Patrick W. Reed
@patrickwreed.bsky.social
Writer, historian & occasional wrestling commentator/referee/oddjobsman
Host of the Bunkum & Ballyhoo podcast (@bunkumballyhoo.bsky.social)
"Kayfabe: A Mostly True History of Professional Wrestling", out now:
bit.ly/3N1Q73b
www.patrickwreed.com
Host of the Bunkum & Ballyhoo podcast (@bunkumballyhoo.bsky.social)
"Kayfabe: A Mostly True History of Professional Wrestling", out now:
bit.ly/3N1Q73b
www.patrickwreed.com
I haven't played Skate Story yet, but "you want to eat the Moon" is as good an inciting incident as any plot in any medium ever.
December 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I haven't played Skate Story yet, but "you want to eat the Moon" is as good an inciting incident as any plot in any medium ever.
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Per Craig Ferguson: When you're about to say something, ask yourself
1. Does this need to be said
2. Does this need to be said by me
3. Does this need to be said by me right now
It's amazing how asking these will get keep you out of trouble (that is, if you actually have sense to begin with)
1. Does this need to be said
2. Does this need to be said by me
3. Does this need to be said by me right now
It's amazing how asking these will get keep you out of trouble (that is, if you actually have sense to begin with)
I’ve been trying very hard to not be an asshole as I get older. Often, that just means keeping my mouth shut and nodding along.
December 26, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Per Craig Ferguson: When you're about to say something, ask yourself
1. Does this need to be said
2. Does this need to be said by me
3. Does this need to be said by me right now
It's amazing how asking these will get keep you out of trouble (that is, if you actually have sense to begin with)
1. Does this need to be said
2. Does this need to be said by me
3. Does this need to be said by me right now
It's amazing how asking these will get keep you out of trouble (that is, if you actually have sense to begin with)
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Can’t get over how much this looks like Sin City
December 26, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Can’t get over how much this looks like Sin City
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skeletor rigby
December 26, 2025 at 11:12 AM
skeletor rigby
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This is a really good point that I had not run into before: these "creators" have no further insight into their alleged creation than the average audience member and that is why it cannot be called art (besides all the other obvious reasons).
December 25, 2025 at 9:05 PM
This is a really good point that I had not run into before: these "creators" have no further insight into their alleged creation than the average audience member and that is why it cannot be called art (besides all the other obvious reasons).
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Oh Hai #WrestleSky
Making their EVE debut at #WrestleQueendom 8 on Sunday March 8 at The Indigo at The O2, one half of the AEW World Tag Team Champions, it's HARLEY CAMERON!
Tickets available at axs.com/uk/events/12...
Watch EVE Live or Anytime on YouTube at youtube.com/prowrestlingeve
Making their EVE debut at #WrestleQueendom 8 on Sunday March 8 at The Indigo at The O2, one half of the AEW World Tag Team Champions, it's HARLEY CAMERON!
Tickets available at axs.com/uk/events/12...
Watch EVE Live or Anytime on YouTube at youtube.com/prowrestlingeve
December 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Oh Hai #WrestleSky
Making their EVE debut at #WrestleQueendom 8 on Sunday March 8 at The Indigo at The O2, one half of the AEW World Tag Team Champions, it's HARLEY CAMERON!
Tickets available at axs.com/uk/events/12...
Watch EVE Live or Anytime on YouTube at youtube.com/prowrestlingeve
Making their EVE debut at #WrestleQueendom 8 on Sunday March 8 at The Indigo at The O2, one half of the AEW World Tag Team Champions, it's HARLEY CAMERON!
Tickets available at axs.com/uk/events/12...
Watch EVE Live or Anytime on YouTube at youtube.com/prowrestlingeve
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i had to drop what i was doing to make this
December 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
i had to drop what i was doing to make this
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SCROOGE: you there! what day is today?
BOY: today? it's Christmas Day
SCROOGE: the spirits did it all in one night!
BOY: NINETEEN SEVENTY THREE
[Life on Mars plays, a Ford Cortina suddenly crashes into Scrooge's front room]
GENE HUNT: OI, DI Scrooge, get in, we've got a nonce in Didsbury to bust
BOY: today? it's Christmas Day
SCROOGE: the spirits did it all in one night!
