Chris Otto (Papergreat)
@papergreat.bsky.social
Journalist by day. He/him. ALLY.
Blogs about books, ephemera, movies & history at papergreat.blogspot.com
Digs folklore, Ruth Manning-Sanders books, cinema from Japan and lots of other niche stuff
Has 23 indoor cats & takes care of the feral cats & skunks
Blogs about books, ephemera, movies & history at papergreat.blogspot.com
Digs folklore, Ruth Manning-Sanders books, cinema from Japan and lots of other niche stuff
Has 23 indoor cats & takes care of the feral cats & skunks
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A perfect storm of a pandemic, a brief flash of civil rights consciousness, a corporate mega-merger, an obsession for exploiting IP, and a blanket demand for any and all streaming material, managed to result in Disney financing a movie centered around Native Americans letterboxd.com/nickfield90/...
A ★★★★★ review of Prey (2022)
A perfect storm of a once-in-a-century pandemic, a brief flash of civil rights consciousness, a corporate mega-merger, an obsession for exploiting IP, and a blanket demand for any and all streaming ma...
letterboxd.com
February 15, 2026 at 11:48 PM
A perfect storm of a pandemic, a brief flash of civil rights consciousness, a corporate mega-merger, an obsession for exploiting IP, and a blanket demand for any and all streaming material, managed to result in Disney financing a movie centered around Native Americans letterboxd.com/nickfield90/...
Holy cow, a Brand X reference!
Phil Collins is one of the musicians on this album and sings one song in Sanskrit.
Phil Collins is one of the musicians on this album and sings one song in Sanskrit.
Drop an album that was important to you when you were nineteen.
February 15, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Holy cow, a Brand X reference!
Phil Collins is one of the musicians on this album and sings one song in Sanskrit.
Phil Collins is one of the musicians on this album and sings one song in Sanskrit.
Recommended!
BILLSON FILM DATABASE (kindle or pbk)
"Essential reading"
"the best film guide ever"
"The wittiest & funniest film reviews I've ever read"
"I would love to argue movies with this woman in a bar that stayed open late"
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1546443118
"Essential reading"
"the best film guide ever"
"The wittiest & funniest film reviews I've ever read"
"I would love to argue movies with this woman in a bar that stayed open late"
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1546443118
February 15, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Recommended!
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Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
February 15, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
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Paul Scheer and Amy Nicholson did a pretty good job of explaining why One Battle is what it is on their Unspooled podcast.
Also, everyone should go watch The Battle of Algiers now.
www.iheart.com/podcast/143-...
Also, everyone should go watch The Battle of Algiers now.
www.iheart.com/podcast/143-...
One Battle After Another Unspooled | iHeart
VIVA LA REVOLUTION! Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film, One Battle After Another, reenergizes the revolutionary spirit. In this special episode, Paul and Amy...
www.iheart.com
February 14, 2026 at 11:50 PM
Paul Scheer and Amy Nicholson did a pretty good job of explaining why One Battle is what it is on their Unspooled podcast.
Also, everyone should go watch The Battle of Algiers now.
www.iheart.com/podcast/143-...
Also, everyone should go watch The Battle of Algiers now.
www.iheart.com/podcast/143-...
New blog post www.papergreat.com/2026/02/weir...
Weirdest thing I'll purge this year
Papergreat, established in 2010, is a daily blog about ephemera, books, history, postcards, all things paper, vintage advertising, and folklore.
www.papergreat.com
February 14, 2026 at 9:40 PM
New blog post www.papergreat.com/2026/02/weir...
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As Valentine's Day approaches, I have a confession.
I recently started watching "The Love Boat" from the beginning. I'd never seen a single episode before and I don't just like it, I love it.
This show has everything! 1/3
I recently started watching "The Love Boat" from the beginning. I'd never seen a single episode before and I don't just like it, I love it.
This show has everything! 1/3
February 13, 2026 at 2:49 PM
As Valentine's Day approaches, I have a confession.
I recently started watching "The Love Boat" from the beginning. I'd never seen a single episode before and I don't just like it, I love it.
This show has everything! 1/3
I recently started watching "The Love Boat" from the beginning. I'd never seen a single episode before and I don't just like it, I love it.
