Noel Murray
@noelmu.bsky.social
Freelancer for hire. You know me from: The A.V. Club, The Dissolve. Posts about food, TV, movies, the Braves, pretty scenery. Husband of @donnadb.bsky.social .
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exactly
February 20, 2026 at 3:11 PM
exactly
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Jack Fisk, the legend! I talked to the production designer who got his start with Terence Malick and David Lynch and still answers 1 a.m. texts from Josh Safdie, and I just feel like if we don't finally win him an Oscar this year we'll have messed up big time theankler.com/p/the-man-wh...
The Man Who Built ‘Marty Supreme’ (and Won Over Chalamet)
Jack Fisk is ‘the finest production designer on the planet,’ the star said. I talk to the legend about a career working with Iñárritu, de Palma, Lynch & Malick
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February 20, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Jack Fisk, the legend! I talked to the production designer who got his start with Terence Malick and David Lynch and still answers 1 a.m. texts from Josh Safdie, and I just feel like if we don't finally win him an Oscar this year we'll have messed up big time theankler.com/p/the-man-wh...
Working in a Starbucks this morning. When I walked in, I heard The Sundays' "Here's Where The Story Ends," followed by Love's "Alone Again Or." Whatever satellite channel they're dialed into today is *bringing it*.
February 20, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Working in a Starbucks this morning. When I walked in, I heard The Sundays' "Here's Where The Story Ends," followed by Love's "Alone Again Or." Whatever satellite channel they're dialed into today is *bringing it*.
Absolutely gorgeous new Joe Pernice song, sung with Aimee Mann. youtu.be/cp2Uenox4TM?...
Joe Pernice - Deep Into The Dawn (ft Aimee Mann) [Official Video]
YouTube video by Joe Pernice
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February 20, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Absolutely gorgeous new Joe Pernice song, sung with Aimee Mann. youtu.be/cp2Uenox4TM?...
Olympics are winding down but spring training baseball games begin today. College basketball tournaments starting in a couple of weeks. A boom time for work-at-home degenerates who like to watch day sports.
February 20, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Olympics are winding down but spring training baseball games begin today. College basketball tournaments starting in a couple of weeks. A boom time for work-at-home degenerates who like to watch day sports.
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Hilary Knight with her own version of the Gordie Howe Olympics:
•Gold medal.
•Got engaged to her girlfriend.
•Retirement.
•Gold medal.
•Got engaged to her girlfriend.
•Retirement.
February 19, 2026 at 11:26 PM
Hilary Knight with her own version of the Gordie Howe Olympics:
•Gold medal.
•Got engaged to her girlfriend.
•Retirement.
•Gold medal.
•Got engaged to her girlfriend.
•Retirement.
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MST3K and Concrete are both back. If a new Ween album drops, it’s official: I’m back in college.
Happy we have officially announced this thing I've been working on for ten freakin' years. Expect to hear more from me about it over the next little while. Meanwhile, here are details:
www.superherohype.com/comics/65227...
www.superherohype.com/comics/65227...
February 19, 2026 at 10:41 PM
MST3K and Concrete are both back. If a new Ween album drops, it’s official: I’m back in college.
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They just said 90-year-old Tenley Albright, who competed for the U.S. in Cortina in 1956, is in attendance.
Here's what Albright's gold medal winning performance that year looked like.
Here's what Albright's gold medal winning performance that year looked like.
February 19, 2026 at 10:09 PM
They just said 90-year-old Tenley Albright, who competed for the U.S. in Cortina in 1956, is in attendance.
Here's what Albright's gold medal winning performance that year looked like.
Here's what Albright's gold medal winning performance that year looked like.
Everything about that was awesome. The Japanese skaters are so wonderful. Alysa Liu rocks. Amber Glenn skated great, and got to see her friend win gold. Excellent vibes.
February 19, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Everything about that was awesome. The Japanese skaters are so wonderful. Alysa Liu rocks. Amber Glenn skated great, and got to see her friend win gold. Excellent vibes.
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La Retraite de Hugues de Payens, by Georges Mathieu, 1958 (rotated), 📸 by @tiltoncreative
February 19, 2026 at 9:26 PM
La Retraite de Hugues de Payens, by Georges Mathieu, 1958 (rotated), 📸 by @tiltoncreative
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people say they aren't emotional but Steely Dan has at least six or seven songs that work like this
[the slickest music you've ever heard plays]
🎵 everything that's happening right now is destroying me and I don't know what to do about it 🎵
[sax solo by a guy who played with Miles Davis]
[the slickest music you've ever heard plays]
🎵 everything that's happening right now is destroying me and I don't know what to do about it 🎵
[sax solo by a guy who played with Miles Davis]
February 19, 2026 at 6:42 PM
people say they aren't emotional but Steely Dan has at least six or seven songs that work like this
[the slickest music you've ever heard plays]
🎵 everything that's happening right now is destroying me and I don't know what to do about it 🎵
[sax solo by a guy who played with Miles Davis]
[the slickest music you've ever heard plays]
🎵 everything that's happening right now is destroying me and I don't know what to do about it 🎵
[sax solo by a guy who played with Miles Davis]
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Mentally adding audio of all the Ski Mountaineering competitors going "hup hup hup" as they ski up their mountain.
