Dr. Donna Bowman
@donnadb.bsky.social
Theologian. Knitter. Mom. UCA Schedler Honors College. Prayer shawl, pussyhat and pandemic mask researcher. TV critic (BB, BCS). Atlanta Braves and Ohio Worms fan. Bloblobber main.
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If I ended up in a Pluribus scenario I too would reject becoming part of the unified consciousness but I would absolutely be driving all kinds of cool cars like a goddamn lunatic
November 15, 2025 at 4:43 AM
If I ended up in a Pluribus scenario I too would reject becoming part of the unified consciousness but I would absolutely be driving all kinds of cool cars like a goddamn lunatic
Episode 3 of PLURIBUS has me quoting Warren Zevon and speculative fiction from 1935. It's like they made the show just for me (so I wouldn't be surprised if your mileage varies). My review at Episodic Medium for subscribers: www.episodicmedium.tv/review-pluri...
Review: Pluribus, "Grenade" | Season 1, Episode 3
She wants to live all alone in the desert. She wants to be like Georgia O'Keeffe.
www.episodicmedium.tv
November 14, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Episode 3 of PLURIBUS has me quoting Warren Zevon and speculative fiction from 1935. It's like they made the show just for me (so I wouldn't be surprised if your mileage varies). My review at Episodic Medium for subscribers: www.episodicmedium.tv/review-pluri...
Somebody at ICE is real proud of this lib-owning brainstorm.
November 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Somebody at ICE is real proud of this lib-owning brainstorm.
Political movement that came to power via outrage about taking prayer out of schools, bans prayer on a public street.
“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be ‘no more prayer’ in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.” blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...
Feds Tell Faith Leaders 'No More Prayer' Outside Broadview Facility
In a possible violation of the First Amendment, federal officials instructed demonstrators to stop holding religious gatherings outside the immigration processing facility in suburban Broadview after ...
blockclubchicago.org
November 8, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Political movement that came to power via outrage about taking prayer out of schools, bans prayer on a public street.
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40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
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HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE
November 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM
HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE
You can read both of our reviews for the whole season and then vote one of us off the TV critic island!
This isn't the first time that Donna and I have written about the same show, but this is the first time that we'll be doing weekly reviews for different publications at the same time. You won't want to miss Donna's, so please subscribe if you aren't already!
So long as Vince Gilligan keeps making shows set in Albuquerque, @donnadb.bsky.social will keep writing about them.
Her review of the first two episodes of #Pluribus is now up at Episodic Medium.
Her review of the first two episodes of #Pluribus is now up at Episodic Medium.
November 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM
You can read both of our reviews for the whole season and then vote one of us off the TV critic island!
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So long as Vince Gilligan keeps making shows set in Albuquerque, @donnadb.bsky.social will keep writing about them.
Her review of the first two episodes of #Pluribus is now up at Episodic Medium.
Her review of the first two episodes of #Pluribus is now up at Episodic Medium.
Review: Pluribus, "We Is Us" & "Pirate Lady" | Season 1, Episodes 1 & 2
A castaway on Utopia's glittering shore
www.episodicmedium.tv
November 7, 2025 at 2:38 PM
So long as Vince Gilligan keeps making shows set in Albuquerque, @donnadb.bsky.social will keep writing about them.
Her review of the first two episodes of #Pluribus is now up at Episodic Medium.
Her review of the first two episodes of #Pluribus is now up at Episodic Medium.
I think Apple TV may have a hit on its hands with PLURIBUS. 1st two episodes reportedly dropped early, and the service has crashed. You can read my reviews at episodicmedium.tv at midnight — first post of the season is unlocked for all.
Episodic Medium
Reviewing television one episode at a time like it's not going out of style.
episodicmedium.tv
November 7, 2025 at 3:53 AM
I think Apple TV may have a hit on its hands with PLURIBUS. 1st two episodes reportedly dropped early, and the service has crashed. You can read my reviews at episodicmedium.tv at midnight — first post of the season is unlocked for all.