This show has everything! 1/3
Nuremberg
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Nuremberg
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faculty books aren't for sale at ours, but they do sell books by basketball coaches and the mascot
My university outsourced our bookstore to some new company, and they stopped carrying books written by faculty. A faculty member offered to donate copies of their book for the bookstore to sell, and they said it was against corporate policy
February 13, 2026 at 6:33 PM
faculty books aren't for sale at ours, but they do sell books by basketball coaches and the mascot
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My graduate readings this semester, minus Brownell's 24/7 Politics (Princeton has a silly desk copy system that I had a tough time navigating but enroute now). The course is recent US history.
February 13, 2026 at 5:49 PM
My graduate readings this semester, minus Brownell's 24/7 Politics (Princeton has a silly desk copy system that I had a tough time navigating but enroute now). The course is recent US history.
I've gone from: "I think Computer Chess (2013) was too smart for me to understand" to "I think Computer Chess was too smart/complicated for its own good, to the point of being interesting at times but not fully working." Waiting for Guffman + Primer is a tough genre mix.
February 13, 2026 at 4:14 PM
I've gone from: "I think Computer Chess (2013) was too smart for me to understand" to "I think Computer Chess was too smart/complicated for its own good, to the point of being interesting at times but not fully working." Waiting for Guffman + Primer is a tough genre mix.
I want to spend a year living in NYC and just going to movies.
Ready to spend an obscene amount of time at Film Forum next month.
Film Forum · AGNÈS VARDA: A COMPREHENSIVE RETROSPECTIVE
Agnes Varda
A Comprehansive Retrospective
Friday, March 13 - Thursday, April 2
filmforum.org
February 13, 2026 at 1:57 AM
I want to spend a year living in NYC and just going to movies.
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Denied for the Elizabethtown Area curriculum over the past year:
“Turtles All the Way Down”
“Station Eleven”
“Long Way Down”
“The Hate U Give”
“The House on Mango Street" lancasteronline.com/news/local/e...
“Turtles All the Way Down”
“Station Eleven”
“Long Way Down”
“The Hate U Give”
“The House on Mango Street" lancasteronline.com/news/local/e...
Elizabethtown school board rejects 3 more books; teacher says she's 'baffled'
Students in 10th grade English class at Elizabethtown Area High School will read about the fictional March sisters as they tended hearth and home during the Civil War in Louisa
lancasteronline.com
February 12, 2026 at 10:51 PM
Denied for the Elizabethtown Area curriculum over the past year:
“Turtles All the Way Down”
“Station Eleven”
“Long Way Down”
“The Hate U Give”
“The House on Mango Street" lancasteronline.com/news/local/e...
“Turtles All the Way Down”
“Station Eleven”
“Long Way Down”
“The Hate U Give”
“The House on Mango Street" lancasteronline.com/news/local/e...
The Phillies-Braves game in late September 2023 where Castellanos hit 2 homers and then saved Kimbrel from (another) loss with an ill-advised catch, spin and thrown in foul territory is the perfect harbinger of how things would turn out that year and the regret we still have.
February 12, 2026 at 7:47 PM
The Phillies-Braves game in late September 2023 where Castellanos hit 2 homers and then saved Kimbrel from (another) loss with an ill-advised catch, spin and thrown in foul territory is the perfect harbinger of how things would turn out that year and the regret we still have.
He was a long shot to make Opening Day roster because I think they need the last bench spot to be right-handed. But I think he could end up with a significant number of platoon ABs later this summer.
Gabriel Rincones will be a bit behind when he arrives to Spring Training. He has knee soreness, particularly on the left side. Rob Thomson said he’s hopeful he’ll be able to play by the middle of the Grapefruit League slate.
February 12, 2026 at 5:44 PM
He was a long shot to make Opening Day roster because I think they need the last bench spot to be right-handed. But I think he could end up with a significant number of platoon ABs later this summer.
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King Lear, Jean-Luc Godard (1987)
February 12, 2026 at 2:14 PM
King Lear, Jean-Luc Godard (1987)
So, how about guesses where Castellanos ends up after the Phillies waive him. Some of it will depend on what he tells teams regarding his PT, given everything. I'm going to guess Guardians, where it looks like he can play a little platoon RF and a little platoon DH.
