chrisailor
@chrisailor.bsky.social
Assistant Professor (Film & Digital Media)
Writer • Lapsed Filmmaker
Hitting like the most painful misfortune.
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Views posted are entirely my own
Writer • Lapsed Filmmaker
Hitting like the most painful misfortune.
Newsletter at chrissailor.substack.com.
Views posted are entirely my own
January 7, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Signing back into all of my school accounts after a 25-day weekend…
January 5, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Signing back into all of my school accounts after a 25-day weekend…
Death to Streaming
Death to Streaming
Reclaiming Media and Digital Agency
open.substack.com
January 5, 2026 at 2:04 AM
Death to Streaming
Was at a dance show in Athens, drunk off my mind, during college back in the early 2000s. Kept bumping into the guy behind me and finally wheeled around to see what his deal was and maybe even tell him off and it was Michael Stipe. Told him what a fan I was and got a very quiet, polite “Thank you.”
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 29, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Was at a dance show in Athens, drunk off my mind, during college back in the early 2000s. Kept bumping into the guy behind me and finally wheeled around to see what his deal was and maybe even tell him off and it was Michael Stipe. Told him what a fan I was and got a very quiet, polite “Thank you.”
The French title for Gremlins translates directly as “Help! My idiot father spent the last of our money on a strange creature that will spawn an army of monsters if I break one of the incredibly specific and arbitrary rules that govern its existence.”
December 25, 2025 at 1:30 AM
The French title for Gremlins translates directly as “Help! My idiot father spent the last of our money on a strange creature that will spawn an army of monsters if I break one of the incredibly specific and arbitrary rules that govern its existence.”
Stuck in line at the liquor store behind a very disgruntled woman in an elf costume. It finally feels like Christmas.
December 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Stuck in line at the liquor store behind a very disgruntled woman in an elf costume. It finally feels like Christmas.
Up early on Christmas Eve trying to stuff peanut butter cups into a pair of open advent calendars because I’m too tired to maintain a teachable moment about patience and not getting ahead of oneself.
December 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Up early on Christmas Eve trying to stuff peanut butter cups into a pair of open advent calendars because I’m too tired to maintain a teachable moment about patience and not getting ahead of oneself.
If someone as demonstrably unqualified as Bari Weiss can’t even do badly at a job they don’t deserve without criticism then what hope do any of us have…?
December 23, 2025 at 1:36 AM
If someone as demonstrably unqualified as Bari Weiss can’t even do badly at a job they don’t deserve without criticism then what hope do any of us have…?
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I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:
WATCH: Segment CBS News Pulled From "60 Minutes"
YouTube video by Phil Lewis
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December 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:
On the first day of Christmas
My true love have to me
Jake Paul’s Jaw
Broken in three
My true love have to me
Jake Paul’s Jaw
Broken in three
December 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
On the first day of Christmas
My true love have to me
Jake Paul’s Jaw
Broken in three
My true love have to me
Jake Paul’s Jaw
Broken in three
The thing that I am perhaps proudest of as a parent is that our family lore includes “Frankenstein answering geography questions.”
December 20, 2025 at 9:35 PM
The thing that I am perhaps proudest of as a parent is that our family lore includes “Frankenstein answering geography questions.”
I bet if one more person makes the Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse/Trump Kennedy Center joke it will be funny.
December 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I bet if one more person makes the Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse/Trump Kennedy Center joke it will be funny.
“I wait all week for The fucking Equalizer…!” Pitch-perfect comedic acting. What a legend. Absolutely gutted.
December 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
“I wait all week for The fucking Equalizer…!” Pitch-perfect comedic acting. What a legend. Absolutely gutted.
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Netflix, Warner Brothers, and the end of Hollywood
Wither Warner Brothers, Wither Hollywood?
Musings on mergers, acquisitions, and the death of Hollywood as we know it
open.substack.com
December 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Netflix, Warner Brothers, and the end of Hollywood
Netflix, Warner Brothers, and the end of Hollywood
Wither Warner Brothers, Wither Hollywood?
Musings on mergers, acquisitions, and the death of Hollywood as we know it
open.substack.com
December 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Netflix, Warner Brothers, and the end of Hollywood
I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that….
December 11, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that….
The people I know who are not dedicated “movie people” go maybe 1-2 times a year at most. I think that’s lamentable for reasons beyond nostalgia for the experience as I once knew it, but it’s also a fight that indeed feels over. I don’t think anything brings them back with any increased regularity.
I am not sure how to get people back into theaters or if it's possible, but I do know that if the strongest remaining argument is "you SHOULD," or something about the holiness of the collective big-screen experience, the battle is lost. That has no traction with people who don't already believe it.
December 11, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The people I know who are not dedicated “movie people” go maybe 1-2 times a year at most. I think that’s lamentable for reasons beyond nostalgia for the experience as I once knew it, but it’s also a fight that indeed feels over. I don’t think anything brings them back with any increased regularity.
We are reminded time and again that nobody beyond the beltway crowd or the terminally online knows or care anything about any of these people. It would all be so much easier if we just stopped paying attention to any of them.
Olivia Nuzzi’s Much-Hyped Book—With RFK Revelation—Sells Just Over 1,000 Copies
“American Canto,” one of the most hyped political books of the year, flopped in bookstores.
www.forbes.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:28 PM
We are reminded time and again that nobody beyond the beltway crowd or the terminally online knows or care anything about any of these people. It would all be so much easier if we just stopped paying attention to any of them.
Furiously bragging about the difficulty of the basic cognitive assessment tests that they are forcing me to take every week at this point.
December 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Furiously bragging about the difficulty of the basic cognitive assessment tests that they are forcing me to take every week at this point.
My only complaint about the new iPhone is that it still allows you to get phone calls.
December 11, 2025 at 1:12 AM
My only complaint about the new iPhone is that it still allows you to get phone calls.
1992: The Penguin running for mayor?! What a ludicrous plot point. How could we ever buy that anyone would be dumb enough to vote for someone so grotesque?
2025: Maybe the Penguin can run in 2028 and return us to a semblance of normalcy.
2025: Maybe the Penguin can run in 2028 and return us to a semblance of normalcy.
December 10, 2025 at 2:23 AM
1992: The Penguin running for mayor?! What a ludicrous plot point. How could we ever buy that anyone would be dumb enough to vote for someone so grotesque?
2025: Maybe the Penguin can run in 2028 and return us to a semblance of normalcy.
2025: Maybe the Penguin can run in 2028 and return us to a semblance of normalcy.
Zone of Interest prequel just dropped
I can’t emphasize enough how much you need to watch this until the end
December 9, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Zone of Interest prequel just dropped