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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Police Squad Opening Credits ass picture
November 6, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Police Squad Opening Credits ass picture
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I didn't even *want* to lean on the barrier until I saw this cool guy doing it
November 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I didn't even *want* to lean on the barrier until I saw this cool guy doing it
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Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
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I think everybody has a “Wallace Shawn from Young Sheldon” — my first one would probably be “Vincent Price, the guy who did the voice of Ratigan in The Great Mouse Detective”
November 3, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I think everybody has a “Wallace Shawn from Young Sheldon” — my first one would probably be “Vincent Price, the guy who did the voice of Ratigan in The Great Mouse Detective”
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On the other site, an 18-year-old Zohran canvasser described the legendary Wallace Shawn as "the actor who plays Dr. Sturgis on Young Sheldon" which is honestly adorable
November 2, 2025 at 8:02 PM
On the other site, an 18-year-old Zohran canvasser described the legendary Wallace Shawn as "the actor who plays Dr. Sturgis on Young Sheldon" which is honestly adorable
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Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
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CHOTINER: So you asked for a Birkin bag?
KOKO: Yes. Possession Bag.
CHOTINER: And you had the funds to acquire this?
KOKO: No, Professor Purchase Koko Gorilla
CHOTINER: That doesn't sound like the funds were justifiable.
KOKO: Hostility Interviewer
KOKO: Yes. Possession Bag.
CHOTINER: And you had the funds to acquire this?
KOKO: No, Professor Purchase Koko Gorilla
CHOTINER: That doesn't sound like the funds were justifiable.
KOKO: Hostility Interviewer
October 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
CHOTINER: So you asked for a Birkin bag?
KOKO: Yes. Possession Bag.
CHOTINER: And you had the funds to acquire this?
KOKO: No, Professor Purchase Koko Gorilla
CHOTINER: That doesn't sound like the funds were justifiable.
KOKO: Hostility Interviewer
KOKO: Yes. Possession Bag.
CHOTINER: And you had the funds to acquire this?
KOKO: No, Professor Purchase Koko Gorilla
CHOTINER: That doesn't sound like the funds were justifiable.
KOKO: Hostility Interviewer
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got one of those haunted cameras that pops out a photo of how you die. pretty fun to mess around with for a while but apparently doesn't work for selfies. just always spits out a photo of me holding the haunted camera
November 7, 2024 at 7:46 PM
got one of those haunted cameras that pops out a photo of how you die. pretty fun to mess around with for a while but apparently doesn't work for selfies. just always spits out a photo of me holding the haunted camera
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Dodgers pitchers allowed eight runs in their previous 53 innings before giving up nine runs in the sixth inning of Game 1
October 25, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Dodgers pitchers allowed eight runs in their previous 53 innings before giving up nine runs in the sixth inning of Game 1
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My 9 year old niece won an art contest at the Louvre but right as they put her drawing up on the wall some thieves busted in to rob the place
They only took jewelry but that's probably only because they didn't know where her drawing was
They only took jewelry but that's probably only because they didn't know where her drawing was
October 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
My 9 year old niece won an art contest at the Louvre but right as they put her drawing up on the wall some thieves busted in to rob the place
They only took jewelry but that's probably only because they didn't know where her drawing was
They only took jewelry but that's probably only because they didn't know where her drawing was
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Solidarity!! Last week, Indiana University fired the director of student media & halted print on the Indiana Daily Student newspaper. Yesterday, Purdue’s student paper printed the banned edition & drove two hours to deliver it. Incredible www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/l...
Purdue student journalists deliver special 'solidarity' newspaper to IU Bloomington campus
The special edition blasted across town features columns from IDS and Exponent editors, alongside QR codes to support both student papers.
www.heraldtimesonline.com
October 18, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Solidarity!! Last week, Indiana University fired the director of student media & halted print on the Indiana Daily Student newspaper. Yesterday, Purdue’s student paper printed the banned edition & drove two hours to deliver it. Incredible www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/l...
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Listening to the IN OUR TIME episode about THE TIME MACHINE, I learned that H. G. Wells lived till 1946! What did he think of Orson Welles’ radio play of THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, I wondered? Turns out the two were interviewed together on a San Antonio radio station in 1940! youtu.be/nUdghSMTXsU?...
Orson Wells Meets HG Wells
YouTube video by Hexo Hex
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October 16, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Listening to the IN OUR TIME episode about THE TIME MACHINE, I learned that H. G. Wells lived till 1946! What did he think of Orson Welles’ radio play of THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, I wondered? Turns out the two were interviewed together on a San Antonio radio station in 1940! youtu.be/nUdghSMTXsU?...