Christopher Dole
@chrisdole86.bsky.social
Colorado hiker boy, classical pianist, and writer. Co-Creator of ARDEN, host of MY BIG SCORE, #1 fan of FANTASIA
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A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
November 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
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The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
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Directed a production of The Real Inspector Hound in college, that's some good silly fun. Definitely went through a period where Stoppard was my guy. No one had a command of language quite like him. RIP.
November 29, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Directed a production of The Real Inspector Hound in college, that's some good silly fun. Definitely went through a period where Stoppard was my guy. No one had a command of language quite like him. RIP.
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An incredible loss.
Make a list of the man’s masterpieces. Then look up everything he wrote. Guaranteed that you’ll slap your forehead multiple times, not believing what you left out.
The world is so much dimmer for not having this mind’s light here with us.
Make a list of the man’s masterpieces. Then look up everything he wrote. Guaranteed that you’ll slap your forehead multiple times, not believing what you left out.
The world is so much dimmer for not having this mind’s light here with us.
November 29, 2025 at 6:21 PM
An incredible loss.
Make a list of the man’s masterpieces. Then look up everything he wrote. Guaranteed that you’ll slap your forehead multiple times, not believing what you left out.
The world is so much dimmer for not having this mind’s light here with us.
Make a list of the man’s masterpieces. Then look up everything he wrote. Guaranteed that you’ll slap your forehead multiple times, not believing what you left out.
The world is so much dimmer for not having this mind’s light here with us.
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Leave little Saruman alone.
Some of those dogs at the dog show are just obscene abominations unto the lord.
November 28, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Leave little Saruman alone.
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Hegseth wasn't chosen as merely a Fox News buffoon who then bumbles his way into war crimes out of machismo incompetence. He was chosen specifically because he is, and has been for a long time, a proud, open, and explicit advocate of war crimes as a good thing we should do.
A chapter in Hegseth’s book is literally titled “More Lethality, Less Lawyers.”
It’s almost as if there were signs!
It’s almost as if there were signs!
November 29, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Hegseth wasn't chosen as merely a Fox News buffoon who then bumbles his way into war crimes out of machismo incompetence. He was chosen specifically because he is, and has been for a long time, a proud, open, and explicit advocate of war crimes as a good thing we should do.
A boardroom in Los Angeles, the late 80s.
"Consider: mice. We all know two things about them. One, they're not bikers Two, they're not from Mars. But, gentlemen, consider the possibilities: what if they *were*?"
"Consider: mice. We all know two things about them. One, they're not bikers Two, they're not from Mars. But, gentlemen, consider the possibilities: what if they *were*?"
November 29, 2025 at 3:10 AM
A boardroom in Los Angeles, the late 80s.
"Consider: mice. We all know two things about them. One, they're not bikers Two, they're not from Mars. But, gentlemen, consider the possibilities: what if they *were*?"
"Consider: mice. We all know two things about them. One, they're not bikers Two, they're not from Mars. But, gentlemen, consider the possibilities: what if they *were*?"
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The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
November 28, 2025 at 11:21 PM
The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
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this is the type of gadget a man would use to murder his wife in an episode of Columbo set in 2025
November 28, 2025 at 9:58 PM
this is the type of gadget a man would use to murder his wife in an episode of Columbo set in 2025
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JK Rowling got a full *decade* of press as a martyr for being "cancelled" (declared passe by people online) and meanwhile nobody considers it very interesting that a prominent left wing author is basically banned from entering or publishing in the United Kingdom for her politics
so this is like, one of the biggest free speech infringements by a western democracy in our lifetimes right?
