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The 6th Jack'o'lantern Monster @the6thjm.bsky.social · 4h

Today's #vss365 prompt is #island. I've already written my bit for today but I am reminded of a lost story I wrote set in my Caveat Emptor shop. It was about a woman who needed a map of the tropical islands in Ohio. My narrator sold her the map and then thanked god HE didn't have to go there. +

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The 6th Jack'o'lantern Monster @the6thjm.bsky.social · 5h

#vss365 #FirstLine Being Chief Conjurer of Oldbridge, Massachusetts, is like being EVERYONE on Gilligan's #Island: as smart as the Professor, as good as MaryAnn, as attention-grabbing as Ginger, as assured as Mr. Howell, as proper as Lovey, as forbearing as the Skipper & as enthusiastic as Gilligan.

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The 6th Jack'o'lantern Monster @the6thjm.bsky.social · 7h

"name your fav cover song." I'll name my very FIRST favorite cover song instead: "Da Doo Ron Ron" by Shaun Cassidy. I wanted to *be* Shaun Cassidy when I was a kid. (Technically, I wanted to be Joe Hardy of the Hardy Boys as played by Shaun Cassidy, but there you are.) bsky.app/profile/soph...

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SHAUN CASSIDY Da Doo Ron Ron

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The 6th Jack'o'lantern Monster @the6thjm.bsky.social · 9h

*record scratch* "Yup, that's me. You're probably wondering how I ended up in this situation."

Me being held captive by a Stormtrooper but about to escape. Because he's going to miss.

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The 6th Jack'o'lantern Monster @the6thjm.bsky.social · 10h

How I arrived on BlueSky.

Caption: I am the *fourth* ca in this photo
Photo: 4 cats but one is hard to see amidst the "noise"of the background

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The 6th Jack'o'lantern Monster @the6thjm.bsky.social · 13h

#October #Halloween #ChasAddams I'm going to try to put up one Chas Addams comic every day in October, because he's THAT good.

a one=panel Chas Addams comic
in a theater, the woman on the screen is screaming at something in the audience and the entire audience has turned around and is looking at YOU.

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The 6th Jack'o'lantern Monster @the6thjm.bsky.social · 13h

#Halloweeen #October Not exactly sure what's happening here but I think I need to leave town. And maybe leave the state. And, if possible, the planet.

The Mystery Machine, the Winchesters' Impala, the Ghostbusters' ECTO-1, the Batmobile, and the TARDIS all parked next to each other on a small town street.

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The 6th Jack'o'lantern Monster @the6thjm.bsky.social · 14h

#October #Halloween #movies Watching "Village of the Damned" again, as I do once a year. The thing about watching a movie so many times is that you start noticing things. Like, I just realized if every woman got pregnant at the same time, that mean all of them got PMS at the same time every month.

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Creepy Anime Boss Reaction

Alt: cartoon man suddenly gets shocked look

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The 6th Jack'o'lantern Monster @the6thjm.bsky.social · 22h

#2WordPrompt #FirstLine Being Chief Conjurer of Croatoan, Texas, is like exploring the #wreck of a pirate ship on vacation: you #yearn for a different life (scuba diver, treasure hunter, maybe pirate) but your responsibilities call you back to reality and leave your dreams as just that ... dreams.

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The 6th Jack'o'lantern Monster @the6thjm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"name 3 films from 3 decades: 60s, 70s, & 80s." Goldfinger The Spy Who Loved Me The Living Daylights

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The 6th Jack'o'lantern Monster @the6thjm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"name a film protagonist dressed in red." Winnie the Pooh

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The 6th Jack'o'lantern Monster @the6thjm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#vss365 #FirstLine Being Chief Conjurer of Oldbridge, Massachusetts, is like having a #sail *and* an engine for your boat: it takes twice as much time to learn how to use both correctly, and twice as much time to maintain both, and you *still* might end up having to *row* the damned thing.

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The 6th Jack'o'lantern Monster @the6thjm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

5. A Laguiole en Aubrac folding knife with ebony scales and a 4-inch razor sharp blade "No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style." ~ Vlad Taltos in "Jhereg" by Steven Brust

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The 6th Jack'o'lantern Monster @the6thjm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And I think it says a lot that an A.I. could not have rewritten Frank Zappa to make that point for me.

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The 6th Jack'o'lantern Monster @the6thjm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

For those who think A.I. is creating art or capable of making real decisions, no. A.I. is currently at the "information" stage. And it gets THAT wrong too often to be trusted. To misquote Frank Zappa: Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not ART.

