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Brian Kenna

@drbrianish.bsky.social
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Ph.D., WWI/modernist Brit lit and modern fantasy lit. I also really like board games and baseball, so expect to see a lot about them. He/him.

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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Miles O'Brien says
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Doom approaches the viewer. The caption reads "Oh shit: Jonathan Majors is toxic."
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Tom Waits, in a wheelchair, dressed in dingy clothing, talks to Jeff Bridges in The Fisher King.
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The Red Sox, three weeks ago.
Beatrix Kiddo, from Kill Bill, lies in a coffin, buried alive, raises her hand to the lid, prepares to punch her way out.
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
This is my entire stack, but in a true Sicko Move, I also ordered the Wes Anderson Archive.
A stack of movie cases: Life of Brian; The Big Heat; Some Like it Hot; The Elephant Man; Ugetsu; Malcolm X; Killers of the Flower Moon; Uncut Gems; Stray Dog; Double Indemnity.
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Film poster for Jaws. A side view of a massive great white shark approach a swimmer from below.
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
No "Top 100 Novels" list should be taken seriously, and indeed should be subjected automatically to derision. The very exercise is absurd, and not likely to be undertaken by anyone who actually knows what they're talking about.
The Very Brave Man stands up in a town hall. His neighbors look on in admiration as he speaks truth to power.

You know, that meme.
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Bart to Homer and his imbecilic family: You probably should have researched this first, eh Sauer?
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
WELL LOOK NO FURTHER.
The Star Trek: The Next Generation trivia board game from 1993.
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Post a non-religious picture you think of as holy.
Jackie Robinson signs with the Dodgers. Branch Rickey leans in and whispers in his ear, as if the two were conspiring.
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Post a ship that's not Star Trek or Star Wars.
The ship from Outer Wilds waits on its launchpad, which is only a little bit flammable.
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Willy hammers a sign reading "Caution Well" into the ground.

"That should do it."
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Stringer Bell wants you to put the word out there that the president shat his pants in front of everyone.
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Just got this for Christmas
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Homer is on a picnic table, wearing a tux and umbrella hat, singing and dancing. Disco Stu grooves next to him.
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Colossal (2016) I've seen this four times at the absolute least, and watched the final ten minutes so many times that I'm counting it. Plus I just want to talk about it. Underappreciated; that final scene alone should have won it best editing. Only gif I could find was a spoiler.
Gloria scratches her head. Behind her, the kaiju does, too.
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
(I had to actually get up and look at this point). The Quick and the Dead (1995) My favorite Raimi movie, my second favorite DiCaprio movie, a madcap anti-Unforgiving of a western. Criminally underwatched - I had to go find a jpeg because there were no gifs for this one.
DiCaprio, Hackman, Crowe, Stone - all the stars are here! (In this relatively small western from 1995).
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Uhhhh Gerry
Cover for "Things," the famously terrible Canadian movie of 1989.
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Ben Sisko at the window: Yes... Ha Ha Ha... Yes!
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Final Scene of Take Shelter
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Bart to Homer: "Probably should have researched this first, eh, Conor?"
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
The citizens of Springfield run the real Principal Skinner out of town on a rail.
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Same order.
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
David Zaslav ponders his next decision. Lenny to onlookers: "Get ready everyone, he's about to do something stupid."
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Bart, grumpily: Now Dana Bash is scoring off me.
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Mr. Burns looks at his stock ticker. "Here's where I stopped checking it last time -- September, 2022..."
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
"ChatGPT is just a plagiarism aggregator, everyone knows that. What this article presupposes is... maybe it isn't?"
Owen Wilson makes a fool of himself in Royal Tenenbaums.
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
My turn! A couple of things, here: First, there is no Costco in Saratoga Springs. Second, Clifton Park is closer to Latham than it is to Saratoga Springs. I should stress that both of these details are readily available on the same results page. They got the Guilderland opening right, though.
Google AI incorrectly describes several geographical details.
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Runner-up:
Frank Grimes gleefully kills himself.
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Bart looks up in fear as Lisa holds a bottle of honey, slowly descending, just above his eyes. Lisa's face embodies fury, a festered, bottomless rage not just at her brother but at the treasonous world that has spawned them both.
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Ben Siska looks in a window, cackling. "Yes... ha ha ha... YES!"
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Sure why not
A bookshelf stacked with books by and about J. R. R. Tolkien, in some cases two layers deep.
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Can confirm.
A very sleepy puppy on my early morning shoulder.
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Lisa, in a fury, holds a honey squeeze bottle poised above the eyes of a terrified Bart.
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
"The year is almost over. We're in the home stretch." The home stretch:
Frodo and Sam enter Mordor. Barad Dur and Mount Doom are visible in the distance.
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Liz Lemon implores Juan Soto to get this over with.
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
A Shelbyville teen turns to his fried, shrugs, says "Story Checks Out."
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 16/10/2024
This all sucks. Will a puppy with a teddy bear help a little?
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 29/09/2024
Posting book porn.
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 16/08/2024
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 22/07/2024
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 18/02/2024
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 05/02/2024
Case in point:
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 31/01/2024
I'm rewatching Deep Space Nine, and I've decided that this is my new favorite frame in the entire series.
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 24/12/2023
Me after playing Jusant for five minutes.
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 04/12/2023
Behold my Christmas Tree Perimeter Defense System.
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
Let's goooo
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
I haven't posted on Twitter since July and I still won't, but I had to shout this one from @arhanlon.bsky.social from the mountaintops somehow, so I screencapped it.
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