Richard Wayne Bowling @rchrdwynbwlngk100.bsky.social · 10hI just watched “House of Dark Shadows” (1970), a big screen version of the TV soap opera that was produced near the end of the show’s run. The film takes significant liberties with events and characters from the series and is much more violent and bloody. Nevertheless, I found it very entertaining. 050
Richard Wayne Bowling @rchrdwynbwlngk100.bsky.social · 21hTrump started a war with Iran and thinks he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. Please do your part in checking the insane Trump regime. Vote for Democratic candidates up and down the midterm ballot. 0103
Richard Wayne Bowling @rchrdwynbwlngk100.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Meanwhile, Russia continues to help Iran target United States military personnel and facilities. 094
Richard Wayne Bowling @rchrdwynbwlngk100.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This is dead serious. The Trump regime is making a concerted effort to destroy the International Criminal Court. Yes, Trump is a buffoon. Rubio is corrupt to the cellular level, but he is not a buffoon. 0144
Richard Wayne Bowling @rchrdwynbwlngk100.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I just watched “Dr. Cook’s Garden”, a 1971 made for television adaptation of Ira Levin’s play. Bing Crosby stars as a doctor who cultivates a perfect garden…and small town. It lacks the brilliance of Levin’s “Rosemary’s Baby”, but it is unsettling, and Crosby effectively plays against type. 🎃 031
Richard Wayne Bowling @rchrdwynbwlngk100.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This is the Trump regime’s high tech version of the old public hangings in the town square. 3123
Richard Wayne Bowling @rchrdwynbwlngk100.bsky.social · 08/10/2026There were ominous rumblings leading up to January 6, 2021. They were ignored. Here we are again. Colorado Governor Jared Polis, who commuted Tina Peters’s sentence for felony election interference and ordered her released on parole in May, is a secret MAGAt or an extremely useful idiot. 181
Richard Wayne Bowling @rchrdwynbwlngk100.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I just watched “House of Usher” (1960), Roger Corman’s first movie in his Edgar Allan Poe cycle. Vincent Price gives an excellent (non campy) performance as the last male scion of a dying family. This is a solid adaptation (script by Richard Matheson) of the classic story of decay and madness. 090
Richard Wayne Bowling @rchrdwynbwlngk100.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Putin and Trump are a plague on all of our houses. 070
Richard Wayne Bowling @rchrdwynbwlngk100.bsky.social · 07/10/2026“I don’t wanna leave today.”youtube.comStarcrawler - I Love LA | Later... with Jools HollandYouTube video by BBC Music 020
Richard Wayne Bowling @rchrdwynbwlngk100.bsky.social · 07/10/2026“We love it!”youtube.comRandy Newman - I Love L.A. (Official Video) [HD]YouTube video by Randy Newman 061
Richard Wayne Bowling @rchrdwynbwlngk100.bsky.social · 06/10/2026During my 30+ years working for Air Force Metrology I often worked with and visited personnel who worked at the Navy Primary Standards Laboratory at Naval Air Station North Island on San Diego Bay. I suspect that no one there thinks that the destruction of San Diego would be a small price to pay. 0122
Richard Wayne Bowling @rchrdwynbwlngk100.bsky.social · 06/10/2026If humanity survives AI and global authoritarianism, I hope that future historians will point out that the vast majority of contemporary journalists utterly failed to hold Trump accountable for his criminality and malignant words. 2154
Richard Wayne Bowling @rchrdwynbwlngk100.bsky.social · 06/10/2026At a rally yesterday, Donald Trump, the President of the United States, expressed indifference to the possible destruction of Los Angeles and San Diego by Iran, saying “it’s a small price to pay.” Seriously. That really happened. 4267
Richard Wayne Bowling @rchrdwynbwlngk100.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I just watched “Something Wicked This Way Comes” (1983). Ray Bradbury first wrote this tale of a dark carnival as a screenplay in the ‘50s, ultimately publishing it as a novel in ‘62. I wish it had been made back then as an evocative b&w film rather than in the ‘80s with overblown special effects. 2111
