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#ComingUpOnTCM MORE DANGEROUS THAN DYNAMITE (1941) 6:45 PM PT Describes how idiots wash their clothes in gasoline, leave hot appliances plugged in, and wear flammable clothing. 10m | Short | TV-G #TCM #TCMParty

I love that VistaVision is now considered a format that signifies prestige because I first learned about it via this Elvis movie

Today must be a clarifying day for Steven Seagal

Me to the other six people there

Saw a conversation about Ordinary People v. Raging Bull so I decided to procrastinate work by diving into 1980 and damn, what a fascinating year. Here is one weekend (Feb. 15) alone:

when Nepo Baby has evolved to mean "child of public figure who exists" it's a term that's lost whatever utility it had

Just realized I'm seeing One Battle After Another during the Bama-Georgia game. If anyone else is there I'll know they're the real PTA heads

free your mind from Shareholder Disease! I cannot think of a less joyful use of brainpower than sitting in a theater wondering "How could this possibly be profitable for WB?"

The best film I saw at (virtual) Sundance this year. Don’t let it get lost in Netflix’s sea of interchangeable true crime thumbnails

Claudia Cardinale and Robert Redford dying in the same week puts the world in a hotness deficit not seen since at least the 19th century

Seems useful to know that, for these companies, responding to a boycott is less impossible than delaying a subscription price increase

My department is looking for a new Chair to hire as a tenured/full professor. We're looking for a scholar and/or creative faculty member in journalism and/or media studies to join and help lead a large, interdisciplinary department that--truly!--gets along very well. careers.ua.edu/jobs/departm...

My department is looking for a new Chair to hire as a tenured/full professor. We're looking for a scholar and/or creative faculty member in journalism and/or media studies to join and help lead a large, interdisciplinary department that--truly!--gets along very well. careers.ua.edu/jobs/departm...

apparently the guy from Rachel Getting Married and Twisters has a band? and they’re really good??

No Texas-themed restaurant is complete without a framed photo of the DFW air traffic control tower

TFW you see @ericdharvey.com’s book out in the wild!

A lot of ink has been spilled over the decades speculating which movie star could be the "next Robert Redford," but it's hard to think of anyone who possessed his specific kind of low-key charisma. Truly a movie star that the camera loved and an actor who knew how to use it.

Ever get pre-exhausted from teaching before the day begins?

There are three animated movies called “Cars” and none of them have anything to do with the Aardman commercials from the 90s. A better world was possible

In 10 years there will be 3 major studios: Disneyfoxiversal, ParamountBrothers, and still Sony for some reason

Debate is a hobby. It’s not a thing you do to understand another person. Listening is a thing you do to understand someone.

Sometimes I think about the teachers in eight grade who did a pretty good job showing me how to discern true and false information on the Internet during the 90s in central TX, and where their politics and understanding of the world somehow ended up

When I scheduled my Covid vax via CVS, their online form asked if I had a condition that made me high risk (the new RFK policy). But it’s just a Yes/No and there were no follow-up questions, online or in-person. So just click Yes and get yourself protected.

Yeesh. I, uh, did not archive my stuff. 7 years of writing gone. Oops!

What’s so pernicious about the “it’s not in the course description” claim is that it follows a coordinated political campaign to remove verboten words from course descriptions. The goal here is clear, and treating this like a legitimate issue means you either share that goal or you’re a stooge

Well now you have to make a Gore Vidal stamp then

If *your department head and your dean* can be removed for supporting your colleague in teaching in their area of expertise, then you have no academic freedom. In a functional sense, you don't work at a university at all.

This really hits the nail on the head re: the Dems’ key strategic error they keep making: they’re willing to acquiesce to Republican policies but not adopt Republican tactics, when the lesson they should have learned should be exactly the opposite

This might be my finest recent activity

Oh HELL yes

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

Very curious to know how Highest 2 Lowest is actually doing in theaters. It’s gearing up for week 3 in Tuscaloosa

This should be a museum

Ok, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings remake, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:

I wanted to organize a labor/union screening series at my previous job for...reasons. Never happened, but I made this list for it

90% certain this poster was designed to be confused as an ad for Apple Music

So many adults have to fail a child before he ends up 10 years old telling CNN about the mass shooting he lived through this morning

Just submitted a roundtable proposal on needle drops for #SCMS26 with @landonpalmer.bsky.social + @askjerseth.bsky.social + Seth Mulliken + Jennifer Smart. Hope to see y’all in Chicago!

if your e-mail contains the phrase "innovation depot" that's an automatic delete from me

You've heard of Noir-vember, but what about Silent September? (Which, tbc, I just made up.) Only watch silent films all month. I might give it a shot!

The lesson from the last 5 years seems to be: 1) the theatrical business has contracted and won't return to 2019 levels, but 2) streaming is no one-to-one substitute. Contra industry wisdom, theatrical can augment streaming -- one doesn't take from the other www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

"It’s not inevitable. History doesn’t just happen. People, organizations, and institutions make it happen. There’s always time to change things. Even once a technology or a set of practices becomes entrenched, it can still be changed. That’s real revolution." www.fastcompany.com/91384078/not...

Their memorials are history. Ours are political. Because as always, there are two sexualities - straight, and political. Two genders - male, and political. Two religions - Christian, and political. Two races - white, and political.

As someone raised in a culture James Dobson fostered and trying to raise a kid in a different one, I searched for some worthwhile things to read today and found this. Beautiful words on moving beyond a culture of punishment, from preschools to prisons. sojo.net/articles/sor...

Nice series of interviews with Spike Lee's longterm below-the-line crew right here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WZr...

My job as a professor is not to create a serviceable worker. My job is to help foster thoughtful citizens or community members. If that sounds fanciful it’s bc corporate interests have spent decades framing how we talk about education so they don’t take the heat for immiserating labor conditions.

Professor says out loud that there is a lack of free speech at the university. The university then responds with sanctions. www.indystar.com/story/news/e...