A little paranoia is a good propellor

Plant, 1960, Remedios Varo

Illustration to “A Week of Kindness”, 1934, Max Ernst

Medium: collage,paper

Pomegranate Flower, 1926, Max Ernst

Medium: oil,canvas

Character, Remedios Varo

Star Catcher, Remedios Varo

2. That time some friends and I went camping and we found a pile of bones wrapped in a garbage bag buried under a log, but the adult supervisor told us it was nothing, so we just put it back and didn’t talk about it again.

3. The time I was getting chased through the woods at night and I realized “wait it’s dark as fuck” so I just held still until the guy gave up and left.

4. The time this dude said he was in love with me and so he was going to cut my head off and dump my body in a lake, so I told him to grow the hell up, but then he got caught stealing girl’s underwear a day later and I never saw him again

5. That one time in college where I was taking a shortcut on my home at night and a car followed me into a dark alley, so I stared directly into the driver’s side of the window and walked towards it to psych them out

6. The night I was out on a walk and this old guy told me he’d locked his keys in his truck and that he needed someone my size to crawl in through the back window for him, so I told him “you know that sounds super suspicious right” and told him where to find a pay phone for a tow truck instead

7. The one time this random guy on the street said he was in love with me and so he was going to follow me home on my bus, so I clapped him on the shoulder and told him that if he got that close to my bus then I was going to throw him under the wheels, but then this really nice homeless man from Nigeria told the guy to fuck off and then checked to make sure he didn’t follow me onboard

8. That big cat with yellow eyes who I found in a well and brought home who used to put rotting meat in my closet and wake me up by chewing on my face, until I put him back outside and never saw him again.

9. My one cousin who used to come over for the summer who kept calling me ‘piñata’ and hitting me with sticks, until he went back home and was sent to juvie cause he finally got caught torturing animals

10. The time I got lost on the way to a meeting and wound up at a circus tent instead, and got followed by a full-out clown for three vacant street blocks

11. The pet hamster I had when I was seven who would scream all night and eventually escaped by ripping a bar out of its cage and wiggling through the hole. My mom caught it and put it back but it lived another year and a half until one night the screaming just stopped

12. The time I was whistling in the woods and something started whistling back, so I went home

13. That one night at summer camp where a group of girls got together to play ‘bloody mary’ in the lavatory and invited me to come with them so I said “no thanks” and stayed with the camp councillors and drank soup instead.

14. The old abandoned house I just moved into with the door that leads into a big empty room full of dirt and empty cooking pots that I just sort of… locked up forever and never go near

15. Once when I was at an ihop I saw a coffee mug do a full 360º spin with nobody touching it, so I said ‘that was neat’ and never ate there again

Emil Ferris’s graphic novel debut My Favorite Thing is Monsters may just be the best graphic novel of 2017, and is certainly the best debut I’ve read in the genre, and it virtually defies summarizing: Karen is a young girl in a rough Chicago neighborhood is obsessed with monsters and synthesia, is outcast among her friends, is queer, is torn apart by the assassination of Martin Luther King, by her mother’s terminal illness, by the murder of the upstairs neighbor, a beautiful and broken Holocaust survivor, by her love for her Vietnam-draft-eligible brother and her love of fine art. No less genre-busting is the author: Ferris started work on Monsters when she was a 40-year-old single mom, partially paralyzed by West Nile virus: no longer able to work as an illustrator, she taught herself to draw again by creating the first volume of Monsters over six long years. Monsters is in firmly the genre of girls’ crisis memoir – among such titles as The Diary of Anne Frank, Butler’s Parable of the Sower, Womack’s Sensless Acts of Random Violence – but it is also about six kinds of love note, to different obsessions and diversions. So on the one hand, Karen narrates a gruesome and sorrowful life in poverty-wracked Chicago, where Puerto Ricans, displaced southern African Americans, and recession haunted “hillbillies” live in crowded and violent conditions, where a young girl’s innocence is impossible to maintain, between public liaisons between sex-workers and johns, street harassment and violence, organized crime and grinding poverty. On the other hand, it’s a tribute to – and critique of – the classic monster comics and magazines of the era, which Karen is obsessed with, and through whose visual styles her story is told. It’s a tribute to fine art and the pieces hanging in the galleries and museums of Chicago where Karen and her mysterious, womanizing, tattooed older brother Deeze brings her. It’s a complicated story about friendship among girls, about gender identity and queerness, about family. It embeds the Holocaust narrative of the dead upstairs neighbor, a Jew who escaped concentration camps through sex work and complicity, and whose murder is the Macguffin on which the story turns. It’s a page turner from start to finish, and visually unlike anything else I’ve ever seen. The emotional and visual palettes are dense and intense, and smart and subtle. Everything about this is amazing, except that it ends on a cliffhanger and part two won’t be here until next March. My Favorite Thing is Monsters [Emil Ferris/Fantagraphics]https://boingboing.net/2017/06/20/tour-de-force.html

In Osmosis Jones (2001) a statue of a sperm cell can be seen that is labeled Our Founder.

