Chip Chandler
@chipchandler.bsky.social
Director of University Communications & Media Relations @ WT. An inveterate quidnunc. Opinions are my own. "There good. Been around the Block." he/him/his
Ah, serendipity.
December 15, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Ah, serendipity.
Amazing thread
A very important thread. When I was probably no more than 10, I saw this picture of the woman known as Harlow in the Philly Inquirer. A little babygay, I was shocked that such a glamour queen could live in my hometown and even more shocked to see her described as "a former man."
December 7, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Amazing thread
#AppleWrapped is unexpected this year. I made a killer country playlist for my mom (explaining top artist Kenny Rogers & top genre Contemporary Country) & I worked on a production of Ragtime but I can’t tell you why “I Can’t Tell You Why” is my top song, finally beating “I Wanna Dance With Somebody”
December 3, 2025 at 8:55 PM
#AppleWrapped is unexpected this year. I made a killer country playlist for my mom (explaining top artist Kenny Rogers & top genre Contemporary Country) & I worked on a production of Ragtime but I can’t tell you why “I Can’t Tell You Why” is my top song, finally beating “I Wanna Dance With Somebody”
This is so right! The best part of these lists is that they lead to new discoveries. Why should someone else’s list just confirm your priors?
Year-end critics’ lists exist for people to fight over, so I’m happy when people complain about them. But the complaint I will never get is, “I’ve never heard of most of these movies/albums/shows.” Yes, and? Why be mad about learning about stuff you didn’t know before from the news?
December 3, 2025 at 5:53 PM
This is so right! The best part of these lists is that they lead to new discoveries. Why should someone else’s list just confirm your priors?
This is one of the worst shows ever made and I couldn’t be more thrilled to own it on Blu-ray
"The Brady Bunch Variety Hour" premiered 49 years ago tonight, November 28, 1976, on ABC. Where were you in '76? #70s #BradyBunch #tv
November 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM
This is one of the worst shows ever made and I couldn’t be more thrilled to own it on Blu-ray
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ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
A movie you've seen more than 7 times in a GIF:
November 3, 2025 at 12:50 AM
A movie you've seen more than 7 times in a GIF:
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'Astronomers' is an anagram for 'moon starers.'
October 27, 2025 at 3:22 PM
'Astronomers' is an anagram for 'moon starers.'
Bookmarking this
Absolutely tore through every episode of this show that we could find when we were researching the book. An astonishing resource and time capsule of gay New York before AIDS, its existence seems impossible today. Highly recommended. Gem after gem in terms of interview subjects.
If you are interested in old New York gay history, watch old episodes of The Emerald City, the first TV show made for gay and trans people. 1977, right before AIDS. My old film teacher Gene Stavis produced and interviewed in it. m.youtube.com/watch?v=2eQW...
October 14, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Bookmarking this
Share your favorite black and white movie
September 24, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Share your favorite black and white movie
Preach
No people on the planet will ever be AI. This is Orwellian bullshit. Zero people will ever be AI. This is no different from saying half the people in the country are television characters. Do not let anybody convince you that you don’t know the difference between a human being and a machine.
“We believe that in the near future half the people on the planet will be AI, and we are the company that’s bringing those people to life,” said CEO Jeanine Wright, who was previously chief operating officer of podcasting company Wondery
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
September 9, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Preach
Happy birthday, Martha P.!
Happy birthday Marsha P. Johnson, visionary and fiery Black trans activist who birthed a movement. She’d by 80 today, and should still be alive.
Her legacy is one of revolutionary advocacy for global LGBTQ+ liberation. Her life is a testament to the need for sex worker rights & decriminalization.
Her legacy is one of revolutionary advocacy for global LGBTQ+ liberation. Her life is a testament to the need for sex worker rights & decriminalization.
August 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Happy birthday, Martha P.!
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If you're reacting to this thread with "Why isn't my opinion as valuable as any so-called critic's?" you are -- how shall I put this? -- the problem. You see a statement that a profession you're not in has value, and your first thought is "I'm being insulted!" You're how we got here.
It's profoundly saddening to read that AP will no longer be assigning or running book reviews because readers don't engage with them enough and they take too much effort to plan and assign. People complain about critics as gatekeepers; wait until all that's left is marketing.
August 11, 2025 at 8:11 PM
If you're reacting to this thread with "Why isn't my opinion as valuable as any so-called critic's?" you are -- how shall I put this? -- the problem. You see a statement that a profession you're not in has value, and your first thought is "I'm being insulted!" You're how we got here.
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Nothing so poignant as spending the evening with a lunch counter bisecting you through the intestines.
August 8, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Nothing so poignant as spending the evening with a lunch counter bisecting you through the intestines.
Correcting language misapprehensions on social media is, like, a dream job.
If you’ve ever heard that
- The F-Word is an acronym for “Fornication Under Consent of the King”
- The Sh-Word is an acronym for “Ship High in Transit”
- Any other older word being an acronym
It’s untrue.
Acronyms are, by and large, a 20th-century phenomenon.
- The F-Word is an acronym for “Fornication Under Consent of the King”
- The Sh-Word is an acronym for “Ship High in Transit”
- Any other older word being an acronym
It’s untrue.
Acronyms are, by and large, a 20th-century phenomenon.
July 29, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Correcting language misapprehensions on social media is, like, a dream job.
DC Cover of the Day
If you see this, post a DC Cover you love.
If you see this, post a DC Cover you love.
July 27, 2025 at 10:23 PM
DC Cover of the Day
If you see this, post a DC Cover you love.
If you see this, post a DC Cover you love.
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the Hogan/Thiel destruction of Gawker was one of the defining moments in the fall of the media and made the world, in a significant way, much worse
bye, you racist asshole
bye, you racist asshole
Hulk Hogan has died at 71, TMZ reports
Hulk Hogan Dead at 71
Wrestling legend Hulk Hogan has died at 71 years old, TMZ Sports has learned.
www.tmz.com
July 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
the Hogan/Thiel destruction of Gawker was one of the defining moments in the fall of the media and made the world, in a significant way, much worse
bye, you racist asshole
bye, you racist asshole
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You say journalism is dead.
I say the Washington Post profiled a nudist retreat in West Virginia and managed to find a man named Dewey Butts III.
I say the Washington Post profiled a nudist retreat in West Virginia and managed to find a man named Dewey Butts III.
July 20, 2025 at 7:34 PM
You say journalism is dead.
I say the Washington Post profiled a nudist retreat in West Virginia and managed to find a man named Dewey Butts III.
I say the Washington Post profiled a nudist retreat in West Virginia and managed to find a man named Dewey Butts III.
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The last thing a show queen sees before dying.
July 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The last thing a show queen sees before dying.
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As Trump and his allies in Congress try to gut public funding for PBS, watch this 1971 clip of Rev. Jesse Jackson and the kids of Sesame Street.
This is why we need public broadcasting.
This is why we need public broadcasting.
July 16, 2025 at 7:01 PM
As Trump and his allies in Congress try to gut public funding for PBS, watch this 1971 clip of Rev. Jesse Jackson and the kids of Sesame Street.
This is why we need public broadcasting.
This is why we need public broadcasting.
Post a book you love from the 1970s.
July 13, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Post a book you love from the 1970s.