Richard Wayne Bowling @rchrdwynbwlngk100.bsky.social · 05/10/2026It looks like Eminem is showing us who he is. 060
Richard Wayne Bowling @rchrdwynbwlngk100.bsky.social · 05/10/2026No matter what the truth is regarding pneumonic plague in Russia, you can rest assured that you will never learn it from Putin’s government. 3111
Richard Wayne Bowling @rchrdwynbwlngk100.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I just watched “Tales from the Crypt” (Freddie Francis, 1972), a British adaptation of the 1950s EC horror comic books. The film is an anthology of five stories featuring Ralph Richardson as the Crypt Keeper. It’s a rather dreary effort with none of the energy and humor of the HBO series. 🎃 🎥 050
Richard Wayne Bowling @rchrdwynbwlngk100.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Trump visits my home town, Vandalia OH. #5 2112
Richard Wayne Bowling @rchrdwynbwlngk100.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Trump visits my home town, Vandalia OH. #4 182
Richard Wayne Bowling @rchrdwynbwlngk100.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Trump visits my home town, Vandalia OH. #3 091
Richard Wayne Bowling @rchrdwynbwlngk100.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Trump visits my home town, Vandalia OH. #2 050
Richard Wayne Bowling @rchrdwynbwlngk100.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Trump visits my home town, Vandalia OH. #1 031
Richard Wayne Bowling @rchrdwynbwlngk100.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Shane Gillis is hosting SNL next week? That’s a hard no. I saw that unfunny racist the last time he hosted. 0113
Richard Wayne Bowling @rchrdwynbwlngk100.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I just watched “Son of Frankenstein” (Rowland V. Lee, 1939) starring Basil Rathbone in the titular role, Boris Karloff in his third and final film as the Monster, Bela Lugosi as the wicked Ygor, and Lionel Atwill as Inspector Krogh. While not as inspired as its predecessors it’s still entertaining. 0190
Richard Wayne Bowling @rchrdwynbwlngk100.bsky.social · 03/10/2026There are a lot of ads for Sherrod Brown and Dr. Amy Acton on Columbus TV stations during the work week. During college football games on Saturday and pro football games on Sunday it’s all MAGA all the time. 162
Richard Wayne Bowling @rchrdwynbwlngk100.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I just watched “Bride of Frankenstein”, James Whale’s ambitious 1935 sequel. Boris Karloff and Colin Clive reprise their roles from the original with the brilliant Karloff having much more to do this time around. Elsa Lanchester’s role as the Bride is brief but indelible. #filmsky 🎥 🎃 030
Richard Wayne Bowling @rchrdwynbwlngk100.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I was in elementary school, but I remember Watergate very well. My parents got two newspapers (the morning Journal Herald and evening Dayton Daily News), and I read them. Just because Nixon’s corruption pales in comparison to Trump’s does not mean he got a raw deal. Blanche wasting DOJ assets. 0103
Richard Wayne Bowling @rchrdwynbwlngk100.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Apparently Trump is poised to select the current Director of National Intelligence, Jay Clayton, as his AI (oops, SI) czar. Clayton is a lawyer, not an intelligence professional or an AI (I mean SI) expert, so there’s that. The AI…uh, SI, oligarchs are going to self regulate, so…whatever. 110
Richard Wayne Bowling @rchrdwynbwlngk100.bsky.social · 02/10/2026In the wake of Pablo Torre’s excellent reporting on the intersection of the “Christian” scammers Life Surge and famous athletes (primarily Tim Tebow), this has aged terribly for Ohio State’s superb wide receiver Jeremiah Smith. 020
Richard Wayne Bowling @rchrdwynbwlngk100.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The Constitution establishes who belongs in this country, not Vance. Vance is a soulless opportunist who once opined that Trump might be America’s Hitler and now serves as his Vice President. Vance, who is married to a WOC and has 4 COC, now regularly spouts racist unconstitutional slop. 031
Richard Wayne Bowling @rchrdwynbwlngk100.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Jodie Foster’s directorial debut “Little Man Tate” (1991) was partially filmed on the campus of my alma mater Miami University. 150
