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Chris Fischer

@surlybydefault.bsky.social
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Curator of @Tikitrocious.bsky.social. On here & Mastodon.Social as @SurlyByDefault. linktr.ee/christopher.fischer [Twitter/X Locked Jan 2025] A middle-aged white guy who is casually into the fandom/gamer/myth & folklore/HeyScoops spectrum.

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 9h
2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! Two roofers accidentally fulfill a prophecy while they rehab an old sorcerer's mansion. They must foil the general contractor's machinations to finish on time, on budget, so they can be “Paid by the Apocalypse (1989).”
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Chris Fischer @surlybydefault.bsky.social · 18h
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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 21h
Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! His foreign-born cousin comes to Daegu, and easygoing, never-been anywhere Jho Seo-jun is tired of Jho Ha-Jun’s ‘more Korean than thou’ act. They finally break through unexpected cultural barriers in “My American Cousin (1995).”
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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! A wine-making family establishes a Universalist Monastery next door. The older family bachelors go there for quiet contemplation, wine making, tax advantages, great steak sandwiches, prayer, and “St. Audoin's Poker Night (2002).”
A stained-glass window of a man in a rough brown hoodie sitting at the poker table with an enormous pile of poker chips in front of him. The title reads "St. Audoin's Poker Night."
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Chris Fischer @surlybydefault.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Brute force solving 3->4 and it was literally the last combination I could use. Wordle 1,935 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! When the naive Father Kačinskas discovers his superior used to be an infamous art thief, he resolves to swap the forgery in the museum with the original. Old and unexpected new talent conspire to “Reframe the Question (1987).”
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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! A boy of 16 is groomed by his father to inherit the megachurch. Leading his first youth group he discovers girls, and that love of God doesn't necessarily mean you should be in the biz. Pray for 1964's “I Was a Teenage Minister.”
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Chris Fischer @surlybydefault.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! As dementia takes hold on a kindly old cat lady from Tauranga (New Zealand), her astounding connection to her 103 cats is revealed, leading to a series of grizzly murders. Will Miss Fluffykins relent?! It's 1982's “Plenty o' Cats.”
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Chris Fischer @surlybydefault.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Ryan AKA Ben Graven @bengraven.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Fox News says the kids are becoming “radical”. So I grabbed my pogs and Gameboy and rode my BMX down to the mall. No hot pink or neon green to be found. Turns out they just wanted to talk about human rights, inclusivity and equality, and universal healthcare.
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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Noon on Baron Tikitrocious' Weekend Tikipeats! An apocalyptic cult steals a fleet of nuclear submarines. Seven years pass, until the end of the world, when they breach the surface to take the blessed to an underwater paradise in 1978's “the Second Conning of Christ.”
A submarine with an oversized conning tower, stylized as a glowing Christian cross, breaks the surface of the ocean at twilight. The title reads "the Second Conning of Christ."
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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! Film-making gnomes cut a deal so they can use the human sets at human studios at night to produce gnomish versions of the films. Friendly rivalries, union strife, and romance abounds in 1937’s “The Night Shift Players.”
Silhouette of two gnomes behind an old (1920s-ish) movie camera and the title "the Night Shift Players."
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Chris Fischer @surlybydefault.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Manners maketh Manwiches.
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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Noon on Baron Tikitrocious' Weekend Tikipeats! An esoteric cult worships the second-born sons of an ancient bloodline. When the current scion prefers men, the cult panics, and their confused methods of intervening spiral out of control in 1994's “Helpless Before God.”
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Chris Fischer @surlybydefault.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! A space outlaw is sought out by her long-estranged brother to rescue his boyfriend. The robot-duplicate of her own lost paramour leads the villains, but it is less and more than it seems in 1996’s “Roboslavers of the Ninth Sector.”
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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! A scatterbrained guardian angel (Doris Sands) performs too many supernatural feats for her charge, who begins to believe she is the Daughter of God. It'd take a miracle to stop the miracles in “the Annunciation of Susan (1988).”
In a forest glade, the upper back, shoulder and back of the head of a woman. A humanoid-but-winged shadow looms over her. The title reads "The Annunciation of Susan."
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Chris Fischer @surlybydefault.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I made some legitimately bad guesses in this chain. Wordle 1,931 5/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! Three bank robbers light aircraft emergency lands on top of a conference center during a national toy fair. They take a toy designer hostage and his friends come to the rescue in 1997’s “SWAT: Silly Weapons, Amusements, and Toys.”
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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! Shelly is called in to confuse crime scenes, add meaningless 'clues,' and taint physical evidence. The police are baffled by him or her, and the forensics specialist determined to unmask the perp calls her “the Obfuscator (1994).“
Three yellow flag-markers with unusual symbols ("}q", an Interrobang, and an Ouroboros/Infinity symbol) on a green marble floor. The title reads "the Obfuscator," and it has a bloody shadow that has some of the letters transposed.
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Chris Fischer @surlybydefault.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I said it again and I'll say it before, I love time travel.
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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! When tired rumors recirculate about the disappearance of Gunter’s father, the only man who knows the truth isn’t allowed to say—but he can craft and spread a better rumor to make Gunter believe “The Better of Two Lies (2012).”
A snowy, grainy street scene and the title "The Better of Two Lies."
