A geologist and archaeologist by training, a nerd by inclination - books, films, fossils, comics, rocks, games, folklore, and, generally, the rum and uncanny… Let’s have it!
Elsewhere:
- Yrtree.me - it’s still early days for me in the Fediverse, so bear with me
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Shane MacGowan, Pogues songwriter and Irish music legend, dies aged 65 (www.theguardian.com)
Shane MacGowan, the lead singer and songwriter of trailblazing Celtic punk band the Pogues and one of the all-time great bandleaders, has died aged 65 following a long period of ill health. A family statement said he died at 3.30am on 30 November, and was described as “our most beautiful, darling and dearly beloved”....
Evernote is about to seriously limit its plan for free users - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
Penny Lane street sign back in Liverpool 47 years after drunken theft (www.theguardian.com)
A Penny Lane street sign stolen by drunk students has been returned to Liverpool, 47 years after the theft....
Fediverser Network: crowdsourced map of reddit-to-lemmy communities (fediverser.network)
The original projects meant to help finding out the Lemmy communities sub.rehab and redditmigration were not really kept up-to-date after the first wave of protests. To avoid bitrot and to make sure that the community can help keep this up to date, I’m launching today fediverser.network....
'Howard the Duck' was my gateway to loving horror (Comedy + Sci-fi + Horror?) (mashable.com)
The BBC’s Mark Kermode, another Howard the Duck champion, argues that it’s not a “great” movie, but remains “a really, really funny weird, subversive film.” Since it was too weird to be embraced by the mainstream, but also too entertainingly off-kilter to forget, Kermode has argued for Howard the Duck as basically...
Black Friday (2020) ⭐ 7.8 (Comedy + Horror + Musical + Holiday) [Full Movie] (www.imdb.com)
When the holiday season’s hottest new toy, the Tickle-Me Wiggly, hits the shelves, the city of Hatchetfield goes mad for it, literally. That’s when Tom Houston, Lex Foster, Becky Barnes and a few familiar faces, must fight through a sea of murderous mall-goers to save humanity from an inter dimensional being with a taste for...
AS Byatt, author and critic, dies aged 87 (www.theguardian.com)
Dame Antonia Susan Duffy, who wrote under the name AS Byatt, authored complex and critically acclaimed novels, including the Booker prize-winning Possession and her examination of artistic creation, The Children’s Book. Over her career, she won a swathe of literary awards, from the Booker to a Chevalier of France’s Order of...
Black Friday (2021) ⭐ 4.7 (Comedy + Horror + Holiday) (www.imdb.com)
On Thanksgiving night, a group of disgruntled toy store employees begrudgingly arrive for work to open the store at midnight for the busiest shopping day of the year. Meanwhile, an alien parasite crashes to Earth in a meteor. This group of misfits led by store manager Jonathan and longtime employee Ken soon find themselves...
Kung Fu Hustle (2004) ⭐ 7.7 | Action, Comedy, Fantasy (www.imdb.com)
Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (2006) ⭐ 6.0 (Comedy + Horror + Musical + Holiday) [Full Movie] (www.imdb.com)
Surprise Thanksgiving film as it’s about chickens but then, that’s Troma for you....
Grandma Werewolf (2017) ⭐ 5.6 (Comedy + Fantasy + Horror + Holiday) [Full Movie] (www.imdb.com)
Another Thanksgiving movie:...
ThanksKilling (2008) ⭐ 4.2 (Comedy + Horror + Holiday) (www.imdb.com)
Happy ThanksKilling everyone!...
'The Blackening 2' - Sequel to This Year's Horror-Comedy Officially in the Works (bloody-disgusting.com)
After scaring up $18 million in theaters earlier this year, horror-comedy The Blackening is getting a sequel from Lionsgate, Variety has exclusively announced this afternoon....
Rubber (2010) ⭐ 5.7 (Comedy + Fantasy + Horror) (www.imdb.com)
A homicidal car tire, discovering it has destructive psionic power, sets its sights on a desert town once a mysterious woman becomes its obsession....
Chris Pine Has Heard Rumors of a Possible Dungeons and Dragons 2 (Comedy + Fantasy) (gizmodo.com)
“I’ve heard some rumors about it,” he tells us of a potential follow-up. “But I don’t know anything yet. But I feel pretty confident that it may happen.” When we ask if he’d be happy to return, Pine responds: “Absolutely.”
Cornwall rocked by earthquake as locals describe ‘bang like juggernaut hitting house’ (www.independent.co.uk)
An earthquake has struck Cornwall, described by one local as hitting their house “like a juggernaut”....
Households set to learn of fresh energy price rise (www.independent.co.uk)
Households are set to learn that their energy bills will rise again from January as hopes for relief from the cost-of-living crisis are put on hold....
OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO (www.theverge.com)
The Decline of Niche Communities on Lemmy
I’ve been using Lemmy for a couple years now, and unfortunately I’ve noticed a significant decline in the niche communities that were originally active. When I first joined I saw much more variety when browsing the All feed. But over time, the communities I liked have faded as shitposting and meme communities have come to...
more and more news sites are pushing for paywalls even reuters now here are some sources that don't have pay walls and Npr *mentions* paywall in their own new pop-up? (broadcastdialogue.com)
also feel free to comment your own suggestions for news sites for tech updates that don’t pay wall on the web page....
Hardware Wars to be released on Blu-ray (Comedy + Sci-fi) (www.blu-ray.com)
The MVD Rewind Collection is preparing a Blu-ray release of Ernie Fosselius’s Hardware Wars (1978). The release is scheduled to arrive on the market on February 20....
New Horror Comedy [It's a Wonderful Knife] Is The Perfect Replacement For This Scrapped 2020s Crossover (screenrant.com)
In screenwriter Michael Kennedy’s newest project, It’s a Wonderful Knife, a teen girl who wishes she had never been born sees visions of an alternate reality in which the serial killer she stopped is allowed to run rampant through the town. It’s a Wonderful Knife takes obvious inspiration from the high-concept classic...
TROLL BRIDGE | The Moving Picture (Comedy + Fantasy) [Full Short] (youtu.be)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/8307627...
Santa Claus is Brought Back From The Dead in Trailer For The Christmas Horror Comedy SANTASTEIN (geektyrant.com)
Santastein tells the story “of two friends (Max & Paige) with a rather peculiar hobby, they like to bring things back from the dead. With their first successful rodent resurrection, they set their sights on something bigger, following in the footsteps of Frankenstein himself. When they decide to bring back the body of a man...
Drag Queens Meet Zombies In Poster For Horror Comedy Big Easy Queen (screenrant.com)
Minnie Bouvèé (Swanson) is a Mob Queen in the French Quarter of New Orleans with an ongoing rivalry with arch-nemesis Poodle Mackenzie (Jennifer McClain). After Minnie has Poodle’s crew brutally slaughtered, she’s ready for the fallout. What she doesn’t expect is to be stalked by a shadowy figure who has a penchant for...
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Comedy + Sci-fi) (en.wikipedia.org)
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a comedy science fiction franchise created by Douglas Adams. Originally a 1978 radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4, it was later adapted to other formats, including novels, stage shows, comic books, a 1981 TV series, a 1984 text adventure game, and 2005 feature film....
The Lair of the White Worm (1988) ⭐ 6.0 (Comedy + Horror) (www.imdb.com)
When an archaeologist uncovers a strange skull in a foreign land, the residents of a nearby town begin to disappear, leading to further inexplicable occurrences.
Netflix's Dead Boy Detectives Are Here to Solve Some Ghostly Mysteries (Comedy + Fantasy) (gizmodo.com)
Based on characters created by Matt Wagner and Neil Gaiman, and now technically a spinoff of Netflix’s The Sandman series that Gaiman’s working on (as they are in the comics), the series stars George Rexstrew and Jayden Revri respectively as Charles Rowland and Edward Paine. Though they died decades apart from each other,...
We Distribute is launching a Fediverse-themed podcast, but we don't know what to call it.
Hey! So, TL;DR, we’ve been putting in a lot of work to make a podcast for the Fediverse, to go along with our news articles. There’s just so much cool stuff happening, and we feel that a podcast format can capture aspects of this that regular articles can’t....
ObscureMusic on Kbin (kbin.social)
A community designed for the sharing of lesser-known music....
Yorkshire - Feddit UK - back from deletion (feddit.uk)
!yorkshire...
Television on Kbin - under moderation now (kbin.social)
I took control of m/television the other day. It was abandoned since its start and had people posting silly youtube videos. Feel free to join and post....
Comedy musical will blend classic shlock sci-fi and British tradition of panto (uk.news.yahoo.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.uk/post/4456057...
Wacky and Wild Trailer for the Sci-Fi Comedy ADVENTURES OF THE NAKED UMBRELLA (geektyrant.com)
The film stars Jeremy Davies (Saving Private Ryan, The Black Phone) as convicted arsonist Sam Wanoutsky who “is the middle of hosting his own conspiracy podcast, The Naked Umbrella, when his trailer home explodes and burns to the ground. Convinced he’s been set up, Sam hits the road with his wife, Irene, to clear his name....
Comic Books - Under New Management! (lemmy.world)
The Comic Books group has existed for a few months now with an inactive mod....
WATCH: Trailer for new Irish comedy-horror "Wickedly Evil" (www.irishcentral.com)
“Wickedly Evil” teases a blend of boisterous humor, blood-curdling monstrous mayhem, and a totally twisted narrative....
List of Community Discovery Resources (lemmy.ca)
A great way to find lesser known communities is to look at the /communities page on an instance. For example: lemmy.ca/communities...