BOY: NINETEEN SEVENTY THREE
[Life on Mars plays, a Ford Cortina suddenly crashes into Scrooge's front room]
GENE HUNT: OI, DI Scrooge, get in, we've got a nonce in Didsbury to bust
December 25, 2025 at 10:59 AM
SCROOGE: you there! what day is today?
BOY: today? it's Christmas Day
SCROOGE: the spirits did it all in one night!
BOY: NINETEEN SEVENTY THREE
[Life on Mars plays, a Ford Cortina suddenly crashes into Scrooge's front room]
GENE HUNT: OI, DI Scrooge, get in, we've got a nonce in Didsbury to bust
BOY: today? it's Christmas Day
SCROOGE: the spirits did it all in one night!
BOY: NINETEEN SEVENTY THREE
[Life on Mars plays, a Ford Cortina suddenly crashes into Scrooge's front room]
GENE HUNT: OI, DI Scrooge, get in, we've got a nonce in Didsbury to bust
It's Christmas morning, so naturally I'm spending it digging out our Ken's book to offer some context to @puropodcast.bsky.social on the Christmas Disco Ladder Match.
December 25, 2025 at 10:47 AM
It's Christmas morning, so naturally I'm spending it digging out our Ken's book to offer some context to @puropodcast.bsky.social on the Christmas Disco Ladder Match.
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‘And girls in slacks remember Dad,
And oafish louts remember Mum… ‘
Merry Christmas from me and Betjeman. 🙏
@backlisted.bsky.social
And oafish louts remember Mum… ‘
Merry Christmas from me and Betjeman. 🙏
@backlisted.bsky.social
December 25, 2025 at 9:02 AM
‘And girls in slacks remember Dad,
And oafish louts remember Mum… ‘
Merry Christmas from me and Betjeman. 🙏
@backlisted.bsky.social
And oafish louts remember Mum… ‘
Merry Christmas from me and Betjeman. 🙏
@backlisted.bsky.social
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Let's have a Patrick Swayze Christmas this year
MST3K - Patrick Swayze Christmas
YouTube video by sirgraves
www.youtube.com
December 24, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Let's have a Patrick Swayze Christmas this year
I like how Scrooge wipes the snow off of his gravestone, gets to about two thirds of his name revealed, and after a moment's hesitation he decides he has to clear the whole thing, because I guess he has to make sure it didn't say EBENEEZLE SCRONK.
December 24, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I like how Scrooge wipes the snow off of his gravestone, gets to about two thirds of his name revealed, and after a moment's hesitation he decides he has to clear the whole thing, because I guess he has to make sure it didn't say EBENEEZLE SCRONK.
Only one more sleep 'till Christmas
December 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Only one more sleep 'till Christmas
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He was despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.
December 23, 2025 at 11:49 PM
He was despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.
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Ho Ho Ho!
Discworld Order Episode 19 on the Hogfather is out NOW as a Christmas treat.
Dr Jane Carroll, an associate professor in Children's literature, joins Mark to discuss Pratchett's Christmas novel.
We talk about Dickens, latin puns, bickering & where this ranks among the Death books
Discworld Order Episode 19 on the Hogfather is out NOW as a Christmas treat.
Dr Jane Carroll, an associate professor in Children's literature, joins Mark to discuss Pratchett's Christmas novel.
We talk about Dickens, latin puns, bickering & where this ranks among the Death books
December 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Ho Ho Ho!
Discworld Order Episode 19 on the Hogfather is out NOW as a Christmas treat.
Dr Jane Carroll, an associate professor in Children's literature, joins Mark to discuss Pratchett's Christmas novel.
We talk about Dickens, latin puns, bickering & where this ranks among the Death books
Discworld Order Episode 19 on the Hogfather is out NOW as a Christmas treat.
Dr Jane Carroll, an associate professor in Children's literature, joins Mark to discuss Pratchett's Christmas novel.
