Mark Carlile
@chapmansfriend.bsky.social
Lapsed history prof.
Likes: Marquette sports, baseball, Reading FC, music, movies, TV
Dislikes: fascism
Likes: Marquette sports, baseball, Reading FC, music, movies, TV
Dislikes: fascism
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Wishing a safe, happy Christmas Eve to anybody celebrating tonight!
December 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Wishing a safe, happy Christmas Eve to anybody celebrating tonight!
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From time to time in Los Angeles I meet people who were involved in the Nakatomi business. They always find this time of year difficult.
November 29, 2024 at 5:09 PM
From time to time in Los Angeles I meet people who were involved in the Nakatomi business. They always find this time of year difficult.
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It’s really strange the vice president of the United States is a white supremacist, who says white supremacist slogans, who publicly praises and follows the work of white supremacists, and it’s simply not mentioned or discussed in political media
December 22, 2025 at 2:24 PM
It’s really strange the vice president of the United States is a white supremacist, who says white supremacist slogans, who publicly praises and follows the work of white supremacists, and it’s simply not mentioned or discussed in political media
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Every descendant of slaves has more American heritage than Trump. But I don’t imagine that figures large in the minds of most people using the phrase.
December 21, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Every descendant of slaves has more American heritage than Trump. But I don’t imagine that figures large in the minds of most people using the phrase.
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One day something will happen — a wedding, a graduation, a job promotion, Jake Paul getting knocked out, Andrew Tate getting knocked out the next day — and you’ll want the right outfit to celebrate. Buy that special outfit now, so you’re ready when that next unexpected moment arrives.
December 21, 2025 at 7:19 AM
One day something will happen — a wedding, a graduation, a job promotion, Jake Paul getting knocked out, Andrew Tate getting knocked out the next day — and you’ll want the right outfit to celebrate. Buy that special outfit now, so you’re ready when that next unexpected moment arrives.
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Trump take booze
Jim Beam Whiskey will shut its distillery for 2026 thanks to plummeting sales amid retaliatory tariffs from the European Union after Trump's tariffs and a bourbon boycott from Canada.
www.kentucky.com/news/busines...
www.kentucky.com/news/busines...
Major Kentucky bourbon maker Jim Beam shuttering distillery for 2026
The move comes as Kentucky’s $9 billion bourbon industry is dealing with a glut of supply and slipping sales.
www.kentucky.com
December 21, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Trump take booze
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My 14-yo-son has recreated the climax of Back to the Future in gingerbread and I thought you should know.
December 20, 2025 at 5:41 PM
My 14-yo-son has recreated the climax of Back to the Future in gingerbread and I thought you should know.
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NO ONE does an In Memoriam as well as @tcmtv.bsky.social does. The second half of this tribute to the performers, filmmakers, and essential craftspeople we lost in 2025 hits hard.
TCM Remembers 2025 | TCM
YouTube video by Turner Classic Movies
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December 20, 2025 at 10:06 AM
NO ONE does an In Memoriam as well as @tcmtv.bsky.social does. The second half of this tribute to the performers, filmmakers, and essential craftspeople we lost in 2025 hits hard.
1: “The Drowning Pool,” Paul Newman’s second time playing private eye Lew Harper. The plot’s not much more than OK; but there are atmospheric New Orleans filming locations, the character actor Murray Hamilton is great playing the slimy bad guy, and most of all you have Newman doing Newman things
December 20, 2025 at 2:26 AM
1: “The Drowning Pool,” Paul Newman’s second time playing private eye Lew Harper. The plot’s not much more than OK; but there are atmospheric New Orleans filming locations, the character actor Murray Hamilton is great playing the slimy bad guy, and most of all you have Newman doing Newman things
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An extremely satisfying set of videos is coming in a few years.
December 19, 2025 at 8:07 PM
An extremely satisfying set of videos is coming in a few years.
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Mitt is actually making two requests in this headline
December 19, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Mitt is actually making two requests in this headline
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Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.
