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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

this sequence in the 39 steps is pretty dang good. this alfred hitchcock kid really had something.

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Jimmy Stewart pronounces “grizzly bear” exactly the way you want him to

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

fave march first-time watches • my darling clementine (1946) • diamonds of the night (1964) • report (1967) • ice (1970) • messiah of evil (1974) • gallipoli (1981) • running on empty (1988) • beyond the infinite two minutes (2020)

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

feeling good and chill about things

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

fave february first-time watches, pt. 2 • slc punk (merendino, 1998) • in the mood for love (wong kar wai, 2000) • secretary (shainberg, 2002) • the dirties (johnson, 2013) • you were never really here (2017, ramsay)

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

fave february first-time watches, pt. 1 • band of outsiders (godard, 1964) • the great silence (corbucci, 1968) • the hired hand (fonda, 1971) • just before dawn (lieberman, 1981) • a moment of innocence (makhmalbaf, 1996) • the last angel of history (akomfrah, 1996)

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

new cassette pickups to add to the rotation

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

saturday morning media diet

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

fave january first-time watches, pt. 2 • cane toads: an unnatural history (lewis, 1988) • american job (smith, 1996) • sexy beast (glazer, 2000) • awesome: i fuckin’ shot that! (yauch, 2006) • local legends (farley, 2013) • no bears (panahi, 2022)

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

fave january first-time watches, pt. 1 • the kid (chaplin, 1921) • battleship potemkin (eisenstein, 1925) — w/ pet shop boys score • closely watched trains (menzel, 1966) • the incredible shrinking woman (schumacher, 1981) • where is the friend’s house? (kiarostami, 1987)

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

A small anti-ICE demonstration — no more than two dozen people — took place in front of the McCracken County courthouse in Paducah on Friday, as many across the country protest against actions taken by ICE agents in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and in other places.

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Due to a bomb threat on Murray State campus, classes in several buildings have been cancelled for the remainder of Monday.

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

this is how i learn we have ways in paducah??

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

my 2025 in books (aside from sonya lea’s american bloodlines and kyle chayka’s filterworld, both on loan)

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

If only you could have interviewed Hollywood’s finest carpenter turned actor for this’n

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Massively underrated documentary. Funny and insightful.

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

bill brown’s life on the mississippi starts as an attempt to retrace mark twain’s journeys as a steam boat pilot and winds up grappling with how much a person can “know” a river and how its shores have changed with time because of all the things that people do. a real fun lil doc.

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

spooky season in full effect

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Sign my petition to re-edit I Still Know What You Did Last Summer so that when Jennifer Love Hewitt thinks she sees the killer at the club it’s then revealed to be actually a silhouette of the dude from Jamiroquai in his “Virtual Insanity” get-up.

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

What a stellar summer of Kentucky albums. Just today, Tyler Childers put out Snipe Hunter and Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band put out New Threats From The Soul. Plus, S.G. Goodman’s Planting By The Signs, Kelsey Waldon’s Every Ghost, and Grace Rogers’s Mad Dogs. The Bluegrass State is eating good.

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

In the evening, I’ll be hosting the Paducah Film Society screening of “Inherit the Wind,” a 1960 film that fictionalizes the events of the trial, at Maiden Alley Cinema. That starts at 7 and retired Kentucky Supreme Court Judge Bill Cunningham will speak about the case’s history beforehand.

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Fave film discoveries/first watches for May 2025: The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) Brewster’s Millions (1985) Sherman’s March (1985) A Brighter Summer Day (1991) Ghost In The Shell (1995)

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

The emcee for the 145th St. Jerome Picnic in Fancy Farm will be Kentucky Chamber of Commerce president and CEO Ashli Watts, the picnic planners announced today.

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Fave film discoveries/first watches for April 2025: Bicycle Thieves (1948) My Night At Maud’s (1969) Mississippi Masala (1991) The Color Wheel (2011) Low Tide: A Newly Restored Work by Thomas Wright (2022)

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Fave film discoveries/first watches for March 2025: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane (1962) Race with the Devil (1975) Vice Squad (1982) Jallikattu (2019) Last Things (2023)

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

My Derby bet slip reads like it was Mad Libs’d from a think piece

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

enjoyed the film adaptation of charles portis' norwood. but the most important part was the presence of joann the college educated wonder chicken, who pulls a lil cord to answer people's yes or no questions like zoltar from big! i clapped when she got her own title card in the credits.

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

my 2025 reads so far adored trout fishing in america (my first brautigan) and charles portis’ norwood. mother night, a reread of a fave. chayka’s book on algorithms + their influence on culture was top notch. a captivating and centrifugal read. eager to explore so much he introduced me to in it.

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

rewatched Final Destination for the first time in many moons this weekend. the dvd had a death calculator that asks you lifestyle questions and projects your death date. soooo thankful it spat out a date that had passed. would have completely spiraled otherwise.

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Murray State's board of regents has authorized its board chair to negotiate a contract for Ron K. Patterson to be the school's 15th president. Patterson currently serves as the president of Chadron State College in Nebraska and has over 25 years of experience in higher education. @wkmsfm.bsky.social

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Fave film discoveries/first watches for February 2025: Within Our Gates (1920) Down With Love (2003) Atonement (2007) Perfect Days (2023)

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

We filled a theater for a 105-year-old silent film in Paducah, Kentucky. What a night.

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Tonight, the Paducah Film Society is doing something I've wanted to do for years: a screening of Oscar Micheaux's "Within Our Gates," the oldest surviving feature directed by a Black American, with a live score from local musicians. Micheaux was born just across the river in Metropolis, Illinois.

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

we’re just really in an interesting place right now in the soda flavor game, huh?

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Fave film discoveries/first watches for January 2025: A Woman Is A Woman (1961) Fail Safe (1964) The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) Dogfight (1991) Pecker (1998)

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

new episode of the liquid moment fading out onto the airwaves for the next hour. tracks from bobbie gentry, tindersticks, galaxie 500, jessica ackerley, and more. on-demand later on the @wkmsfm.bsky.social app. wkms.streamguys1.com/WKMS1-mp3

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Keith Gordon, director of the 1996 adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s Mother Night: *zooms in on framed photograph of Sheryl Lee* Me: Where have I seen this before?

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

there’s ice on every tree branch and freezing rain is falling on the roof. going altmode.

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

found a big bummer COVID souvenir: my tickets to see 100 gecs at 200-300 capacity room in may 2020 in STL, which would have been a hometown crowd for them. they were $17 a piece.

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

reading the edition of mother night with the most scariest cover ✅

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Finished off the night with A ceruza és a radír (The Pencil and the Eraser), a 1960 animated short from Hungary's Gyula Macskássy about a pencil and eraser getting into arguments. VERY Pixar's Day & Night. What a gem. Should be way more widely available than it is. In fact: mega.nz/file/AAURUZi...

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Who do I need to petition to get a a 4K physical release of The Hustler? I need all of the Paul Newman pool action to be as crisp as possible. While we’re at it, make it a dual release with The Color of Money.

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Obviously pick your poison here. After cross-checking our LBs, my two recs are Hellzapoppin, H.C. Potter’s devilish, form-breaking musical comedy, and Les Blank’s documentary love letter to a vegetable and its obsessives, Garlic Is As Good As Ten Mothers.

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

continuing my exploration of 1991 in film with a recent goodwill tape find — madonna: truth or dare. feels like an essential document of pop after just the first five minutes.

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

check out these rad, old Mephisto copy pencils

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

a lot of words that you generally don't see together here

a headline on WPSD Local 6 that reads "Police fatally shoot chainsaw-wielding man at senior living facility, officials say"

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