Sergio

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[–] Sergio@piefed.social 1 points 14 minutes ago

Interesting... anyway I'm not hating on Jim Davis, and he's probably right that at that time there were no "big name" cat cartoon characters. (I think Heathcliff was kinda small time...)

[–] Sergio@piefed.social 4 points 54 minutes ago (1 children)

I think you're taking heat a little bit unfairly. This is, after all, the MILDLY infuriating community, and it can be a hassle when something stops working for you, even if it's perfectly reasonable for it to happen.

[–] Sergio@piefed.social 1 points 1 hour ago

There was another howler, like

Ah, that wonderful Madam Mina! She has man’s brain—a brain that a man should have were he much gifted—and a woman’s heart.

These fucking people... I think they're meant to be "the good guys" but it's really hard to see them that way.

[–] Sergio@piefed.social 2 points 23 hours ago

Uh oh looks like private Fabius is about to get chewed out.

[–] Sergio@piefed.social 3 points 23 hours ago

Yeah, I was thinking it looked a lot like Euro Graphic Novel style, and from the artist's wikipedia page it looks like indeed that's what he worked on.

[–] Sergio@piefed.social 2 points 23 hours ago

No way, that's the guy who said the industrial revolution and its consequences are a disaster for humans.

source/s

[–] Sergio@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

Thanks for posting the "Jon" strips! it'd be funny if the syndication deal had fallen thru, and the very last thing Jon had said was "I'LL make you bleed!" and then it ended without explanation.

[–] Sergio@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Fascinating info. Point of order tho: Jim Davis sez "dogs like Snoopy and Marmaduke have been standard characters on comic pages, but there has never been a cat". Akshully wikipedia sez Krazy Kat comic strip started syndication in 1913, Felix the Cat in 1923, and Heathcliff in 1973. And ofc Top Cat had a comic book in the 60s and 70s beyond the 30-ep animation, but I dunno if it was ever a syndicated strip. (I prefer Garf tho!?!!)

[–] Sergio@piefed.social 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

or the octagon of MMA

 

Industrial / techno, 2022

track link: https://perctrax.bandcamp.com/track/pskizoh

[–] Sergio@piefed.social 6 points 2 days ago

Alternate historical pre-enactment.

 

Fright Night (1985) is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

  • Just start watching that movie this Sunday, October 5, 2025 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 1am Monday UTC
  • and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live text commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
  • I usually open two web browser windows side-by-side on a computer. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.

How to watch the movie:

The film follows teenager Charley Brewster (played by William Ragsdale), who discovers that his next-door neighbor Jerry Dandrige (Chris Sarandon) is a vampire. When no one believes him, Charley decides to get Peter Vincent (Roddy McDowall), a TV show host who acted in films as a vampire hunter, to stop Jerry's killing spree.

The film was released on August 2, 1985, and grossed $24.9 million at the box office. Since its release, it has received positive reviews from critics and become a cult classic, and spawned the media franchise of the same name.
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Fright Night garnered critical acclaim, holding a 92% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes; the average rating is 7.2/10 based on 38 reviews. The site's consensus reads: "Fright Night deftly combines thrills and humor in this ghostly tale about a man living next to a vampire."[32]

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three stars out of four and wrote, "Fright Night is not a distinguished movie, but it has a lot of fun being undistinguished".[33] Variety praised Sarandon's performance, writing that he "is terrific as the vampire, quite affable and debonair until his fingernails start to grow and his eyes get that glow".[34] Colin Greenland gave a negative review for White Dwarf #75, stating "We may be justified in suspecting that a film which has such contempt for its characters has contempt for its audience, too."[35]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fright_Night

[–] Sergio@piefed.social 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They listen to electronic computer music that has weird anime like singing

Neurosama cover of "Friday I'm in Love": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0qV8SOW-24

[–] Sergio@piefed.social 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Funny thing, I'm an older guy too, and a while back in the grocery store I saw some kid (late teens, maybe early 20s) wearing all black and a Depeche Mode t-shirt from the early days. I was gonna give them a thumbs up or something but then I realized they'd be like: omg I was wearing this shirt and this creepy old Latino guy was checking me out, I'm never gonna listen to this music again! So I just went on shopping.

(yeah I know DM isn't really goth but you get the idea...)

 

MaryDeath is a comic about life, death, and everything in between. The story follows a young girl named Mary who happens to have befriended Death. Why Death has chosen to take interest in Mary remains a mystery, but despite his ever dark presence Mary finds comfort in his companionship.

https://www.marydeathcomics.com/archives/comic/

MaryDeath Comics was created in the 2010s by Gwen Tarpley. The artist transitioned recently, but it seems they don’t mind their deadname being on their older comics (i.e. it was used on some of the recent posts of their Cats Cafe comic, which is their main effort now.)

 

Industrial, 2022

artist's note:

Recent discoveries in the field of epigenetics suggest that war veterans suffering from PTSD might be passing on the legacy of their trauma to their children and grandchildren, notably in the form of neurological disorders. That is to say that environmental factors can modify the way your DNA will be transcribed and affect which genes will be expressed in your descendants.

I have a very short fuse, poor impulse control, a poor sense of time, difficulty maintaining focus and close to zero tolerance for other people’s random noises. My father used to ascribe this to our family’s “boiling Calabrian blood”. But I have a different theory: I call it inherited ADHD.