February 19, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Mentally adding audio of all the Ski Mountaineering competitors going "hup hup hup" as they ski up their mountain.
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the ranks of the epstein skeptics are growing
February 19, 2026 at 3:32 PM
the ranks of the epstein skeptics are growing
I’ve been working my way through the 1970s Fantastic Four and in the John Buscema era I keep coming across panels that look like they could’ve inspired, of all people, Dan Clowes.
February 19, 2026 at 2:49 PM
I’ve been working my way through the 1970s Fantastic Four and in the John Buscema era I keep coming across panels that look like they could’ve inspired, of all people, Dan Clowes.
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Inspired by The Mortuary Assistant, I decided to write about the scariest death-industry film: the feverish Nazi nightmare The Cremator www.avclub.com/the-cremator...
Death isn't the scary part in the Czech political horror The Cremator
Though surrounded by corpses, the long-banned Czech New Wave film The Cremator is scariest for its depiction of collaborators.
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February 19, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Inspired by The Mortuary Assistant, I decided to write about the scariest death-industry film: the feverish Nazi nightmare The Cremator www.avclub.com/the-cremator...
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*seeing a tiny circle i mostly recognize by its overall light-dark pattern like the eyespots on a butterfly's wing* that's my friend
January 29, 2024 at 6:22 PM
*seeing a tiny circle i mostly recognize by its overall light-dark pattern like the eyespots on a butterfly's wing* that's my friend
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Bird lives, the Dead come alive, and Xgau Sez is back—all this and more at And It Don't Stop.
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Xgau Sez: February, 2026
Some health notes, Bird: still lives, the live Dead, the A shelves explained, reissues not reevaluated, and some faves.
robertchristgau.substack.com
February 18, 2026 at 11:06 PM
Bird lives, the Dead come alive, and Xgau Sez is back—all this and more at And It Don't Stop.
robertchristgau.substack.com/p/xgau-sez-f...
robertchristgau.substack.com/p/xgau-sez-f...
Sorry, Swedes. You were real good. 🇺🇸🏒🇺🇸
February 18, 2026 at 10:42 PM
Sorry, Swedes. You were real good. 🇺🇸🏒🇺🇸
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L'arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat. I was furious at the railway company for their poor planning, and at the theatre owners for not foreseeing the inevitable tragedy
fun question: what’s the maddest you’ve ever been leaving a movie theater? not necessarily worst movie you’ve seen, but the one that just pissed you off the most. mine is Batman v Superman
February 18, 2026 at 9:18 PM
L'arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat. I was furious at the railway company for their poor planning, and at the theatre owners for not foreseeing the inevitable tragedy
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so many insane responses to this, but the most insane are the people who seem to believe it's impossible to clean yourself with bar soap, like not stinking was invented in the 2010s
“You can keep your body washes with their magnesium or their tea tree oil, their exfoliants and emollients. I’m a bar-soap user. It’s how I smell. It’s who I am.” slate.com/life/2026/02...
February 18, 2026 at 9:14 PM
so many insane responses to this, but the most insane are the people who seem to believe it's impossible to clean yourself with bar soap, like not stinking was invented in the 2010s
While writing about A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms I've been re-reading "The Hedge Knight" and it's reminded me of how good the show has been at matching the general feel of the book's illustrations. For example: Here's Steely Pate and Egg helping Dunk into his armor for the trial by seven.
February 18, 2026 at 8:45 PM
While writing about A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms I've been re-reading "The Hedge Knight" and it's reminded me of how good the show has been at matching the general feel of the book's illustrations. For example: Here's Steely Pate and Egg helping Dunk into his armor for the trial by seven.
The first episode of the new season begins with one of the most hilariously raunchy conversation in the show's run (which is saying something), but then like 5 minutes later we see Shoresy consoling a crying junior player and giving him legitimately helpful life advice. A lot going on here.
February 18, 2026 at 8:15 PM
The first episode of the new season begins with one of the most hilariously raunchy conversation in the show's run (which is saying something), but then like 5 minutes later we see Shoresy consoling a crying junior player and giving him legitimately helpful life advice. A lot going on here.
