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Lydia Hamessley

@lydiahamessley.bsky.social

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Musicologist. Author — Unlikely Angel: The Songs of Dolly Parton (U of Ill Press) and Dolly Parton’s Jolene (Oxford Univ. Press). Professor of Music, Hamilton College. Cyclist, banjo player, old movies, antique quilts. 🪕🐈🎶🚵🏼‍♀️🚴🏼 #TCMParty

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Donut Thief @grunhund.bsky.social · 6h

This, this, this, and more of this!!! 👏👏👏 #Purdue assist for the win. #IU 🥹♥️🤍+💛🖤

Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 1d

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

Sara Whitmer
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I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town.
Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming.
Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance.
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Jeffrey Vagle of the Carcosa Vagles @jvagle.me · 20h

"No Kings protest, you say? Sign me up."

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Lydia Hamessley @lydiahamessley.bsky.social · 20h

It’s pretty amazing that they got through that whole scene (when Madeline Kahn shows up) in one take. I wonder how many takes proceeded that when they were all cracking up? I think I’ve seen some pretty funny outtakes and blooper reels of it. #YoungFrankenstein #Svengoolie

Lydia Hamessley @lydiahamessley.bsky.social · 20h

This scene reminds me of the Michigan J. Frog scene in the theatre when he won’t sing once the audience is there. And, of course, the #KingKong scene. #MelBrooks borrowed from and spoofed the best. #YoungFrankenstein #Svengoolie

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Michigan J. Frog - "Hello My Baby"

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Lydia Hamessley @lydiahamessley.bsky.social · 20h

He was so funny in #What’sUpDoc. #Svengoolie #YoungFrankenstein

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21h

the crowd sizes are obviously the highlight here but the fact that *this* is the public statement of the NYPD does not bode well for the regime. or, put another way:

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

ZERO arrests at No Kings in NYC. (And the NYPD isn’t notorious for being sympathetic with people anti-Trump.)

This proves what shameless liars Speaker Mike Johnson & Karoline Leavitt are to slander the participants as violent anarchists.

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TCM Party @tcmparty.bsky.social · 23h

Join us tomorrow night for a watch-party for Hitchcock's VERTIGO (1958). Should it be considered one of the greatest films? Let's taco 'bout it tomorrow at 8pE!
#TCMParty ^JW

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Lydia Hamessley @lydiahamessley.bsky.social · 22h

That’s candle line (especially when Teri Garr says it) is one of the best lines in the film. And that’s saying a lot! Madeline Kahn: “No tongue.” 😛 #YoungFrankenstein #Svengoolie

AB Normal 🐾 @katwoman13.bsky.social · 22h

Put the candle 🕯️ back…!
#Svengoolie #YoungFrankenstein

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Jordan Hamessley @thejordache.bsky.social · 1d

Bedtime thoughts from my girls last night, an hour past bedtime:

3 year old: When did dinosaurs die?
8 year old: Like 1955 or something.
Me: Uh… no.
8 year old: Three years after the Big Bang.
Me: Good night, girls. I love you.

a cartoon dinosaur is standing next to a maple leaf and says `` goodnight '' .

Alt: a cartoon dinosaur is standing next to a maple leaf and says `` goodnight '' .

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Lydia Hamessley @lydiahamessley.bsky.social · 1d

Ben and Mario are great. They crack me up! Amazing how much like Bette Davis Mario sounds! That same husky voice. #TCMParty

Lydia Hamessley @lydiahamessley.bsky.social · 1d

Gosh. Vincent is more annoying than Hamilton Burger. #PerryMason #LeaveHerToHeaven #TCMParty

Lydia Hamessley @lydiahamessley.bsky.social · 1d

OMG. I just remembered what happens now. Makes me nuts. #LeaveHerToHeaven #TCMParty

Lydia Hamessley @lydiahamessley.bsky.social · 1d

It just occurred to me, that Ellen is what Rhoda would’ve grown up to be if she hadn’t gotten zapped at the end of #TheBadSeed. IYKYK ⚡️ That big confession scene about Danny was like when Rhoda finally confessed about Claude Daigle to her mother. #LeaveHerToHeaven #TCMParty

Lydia Hamessley @lydiahamessley.bsky.social · 1d

That was some Jezebel/Scarlett O’Hara red bathing suit. #LeaveHerToHeaven #TCMParty

Lydia Hamessley @lydiahamessley.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, that’s the answer to all their problems. Breed a spawn of Satan. #LeaveHerToHeaven #TCMParty

Lydia Hamessley @lydiahamessley.bsky.social · 1d

Wow. That music got dramatic all of a sudden! (When I dictated that, it heard the word traumatic. That works too.) #LeaveHerToHeaven #TCMParty

Lydia Hamessley @lydiahamessley.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t watch!!!!!

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Brett Coughlin @coughlinbrett.bsky.social · 1d

The precursor to American family dream of the 1950’s. But underneath the facade it’s completely false and turns into a nightmare. This film and ‘All That Heaven Allows’ would make a great double feature about the post war years conformity and its impact on society.

#TCMParty
#LeaveHertoHeaven

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Lydia Hamessley @lydiahamessley.bsky.social · 1d

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Lydia Hamessley @lydiahamessley.bsky.social · 1d

It’s been a while since I’ve seen #LeaveHerToHeaven, so I can’t remember what was wrong with Danny. I’m assuming it was polio? That connection to Warm Springs Georgia, and FDR seems pretty strong. #TCMParty

Lydia Hamessley @lydiahamessley.bsky.social · 1d

Chekhov’s swimming scene. #LeaveHerToHeaven #TCMParty

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Peppa Pax Pippa 🕊️☮️✌🏼 @peppapaxpippa.bsky.social · 5d

@laureldavilacpa.bsky.social

"I'VE LIVED 82 YEARS ON THIS EARTH, AND THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I'VE EVER WITNESSED PEOPLE DELIGHTING IN THE SUFFERING OF OTHERS SO OPENLY, SO PROUDLY, AND EVEN RECORDING IT FOR THE WORLD TO SEE."
- Mick Jagger

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Lydia Hamessley @lydiahamessley.bsky.social · 4d

My favorite lines:

“Immortalized on the wall; forgotten on the floor.”

“I’m surrounded by morons.”

That second one is so true of everything now! Ha!!

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Lydia Hamessley @lydiahamessley.bsky.social · 4d

Here ya go. Enjoy 😉

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Henri 2, Paw de Deux

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Lydia Hamessley @lydiahamessley.bsky.social · 4d

Totally, right? And that’s Sandra Boynton singing it as well. Which makes it even better. 🇫🇷 🎶

Have you seen this series w Henri le chat? This is the first one. But be sure to find the second one on YouTube as well because it’s even better.

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Henri

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