Andrew Hager
@andrewhager.bsky.social
Author, ALL-AMERICAN DOGS: A HISTORY OF PRESIDENTIAL PETS FROM EVERY ERA. Film lover. Legally blind. He/him.
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There's something almost touching about orchestrating and executing a multi-decade plan to attain functionally limitless power and then getting all in your feelings that nobody likes you.
December 28, 2025 at 3:35 AM
There's something almost touching about orchestrating and executing a multi-decade plan to attain functionally limitless power and then getting all in your feelings that nobody likes you.
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Some of the best (I think) material in Five Came Back is there because a librarian saw what I was working on over 3 days and asked me if I'd like to take a look at a box of old George Stevens papers that had not been catalogued yet. So no, for a ton of reasons, AI cannot "do the research for you."
December 22, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Some of the best (I think) material in Five Came Back is there because a librarian saw what I was working on over 3 days and asked me if I'd like to take a look at a box of old George Stevens papers that had not been catalogued yet. So no, for a ton of reasons, AI cannot "do the research for you."
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Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides,
Who covers faults, at last with shame derides.
Who covers faults, at last with shame derides.
December 20, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides,
Who covers faults, at last with shame derides.
Who covers faults, at last with shame derides.
I’ve only read it once, but ONE NATION UNDER GOD is essential context for this moment. Check it out.
A very nice woman in her 80s emailed last night just to say that she had read ONE NATION UNDER GOD for a second time and enjoyed it even more than the first time. I can't tell you how much a note like that can do for an author, especially with all of this going on.
Drop your favorites a line, folks
Drop your favorites a line, folks
December 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I’ve only read it once, but ONE NATION UNDER GOD is essential context for this moment. Check it out.
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I want to think of Rob Reiner screaming “$26,000 WORTH OF SIDES?” in WOLF OF WALL STREET but it’s not easy right now.
December 15, 2025 at 3:50 AM
I want to think of Rob Reiner screaming “$26,000 WORTH OF SIDES?” in WOLF OF WALL STREET but it’s not easy right now.
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I do need tissues….
RIP, Rob Reiner… Devastated.
RIP, Rob Reiner… Devastated.
a man in a black sweater is holding a box of tissues and a card .
ALT: a man in a black sweater is holding a box of tissues and a card .
media.tenor.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:47 AM
I do need tissues….
RIP, Rob Reiner… Devastated.
RIP, Rob Reiner… Devastated.
Beau Is Afraid
The King of Comedy
M*A*S*H
Short Cuts
One Battle After Another
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
The Wolf of Wall Street
The King of Comedy
M*A*S*H
Short Cuts
One Battle After Another
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
The Wolf of Wall Street
was recently asked my favorite comedies, which is a good question, and I'm not sure the answer. I think Big Lebowski is probably number 1, but after that, idk? Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Best in Show were the other two that came to mind. So let's hear your faves
December 14, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Beau Is Afraid
The King of Comedy
M*A*S*H
Short Cuts
One Battle After Another
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
The Wolf of Wall Street
The King of Comedy
M*A*S*H
Short Cuts
One Battle After Another
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
The Wolf of Wall Street
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“The city that never sleeps” sounds glamorous in your twenties but now I’m like “maybe it should”
December 14, 2025 at 5:57 AM
“The city that never sleeps” sounds glamorous in your twenties but now I’m like “maybe it should”
Honestly, CRASH is better than THE ARTIST by a pretty wide margin.
Late night question for the gang: what’s your LEAST favorite Best Picture winner that’s not Crash?
December 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Honestly, CRASH is better than THE ARTIST by a pretty wide margin.
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Cinnamon Apple Pie Crunch has an uncanny valley effect of tasting exactly like McD's apple pies that I'm not sure how I feel about. Like man was not meant to know the sensation of eating a bowl of pies.
December 13, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Cinnamon Apple Pie Crunch has an uncanny valley effect of tasting exactly like McD's apple pies that I'm not sure how I feel about. Like man was not meant to know the sensation of eating a bowl of pies.
I have a joke about Alexander and it’s pretty great.
I have a joke about Oedipus, but it’s a bit complex
I have a joke about Anne Boleyn, but it's execution dependent.
December 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I have a joke about Alexander and it’s pretty great.
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Midway through KILL BILL: THE WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR and if nothing else, it's damn encouraging how many people rolled out on a Sunday evening to sit in a movie theater for five damn hours. Cinema is not dead, if you want it.
December 8, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Midway through KILL BILL: THE WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR and if nothing else, it's damn encouraging how many people rolled out on a Sunday evening to sit in a movie theater for five damn hours. Cinema is not dead, if you want it.
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This is one of those things that I think is quietly important – when these people are talking shit about cities, Portland or Minneapolis or New York or Charlotte or wherever, you have to loudly say, “no, fuck you, you’re lying, that town and its people whip ass and you’re the asshole”
“I walk around Portland, and I go, ‘Fuck you, assholes. Portland is fine.’” - John Darnielle, @themountaingoats.bsky.social. We're proud to claim you as a Portlander, sir.
The Mountain Goats Ascend to Revolution Hall
Mountain Goats frontman John Darnielle discusses musicals, his new album, and why he keeps coming home to Portland.
www.wweek.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This is one of those things that I think is quietly important – when these people are talking shit about cities, Portland or Minneapolis or New York or Charlotte or wherever, you have to loudly say, “no, fuck you, you’re lying, that town and its people whip ass and you’re the asshole”
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I have personally benefited from disability accommodations, also gaming of them is 100% real, and I don’t see the point in denying it.
