Joe Streckert

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It's Lawrence of Arabia in space.

@HatHats I will when I have an invite code.

@JoeStreckert Invite meeeee!

Just joined the other thing.

@amadcartoonist Fun for an evening, never calls you back.

Anyone want to send me a Bluesky invite?

This cover kinda works if you imagine Lestat being dramatic while in drag. Which would be very in-character for him.

Still fond of this movie.

Because I love @MattFnWallace enough to make crude explainer drawings at lunch.

@LudiBellorum Yeah, some kind of shoulder-mounted missile launcher or laser cannon.

Transformers should do a thing where the Oscar Mayer Weinermobile turns out to be an Autobot. This is a million-dollar idea, people.

@sporkbot I haven't actually seen any of the live-action movies, though I heard Bumblebee was pretty good. I kinda want to start watching them given that that was something of a reboot.

@JoeStreckert Don't speak it into being! I had an idea for an ice cream truck decepticon, then it ended up in a movie and was horrible.

A Brief History of Things Were Better 50 Years Ago 🧵

Cormac McCarthy’s writing was mean, and despairing, with a pretty withering view of humankind, and the cruel engines that drive it. but he had that faint flicker of belief that it could be different. “He can know his heart, but he don’t want to.” gotta tend that flame folks. RIP.

it's impossible to pick a favorite Cormac McCarthy passage but this is up there. RIP

Just finished Pentiment. It's like if The Name of the Rose and was a point-and-click adventure game. I loved it!

@thehilsy Robinson is great! He's an immensely interesting, thoughtful sci-fi writer.

@JoeStreckert A good balance against Chrichton is Kim Stanley Robinson. He definitely gets the direness of anthropomorphic climate change.

Jurassic Park premiered thirty years ago today. It's a great example of a movie that's better than the book. Crichton's novel is okay, but has a dourness that gets in the way of all the rad dino action. Spielberg, though, leans into "fuck yeah dinosaurs," and it's beautiful.

Anyway, Jurassic Park is thirty years old now. It's an amazing piece of cinema! And it's so much better than its source material. I can totally see why the movie lives on, and why the novel hasn't had nearly as much of an afterlife.

I guess that's just the reactionary brain at work. I read almost everything Crichton wrote when I was a teenager, hoping it would make me feel the way Jurassic Park did. Instead it was just paranoid and sad. It was science fiction, but without wonder and enthusiasm.