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The 6th Jack'o'lantern Monster @the6thjm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Finished annual #October rewatch of "Children of the Stones." There's nothing quite like low-budget British small-village horror. I wonder if I could commission someone to paint me an accurate copy of Matthew's painting of ancient Milbury. (I enjoy collecting physical copies of movie and TV props.)

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The 6th Jack'o'lantern Monster @the6thjm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Horror remakes where everyone but one actor is replaced by Muppets. "1408" - keep Samuel L Jackson as the hotel manager

Jackson saying "It's an evil fucking room, Kermit."

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The 6th Jack'o'lantern Monster @the6thjm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#photo by Arnold Newman of future President John F. Kennedy in 1953 when he was a U.S. Senator. I think it's my favorite photograph of JFK.

#photo by Arnold Newman of JFK in 1953 when he was a Senator.

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The 6th Jack'o'lantern Monster @the6thjm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Stop expecting perfection, even if you HAVE been doing something for YEARS. "I'm no Heifetz, but I get by." ~ Rowlf the Dog in "The Muppet Movie" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9jL...

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The Muppet Movie - I Hope That Somethin' Better Comes Along (Extended Version)

YouTube video by TheLoon

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The 6th Jack'o'lantern Monster @the6thjm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Curious: has anyone made their own tarot-style card set a la the cards used by Juniper Campbell in the InCryptid series by @seananmcguire.bsky.social, using literary references instead of the traditional pictures?

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The 6th Jack'o'lantern Monster @the6thjm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Random mystery novel character idea I will probably never write (my limited time is spent on F&SF) so I'm giving it away: A bibliomancer, but instead of the Bible, they use a massive "Complete Sherlock Holmes" to figure out how to solve mysteries. #writing #amwriting

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The 6th Jack'o'lantern Monster @the6thjm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#October #Halloween #ChasAddams I'm going to try to put up one Chas Addams comic every day in October, because he's THAT good.

a one panel Chas Addams comic with 2 witches standing at a cauldron, one witch is pouring a powdered something out of a box into it and telling the other witch "It's marvelous! All you do is add water."

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The 6th Jack'o'lantern Monster @the6thjm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Jokes by @markfinn.bsky.social : Fake October challenges: Mocktober Challenge: a month-long harangue of people you have no respect for Groktober: 31 days to read anything by Robert Heinlein Clocktober: you can’t use your phone to check the time for the whole month. Watches and clocks only. +

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The 6th Jack'o'lantern Monster @the6thjm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#2WordPrompt #FirstLine Being Chief Conjurer of Croatoan, Texas, is like bowling: the #pattern is easy enough - 4 steps, release ball along a set line with force and spin - but sometimes you just can't get a #strike ... and a 7-10 split can wreck your whole night.

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The 6th Jack'o'lantern Monster @the6thjm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#vss365 #FirstLine Being Chief Conjurer of Oldbridge, Massachusetts, is like watching people prepare for a #hurricane which might come close: some board up their houses if it gets a little windy, others stand outside making "content," and everybody buys way too many loaves of bread.

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The 6th Jack'o'lantern Monster @the6thjm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

name the film that made you laugh the hardest. Can't really name *a* movie but this line from "Monsters vs. Aliens" makes me crack up all out of proportion to the movie itself: bsky.app/profile/soph...

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The 6th Jack'o'lantern Monster @the6thjm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

quote the chorus of a song. if you wanna get to heaven you got to raise a little hell bsky.app/profile/soph...

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The 6th Jack'o'lantern Monster @the6thjm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"name your fav comfort food." buttered toast (white bread only, none of that whole wheat garbage) (and real butter, preferably Kerry Gold) bsky.app/profile/soph...

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The 6th Jack'o'lantern Monster @the6thjm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#humor (seen on FB) Remember Tamagotchis? That's what FitBits are, but the annoying creature you have to keep alive is yourself.

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The 6th Jack'o'lantern Monster @the6thjm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I agree about Sleestak. When they were mindless, crossbow wielding lizard men who looked like they wanted to eat us, that was scary enough. Then I found out they were the DEVOLVED FUTURE of Enik's race, which could happen to *us*, and that made it SO MUCH WORSE. Scary f---ers. Thanks Walter Koenig.

Sleeping Village Reviews
@sleepingvillage.bsky.social
In honor of scary media month: what is the first piece of media you remember truly frightening you as a child?

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The 6th Jack'o'lantern Monster @the6thjm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If it was just "we should spend taxes differently", sure, lunch is fine. But one side is demanding that people they don't like be rounded up in camps, stripped of their citizenship, and/or thrown out of the country. There is no point GOING TO LUNCH with someone who denies your right to exist.

