John Brooks
@johnbrooks.bsky.social
Pod Only Knows: https://bit.ly/447CUOH
1999 the Podcast: http://bit.ly/3I211ql
Religious studies person
Abolish ICE, DHS, and golf
BLM
Anti-fascism forever
Trans rights are human rights
Red Sox and Crystal Palace diehard
He/Him
1999 the Podcast: http://bit.ly/3I211ql
Religious studies person
Abolish ICE, DHS, and golf
BLM
Anti-fascism forever
Trans rights are human rights
Red Sox and Crystal Palace diehard
He/Him
Pinned
This week, @kellyjbaker.bsky.social and @johnbrooks.bsky.social welcome @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social to discuss her book "Selling Out Santa: Hollywood Christmas Films in the Age of McCarthy"
Listen here or wherever you get podcasts!
Listen here or wherever you get podcasts!
#060 - Selling Out Santa - with Vaughn Joy by Pod Only Knows
Researcher Vaughn Joy discusses the Cold War era evolution of Christmas movies with her book "Selling Out Santa"
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You should listen to this because Vaughn is smart and I make the argument that "Elf" only exists because of "Miracle on 34th Street".
Tiny Tim: Who DID NOT Die vampire spinoff
tiny tim is dead guys
December 26, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Tiny Tim: Who DID NOT Die vampire spinoff
Trump breaks Kennedy Centers Honors viewing records in numbers that aren't even close and frankly nobody thought was possible! 🇺🇲
Congratulations to Senile Satan. The lowest rated Kennedy Center Honors in history.
www.thedailybeast.com//donald-trump-humiliated-as-he-scores-lowest-kennedy-center-honors-ratings-ever/?via=ios
www.thedailybeast.com//donald-trump-humiliated-as-he-scores-lowest-kennedy-center-honors-ratings-ever/?via=ios
Trump Humiliated as He Scores Lowest Kennedy Center Ratings Ever
Trump had boasted that “just about everybody” in America requested he host the Kennedy Center Honors.
www.thedailybeast.com
December 26, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Trump breaks Kennedy Centers Honors viewing records in numbers that aren't even close and frankly nobody thought was possible! 🇺🇲
We need to get better at treating far fewer things like a business, absolutely including businesses
“Like Prime, but with human beings.”
December 26, 2025 at 4:04 AM
We need to get better at treating far fewer things like a business, absolutely including businesses
It is absolutely imperative that this person outlive Donald Trump
December 26, 2025 at 4:03 AM
It is absolutely imperative that this person outlive Donald Trump
Happy Boxing Day Eve, everyone
December 26, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Happy Boxing Day Eve, everyone
Wow all that while ALSO spending quality time with his loved ones and honoring the birth of our lord and savior Jesus Christ like the devoted Christian family man he definitely is?!?!?
Truly a man without limits. Sleepy Joe could never.
Truly a man without limits. Sleepy Joe could never.
President Donald Trump gifted the world with nearly 200 Truth Social posts (and counting) on Christmas Day, where he amplified conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and called for a member of Congress to be deported.
Trump Posts Nearly 200 Times in Unhinged Christmas Day Spree
The president amplified conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and called for a member of Congress to be deported.
trib.al
December 26, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Wow all that while ALSO spending quality time with his loved ones and honoring the birth of our lord and savior Jesus Christ like the devoted Christian family man he definitely is?!?!?
Truly a man without limits. Sleepy Joe could never.
Truly a man without limits. Sleepy Joe could never.
Merry Christmas, my Blueskies!
December 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Merry Christmas, my Blueskies!
Getting into some traditional Christmas literature
December 25, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Getting into some traditional Christmas literature
Tiny Tim's full name is Tineothy Timothy
December 25, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Tiny Tim's full name is Tineothy Timothy
The funniest thing about Transgender for Everyone - a genuinely insane thing that he has just decided he's going to say all the time now - is that if everyone were transgender then nobody would be transgender because then we'd just call it gender.
Merry Christmas to all, except demented child rapists that are doing everything possible to destroy our Country…
December 25, 2025 at 5:18 AM
The funniest thing about Transgender for Everyone - a genuinely insane thing that he has just decided he's going to say all the time now - is that if everyone were transgender then nobody would be transgender because then we'd just call it gender.
Reposted by John Brooks
Merry Christmas I hope you get a Super Nintendo
Super Nintendo Entertainment System – 1991 Commercial
YouTube video by Nintendo of America
youtu.be
December 25, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Merry Christmas I hope you get a Super Nintendo
This would absolutely not work.
Scrooge was redeemable because he was a man broken by the circumstances of his life and the choices he made to navigate those circumstances.
Miller has just always been a psychopath. He would have all three ghosts sent to CECOT.
Scrooge was redeemable because he was a man broken by the circumstances of his life and the choices he made to navigate those circumstances.
Miller has just always been a psychopath. He would have all three ghosts sent to CECOT.
Sending three ghosts tonight to fuck up Stephen Miller.
December 25, 2025 at 4:55 AM
This would absolutely not work.
Scrooge was redeemable because he was a man broken by the circumstances of his life and the choices he made to navigate those circumstances.
