chrisailor
@chrisailor.bsky.social
Assistant Professor (Film & Digital Media)
Writer • Lapsed Filmmaker
Hitting like the most painful misfortune.
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Views posted are entirely my own
Writer • Lapsed Filmmaker
Hitting like the most painful misfortune.
Newsletter at chrissailor.substack.com.
Views posted are entirely my own
I mean, “I’m starting a war because I didn’t win a peace prize” is just “we’re becoming Nazis because anyone to the left of Nixon was mean to us” writ large so it shouldn’t be too surprising…
January 19, 2026 at 8:39 PM
I mean, “I’m starting a war because I didn’t win a peace prize” is just “we’re becoming Nazis because anyone to the left of Nixon was mean to us” writ large so it shouldn’t be too surprising…
A year from David Lynch’s passing, I’m continuing my piecemeal reflection on Twin Peaks The Return with a look at what was, for me, perhaps its most exciting moment.
Out of Sand
Beyond the collision of multiple fanboy threads, the appearance of Eddie Vedder in the third season of Twin Peaks is a moment that speaks to the depth of the show’s meaning.
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January 19, 2026 at 2:23 PM
A year from David Lynch’s passing, I’m continuing my piecemeal reflection on Twin Peaks The Return with a look at what was, for me, perhaps its most exciting moment.
Out of Sand
Beyond the collision of multiple fanboy threads, the appearance of Eddie Vedder in the third season of Twin Peaks is a moment that speaks to the depth of the show’s meaning.
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January 18, 2026 at 6:09 PM
A year from David Lynch’s passing, I’m continuing my piecemeal reflection on Twin Peaks The Return with a look at what was, for me, perhaps its most exciting moment.
Gnomeo and Juliet walked so that Hamnet could run. (Is this anything?)
January 12, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Gnomeo and Juliet walked so that Hamnet could run. (Is this anything?)
When the cook time is 25 minutes but one of the steps is “Bring to a boil…”
January 11, 2026 at 11:19 PM
When the cook time is 25 minutes but one of the steps is “Bring to a boil…”
Some of my favorite albums of the past year, and a reflection on why expanding your taste and listening to new things is necessary to me.
On New Music
With lessons about the importance of moving ever forward even as you look back and re-incorporate the past
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January 11, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Some of my favorite albums of the past year, and a reflection on why expanding your taste and listening to new things is necessary to me.
Remind me how this worked out the last time it happened just four years ago.
Newsom's already calling for a joining of hands with the Nazis and let atrocities be bygones.
January 10, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Remind me how this worked out the last time it happened just four years ago.
Mulholland Drive completed rewired the way that I thought about movies.
January 10, 2026 at 2:04 AM
Mulholland Drive completed rewired the way that I thought about movies.
“We were sold the idea that streaming represented something of a liberation from the gatekeeping ways of old, that it would give us unlimited access to the cultural history of the world. But we’re finally starting to not only see but truly reckon with the extent to which that was all a lie…”
Death to Streaming
Reclaiming Media and Digital Agency
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January 9, 2026 at 5:57 PM
“We were sold the idea that streaming represented something of a liberation from the gatekeeping ways of old, that it would give us unlimited access to the cultural history of the world. But we’re finally starting to not only see but truly reckon with the extent to which that was all a lie…”
January 7, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Death to Streaming
Death to Streaming
Reclaiming Media and Digital Agency
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January 5, 2026 at 2:04 AM
Death to Streaming
Was at a dance show in Athens, drunk off my mind, during college back in the early 2000s. Kept bumping into the guy behind me and finally wheeled around to see what his deal was and maybe even tell him off and it was Michael Stipe. Told him what a fan I was and got a very quiet, polite “Thank you.”
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 29, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Was at a dance show in Athens, drunk off my mind, during college back in the early 2000s. Kept bumping into the guy behind me and finally wheeled around to see what his deal was and maybe even tell him off and it was Michael Stipe. Told him what a fan I was and got a very quiet, polite “Thank you.”
The French title for Gremlins translates directly as “Help! My idiot father spent the last of our money on a strange creature that will spawn an army of monsters if I break one of the incredibly specific and arbitrary rules that govern its existence.”
December 25, 2025 at 1:30 AM
The French title for Gremlins translates directly as “Help! My idiot father spent the last of our money on a strange creature that will spawn an army of monsters if I break one of the incredibly specific and arbitrary rules that govern its existence.”
Stuck in line at the liquor store behind a very disgruntled woman in an elf costume. It finally feels like Christmas.
December 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Stuck in line at the liquor store behind a very disgruntled woman in an elf costume. It finally feels like Christmas.
Up early on Christmas Eve trying to stuff peanut butter cups into a pair of open advent calendars because I’m too tired to maintain a teachable moment about patience and not getting ahead of oneself.
December 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Up early on Christmas Eve trying to stuff peanut butter cups into a pair of open advent calendars because I’m too tired to maintain a teachable moment about patience and not getting ahead of oneself.
If someone as demonstrably unqualified as Bari Weiss can’t even do badly at a job they don’t deserve without criticism then what hope do any of us have…?
December 23, 2025 at 1:36 AM
If someone as demonstrably unqualified as Bari Weiss can’t even do badly at a job they don’t deserve without criticism then what hope do any of us have…?
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I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:
WATCH: Segment CBS News Pulled From "60 Minutes"
YouTube video by Phil Lewis
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December 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:
On the first day of Christmas
My true love have to me
Jake Paul’s Jaw
Broken in three
My true love have to me
Jake Paul’s Jaw
Broken in three
December 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
On the first day of Christmas
My true love have to me
Jake Paul’s Jaw
Broken in three
My true love have to me
Jake Paul’s Jaw
Broken in three
The thing that I am perhaps proudest of as a parent is that our family lore includes “Frankenstein answering geography questions.”
December 20, 2025 at 9:35 PM
The thing that I am perhaps proudest of as a parent is that our family lore includes “Frankenstein answering geography questions.”
I bet if one more person makes the Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse/Trump Kennedy Center joke it will be funny.
December 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I bet if one more person makes the Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse/Trump Kennedy Center joke it will be funny.
“I wait all week for The fucking Equalizer…!” Pitch-perfect comedic acting. What a legend. Absolutely gutted.
December 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
“I wait all week for The fucking Equalizer…!” Pitch-perfect comedic acting. What a legend. Absolutely gutted.
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Netflix, Warner Brothers, and the end of Hollywood
Wither Warner Brothers, Wither Hollywood?
Musings on mergers, acquisitions, and the death of Hollywood as we know it
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December 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Netflix, Warner Brothers, and the end of Hollywood