2 GOP members want to institutionalize trans people

3 Republicans want to strip a Congresswoman of her citizenship and deport her

3 Republicans want to forcibly evict all Muslims

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The 6th Jack'o'lantern Monster @the6thjm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#October #Halloween #VincentPrice A lovely interview with Vincent Price on BBC from 1976. It's funny - I'm not really a fan of his horror movies but the man himself was a trip. I would've loved to talk to him. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtTj...

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Vincent Price on Parkinson (short clip, interviewed on British TV)

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The 6th Jack'o'lantern Monster @the6thjm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

At this point, my life decisions boil down to: if I *don't* do this, would I regret it? If yes, then do it. This week, it's "visit the local tourist traps week." Could be good. Could suck. But I gotta know.

Life wisdom about regretting what you DIDN'T try to do.

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The 6th Jack'o'lantern Monster @the6thjm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Your daily horoscope: Like the sunken city of R'lyeh, you are salty and generate dreams of madness, surrounded by non-Euclidean darkness, but the stars are not yet right. Try again tomorrow.

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The 6th Jack'o'lantern Monster @the6thjm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#October #Halloween #ChasAddams I'm going to try to put up one Chas Addams comic every day in October, because he's THAT good.

a one panel Chas Addams comic of the extended Addams Family visiting Central Park on Halloween

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The 6th Jack'o'lantern Monster @the6thjm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#vss365 #FirstLine Being Chief Conjurer of Oldbridge, Massachusetts, is like watching ships come into your #harbour: you never know for certain if they'll be immigrants or traders or pirates until they dock, but nothing will stop them docking so you have to be ready for all of them.

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The 6th Jack'o'lantern Monster @the6thjm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#2WordPrompt #FirstLine Being Chief Conjurer of Croatoan, Texas, is like having a #herd of tourists heading toward the water park, ready to #produce their expired discount coupons, and hoping tempers stay calm because this is Texas and you can never tell who's carrying.

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The 6th Jack'o'lantern Monster @the6thjm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Option 1: he's lying (see attached image). Option 2: it's a fake jug and he doesn't know it. Option 3: reactions to his future "pay for my medical treatment" Go Fund Me should be interesting.

It is morally wrong to allow suckers to keep their money

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The 6th Jack'o'lantern Monster @the6thjm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This was an incredibly difficult question. Right this moment? Porco Rosso. Because of this line:

Porco Rossoe telling his friend in the Italian Air Force: "Better a pig than a fascist."

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The 6th Jack'o'lantern Monster @the6thjm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If more people watched "Harvey", maybe the world would get just a little more pleasant.

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The 6th Jack'o'lantern Monster @the6thjm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Mine is the opening car chase in "The Transporter" where he stares down the bank robber and re-explains the deal and then, as the chase proceeds, calmly explains why he he was right not to change the deal. bsky.app/profile/case...

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The 6th Jack'o'lantern Monster @the6thjm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The one that cannot be replicated because it was a perfect combination of food and setting and people. Steak & cheese sub in Newport RI with my father. That one Thanksgiving when everything went right. McDonald's after a perfect day at the beach when I was 11. Nothing compares with remembered food.

Edmonds Scanner
What's your favorite meal?

1. brunch
2. second lunch
3. afternoon snack
4. midnight munchies

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The 6th Jack'o'lantern Monster @the6thjm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The reality is that few people would work to make OTHER people MILLIONAIRES if their basic needs were met. THAT is why UBI is opposed by the millionaires and the politicians they control. Me, before I retired? I'd've written stories and and sold them. (Now that I'm retired, I write as a hobby only.)

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The 6th Jack'o'lantern Monster @the6thjm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Thanks to all three substitute #AT40 hosts today. I enjoyed the memories and camaraderie.

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The 6th Jack'o'lantern Monster @the6thjm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#vss365 #FirstLine Being Chief Conjurer of Oldbridge, Massachusetts, is like fishing: sometimes you're the fisherman putting an attractive #lure out there to catch something, but sometimes you're the fish just trying to get dinner without dying.

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The 6th Jack'o'lantern Monster @the6thjm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#2WordPrompt #FirstLine Being Chief Conjurer of Croatoan, Texas, is like being trapped in an amusement park: on the one hand, being #unable to #escape can be stressful but, on the other, you get to ride all the rides when no one else is around and mess with the rigged games so they're not so rigged.

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The 6th Jack'o'lantern Monster @the6thjm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#October #Halloween #ChasAddams I'm going to try to put up one Chas Addams comic every day in October, because he's THAT good.

one panel Chas Addams comic of a witch with a cauldron in a fancy restaurant kitchen. One waiter says to another, "She shows up every Halloween"

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