Christopher Dole
chrisdole86.bsky.social
Christopher Dole
@chrisdole86.bsky.social
Colorado hiker boy, classical pianist, and writer. Co-Creator of ARDEN, host of MY BIG SCORE, #1 fan of FANTASIA
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November 28, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Another work WUDM feels very in-conversation with is The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (not just in the importance of lying by omission, but in other structural and character points), and I'd be very interested to hear Johnson talk about that at some point.
There's a piece to be written once Wake Up Dead Man is in wider release about how the Rian Johnson film it's most in conversation with is The Last Jedi (and I don't mean the very silly SW reference it makes, nor its focus on media-inspired anger), and I will be very interested to read it
November 28, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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A random community theatre manager in suburban Minnesota, having just watched a bunch of children casually destroy each other, when the smart one with the blanket says “Lights, please?”: *cracks knuckles* Okay, on me, spot up on Van Pelt.
November 28, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Post something random or you'll have an awful December.
November 27, 2025 at 10:33 PM
That groundhog comes to some kind of important revelation at the end of this video
Big news! The groundhog is back at my sister's and she gave him a plum
November 27, 2025 at 8:46 PM
DC KO #2: the running bit of Guy ALMOST getting his hands on one of the artifacts only for it to be repeatedly snatched away was very funny, good use of Guy in this type of event
November 27, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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i’m so happy for him
November 26, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
November 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
There's a piece to be written once Wake Up Dead Man is in wider release about how the Rian Johnson film it's most in conversation with is The Last Jedi (and I don't mean the very silly SW reference it makes, nor its focus on media-inspired anger), and I will be very interested to read it
November 27, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Really fun moment in Wake Up Dead Man when it seems for a second like they're straight-up doing Murder of Roger Ackroyd and then you remember "Wait there's still like an hour left in this thing that can't be it"
November 26, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Josh O'Connor amazing in Wake Up Dead Man (and is also The Lead, arguably even more than Ana De Armas was in Knives Out), which for all its grisly gothic atmosphere is somehow the most intimate and small-scale of the three Benoit Blanc films
November 26, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Rian kicked off this Q&A by saying everyone on stage “had had a few small beers”
November 26, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Now seated for Wake Up Dead Man, with a Q&A by the great composer Nathan Johnson (and also his cousin, some schmuck named… Roy? Ryan? Who knows)
November 26, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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A little bit of Bobby giving hope
A little bit of Stevie making jobs
A little bit of Johnny spending cash
Five years ago we had these mans.
November 26, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Good news, its coming April 2026!!!

Galaxy and Dreamer team up with Star Sapphire, Adam Strange and Green Arrow to save the planet Naltor in a Justice League Unlimited one-shot written by me and @nicoleamaines.bsky.social!
November 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Brad Bird, congrats, you're finally making your hand-drawn animated 2D film of The Spirit.
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 9:36 PM
November 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
It's almost actively hilarious that this season of SW Visions did eight fairly straightforward SW tales (give or take Bird of Paradise, which edges a bit more into surrealism) and then concluded with BLACK, which is one of the craziest, most non-narrative things I've seen any franchise do
November 25, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Taste of Justice on DC Go is very charming, but they're cowards for not putting Green Arrow's secret spice mix for his canonically Very Hot Chili in that issue's recipe
November 25, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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47 years ago today, dozens of turkeys met their unfortunate demise in a Cincinnati parking lot.
November 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
We hit the Kristen Bell eps in our Deadwood groupwatch tonight - no one quite like Powers Boothe for playing ABSOLUTE EVIL. Also, wild to think there's an alternate universe that very nearly happened where Bell didn't get VM and became a Deadwood regular instead (the offer was on the table!)
November 24, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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You cannot guess the topic that lead to this post
The damned in hell are not more powerful for the fact that the fires do not consume them; it is part and parcel of their torment.
November 23, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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answer is great but also it's telling that the guy who's been saying this since day 1 has to answer about whether he's an antisemite for 5 min every interview while the same people grin vacantly at the jewish space lasers lady and call her a brave warrior
WELKER: What is your message to Jewish New Yorkers who feel you won't be tough enough in your response to antisemitism?

MAMDANI: That I am looking forward to being the next mayor and fulfilling the commitment I've made to Jewish New Yorkers to not only protect them but to celebrate and cherish them
November 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Man, I wish I'd gotten to see Kathryn Hunter as Richard III, I *LOVE* that play and I love Kathryn Hunter and she's such an amazing physical performer, that seems like a crazy-awesome match
November 23, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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*banging a metal pot with a wooden spoon very loudly*

people want to LISTEN to podcasts!!!!!!!!!!!!

*hitting you on the forehead with the spoon*

STOP PIVOTING TO VIDEO

www.westwoodone.com/blog/2025/11...
November 21, 2025 at 6:28 PM