My Italian grandfather was drafted into an artillery unit during the Second World War and deployed in North Africa. In October 1942, his division fought in the Battle of El Alamein, the first major Axis defeat. Day and night, without interruption, the British rained heavy artillery on Italian positions, inflicting massive casualties. Plagued by inadequate equipment and incompetent leadership, the Italians did not stand a chance. My grandfather narrowly escaped being torn to shreds and spent the rest of his life nervously chain-smoking with a sad, haunted look in his eyes. PTSD didn't enter the medical vocabulary until the aftermath of the Vietnam war.

I am an angry man. My whole life I kept being told that I had “so much potential” — yet I inexplicably fell short of expectations. My parents attributed this to laziness and a lack of perseverance. My employers kept warning me about my lack of punctuality. Only when I was 42 years old did I finally put the ADHD puzzle together, which suddenly cast my entire existence in a very different light: that I really had done my best, but nobody ever could see what I was struggling with. This new reality was not an easy thing to process, but still it’s nothing compared to the hardship endured by my grandfather.

In the light of new theories about epigenetic mechanisms, it would appear that my struggles are quite possibly directly related to those of my nonno: a kind of family curse, if you will. Courtesy of Mussolini. So not only did the Fascists' blind thirst for conquest break my grandfather, but it also might have reached out across generations to fuck with my brain chemistry before I was even born.

I was never close to my grandfather. I didn't speak his language and he could barely speak mine. This mini-album is a salute to his courage and resilience in a cruel, absurd world.

Rest in peace, Giuseppe. For you the noise is over.

album link: https://noradnoise.bandcamp.com/album/giuseppe

 

occult / goth / electronic, 2023

track link: https://thewitchingtale.bandcamp.com/track/floralia-2

 

EBM / Industrial, 2024

track link: https://x-img.bandcamp.com/track/corrosive-time

 

The Food of the Gods (1976) is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

  • Just start watching that movie this Sunday, September 28, 2025 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 1am Monday UTC
  • and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live text commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
  • I usually open two web browser windows side-by-side on a computer. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.

How to watch the movie:

... the film was loosely based on a portion of the 1904 H. G. Wells novel The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth. The film reduced Wells' tale to a "nature revenge" plot, common in science fiction films of the time.

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The movie was AIP's most successful release of the year, causing them to make a series of films based on H. G. Wells novels.[7]

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film one star out of four.[8] Vincent Canby of The New York Times called the film "a stunningly ridiculous mixture of science-fiction and horror-film clichés."[9] Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune gave the film half of one star out of four and wrote, "The heavy television ad campaign promises six-foot roosters and panther-sized rats. What it should promise, if truth-in-labeling applied to film ads, is rotten special effects and a laughable script."[10] Arthur D. Murphy of Variety wrote, "Too much emphasis by Gordon on his good special visual effects combines with too little attention to his writing chores ... Every player has done better before; this script is atrocious."[11] Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times wrote that "the entire picture is a joke—unintentionally."[12] Tom Milne of The Monthly Film Bulletin called it "A truly appalling piece of s-f horror in which the cretinous dialogue, hopefully illuminating the follies of human greed and tampering with nature, poses more of a hazard to the cast than the crudely animated giant wasps or the monster rat and cockerel heads stiffly manipulated from the wings."[13]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Food_of_the_Gods_(film)

 

Day 13 of the 15-day tourney in Japan just finished a couple hours ago! Here's how you can watch recaps, replays, or live! Feel free to post images, video links, opinions, or anything else related!

Live / Replay:

  • try searching on twitch, this tourney there are at least 3 different streamers providing live video feeds with English commentary, and it's fun to have a community to chat with in real time. The top Makuuchi matches start around 3am US Eastern Time though. At least 1 of the streamers does replays all day, usually of the entire day (including lower ranks).

Video Clips:

  • youtuber DonDon makes a daily video of the "best 10" matches listed in English with replays including on-screen English analysis; those are listed here: https://www.youtube.com/@dondonsumo2/videos Besides the "best 10" of the top Makuuchi tier, DonDon also makes a "best 5" of the second Juryo tier.
  • NHK makes a daily video that has all the top-tier Makuuchi bouts with English spoken commentary. This video is replayed on their web site several times during the following day (kind of like an old-fashioned TV station); you can see the schedule here: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/tv/ look for "Grand Sumo highlights." After a day of scheduled replays, the video is put up for "on demand" access here: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/tv/sumo/ and here: https://www.youtube.com/@NHKWORLDJAPAN/videos
  • NHK immediately posts individual videos of each bout listed in Japanese with Japanese commentary. Look here: https://www.nhk.jp/p/ts/Z8WRRJ9K96/ and use a translator to click on the link that says like "2nd day's effort video / results ", or just try one of the first links under "お知らせ" (which means "News" ?) it should have a pointing hand emoji 👉 next to it.
  • JSA immediately posts individual videos of each of the highest-ranked 10+ matches listed in Japanese with no commentary, here: https://www.youtube.com/@sumo-video/videos
  • For the listings in Japanese, try automated translations if there's a lot of text. Alternately, look for something like: 9月14日 which in this case refers to the 9th month and the 14th day (September 14th). Automated translation doesn't work that well on sumotori names, but this is a great opportunity to learn them by sight! (The JSA web site has pictures of them all.)

Text Info in English:

Intro to Sumo

SPOILERS OK IN COMMENTS!!?!!

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