark menaces what are probably toy soldiers.

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

The Thing, Anaconda (2025), and Grabbers are in the top 5. The bottom 5 include Suburban Sasquatch, Birdemic, Shock Attack, and Hard Ticket to Hawaii (shown).

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Just saw DINOGATOR (formerly COBRAGATOR, filmed in 2014 but shelved ‘til last year). You guys, this is going to be hard to believe but it was *terrible*. We ranked it #70 out if the 92 creature features we’ve seen.

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

The bad guy in TTRL is actually named after my wife (!), and she has “coincidentally” gotten all the abilities that let her be friends with the bad guy. I smell underhanded corruption!

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

If I’ve learned anything from @johnrogers.bsky.social, it’s to live your life in such a way that this isn’t true for you.

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Finished her antibiotics, fully recovered, and annoyed that I’m not giving her cheese!

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

We rated this #29/184 (although it really should be lower!) I guarantee you that Eversink has sharks. It even has professional shark dueling! And in case it brings you joy, here’s a sample hero who may be involved.

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

AMA with Swords of the Serpentine co-author (me!) - today (2pm Eastern Friday 12/5/25) at Pelgrane’s discord. You type questions, I make up answers. I’m prepped to answer questions on GUMSHOE, time travel, BBQ, human fatigue, shiftwork, and crappy shark movies. BRING IT. discord.gg/ZtjFBwrqA

Cover of Swords of the Serpentine; a young black woman, clearly a thief, climbs a huge tower as the city spreads out beneath her.

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

My poor dog has a retrobulbar abscess and she is SO UNHAPPY. Work quickly, antibiotics!

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

I’m going to go out on a limb and say that maybe this isn’t quite what my mom’s very somber and serious funeral home was shooting for when they emailed me the cremation receipt.

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

I don’t usually swear online but what the actual fuck.

Washington Post headline: U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols.

The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items "potentially divisive."

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