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Paul Gagliardi
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Teaching Assoc Prof at Marquette University, Dad, Terrible hockey player

Buy ALL PLAY AND NO WORK from Temple U Press: https://tupress.temple.edu/books/all-play-and-no-work
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I hope you all have a very Gritty Thanksgiving.
November 27, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Mood when I realize my kids will be home all-day the bulk of the next five weeks
a woman is looking out a window with snow falling
ALT: a woman is looking out a window with snow falling
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November 26, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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a little birdie* told me that all VUP titles will be 50% off the rest of the year starting on Monday 11/24

*mass marketing email

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From Dixie to Rocky Top – Vanderbilt University Press
Listen as you read! From Dixie to Rocky Top: Book Playlist, now on Spotify. The first book to explore the history of college fight songs as a culturally impo...
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November 22, 2025 at 10:38 PM
*neighbors fire live ammo at me to celebrate *
Come and See watch party reunion for @pgagliardi.bsky.social's birthday tonight! 🎂🎁🎈🥂🎉🥳
November 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Federico Castelluccio, best known for playing Furio Giunta in the Sopranos, is a master painter and art collector. He discovered a long-lost painting by Baroque artist Guercino and assisted with the restoration on Artemisia Gentileschi at the Getty bsky.app/profile/coli...
November 23, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Currently running the best score on Puckdoku this morning @jsaquella.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
This is not what we mean when we say "Go Birds."
Birds Stop Pooping Poops Directly On The Hood Of My Car Challenge
November 20, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Here it is, a very special--& especially supersized—250th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Please add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️

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#ScholarSunday Thread 250! (11/16/25) – Black and White and Read All Over
Here it is, a very special--& especially supersized—250th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Please add more ...
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November 16, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Was scrolling through some old photos and forgot I sorta won Halloween six years ago as a pretty on-point Charlie Kelly
November 16, 2025 at 1:34 AM
I mean there was just a massive Great Gatsby party hosted by Trump so...I dont think they are big on reading comprehension
Have any of these people actually read Lolita? Saying it's "about a man whose whose life is stamped forever by his impression of a young girl" is like saying The Killer Inside Me is about a sheriff's deputy struggling to balance his professional and personal lives.
did not have Harvard English professor Elisa New emailing Jeffrey Epstein about Lolita on my 2025 bingo card
November 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Look guys I’ve spent the last day playing this over and over again. Don’t read the comments first and stick it through to the second verse. It is in fact one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard.
second verse on this is one of the funniest things i've ever heard
November 11, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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10/10 NO NOTES
sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference
November 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Exciting news. We’ve got a pub date for the 2nd edition of No Common Ground & it’s in paperback! It’ll be out Feb. 1, 2026 & there’s a 30% discount on preorders by using the code 01SOCIAL30. @uncpress.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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TOE PICK! This week @dartadams.bsky.social & @pgagliardi.bsky.social join in to talk about the Olympics, pop culture, the NBA, sports movie montages, and one of the most quotable films ever made.

THE CUTTING EDGE drops NOW on Reckoning with Jason Herbert
November 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Last fall, I had a salivary gland infection that just wrecked me and I wasn't able to sleep, so I spent a lot of nights just sans sleep watching old territory wrestling shows and I saw this and thought I had just fever-dreamed it @rickcity.bsky.social

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The debut of Macho Warrior Ric Hogan (USWA)
YouTube video by Crusher Bones FOREVER
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November 5, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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@thescrvnr.bsky.social and I are planning to submit a panel to the Pop Culture Assocation conf. on biopics, and we are looking for another paper proposal. She's currently working on LA BAMBA (1988) and I'm thinking of something on Sonja Henne films of the 30s. Interested? Reach out to either of us
October 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
@rickcity.bsky.social I know I should be impressed, but I would be impressed if he did something less cliché like "the Iron Claw"

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DX crotch chop is costing Joel Embiid a lot of money
We’re up to four now. Maybe Triple H will help him take care of it, though?
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November 3, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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On phone with 13 year old-
“Dad who was John Brown?”
Me:
a group of people standing in front of an ice cream truck that says ice cream
ALT: a group of people standing in front of an ice cream truck that says ice cream
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November 1, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Fuck the Dodgers
November 2, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Those were some Web Gems, I tell ya
November 2, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Happy Halloween from us in our best What We Do in the Shadows costumes
October 31, 2025 at 10:43 PM
So excited for the return of nuclear testing!
October 30, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Louis Varland is inventing the Minnesota Hello.
He is eternally warming up
October 29, 2025 at 2:29 AM
@nickfleisher.bsky.social @jsaquella.bsky.social Just saw Maurice Cheeks at a Starbucks in Milwaukee
October 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford, 1962)

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October 28, 2025 at 2:21 PM