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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 15h

We're hiring. It's a real needle-in-a-haystack search for an experienced teacher who can help reimagine our flagship (i.e., huge) intro course for a new era. 3/3 load. Convenient to Hollywood and Holbox.

usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...

Open-rank Assistant, Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at USC

usccareers.usc.edu

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 1d

(I did the reading and spoke up in class. But I ain't reading all that.)

NYT Dek Many students don't do the reading and don't speak up in class, according to a report. Now, professors are trying to change that campus culture.
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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for this which I will now say any time I look someone up on LinkedIn. Also, "You have 1 new invitation, brother"

comfort foods @primpker.bsky.social · 1d

*Bane voice* Ah, I have found you on Linkedin!

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 2d

On this flight there is both a There Will Be Blood viewer and an inherent Vice viewer. The people demand to know why Gen X white guys are like that

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 2d

And here I was hoping it was time for a Robert Aldrich retrospective

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 2d

This Kiss Me Deadly remake sucks

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

SOUTH CAROLINA… “Judge Goodstein was walking on the beach when the fire started. Her husband, Arnie, was in the house with children and perhaps grandchildren. The family had to escape by jumping from a window or balcony...” www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 2d

Hire my kid for some mlb front office

I text 5’8” 245 to kid; they text overestimate and underestimate I text do you know who I’m. Thinking of the text Alejandro Kirk. I text yup because I was

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 2d

And the music budget was certainly high

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 2d

The actors got their quotes; no significant tax credits; large groups of extras; real explosions. But even I can’t figure out why it took >$140m

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone will have their touchstones in OBAA. For me the work of the Art Department in Benicio’s warren of a pad stands out—catches the long struggle and decline of the country—the printed curtain room dividers, the dining set, the overbright hall. That’s Forencia Martin, Andrew Max Cahn and others

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 2d

Letterboxed: Conclave (Berger, 2024)

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 2d

Joyce Carol Ghost

Skeletons going on vacation at jfk terminal 5

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 2d

Exporting Friends culture?

youtu.be/LuBstLZINco?...

Syriana - Corruption

YouTube video by Cohan Wotherspoon

youtu.be

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 2d

Wake up! (Wake up!)
Lick a beer while Hailey does her makeup
(You wanna buy!)

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 2d

So Justin Bieber apparently looks like Serj Tankian these days

JB in a red jacket and black puffy vest, his hair is cut close to his head with an earring, a nose stud, a beard, holding a beer with his tongue sticking out sideways towards the bottle. He's on a street somewhere in what looks like Europe at sunset

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 2d

Filtered so much better than the pod coffee at work —that’s the Nespresso that I get

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 2d

So we have the driver’s statement a witness and two videos that show the 69yo backing up, getting thrown to the ground, and initially using less than lethal force. And Sanchez TOLD THE COPS he doesn’t remember anything but grabbing a window.

www.indystar.com/story/news/c...

'This guy is trying to kill me.' Details of Mark Sanchez stabbing, arrest released

"This guy is trying to kill me," the man who stabbed Mark Sanchez told police. The fight started over where the 69-year-old man parked a box truck.

www.indystar.com

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 3d

More leaked Hegseth texts

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 3d

He was holding out to see it in VistaVision.

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 3d

Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday in Tombstone but with a shiftily photoshopped Mariners cap

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 3d

This is absolutely correct and the only thing to do about it is not let the Ellison family by Warner Bros. In fact, just to be safe, we should institute fin/syn rules for digital distributors, make absolutely sure no broadcast group has more reach than 38% of the population, subsidize newspaper comp

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d

“Woke Movie promotes VIOLENCE against
ICE”

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 3d

My issue with PTA is that we are the same age and so when one of his movies hits for me I can't tell whether it's good or it's aimed exactly at late spring/early summer 1970 kids. Anyway, One Battle fires up the full bummer philharmonic in ways studio movies never do.

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 3d

Or emergency

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 3d

Red One—Red One—Energency!

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 3d

Taylor cover Brides Have Hit Glass Challenge:
You know I hate to be around her
When she's like that
I wrote a song once about her
Called "The Brides Have Hit Glass"
You know it just won't last
To be on top of your own world
With no guardrails to cling to
You fall so very fast

J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 3d

Pennsylvania boys can't handle that San Gabriel Valley sun