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Michael Marano Punches Nazis @mikemarano.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yeah, things are going tough for me right now. So it’s time to watch some Colombo. That always takes the edge off.

Michael Marano Punches Nazis @mikemarano.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yep... more than a year waiting for a response for a small publisher. Had to nudge them a few times. Finally got the rejection. I hate this business so much.

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The Arts Fuse @theartsfuse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

@mikemarano.bsky.social's commentary explores, in depth, how William Nicholas Love’s punch heard round the internet belongs to a long comic-book history of fighting homegrown fascism—from Captain America to Superman decking Nazi goons in “The Clan of the Fiery Cross.” artsfuse.org/335084/arts-...

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The Arts Fuse @theartsfuse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

@mikemarano.bsky.social writes that Tom Cruise delivers a virtuoso turn in "Digger," but director Alejandro G. Iñárritu buries a potentially potent satire of climate-change denial beneath two-ton exposition, self-congratulation, and stunts. artsfuse.org/335174/film-...

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Film Review: “Digger” Can’t Dig Its Way Out of Its Own Artifice - The Arts Fuse

Tom Cruise delivers a virtuoso turn, but Iñárritu buries a potentially potent climate-change comedy beneath exposition, self-congratulation, and stunts.

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Michael Marano Punches Nazis @mikemarano.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There's a whole sub-genre of Rock 'n Roll stories about people meeting Lemmy. Scott Ian from Anthrax provides one of the best. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_tZ...

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What Happened When Scott Ian Met Lemmy

YouTube video by The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

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Michael Marano Punches Nazis @mikemarano.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It was full of wit, from the casting of Michael Keaton as a washed-up superhero actor and Edward Norton as well… Edward Norton, working on a John Osborne–ish stage adaptation of a Raymond Carver story. _Birdman_ didn’t jump up & down, explain itself, & demand that you applaud it for being so clever.

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Michael Marano Punches Nazis @mikemarano.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The tragic thing is, the required quips are there in _Digger_. But Iñárritu doesn’t trust himself or the audience to allow them to work. Look at Iñárritu’s Oscar-winning _Birdman_.

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Michael Marano Punches Nazis @mikemarano.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Put another way, _Digger_ is _Jackass_, full of pranks and stunts, when it should be Oscar Wilde, full of pointed quips.

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Michael Marano Punches Nazis @mikemarano.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Digger attempts to create a weighty, intelligent discussion of our culture’s reliance on fossil fuels & the political, economic,& media manipulation associated with that reliance. But while the director has the intelligence to pull this off, he lacks the wit to pull it off.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The happiest couple in America: Commie Donnie and Malaria.

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Michael Marano Punches Nazis @mikemarano.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A full run?! There's around 200, aren't there?

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Michael Marano Punches Nazis @mikemarano.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Just went to the hardware store to legit buy a sling blade. Had to ask a clerk where they were. Do you have ANY FUCKING IDEA how hard it was to do that without doing a Billy Bob Thornton impression? ANY FUCKING IDEA?

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Michael Marano Punches Nazis @mikemarano.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Saw a little girl, maybe 5 or 7, holding a TOTALLY AWESOME King Ghidorah toy! Now THAT'S good parenting!!!!

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Michael Marano Punches Nazis @mikemarano.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

More context... these were not current covers to current books. In fact, these books were published around 1980. One was a circa 1980 reprint of a story from the 1950s. The other was current, in 1980/1981. But STILL.... (BTW--were you at Dell, when Zelde M'Tana came out?)

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Michael Marano Punches Nazis @mikemarano.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Just saw two books, the covers of which portray their protagonists as young, white women. These protagonists are, as per the texts, middle-aged Black women. *sigh*

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Michael Marano Punches Nazis @mikemarano.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Yeah, I’m watching LANTERNS. And had to dust off my old Green Lantern/Green Arrow collections.

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Michael Marano Punches Nazis @mikemarano.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I anticipate a very stressful and frustrating week. Ergo, I’m starting my week with heavy cream in my coffee. To take the coming edge off.

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Michael Marano Punches Nazis @mikemarano.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

On the left is Jack the Donkey from the horror movie HOKUM. On the right is Elizabeth Holmes from the documentary YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING. I need your honest answer. WHICH ONE IS CREEPIER?!

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Michael Marano Punches Nazis @mikemarano.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Just want to hang out and talk books with Wishbone all day.

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Michael Marano Punches Nazis @mikemarano.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

From French TV News. How our allies see us. Thanks a lot, to the 77 million shitheads who allowed this shithead to embarrass and humiliate the US on an international stage. www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4tA...

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Trump posts AI map showing US 'takeover' of North America, Iceland and Caribbean • FRANCE 24

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Michael Marano Punches Nazis @mikemarano.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Few things make me happier than seeing a kid walk into the library and make a bee line for the comic books and graphic novels. It means the world is spinning the way it should be.