February 12, 2026 at 2:04 AM
So, how about guesses where Castellanos ends up after the Phillies waive him. Some of it will depend on what he tells teams regarding his PT, given everything. I'm going to guess Guardians, where it looks like he can play a little platoon RF and a little platoon DH.
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In honor of Bud Cort, I want to make my pitch for Joan Micklin Silvers adaptation of Bernice Bobs Her Hair. He and Shelley Duvall invented neurotic hipsters.
February 11, 2026 at 9:23 PM
In honor of Bud Cort, I want to make my pitch for Joan Micklin Silvers adaptation of Bernice Bobs Her Hair. He and Shelley Duvall invented neurotic hipsters.
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#TCM kicks off its #31DaysOfOscar festival this Friday with different themes throughout the 31 days. 179 Movies will be featured. Check out the PDF schedule.
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February 11, 2026 at 11:36 PM
#TCM kicks off its #31DaysOfOscar festival this Friday with different themes throughout the 31 days. 179 Movies will be featured. Check out the PDF schedule.
static.tcm.com/2026-02/NPN_...
static.tcm.com/2026-02/NPN_...
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RIP Bud Cort. How else would you even pay tribute to him.
February 11, 2026 at 8:51 PM
RIP Bud Cort. How else would you even pay tribute to him.
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I know I’m fixating, but “shooting down party balloons and using it as a pretext for war” is literally the “99 Luftballons” story arc. 🎈🤯 (Even “Miami 2017” didn’t map this closely.)
![Wikipedia entry describing the story arc of “99 Luftballons”:
The lyrics of the original German version tell a story:
99 balloons are mistaken for UFOs, causing a military general to send pilots to investigate. Finding nothing but balloons, the pilots put on a large show of firepower. The display of force worries the nations along the borders and the defence ministers on each side encourage conflict to grab power for themselves.
In the end, a cataclysmic war results from the otherwise harmless flight of balloons and causes devastation on all sides without a victor, as indicated in the denouement of the song: "99 Jahre Krieg ließen keinen Platz für Sieger," which means "99 years of war left no room for victors." The anti-war song finishes with the singer walking through the devastated ruins of the world and finding a single balloon. The description of what happens in the final line of the piece is the same in German and English:
'''Denk' an dich und lass' ihn fliegen," or "Think of you and let it go."[11]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4dp4culto5csbqs5m6ge22fw/bafkreie4ga5vudhvz4e25t5oducxifde6sf2zgal7wugci2bv5ee2qfcoe@jpeg)
February 11, 2026 at 9:20 PM
I know I’m fixating, but “shooting down party balloons and using it as a pretext for war” is literally the “99 Luftballons” story arc. 🎈🤯 (Even “Miami 2017” didn’t map this closely.)
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Just got notice that my kid’s school is on lockdown because of this.
Just an hour ago down an incredibly busy commercial street just blocks from our home, ICE went barreling through at 80mph causing a massive three car crash sending the person they abducted to the hospital.
Irredeemable. They’re all monsters.
Irredeemable. They’re all monsters.
Federal agents at scene of multi-car crash in St. Paul
A multi-car crash Wednesday in St. Paul at the intersection of Western Avenue North and Selby Avenue appeared to involve federal agents.
www.mprnews.org
February 11, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Just got notice that my kid’s school is on lockdown because of this.
Oof. The Phillies will have injuries, too.
Will be interesting to see how they handle them because their depth is not fantastic.
Will be interesting to see how they handle them because their depth is not fantastic.
Notable injuries to begin spring training:
Corbin Carroll, Francisco Lindor, Jackson Holliday - hamate
Spencer Schwellenbach - elbow
Josh Hader - bicep inflammation
Shane Bieber - forearm fatigue
Reese Olson - shoulder surgery
Jordan Westburg - oblique
Anthony Santander - labral surgery
Corbin Carroll, Francisco Lindor, Jackson Holliday - hamate
Spencer Schwellenbach - elbow
Josh Hader - bicep inflammation
Shane Bieber - forearm fatigue
Reese Olson - shoulder surgery
Jordan Westburg - oblique
Anthony Santander - labral surgery
February 11, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Oof. The Phillies will have injuries, too.
Will be interesting to see how they handle them because their depth is not fantastic.
Will be interesting to see how they handle them because their depth is not fantastic.
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"Hamate" (2025)
February 11, 2026 at 3:37 PM
"Hamate" (2025)