45 years spent in Arizona and Texas will tend to do that to your body.
02.12.2025 01:27 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0@dkompare.bsky.social
Media scholar/eulogist, higher ed administrator, teacher, spouse, parent, procrastinator, physical media stan, music omnivore, flâneur, short term skeptic, and disappointed with the internet since 1995. Posts do not reflect views of my employer.
45 years spent in Arizona and Texas will tend to do that to your body.
02.12.2025 01:27 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I’m certain I could be a Canadian or Scandinavian culturally. It’s just that every time the temperature drops to the 30s, I’m reminded that I could never be one physically. 🥶
02.12.2025 01:27 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I don’t know much but I do know that there were very, very few Cheers reruns Joyce Byers could possibly have watched in November 1983.
29.11.2025 22:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A banger! If you’ve read this far in the replies, read this book!
26.11.2025 23:26 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This one is now 20 years old, but is still available and still not bad.
(And its spiritual sequel is in the works…)
www.routledge.com/Rerun-Nation...
post a famous bathroom scene
26.11.2025 02:57 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Priorities! 🎤
25.11.2025 23:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Stellar and intriguing panel! Looking forward to seeing it!
25.11.2025 22:43 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Got in to #SCMS26, and will present some fresh media studies scholarship in person for the first time in quite a while. Hoping to see you all in Chicago in a few months!
25.11.2025 22:04 — 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0#NoirvemberChallenge
Favorite #FilmNoir featuring a boat - Night Moves (1975)
#4 is a hero, tbh. I’m more thankful for the super-quick no than the weeks of waiting and nudging to get a yes.
25.11.2025 15:26 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love
25.11.2025 06:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Congratulations! 🎉
23.11.2025 04:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0My exact reaction to the running times of way too many films of the past decade.
22.11.2025 21:55 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Another cool full-time faculty position here at the Meadows School of the Arts: Media Exec-In-Residence in Journalism.
Details here:
apply.interfolio.com/170447
We had two consecutive “beachy” SCMS conferences in the late 90s: San Diego and West Palm Beach. And yes some of us did indeed hit the beach.
20.11.2025 18:22 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Funko's rise, ubiquity, and fall always felt like a metaphor for the entire fandom economy of the past 20 years.
20.11.2025 16:46 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Sigh. According to the Dallas Stars' war with the Mavs over AAC control, the Mavericks are already technically the "Las Vegas Mavericks"!
20.11.2025 16:37 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A picture of the info screen in a car that reads “Good morning, Dallas Mavericks lost their latest game.”
How my car greets me most mornings these days, and for the foreseeable future.
20.11.2025 15:25 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0This one may require a check-in in four years' time.
41 Doctor Who episodes have aired so far in the 2020s. How many more new Doctor Who TV episodes (not stories; episodes) will be made and aired by the end of 2029?
#FluidLinks
Point Break (1991) might be the catalyst. Others: The Firm (1993), True Romance (1993), Enemy of the State (1998), True Crime (1996), The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996), Hackers and The Net (both 1995).
19.11.2025 20:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The struggle is real.
See also: every dinner out at academic conferences.
Are you a fan of the 1978 film THE WIZ? I would LOVE to chat with you about your fandom for a book on THE WIZ. You only need to be 18 years old or older and love the film. DMs open and please share.
17.11.2025 17:58 — 👍 13 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 2Not a fan of the November erasure agenda of all the Xmas house displays up already. OTOH, big fan of the folks who still have Halloween out.
17.11.2025 00:59 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Oh man, this.
15.11.2025 16:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0#NoirvemberChallenge
#FilmNoir character you'd trust the least with your secrets.
Aw yeah! Congrats! 🎉🎉🎉
13.11.2025 13:11 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0One historically stupid trade too late, but I’ll take it. Let the healing begin.
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In a few decades, what will be left of the data we’ve generated on social media this century? Will it be missed? The answer to both questions is most likely “not much.”
09.11.2025 02:46 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0