Thatβs awesome!!
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Thatβs awesome!!
19.10.2025 16:35 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Went to my childhood roller rink today in the parental capacity. Havenβt been there in 25 years. It looks and even smells exactly the same. Unfortunately there was no Spice Girls, Goo Goo Dolls, or Backstreet Boys playing.
19.10.2025 02:12 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Like. She could have just shrugged and left. And been annoyed. And just never gone back. That was a choice.
19.10.2025 02:05 β π 15 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Having not watched these in about 25 years, I can confirm that three is absolutely awful, but four really holds up. #Halloween #SpookySky
18.10.2025 02:35 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0On this day in 1859, John Brownβs raid on Harperβs Ferry began. A few years ago, I wrote this story about Brown, his final days, & the influence of his time spent living in Pennsylvania. If you missed it, I hope youβll check it out. #history #skystorians
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Tonightβs #Halloween horror classic:
16.10.2025 01:53 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Ending this night with this absolute 80s classic. So bad itβs good. #Halloween
14.10.2025 03:22 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Tonightβs #Halloween season double feature. Iβve actually never watched A Quiet Place *and* Iβve managed to avoid any spoilers about it.
13.10.2025 23:57 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I missed this one when it came out somehow. While watching it tonight, I thought to myself that it sure seemed like a zombie movie as if directed by Jim Jarmusch. It turns outβ¦ it was a zombie movie literally directed by Jim Jarmusch. π€¦π»ββοΈ #halloween #spookysky
12.10.2025 23:58 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0A newer one tonight for #Halloween season. I know nothing about besides it being described to me as a mashup of a cheesy Lifetime movie and a classic slasher.
11.10.2025 23:22 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0And when you realize it was 1974, predating even Halloween by a few years, itβs even more impressive!
11.10.2025 02:29 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Black Christmas (1974) for tonightβs #Halloween movie.
11.10.2025 02:07 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Hereβs tonightβs Halloween season watch, another one I havenβt watched since I was 13 or 14. It makes one wonder why Spielberg hasnβt dabbled more in the horror genre.
08.10.2025 01:44 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0It really held up, I thought. Thereβs a particular vibe to those 80s horror movies that I dig.
07.10.2025 18:48 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Honestly, itβs corny (in a good 80s horror movie way), but Iβm loving it.
07.10.2025 01:33 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0First horror movie of the #Halloween season: Fright Night (1985). I havenβt watched this since I was 13 or 14 when I rented a beat up old VHS copy of it, but I remember loving it and its darkly comedic vibe. #HalloweenSky
07.10.2025 00:58 β π 11 π 0 π¬ 3 π 0Starting with today's post, on some of the many AmericanStudies reasons why we can't forget the histories & stories of boxing--& a couple reasons why I wish we could.
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Here it is, my 243rd #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please share widely, & enjoy, all! ποΈ
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Canada Lee was an esteemed Broadway actor who, among other roles, was the lead in Orson Welles's Native Son adaptation. In Hollywood, he worked with Alfred Hitchcock & alongside Sidney Poitier. Before this though? A scrappy boxer. My latest. #history #skystorians
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Due to Leeβs increasing civil rights activism & connection to progressive causes, he soon found himself the target of anti-communist hysteria & with the FBI's investigation of him, he was blacklisted. When asked to identify a friend as a communist to drop the blacklisting, Lee refused. #history
25.09.2025 22:00 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0When he took on the lead role in Welles' Native Son in 1941, he was experiencing fame well beyond that from his boxing days. The New York Times outright called him one of the best actors in the country. "I'm completely bewildered," Lee said. #skystorians #Broadway #history
25.09.2025 21:56 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0After nearly 100 professional matches, Canada Lee hung up his gloves. He dabbled as a bandleader, traveling from club to club, before in 1934, stumbling upon something new: the stage. In 1936, he was cast by Orson Welles as Banquo in an extremely successful production of Macbeth. #acting #history
25.09.2025 21:54 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Canada Lee started boxing professionally at age 20 after winning around 90 of his first 100 fights as an amateur. He was described as a "sensational welterweight" who hit hard with his "dynamic left hand" and a "pile driving right." #history #boxing #sports
25.09.2025 21:48 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Canada Lee was an esteemed Broadway actor who, among other roles, was the lead in Orson Welles's Native Son adaptation. In Hollywood, he worked with Alfred Hitchcock & alongside Sidney Poitier. Before this though? A scrappy boxer. My latest. #history #skystorians
www.eriereader.com/article/cana...
Got my copy of the second volume of The Triangle. Iβm in good company. And everybody else involved β editors, photographers, the absolutely indispensable archivists and researchers β sure did make this magazine look SLICK. #history #skystorians #EriePA
23.09.2025 23:34 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Without my editor, I get a little carried away. But hereβs my perspective on the whole echo chambers discussion. I have a lot of thoughts. A.I. slop! Algorithms! Dead Internet Theory! The World Wide Web! RSS feeds! Journalistic codes of ethics! Read on:
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Iβm a Pirates fan, soβ¦ I can relate.
06.09.2025 01:36 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I liked my blue book tests. π
26.08.2025 21:59 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I love editing. Being challenged by your editor to trim 1,000 words from a 3,000 word story and then doing it and itβs somehow better? What a rush!
24.08.2025 01:37 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0New magazine dropped with my story βInk & Imagination Built Erieβ covering many of Erieβs notable past architects. Unfortunately though, the magazine is sent to Erie County Historical Society members and only available to buy at the museum, so no link of it to share (yet?). #history #skystorians
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