Rusty Hatchell

I'm at the Olympics and the entire stadium booed JD Vance. 😌

This must be the biggest gap in critic and user scores in Rotten Tomatoes history.

The "Melania" doc is not listed on Box Office Mojo, which is owned by Amazon via IMDb. "Melania" is distributed by Amazon MGM Studios.

B.O. Mojo reports on ALL box-office revenue, even commercial bombs & critical disasters—incl. Zyzzyx Rd, which made THIRTY DOLLARS in 2006 at one theater in Dallas!

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

TUBI or not TUBI? lolzzzzzz that's right THE PEOPLE'S JOKER is now available to watch for FREE on TUBI! We also just dropped a bunch of new merch at the yeyostore (check it below). It's the best day of your life!

The person who is actually executing all this stuff, Marco Rubio, was confirmed by every single Democrat in the U.S. Senate.

If the Spice Girls taught us anything it was that 40% of women are named Mel.

This is a very common gesture in kpop right now.

🪧 EXTENDED DEADLINE January 15
Online participation welcome! 💻

What a sad, enraging, upsetting day. I hope that child and her partner are somewhere safe and surrounded by loved ones.

The Role of Enemies in Military Shooter Video Games: On Hostile Ground This book delivers a unique way of understanding the heart of every first‑person military shooter game – its enemies – from within the genre itself to present a nuanced view of opponents in war games....

New year, new publication alert - and this is a big one for me. My book "The Role of Enemies in Military Shooter Video Games" is out! It’s an attempt to provide a systematic framework for analyzing enemies in military shooters.
www.routledge.com/The-Role-of-...

Billy Binion tweet, it reads: "Politicians shgouldn't say "fuck" in public. Unbecoming, reeks of pick-me energy. You're the mayor. Act like it." It's QTing @Acyn who is quoting the Mayor Frey saying "I have a message for ICE: Get the fuck out of Minneapolis.

For those wondering what Mamdani's quote, "For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty," was in reference to...

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

Hi, film studies folks! This spring, I am teaching an upper-level seminar designed around the topic of "National Identity, Historical Trauma, and Collective Memory in Contemporary Global Cinemas." What are some key/foundational/introductory texts you would suggest for this class?

It is! I found Perkins' visual and aural direction to be sharp and his tonal decisions to be nicely executed, given that the King story is not comedic.

Mickey 17 and The Monkey both fulfilled absurdist needs I didn't know I had this year.

There's a bizarre sleight of hand here where professors resisting implementing AI into the classroom via ed-tech (a very winnable battle) is being equated with making all Gen AI "go away" (a much bigger fight).

Canadian TV network bravely airs dissidents’ report on U.S. abuses after political commissar orders its suppression

repost if trans people should have dr pepper

LUHAN: Is the FCC an independent agency?

CARR: I think th---

L: Yes or no

C: There's a test for this in the la---

L: It's yes or no, Brendan! On your website, it simply says, man, 'the FCC is independent.' This isn't a trick question

C: The FCC is not

L: So is your website lying?

C: Possibly

What a horrifying weekend of news. Too much.

Texas, let’s win this thing.
#JasmineForUS #TexasTough

All media mergers end up hurting writers, actors, directors, and everyone else who works in the industry. Executives, assistants, caterers, teamsters, everyone. Fewer companies means fewer jobs, period.

An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.

‘Undeveloped property’: Mad Men, crisis, and real estate Martha Shearer ABSTRACT Mad Men is perhaps the preeminent example of nostalgia television of the last 20 years. And yet its version of the Sixties is relatively uninterested in what Fredric Jameson has characterised as that decade’s ‘shared feeling that everything is possible’. Instead, its primary concern is the feeling of being unmoored in history, encapsulated in the falling man of its title sequence, but also in its formal shifts between delay, deferral and slowness and the shock of historical and narrative events. As a number of scholars have observed, that slowness calls attention instead to the image and to space, and especially to production design. In this essay, I argue that the show increasingly calls attention to that space as real estate, with seasons punctuated with domestic and commercial real estate sales and acquisitions, real estate transactions as major plot points, and the introduction of real estate agent and property developer characters in its final season. I suggest that real estate, in both aesthetic and narrative terms, is critical to the show’s ambivalence about the future, caught between optimism regarding the expansion of global capitalism and knowledge of crises that follow, both in the 1970s and in 2008. [now attentive and loving readers of my posts will know that there is a typo in there that they've told me is getting fixed, and if you, dear reader, notice it can I please assure you that I am not illiterate, cheers]

here is my new article on mad men, real estate, the past, the future (open access!): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
this is part of an upcoming special issue of rethinking history on "memories of the future" edited by louis bayman and tim vermeulen

My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?

'Superman' comic found in a California attic sells for record $9.12 million at auction A pristine copy of 'Superman' No. 1 that was found in an attic sold for $9.12 million at Heritage Auctions, becoming the most expensive comic book ever sold.

'Superman' comic found in a California attic sells for record $9.12 million at auction

Theme Park Fandom: Spatial Transmedia, Materiality and Participatory Cultures Theme Park Fandom argues that serious study of theme parks and their adult fans has much to tell us about contemporary transmediality and convergence, themed and immersive spaces, and audience relatio...

My book Theme Park Fandom is coming out in a much more affordable paperback edition. Pre-order here:

www.routledge.com/Theme-Park-F...

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.