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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

this was insanely difficult. and ask me tomorrow and I might have 9 different

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

The Supremacy Clause in the Constitution is a thing that exists. Here's the SCOTUS order staying the TRO placed by the judge in St. Louis two days ago and upheld by the 8th Circuit yesterday.

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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

Oh and the first LP I ever owned was this beauty, gifted by an older brother. And again: I literally WORE THAT OUT. And I stand by this, to this day: "Shake" by Shadows Of Knight is one of the greatest 2:30 of recorded music humans have ever made.

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Wait. So the Cardinals have had pitchers named "Rich Folkers" AND "Rich Bachelor"? Tryin' to corner the market on "Pitchers who sound like someone Elly Mae might've dated"

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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 · 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 · 01/08/2026

MCA bought the American distribution arm of Decca in the early 1970s, and in 1973 they replaced all versions of Tommy in record stores with records having MCA's very seventies-ish, kinda bland cloud and rainbow logo. They even stickered over existing copies with the Decca label. 2/

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

One of my favorite little details in the movie Almost Famous is that when little Willilam Miller puts The Who's Tommy on his record player, it has the iconic 1960s Decca rainbow logo on it. 1/

Image showing iconic rainbow band on black Decca-label for Tommy, as it was released in 1969.

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

There was a pretty funny hot few weeks on this very website when the USMNT had blundered into that red card stupidity when I saw new soccer fans praising the lack of corruption in the Mexican footie organization, FMF... LULZ.

FMF press release essentially saying "Yes, we voted with our fellow CONCACAF organizations yesterday, but also....let's not be hasty here. Sounds like there's some money to be made in Gianni's proposal..."

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Aw yeah. If Ben is right (and he's a well-source and respected reporter), see ya Gianni.

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This feels like an improv "Write the weirdest headline you can imagine" prompt.

Stereogum headline: "Boy George Says He Used AI To Create His New Pro-Israel Reggae Song"

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Thinking Yes on 1, big ol' No's on 2-5.

Graphic shows No-Excuse early voting locations and hours in St. Louis city.

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

It has apparently fallen into rights-holder purgatory and thus difficult to find to watch by legal means...but the little Australian film The Dish is worth seeking out to if you want to watch what I think was Sir Sam Neill's greatest movie ever.

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

One of my favorite Youtube follows is Zealand, and he's just made this DEEP pull:

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

It's been a while since I've been able to say how much I adore Our Kid. Sensational.

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Believe this is what the kids call "A good mail day."

Image of physical media copies of the movies The Nice Guys and Speed Racer

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Quote-skeet with a doctor you'd trust leading the hantavirus response instead of RFK Jr.

Photo image of Bond villain Dr. Julius No

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

A movie couple who would definitely have a podcast.

Robert Graysmith (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Paul Avery (RDJ) in the movie Zodiac

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

It me, the person who still kinda turns into a weepy mess when "Valley Winter Song" or "Hackensack" pops up on a shuffle...

Image of a post by IVY, one of the late Adam Schlesinger's bands, commemorating the 6-year anniversary of the Fountains Of Wayne founder's passing from COVID in 2020.

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Well, there's a sentence I never, not ever expected to read in my entire life.

Image of a news story from Fox6 News in Milwaukee with the lede: "A professional cornhole player with no arms and legs has been accused of murder in La Plata."

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

OK, so as a lot of weather nerds I follow (yes, I'm a weather dork, too) predicted, the snow path/storm track has shifted significantly north for the weekend. Here's the Euro, which is still the go-to model this far out. (Areas to the south of this, prepare for ice storms...)

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Anyway, after David Bowie passed away in 2016, Nina Gordon revealed that back in the 1990s, Scott Miller had made her a Bowie mixtape to listen to for inspiration, and had written out the playlist. Which she shared. 6/

Scott Miller's (of Game Theory and The Loud Family) written out playlist of the David Bowie mixtape he made in the 1990s for Veruca Salt founder Nina Gordon.

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Me, listening to the wonderful deconstructed, noisy, but always finding the hook brilliance of my 2025 Album of the Year, It's A Beautiful Place by Water From Your Eyes.

