Mark Carlile
@chapmansfriend.bsky.social
Lapsed history prof.
Likes: Marquette sports, baseball, Reading FC, music, movies, TV
Dislikes: fascism
Likes: Marquette sports, baseball, Reading FC, music, movies, TV
Dislikes: fascism
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I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
December 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
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If you want to take one thing away from the art of the New Deal it is - in my humble opinion - that throwing money at *NORMAL* artists to decorate public buildings makes the world a much nicer place, particularly if you charge them with making the decorations evoke the history of where they are.
December 19, 2025 at 5:08 AM
If you want to take one thing away from the art of the New Deal it is - in my humble opinion - that throwing money at *NORMAL* artists to decorate public buildings makes the world a much nicer place, particularly if you charge them with making the decorations evoke the history of where they are.
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also like. we did. the us is scattered with new deal monumental architecture
It's easy to dunk on liberals with something like 'why can't liberalism build anything as interesting as Soviet towers or Mussolini's monuments' but the more interesting question is the opposite, why does everyone with strong opinions on monumental architecture turn out to be politically insane.
December 19, 2025 at 4:34 AM
also like. we did. the us is scattered with new deal monumental architecture
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so much talk about whether the odyssey film is "historically accurate" and i'm just like, you know it's fiction right. it's made up. it never actually happened.
December 18, 2025 at 11:11 PM
so much talk about whether the odyssey film is "historically accurate" and i'm just like, you know it's fiction right. it's made up. it never actually happened.
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Jane Austen used 'however' at the beginning of a sentence, and so can you.
December 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Jane Austen used 'however' at the beginning of a sentence, and so can you.
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Dec 16th 1994 - The date that Jesse and Céline agreed to meet each other again, 6 months after spending the night in each others company
📽️📅 Before Sunrise (1995)
📽️📅 Before Sunrise (1995)
December 16, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Dec 16th 1994 - The date that Jesse and Céline agreed to meet each other again, 6 months after spending the night in each others company
📽️📅 Before Sunrise (1995)
📽️📅 Before Sunrise (1995)
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I think it's kind of beautiful that this was Rob Reiner's final line on television
December 15, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I think it's kind of beautiful that this was Rob Reiner's final line on television
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Just to get ahead of this: Print the post out and bring it to the next Mike Johnson presser. You already know what his move will be. There’s no excuse to not be prepared for it.
December 15, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Just to get ahead of this: Print the post out and bring it to the next Mike Johnson presser. You already know what his move will be. There’s no excuse to not be prepared for it.
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Ignore "North" and "American President" as next. That's 8-out-of-9 at the HIGHEST level. To be maybe our greatest rom-com director and throw in a Top 10 coming-of-age movie, an impeccable claustrophobic thriller, perfectly handled Sorkin, THE seminal mockumentary...
All ENDLESSLY rewatchable.
All ENDLESSLY rewatchable.
This has to be one of the greatest runs any director has ever experienced.
December 15, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Ignore "North" and "American President" as next. That's 8-out-of-9 at the HIGHEST level. To be maybe our greatest rom-com director and throw in a Top 10 coming-of-age movie, an impeccable claustrophobic thriller, perfectly handled Sorkin, THE seminal mockumentary...
All ENDLESSLY rewatchable.
All ENDLESSLY rewatchable.
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The Clash’s “London Calling” was released on this date in 1979.
December 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM
The Clash’s “London Calling” was released on this date in 1979.
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Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
December 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
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A (quite) young movie lover said to me recently, "Not everybody can afford a DVD player," and I said "How much do you think a DVD player costs?"
He said, "I don't know, like $500?"
Those of us who advocate physical media are maybe not doing the best job of messaging.
He said, "I don't know, like $500?"
Those of us who advocate physical media are maybe not doing the best job of messaging.
December 13, 2025 at 4:15 AM
A (quite) young movie lover said to me recently, "Not everybody can afford a DVD player," and I said "How much do you think a DVD player costs?"
He said, "I don't know, like $500?"
Those of us who advocate physical media are maybe not doing the best job of messaging.
He said, "I don't know, like $500?"
Those of us who advocate physical media are maybe not doing the best job of messaging.
