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Paul Gagliardi
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Teaching Assoc Prof at Marquette University, Dad, Terrible hockey player

Buy ALL PLAY AND NO WORK from Temple U Press: https://tupress.temple.edu/books/all-play-and-no-work
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Look guys I’ve spent the last day playing this over and over again. Don’t read the comments first and stick it through to the second verse. It is in fact one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard.
second verse on this is one of the funniest things i've ever heard
November 11, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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10/10 NO NOTES
sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference
November 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Exciting news. We’ve got a pub date for the 2nd edition of No Common Ground & it’s in paperback! It’ll be out Feb. 1, 2026 & there’s a 30% discount on preorders by using the code 01SOCIAL30. @uncpress.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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TOE PICK! This week @dartadams.bsky.social & @pgagliardi.bsky.social join in to talk about the Olympics, pop culture, the NBA, sports movie montages, and one of the most quotable films ever made.

THE CUTTING EDGE drops NOW on Reckoning with Jason Herbert
November 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Last fall, I had a salivary gland infection that just wrecked me and I wasn't able to sleep, so I spent a lot of nights just sans sleep watching old territory wrestling shows and I saw this and thought I had just fever-dreamed it @rickcity.bsky.social

youtu.be/BHHdmzsvTs0?...
The debut of Macho Warrior Ric Hogan (USWA)
YouTube video by Crusher Bones FOREVER
youtu.be
November 5, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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@thescrvnr.bsky.social and I are planning to submit a panel to the Pop Culture Assocation conf. on biopics, and we are looking for another paper proposal. She's currently working on LA BAMBA (1988) and I'm thinking of something on Sonja Henne films of the 30s. Interested? Reach out to either of us
October 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
@rickcity.bsky.social I know I should be impressed, but I would be impressed if he did something less cliché like "the Iron Claw"

www.cagesideseats.com/wwe/394189/d...
DX crotch chop is costing Joel Embiid a lot of money
We’re up to four now. Maybe Triple H will help him take care of it, though?
www.cagesideseats.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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On phone with 13 year old-
“Dad who was John Brown?”
Me:
a group of people standing in front of an ice cream truck that says ice cream
ALT: a group of people standing in front of an ice cream truck that says ice cream
media.tenor.com
November 1, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Fuck the Dodgers
November 2, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Those were some Web Gems, I tell ya
November 2, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Happy Halloween from us in our best What We Do in the Shadows costumes
October 31, 2025 at 10:43 PM
So excited for the return of nuclear testing!
October 30, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Louis Varland is inventing the Minnesota Hello.
He is eternally warming up
October 29, 2025 at 2:29 AM
@nickfleisher.bsky.social @jsaquella.bsky.social Just saw Maurice Cheeks at a Starbucks in Milwaukee
October 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford, 1962)

@chrisyogerst.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Gary Larson dropping Cow Tools in 1982
October 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM
@rickcity.bsky.social OKAY BLUE JAYS. LET'S. PLAY. BALL
October 26, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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rip alfred hitchcock you would've loved saying "go birds"
October 25, 2025 at 3:10 AM
She's not having it
October 23, 2025 at 8:49 PM
When you make that scene from THE CROWD look quaint
October 23, 2025 at 1:48 PM
@thescrvnr.bsky.social and I are planning to submit a panel to the Pop Culture Assocation conf. on biopics, and we are looking for another paper proposal. She's currently working on LA BAMBA (1988) and I'm thinking of something on Sonja Henne films of the 30s. Interested? Reach out to either of us
October 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Today I learned that @thatbilloakley.com has been to Culver's and did not invite me to guide him on the menu
October 23, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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at this time of year?!
at this time of day?!
in this part of the country?!
October 22, 2025 at 2:56 PM
@riyeff.bsky.social Someone made a version of "Steamed Hams" that's a parody of MY DINNER WITH ANDRE

youtu.be/pk-Oq8iYtVA?...
Steamed Hams but it's a Critically Acclaimed Feature Film
YouTube video by Tyrone Deise
youtu.be
October 22, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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I'm starting a new research project and if you happen to know anyone who skated in any traveling ice show -- such as the Ice Capades, the Ice Follies, Holidays on Ice, etc -- and they would be willing to be interviewed by yours truly, send me a DM :)
September 23, 2025 at 10:27 PM