In Pulp Fiction Vincent Vega is constantly on the toilet. One of the side effects of heroin abuse is constipation.

For Interstellar, Christopher Nolan planted 500 acres of corn just for the film because he did not want to CGI the farm in. After filming, he turned it around and sold the corn and made back profit for the budget.

In The Movie ”Unthinkable” You See A Guy Try To Defuse A Nuclear Bomb With Excel.

In The Lost World: Jurassic Park, the ship that brings the T-Rex to San Diego is called the S.S Venture, which is a reference to King Kong, in which a ship called the S.S Venture brought King Kong to New York.

If you watch the film with headphones or properly placed surround sound speakers, every time we see Baby in Baby Driver (2017) wearing only one of his headphones, you’ll hear the song he is listening to through that ear only.

In Team America: World Police, the Paris ‘set’ has a floor made of Croissants.

They couldn’t hide the camera in the doorknob’s reflection of this scene of The Matrix, so they put a coat over it and a half tie to match with Morpheus’.

This Wolverine Easter egg in the opening credits border of The Greatest Showman.

In Saving Private Ryan, a medic gets hit in the canteen. Water first starts to pour out then blood.

In The Truman Show, the travel agent kept Truman waiting because she has never needed to show up for work before. Also she is still wearing her makeup bib since it was a rush job.

In Die Hard (1988), Alan Rickman’s Petrified Expression While Falling Was Completely Genuine. The Stunt Team Instructed Him That They Would Drop Him On The Count Of 3 But Instead Dropped Him At 1.

In ‘The Avengers’, there is a small screen showing the heat signature in the room where Loki is being held which shows that he has a cold body temperature because he is a frost giant.

In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The White Witch’s crown melts as her power dwindles.

Farquaad kills Mama bear to use as a rug in Shrek. 

In The Avengers, Hawkeyes states that “They can’t bank worth a damn, find a right corner.” Jarvis proceeds to plot a route around a corner for Tony.

In the Last Jedi, the door for Luke’s shack is made out of a panel from his X-wing.

In The Shawshank Redemption (1994), the DA who arrests the sadistic Captain Hadley can be seen reading the Miranda rights off of a card. The scene is set in 1966, the same year that Miranda v. Arizona court case made the act mandatory when arresting a suspect.       

The skeletons from the pool scene in Poltergeist were real, as they were cheaper than rubber skeletons at the time.

In Back to the Future, when Marty travels to the past and runs over one of the trees, the name of the mall changes. 

In “The Fifth Element,” Manhattan, the Statue of Liberty, and the Brooklyn Bridge appear to tower above the landscape because the sea levels have dropped significantly, with the city expanding onto the new land.

In the Matrix, Morpheus asks Cypher for his phone, Cypher hesitates pulling his hand out of his pocket because earlier he dumped his phone so they could be tracked. Fortunately, Trinity immediately gives her phone to Morpheus.

In Django Unchained, A Man Asks Django What Is His Name Is And How It Is Spelled. “The D Is Silent”, The Man Responds “I Know”. This Man Is Franco Nero, The Original Django From The Original 1966 Film.

In Monster’s Inc (2001) Mike has 3 sticky note reminders to file his paperwork in his locker, which he later forgets to do, driving the plot of the movie.

In lord of the rings you can see that gandalf carries his pipe in his staff.

One of the reasons we called our daughter “Poesy” was so that we could shorten her name to “Poe,” as in “Edgar Allan,” and since the early days, we’ve recited bits of The Raven and others to her (I like saying “The Bells” while I’m trying to get her to sleep). One of my favorite Poe adaptations is jazz poet Lord Buckley’s “The Bugbird,” a too-awesome-to-be-believed translation into the “semantic of the hip,” circa 1950. It’s really fun to recite and the kid LOVES it.

Ehh, ooh, will I ever get out of this feeling? Emmm, emmmm,

Ah, so solid I remember, It was in that wrought December And it’s swingin’, jumpin’ ember Blew it’s phantom upon the floor Groovily I woo’d the morrow Still hung I sought to borrow From my book kicks To knock the sorrow Sorrow for my gone Lenore For that sweet, square but swingin’ maiden Whom the fly chicks tagged Lenore Nameless here forevermore