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Burly Ballads for Love and Glory @burlybard.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Why don’t we just wait here for a little while… see what happens?

Kurt Russell, very cold, in the final scene of The Thing

Burly Ballads for Love and Glory @burlybard.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Purge for Sex movie was greenlit in that deranged window when the entertainment industry assumed that the 2024 election signaled that woke was dead and everyone was suddenly a right-wing Christian… it’s starting to make sense now

Snapshot of the Wikipedia page for the film “One Night Only”, aka the Purge but for sex

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Burly Ballads for Love and Glory @burlybard.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

we should treat posting medical misinformation to a mass audience online with the same legal seriousness as practicing medicine without a license (more if the person is selling supplements)

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Burly Ballads for Love and Glory @burlybard.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

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Burly Ballads for Love and Glory @burlybard.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

clickbait title aside, the writer came close to a good point that it’s unhealthy for the movies when only one genre can consistently produce original, independent hits. But framing the success of horror as a conscious decision by Hollywood writ large at other genres’ expense is bullshit

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Burly Ballads for Love and Glory @burlybard.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

My wife and I are trying to find a home for this sweet FIV+ boy named Blueberry, adoption fee. We live need Charlotte, NC, but we’re willing to drive him to a new home ourselves l or arrange transport anywhere in the US. Contact the number on the flier to learn more. #rescuecat #catsofbluesky

A flier for a cat looking for a home. The flier has three images of a gray and white cat with medium-length fur. The first picture shows the cat at a kennel at a veterinary clinic, looking at the camera. The second clinic shows the cat sleeping in a planter beside a blueberry bush. The third image shows the cat in the same planter, lying on his back, showing his tummy. The text of the flier reads “Looking For a Home: my name is Blueberry. I am a 3 year old, neutered male medium haired cat. I am FIV+ and need a home where I can be the only cat and indoors only. I am a sweet boy, very good motivated, and love getting pets and finding cozy nap spots (especially by blueberries). I was a friendly neighborhood stray, but have received veterinary care and need a home. To adopt me or for more info, please contact the Bell family at (980) 550-0065”

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wint @dril.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

why breed dogs with jaws large enough to tear through Flesh, when you could breed dogs with minds large enougj to tear through Fallacy.....

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

anyone who knew someone with pancreatic cancer knows how big of a deal this is

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Burly Ballads for Love and Glory @burlybard.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

“Let’s Marvin Gaye and get it on” is the worst lyric ever written, and also deeply deranged

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Burly Ballads for Love and Glory @burlybard.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

I don’t have a lot of followers, but fuck it: Matt Zoller Seitz has been my favorite critic for years. He writes with eloquence, clarity, and passion. His bookstore is one of a kind, with some extraordinary finds for anyone who loves the arts. I’ll be making some purchases ASAP

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Greetings, new friends! You may know me as an author, a prolific Bluesky poster and 4th place finisher on So You Call That Dancing? But you might not know that my partner Judith (@mzpress) and I have an online arts bookstore that's growing every day. Full inventory here: mzs.press/EVERYTHING-W...

The covers of three books. Left to right: Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the life of a legend, about the late Sopranos actor. The cover shows Gandolfini looking shy, peering offscreen with one unobstructed eye and another that peeks out between the fingers of his right hand.
CENTER: The cover of Cinema Her Way, a coffee table book by Marya E. Gates about female directors. On the cover is actress Michelle Rodriguez as the boxer heroine of Karyn Kusama's sports drama Girlfight, about a woman boxer.
RIGHT David Hockney's painting collection The Arrival of Spring in Normandy, showing a painting of a verdant field. In the background of the field is green grass. in the upper foreground are the branches of a tree sprouting white, cottony buds.

A screenshot of the pre-orders section at mzs.press. Three screenshots of books that have not yet been released. I Am The Night, Daniel Dockery's book about Batman the Brave and the Bold, has a silhouette of Batman stretching from the top to the bottom of the cover, with the title of the book and a nighttime Gotham skyline circumscribed by the borders of the Batman silhouette.

CENTER The cover of The Ring Cycle, Matt Zoller Seitz and Odie Henderson's book on the Rocky and Creed films. The cover is white except for a pair of black boxing gloves floating there

RIGHT The cover of Documentary Now!, the 600-page, 7-pound coffee table book celebrating the aforementioned IFC Channel series parodying classic documentaries.

Screenshot of three books carried at mzs.press arts bookstore:
LEFT: Cover of Lead Sister, a biography of Karen Carpenter, featuring a closeup of Carpenter playing and singing with The Carpenters.
CENTER: The cover of Anthony Hopkins' We Did OK, Kid, a memoir of his life and career. On the cover is Hopkins in closeup as he looks presently, narrowed blue eyes looking directly at the spectator.
RIGHT: Cover of Louis Armstrong In His Own Words, a collection of the bandleader's correspondence. The cover image is a photograph of a probably fortysomething Armstrong seated at the wooden desk in his office where he often wrote letters.

Screenshot of the covers of 3 books carried at mzs.press Arts Bookstore.
LEFT: The cover of Gotham City Cocktails, a book of mixed drink recipes inspired by Batman. Art deco-style flowing border lines flow around and around the interior of the dust jacket. At the center are drawings of two tall cocktail glasses and between them, a shot glass and a tumbler with a sword-pierced cherry in it.
CENTER: The cover of Downton Abbey Afternoon Tea Cookbook. Green cover, white writing and graphics. The central image is a teapot with stem lines coming out of it, and at the pot's base, a teacup and saucer and a separate plate of biscuits.
RIGHT: Bob's Burgers "The Re-Recipe Box," a set of recipe cards inspired by the joke hamburger names featured on the small board at the front of Bob's joint. Red sides with small graphics, cover image of the restaurant.

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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

[on my deathbed] that’s actually not what “begs the question” means

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Burly Ballads for Love and Glory @burlybard.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head. The Thing The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Cure Pulse

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Burly Ballads for Love and Glory @burlybard.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

the average run of the mill 90s movie looks better than 98% of movies made today

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Burly Ballads for Love and Glory @burlybard.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

My grandmother was always watching old movies on TCM, and as a little kid I loved watching with her. My older sister got really into movies as a teenager, so around age 12 I decided I was too. Our mom bought us a used copy of a textbook called “Understanding Movies” that became like scripture to me

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Burly Ballads for Love and Glory @burlybard.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

goddamn it. awful. Kofie is so good at what he does

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Sam 🐈‍⬛ @sammakescoolstuff.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

In a sentence never before uttered by humans, I am delighted to share that an alligator stole my conservation instructor’s hat by jauntily walking into the water while wearing it 🐊

A middle aged man helplessly holds an alligator’s tail as it steals his hat

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Nolan Void @wolter.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

I remain convinced that if you resort to convenient bigotry to win votes, the people whose votes you gained will eventually vote for a more sincere bigot, while the people you abandoned will never trust you again.

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Burly Ballads for Love and Glory @burlybard.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Both of them, but Tom Ripley is 90% there, just needs a little nudge

Matt Damon as Tom Ripley and Jude Law as Dickie Greenleaf in “The Talented Mr. Ripley”

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Micah @rincewind.run · 28/11/2024

for all those who celebrate, today is a holiday that brings joy to families everywhere, a time we can all put aside our differences and celebrate the time that Mark Sanchez ran into a butt and dropped the football happy Butt Fumble Day, my friends

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Burly Ballads for Love and Glory @burlybard.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

feels like we’ve let down the “scary ghost stories” part of “Most Wonderful Time of the Year” as a society

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