Derek Kompare

45 years spent in Arizona and Texas will tend to do that to your body.

I’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. 🥶

I 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.

A banger! If you’ve read this far in the replies, read this book!

This one is now 20 years old, but is still available and still not bad.

(And its spiritual sequel is in the works…)

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post a famous bathroom scene

Priorities! 🎤

Stellar and intriguing panel! Looking forward to seeing it!

Got 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!

#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.

Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love

Congratulations! 🎉

My exact reaction to the running times of way too many films of the past decade.

Another cool full-time faculty position here at the Meadows School of the Arts: Media Exec-In-Residence in Journalism.

Details here:
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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.

Funko's rise, ubiquity, and fall always felt like a metaphor for the entire fandom economy of the past 20 years.

Sigh. According to the Dallas Stars' war with the Mavs over AAC control, the Mavericks are already technically the "Las Vegas Mavericks"!

A 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.

This 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).

The 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.

Not 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.

Oh man, this.

#NoirvemberChallenge
#FilmNoir character you'd trust the least with your secrets.

Aw yeah! Congrats! 🎉🎉🎉

Mavs expected to fire GM Nico Harrison, reports say Mavericks General Manager Nico Harrison is expected to be fired Tuesday during a meeting with team owner Patrick Dumont, according to ESPN insider Shams Charania.

One 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.”