Courtenay Stallings
@courtenaycal.bsky.social
Writer | Historian | Assist. Dir./Adviser @peppgraphic | Adjunct Professor | Senior Editor @bluerosemag1 | Author, "Laura's Ghost: Women Speak About #TwinPeaks"
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I’m here to chew bubblegum, fight fascism and talk Twin Peaks. And I’m all out of bubble gum.
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Just found out my book CINEMA HER WAY was named one of the best books of the year by Sight and Sound!
Shout out to @nigelcsmith.bsky.social for giving me the heads up!
Shout out to @nigelcsmith.bsky.social for giving me the heads up!
December 6, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Just found out my book CINEMA HER WAY was named one of the best books of the year by Sight and Sound!
Shout out to @nigelcsmith.bsky.social for giving me the heads up!
Shout out to @nigelcsmith.bsky.social for giving me the heads up!
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Be weirder and more unsettling
I think it would be fun if writers who love language started intentionally writing more strangely as AI flattens written "content" into a mono-voice. it would cool I think if writers responded by focusing their individual efforts on cultivating a really unique voice that's hard to copy
December 7, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Be weirder and more unsettling
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At a dance class I complimented a woman on her grippy-bottomed socks. “I love the psych ward socks,” I said. And she goes “I call them Pilates socks.” And those, my friends, are the two types of people.
December 7, 2025 at 12:51 AM
At a dance class I complimented a woman on her grippy-bottomed socks. “I love the psych ward socks,” I said. And she goes “I call them Pilates socks.” And those, my friends, are the two types of people.
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Last month I got to join Colin on Creamed Corn & The Universe to talk about Sonny Jim!
Ashley (damnfinepottery on Instagram) joins me this week to discuss Sonny Jim Jones. We discuss his relationship with his Dougie & Janey-E, owls in the Jones home, the flow of time in Las Vegas and the many dream like qualities in his scenes. The link is in my bio.
December 6, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Last month I got to join Colin on Creamed Corn & The Universe to talk about Sonny Jim!
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I don’t know, I still randomly trip out over the fact that the President told states to specifically gerrymander for him. And they did.
December 4, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I don’t know, I still randomly trip out over the fact that the President told states to specifically gerrymander for him. And they did.
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The most Gen X thing ever is these Marvel ads that were all like “Kids, we’re sorry you’re dealing with an alcoholic and probably abusive/absent parent. We know, it sucks. Love, Spider-Man/the X-Men.”
December 3, 2025 at 3:38 AM
The most Gen X thing ever is these Marvel ads that were all like “Kids, we’re sorry you’re dealing with an alcoholic and probably abusive/absent parent. We know, it sucks. Love, Spider-Man/the X-Men.”
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Someone on Facebook pointed out that Karolina Wydra, who plays Zosia in #Pluribus (one of this year's best shows), had a bit part as Chloe in #TwinPeaks: The Return (one of the all-time best shows). That's pretty cool.
December 3, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Someone on Facebook pointed out that Karolina Wydra, who plays Zosia in #Pluribus (one of this year's best shows), had a bit part as Chloe in #TwinPeaks: The Return (one of the all-time best shows). That's pretty cool.
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This sign raises more questions than it answers
December 2, 2025 at 8:31 PM
This sign raises more questions than it answers
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She was first in her family to go to college.
She’d been in the U.S. since she was seven.
They grabbed at the airport on her way to surprise her family for thanksgiving.
They put her in shackles. Her ankles, her arms, and her waist.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
She’d been in the U.S. since she was seven.
They grabbed at the airport on her way to surprise her family for thanksgiving.
They put her in shackles. Her ankles, her arms, and her waist.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
College Student Is Deported During Trip Home for Thanksgiving
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:05 AM
She was first in her family to go to college.
She’d been in the U.S. since she was seven.
They grabbed at the airport on her way to surprise her family for thanksgiving.
They put her in shackles. Her ankles, her arms, and her waist.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
She’d been in the U.S. since she was seven.
They grabbed at the airport on her way to surprise her family for thanksgiving.
They put her in shackles. Her ankles, her arms, and her waist.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
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Just got this framed. Read my Mandy review here:
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November 28, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Just got this framed. Read my Mandy review here:
thesociologistsdojo.blogspot.com/2018/10/mand...
@courtenaycal.bsky.social
thesociologistsdojo.blogspot.com/2018/10/mand...
@courtenaycal.bsky.social
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November 28, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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we have to go back. to warn them.
November 28, 2025 at 2:49 AM
we have to go back. to warn them.
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Would it kill somebody to say “Nancy is not stupid.” It pains me to see the WH press corps just accept the abuse. Sends the wrong image to Americans and the world IMHO.
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Would it kill somebody to say “Nancy is not stupid.” It pains me to see the WH press corps just accept the abuse. Sends the wrong image to Americans and the world IMHO.
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Wow Bob Wow! My stomach feels like it's filled with a team of bumblebees at the thought of introducing Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me at the BFI on Wednesday January 28. It's part of a whole season devoted to the work of my main man David Lynch and I'm beyond honoured to be a part of it.
November 27, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Wow Bob Wow! My stomach feels like it's filled with a team of bumblebees at the thought of introducing Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me at the BFI on Wednesday January 28. It's part of a whole season devoted to the work of my main man David Lynch and I'm beyond honoured to be a part of it.
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Hi @willowcatelyn.bsky.social and I published this last year but with our TCM appearances last month we are once again asking to buy our book!
bookshop.org/p/books/corp...
bookshop.org/p/books/corp...
November 27, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Hi @willowcatelyn.bsky.social and I published this last year but with our TCM appearances last month we are once again asking to buy our book!
bookshop.org/p/books/corp...
bookshop.org/p/books/corp...
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As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
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This is true. It is the best email I got this year.
November 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
This is true. It is the best email I got this year.
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Hey, props to writers who got literally anything done this year.
November 26, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Hey, props to writers who got literally anything done this year.
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95% of authors are not making a living through book publishing. The public needs to understand this.
November 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
95% of authors are not making a living through book publishing. The public needs to understand this.
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[Cookie Monster] : "No, no, no, boss, it ok, you sit down, me write headline!"
The author Joan Didion embraced Thanksgiving. And she staged it the same way she conjured her essays, novels, screenplays and memoirs, with an almost military mustering of planning and ambition. nyti.ms/47PYF8i
November 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM
[Cookie Monster] : "No, no, no, boss, it ok, you sit down, me write headline!"
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Losing it at women reporters is definitely the way to tamp down accusations of abusing girls.
November 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Losing it at women reporters is definitely the way to tamp down accusations of abusing girls.
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Here is the link for my new #TwinPeaks Oral History which has over 60 interviews from the cast and crew. Order as Hardback or Paperback #davidlynch @mfrostwords.bsky.social www.bluerosemag.com?product=twin...
November 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Here is the link for my new #TwinPeaks Oral History which has over 60 interviews from the cast and crew. Order as Hardback or Paperback #davidlynch @mfrostwords.bsky.social www.bluerosemag.com?product=twin...