Scene from the movie Contact where the vision impaired scientist (on headphones) makes a discovery by listening to the signal being sent from space. He says "This has structure. I'm hearing structure." in reply to a colleague who dismisses it all as just noise.

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Noel, Liam and the lads in Buenos Aires last night.

Photo of Oasis taken from behind the drums Champagne Supernova-ing in concert in Argentina last night.

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

And this one. It's very good. And then the song "Baby You're Just You" comes at the end and it goes trascendent. I swear to goodness, the solo at the end of that song is the most searing encapsulation of 20something angst and frustration ever recorded.

Album cover for Sittin' Pretty by The Pastels

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

My most-played record from that year and still a monster. Mark Lanegan as a deeper-voice grunge version of Burton Cummings (the Guess Who), and it completely and absolutely works:

Album cover for the Screaming Trees album Buzz Factory

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Ack, that last one should've had "Album cover for Wedding Present's "Bizarro" album" Here's another great record from that year, more UK indie pop at the tail end of C-86...

Album cover for Close Lobsters' album Headache Rhetoric

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Have already seen a bunch of my faves here -- De La, Pixies, J&MC, Galaxie 500 -- but a few others that hit me hard that year. (It me, college radio music director, 1989):

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

And also the fantastic 1989 "answer" album to PB, with one of the greatest diss tracks of all time -- aimed at the Beasties for "selling out" of the East Coast scene for LA: "Sons of 3rd Bass". Bonus points for the guest appearances of Zev Love X -- a/k/a a young MF Doom:

Album cover for 3rd Bass's The Cactus Album

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Was heading out for the evening constitutional and passed by the local bottle shop across the street and...what's that I spy in the window? Yes. Yesssss. First case of 2025 enboughtened. The most magical time of the year is upon us!

Two 12-packs of 2025 Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale are shown.

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

About the only local pop-culture facing thing about Eliot being a St. Louisan by birth is his star on the U-City Loop / St. Louis Walk of Fame

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Some food for munching, if you like. :)

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Tottenham Hotspur truly are Michael Scott FC, and I mean that in the most loving and amazing way possible. Xavi Simons. My goodness. Now I just need to keep practicing saying his last name properly.

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. - Wayne Gretzky" --Michael Scott

Apropos for a Tottenham side who seem to be falling upward in the most beautiful, best ways possible.

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

RIP to Ron Turcotte -- the man privileged to have ridden the real-life incarnation of Pegasus.

Jockey Ron Turcotte in a famous photo looking over his shoulder in disbelief as Secretariat flies down the stretch in the 1973 Belmont Stakes.

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Welcome to the USA, Heung-Min Son (almost).

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

What perfect album came out when you were sixteen?

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

This is like the first time I saw Aaron Judge standing next to other baseball players...

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Had to manually add Lake Mungo. The heck is up with that?

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

If you're developing a game, please take some free, unsolicited advice: fonts and typography *matter*. Look at the mess above (nothing captures the tone and feel of the dark medieval period quite like Helvetica) vs how even a comparatively small amount of effort pays off below.

Paired opening menu screenshots for Tainted Grail, using ridiculously bland Windows fonts that appear to be Helvetica or Arial or some such, vs an opening menu screencap of Kingdom Come Deliverance II, which uses a vaguely old-timey, old-English type font and typography that does a nice job of creating tone and feeling.

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

One of the weirdest, most unfathomable decisions I've ever seen a pro sports athlete make was this one -- refusing even as the club was headed to a UCL final -- to consider extending his contract.

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Cuti Romero the Man of the Match in the Europa League Final.

Spurs centreback and Argentine national defender Cuti Romero holding his MotM silverware

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Chris H @chrishornb.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

What actor’s expression in a movie will stay with you the rest of your life? (Take all the horror and possession elements out of The Exorcist; I would watch a movie with Patrick Miller as Father Karras questioning his faith, dealing with family, struggling to live his life.)

Jason Miller as Father Karras in The Exorcist, questioning his faith

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