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CDMatthew
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Actor, singer, tourism guy, LGBTQ+, Boston resident, movie hound, Bobcat, worshipper of The Divine Sarah Vaughan, reader and writer of things, and Oxford comma stickler. Opinions here are mine & likely not fully formed. On Insta as matthewlooksaround.
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CDMatthew @cdmatthew.bsky.social · Nov 23
This poem by William Stafford means so much to me. “Smoke Signals: A Dedication” opened Stafford’s book A Glass Face in the Rain, from 1982.

I hope it speaks to you, all of you who are going through the world, building your little fires.

#poetry #poets #writing #williamstafford
William Stafford’s poem “Smoke Signals: A Dedication” There are people on a parallel way. We do not see them often, or even think of them often, but it is precious to us that they are sharing the world. Something about how they have accepted their lives, or how the sunlight happens to them, helps us to hold the strange, enigmatic days in line for our own living. It is important that these people know this recognition, but it is also important that no purpose or obligation related to this be intruded into their lives. This book intends to be for anyone, but especially for those on that parallel way: here is a smoke signal, unmistakable but unobtrusive—we are following what comes, going through the world, knowing each other, building our little fires.
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'Bye bye season pass': Alamo Drafthouse fans hate theater's new phone policy www.chron.com/culture/arti...
Alamo Drafthouse's new phone policy has fans frustrated, confused
Phone usage in theaters is worse than ever. So why is Alamo Drafthouse not trying to stand out?
www.chron.com
January 13, 2026 at 10:40 PM
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Alamo Drafthouse is effectively abandoning its strict no-phones policy by introducing mobile ordering, normalizing phone use and weakening theater etiquette protections.
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January 10, 2026 at 9:58 AM
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A truly terrible decision by @alamodrafthouse.bsky.social, Sony Entertainment, and Drafthouse CEO Michael Kustermann.
January 12, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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some thoughts on all of this madness from earlier in the morning youtu.be/-yUi-0vNlDA
Donald Trump’s War in Venezuela (Congratulations to the Winners of the “Fell for it Again Award”)
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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January 3, 2026 at 9:40 PM
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Trump just did a 45-minute speech in 20 minutes.
chrisgeidner.bsky.social Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · Dec 18
"there has never been anything like this."

honestly, he is right on that.
trump in the christmas room
December 18, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Trump unleashes a blistering campaign speech against his general election opponent, President Joe Biden.
December 18, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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There has been far less coverage of Trump's corruption than I would have liked this year; nevertheless he is paying for it in polls.

2 summary stories today, plus huge development.

New Yorker:

www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...
The Year in Trump Cashing In
In 2025, the President’s family has been making bank in myriad ways, many of which involve crypto and foreign money.
www.newyorker.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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jamellebouie.net
very weird feeling watching a seemingly coked out president yell at you for 20 minutes straight
December 18, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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It was my sincerest hope that we'd be tossing actual ICE agents into the harbor, but I guess this was also fine.
Protesters dump ice into Boston Harbor over federal immigration policies
On the 252nd anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, demonstrators threw ice into the Boston Harbor to protest the Trump administration's immigration policies.
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December 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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My brief review of KILL BILL: THE WHOOE BLOODY AFFAIR is below.

More reviews at my Letterboxed page: boxd.it/oqNH

#filmsky 📽️
December 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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My face when Fallon is the only one remaining
Fallon from THE PRESTIGE looking stunned
September 18, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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My [brief] review of THE LONG WALK is below.

📽️ #filmsky
Brief review of THE LONG WALK movie: Walking. Talking. Shooting. What a grim fuckin’ downer.
September 14, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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What the fuck is the point of paying money to a police department if they won’t protect people from hostile masked kidnappers?
June 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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trishanderton.bsky.social
This is seriously creepy. My god. Her entire comms staff should either quit or be fired, depending.

Also I need this as an SNL skit.
keithedwards.bsky.social Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · May 31
Against all odds, Joni Ernst has made it worse
May 31, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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My brief review of BRING HER BACK.

More reviews on my @letterboxd.social page:

boxd.it/oqNH

📽️ #filmsky
My brief review of the film BRING HER BACK: Deeply unsettling—bordering on perverse—and unrelentingly grim, BRING HER BACK is more a dark, suspenseful meditation on grief and its suppression than a bona fide horror movie. Though it contains several shocks and quease-inducing gore, there’s not a chuckle to be had in its entire running time. It’s beautifully shot, and yet feels suffocatingly oppressive. With Sally Hawkins as a crazed, manipulative monster of a foster mother, and three young actors whose portrayals of suffering are so convincing as to be nearly unbearable.
May 31, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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This is one of my favorite photos of Mother and me. It was the last time I ever saw her sober, about 1991. There’s a clarity about her here and a sparkle in her eyes that had been a rarity in preceding years, and was never to be seen again subsequently.

#happymothersday #mother #bigmama #marilyn
A photo, circa 1991, of my mother and me.
May 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Increasingly, America under that guy resembles North Korea. Let’s prevent that, shall we?

www.nokings.org

#wearetheflood
May 8, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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@maddow.msnbc.com Ambassador of Hope, thank you. And thanks @cdmatthew.bsky.social
May 8, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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every year on patriots' day we commemorate the “here comes the pizza” incident from 2007, in which don orsillo and the late great jerry remy grow increasingly deranged trying to understand the motives of the man who hurled a slice of pizza at a guy attempting to catch a foul ball
#redsox 🍕 ⚾️
April 21, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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I didn’t expect to find out about the pope’s death in a Signal chat with Pete Hegseth
April 21, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Here's another example from today. This is becoming a thing.
rachelbitecofer.bsky.social Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · Apr 20
CEO of The Federalist is opening calling on Trump to defy the Supreme Court.
April 20, 2025 at 7:41 PM
cdmatthew.bsky.social
‘Easter Morning’ by William Stafford

#poetry #poem
Easter Morning by William Stafford Maybe someone comes to the door and says, "Repent," and you say, "Come on in," and it's Jesus. That's when all you ever did, or said, or even thought, suddenly wakes up again and sings out, "I'm still here," and you know it's true. You just shiver alive and are left standing there suddenly brought to account: saved. Except, maybe that someone says, "I've got a deal for you." And you listen, because that's how you're trained—they told you, "Always hear both sides." So then the slick voice can sell you anything, even Hell, which is what you're getting by listening. Well, what should you do? I'd say always go to the door, yes, but keep the screen locked. Then, while you hold the Bible in one hand, lean forward and say carefully, "Jesus?"
April 20, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Matt Zoller Seitz writes eloquently about Cronenberg’s latest, ‘The Shrouds’ at @ebertvoices.bsky.social.

🎥 #filmsky
April 19, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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My brief review of the movie ‘Sinners’, written and directed by Ryan Coogler.

More reviews at my page on @letterboxd.social:

boxd.it/9ruWXZ

🎥 #filmsky
My brief review of the movie ‘Sinners’: An audacious vampire horror film by Ryan Coogler that’s also a showcase for Michael B. Jordan in multiple roles. The movie manages to examine (and embody) the horrors of Black people’s experience in America; it also, astonishingly, uses extended musical and dance sequences to advance the film’s growing sense of unease and terror. Yes, it’s A LOT, and Coogler’s ambitiousness ends up feeling like overreach at times, with perhaps one too many metaphors.  But it’s hard to think of another recent film that comes close to the daring of SINNERS.
April 19, 2025 at 2:56 PM