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.
I teach our foundations of cinema class and for editing week, the two choices for students to watch are Memento and Out of Sight
December 12, 2024 at 3:02 PM
I teach our foundations of cinema class and for editing week, the two choices for students to watch are Memento and Out of Sight
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?
Anyway, it is an R-rated movie because it takes place in a prison and the language is appropriate. But it's a movie that believes in its unpretentious and earnest take on what's inspirational. Should be a crowd-pleaser. Where were the crowds?
December 1, 2024 at 4:31 PM
Anyway, it is an R-rated movie because it takes place in a prison and the language is appropriate. But it's a movie that believes in its unpretentious and earnest take on what's inspirational. Should be a crowd-pleaser. Where were the crowds?
The Oscars are stupid, but if the real-life Divine Eye doesn't get a nom, it will prove two things to me: first that the movie wasn't rolled out correctly, released in early Fall with no build-up; the Academy only wants to celebrate the already overly celebrated.
December 1, 2024 at 4:31 PM
The Oscars are stupid, but if the real-life Divine Eye doesn't get a nom, it will prove two things to me: first that the movie wasn't rolled out correctly, released in early Fall with no build-up; the Academy only wants to celebrate the already overly celebrated.
Domingo and Paul Raci are amazing alongside the real alumni of the program. It's about the power of imagination, but its also the way difficult, troubled people have imaginative visions that can be worked through in collaboration (Divine Eye).
December 1, 2024 at 4:31 PM
Domingo and Paul Raci are amazing alongside the real alumni of the program. It's about the power of imagination, but its also the way difficult, troubled people have imaginative visions that can be worked through in collaboration (Divine Eye).
Honestly, the movie is sorta middle-of-the-road in its ambitions, but I'm fine with it being an emotional crowd-pleasure. But it didn't come out in my small town even though we occasionally get independent movies of this calibre. BUT
December 1, 2024 at 4:31 PM
Honestly, the movie is sorta middle-of-the-road in its ambitions, but I'm fine with it being an emotional crowd-pleasure. But it didn't come out in my small town even though we occasionally get independent movies of this calibre. BUT
Because Colman is capable of going very big but also in quiet, intimate, haunting performances in things that are more muted. What bugs me is that SING SING wasn't a breakout movie this year. It got a good NYer review and elsewhere but I don't see people online keeping it alive
December 1, 2024 at 4:31 PM
Because Colman is capable of going very big but also in quiet, intimate, haunting performances in things that are more muted. What bugs me is that SING SING wasn't a breakout movie this year. It got a good NYer review and elsewhere but I don't see people online keeping it alive
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.