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  I read a great quote in a recent “Ask Carolyn” advice column, “Sometimes people have a primal need to be wrong.” It explains an awful lot of what I see in the world.

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  Saturday night moonrise. October 24, 2026. Wolverine Lake, Michigan. #photography #moon #moonrise #michigan #fall #autumn #art #MastoArt

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  Our neighbors’ maple tree has had a spectacular run during this stretch of lovely October weather. October 23, 2026. Wolverine Lake. #photography #michigan #fall #autumn #leaves #trees

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  Another splendid October evening. What a wonderful stretch of fall weather we have had! October 25, 2026. Wolverine Lake, Michigan. #photography #michigan #fall #autumn #birds #swans #nature #naturephotography #sunset

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  October just served up another top-shelf sunset, complete with sandhill cranes. October 26, 2026. Wolverine Lake, Michigan. #photography #sunset #birds #cranes #nature #naturephotography #michigan #fall #autumn #art #MastoArt

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  Another image from tonight’s spectacular sunset. October 26, 2026. Wolverine Lake, Michigan. #photography #sunset #nature #naturephotography #michigan #fall #autumn #art #MastoArt

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  Sunset with swan. October 26, 2026. Wolverine Lake, Michigan. #photography #sunset #birds #swans #nature #naturephotography #michigan #fall #autumn #art #MastoArt

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  Icarus. October 26, 2026. Wolverine Lake, Michigan. #photography #sunset #birds #heron #nature #naturephotography #michigan #fall #autumn #art #MastoArt

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  A leaf afloat. October 27, 2026. Wolverine Lake, Michigan. #photography #michigan #fall #autumn #nature #naturephotography #leaves #art #MastoArt

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  When your sunset only has a wee little crack in the clouds, but makes do. October 27, 2026. Wolverine Lake, Michigan. #photography #michigan #fall #autumn #nature #naturephotography #sunset #art #MastoArt

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  Others may have already reported this, but if you enjoyed this month's #Monsterdon Vincent-Price-athon, Turner Classic Movies is doing a big night of Vincent Price on Friday, October 30, including a new TCM biography of Price: 8:00pm EDT Vincent Price: What Keeps Us Alive (2026, biography) 9:45pm EDT The Fly (1958) 11:30pm EDT House of Wax (1953) 1:15am EDT House on Haunted Hill (1959) 2:45am EDT The Mad Magician (1954) 4:00am EDT The Tingler (1959) 5:30am EDT The Bat (1959) #VincentPrice

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  Another late #Monsterdon start for me, so I probably won’t comment much tonight. But I was determined to finish off our Vincent Price festival. It’s been an entertaining month of Vincent! #TheHauntedPalace #TheHauntedPalace1963

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  Foggy morning. October 24, 2026. Wolverine Lake, Michigan. #photography #michigan #fall #autumn #fog #art #MastoArt

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  Sunset swan. October 19, 2026. Wolverine Lake, Michigan. #photography #michigan #fall #autumn #birds #swans #sunset #art #MastoArt

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  From the No Kings demonstration in Novi, Michigan. October 17, 2026. #NoKings #michigan

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  Well “The Bat” was quite fun! Just the level I was in the mood for tonight. I think I’ll run my own little #Monsterdon double feature and catch up with the Vincent Price October list with “The House on Haunted Hill,” since I missed it last week. #Monsterdon #TheBat #TheBat1959

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  Vincent! I did not see that coming. Good twist, movie. #Monsterdon #TheBat #TheBat1959

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  This movie makes no sense and is also somehow great all at the same time. Now it’s sucked my wife into its hammy maw. (And let the record show that my wife would make an excellent strong woman in a nightgown.) #Monsterdon #TheBat #TheBat1959

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  Benny doing his impersonation of his favorite literary character: The Hungry, Hungry Caterpillar. September 28, 2026. Wolverine Lake, Michigan. #photography #dog #dogs #beagle

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  And then because I’m a glutton for punishment, I went back and watched the scene where blue lady dies, and they have the strange confusing battle again to see if I could make any more sense of it this time. Nope. #Monsterdon #JourneyToTheCenterOfTime

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  Wait! That was the end?! They just fucked off into time? We’ve had a lot of unsatisfying fucking off into [blank] on #Monsterdon, but man, that was a feeble ending. I prefer to think that movie ended with rich dude stuck in a time loop blowing himself up over and over again. #JourneyToTheCenterOfTime

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  This is a terrible movie, but watching rich dude blow himself up was deeply satisfying. Literally worth watching this entire terrible movie for. #Monsterdon #JourneyToTheCenterOfTime

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  That future set was classic cheap 60s sci-fi work. A dark black set with nothing visible and one podium in a spotlight. I’m pretty sure about 1/3 of the Season Three episodes of original “Star Trek” used that approach. #Monsterdon #JourneyToTheCenterOfTime

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  I miss wealthy heirs who cared more about making a decent profit than taking over the world. #Monsterdon #JourneyToTheCenterOfTime

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  LOL, explaining the acronym LASER. This perfectly situates this movie in time! #Monsterdon #JourneyToTheCenterOfTime

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  Reflected sunset. September 25, 2026. Wolverine Lake, Michigan. #photography #sunset #reflection #michigan #fall #art #MastoArt

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  We interrupt all the other nonsense I’ve been posting lately to return to our core mission: pretty pictures. And this morning’s sunrise was indeed pretty as a picture. September 23, 2026. Wolverine Lake, Michigan. #photography #sunrise #michigan #fall #art #MastoArt

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  LOL, I just found the official glassware of the “Sting of Death” dance party up for bids in a consignment auction. #Stripes #MoreStripes #Monsterdon #StingOfDeath #StingOfDeath1966 https://neilsdisco.hibid.com/lot/321390946/set-of-4-mcm-style-striped-highball-glasses?ref=catalog

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@patioboater/117306398670403105 This younger and more naive toot brought to you by a man who had no idea we would eventually see Egon breeding *with* a jellyfish. Overall a pretty good #Monsterdon flick. Probably could’ve used more terrible dancing and more butts. They were its most redeeming features.

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  Egon bred our monster, I assume. By my book that qualifies him to be listed as the lead mad scientist in this mess. #Monsterdon #StingOfDeath