Fire-Breathing Dimetrodon

I watch old movies, visit neat restaurants in Tennessee and Georgia, occasionally hike, and will miss reading you when this place collapses.

[Fire-Breathing Dimetrodon @MarieLetsEat]

And that’s it, baby.

I’m keeping this acct open to prevent it being hijacked, but I have at last unfollowed the last of you lovely people. Look me up where the skies are blue as @Firebreathing. If you’re not there already, I miss you. And if you’re not coming, take care.

[Fire-Breathing Dimetrodon @MarieLetsEat]

Monthly ask: I'd like to stop reading you here and read you at B---S-y instead. I hope you'll consider joining there, or copy-pasting there, so we spend less time on this site. LMK if you need an invite c--e, and let's unfriend on this site?

[Fire-Breathing Dimetrodon @MarieLetsEat]

@ericafett @letterboxd Followed! You have always seemed to have great taste in frights.

[Fire-Breathing Dimetrodon @MarieLetsEat]

Monthly ask: I'd like to stop reading you here and read you at B---S-y instead. I hope you'll consider joining there, or copy-pasting there, so we spend less time on this site. LMK if you need an invite c--e, and let's unfriend on this site?

[Fire-Breathing Dimetrodon @MarieLetsEat]

It's hard to let go of engagement & followers, but I'd like to stop reading you here and read you at B---S-y instead. I hope you'll consider joining there, or copy-pasting there, so we spend less time on this site. LMK if you need an invite code, and let's unfriend on this site?

[Fire-Breathing Dimetrodon @MarieLetsEat]

@MrsSimonTemplar I’d enjoy seeing you on my Bluesky timeline, and hope you join soon.

[Fire-Breathing Dimetrodon @MarieLetsEat]

@Theaprilblake Neither are ideal, but I prefer Mustard.

[Fire-Breathing Dimetrodon @MarieLetsEat]

@LiaPicard I’d rather have seen Cheeseburger Bobby’s there, but I’m glad the space found a new taker.

[Go to Bluesky to save your brain -- L O L G O P @LOLGOP]

One of the earliest protests against the "Woke Mind Virus"

[Fire-Breathing Dimetrodon @MarieLetsEat]

@DerfBackderf It’s not crashing for me at all, but I think many of the people I’ve enjoyed following are not tweeting as often as they once did.

[Toby Hadoke @TobyHadoke]

Sad to hear that Chris Boucher, the last surviving writer of 1970s Doctor Who, has died. He had a gift for sharp, witty dialogue and sardonic characters, as evidenced further by his work on Blake's 7. He also did good work on Juliet Bravo, Shoestring & Bergerac. TV legend - RIP.

[Fire-Breathing Dimetrodon @MarieLetsEat]

The kid’s been good, he deserves a big bowl of tonkatsu ramen at Nabe.

[Fire-Breathing Dimetrodon @MarieLetsEat]

Marie and I watched The Hidden Fortress tonight. Haven’t seen it since 1990ish and I misremembered quite a lot. It’s a fantastic movie!

[Fire-Breathing Dimetrodon @MarieLetsEat]

I picked up Forgotten Gialli vol. 1 in VinSyn's Black Friday sale. I watched 1978's Trauma, which is a quick-n-dirty ripoff of Psycho, and hope the other two movies are at least a little better.

[Fire-Breathing Dimetrodon @MarieLetsEat]

I rewatched 1969's The Oblong Box this morning, enjoying its detailed commentary by Steve Haberman. It's one of my favorite Vincent Price performances. Now I want to see Scream and Scream Again, which Price made with this director the next year. Any of y'all seen that one?

[Fire-Breathing Dimetrodon @MarieLetsEat]

Friends and fiends, you definitely want to pick up @2000AD Prog 2312. It's the year-end 100-page special edition and it contains the late, great Kevin O'Neill's final comic. It is funnier than the law should allow.

[Fire-Breathing Dimetrodon @MarieLetsEat]

@notcapnamerica I hope he waddles slowly enough that the door hits his ass on the way out.

[Fire-Breathing Dimetrodon @MarieLetsEat]

One reason I'll always rate Creatures: the first time I saw it, a guy down the aisle had a reaction like I've never seen, choke/screaming like he was watching his own mother die, a noise like I've never heard before or since. It's that powerful, and too heavy for me these days.

[Fire-Breathing Dimetrodon @MarieLetsEat]

Not sure about 1971's Don't Deliver Us From Evil. Massively unpleasant, extremely well-made. I haven't seen Heavenly Creatures, based on the same case, in ages. Used to love that film, but I think I need more light, and it's far too heavy for me to lift these days. May sell on.

[Fire-Breathing Dimetrodon @MarieLetsEat]

One horrible trick that Peter Jackson used in Creatures was to stop the music for simply ages, ramping up the tension. When it starts again, and you know what's about to happen, it's absolutely devastating. Joël Séria did something similar in Evil; equally skin-crawling silence.