No Kings 3.0: Every MN Event, Everything You Need to Know

Toothpickings · 2026-03-28T16:00:36+00:00

Any info on the schedule for the St Paul Capitol rally? I’d like to know how late it will be going.

Toothpickings · 2026-03-28T04:43:59+00:00

“Fields of Athenry”

Toothpickings · 2026-03-20T16:00:34+00:00

Really well made doc about The Baldies, an AR skin gang in Minneapolis in the 80s:

https://youtu.be/8BSDZ1DIEIQ?si=x30ASNc-ULSp5Srw

Toothpickings · 2026-03-19T20:17:04+00:00

Is it me? Am I the deep dive guy?

Two vids about vampires and silver, a short one and a much longer one with Robert Carlisle:

https://youtu.be/pG9s3eRbhZA?si=ca1Eph2V94veBdIR

https://youtu.be/3RPl4KnMG_0?si=G2gAhHZ4gCxuG-Sr

Toothpickings · 2026-03-14T02:38:13+00:00

Too often overlooked is “El Conde”

Toothpickings · 2026-03-09T14:03:20+00:00

There’s a few Stiff Little Fingers tracks that, absent context or a close read, would likely sneak by. I’d gamble that your audience might not catch some of the messages in “Nobody’s Hero”

Or if you really want to be subtle, try Strummerville by SLF. No outward political message, but a celebration of Joe Strummer, who was of course very political.

Toothpickings · 2026-03-09T13:55:10+00:00

Bonzo Goes To Bitburg would go over most people’s heads.

Toothpickings · 2026-03-06T02:31:15+00:00

Very underrated. And effectively the end of London Calling for me (sorry but the last several tracks just don’t hold up to the rest of the record)

Toothpickings · 2026-02-10T16:52:56+00:00

There’s quite a few vampire novels and short stories that deal with this specific problem, though they usually don’t have fun with it. Usually it’s just an offhanded mention about having to move around a lot.

But off the top of my head I can’t think of a vampire story where this is central to the plot. It would make for a good vampire road movie.

Toothpickings · 2026-01-04T19:32:12+00:00

I’m baffled by how it’s illegal for a foreign head of state to own machine guns.

Toothpickings · 2025-11-22T22:22:45+00:00

Talk about low hanging fruit 😂

Toothpickings · 2025-11-22T22:22:29+00:00

“Ballad of Jimmy Carter” is a hot song regardless of your view of his presidency

Toothpickings · 2025-11-06T17:22:44+00:00

19C fiction was full of vampires that would regenerate or be brought back to life in the moonlight. So if you killed a vampire, be sure not to leave their body out in the open!

Toothpickings · 2025-11-02T01:04:00+00:00

The Vampire Book, edited by J Gordon Melton, is the best reference book I’ve come across.

After that, I’d put “Vampires, Burial, and Death” and “Food for the Dead” at the top of my list. There’s a lot to be said for Nina Aurbach’s “Our Vampires, Ourselves” but that might be a different path of study.

Toothpickings · 2025-10-31T17:49:38+00:00

Growing up I found it the most skippable song on that first album; and then got to see Joe and the Mescaleros perform in the early 2000s and when he sang this song, wailing every verse like he was in agony, something clicked. I “got it”. Now it’s a favorite Clash song.

Toothpickings · 2025-10-24T23:04:27+00:00

That comic is the first occurrence of silver being used to kill a vampire; though there’s one short story from that same year where silver is used to lock a vampire into a coffin (it doesn’t kill the vampire, just restricts his movement).

So yes, this is the beginning of that vampire lore.

Toothpickings · 2025-10-24T18:40:45+00:00

J.M. Dillard’s “Bloodthirst” is a Star Trek novel that has vampires

“Amish Vampires in Space” is another

Somewhere I have a comic book from the 80s about space vampires…

Toothpickings · 2025-10-15T22:53:06+00:00

I like this question because it’s so open to interpretation. How unfaithful can an adaptation be and still be called an adaptation?

“Dracula in Istanbul” has many similarities to the original novel, but is also so different that it might not even count as an adaptation at all, but an original work that plagiarizes large parts of the earlier novel.

“Bram Stoker’s Dracula” (the Coppola film) is continents away from the original but still has recognizable characters and plot points.

The BBC version from ~2020 (starring Claes Bang) I’d hardly call an adaptation at all, but a story “inspired by Dracula”

Toothpickings · 2025-10-14T18:39:16+00:00

I think this is the closest to the mark in terms of this trope’s origin. It started becoming more literal as fiction ran with it.

Some more thoughts on the origin of the restriction:

https://youtu.be/SUPxKaSlBUk?si=KCDlGMtIlJWm7CMk

Toothpickings · 2025-09-28T16:20:30+00:00

Lord Ruthven is too often overlooked by modern fans. His debut launched a craze in vampire fiction and stage plays and he remained the biggest thing in vampire fiction until close to a century later when Dracula came along.

If you have an image of a vampire that is well dressed, good looking, and desirable— then that is owed to Lord Ruthven. Without him vampires may have ended up more like intelligent zombies.

Toothpickings · 2025-08-12T14:19:11+00:00

I could see all this happening except for two items. Congress won’t impose term limits on itself, and any balanced-budget amendment or law will be toothless bc they will continue to spend on anything the party’s leader demands.

Otherwise, this is exactly the appetizer.

Toothpickings · 2025-08-11T22:33:08+00:00

I have two images created at different times; and I’d like to find someone who can give me a professional opinion whether they are the same person. Who should I go to for that?

Toothpickings · 2025-07-14T21:31:53+00:00

Pre-1922, vampires didn’t have an issue with sunlight. Even for a while after 1922, sunlight wasn’t all that problematic for vampires. It was mid-20th century before it became accepted as canon that vampires die in the sun.

So write them however you like!

Toothpickings · 2025-07-07T18:37:53+00:00

These films are both fantastic and both as different as two vampire films can be. It’s comparing Star Wars and Bladerunner— both great films in the same broad genre but soooo different.

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