Sign in

Michael Cerliano

@michaelcerliano.bsky.social
713 followers 744 following 1K posts

Ph.D. candidate in rhetoric at Texas Woman's University. Critical theory, visual culture, the weird. "Tell me strange things."

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Michael Cerliano
Siskel and Ebert Bot @siskel-ebert-bot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) Director: Henry Selick Watch Review wp / ltrbox
A screen capture from the Siskel and Ebert Show reviewing the movie The Nightmare Before Christmas. Ebert gave it a thumbs up.
 Siskel gave it a thumbs up.
14910
Reposted by Michael Cerliano
Michael Cerliano @michaelcerliano.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I dug DIGGER boxd.it/gDBE7z
boxd.it
A ★★★★½ review of Digger (2026)
Digger's existence is called into question by the narrative of Digger itself: can a film that problematizes the relationship between art and politics itself escape that problematization? If satire is ...
031
Michael Cerliano @michaelcerliano.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Now seated
The poster for DIGGER.
130
Michael Cerliano @michaelcerliano.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
m.youtube.com/watch?v=5xil...
m.youtube.com
Kids in the Hall - Into the Doors
YouTube video by Ariel Morgan
030
Michael Cerliano @michaelcerliano.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
See you next week, everyone! #folkhorrorfriday
150
Michael Cerliano @michaelcerliano.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Getting ready for THE SACRAMENT on this week's #folkhorrorfriday !
150
Reposted by Michael Cerliano
Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@JFriedhoff