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Chris Fischer @surlybydefault.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! Milk doesn't do a body good when a bovine supervirus infects the herd of a Wisconsin dairy farm. Consumers mutate and rampage through the mid-West until a medicated cheese is developed to save ”the Intolerant Lactoids (2003).”
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Chris Fischer @surlybydefault.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! A poor Edinburgh sculptor retraces his grandfather's journey. At Loch Fyne, coincidence reveals a village of his surprise first-cousins and an old church that needs a fifty-year touch-up. See 1958's “Grandfather's Little Ramble.”
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Chris Fischer @surlybydefault.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Originally posted to the eX-screaming-bluebird site? I don't know, the file timestamps got updated when I upgraded computers.
A mash-up of the Wordle game and Space Invaders. At the bottom of the screen, a small artillery piece shoots out Wordle blocks.
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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! A man suffers a psychological condition wherein he believes all advertising. After failing total avoidance, his family is forced to enact commercials targeted to the audience of one in 1978's “And Now, a Word From Our Sister.”
Against a wood-paneled backdrop and sitting on a Formica surface, a portable television displays "And Now, a Word from Our Sister."
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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! A deaf monk in a medieval monastery illuminates manuscripts while his brothers sing God's praises. After bandits slaughter his brethren, the monk seeks vengeance with the aid of an coin engraver in 1981's “Silence is Golden.”
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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! A middle-aged film actress decides to guest star in as many television shows as possible in six months, then donate the proceeds to charity. Her husband mistakenly thinks she's cheating on him in 2008's ”Monday is Sitcom Day.”
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Chris Fischer @surlybydefault.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Olivier de Saint-Aubin du Pressoir @chrisoligh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Swedish silver plated and glass Art Nouveau wine pitcher from c. 1910.
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Chris Fischer @surlybydefault.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! An itinerant gambler comes to Nebraska Charms to visit his undertaker brother, but instead finds his bereaved fiancée. Sparks fly. Bored townsfolk and cattle rustlers wager on whether the two will wed in 1948's “The Over Under.”
A hand-tinted photograph of a western town road and the title "The Over Under."
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Chris Fischer @surlybydefault.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Noon on Baron Tikitrocious' Weekend Tikipeats! The Chinese sailor and his surviving American crew mates sail south to join the war of 1812. They fight the British, their pernicious press gangs, and their hired Chinese killer (Tabitha Yue!). See 1985's “the Fists of Nantucket.”
Superimposed over fists meeting is scrimshaw of a whaling vessel. The title reads "The Fists of Nantucket."
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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Noon on Baron Tikitrocious' Weekend Tikipeats! A squad from a Delaware town all receive ditto machined 'Dear John' letters. On stateside leave, they discover the ladies decided to swap fiancés. The sergeant (Jack Hughmont) steps up to save morale in 1944's “Dear John Doughboy.”
Highlighted portions of a letter starting "Dear John Doughboy," with additional text "Every soldier's NIGHTMARE! Every audiences LAUGH! New from Hubris Pictures!"
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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! Double Kings! This musical has a sober Stephen King whispering about a rabid dog into the ear of the writing King while only barely functional on alcohol. Sing about addiction, art and body counts in 1991’s “Nothing I Can't Handle.”
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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! This country-rock opera is a mashup of Mark Twain and Edgar Allen Poe, as an unhappy widower learned his second-wife killed his first, he kills her and tries to hide the body in 1971’s “The Poisoned Heart of Virginia City.”
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Chris Fischer @surlybydefault.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! Two counter-culture dropouts drive to New Mexico to start a secret peyote farm. To fool white law enforcement, they pretend to be Native Americans. The local nation tries to stop these Injun Fauxs in the 1965 “Leave it to Coyote.”
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Chris Fischer @surlybydefault.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Amazon' shipping has become like a teenager knowing they aren't going to make the deadline well before, but not admitting it until after the deadline was missed.
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Chris Fischer @surlybydefault.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! Nathan Wise is pulled into his estranged-family’s world after the murder of the groom at a synagogue wedding. He must navigate classism, religious-vs-cultural Judaism, and bad New York parking in 1973’s “The Wise Man Comes Late.”
A book cover. The art is a painted hand on a rough stone surface with lots of shattered glass. The title of the book is "A Wise Man Comes Late." Additional elements include the Myrtle Avenue Press logo, the name Mitchel Scornfield, the teaser "Nathan Wise isn't observant, isn't connected, is barely related, and barely tolerated. That's why he has to investigate the murder at the Jewish wedding."
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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! Retail scientists clone the original Valley Girls. They escape the lab, and roam the malls of Pasadena, abducting young men for breeding stock. Modern (for 2013) teenagers band together to fight back in “the Mall That Time Forgot.”
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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! The Fool is finally off to his vacation, and brings his nephew in to cover for a month. The movie cuts between a less-than-diligent fool assisting King Lear, and the elder fool on his own wacky holiday in 1951’s “Prithee, Nuncle.”
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Chris Fischer @surlybydefault.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! An explosion at the canning class results in minor casualties, an unusable teachers' workroom, disqualification from the county fair, and one teacher on the case! Watch her perform gracefully in 1965's ”Tawny Dare: Under Pressure.”
A color-modified picture of a pressure cooker and the title "Tawny Dare: Under Pressure."
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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! A British ship is rechristened, but the spirit of the old Captain refuses to let her be pressed into Spanish service. The shakedown cruise requires a pirate-turned-priest perform the rite of “Bell, Book, and Cannonball (1966).”
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