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Damien Owens @damienowens.bsky.social · 19h

I get the impression you could ask this Pope about the best three-album run of the 1980s and he'd have a take.

Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The ripples off of the Man City case could impact all other sports as well. I realize there are lots of sports fans here in the States who don't follow the Prem, but this might be the biggest sports story in years and years.

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Reading the QuarterToThree forum discussion on "Backrooms" is making me feel like I'm reading an entire forum thread with a bunch of Bosley Crowthers discussing "Bonnie & Clyde".

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The haters said Mizzou couldn't get it done in the hostile environment at Mississippi State last night. And the haters were correct. Honestly, great call by the haters.

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Looking forward to next season's Man City v Tottenham matches in the Championship....

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Matt Ufford @mattufford.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

SEPTEMBER ON THE CALENDAR, LOCKTOBERFEST ON THE FIELD

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Last night in MLS play, entering the 64th minute Sporting KC led the resurgent Philadelphia Union 3-nil. By the conclusion of the 73rd minute, Union were beating SKC 4-3. That's....something.

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I cannot be the only person thinking of 2004, when a #19 ranked Missouri team (with Brad Smith!) played at what was then called Troy State on a nationally televised Thursday night ESPN game and got a pretty good beating. Just sayin'...

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The very funny, always interesting on film Gerrit Graham passed away today. This stunt. Hay-zoos this stunt. Just sheer insanity. What was Zemeckis thinking?!?

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Used Cars (1980) - Gerrit Graham - red car freakout stunt

YouTube video by Stranger Things Hawkins Radio

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Well, I made the Plex channel, and I think it's the full oeuvre, excepting directing of some early episodic TV shows. ...am I really gonna do this?

Image of a Plex channel, showing Steven Spielberg's directing career presented in chronological order.

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St Louis CITY SC @stlcitysc.com · 17/09/2026

𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐃𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐘𝐄𝐓 😤

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

St. Louis City is RAMPANT right now!!!

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Josiah Trotter: Mizzou fans knew. We knew.

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Matt Baker @mattbakerstl.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

HT and @stlcitysc.com has a commanding 3-1 lead already. A half that you could go on and on about the positives. - Both DPs signed this window have 1g/1a in Navarro & Holse w/Holse having a hand in all 3 goals - The 3-3-4 in possession from Damet is working. #AllForCITY

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

To their (dubious) credit, the 8th Circuit did tell Hoskins this morning that he IS subject to the call to appear before the Missouri Supreme Court and show cause that he's not in contempt. Basically "My dude, you are wildly misinterpreting that judge's TRO from Tuesday. Sorry."

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

SCOTUS just dropped the hammer on the 8th Circuit and Denny Hoskins. 2022 Congressional Map is the ONLY legal map for the Show Me State for the 2026 midterms. Period.

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Huh. Tonight I learned that Rafa Navarro's preferred pronunciation (which I am told is standard in Portuguese) is more like "HA-fa Na-Vah-ooh" (But in the interview I saw, he also smilingly said a hard "r" is fine too, if you want to pronounce it in a more Spanglish way.)

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

As I've so often said, in a big game it's Drew Lock you want out there for you, not Drake Maye. M-I-Z!!

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

That dialect map going around is WAY off on "Soda" versus "Pop". Pop is a Chicago-ey thing, I think (per Gilmore Girls frame of reference and having lived in that metro 4 years.) "Soda" is definitely St. Louis, southern Illinois, and westward at least to CoMo, perhaps beyond. Promise.

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The Saturday Night Massacre -- which would turn public opinion permanently and lead to the end of his presidency -- would happen six weeks after this cover story.

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Matt Baker @mattbakerstl.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A lot’s been said in this window regarding the outgoings but now that the window is at an end… I think @stlcitysc.com as a whole, while looking very different very quickly, is inarguably better than they were entering the window. Job well done. 🫡 #AllForCITY

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Confirmation from Colorado that the Rafa Navarro transfer to St. Louis City SC is the biggest intra-league pure cash player transfer in MLS history.

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Mark Cuban has sent Pablo Torre a congratulations.

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Clippers: "We are exploring every legal remedy." NBA: "Sure. Let's do some discovery, bitches."