December 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.
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I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
December 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
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If you want to take one thing away from the art of the New Deal it is - in my humble opinion - that throwing money at *NORMAL* artists to decorate public buildings makes the world a much nicer place, particularly if you charge them with making the decorations evoke the history of where they are.
December 19, 2025 at 5:08 AM
If you want to take one thing away from the art of the New Deal it is - in my humble opinion - that throwing money at *NORMAL* artists to decorate public buildings makes the world a much nicer place, particularly if you charge them with making the decorations evoke the history of where they are.
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also like. we did. the us is scattered with new deal monumental architecture
It's easy to dunk on liberals with something like 'why can't liberalism build anything as interesting as Soviet towers or Mussolini's monuments' but the more interesting question is the opposite, why does everyone with strong opinions on monumental architecture turn out to be politically insane.
December 19, 2025 at 4:34 AM
also like. we did. the us is scattered with new deal monumental architecture
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so much talk about whether the odyssey film is "historically accurate" and i'm just like, you know it's fiction right. it's made up. it never actually happened.
December 18, 2025 at 11:11 PM
so much talk about whether the odyssey film is "historically accurate" and i'm just like, you know it's fiction right. it's made up. it never actually happened.
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Jane Austen used 'however' at the beginning of a sentence, and so can you.
December 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Jane Austen used 'however' at the beginning of a sentence, and so can you.
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Dec 16th 1994 - The date that Jesse and Céline agreed to meet each other again, 6 months after spending the night in each others company
📽️📅 Before Sunrise (1995)
📽️📅 Before Sunrise (1995)
December 16, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Dec 16th 1994 - The date that Jesse and Céline agreed to meet each other again, 6 months after spending the night in each others company
📽️📅 Before Sunrise (1995)
📽️📅 Before Sunrise (1995)
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I think it's kind of beautiful that this was Rob Reiner's final line on television
December 15, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I think it's kind of beautiful that this was Rob Reiner's final line on television
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Just to get ahead of this: Print the post out and bring it to the next Mike Johnson presser. You already know what his move will be. There’s no excuse to not be prepared for it.
December 15, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Just to get ahead of this: Print the post out and bring it to the next Mike Johnson presser. You already know what his move will be. There’s no excuse to not be prepared for it.
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Ignore "North" and "American President" as next. That's 8-out-of-9 at the HIGHEST level. To be maybe our greatest rom-com director and throw in a Top 10 coming-of-age movie, an impeccable claustrophobic thriller, perfectly handled Sorkin, THE seminal mockumentary...
All ENDLESSLY rewatchable.
All ENDLESSLY rewatchable.
This has to be one of the greatest runs any director has ever experienced.
December 15, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Ignore "North" and "American President" as next. That's 8-out-of-9 at the HIGHEST level. To be maybe our greatest rom-com director and throw in a Top 10 coming-of-age movie, an impeccable claustrophobic thriller, perfectly handled Sorkin, THE seminal mockumentary...
All ENDLESSLY rewatchable.
All ENDLESSLY rewatchable.
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The Clash’s “London Calling” was released on this date in 1979.
December 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM
The Clash’s “London Calling” was released on this date in 1979.
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Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
December 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
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A (quite) young movie lover said to me recently, "Not everybody can afford a DVD player," and I said "How much do you think a DVD player costs?"
He said, "I don't know, like $500?"
Those of us who advocate physical media are maybe not doing the best job of messaging.
He said, "I don't know, like $500?"
Those of us who advocate physical media are maybe not doing the best job of messaging.
December 13, 2025 at 4:15 AM
A (quite) young movie lover said to me recently, "Not everybody can afford a DVD player," and I said "How much do you think a DVD player costs?"
He said, "I don't know, like $500?"
Those of us who advocate physical media are maybe not doing the best job of messaging.
He said, "I don't know, like $500?"
Those of us who advocate physical media are maybe not doing the best job of messaging.