Here it is, a very special--& especially supersized—250th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Please add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

Was scrolling through some old photos and forgot I sorta won Halloween six years ago as a pretty on-point Charlie Kelly

I mean there was just a massive Great Gatsby party hosted by Trump so...I dont think they are big on reading comprehension

Look guys I’ve spent the last day playing this over and over again. Don’t read the comments first and stick it through to the second verse. It is in fact one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard.

10/10 NO NOTES

Exciting news. We’ve got a pub date for the 2nd edition of No Common Ground & it’s in paperback! It’ll be out Feb. 1, 2026 & there’s a 30% discount on preorders by using the code 01SOCIAL30. @uncpress.bsky.social

TOE PICK! This week @dartadams.bsky.social & @pgagliardi.bsky.social join in to talk about the Olympics, pop culture, the NBA, sports movie montages, and one of the most quotable films ever made. THE CUTTING EDGE drops NOW on Reckoning with Jason Herbert

Last fall, I had a salivary gland infection that just wrecked me and I wasn't able to sleep, so I spent a lot of nights just sans sleep watching old territory wrestling shows and I saw this and thought I had just fever-dreamed it @rickcity.bsky.social youtu.be/BHHdmzsvTs0?...

@thescrvnr.bsky.social and I are planning to submit a panel to the Pop Culture Assocation conf. on biopics, and we are looking for another paper proposal. She's currently working on LA BAMBA (1988) and I'm thinking of something on Sonja Henne films of the 30s. Interested? Reach out to either of us

@rickcity.bsky.social I know I should be impressed, but I would be impressed if he did something less cliché like "the Iron Claw" www.cagesideseats.com/wwe/394189/d...

On phone with 13 year old- “Dad who was John Brown?” Me:

Fuck the Dodgers

Those were some Web Gems, I tell ya

Happy Halloween from us in our best What We Do in the Shadows costumes

Louis Varland is inventing the Minnesota Hello.

@nickfleisher.bsky.social @jsaquella.bsky.social Just saw Maurice Cheeks at a Starbucks in Milwaukee

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford, 1962) @chrisyogerst.com

Gary Larson dropping Cow Tools in 1982

@rickcity.bsky.social OKAY BLUE JAYS. LET'S. PLAY. BALL

rip alfred hitchcock you would've loved saying "go birds"

She's not having it

When you make that scene from THE CROWD look quaint

@thescrvnr.bsky.social and I are planning to submit a panel to the Pop Culture Assocation conf. on biopics, and we are looking for another paper proposal. She's currently working on LA BAMBA (1988) and I'm thinking of something on Sonja Henne films of the 30s. Interested? Reach out to either of us

Today I learned that @thatbilloakley.com has been to Culver's and did not invite me to guide him on the menu

at this time of year?! at this time of day?! in this part of the country?!

@riyeff.bsky.social Someone made a version of "Steamed Hams" that's a parody of MY DINNER WITH ANDRE youtu.be/pk-Oq8iYtVA?...

I'm starting a new research project and if you happen to know anyone who skated in any traveling ice show -- such as the Ice Capades, the Ice Follies, Holidays on Ice, etc -- and they would be willing to be interviewed by yours truly, send me a DM :)

@ashleyrattner.bsky.social (Me and my wife catching up on Real Housewives SLC after taking a break) Me: DID HE JUST ORDER AN OLD-FASHIONED WITH TEQUILA??? WHAT THE.. My wife: He owns the tequila company.. Me: Ohhhh yeah

Sisyphus, 700 BCE to present

spaghetti squash just straight flexing on other vegetables like, don’t fuck with me, i can be noodles

Call me the president of NBC in 2009 the way I'm saying "No Kings"

My new book FAST AND FURIOUS FRANCHISING: HOW THE SERIALIZED BLOCKBUSTER REMADE HOLLYWOOD is now available for pre-order from @uminnpress.bsky.social!! www.upress.umn.edu/978151792108...

Me whenever one of my sons actually does their chores

Whenever I hear the phrase Thursday Night Football

Okay, New York Times Spelling Bee, I'll make you a deal. Let's each put in a hundred bucks every time you don't recognize the perfectly legitimate word TONTINE, and then whichever of us lives longest gets it.

Sad news everyone, I’m officially pulling the plug on Brightsiders, my super fan podcast for the 2017 movie Bright. I still feel like there were many interesting topics left to discuss but after 7 years of weekly episodes I’ve learned that no one has ever listened to the show.

The leader of the preppie clique in an 80s underdog film whose dad is trying to close down the rec center

New meme format

All three of my kids would have thrown that more accurately. Thats a compliment to no one really

When the Yankees get eliminated

HHH - Sami Zayn - Cody Rhodes @rickcity.bsky.social

I've always been a big Rob Thompson guy and I've always mocked people who call for guys to lose their jobs because of one playoff game, so I'm surprising even myself when I say I am done with him

Regarding the FSU-Virginia game last night, I still maintain that it is only acceptable to storm the court/field when it is 1985 and your team just won the regional title after your star player decided he’d rather be a normal kid rather than a werewolf.

read theory

happy birthday Gritty

I'm starting a new research project and if you happen to know anyone who skated in any traveling ice show -- such as the Ice Capades, the Ice Follies, Holidays on Ice, etc -- and they would be willing to be interviewed by yours truly, send me a DM :)