me at 13: wow i can't wait til we have immersive computers everywhere like star trek
me at 30: wow i can't wait until we destroy all computers like in dune
45146452759
Reposted by Michael Cerliano
josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
The problem with AI is you can't really shoot it in the head yet
121088191
Reposted by Michael Cerliano
Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This reminds me of a *fantastic* Slate article by Dan Kois on '70s superstar poet and contemporary nonentity Rod McKuen. Just an amazing article.
slate.com
Fifty Years Ago, He Was America’s Most Famous Writer. Why Haven’t You Ever Heard of Him?
He sold 60 million books and 100 million records. Then he disappeared.
1168
Reposted by Michael Cerliano
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The nation explicitly cast as a fortressed bunker ensuring "survivability" for the in-group. A.K.A. end times fascism.
28463136
Reposted by Michael Cerliano
Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Ian McShane has morning coffee with Suzanne Pleshette ☕️ If It's Tuesday It Must Be Belgium, 1969 If it's September 29, it must be #NationalCoffeeDay Today we're celebrating Ian McShane's birthday 🎂
McShane pour coffee from a thermos for a hungover Pleshette.
14614
Michael Cerliano @michaelcerliano.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#folkhorrorfriday
What a picture.
161
Michael Cerliano @michaelcerliano.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Getting ready for MESSIAH OF EVIL on tonight's #folkhorrorfriday
150
Michael Cerliano @michaelcerliano.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We painted autumn themed tote bags at the writing center this afternoon 🎃
A rustic scene featuring a gnome holding a pumpkin, another pumpkin in the foreground, a bird, a house in the distance, and hills and trees and plants. Multicolored everything, no recourse to realism, because it's a picture of a gnome. Anything goes.
020
Michael Cerliano @michaelcerliano.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Can't wait!
020
Michael Cerliano @michaelcerliano.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My two brains
Marwood and Withnail
030
Reposted by Michael Cerliano
Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It’s the mighty Chuck Jones’ birthday. Duck Amuck is his brilliant but kind of nightmarish masterpiece, at 5.42 youtu.be/QRSgRILrW14?...
youtu.be
Looney Tunes | Classic Daffy Duck Mega Compilation | Warner Classics
YouTube video by Warner Bros. Classics
16915
Reposted by Michael Cerliano
Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 20/09/2026
Not really sure where a bunch of liberals got the idea that they can’t win without throwing trans people in the garbage, but they’re stupid and cruel and wrong. If you want a human sacrifice so damned bad put gavin newsom in the wicker man
8375761752
Reposted by Michael Cerliano
Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 20/09/2026
Too many have forgotten that the civil rights movement was fought over, among other things, bathrooms and locker rooms
112416301
Michael Cerliano @michaelcerliano.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Another #folkhorrorfriday in the books! Good to watch a movie with all of you once again.
030
Michael Cerliano @michaelcerliano.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Almost time for #folkhorrorfriday
250
Michael Cerliano @michaelcerliano.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The very 90s logo for ABC's TGIF programming block.
220
Reposted by Michael Cerliano
Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Pre-orders for Crossroads Issue 2: The Devil Has the Best Tunes are now open! Over the next few days and weeks, we will be sharing more information about our amazing contributors. We are so excited to get this issue in your hands:
crossroads-folkhorror.bigcartel.com
Products
Browse all products from Crossroads: Folk Horror in America.
36539
Reposted by Michael Cerliano
stovey @doorhook.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
if you’re reading this post The Curse has been lifted. Have a good day! ⓘ Only those who bear The Curse can see this post
723562
Michael Cerliano @michaelcerliano.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Time for my favorite movie.
The famous opening title sequence from Bruce Robinson's WITHNAIL
AND I, featuring Paul McGann smoking and listening to King Curtis' cover of "A Whiter Shade of Pale"
030
Reposted by Michael Cerliano
Paul Klee @paul-klee.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Cosmic Composition www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/cosmic…
Cosmic Composition
0289
Michael Cerliano @michaelcerliano.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Another #folkhorrorfriday in the books!
140
Michael Cerliano @michaelcerliano.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It's been a long short week, and I'm ready for THE BLACKCOAT'S DAUGHTER on #folkhorrorfriday
170
Reposted by Michael Cerliano
Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
A simple line drawing with halftone shading of the titular pig-man from the movie Porco Rosso. He’s wearing a trench coat with the collar turned up and a wide brimmed fedora and sunglasses. His mouth is wide open in a sarcastic laugh. A word balloon says, ‘Maybe it will happen today’
51939553
Reposted by Michael Cerliano
Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
[Happy 105th birthday to Eddy Goldfarb, BOTD in 1921, to invent Yakity-Yak Talking Teeth in 1949!]
13715
Reposted by Michael Cerliano
VHS Vault @vhsvault.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Walt Disney Kostbarkeiten Mickey Maus in Schwarz - Weiss Volume 1 : 35s
0216
Michael Cerliano @michaelcerliano.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This is a truly unique picture and I am glad I got to experience it with all of you. Thanks for another great #folkhorrorfriday
170
Michael Cerliano @michaelcerliano.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Getting ready for THE REFLECTING SKIN on this week's #folkhorrorfriday !
1100
Michael Cerliano @michaelcerliano.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
College football is back this weekend, and I'm revisiting this 2016 piece co-written by my greatly missed friend, Katie, on the rhetorics of people-watching on game day. web.archive.org/web/20230330...
web.archive.org
Reading Game Day: Uniform(ity) and the Semiotics of Nebraska Football Fans
Photo Credit: "Fans" by Craig Chandler, University Communications Photography Imagine a pleasant fall Saturday in Lincoln, Nebraska: the air is cool but the sun is still warm enough to heat up in the ...
000
Reposted by Michael Cerliano
Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
A digital illustration done in a black and white graphite style with white highlight on a gray grainy paper background of a hand from the front in a fingers-crossed gesture. From the heel of the palm and down the wrist is lettering reading, ‘maybe it will happen today’. The hand is cropped beetle the lettering and surrounded with decorative rays and circles.
51337322
Reposted by Michael Cerliano
Daily Mothra ʚïɞ @dailymothra.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Today's Daily Mothra (Leo)! 🦋 🎥 "Rebirth of Mothra III" (1998)
07331
Michael Cerliano @michaelcerliano.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Post something random or you'll have an awful September.
A happy jack-o-lantern and the phrase "not long!"
050
Reposted by Michael Cerliano
Hourly Father Ted @hourlyfatherted.bagpuss.org · 02/09/2026
18:00
S01E04 Competition Time 12 May 1995
011
Reposted by Michael Cerliano
Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Just a few days left to submit your proposals! We'd like to see more pitches focused on media/pop culture portrayals of folk horror in the American landscape.
01816
Michael Cerliano @michaelcerliano.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Another #folkhorrorfriday in the books!
030
Michael Cerliano @michaelcerliano.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Capping off the first week of the semester with a much-needed #folkhorrorfriday. Let's do this! 👹
160
Reposted by Michael Cerliano
Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Tomorrow! We watch LUZ: THE FLOWER OF EVIL, free to stream on Tubi. Starts 9pm ET #FolkHorrorFriday
Poster for Luz. Black and white illustration of a woman with goat horns
13014
Reposted by Michael Cerliano
Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
A digital illustration of Peter Finch portraying maniacal newscaster Howard Beale in Network (1976). He’s a disheveled older white man in a rumpled raincoat, his face is distended in an open-mouthed howl with both his hands held out in claw-like configurations in the air in front in him. There are clocks on the wall behind him and some of the numbers have been replaced with letters spelling out ‘Maybe it will happen today’.
111522332
Michael Cerliano @michaelcerliano.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Good decision. It makes Holst's suite correct again.
210
Reposted by Michael Cerliano
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The thing about the country shrugging every 2/4 years and smashing the "Other guy" button at the polls because of ~affordability~ is eventually you get someone who takes the button away. Untenable situation
142212221
Michael Cerliano @michaelcerliano.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Day 1 😀
Me (a 40 year old doctoral student with short brown hair, a beard, and clear frame glasses, wearing a dark grey polo shirt) standing in front of the writing center at my uni.
010
Michael Cerliano @michaelcerliano.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Work bag is packed, clothes are laid out, and I'm as ready as I can be for the new semester. Looking forward to Day 1 as the writing center AD.
130
Reposted by Michael Cerliano
Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 18/02/2025
Keith Haring animation for 'Sesame Street' (1993)
5885233
Reposted by Michael Cerliano
Rebecca Lambert (She/Her) ♾️🐭🍉 @reblambert.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This is happening tomorrow night, in Shoreditch , London , but I’ve just discovered that it’ll be available online too. Entry is from 7pm, & my talk begins at 8pm. Would be lovely to see some of you there, virtually, or in-person, if you’re about 🙂 www.eventbrite.com/e/ponderings...
67236
Reposted by Michael Cerliano
ToonHive @toonhive.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
97 years ago today, ‘The Skeleton Dance’ released in theaters.
12480002018