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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 21/09/2026

Not to nitpick a fun outage page, but Jake in this movie famously brags that he never went down.

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 15/09/2026

Tokyo Story: Rated R for strong visual symmetry and pervasive tatami shots.

Thermal paper ticket stub showing the text "Tokyo Story (ID may be required")

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 15/09/2026

Spotted in Portland last night.

Photo of some street art, a sticker.

Red text at the top says: THE END IS

Illustration below is a sketch of Bill Nye

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 11/09/2026

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched (I do this for a Discord I'm in and figure I may as well Bluesky it, too.)

RECENT ACTIVITY
A History of Violence: 3 stars
Late Spring: 4.5 stars
Coyote vs Acme: 3.5 stars
Where the Wild Things Are: 3.5 stars

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 05/09/2026

I knew 6-7 was over but companies are rifling through the corpse’s pockets

SOULES KITCHEN
“67"
CHICKEN Nuggets
Breaded White Meat Chicken
Shaped Patties

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 01/09/2026

I'm intrigued by whoever inserted the phrase "European-American" into this description of Bonnie & Clyde. Twice! (Version on TMDB is identical aside from that adjective.) (Perhaps the same person notes in both Beatty and Dunaway's bios that they are European-American actors.)

Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Directed by Arthur Penn
THEY'RE YOUNG... THEY'RE IN LOVE... AND THEY KILL PEOPLE. In the 1930s, bored European-American waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with a European-American ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree
through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 28/08/2026

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched No particular theme, though two of them were theatrical showings at Portland's Hollywood Theatre.

Recent activity:
Last of the Mohicans (4 stars, rewatch)
It's Not Just You, Murray! (no rating)
Miroirs No. 3 (3.5 stars)
The Man With the Golden Arm (2.5 stars, review symbol)

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 27/08/2026

Welcome to Bluesky. Please familiarize yourself with the following accounts to understand the range of opinions it is acceptable to express

Wallace Wood's 22 comics panels that always work.

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 21/08/2026

This should be called Cacio e Pepcorn

Bag of a snack:

TRADER JOE'S®
Organic
CACIO E PEPE
PUFFS
CHEESE & PEPPER flavored
CORN & RICE SNACKS

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 18/08/2026

A movie you think others don't love enough (Some of my affection for this is seeing it multiple times as a parent of kids the right age, but it holds up and may still be my favorite Lord/Miller movie.)

Movie poster for Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 16/08/2026

Bluesky inventory in progress

Sign on bright yellow paper, taped up:

PLEASE

STOP

Use next count sheet!!!

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 16/08/2026

Spotted in Portland. “Always”?

Paper stapled to a telephone pole.

Text:

it's Always go
piss girl
Never
go get a tattoo
girl :(
@dothetricktattoo

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 14/08/2026

Drop a 10/10 90s movie 🖤

Original theatrical poster for Heavenly Creatures. "Not all angels are innocent."

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 13/08/2026

Movie reviews as memoir, or memoir as movie reviews: Lost and Found in the Cathedral of Cinema by Jeffrey Overstreet.

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 08/08/2026

Sitting down at The Piano, feels like I’m back in the ’90s

Movie poster for The Piano in a box at Cinema 21

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 01/08/2026

Next non-fiction book, from the Fort Vancouver Regional Library. (Purchase request: Granted!)

FOREWORD BY MATT ZOLLER SEITZ

LOST AND FOUND
IN
THE
CATHEDRAL OF CINEMA

JEFFREY
OVERSTREET

A SPIRITUAL JOURNEY

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 21/07/2026

without saying your age, what’s your favorite movie that came out when you were 18? (A few other contenders but I've seen this recently enough to rate it.)

River Phoenix, Judd Hirsch, Christine Lahti, and Jonas Abry as the Pope family in Running on Empty, celebrating a birthday

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 20/07/2026

Schrödinger's movie theaters, courtesy of Google Alerts

NEWS
Movie Theaters Are Roaring Back - Movieguide
Movieguide
Published: July 19, 2026

Movie Theaters Are DYING! Hollywood Needs a HUGE
Upgrade! #shorts - YouTube
YouTube
Are movie theaters dying? With cozy home streaming and endless sequels, cinema must evolve. It's time for better quality and audience experience

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 09/07/2026

Best STAR TREK captain. Wrong answers only.

An upside down bottle of Ty-D-bol, a man standing in a tiny boat floating in blue water with a white wall in the background ... it's the Ty-D-Bol man from a 1970s commercial!

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 05/07/2026

Went Preston Sturges for Independence Day: the great Sullivan’s Travels.

Joel McCrae and Veronica Lake in Solomon’s travel. They’re sitting in the back of a limo. Sullivan is dressed in Shoreby clothes, the kid is looking lovely and elegant.

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 02/07/2026

3. Re-Animator A movie I was embarrassed to like back in the late '80s, but that I fully admit to loving now.

Close up of Jeffrey Combs as Herbert West, glaring and holding a pencil that he's just snapped in half

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 02/07/2026

2. Drifting Clouds (Fell hard for Kaurismäki after watching this one.)

Kati Outinen as Ilona, standing in front of a restaurant called Leenan Kuppila. It's dark, the store is closed, she's wearing a read coat.