November 28, 2025 at 12:22 AM
JK Rowling got a full *decade* of press as a martyr for being "cancelled" (declared passe by people online) and meanwhile nobody considers it very interesting that a prominent left wing author is basically banned from entering or publishing in the United Kingdom for her politics
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with all disrespect to the brands, 30% off is really not all that exciting in this economy
November 28, 2025 at 7:34 PM
with all disrespect to the brands, 30% off is really not all that exciting in this economy
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Another work WUDM feels very in-conversation with is The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (not just in the importance of lying by omission, but in other structural and character points), and I'd be very interested to hear Johnson talk about that at some point.
There's a piece to be written once Wake Up Dead Man is in wider release about how the Rian Johnson film it's most in conversation with is The Last Jedi (and I don't mean the very silly SW reference it makes, nor its focus on media-inspired anger), and I will be very interested to read it
November 28, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Another work WUDM feels very in-conversation with is The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (not just in the importance of lying by omission, but in other structural and character points), and I'd be very interested to hear Johnson talk about that at some point.
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A random community theatre manager in suburban Minnesota, having just watched a bunch of children casually destroy each other, when the smart one with the blanket says “Lights, please?”: *cracks knuckles* Okay, on me, spot up on Van Pelt.
November 28, 2025 at 12:19 AM
A random community theatre manager in suburban Minnesota, having just watched a bunch of children casually destroy each other, when the smart one with the blanket says “Lights, please?”: *cracks knuckles* Okay, on me, spot up on Van Pelt.
Post something random or you'll have an awful December.
November 27, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Post something random or you'll have an awful December.
That groundhog comes to some kind of important revelation at the end of this video
Big news! The groundhog is back at my sister's and she gave him a plum
November 27, 2025 at 8:46 PM
That groundhog comes to some kind of important revelation at the end of this video
DC KO #2: the running bit of Guy ALMOST getting his hands on one of the artifacts only for it to be repeatedly snatched away was very funny, good use of Guy in this type of event
November 27, 2025 at 7:54 AM
DC KO #2: the running bit of Guy ALMOST getting his hands on one of the artifacts only for it to be repeatedly snatched away was very funny, good use of Guy in this type of event
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i’m so happy for him
November 26, 2025 at 10:48 PM
i’m so happy for him
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We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
November 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
There's a piece to be written once Wake Up Dead Man is in wider release about how the Rian Johnson film it's most in conversation with is The Last Jedi (and I don't mean the very silly SW reference it makes, nor its focus on media-inspired anger), and I will be very interested to read it
November 27, 2025 at 2:46 AM
There's a piece to be written once Wake Up Dead Man is in wider release about how the Rian Johnson film it's most in conversation with is The Last Jedi (and I don't mean the very silly SW reference it makes, nor its focus on media-inspired anger), and I will be very interested to read it
Really fun moment in Wake Up Dead Man when it seems for a second like they're straight-up doing Murder of Roger Ackroyd and then you remember "Wait there's still like an hour left in this thing that can't be it"
November 26, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Really fun moment in Wake Up Dead Man when it seems for a second like they're straight-up doing Murder of Roger Ackroyd and then you remember "Wait there's still like an hour left in this thing that can't be it"
Josh O'Connor amazing in Wake Up Dead Man (and is also The Lead, arguably even more than Ana De Armas was in Knives Out), which for all its grisly gothic atmosphere is somehow the most intimate and small-scale of the three Benoit Blanc films
November 26, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Josh O'Connor amazing in Wake Up Dead Man (and is also The Lead, arguably even more than Ana De Armas was in Knives Out), which for all its grisly gothic atmosphere is somehow the most intimate and small-scale of the three Benoit Blanc films
Rian kicked off this Q&A by saying everyone on stage “had had a few small beers”
November 26, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Rian kicked off this Q&A by saying everyone on stage “had had a few small beers”
Now seated for Wake Up Dead Man, with a Q&A by the great composer Nathan Johnson (and also his cousin, some schmuck named… Roy? Ryan? Who knows)
November 26, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Now seated for Wake Up Dead Man, with a Q&A by the great composer Nathan Johnson (and also his cousin, some schmuck named… Roy? Ryan? Who knows)