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Chance Solem-Pfeifer @chancesp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There has never been a holier hour to order your buckets. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOH3...

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Vic Berger Presents Jim Bakker's Buckets

YouTube video by Vic Berger

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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Vince Mancini @vincemancini.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Frank took us on a real roller coaster here

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Chance Solem-Pfeifer @chancesp.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Seen the still 10 times this week, and I cannot stop my brain from thinking "Alana Haim run through AI or something"???

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 02/09/2026

Larry Ellison is using fake consumer groups to generate fake support for his shitty merger definitely the kind of people you want owning the lion's share of U.S. media

variety.com

Pro-Paramount Group Uses AI to Pressure Rob Bonta to Drop Antitrust Case

Neighbors for Strong Communities, which supporters the Warner Bros. merger, is using AI to help people tell A.G. Rob Bonta to drop his antitrust suit.

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Bennett Campbell Ferguson @bcfonfilm.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

A useful pantheon for anyone who wants to understand both the movies of the moment and what directing is.... foolswhodreammovies.com/15-filmmaker...

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15 Filmmakers Who Have Shaped the Cinema of the 21st Century - Fools Who Dream Movies

A useful pantheon for anyone who wants to understand the movies of the moment.

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Chance Solem-Pfeifer @chancesp.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

New book arrived for my baby boy just last night 🥲 Her tangible efforts put into sharp relief how many rich people need to be visited by 3 ghosts.

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton and Patti LaBelle playing their acrylics. Two icons.

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton rose from poverty to stardom. She gave $500 to every student in her hometown who finished high school; she built hospitals & bald eagle preserves; her Imagination Library has gifted 300 million books to children. Roger Ebert met her and came away thinking she was a literal angel. RIP.

“In Dallas for the premier of '9 to 5', I had an uncanny experience, and on the plane home to Chicago I confessed it to Siskel: I had been granted a private half hour with Dolly Parton, and as we spoke I was filled with a strange ethereal grace. This was not spiritual, nor was it sexual. It was healing and comforting. Gene listened and said, "Roger, I felt the exact same thing during my interview with her." We looked at each other. What did this mean? Neither one of us ever felt that feeling again. From time to time we would refer to it in wonder.”

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

RIP Dolly Parton. Although known primarily as a singer, she was easily one of the greatest songwriters of all-time. Just how good was she? In 1973, Dolly wrote both “Jolene” and “I Will Always Love You” on the same goddamn day.

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

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Chance Solem-Pfeifer @chancesp.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Before you tell me "After Hours" is a stretch for an "Odyssey" podcast series … Paul is unwittingly delivered to his destination inside a sculpture, okay?! Thanks to any and all who listened. I made it home. I have a long beard now. Back in the fall! thekickcast.com/episodes/aft...

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Olivia Miles is running the offense for the best team in the WNBA while shooting 50-40-90 and leading the league in NBA Street Moves Per Game AND SHES A ROOKIE

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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The weird thing isn't that people say they only "care about story." It's that people who know better increasingly insist that that's a view that exists in opposition to "aesthetics." Everybody thinks movies are just stories until they learn different. This isn't a debate, but people act like it is.

a tweet that says, "I'll say one more thing. I've spent the last two weeks interviewing movie watchers and one of the reasons they do not read critics is because they do not care about the things critics write about (cinematography, color, aesthetics, pacing)... all they care about is story!" quote tweeted by Richard Brody with this text: "These movie-watchers are mistaken: the story, as they experience it, depends almost entirely on all the elements they think they don't care about; all the more reason for critics to emphasize those elements and to make clear the connection (even the possible misunderstanding)."

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Chance Solem-Pfeifer @chancesp.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Continued my Odyssey kick with "The Return" (2024), which was marketed mostly via Fiennes' gym routine. But there's much to discuss on this ep — translation beefs, Penelope's necessary ambiguity, and a demented round of Wishbone trivia. thekickcast.com/episodes/the...