Balancing "no person with a disability should be denied accommodations" with "it's important to discourage non-disabled people from pretending to be disabled to take advantage of these accommodations" is really difficult and I don't have a great answer for what anyone should do about it.
December 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I have personally benefited from disability accommodations, also gaming of them is 100% real, and I don’t see the point in denying it.
Over the Top 2: Meet Me Halfway
Stallone lives in a nursing home, and Mike hasn’t visited for years. Maybe if Sly can win the senior center karaoke contest, their relationship can be saved?
Stallone lives in a nursing home, and Mike hasn’t visited for years. Maybe if Sly can win the senior center karaoke contest, their relationship can be saved?
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 26, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Over the Top 2: Meet Me Halfway
Stallone lives in a nursing home, and Mike hasn’t visited for years. Maybe if Sly can win the senior center karaoke contest, their relationship can be saved?
Stallone lives in a nursing home, and Mike hasn’t visited for years. Maybe if Sly can win the senior center karaoke contest, their relationship can be saved?
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If you want good reporting, books, music, movies, etc., you've gotta pay for it. Not complicated.
November 25, 2025 at 11:44 PM
If you want good reporting, books, music, movies, etc., you've gotta pay for it. Not complicated.
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RIP to a Real One
November 25, 2025 at 11:39 PM
RIP to a Real One
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I didn't even know the turkey was there on January 6th.
November 25, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I didn't even know the turkey was there on January 6th.
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He didn't want to be a team player. You wanna cluck your own way too, buddy? Maybe we'll see how well you fly too. No? You're gonna play ball?
November 25, 2025 at 6:55 PM
He didn't want to be a team player. You wanna cluck your own way too, buddy? Maybe we'll see how well you fly too. No? You're gonna play ball?
Name your four favorite 1980s movies
The Right Stuff
Do the Right Thing
Amadeus
Raging Bull
The Right Stuff
Do the Right Thing
Amadeus
Raging Bull
Name your top 4 80s films.
November 21, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Name your four favorite 1980s movies
The Right Stuff
Do the Right Thing
Amadeus
Raging Bull
The Right Stuff
Do the Right Thing
Amadeus
Raging Bull
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The "liver, fava beans and a nice chianti" line in Silence Of The Lambs is a little joke for psychiatrists in the audience - those foods cannot be consumed with the meds (monoamine oxidase inhibitors) that Lecter is supposed to be taking.
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 6:48 AM
The "liver, fava beans and a nice chianti" line in Silence Of The Lambs is a little joke for psychiatrists in the audience - those foods cannot be consumed with the meds (monoamine oxidase inhibitors) that Lecter is supposed to be taking.
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RFK Jr throwing some bungee cords into the trunk of his Range Rover and heading over
A dead sperm whale has washed up on Nantucket for the first time in decades. It’s too big to move — at least until officials figure out a plan.
Dead Sperm Whale on Nantucket Is Too Big to Move, for Now
A local nonprofit said the 52-ton mammal is “far too big, awkward and heavy to remove.” A town official later said it could be dragged out to sea by Thanksgiving.
nyti.ms
November 20, 2025 at 9:40 PM
RFK Jr throwing some bungee cords into the trunk of his Range Rover and heading over
RAGING BULL
TAXI DRIVER
THE WOLF OF WALL STEEET
THE KING OF COMEDY
GOODFELLAS
TAXI DRIVER
THE WOLF OF WALL STEEET
THE KING OF COMEDY
GOODFELLAS
oh okay.
THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST
SILENCE
TAXI DRIVER
CASINO
MEAN STREETS
(those last two have come on really strong for me these last few years)
THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST
SILENCE
TAXI DRIVER
CASINO
MEAN STREETS
(those last two have come on really strong for me these last few years)
TAXI DRIVER
THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST
RAGING BULL
THE AGE OF INNOCENCE
THE IRISHMAN
Might put KUNDUN sixth!
THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST
RAGING BULL
THE AGE OF INNOCENCE
THE IRISHMAN
Might put KUNDUN sixth!
November 17, 2025 at 8:41 PM
RAGING BULL
TAXI DRIVER
THE WOLF OF WALL STEEET
THE KING OF COMEDY
GOODFELLAS
TAXI DRIVER
THE WOLF OF WALL STEEET
THE KING OF COMEDY
GOODFELLAS
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
November 17, 2025 at 1:28 AM
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
Top 5 movie genres
inebriated guy in bathrobe has adventures
multiple intertwined storylines about unrelated characters
campy comedy
cursing and killing
Paranoid political epic
inebriated guy in bathrobe has adventures
multiple intertwined storylines about unrelated characters
campy comedy
cursing and killing
Paranoid political epic
Top 5 movie genres:
Masculinity is a prison
Fucked-up parents with lots of books
It’s a documentary… or is it
Toxic couple with amazing sex life
Blue aliens befriend space whales
Masculinity is a prison
Fucked-up parents with lots of books
It’s a documentary… or is it
Toxic couple with amazing sex life
Blue aliens befriend space whales
Top 5 movie genres are:
heist
intelligence/espionage thriller
pitch perfect
cerebral ensemble oscar fodder drama
heist some more
heist
intelligence/espionage thriller
pitch perfect
cerebral ensemble oscar fodder drama
heist some more
November 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Top 5 movie genres
inebriated guy in bathrobe has adventures
multiple intertwined storylines about unrelated characters
campy comedy
cursing and killing
Paranoid political epic
inebriated guy in bathrobe has adventures
multiple intertwined storylines about unrelated characters
campy comedy
cursing and killing
Paranoid political epic