Andytown
@andytown.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Murray State University. Loves Schnauzers, Kesha, and 1930s actresses. Eighteenth Century scholar (more or less). Writing a book about sighs. Would like to spend quality time with a walrus.
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operator: 911, please state your emergency
me: uh yeah i want to place a bet on who the next james bond is gonna be
operator: yep. ready
me: $500 on john smoltz
operator: ah, good ol’ smoltzie
me: no i said “smoltz”
operator: oh i know. that’s just his nickname
me: i need to speak to your supervisor
me: uh yeah i want to place a bet on who the next james bond is gonna be
operator: yep. ready
me: $500 on john smoltz
operator: ah, good ol’ smoltzie
me: no i said “smoltz”
operator: oh i know. that’s just his nickname
me: i need to speak to your supervisor
March 4, 2025 at 2:40 PM
operator: 911, please state your emergency
me: uh yeah i want to place a bet on who the next james bond is gonna be
operator: yep. ready
me: $500 on john smoltz
operator: ah, good ol’ smoltzie
me: no i said “smoltz”
operator: oh i know. that’s just his nickname
me: i need to speak to your supervisor
me: uh yeah i want to place a bet on who the next james bond is gonna be
operator: yep. ready
me: $500 on john smoltz
operator: ah, good ol’ smoltzie
me: no i said “smoltz”
operator: oh i know. that’s just his nickname
me: i need to speak to your supervisor
I used to get so into March Madness. Now the only March Madness I get is when I see a young person disrespectfully wearing a stocking cap inside a Cracker Barrel.
March 22, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I used to get so into March Madness. Now the only March Madness I get is when I see a young person disrespectfully wearing a stocking cap inside a Cracker Barrel.
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My pick for the sexiest movie of all time and I feel like that's a pretty big accolade from someone who has established that "sexy" is a pretty huge category on his review ballot.
Preston Sturges’s definitive screwball comedy 'The Lady Eve' was released on this day in 1941:
Classic Corner: The Lady Eve — Crooked Marquee
Preston Sturges’s definitive screwball came early in one of the most remarkable runs of any writer/director’s career.
crookedmarquee.com
March 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
My pick for the sexiest movie of all time and I feel like that's a pretty big accolade from someone who has established that "sexy" is a pretty huge category on his review ballot.
TV Guide
Son of Sniglet
Katharine Hepburn’s ME
Son of Sniglet
Katharine Hepburn’s ME
March 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM
TV Guide
Son of Sniglet
Katharine Hepburn’s ME
Son of Sniglet
Katharine Hepburn’s ME
Thank you for caring, Facebook
March 20, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Thank you for caring, Facebook
I need to apologize to the fake news left wing woke liberal media. For the last week, I've been accusing them of stealing my lawn chair. It turns out my wife threw it away. Apologies fake news left wing woke liberal media.
March 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I need to apologize to the fake news left wing woke liberal media. For the last week, I've been accusing them of stealing my lawn chair. It turns out my wife threw it away. Apologies fake news left wing woke liberal media.
I never saw CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC. What did she confess to? Murder?
March 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I never saw CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC. What did she confess to? Murder?
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At the Deathbed, by Edvard Munch, 1895
February 10, 2025 at 2:16 AM
At the Deathbed, by Edvard Munch, 1895
My New Year’s resolution was to read 365 words this year. I finished it at 12:10 pm on January 2nd. It was a menu.
January 20, 2025 at 7:24 PM
My New Year’s resolution was to read 365 words this year. I finished it at 12:10 pm on January 2nd. It was a menu.
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If you get the director of ROCK N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL on the horn and you’re not asking questions about P.J. Soles and Joe Dante, I don’t even know what.
January 7, 2025 at 2:53 AM
If you get the director of ROCK N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL on the horn and you’re not asking questions about P.J. Soles and Joe Dante, I don’t even know what.
hey y'all - can you load me up with the best readings you've read about video games from the last ten years or so? Pls plug your own work, and would love to hear about some books.
January 5, 2025 at 8:19 PM
hey y'all - can you load me up with the best readings you've read about video games from the last ten years or so? Pls plug your own work, and would love to hear about some books.
Preparing my proposal for Steven Speilberg for WAR WALRUS: my theatrical puppet show about the brave walruses who played a pivotal role in World War I.
here's an excerpt:
"zwe have defeated ze Americans. ze Kaiser vill be delighted!"
"oh no! look out for zat valrus!"
here's an excerpt:
"zwe have defeated ze Americans. ze Kaiser vill be delighted!"
"oh no! look out for zat valrus!"
December 29, 2024 at 7:37 PM
Preparing my proposal for Steven Speilberg for WAR WALRUS: my theatrical puppet show about the brave walruses who played a pivotal role in World War I.
here's an excerpt:
"zwe have defeated ze Americans. ze Kaiser vill be delighted!"