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Pablo Torre is the One Who Got Away from ESPN, and it looks like MAYBE someone or some ones who wanted to steer a narrative took advantage of his former employer's eagerness to counter the story that won Torre a Pulitzer. ESPN really ganked this.

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I'll take "Disturbing things to see outside your study window" for $1000, Alex. Yikes. Guessing that's on Arsenal, a block or two west of the old mental health hospital.

Black smoke pouring into the sky as seen on my horizon line outside my window in South St. Louis.

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Said 2 minutes, 30 seconds of perfection. I mean, COME ON. If this silly, goofy-ass song doesn't have the most obvious should-have-been-a-1990s-De-La-Soul sample (that bass and drums breakdown), I'll eat my socks. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y5U...

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Shadows Of Knight - Shake 1969

YouTube video by ksdaman

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

If you grew up in the St. Louis metro in the 1970s and early 1980s, you know this song. It is probably in your DNA.

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Jim Bolen - Art Haack Buick Commercial Jingle

YouTube video by transmissionjimmy69

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I was a promotions intern who had to "work" this record when it came out. In August of 1991. I (literally) couldn't give it away. Lost to time is that This dropped almost a month BEFORE Nirvana's Nevermind, and two weeks before "Smells Like Teen Spirit" released as a single.

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Counting players with transfer valuations over $2.5m, I think Spurs have: Brought in 1 new keeper, sent 1 out 3 new defenders in, sent 5 out 2 new midfielders in, sent 3 out 2 new attackers in, sent 5 out Potentially 1 more attacker targeted (Gakpo?)

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

So: Spurs OVERPAID to get Savinho from City on Thursday. Why? Here you go. They're not only UNDERPAYING City for Marmoush, they're also taking him on a year loan first -- essentially deferring the transfer payment to next season. And yes, City is absolutely ROGERING Frankfurt in this deal.

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Aston Villa supporter: "I just wish our club will outdo Spurs this season." Monkey's Paw: <curls>

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Now I recognize the team I support. Eesh.

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Seen a lotta bands do a lot of cool things, but seeing Reuben from Westside Cowboy dump off his glasses just before this song turns into an utter godhead supernova is a new one on me. Holy shit do I love this. Debut album just dropped.

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Westside Cowboy - Kick Stones (The Boys) | Later... with Jools Holland (2026)

YouTube video by BBC Music

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

"Spurs does crazy things to people." www.youtube.com/shorts/wTlkd...

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

LOL. This has been the most insane (in an AJ Preller kinda way, only better) summer transfer window I can ever remember Spurs having already. And they're adding to it?

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I don't recognize my club, part 102 since the start of this summer. Wow.

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Finding out that Chuck D reads my two favorite music magazines (MOJO and Shindig) makes me feel 1000% cooler than I actually am (or ever have been or will be.)

Chuck D on another social media platform espousing his love for Shindig, Mojo, and Uncut music magazines

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Jayden Daniels has demanded that Joshua Baez change his slugging percentage from 5.000.

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Patrick Daugherty @rotopat.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I have signed Joshua Baez to a $400 million extension

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

As young, preadolescent wannabe music nerd, I read the Dave Marsh edited Rolling Stone Record guide from cover to cover. I'm not sure there was a day in junior high or high school when I *didn't* read a few entries there. 1/

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Jack Hamilton @jackhamilton.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

RIP Dave Marsh, a writer who changed my life. a few years ago I wrote this about him slate.com/culture/2023...

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The Greatest Music Critic You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of

Dave Marsh made me want to write about music.

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Stephen Thomas Erlewine @sterlewine.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Farewell to the great Dave Marsh, the first rock critic I remember reading and whose The Heart of Rock & Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made profoundly shaped my worldview.

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Dave Marsh, Bruce Springsteen Biographer and Rock Critic, Dies at 76

Dave Marsh, the music critic and biographer who documented the early days of Bruce Springsteen in his 1979 book 'Born to Run,' has died. He was 76.

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Alfred Soto @sotoalfred.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The Heart Of Rock & Soul has some of the most lyrical writing of that era of rock criticism: an essential early text for me. One of the first examples of my admiration for a critic remaining steadfast even when his positions were quite antithetical to mine.

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