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Anthony Strand @durwoodclapper.bsky.social · 7h

Who are some of your favorite actors and actresses?

Anthony Strand @durwoodclapper.bsky.social · 7h

Anyway, this is what happened to my car yesterday because I wasn't watching the lights. Astoundingly, I walked away with no broken bones and only minor cuts.

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Anthony Strand @durwoodclapper.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so sorry. Thinking of you!

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Anthony Strand @durwoodclapper.bsky.social · 1d

This is my pledge that I'll never look at my phone while driving again.

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Anthony Strand @durwoodclapper.bsky.social · 2d

Big "I am a surgeon, Dr. Han" from the climactic scene of TWBB

Anthony Strand @durwoodclapper.bsky.social · 2d

I didn't even know I was mad.

Anthony Strand @durwoodclapper.bsky.social · 3d

I don't care for the voice is DDL is doing

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Anthony Strand @durwoodclapper.bsky.social · 3d

On the bright side, I was not expecting There Will Be Blood to contain the sentence "I'm your brother from another mother"

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Anthony Strand @durwoodclapper.bsky.social · 3d

This is my 4th one. I like Punch Drunk Love quite a bit, and I like The Master and Phantom Thread not at all.

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Anthony Strand @durwoodclapper.bsky.social · 3d

I don't enjoy disliking popular things.

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Anthony Strand @durwoodclapper.bsky.social · 3d

It's clear to me that people are genuine in their love of Paul Thomas Anderson's movies, and I truly wish I saw what those people see in them.

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Anthony Strand @durwoodclapper.bsky.social · 3d

I don't care for the program

Anthony Strand @durwoodclapper.bsky.social · 3d

Okay, school's over, so I'm gonna watch There Will Be Blood

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Anthony Strand @durwoodclapper.bsky.social · 4d

I can see it, except that Jo Grant is so not Emma Peel

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Anthony Strand @durwoodclapper.bsky.social · 4d

Tom Baker and Romana I were the Avengers, but Tom Baker and Romana II were Sapphire & Steel

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Anthony Strand @durwoodclapper.bsky.social · 4d

There's still these Perds, these Perds, these Perds

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Anthony Strand @durwoodclapper.bsky.social · 4d

Starfleet Academy TV show looks exactly like a CW show. Take that as a positive or negative as you see fit.

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Anthony Strand @durwoodclapper.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah, I don't love it. Like you say, it's very dull. But it's just *such* a unique artifact.

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Anthony Strand @durwoodclapper.bsky.social · 4d

The Criterion Century #89:

Häxan (dir. Benjamin Christensen, 1922)

letterboxd.com/zeppomarxist...

A ★★★★★ review of Häxan (1922)

The Criterion Century #89: Häxan (dir. Benjamin Christensen, 1922) This movie is split into seven parts, and they're all super interesting. It starts out with a slideshow presentation about the histor...

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Anthony Strand @durwoodclapper.bsky.social · 5d

Diane Keaton is not the 79-year-old whose obituary I hoped I would read today

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Anthony Strand @durwoodclapper.bsky.social · 5d

Kay certainly isn't the Diane Keaton Type we would come to know and love.

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Anthony Strand @durwoodclapper.bsky.social · 5d

My wife went to see Mumford & Sons on Thursday with our niece, and I'm delighted that they had a great time, but now she's been playing Mumford & Sons music all day and none of it sounds like anything.

Simply impossible to remember any of these songs while they're happening, let alone later.

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Anthony Strand @durwoodclapper.bsky.social · 5d

I just found out that Louis Sachar released a novel for adults this year! I can't even imagine what that's like!

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/773581...

The Magician of Tiger Castle by Louis Sachar: 9780593952306 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

• AN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER • AN INDIE NEXT LIST PICK • A LIBRARY READS PICK • The beloved author of Holes presents his first adult novel, a modern fantasy classic of forbidden...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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Anthony Strand @durwoodclapper.bsky.social · 6d

Here's the Batman '66 version of Scarecrow, a character who never appeared on that show but is clearly designed here to look like a cameo guest star in a costume.

Anthony Strand @durwoodclapper.bsky.social · 6d

By the third issue, they're teaming Cheetah up with Clayface, who's just a regular cartoon character. What are we even doing here?

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