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 02/07/2026

1. Out of Sight (these are numbered for tracking but not ranked)

Jennifer Lopez and George Clooney as Karen Sisco and Jack Foley in Out of Sight. They're in the trunk, mid-conversation. He's fascinated by her. She's caught up in talking.

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 02/07/2026

Yeah sure it’s been at least a year. Spotting y’all Rear Window, Night of the Hunter, Mulholland Drive, and Something Wild. I’ll dig deeper.

GET TO KNOW MY FAVORITE MOVIES
for every like, I will post one movie love

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 27/06/2026

I'll help you out with my thought process, Connections bot: Things associated with walls. (Deadpool = fourth wall.)

Connections bot description:
HUMPTY DUMPTY PINK FLOYD KOOL-AID MAN DEADPOOL
I didn't create a description for these guesses.
1% YOU

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 25/06/2026

Yet another new Beatles song? Hope this one’s better than “Now and Then.”

Notification Center

New Music
All You Need Is Love by The Beatles is available now.

1:05 AM

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 20/06/2026

Post one (1) photo of a painting that you took with your very own hands.

I Don't Need You To Be Warm (2021) by artist Dalton Gata, currently housed in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Painting in an ornate frame. Blonde woman with long hair staring at the viewer, wrapped in fur that might be a coat. Wearing high heels. The top of her head is on fire.

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 20/06/2026

Yes, I have my license. (you can get yours at kojira.github.io/bluesky-lice... — all it asks for is your Bluesky handle)

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 18/06/2026

Taking pictures after movies Are you happy? Hmm?

Pole covered in stickers: bottom of one says BBY, another is a face and teeth and the phrase “are you happy,” and a white cartoon cat facing away, head to the left, 5-arm asterisk of a butthole visible

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 18/06/2026

Naked of Dyes should be a paladin played by Chris Hemsworth in the next D&D movie.

Close up of a Dorito bag focused on the phrase “Naked of Dyes” with an arrow pointing to a naked chip

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 18/06/2026

No other message could more effectively suck all the fun out of posting occasional photos on Instagram. "All your joys should be a grind. Quantify your brief moments of connection and optimize for more of them!"

Your weekly recap is ready. Great work sharing content consistently for 3
weeks.

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 17/06/2026

Name a TV show you’re positive no one else remembers but you. Flying Blind was not a great show, because the premise was really hard to make work as a series, but man I loved the pilot. Basically Something Wild, the series.

Viacom ad for the sitcom Flying Blind: First Job. First Love. First-Class Comedy! Corey Parker and Teá Leoni.

He's out in the 'real' world for the first time, and he's learning to expect the unexpected! Flying Blind... It's wild. It's implulsive. It's a new comedy that's like falling in love

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 06/06/2026

Love to feed my 8-pound family.

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 31/05/2026

I googled "She's got some strange notions about life" to make sure I was remembering the phrasing, and Google's AI summary was delightfully wrong. When it's miscounting the number of r's in strawberry you can at least quickly tell it doesn't know what it's talking about.

That line is a famous quote from the 1986 dark comedy film Something Wild. It is used by the character The Chief (played by Margaret Colin) to warn the protagonist, Charlie, about the erratic and unpredictable nature of the female lead, Audrey (played by Melanie Griffith). © Filmsite.org +3

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 31/05/2026

Repost with your first crush

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 23/05/2026

(Connections spoilers from two days ago.) I knew one of the categories would be pie varieties, but given that I could quickly identify 7, I knew I couldn’t start with that one. An interesting day where yellow was likely the hardest category to get first.

Today's Top Mistakes
I use A.l. to generate descriptions of what players may have been thinking with these guesses. Data for each mistake includes similar guesses.
PCT. OF PLAYERS WITH THIS MISTAKE

MISTAKE
PEACH PUMPKIN PECAN SHOOFLY
Is the category ... PIE VARIETIES ?

MOON PEACH PUMPKIN PECAN
... CLASSIC PIES ?
HONEY PEACH PUMPKIN PECAN
... PIE FILLINGS?
MOON PUMPKIN PECAN SHOOFLY
... PIE VARIETIES ?
HONEY PUMPKIN PECAN SHOOFLY
... PIE FLAVORS?
47%
31%
29%
20%
14%

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 17/05/2026

Interesting use of fake self censorship in the headline of this marketing email from DXL. Attn @stronglang.bsky.social

DXL
6:16 AM
To: James Callan >
Reply To: customerservice@... ›

Holy S*it! (Forgot the 'U'...sorry) .

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 13/05/2026

And if it worked for a man who famously only had one ball ...

Spam email
From: The Longevity Lab
Subject: Hitler's secret formula helps men perform

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 12/05/2026

“It seemed to me that those who learned English caught it out of the air and those who did not catch it were never going to learn it. The road from ignorance to knowledge was a mystery to me.” Love this passage from Lore Segal’s Other People’s Houses.

Other People's Houses

He surprised me with the idiomatic, slapdash English I seemed to have taught him in the six months in which the ambassador had not learned one new rule or unlearned one old mistake. It seemed to me that those who learned English caught it out of the air and those who did not catch it were never going to learn it. The road from ignorance to knowledge was a mystery to me.
"Isn't it a fine day? Is right, 'fine day'?"

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 02/05/2026

People Magazine is how I find out we added a 51st state!?

People Magazine

New U.S. State Officially Bans Pet Stores from Selling Dogs and Cats

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