Matt Blazer
@mattblazer.bsky.social
EPC Pastor. Interests: film, cooking, and great novels.
“Never met a rich man that didn’t have a guilty conscience.” “I already got a guilty conscience… might as well have the money too…” #Tombstone
November 15, 2025 at 2:48 AM
“Never met a rich man that didn’t have a guilty conscience.” “I already got a guilty conscience… might as well have the money too…” #Tombstone
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help someone else get a win
i promise it’s not gonna take away from your wins
i promise it’s not gonna take away from your wins
November 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
help someone else get a win
i promise it’s not gonna take away from your wins
i promise it’s not gonna take away from your wins
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If you wonder whether the visual arts can do theology, not just illustrate theology, then wonder no more and watch this marvelous video via the Bible Project on the Trinity.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAvY...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAvY...
How God is Both One and Three at the Same Time
YouTube video by BibleProject
www.youtube.com
October 23, 2025 at 1:19 PM
If you wonder whether the visual arts can do theology, not just illustrate theology, then wonder no more and watch this marvelous video via the Bible Project on the Trinity.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAvY...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAvY...
@craighorlbeck.bsky.social and a great nit pick on Tin Cup (3 wood, 7 iron). It’s 237 just to carry the water. So, 260ish to the hole.
September 30, 2025 at 12:20 AM
@craighorlbeck.bsky.social and a great nit pick on Tin Cup (3 wood, 7 iron). It’s 237 just to carry the water. So, 260ish to the hole.
@craighorlbeck.bsky.social the category the rewatchables is searching for is “Julia or Meryl?”. It’s the rejoinder to Cruise/Hanks.
September 30, 2025 at 12:16 AM
@craighorlbeck.bsky.social the category the rewatchables is searching for is “Julia or Meryl?”. It’s the rejoinder to Cruise/Hanks.
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It is not just the act of violence but the spirit of violence that must be opposed. It is not just the action to harm another which must be opposed but the desire that harm would fall to another. If we do not have the courage to pursue a politics of love, our political heart will be consumed by hate
September 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
It is not just the act of violence but the spirit of violence that must be opposed. It is not just the action to harm another which must be opposed but the desire that harm would fall to another. If we do not have the courage to pursue a politics of love, our political heart will be consumed by hate
@sheaserrano.bsky.social did Milo jump out of the car before it landed in the pool? Asking for a friend. Is this the best “put the name of the movie in the movie”? My thought is the bonus that it’s on a trading card only.
August 29, 2025 at 12:53 AM
@sheaserrano.bsky.social did Milo jump out of the car before it landed in the pool? Asking for a friend. Is this the best “put the name of the movie in the movie”? My thought is the bonus that it’s on a trading card only.
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[CLOSE ENCOUNTERS] This is one of the peerless moments in movie history—spiritually reassuring, magical, and funny at the same time. Very few movies have ever hit upon this combination of fantasy and amusement—THE WIZARD OF OZ, perhaps, in a plainer, down-home way. (1977)
July 26, 2025 at 10:44 PM
[CLOSE ENCOUNTERS] This is one of the peerless moments in movie history—spiritually reassuring, magical, and funny at the same time. Very few movies have ever hit upon this combination of fantasy and amusement—THE WIZARD OF OZ, perhaps, in a plainer, down-home way. (1977)
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Great piece on one of my DEEP personal lore movies.
Here’s the last month of my life: Why, 40 years later, THE LEGEND OF BILLIE JEAN is still invincible. I got quotes from pretty much everybody, there are multiple Jon Peters stories involved, and I had an extremely unpleasant interaction with the screenwriter www.indiewire.com/features/int...
What’s Fair Is Fair: Why ‘The Legend of Billie Jean’ Is Still Invincible, 40 Years Later
Helen Slater, Keith Gordon, Yeardley Smith, and Matthew Robbins tell IndieWire why a film that bombed is one of the true gems of '80s cinema.
www.indiewire.com
July 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Great piece on one of my DEEP personal lore movies.
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If you don’t understand Oklahoma, you can’t understand America
If you don’t understand Oklahoma, you can’t understand America
A Black man like me is not supposed to love Oklahoma. But in studying my home state’s history of violence, theft and wild ambitions, I learned to reckon with its legacy
www.theguardian.com
July 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM
If you don’t understand Oklahoma, you can’t understand America
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When Harrison Ford is Indiana Jones, he's playing on instinct and exhilaration—on all of himself—and we can tune right in to his rascally daring. (1988)
July 14, 2025 at 8:44 PM
When Harrison Ford is Indiana Jones, he's playing on instinct and exhilaration—on all of himself—and we can tune right in to his rascally daring. (1988)
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[GHOSTBUSTERS] Murray has a genuine outré gift: he makes you feel that his characters are bums inside—unconcerned and indifferent—and he makes that seem like a kind of grace. (He’s always an onlooker; he won’t commit himself even to being in the movie.) (1984)
July 13, 2025 at 4:34 PM
[GHOSTBUSTERS] Murray has a genuine outré gift: he makes you feel that his characters are bums inside—unconcerned and indifferent—and he makes that seem like a kind of grace. (He’s always an onlooker; he won’t commit himself even to being in the movie.) (1984)
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The Story of scripture in four phrases repeated throughout its pages:
I love you.
I am with you.
Don’t be afraid.
You can come home.
I love you.
I am with you.
Don’t be afraid.
You can come home.
July 4, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The Story of scripture in four phrases repeated throughout its pages:
I love you.
I am with you.
Don’t be afraid.
You can come home.