We talk about Dickens, latin puns, bickering & where this ranks among the Death books
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Oh litmus tree
Oh litmus tree
I know your precise acidity
Oh litmus tree
I know your precise acidity
December 16, 2023 at 12:07 PM
Oh litmus tree
Oh litmus tree
I know your precise acidity
Oh litmus tree
I know your precise acidity
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Sharing this quote from my great (x5ish) Grandfather's book. Seasonally appropriate. Share your yams.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...
![If money were made of iron and could be converted into knives, axes and chisels there would be some sense in placing a value on it; but as it is, I see none. If a man has more yams than he wants, let him exchange some of them away for pork. [...] Certainly money is much handier and more convenient but then, as it will not spoil by being kept, people will store it up instead of sharing it out as a chief ought to do, and thus become selfish. [...] I understand now very well what it is that makes the papālangi [non-Polynesians] so selfish – it is this money!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:outmrm2t3eptof2texyzzhqa/bafkreibyo72joywynd347eku3kc4phshnlh7addg443snu6v2nu6qe6gwm@jpeg)
December 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Sharing this quote from my great (x5ish) Grandfather's book. Seasonally appropriate. Share your yams.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...
What year is it?!
December 24, 2025 at 6:37 PM
What year is it?!
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Latest from me at @journalspectre.bsky.social: I trace how Richard Spencer and other white nationalists have shifted their strategy to stay relevant and rebuild after years of delay forming and antifascist resistance. They are building a new cadre, and have less opposition today.
Last piece of the year y'all! This one is a must read.
@shaneburley.bsky.social takes a deep deep dive into Richard Spencer's rebrand in order to illuminate the fringe right's movement dynamics, influence on the mainstream, and political impasses.
spectrejournal.com/varieties-of...
@shaneburley.bsky.social takes a deep deep dive into Richard Spencer's rebrand in order to illuminate the fringe right's movement dynamics, influence on the mainstream, and political impasses.
spectrejournal.com/varieties-of...
Varieties of White Nationalism – Spectre Journal
Shane Burley looks at Richard Spencer's rebranding effort to illuminate the movement dynamics and political impasses of the "dissident" right.
spectrejournal.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Latest from me at @journalspectre.bsky.social: I trace how Richard Spencer and other white nationalists have shifted their strategy to stay relevant and rebuild after years of delay forming and antifascist resistance. They are building a new cadre, and have less opposition today.
Saw this today. Enquired after the price. Politely made my excuses and left.
December 23, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Saw this today. Enquired after the price. Politely made my excuses and left.
I *will* figure this out, but currently this year's @puropodcast.bsky.social and @sarahparkin1.bsky.social Christmas card is incomprehensible.
December 23, 2025 at 9:56 AM
I *will* figure this out, but currently this year's @puropodcast.bsky.social and @sarahparkin1.bsky.social Christmas card is incomprehensible.
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a running thread of Santa Claus matches in Mexico this holiday season
December 14, 2025 at 3:55 AM
a running thread of Santa Claus matches in Mexico this holiday season
I am reminded of a friend telling me they went to a party with Sam Campbell, and that "he is just like that".
December 22, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I am reminded of a friend telling me they went to a party with Sam Campbell, and that "he is just like that".
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Galaxy Quest, like Iron Giant , Fury Road and Tremors, is one of those rare movies without flaws. It's not just good, but miraculous.
Galaxy Quest - a perfect movie, just a wonderful love letter to actors, sci-fi, Star Trek in particular, and to fandom - really deserves a proper physical release with decent extras. Think Weaver's right that releasing a R-rated cut would be fun, too.
Sigourney Weaver Says She Wishes DreamWorks Released A Director’s Cut Of ‘Galaxy Quest,’ Reminisces On Sequel That Never Came To Pass
Sigourney Weaver reflected on cult classic Galaxy Quest and how she wishes the sci-fi satire had released an R-rated director's cut.
deadline.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Galaxy Quest, like Iron Giant , Fury Road and Tremors, is one of those rare movies without flaws. It's not just good, but miraculous.
This is genuinely revolting.
December 21, 2025 at 7:42 PM
This is genuinely revolting.