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Willamette Week @wweek.com · 12/08/2026

Donna Deitch’s groundbreaking ‘Desert Hearts’ screens at Tomorrow Theater this week.

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Get Your Reps In: An ’80s Lesbian Love Story With Classic Western Twang

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Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Maybe it's just me, but I feel like people overthink their ability to read? How to read: put your phone in the other room, lay down on the couch, read book. If you don't like the book, read a different book. If you read a page, fine. If you read a chapter, fine. Entire book, fine.

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Jill Twiss @jilltwiss.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

so as usual, it's not transgender women causing problems in women's sports -- it's cis men.

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Chance Solem-Pfeifer @chancesp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Had my brilliant sister, GSP, on the podcast to talk about adapting Homer, interrogate our lifelong love of "O Brother, Where Art Thou?," and play an album sales game. thekickcast.com/episodes/o-b...

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Chance Solem-Pfeifer @chancesp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Had my brilliant sister, GSP, on the podcast to talk about adapting Homer, interrogate our lifelong love of "O Brother, Where Art Thou?," and play an album sales game. thekickcast.com/episodes/o-b...

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The league has to get rid of this Dundon guy. He bought the Blazers to hold the city of Portland hostage for arena money and now he's telling all of his underlings to shittalk the city so he can move to Kansas City or something. Cut this shit out or the league will be held hostage by similar ghouls.

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Chance Solem-Pfeifer @chancesp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

A small piece of me would die if the team moved. But if this is how the organization feels about the city — as if they'd only read about Portland in the Wall Street Journal or something — then what are we even doing? I don't think I've heard the words "fan" or "history" in 3 months.

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Chance Solem-Pfeifer @chancesp.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

"We must be doing something right these last 200 yeeeeeears..." *sees stranger in the room, ruins the take

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 27/07/2026

kind of a half-baked thought here but it's a shame criticism as a paid professional discipline has been sidelined by social media because it could point the way forward out of the internet madness-induced problem of writing that's crouched in what the author anticipates a comments section will say

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Chance Solem-Pfeifer @chancesp.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Thought Fiennes was brilliant in both films!

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Chance Solem-Pfeifer @chancesp.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Should you encounter this, there is only one move.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

(TNT's "INSIDE OLYMPUS") ZEUS: hey Poseidon. tell em where we're sending him. where did you say we're sending him POSIDEON: Laestrygonia

Shaquille O'Neal, sitting in front of Mt. Olympus, with a gold crown and a lightning bold

Charles Barkley, also at Mt. Olympus, wearing a gold crown with a trident

Shaquille O'Neal, still at Mt. Olympus, cracking up with his lightning bolt

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Syddhartha @syddhartha.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Turned down Riyadh, BUT NOT THE OREGON STATE FAIR 🦫🦦🫈🪵

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Bennett Campbell Ferguson @bcfonfilm.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

"The Odyssey"!!!!!!

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Chance Solem-Pfeifer @chancesp.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Executed a reverse Odysseus — i.e., ended a very long paternity leave — to bring The Kick back online and talk with @bcfonfilm.bsky.social about The Odyssey's best pit stops, its anti-twist, and how Nolan became all but undeniable. soundcloud.com/thekickpodca...

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Jared Wade @jaredwade.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

England up 1 deciding to sit back and do nothing with 9 in the box for a half hour against Argentina in the World Cup

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Willamette Week @wweek.com · 15/07/2026

The director’s 1987 dalliance with satanic panic plays July 17, 18 and 22 as part of Cinemagic’s monthlong Carpenter extravaganza.

wweek.com

Get Your Reps In: ‘Prince of Darkness’ Is More Than a John Carpenter B-Side

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Chance Solem-Pfeifer @chancesp.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

If you expect me to believe George Lucas is more interested in technological advances than human experience and craft, name 5,000 warning signs.