Richard Wayne Bowling @rchrdwynbwlngk100.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I just watched “Frankenstein”, James Whale’s 1931 adaptation of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s classic novel starring Colin Clive as Henry Frankenstein and Boris Karloff as the monster. Virtually every frame of its 70 minute running time is iconic. #filmsky 🎥 🎃 1111
Richard Wayne Bowling @rchrdwynbwlngk100.bsky.social · 01/10/2026If any of these evil clowns read literature, the study would have been named Project Blood Meridian 2026. 231
Richard Wayne Bowling @rchrdwynbwlngk100.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Why did Eric Schmitt fuck up his gotcha moment so badly? No one involved considered the possibility that Jack Smith attended a women’s basketball game. A MAGAt undone by misogyny. Not at all surprising. 31588441618
Richard Wayne Bowling @rchrdwynbwlngk100.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Trump is holding a rally at my high school alma mater this coming Saturday. 🤮 Thankfully, I will be more than 100 miles away. 3120
Richard Wayne Bowling @rchrdwynbwlngk100.bsky.social · 29/09/2026 "He accused Jack Smith of attending an Atlanta Hawks game as cover to be in Atlanta to meet with Fani Willis. He then accused him of perjury for saying he didn't recall being at the game…He called him a 'dirtbag' as the cherry on top. Only later did Smith note he had gone to an Iowa Hawkeyes game.”rawstory.comGOP senator buried in scorn as Jack Smith gotcha moment instantly falls apartA Republican senator's big "gotcha" moment instantly fell apart in a hearing with former special counsel Jack Smith Tuesday.Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) asked the former prosecutor whether he had attended... 94718
Richard Wayne Bowling @rchrdwynbwlngk100.bsky.social · 28/09/2026A friend of mine just suggested that China and Trump would join with Russia when it expands the Ukraine War into NATO countries. I told her that I don’t see China and Trump joining a hot war, but I don’t think that Trump would honor our NATO obligations. 2111
Richard Wayne Bowling @rchrdwynbwlngk100.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Not that it matters, but Trump making a campaign ad on the taxpayers’ dime is 💯 illegal. 0194
Richard Wayne Bowling @rchrdwynbwlngk100.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This kind of thing is why I texted “we’re fucked” to a coworker on election night 2016. 3104
Richard Wayne Bowling @rchrdwynbwlngk100.bsky.social · 27/09/2026George Lucas never used the term “Skywalker saga” to describe the six “Star Wars” films he produced. “Skywalker saga” is Disney terminology. 061
Richard Wayne Bowling @rchrdwynbwlngk100.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I grew up listening to AM country in the ‘70s, and I still like the “Willie’s Roadhouse” station on Sirius. I stopped listening to what passes for new country music decades ago. I haven’t heard “Choosin’ Texas”. 020
Richard Wayne Bowling @rchrdwynbwlngk100.bsky.social · 27/09/2026No matter how bad any future “Star Wars” projects are, they won’t erase “Andor” from existence. 181
Richard Wayne Bowling @rchrdwynbwlngk100.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I agree with the New York Times choice for #1 wholeheartedly. 110
Richard Wayne Bowling @rchrdwynbwlngk100.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Trump’s violation of the First Amendment continues…bbc.comWhite House bars CNN from travelling with Trump on Air Force OneCNN was scheduled to fly with US President Donald Trump for his trip to Tennessee on Saturday. 065
Richard Wayne Bowling @rchrdwynbwlngk100.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I just watched “Backrooms” (Kane Parsons, 2026), a creepy science fiction/horror movie starring Chiwetel Ejiofor as a troubled furniture store owner and Renate Reinsve as his therapist. It reminds me of “LOST” in that a lot of intriguingly weird shit happens that isn’t explained at all. 140
Richard Wayne Bowling @rchrdwynbwlngk100.bsky.social · 24/09/2026On a day when China’s authoritarian leader is getting the red carpet treatment at the White House, Trump is defying a federal court order and still banning CNN, MS NOW, and POLITICO from the White House. Don’t sit out the midterms. Don’t vote third party. Vote for all Democratic candidates. 1246