"oh no! look out for zat valrus!"
here's an excerpt:
"zwe have defeated ze Americans. ze Kaiser vill be delighted!"
"oh no! look out for zat valrus!"
My inspirational book "Sweat the Small Stuff (There Is No Small Stuff)" was not a popular stocking stuffer despite a concentrated marketing push to neurotics, jerks, worrywarts, hypochondriacs, and thickheads.
December 28, 2024 at 7:41 PM
My inspirational book "Sweat the Small Stuff (There Is No Small Stuff)" was not a popular stocking stuffer despite a concentrated marketing push to neurotics, jerks, worrywarts, hypochondriacs, and thickheads.
the sense i've developed during my Rosalind Russell obsession is that she always found herself playing characters who found conventional glamour kind of stupid, so she's rarely framed that way in her movies. This shot from FLIGHT FOR FREEDOM is an exception. god, what a human being.
December 24, 2024 at 10:58 PM
the sense i've developed during my Rosalind Russell obsession is that she always found herself playing characters who found conventional glamour kind of stupid, so she's rarely framed that way in her movies. This shot from FLIGHT FOR FREEDOM is an exception. god, what a human being.
hey all - there are breakup albums, but are there break-up novels? novels written in the (often-toxic, occasionally productive) wake of a relationship ending? I'm thinking of authors more than plots. Maybe it's a "divorce" novel. Anyone?
December 1, 2024 at 10:18 PM
hey all - there are breakup albums, but are there break-up novels? novels written in the (often-toxic, occasionally productive) wake of a relationship ending? I'm thinking of authors more than plots. Maybe it's a "divorce" novel. Anyone?
I'm watching the new Colman Domingo show on Netflix - he's an actor who I now will be excited to see in anything. You just hope that the show will live up to his tremendous talent and presence. In that sense, he reminds me of a young Jack Nicholson. 1/?
December 1, 2024 at 4:31 PM
I'm watching the new Colman Domingo show on Netflix - he's an actor who I now will be excited to see in anything. You just hope that the show will live up to his tremendous talent and presence. In that sense, he reminds me of a young Jack Nicholson. 1/?
I hate to get political, but I have to say this: if you think Naked Gun 33 and 1/3rd is better than Naked Gun 2 and 1/2, please unfriend me.
November 28, 2024 at 7:06 PM
I hate to get political, but I have to say this: if you think Naked Gun 33 and 1/3rd is better than Naked Gun 2 and 1/2, please unfriend me.
Here's the thing: If you can't spot the gravy boat as soon as you sit at the thanksgiving table, YOU are the gravy boat.
November 26, 2024 at 7:35 PM
Here's the thing: If you can't spot the gravy boat as soon as you sit at the thanksgiving table, YOU are the gravy boat.
Any movie is a christmas movie if it‘s set in a year when christmas occurs.
November 25, 2024 at 9:53 PM
Any movie is a christmas movie if it‘s set in a year when christmas occurs.
Saving for when I teach Orlando again
I did not know this. Maybe you didn’t know it either?
Did you know The Bell Jar, The Handmaid's Tale, The Feminine Mystique, and more all appeared on Sesame Street in the 90s?
The @muppetwiki.bsky.social team finally created a page for my favorite little-known running gag: Prairie Dawn's Feminist Literature collection muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Prairie...
The @muppetwiki.bsky.social team finally created a page for my favorite little-known running gag: Prairie Dawn's Feminist Literature collection muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Prairie...
November 23, 2024 at 2:06 PM
Saving for when I teach Orlando again
Watching Cars 3 with my kid, which I’ve never seen: what are the usual rankings for these? Is the first one still the best? So far I like 3 better than 2
November 23, 2024 at 12:08 AM
Watching Cars 3 with my kid, which I’ve never seen: what are the usual rankings for these? Is the first one still the best? So far I like 3 better than 2
#losangeles #la people - In the early 80s, what would have been the main sources for local news in newspaper? I'm assuming the LA Times had a "local" section, would the LA Weekly be the next choice, or any other that were specifically metro-area specific?
November 20, 2024 at 2:51 PM
#losangeles #la people - In the early 80s, what would have been the main sources for local news in newspaper? I'm assuming the LA Times had a "local" section, would the LA Weekly be the next choice, or any other that were specifically metro-area specific?
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hello, I'm looking for your favorite pieces of critical video game writing in the last, let's say, five years. Please promote your own work. I'm thinking not so much of reviews, but analytical and historical writing (and I realize some of the best of it is on YouTube). Pls repost or gimme a name!
November 18, 2024 at 5:13 PM
hello, I'm looking for your favorite pieces of critical video game writing in the last, let's say, five years. Please promote your own work. I'm thinking not so much of reviews, but analytical and historical writing (and I realize some of the best of it is on YouTube). Pls repost or gimme a name!