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Sherilyn Connelly

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Author of Ponyville Confidential (2017), The First Star Trek Movie (2019), Presenting Persis Khambatta (2021), Beautiful Ghosts (2021), and The Names Below the Title (2027). San Francisco 6 / Fresno 8 / BMI 21.6

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That TPUSA halftime show is gonna be like the Velvet Underground's first album; only a couple hundred people watched it but every single one of them will tase themselves in the balls on January 6th part 2

09.02.2026 10:56 β€” πŸ‘ 67    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The four types of YouTube comments you find on old music videos
- Who's here watching this in 2026?!
- I was 23 when this song came out. Now I am 65 and still love this song
- I miss this era, a simpler time when everything was sane, take me back
- BETTER THAN STUFF TODAY, RAP MORE LIKE CRAP

26.01.2026 18:18 β€” πŸ‘ 64    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 6

The only positive review of MELANIA was from Jedediah Leland in the New York Inquirer

31.01.2026 04:29 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

Sometimes when I watch it and it gets to the scene where Riker says "we don't have time for this" and phaser stuns Cochrane I like to pretend it was set to kill and Riker was like fuck the timeline, fuck the Federation, fuck everything I'm done

03.02.2026 18:59 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

jfc the bro energy at my usual Monday night place is off the charts. It’s like they decided to take the MAGA halftime show on the road, but their bus broke down here.

10.02.2026 03:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Persis' connection to the war and its veterans was tenuous at best, considering she was not born in the Western Hemisphere and did not take up residence in the United States until a few months before the Fall of Saigonβ€”but a gig is a gig, and it was a gig.

09.02.2026 21:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Los Angeles Times, February 9, 1986. Persis Khambatta and Leonard Nimoy were listed among the National Honorary Chairpersons and Guest Artists for the Official National Welcome Home Celebration for Our Vietnam Veterans at the Forum on February 24. Were they indeed both there? Unclear!

09.02.2026 21:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Baker & Taylor to Cease Operations | American Libraries Magazine Despite measures to continue operations and preserve pending contracts with libraries, the book distributor Baker & Taylor will shutter.

Also, much of the experience I'm citing for this new position is with a system that was recently shuttered, which is not a good look. I mean, it's not my fault that B&T went belly-up, but it cannot help my case. americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2025/10/08/b...

09.02.2026 19:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The application I'm currently working on is for a different position with the same institution, different enough that it requires a ground-up rewrite of the cover letter, as well as refocusing the content of my resume--which, like so much of this process, feels like a trap.

09.02.2026 19:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I just realized that the resume I uploaded as part of a recent job application included my old SF address, while my current Fresno address was on the cover letter and in the electronic application itself. Obviously, that discrepancy is why I haven't heard back from them.

09.02.2026 19:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Variety, February 9, 1982. It's nice to see Jim Sharman's SHOCK TREATMENT--a film which doesn't quite work but which has a soundtrack I unabashedly adore--included in this ad listing upcoming new and re-released films presented in Dolby Stereo.

09.02.2026 18:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
@CBThorburn

Editor: You get those photos of Elliott Gould and Grover?

Photographer: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked.

Editor: what

@CBThorburn Editor: You get those photos of Elliott Gould and Grover? Photographer: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked. Editor: what

09.02.2026 02:48 β€” πŸ‘ 70    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Oakland Tribune, February 9, 1967.

Like the other mother I am also 29 years of age and a mother of four children, and look forward to every Thursday evening to watch "Star Trek" and especially to see Mr. Spock. I think he is enchanting to look at because he is so out of the ordinary.

09.02.2026 17:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Latrobe Bulletin, February 9, 1987. Professional curmudgeon Andy Rooney tries to unravel the mystery of, among other things, why "active homosexual Liberace's greatest appeal was to women." Rooney also goes into some detail about which women give him boners (Linda Evans) and which do not (Madonna).

09.02.2026 17:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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In Raoul Walsh's 1939 THE ROARING TWENTIES--which is the best American studio film of 1939, winds and wizards be damned--Gladys George plays a character inspired by Texas Guinan named Panama Smith. The whole movie is great, but Gladys' performance as Panama is its heart. I feel her so much.

21.06.2025 20:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Exhibitors Herald-World, February 9, 1929. Texas Guinan was the real-life nightclub manager who was the inspiration for the name of Whoopi Goldberg's Star Trek character.

09.02.2026 17:40 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I was born four months later in June 1973, and I see this as futher evidence that I was gestated during one of the ugliest eras in American history on an aesthetic level. I emerged into a world in which everything was just unspeakably tacky.

09.02.2026 17:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tampa Bay Times, February 9, 1973. One of the famous "It's Only a Movie" adverts for Wes Craven's LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT. What fascinates me is the comparison to John G. Avildsen's JOE; it had come out three years earlier and, while violent, was nowhere near as brutal and icky as LAST HOUSE.

09.02.2026 17:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Out of the most morbid of curiosities I downloaded that MAGA halftime show (in a way that did not increase its views) and skipped forward to a random part and it was some beardo singing something like "little boys can't become little girls" and the crowd cheered and I was like NOPE NOPE NOPE EJECT

09.02.2026 17:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You don't bring a knife to a gunfight, and you don't bring Kid Rock to a culture war.

09.02.2026 04:27 β€” πŸ‘ 245    πŸ” 40    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1

anyone: love is good :) we should all be friends :)

republicans: why the fuck is this guy attacking me

09.02.2026 04:00 β€” πŸ‘ 245    πŸ” 33    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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The only postgame show you’ll ever need.

09.02.2026 04:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In other news, nobody's uploaded MELANIA to The Pirate Bay yet.

09.02.2026 03:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Did not watch halftime show, am hearing Bad Bunny married all of us to him through the tv? Woke is too much now I fear

09.02.2026 03:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2000    πŸ” 135    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The social relevance of the Turning Point USA half-time show in comparison to the Bad Bunny Super Bowl performance is roughly equivalent to the cultural footprint Allen & Rossi left when they appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show with The Beatles.

09.02.2026 02:08 β€” πŸ‘ 984    πŸ” 123    πŸ’¬ 40    πŸ“Œ 8

"Suspected political message" = in Spanish so the mouth noises scared me

09.02.2026 03:27 β€” πŸ‘ 5696    πŸ” 509    πŸ’¬ 163    πŸ“Œ 20

[S] For those not tuned in, the Super Bowl final score was Bad Bunny 42, MAGA and ICE 0.

09.02.2026 03:24 β€” πŸ‘ 73    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Look at all the confetti on the field! You may call it flakes of paint from the Super Bowl logo, but I call it confetti.

09.02.2026 03:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

to anyone who liked that "hims & hers" commercial: you do not get to complain about pronouns EVER AGAIN

09.02.2026 03:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Avery Brooks as Benny Russell during his breakdown scene in DS9 "Far Beyond the Stars." Captioned, "They put WOKE POLITICS in my pew pew space show."

Avery Brooks as Benny Russell during his breakdown scene in DS9 "Far Beyond the Stars." Captioned, "They put WOKE POLITICS in my pew pew space show."

Is nothing sacred

09.02.2026 02:47 β€” πŸ‘ 267    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

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