I love you.
I am with you.
Don’t be afraid.
You can come home.
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Happy Fourth! I love these words from Washington Square in Philadelphia: "Freedom is a light, for which many men have died in darkness."
July 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Happy Fourth! I love these words from Washington Square in Philadelphia: "Freedom is a light, for which many men have died in darkness."
Cornet!!!!! Reverse!!!!!
May 15, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Cornet!!!!! Reverse!!!!!
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“I never called Edith Lúthien – but she was the source of the story that in time became the chief part of the Silmarillion. But the story has gone crooked, and I am left, and I cannot plead before the inexorable Mandos."
- Tolkien
- Tolkien
April 27, 2025 at 11:04 PM
“I never called Edith Lúthien – but she was the source of the story that in time became the chief part of the Silmarillion. But the story has gone crooked, and I am left, and I cannot plead before the inexorable Mandos."
- Tolkien
- Tolkien
Sense a gentle but defiant certainty to my call to preach this morning.
April 13, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Sense a gentle but defiant certainty to my call to preach this morning.
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“The ones who stayed married were ones that weren’t looking just to get laid. They were looking for someone to understand them.” —Bert Kreischer // What happens when the (very funny) @olgakhazan.bsky.social decides to ask (also funny) comics for marriage tips: www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...
What Comedians Know About Staying Married
Many comics have decades-long marriages. What’s their secret?
www.theatlantic.com
March 26, 2025 at 1:50 PM
“The ones who stayed married were ones that weren’t looking just to get laid. They were looking for someone to understand them.” —Bert Kreischer // What happens when the (very funny) @olgakhazan.bsky.social decides to ask (also funny) comics for marriage tips: www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...
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CITIZEN KANE is more fun than any great movie I can think of, and it's also a rare example of a movie that seems better today than when it first came out. (1967)
March 23, 2025 at 8:44 PM
CITIZEN KANE is more fun than any great movie I can think of, and it's also a rare example of a movie that seems better today than when it first came out. (1967)
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A Saturday Morning Prayer:
O Lord, I arise this day by your grace, I embrace the tasks of this day by your grace, I receive the gifts of this day by your grace, and I hold lightly the outcome of this day by your grace. In Jesus' name. Amen.
(“Prayers for the Pilgrimage”)
O Lord, I arise this day by your grace, I embrace the tasks of this day by your grace, I receive the gifts of this day by your grace, and I hold lightly the outcome of this day by your grace. In Jesus' name. Amen.
(“Prayers for the Pilgrimage”)
March 22, 2025 at 3:27 PM
A Saturday Morning Prayer:
O Lord, I arise this day by your grace, I embrace the tasks of this day by your grace, I receive the gifts of this day by your grace, and I hold lightly the outcome of this day by your grace. In Jesus' name. Amen.
(“Prayers for the Pilgrimage”)
O Lord, I arise this day by your grace, I embrace the tasks of this day by your grace, I receive the gifts of this day by your grace, and I hold lightly the outcome of this day by your grace. In Jesus' name. Amen.
(“Prayers for the Pilgrimage”)
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The Dickin Medal is the highest award that can be issued to animals in British military service. Bearing the words "We Also Serve" it has been awarded 75 times since its creation in 1943.
Only one cat has ever received the award.
This is the story of Able Seacat Simon, of HMS Amethyst. 🧵 1/25
Only one cat has ever received the award.
This is the story of Able Seacat Simon, of HMS Amethyst. 🧵 1/25
August 6, 2024 at 12:36 PM
The Dickin Medal is the highest award that can be issued to animals in British military service. Bearing the words "We Also Serve" it has been awarded 75 times since its creation in 1943.
Only one cat has ever received the award.
This is the story of Able Seacat Simon, of HMS Amethyst. 🧵 1/25
Only one cat has ever received the award.
This is the story of Able Seacat Simon, of HMS Amethyst. 🧵 1/25
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You shouldn’t finish every book you start.
Abandoning a book is not an admission of failure—it’s a sign of wisdom. You’ve decided to let go of sunk costs.
The purpose of reading is to be entertained and informed. If a book doesn't bring joy or insight, it’s time to move on.
Abandoning a book is not an admission of failure—it’s a sign of wisdom. You’ve decided to let go of sunk costs.
The purpose of reading is to be entertained and informed. If a book doesn't bring joy or insight, it’s time to move on.
March 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
You shouldn’t finish every book you start.
Abandoning a book is not an admission of failure—it’s a sign of wisdom. You’ve decided to let go of sunk costs.
The purpose of reading is to be entertained and informed. If a book doesn't bring joy or insight, it’s time to move on.
Abandoning a book is not an admission of failure—it’s a sign of wisdom. You’ve decided to let go of sunk costs.
The purpose of reading is to be entertained and informed. If a book doesn't bring joy or insight, it’s time to move on.
My understanding of why people criticize the church grows yearly. As does my frustration when they are Christians. I often wish to say, “do not call ugly what Jesus calls beautiful.”
March 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
My understanding of why people criticize the church grows yearly. As does my frustration when they are Christians. I often wish to say, “do not call ugly what Jesus calls beautiful.”
Absolutely fascinating: perceptiongap.us
The Perception Gap
Do you have a yawning Perception Gap, or are you in sync with the American public? Our study explores how Americans tend to have a distorted understanding of people on the other side of the aisle, wha...
perceptiongap.us
March 13, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Absolutely fascinating: perceptiongap.us
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All we are is butt dust in the wind
March 5, 2025 at 12:58 PM
All we are is butt dust in the wind