I'm here to #GrowTheJoy through games (#EyedentityGame...), information (#6DegreesOfPerryMason, Bookish birthdays...), & fun!
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Some of my Twitter things:
* #EyedentityGame
* #BufoPolls
* #1TweetExpert
* #MultiviewsOfMadness
* Bookish Birthdays
* OTD in geeky history
* #TodayIsTo
* #SourceIt
* #AlexaKnows | #TeachAlexa
* #6DegreesOfPerryMason
* #1939 The Best Pop Culture Year
* #vsq very short quotes
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#ScienceFictionFilms Tournament, Round 1 as of 8:00 pm EDT:
Alien 66.6%
Thing from Another World 33.4%
ST II: Wrath of Khan 63.9%
Them! 36.1%
Star Wars 60.5%
Time Machine 39.5%
Planet of Apes 61.3%
Empire Strikes Back 38.3
Online ballot: s.surveyplanet.com/tn8qoxa3
Bufo Calvin retweeted
#ScienceFictionFilms Tournament, Round 1 as of 12:30 pm EDT:
Alien 63%
Thing from Another World 37%
ST II: Wrath of Khan 65.3%
Them! 34.7%
Star Wars 62.3%
Time Machine 37.7%
Planet of the Apes 62.5
Empire Strikes Back 37.5%
Your online ballot: s.surveyplanet.com/tn8qoxa3
Bufo Calvin retweeted
Round 1 in the #ScienceFictionFilms Tournament concludes today with match-ups #5 through #8.
Here is your online ballot: s.surveyplanet.com/tn8qoxa3
Voting ends at 10:30 pm EDT tonight.
Happy 73rd #DebutDay (19 October 1953) to Fahrenheit 451!
Ray Bradbury's dystopian novel imagines a future where books are illegal and burned by the authorities
Happy 179th #DebutDay (19 October 1847) to Jane Eyre!
The ground-breaking first person narrative book by Charlotte Brontë (published under her pen name Currer Bell) is still one of the beloved books and still in print
Betty McGuire (Growing Pains...) has reportedly died & will be added to my 2026 Geeky Goodbyes (Star Trek: Dee Space Nine; Wishmaster...) later
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Here's my thread for On This Date #OTD (19 October) in Geeky History (it's mostly birthdays) from my only other X feed (there are fakes), @TMCGTT:
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Born #OTD (19 October) in geeky history: Tony Lo Bianco (Endangered Species), Juanita Moore (The Kid), Tava Smiley (Good Luck Chuck), Robert Beatty (2001: A Space Odyssey), Bernard Hepton (The Plague Dogs), Shelby Grant (Fantastic Voyage)...
Bufo Calvin retweeted
19 October #BirthdaySmiles in order: Rebecca Ferguson, Jon Favreau, Gillian Jacobs, Samantha Robinson, Divine, Robert Reed, Juanita Moore, Lloyd Haynes
Happy bookish birthdays, 19 October, to: John le Carré (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold), Philip Pullman (His Dark Materials), David Vann (Legend of a Suicide)... ilmk.wordpress.com/2026/10/1…
Happy bookish birthdays, 19 October, to: Miguel Ángel Asturias (El Señor Presidente), Andrew Vachss (Burke), John Howard Kunstler (The Geography of Nowhere), L.E. Modesitt Jr. (Saga of Recluce)... ilmk.wordpress.com/2026/10/1…
Happy bookish birthdays, 19 October, to: Deborah Blum (The Poisoner's Handbook), Dan Gutman (My Weird School Daze), Susan Straight (Highwire Moon), Tracy Chevalier (Girl with a Pearl Earring)... ilmk.wordpress.com/2026/10/1…