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Michael Marano Punches Nazis @mikemarano.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Holy Shit! Padriac McKinley's THE WEIGHT is fucking awesome! It opens 9/18, stars Ethan Hawke & Russell Crowe. Take Bonnie & Clyde, Cool Hand Luke, and Deliverance and fit it onto a remake of The Wages of Fear *without the trucks*, you'd have this gritty, sweaty, testosterone-laced movie. Loved it!

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Michael Marano Punches Nazis @mikemarano.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

By the way... SUPERMAN HAS ALWAYS BEEN WOKE!!! (This image is from 1949)

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Michael Marano Punches Nazis @mikemarano.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Resistance work with heavy 60-150 lbs bands. Barbell curls and dumbbell incline curls and hammer curls. Deep core work. Pushups. One hour of cardio and deep stretching afterwards. GETTING OLDER IS NOT FOR SISSIES!!

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Michael Marano Punches Nazis @mikemarano.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The fucking Space Force uniform looks like it's from the Third Reich, filtered through Star Wars fanfic. This guy has rotten brain, a rotten heart, a rotten mind, a rotten soul.

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Michael Marano Punches Nazis @mikemarano.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I'm probably the millionth comic book fan to post this lately, because of the outstanding new _Lanterns_ show. But it needs to be said a million times. GREEN LANTERN HAS _ALWAYS_ BEEN WOKE!!!

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Michael Marano Punches Nazis @mikemarano.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Kind of insane "Anti-Cable TV Ad" from the 1970s. I wonder what genius at McMann & Tate dreamed this up? www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIgZ...

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Creepy Anti-Cable (Pay TV) PSA from the 70's

YouTube video by mrmoore1970

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Michael Marano Punches Nazis @mikemarano.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Right now, all I want to do is take gummies and watch The Hilarious House of Frightenstein for the next 72 hours.

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Michael Marano Punches Nazis @mikemarano.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Yeah, I was a teen in the 1970s. And Yeah, I read Castenada to find a greater reality, and to impress a certain type of bookish, stoner girl I crushed out on. And yeah, halfway through the third book I said... "Hey, I think this is bullshit." www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzFZ...

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Carlos Castaneda: How a Bestseller Became a Cult

YouTube video by Cult Expert - Dr. Steven Hassan

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Michael Marano Punches Nazis @mikemarano.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

“It’s just me and you now, Sport!” Settling in to see MANHUNTER: THE FINAL CUT

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Michael Marano Punches Nazis @mikemarano.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Dreamt I was in a styrofoam cave using a spear to fight off rubbery dinosaurs like the ones that used to menace Doug McClure back in the '70s.

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Michael Marano Punches Nazis @mikemarano.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

WE LOST TIM CURRY AND DOLLY PARTON WITHIN 24 HOURS OF EACH OTHER?!!

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Michael Marano Punches Nazis @mikemarano.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It's turgid, and in terms of politics, it feels like Trump, Musk and Nigel Farage fed a bunch of self-published Survivalist manuals from the early '90s into ChatGPT and this is what it shat out.

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Michael Marano Punches Nazis @mikemarano.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Ridley Scott's THE DOG STARS tries to be A BOY AND HIS DOG, and fails. It tries to be THE WALKING DEAD, and fails. It tries to be THE ROAD, and fails. It tries to be FALLOUT, and fails.

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Michael Marano Punches Nazis @mikemarano.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Saw Nolan's THE ODYSSEY again last night. Sorry... Matt Damon was good, but Wishbone's is the definitive portrayal of the character. #Odyssey

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Michael Marano Punches Nazis @mikemarano.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Not too long ago, I was benching 300 lbs (1 or 2 reps). After a shoulder impingement, I’m getting back to benching and SLOWWWWLY building up to where I was. Lotsa land mine work today, too. And upper arm work. Now for cardio. GETTING OLDER IS NOT FOR SISSIES!!

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Michael Marano Punches Nazis @mikemarano.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This is a real picture of Trump, Natalie Harp, and Eric Trump, credited to Al Drago for The Washington Post, via Getty. All I can see is Baron Harkonnen, escaping to Gedi Prime on a Guild shuttle with a traitor concubine from House Corrino and Piter De Vries.

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Michael Marano Punches Nazis @mikemarano.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Linda Bean Pardee of The Chelsea Curve has passed. She was the coolest bass player in Boston and had ungodly charisma and talent. I saw The Chelsea Curve many times and met and talked with her a few times. She embodied so much that was awesome about the Boston music scene. I hate that she’s gone.

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Michael Marano Punches Nazis @mikemarano.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I was 6 last time I heard this song. More than half a century later, I was singing it as I loaded the washing machine. There's so much important shit I can't remember. But a stupid fucking Sid and Marty Krofft song is jammed in my brain forever. What the fuck?! www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_8g...

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The Bugaloos - Gna Gna Gna Gna Gna

YouTube video by Sid & Marty Krofft Pictures

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Michael Marano Punches Nazis @mikemarano.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

This is Sid. Sid naps as part of his Sun Salutation, knowing that as the Sun warms him, his inner Floofyness warms the Sun. Sid knows the Circle of Life is comprised of snacks and sleep, creating a spiral back to the point of Creation. Sid is Zen. Sid is Floofy. Sid loves everyone. Be like Sid.

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