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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Sad to learn belatedly that Catherine Ringer (of Les Rita Mitsouko) has left us.

James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Perhaps I lack imagination, but when people wish to deprive others of the life of the mind, to make it even more an economy of scarcity, it may be that the only proper response is to remind those befoulers of human thriving about the story of the guillotine.

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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"the phlegmatic man is the multi-millionaire of time" José Ortega y Gasset

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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The vulgarians wishing to deprive loans to students studying anything they (ha) don't consider "high value" wish to deprive us of what they cannot directly extract. Could we not imagine a world where instead all education was profoundly subsidized once again so it could be free to students?

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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Breaking Bad is fine, belongs somewhere on a list for its influence, but it is not and will never be half as good as Pen15.

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Brian Jacobson @bleudeciel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We are once again searching for a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship in Visual Culture, focus on visual culture and the environment - deadline November 15 - details and application here: applications.caltech.edu/jobs/vcpd

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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

American cinema will never be the same.

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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

II faut s'abétir. —Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Sad news about Duncan Sheik dying. When I worked for a record label in lower Manhattan in the late 90s I used to see him frequently in the elevator. I recall him always having very nice pants.

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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

How many times in a row can I listen to Janet Kay's "Silly Games"? Trick question, there is no limit (at least that I have encountered). youtu.be/H_0Chukpcbs?...

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Janet Kay - Silly Games

YouTube video by PAKUZOW

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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Achieved the career stage where job letters, postdoc letters, grad funding letters, letters of recommendation, assessment letters (for promotion, publication, prizes) just blur into a continuous stream of letters and letter writing. Epistolary existence.

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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Saw a septuagenarian in a “kill all hippies” t-shirt at the green grocery .

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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

In case your teaching early cinema... have at it!

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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

You would never know I'm moderating this, but I am.

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Triangle Beagle Rescue @tribeagles.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Adoptable beagle of the day-Macy! www.tribeagles.org/product/macy...

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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

“Goddamn it, look at those rhino horns!” -TJ Clarke, LRB

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Cinema Studies Institute, University of Toronto @csi-uoft.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Hello / Bonjour! CIN105Y1 - Introduction to Film Study is the starting point for Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto. Class begins on September 8, 2026. Find out more at www.cinema.utoronto.ca/undergraduate. Course trailer by PhD candidate, Ganga Rudraiah.

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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Solid cameo by a stray dog in Jules et Jim.

A stray dog wanders through the background of Jules et Jim.

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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Rumours circulating that Carney is drafting a tweet renaming the White House effective immediately...

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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"L’image cinématographique est hantée par ce qui ne s’y trouve pas" - Pascal Bonitzer, "Hors-champ," Cahiers du Cinéma, 234-35 (dec-feb 1971-72), 16.

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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Working on a novel about an autofiction novelist who cannot imagine the interiority of others. Working title: The Life of R.

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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

What the average US citizen doesn't realize is they are about to endure a 50% tariff on Angine de Poitrine. It didn't have to be like this.

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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

🎶 Papa (Smurf) can you hear me? 🎶

A red cap mushroom of some sort, out in the wild in eastern Ontario near Maberly.

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Ian Petrie @icpetrie.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

JOB: TT Assistant Professor, Global Anglophone Literature, University of Toronto specialization in South Asian, Middle Eastern, Caribbean, and/or Black Diasporic Literature and postcolonial theory universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...

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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Read, Real, And, Land, Lad, Dale, Leer, Here, Herd, Head, Heal, Heel, Moist, Mist, Fist, Red… oh wait…

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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Rural Ontario grocery store. A brother and sister aged 8-10, one on the other’s shoulders getting cake frosting from a top shelf. Once these two get an overcoat they will be unstoppable.

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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Crying in front of 350 students. « Effective teaching is affective teaching. »

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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

We all could be reading Michel de Montaigne's "Des pouces" (Thumbs) a lot more often. I hererby determine to read or reread an essay by Montaigne every week starting now.

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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This is a fantastic book. Excuse the tautology of the clip they chose to open our conversation (fault mine) as well as my brutal cold! Ivan does a brilliant job speaking about post 45 French cinema and the historical stakes of the French school of montage. share.transistor.fm/s/c61ddcf8

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Montage and French cinematic history | University of Minnesota Press | Episode 145

Amid the tumult of change that swept through French society in the wake of World War II, a trio of visionary filmmakers sought to make meaning of the chaos by revitalizing a common method: montage. Re...

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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Having watched The Odyssey, I must now return to Cabin Boy.

Cabin Boy poster. 1994 film by Adam Resnick and Chris Elliot.

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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

A tenure-track job in French for a specialist in African and/or Caribbean Francophone Literature at the University of Toronto. If this is your field and rank, please apply! jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

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Assistant Professor - African and/or Caribbean Francophone Literature

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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Teenagers all getting fake-ids with names like Jen Eh Aye.

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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller Aug 02,1962

P1- ITS A VERY HOT DAY AND NANCY AND SLUGGO ARE SWEATING AS THEY WALK DOWNTOWN, THEY READ A PSA BILLBOARD

TAKE CARE OF YOUR
PETS DURING THE
HOT WEATHER -
THESE ARE THE
DOG DAYS

NANCY: I WONDER IF THE DOGS KNOW IT?

P2- THEY DO KNOW IT, THERE ARE OVER A DOZEN DOGS SITTING IN THE SHADE IN THE BACK OF THE BILLBOARD

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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

"Any user who generates AI images (at least images having no clearly defined practical purpose) is an unwitting pyropictomaniac" -Pierre Cassou-Noguès and Gwenola Wagon, Les Images Pyromanes: Théorie-fiction des IA génératives, 94.

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mary worth is lit @wilburwurthless.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

are you Worthy

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