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conservatives now have become the “umm is there a sportsball on?” demographic. complete soy right takeover
December 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
conservatives now have become the “umm is there a sportsball on?” demographic. complete soy right takeover
My favorite challenge was Week 31, “True(?) Story”; all my watches were also “Two Word Titles” (Week 36)
1: “Nouvelle Vague”
TRUE(?) STORY OF: Filming “Breathless” in 1959
Richard Linklater directs and has fun with the premise that Godard had no idea what he was doing but it turned out great anyway
1: “Nouvelle Vague”
TRUE(?) STORY OF: Filming “Breathless” in 1959
Richard Linklater directs and has fun with the premise that Godard had no idea what he was doing but it turned out great anyway
December 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
My favorite challenge was Week 31, “True(?) Story”; all my watches were also “Two Word Titles” (Week 36)
1: “Nouvelle Vague”
TRUE(?) STORY OF: Filming “Breathless” in 1959
Richard Linklater directs and has fun with the premise that Godard had no idea what he was doing but it turned out great anyway
1: “Nouvelle Vague”
TRUE(?) STORY OF: Filming “Breathless” in 1959
Richard Linklater directs and has fun with the premise that Godard had no idea what he was doing but it turned out great anyway
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I don’t mind saying and I think you’ll believe me that the 1984 Oscar for Best Supporting Actress should have gone to, jointly, Lynn Mabry and Ednah Holt for Stop Making Sense.
December 13, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I don’t mind saying and I think you’ll believe me that the 1984 Oscar for Best Supporting Actress should have gone to, jointly, Lynn Mabry and Ednah Holt for Stop Making Sense.
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It’s often said that too many political writers cover politics as if it’s sports. Actually they cover politics as if they are bad at covering sports
lol wut. dropping from 42 percent approval to 36 percent approval seems pretty significant. apnews.com/article/trum...
December 11, 2025 at 7:45 PM
It’s often said that too many political writers cover politics as if it’s sports. Actually they cover politics as if they are bad at covering sports
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Dec 11th 1983 - Rollergirl catches up with an old classmate, Dirk Diggler makes a new friend, and Buck Swope stops for donuts.
📽️📅 Boogie Nights (1997)
📽️📅 Boogie Nights (1997)
December 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Dec 11th 1983 - Rollergirl catches up with an old classmate, Dirk Diggler makes a new friend, and Buck Swope stops for donuts.
📽️📅 Boogie Nights (1997)
📽️📅 Boogie Nights (1997)
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i read stuff like this and can genuinely angry at guys like jd vance who insist that this country belongs to some narrow vision of the "native born"
December 9, 2025 at 11:58 PM
i read stuff like this and can genuinely angry at guys like jd vance who insist that this country belongs to some narrow vision of the "native born"
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It’s genuinely unbelievable how much the average right winger’s conception of history is based on post-war American advertising of the mid 20th century
Terminally online Right wingers are telling on themselves
December 8, 2025 at 6:47 PM
It’s genuinely unbelievable how much the average right winger’s conception of history is based on post-war American advertising of the mid 20th century
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Tired: I hope Netflix doesn’t ruin DC just as it finally got its shit together
Wired: if they fuck up The Pitt there will be no mercy and no peace
Wired: if they fuck up The Pitt there will be no mercy and no peace
December 8, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Tired: I hope Netflix doesn’t ruin DC just as it finally got its shit together
Wired: if they fuck up The Pitt there will be no mercy and no peace
Wired: if they fuck up The Pitt there will be no mercy and no peace
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December 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM
1: “Uncle Buck.” John Candy gets called in to house-sit and look after his brother’s kids for a week. Buck has a slightly harder edge than Del Griffith, but basically they’re the same outsider with a heart of gold. Also has Macaulay Culkin about a year before he became the biggest kid star in years
December 6, 2025 at 5:09 PM
1: “Uncle Buck.” John Candy gets called in to house-sit and look after his brother’s kids for a week. Buck has a slightly harder edge than Del Griffith, but basically they’re the same outsider with a heart of gold. Also has Macaulay Culkin about a year before he became the biggest kid star in years
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More and more are saying Christmas Vacation is a Marxist critique of capitalism badfaithtimes.com/christmas-va...
December 6, 2025 at 1:18 PM
More and more are saying Christmas Vacation is a Marxist critique of capitalism badfaithtimes.com/christmas-va...