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Chance Solem-Pfeifer @chancesp.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Glory years were had. It's all just going back to where it started — pulling out a film journal in a bar to remember who all you saw "Sully" with.

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Crooked Marquee @crooked-marquee.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Before ‘McCabe and Mrs. Miller’ and ‘Deadwood,’ Jacques Tournier's ‘Canyon Passage’ used the frontier mining camp as a microcosm for America, in all its violence and glory. On its 80th anniversary, @zvasquez.bsky.social looks back at this underrated Western classic.

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Classic Corner: Canyon Passage — Crooked Marquee

Eighty years after its initial release, Jacques Tournier's underrated ensemble Western is ripe for canonization.

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Chance Solem-Pfeifer @chancesp.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

OMG, you had the intel, no! I had overpriced chicken wings with the mall teens instead.

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Chance Solem-Pfeifer @chancesp.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I sort of understand Odysseus on that deeper level because my press screening is in a weird suburb tonight, and I don't remember if they have Chipotle there.

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🎃 Matthew Jack-o'-lantern 🎃 @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Tim Robinson as Freddy or gtfo

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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

RIP to the incomparable Sam Neill

How long has it been since you've seen the original "Jurassic Park"?

SAM NEILL The last time I watched it in its totality was sitting beside Princess Di at Leicester Square at the London opening.
On the other side of me was my son Tim - he was 11 and completely swept away by it, but about the time the T-Rex turns up, Tim started to fart. And the draft was drifting across me to royalty! I spent the whole film in a muck sweat, thinking, "Princess Di is being exposed to the horrors of a little boy's fart, but she's going to think it's me. I am going to be subliminally blamed for my son's crimes, and I don't think she'll talk to me afterwards." But she was well brought up and never mentioned it.
JEFF GOLDBLUM I love that story, Sam.
I've heard him tell that a couple of times, and it's just amazing the lengths that he will go to still blame the boy.

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Rip City Not Rip Off @ripcitynotripoff.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

1/ OK! We analyzed all ~5,300 pages of public records on the Moda Center deal — every email, text, contract, and invoice produced so far. Before Portland commits ~$850M+ ($1.12B after interest), here’s what every Portlander should know. It’s not the story you’ve been told. 🧵

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Chance Solem-Pfeifer @chancesp.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Congratulations, Dom! Very well deserved.

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Doom Sin-acola @sinacolad.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Found out last night I got first place in arts criticism (the Jim Ridley award) from AAN for my work at the @portlandmercury.com aan.org/aan/announci... (couldn't have done it w/out my editor @suzettesmith.bsky.social and congrats to fellow PDXers, 2nd and 3rd @chancesp.bsky.social and Nolan Parker)

Arts Criticism (Jim Ridley Award)
First Place: Film Criticism – Dom Sinacola – Dom Sinacola – Portland Mercury

A decent critic can get you to read something about a film you’re unlikely to watch. But one as talented as Dom might actually compel you to stream it. And so I am about to check out “Train Dreams” despite his rather brilliant warning that “A work like this, which is about the connectedness of all living things, does not belong on Netflix, where any sense of community goes to die.”

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Willamette Week @wweek.com · 08/07/2026

The 2001 medieval sports dramedy plays at Academy Theater this week.

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Get Your Reps In: Heath Ledger Still Shines in ‘A Knight’s Tale’

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Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I have edited a lot of sexual-assault-accusation articles, and this one easily clears every veracity check: contemporaneous emails with her therapist, a boyfriend who knew, a woman she warned—all before Platner ran for office. Good on Politico for nailing it, and on Jenny Racicot for speaking up.

politico.com

Exclusive: Woman who dated Graham Platner says he sexually assaulted her

The Maine Democrat denied the allegations and said, “Any accusation of non-consensual behavior is categorically untrue.”

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Chance Solem-Pfeifer @chancesp.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

“Already in hell.” Porter points up. “Or in heaven.” Porter points down.

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