Q: Do you think there is only one person who plays Gritty the mascot? Or do multiple people with different specialties play him? (i.e. ice skating, cake throwing, parkour, wire work) A: It’s so cute that you think there’s a person in there.

The Carolina Hurricanes' away jersey is really kinda ugly

i haven't done much book promoting lately, but hey! Buy my book from Temple U Press tupress.temple.edu/books/all-pl...

POV you're a pizza roll in my microwave

Dying. I have to repair my relationship with my wife. But only during the third day of the draft, the first two days are more important than my wife

If you know, you know....

I am an extremely brilliant person

Clerk at store ringing-up a six-pack of beer: I was going to ask you for your ID, but... Me: The grey hair? Clerk: *nods* Me: *sighs*

My Friday night

Frank Chance said the same thing about Tinker and Evers to the Chicago Tribune in 1907

Starts tonight!!!!

shout out to the students taking full advantage of our new bulletin boards

WE ARE FUCNINGBACK

it'll be back in three days

Of course I got this on the first try. Can't trip my Philly up

When Trump says Leo only became Pope because the Church "thought that would be the best way to deal with Donald J. Trump," that's not entirely wrong. But that's kind of like Hitler taking credit for the Manhattan Project. Without him, it wouldn't have happened, true. Not something to brag about.

The gift bag for the conference has a "conference bingo card," so come to our panel where I can personally help you knock out six squares on your card

Me, @wickettred.bsky.social + @pgagliardi.bsky.social are fittna blow the lid off of the pop culture conference at the most nightmarish hotel in all of Atlanta, GA with our biopics panel. Me going on about La Bamba Heather: Bennett Miller's Capote Paul: The White Swan 1:15 p.m. in the BACKROOMS

@flyperbole.bsky.social Did you happen to see that former Phantom Dave MacIssac signed a "celebrity contract" with the Danbury Hat Tricks of the FPHL this past weekend? I guess he played in a game?

No episode this week, but make sure to check out this list of a few of my favorite things! Including work by @dandock.bsky.social, @popculturebasement.bsky.social, @favoritebadmovie.bsky.social, @remembershufffle.bsky.social, @pgagliardi.bsky.social and more! Something new next week!

Sending out messages via pigeon this morning to my Bluesky peeps

If you think about it TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME could count as an Easter movie

Any blueskyers headed to the Pop Culture Association conference this week? If so, come hear me talk about La Bamba, Luis Valdez’s peculiar re-writing of rock ‘n’ roll history, and of course, BOB.

Me as a soccer coach during every halftime to my team

Spell a film you love with the first letters of other films you love Scanners Lost in America All That Heaven Allows Paths of Glory Salesman Heat Ocean's Eleven (2001) The Thin Man

Friendly reminder that I'll be teaching an online class on the history of Warner Bros. that starts in a couple weeks! It will be based on my book, The Warner Brothers, but we'll certainly be discussing the pending merger with Paramount Skydance. More info cinejourneys.com/the-warner-b...

Okay, I think we've gone overboard with the goalie fights now

How your email still finds me:

When you discover one of your dearest colleagues is also a Kids in the Hall fan

When another student tells me they love RAVENOUS

the Rocky statue is dumb chuck it in the Schuylkill

Robert E. Lee got his ass beat at Gettysburg by a professor of rhetoric and oratory from Bowdoin College and generations of reactionary fantasists have died mad about it.

Today I learned that the actor who played Hanrahan in SLAP SHOT was the voice of Elisa Hunt Rhodes in Ken Burns's THE CIVIL WAR @rfcapsmoustache.bsky.social

Me: my competitive streak is pretty much gone after ive stopped playing hockey Also me in a month-long workout total challenge at my gym: I WILL CRUSH YOU KILEEN M. AND GAIL M.

Every parent who has a 13-year old just did a "huh?" look all in unison

Currently hosting a Teams chat with students in my Oscars class, and having a text thread with a bunch of former students about the Oscars, while also posting on here.

Just over here tired from shoveling and making jokes about "Dog Oscars: Best Belly Rub, Best Supporting Walkers, a retrospective of all the toys lost in the past year."

Search your camera roll for “hell”

It’s hard to blame woke DEI when the military is losing a war because of the straits.

You can also read Paul's 2017 @howlround.bsky.social piece on modern adaptations of the play: howlround.com/it-happened-...

For more on IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE onstage, revisit Episode 23 w/ @pgagliardi.bsky.social: traffic.libsyn.com/secure/theat...

I thoroughly enjoyed doing this interview with Tim Queeney about his new book Rope, a microhistory about how rope has been at the heart of human progress (for better or worse) for millennia. We talked research, writing & the importance of microhistories libraryofwonders.substack.com/p/rope-and-r...

Got to appear on What's on Tap yesterday evening to talk Oscars (use my *knowledge* only for good)

Ryan Murphy is Brett Favre without the sexaul harassment and fraud

I got interviewed by my university about my Oscars class, the cultural meaning of the Academy Awards, and I offered some picks too (I made these like a month ago)

So we all want the Sabres vs the Lightning in the playoffs yes?

I once chatted with Michelle Obama's brother in a Milwaukee Starbucks for like 10 minutes

Gordie Howe and Maurice Richard?