Jen Myers

@antiheroine

Technologist/writer/grown-up film student in Chicago. she/her jenmyers.net

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Jen Myers@antiheroine· 25d

Excuse me have you heard the good word about Lake Michigan (which is it exists)

Jen Myers@antiheroine· 29d

Hey, thanks to everyone who came out to the Music Box last night for DAY OF THE ANIMALS. I think we can all agree the animals deserve a little attack on humanity, as a treat. And we deserve to see Leslie Nielsen comically killed by a bear, as a treat. Also, my first film in the new Theater 3! Aces.

Three panelists smiling in front of an open theater door with the sign DAY OF THE ANIMALS.

Three panelists seated in chairs in front of a red theater curtain, audience in red seats before them.

View of the theater crowd smiling at the camera.

Jen Myers@antiheroine· Jul 13

What a gift it was to have Sam Neill. Beyond all his other work, fearless performances in two of my top tier horror films. I will miss his Instagram dispatches from the Aotearoa countryside and his herd of animals named after other actors.

Screenshot from IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS of Sam Neill, a white man with short brown hair, popcorn bucket in hand, laughing alone in a movie theater at the screen.

Still of Sam Neill, a white man with short brown hair in the gray landscape of Berlin, from POSSESSION.

Jen Myers@antiheroine· Jul 10

Today in amazing 1970s real estate, I present to you ... a turquoise carpeted basement bar. I repeat: Carpeted. Bar. We used to be a proper country. www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

Basement room with light blue and yellow walls, drop ceiling, light turquoise carpet and the pièce de résistance, a dark turquoise carpeted bar.

Jen Myers@antiheroine· Jul 4

Of course, since I was in Milwaukee

Me, a white woman with long dark red hair wearing black sunglasses posing with the Bronze Fonz in downtown Milwaukee

Jen Myers@antiheroine· Jul 4

The Gertrude Abercrombie retrospective at the Milwaukee Art Museum is incredible and well worth a visit during its last couple of weeks.

Painting of the artist, Gertrude Abercrombie, showing the stylized head and shoulders of a white woman with sharp features wearing a flat-brimmed black hat.

Painting of a woman dressed in a white wedding dress isolated in a bleak, surrealistic landscape.

Painting of a room with a green chaise lounge, a closed door and a painting on the wall of the same room with an open door.

Highlighted quote from the text introduction of the Gertrude Abercrombie exhibition: “The whole world is a mystery.”

Jen Myers@antiheroine· Jun 21

Also the Living Dead Museum had a charmingly handmade diorama of a section of the Monroeville Mall beset by zombies and I particularly liked this little guy

A tiny green zombie in a suit and red tie stands on the escalator of a diorama of Monroeville Mall as in DAWN OF THE DEAD.

Jen Myers@antiheroine· Jun 21

Visiting family in Pittsburgh, took a quick detour to pay tribute

Bronze bust of George A. Romero against a marbled pillar in the Monroeville Mall.

Jen Myers@antiheroine· Jun 15

I was at AIC recently and took a close-up of the detail on this one. It's a reasonable assumption that our friend Giovanni never actually witnessed a real beheading, but he put a lot of enthusiasm into his depiction of one and I think that's what matters here.

A portion of The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist, by Giovanni di Paolo depicting a headless body spurting blood.

Jen Myers@antiheroine· Jun 6

Made sure to see the most significant landmark in Budapest

On a city sidewalk, a bronze statue of Columbia scratching his head and looking down at his dog companion.

Jen Myers@antiheroine· May 25

As a matter of course, I believe wholly in the righteousness of the Landscape Format, but occasionally you just want a slice.

A view of the rocky lakeshore of Lake Michigan, with brilliant turquoise water and a blue sky above.

Jen Myers@antiheroine· May 12

Comment from ayoedebiri: "I'm seated. The theater employees are scared and asking me to leave because it's 'not August yet' but I'm simply too seated"

Jen Myers@antiheroine· May 4

The Lake Michigan content will continue until awareness improves.

Jen Myers@antiheroine· Apr 28

I can't believe this is a thing that is necessary for me to do, in this year of two-thousand and twenty-six, curse you all

Screenshot of the Bluesky page to add muted words and tags with the field reading "kid rock"

Jen Myers@antiheroine· Apr 25

I’ve been in Washington DC this week for a conference and so of course I made sure to go to the most important of local landmarks: the steps from THE EXORCIST.

Me, a white woman with long dark red hair wearing black, smiling and sitting at the bottom of a very steep and possibly demonic set of concrete steps.

Jen Myers@antiheroine· Apr 16

And here is a picture of Lake Michigan, just to round out what the public expects from me.

Horizon of Lake Michigan with a pale blue sky swept with white and dark blue clouds and a calm, blue-green water surface.

Jen Myers@antiheroine· Mar 16

Guess what I’m seeing tonight at the Music Box

Still of Laura Palmer with the caption “Girls be like it’s my comfort movie and it’s Fire Walk with Me”

Jen Myers@antiheroine· Feb 17

I can trace two of my favorite thematic obsessions, miniatures and people who can't function in this world dissolving from it, back to an early viewing of one TWILIGHT ZONE episode: "Miniature," with an awkward, sensitive and achingly sympathetic young Robert Duvall. What depth and grace he had.

Black-and-white still from THE TWILIGHT ZONE of a young man looking into the open side of a dollhouse filled with miniatures.

Jen Myers@antiheroine· Jan 31

It is 1980. You meet a guy in a dark-wood-paneled bar. He is affable enough to overcome how much he talks about Foreigner. He takes you to his place, up to ... the attic? Which is dark but also strangely soft and ... multidimensional? Only in the light of the next day does the the full horror dawn.

Photo of the funkiest bedroom the 80s ever produced, covered in mauve carpet (yes the ceiling beams as well) and mirrored, slanted ceilings.

Jen Myers@antiheroine· Jan 9

At some point StoryGraph changed the to-read list settings to limit the number of books you can have in your to-read list to five. FIVE.

Still of Michael Jordan from a documentary with him seated, arms raised, with the caption "... and I took that personally."

Jen Myers@antiheroine· Jan 5

In personal news, I went to Disney World, where I made a lightsaber, and Universal Studios, where I thoroughly enjoyed the Dark Universe land, as one who knows me might expect. THE END.

Me, a white woman with long dark hair, holding out a bright purpleish lightsaber.

Me, a white woman with long dark hair, posing with hands clasped next to a skeleton in a long, hooded cloak with its hands clasped over the hilt of a sword.

Jen Myers@antiheroine· Nov 3

I just checked and turns out Chicago is still the best city.

The view from the Chicago Red Line station Bryn Mawr with tracks in the foreground, the buildings of the Edgewater neighborhood and a pastel sunset sky.

Jen Myers@antiheroine· Oct 31

My log has something to tell you.

Me, a white woman with long brown hair, wearing a mottled brown sweater, brown skirt and red-rimmed eyeglasses, holding a pillow shaped like a log.

Jen Myers@antiheroine· Oct 28

The offspring and I have ritually mutilated this year's gourd sacrifices, set them aflame and displayed their grinning visages to the neighborhood (this post works best if you read it in the voice of the Ghost Host from the Haunted Mansion, sorry probably should have mentioned that first).