Mike Calia

@mikecalia.bsky.social

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Managing Editor, Business and Economy Unit, NBC News. The Mayor of Shark City.

The Funhouse, Eaten Alive, L’avventura, Gothic
DVD of Joseph Strick's film adaptation of James Joyce's Ulysses
The Decline of Western Civilization, Sid & Nancy, Fail Safe, Rose of Nevada
T.O. crying while defending Tony Romo: "That's my quarterback."
An instagram post wishing Thomas Ligotti a happy birthday and explaining he’ll have a new collection next year.
Screenshot of a headline from The Atlantic saying “THE END OF READING IS HERE”
Tattoo … So man’s insanity is heaven’s sense … in heaven everything is fine
Last 4 on Letterboxd: Wild at Heart, Vampires, Highway Patrolman, The Death of Robin Hood
An ad for calamari jerky
82-0 team: Oscar Robertson, Steph Curry, Clyde Drexler, Tim Duncan and Kareem
Malkovich, Malkovich in Being John Malkovich
Books: Don’t Look Now, Desolation Angels, Three Famous Short Novels by Faulkner, Pale Fir
Me, at the bottom of the Exorcist stairs
The Emoji Movie DVD cover
Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper) lauding PBR in Blue Velvet
“Directed by Arnold Schwarzenegger” title card from Tales from the Crypt
Mr Potter in It’s a Wonderful Life
Ethan Hawke in First Reformed
Thomas Pynchon from The Simpsons
From NYT: “Science-fiction fans became familiar with Mr. Muldoon after he played Zander Barcalow in the 1997 campy space-alien invasion film “Starship Troopers,” with Denise Richards and Casper Van Dien.”
Thank you note from MZS in a book order.
Residents/Cthulhu tattoo
Library of America’s new Jim Thompson collection: Five Noir Novels of the 1950s & 60s
Nathan Arizona Sr: Don’t print that, son.
Me, at the bottom of the “Exorcist” steps in Georgetown
Don Ameche in Trading Places saying TURN THOSE MACHINES BACK ON!
Exorcist III, Toy Story, Girl With Hyacinths, Bone Temple
Brody and Jaws
Letterboxd year in review. Most watched actor Josh Brolin. Most watched director Osgood Perkins.
Headlights on a road from David Lynch’s Lost Highway
“The allegations came three years after Maxwell recruited another employee, Virginia Giuffre, who said she was 16 years old when she left the spa to work for Epstein. Giuffre died by suicide this year. The Wall Street Journal identified four other Mar-a-Lago employees who were listed in Epstein’s address book, which was obtained by the FBI in 2009. By the time Epstein was banned from the spa in 2003, disquiet over his presence at the club had been bubbling for years—including from Trump’s second wife, Marla Maples, who in the mid-1990s warned her husband and others there was something “off” about Epstein, according to former employees. 
Album cover for Time Out of Mind by Bob Dylan
Barry Lyndon
New EPA Study Finds 98% Of U.S. Mop Water Fucking Nasty As Hell: Onion headline from 2017
Jane Curtin, John Belushi and Bill Murray in a classic SNL sketch called "The Thing That Wouldn't Leave."
Cover of North Sun by Ethan Rutherford. Large bird head looking at you, shedding a tear in the icy ocean. Scrimshaw.
Woody and Courtney in The People vs Larry Flynt
Timpano from Big Night, with Stanley Tucci and Tony Shaloub
Another snapshot of the economy came courtesy of Walmart, which on Thursday reported strong sales and raised its outlook for the year. That strength points to cracks in the economy, though. Executives said the chain is luring more high-income shoppers who are looking for bargains, and noted that lower-income families are feeling more pressure. "As pocketbooks have been stretched, you're seeing more consumer dollars go to necessities versus discretionary items," Chief Financial Officer John David Rainey said on an earnings call Thursday morning. Walmart's stock closed 6.5% higher.
The cover of HP Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu for Beginning Readers, a Dr. Seuss-style parody of the Lovecraft story
Mickey Mouse strutting through Port Authority
Line chart: The richest households grew their wealth at a similar pace as the bottom 50 percent until the 1990s. The gap accelerated before the 2008 financial crisis and accelerated again after the Covid pandemic.
NYT graphic showing investment in/from OpenAI
Final shot of “Oppenheimer”
Binance also hired a new lobbyist in September, Charles McDowell, according to a public filing. McDowell is a friend of Donald Trump Jr., and he was photographed at the White House last week alongside the president's eldest son. On Oct. 20, McDowell's lobbying firm, Checkmate Government Relations, disclosed that Binance had paid the firm $450,000 for the prior month's work. According to the filing, McDowell lobbied the White House on an issue that his firm called "executive relief," in addition to crypto policy.
Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs
A brief excerpt from Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon
Johnny Cash flipping the bird
"Ethics."
The Residents
Still from Apocalypse Now featuring Dennis Hopper and wall graffiti saying “Our Motto: Apocalypse Now”
“Shark Tank” judge Kevin O’Leary in “Marty Supreme.”