Josh Weinberger (@kitson@masto.ai on Mastodon) Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Josh Weinberger (@kitson@masto.ai on Mastodon)

#TIL: Jan-Michael Vincent was Universal’s choice to portray Matt Hooper in Jaws (1975), but Spielberg went with the more-nerdy @RichardDreyfuss instead. (The character was a studly guy in the original Peter Benchley best-seller.) https://t.co/DZZT4ADU31 #MoviesThatAlmostWere

Josh Weinberger (@kitson@masto.ai on Mastodon)

‘Luddite’ Teens Don’t Want Your Likes https://t.co/hKBSaf2AqH "they have a fondness for works condemning technology, like “Player Piano” by Kurt Vonnegut. Arthur, the bespectacled PBS aardvark, is their mascot."

Josh Weinberger (@kitson@masto.ai on Mastodon)

@dweinberger Give Roald Dahl a shot, too (assuming you don't mind / can overlook the author's personal beliefs). James and the Giant Peach was a winner, as was Matilda. (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, weirdly, didn't hit.)

Josh Weinberger (@kitson@masto.ai on Mastodon)

He's right. Jared Kushner’s ‘Breaking History’ Is a Soulless and Very Selective Memoir https://t.co/q7zLUosuDd https://t.co/rG1tz6MIZN

Josh Weinberger (@kitson@masto.ai on Mastodon)

Has anyone ever done anything like this before? (John Hersey's Hiroshima was 31,000 words, and an entire issue of The @NewYorker, in 1946, but I believe it was initially planned as a 4-parter.) Also, is it out yet? https://t.co/ag2rZtNfGd

Josh Weinberger (@kitson@masto.ai on Mastodon)

Missed this last week. In addition to so many wonderful comics he wrote himself, he also gets credit for discovering Alan Moore. Alan Grant, Legendary Batman, Lobo, Judge Dredd Writer, Has Died https://t.co/E3Sehcdx72

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Josh Weinberger (@kitson@masto.ai on Mastodon)

NASA's #Orion spacecraft reaches far side of moon -- a move that hasn't been attempted by a human-rated spacecraft since NASA's Apollo 17 mission in 1972. https://t.co/Af2M318eJH #SpaceIsHard #Artemis1

Josh Weinberger (@kitson@masto.ai on Mastodon)

Awaiting the big reveal in Marvel's Secret Invasion that all those Stan Lee cameos were really just Skrulls.

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Josh Weinberger (@kitson@masto.ai on Mastodon)

#TIL: The 1977 film #TheSpyWhoLovedMe takes its title from Ian Fleming's 1962 novel, the 10th book in the #JamesBond series, though **it does not contain any elements of the novel's plot.**

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Josh Weinberger (@kitson@masto.ai on Mastodon)

Queen Elizabeth's Death Certificate: The late monarch's name is listed as "Elizabeth Alexandra Mary" with the surname "Windsor." Her occupation reads, "Her Majesty The Queen." https://t.co/ZKbCRD1WB3