Miller has just always been a psychopath. He would have all three ghosts sent to CECOT.
Scrooge was redeemable because he was a man broken by the circumstances of his life and the choices he made to navigate those circumstances.
Miller has just always been a psychopath. He would have all three ghosts sent to CECOT.
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I have some important follow-up questions about the chronology of events here
I have some important follow-up questions about the chronology of events here
December 25, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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I have some important follow-up questions about the chronology of events here
I have some important follow-up questions about the chronology of events here
"Just who does this *checks notes* literal Vicar of Christ on Earth think he is?!?!?!"
December 25, 2025 at 4:39 AM
"Just who does this *checks notes* literal Vicar of Christ on Earth think he is?!?!?!"
Just rewatched the 1994 "Little Women" and can confirm, yes, it is the best Christmas movie
Merry Christmas! Looking for something new to add to your holiday movie rotation? Join Julia and John as they each choose 5 alternative Christmas movies.
Here or wherever you get podcasts!
Here or wherever you get podcasts!
See Also: A VERY ALTERNATIVE CHRISTMAS by 1999: The Podcast
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December 24, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Just rewatched the 1994 "Little Women" and can confirm, yes, it is the best Christmas movie
Reposted by John Brooks
Ho ho ho!
Merry Christmas! Looking for something new to add to your holiday movie rotation? Join Julia and John as they each choose 5 alternative Christmas movies.
Here or wherever you get podcasts!
Here or wherever you get podcasts!
See Also: A VERY ALTERNATIVE CHRISTMAS by 1999: The Podcast
cms.megaphone.fm
December 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Ho ho ho!
Ho ho ho!
Merry Christmas! Looking for something new to add to your holiday movie rotation? Join Julia and John as they each choose 5 alternative Christmas movies.
Here or wherever you get podcasts!
Here or wherever you get podcasts!
See Also: A VERY ALTERNATIVE CHRISTMAS by 1999: The Podcast
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December 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Ho ho ho!
Here's the thing - the Zodiac probably didn't exist, which is why the story is so good at serving as a perpetual grift engine.
greatest generation update; ex-Marine traumatised in combat on Okinawa may have been both the Black Dahlia perpetrator *and* the Zodiac killer: www.latimes.com/california/s...
An amateur codebreaker may have just solved the Black Dahlia and Zodiac killings
Two retired LAPD homicide detectives say that both notorious cases are solved -- with a single culprit -- thanks to the work of a novice sleuth.
www.latimes.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Here's the thing - the Zodiac probably didn't exist, which is why the story is so good at serving as a perpetual grift engine.
MAGA is and has always been a coalition of people who genuinely believe they are the best one and are hellbent on being the last one standing
December 24, 2025 at 3:54 AM
MAGA is and has always been a coalition of people who genuinely believe they are the best one and are hellbent on being the last one standing
In the 80s and 90s, every family sitcom did a Christmas special.
The most insane of which was the 1990s family sitcom Dinosaurs (basically a combination of Roseanne and Growing Pains but everyone is a dinosaur) which, for obvious reasons, didn't have Christmas, so they celebrated Refrigerator Day
The most insane of which was the 1990s family sitcom Dinosaurs (basically a combination of Roseanne and Growing Pains but everyone is a dinosaur) which, for obvious reasons, didn't have Christmas, so they celebrated Refrigerator Day
December 24, 2025 at 2:53 AM
In the 80s and 90s, every family sitcom did a Christmas special.
The most insane of which was the 1990s family sitcom Dinosaurs (basically a combination of Roseanne and Growing Pains but everyone is a dinosaur) which, for obvious reasons, didn't have Christmas, so they celebrated Refrigerator Day
The most insane of which was the 1990s family sitcom Dinosaurs (basically a combination of Roseanne and Growing Pains but everyone is a dinosaur) which, for obvious reasons, didn't have Christmas, so they celebrated Refrigerator Day
The daughter runs an artisanal tree ornament shop.
December 24, 2025 at 2:45 AM
The daughter runs an artisanal tree ornament shop.
Yes, 2025 sucked!
But!
Listen!
Years are wholly indifferent to the cause-effect dynamic that drives human history, so there's absolutely no reason to believe 2026 won't continue to suck and, likely, be considerably worse!
But!
Listen!
Years are wholly indifferent to the cause-effect dynamic that drives human history, so there's absolutely no reason to believe 2026 won't continue to suck and, likely, be considerably worse!
December 24, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Yes, 2025 sucked!
But!
Listen!
Years are wholly indifferent to the cause-effect dynamic that drives human history, so there's absolutely no reason to believe 2026 won't continue to suck and, likely, be considerably worse!
But!
Listen!
Years are wholly indifferent to the cause-effect dynamic that drives human history, so there's absolutely no reason to believe 2026 won't continue to suck and, likely, be considerably worse!
I'm never able to get into the Festivus spirit because I always end up starting the Airing of Grievances 12 months early
December 24, 2025 at 1:49 AM
I'm never able to get into the Festivus spirit because I always end up starting the Airing of Grievances 12 months early