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John Pendergast

@jspen.bsky.social
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Professor of English SIUE Research interests in Early Modern Drama, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Nashe, and history of print. Also, just because, film, especially the films of the Coen Brothers, and the novels of Thomas Pynchon.

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John Pendergast @jspen.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Tom Stoppard, playwright of electric verve, dies at 88 For years I was fortunate to teach a course on Stoppard and Shakespeare. Reading the obits make me want to spend some more time with him. I’ll begin with The Real Thing, maybe the best play about love ever written, sorry Shakespeare.
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John Pendergast @jspen.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
open.spotify.com/track/6BT7qi... I swear I hear David Bowie on background vocals on this song. I know he was a big fan but the internet is emphatic it is not him. Wondering if anyone else hears it.
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Monkey Gone to Heaven
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John Pendergast @jspen.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Next Pope: My heart says Anders Arborelius (Stockholm) but my money is on Fridolin Ambongo Besungu (Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo).
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John Pendergast @jspen.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
open.spotify.com/track/7LXN0L... God this is good. @kinggizzardfan.bsky.social @kinggizzardmf.bsky.social
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Deadstick
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard · Deadstick · Song · 2025
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John Pendergast @jspen.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/s... Let me be the first to welcome our interstellar overlords. I’m on your side and welcome any questions you may have.
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Astronomers Detect a Signature of Life on a Distant Planet
Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even habitable.
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John Pendergast @jspen.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Just watched All We Imagine as Light on Criterion. What an amazing movie. I don’t think I’ve been this surprised by a film in a long, long time. #criterion #filmsky
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John Pendergast @jspen.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
www.google.com/gasearch?q=t... James Cana was a great actor. And Michael Mann a great director. Two things I did not think before rewatching this film. #filmsky
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John Pendergast @jspen.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
I love the trope of the professor who is hard to find and requires a journey to share Thor wisdom. #nosferatu #filmsky
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John Pendergast @jspen.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
open.spotify.com/track/3NvwVT... Genius.
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S.N.C
DARKSIDE · Are You Tired? (Keep on Singing) · Song · 2025
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John Pendergast @jspen.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
@filmsky.bsky.social A new found favorite. Maybe the best Elia Kazan film but nonetheless an amazing and surprising find.
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John Pendergast @jspen.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Andy Griffith saves the world. As I recall from my graduate school Lacan seminars, this is the Real. Who knew. An amazing late night find on Criterion, and hopefully elsewhere.
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Godless Gardener @godlessgardener.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
The master negotiator got played, but still thinks he won
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John Pendergast @jspen.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
A perfect movie I might have missed had it not been for two people suggesting it to me yesterday. #filmsky
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John Pendergast @jspen.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
open.spotify.com/track/6gDSjj... Check this out. A really great Ukrainian band I just discovered. I’ll be seeing them in March at #BigEars festival.
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Vynnaya ya
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John Pendergast @jspen.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The view from son’s plane as he flies into Los Angles this morning.
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John Pendergast @jspen.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Having just rewatched Rope and Strangers on a Train, I’m fascinated with Farley Granger. Not sure there is s’more sinister actor in Hitchcock’s films. And fascinating life story.
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John Pendergast @jspen.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
It’s that time if the year to remind everyone that this exists. #KeithRichards #RollingStones
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Hunter S Thompson interviews Keith Richards (must watch)
YouTube video by whistling birds
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John Pendergast @jspen.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
images.app.goo.gl/L267jUyxLRAc... Rewatching all the classic horror films, mostly Universal productions, and I think this is the best. Surprisingly strong female academic who apparently openly lives with her boyfriend. Besides being surprisingly progressive, it has great special effects.
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Google Image Result for https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/Creature_from_the_Black_Lagoon_poster.jpg
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John Pendergast @jspen.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
open.spotify.com/track/2JsRGR... The critical hype of this album is deserved. It is truly great, but I could do without the constant reminder of how cool she is. She is cool but enough. #MusicSky
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Nobody Loves You More
Kim Deal · Nobody Loves You More · Song · 2024
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John Pendergast @jspen.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
According to Spotify my favorite genre is something I didn’t know existed but with which I’m now obsessed. And I don’t listen to either Fleetwood Mac nor the Stones, not that there is anything wrong with that.
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John Pendergast @jspen.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
📽️ A question for film lovers and scholars. I am an experienced scholar in Early Modern Studies but I am preparing my first film studies essay for publication and I’m curious about recommended journals. I’m not familiar with a lot of film scholarship outside of books and essay collections.
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John Pendergast @jspen.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Must be near the end of the semester because today I dropped three F-bombs in class for no reason than emphasis. And we were discussing Dickens, which made it even less apropos.
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John Pendergast @jspen.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
images.app.goo.gl/FMqVbEfAgJ48... A great film I stumbled upon on Criterion. Part horror, part documentary, part horror, all crazy, but surprisingly good.
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John Pendergast @jspen.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
www.spectator.co.uk/article/so-l...
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So long, Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan bids farewell to British audiences in a poignant performance at the Royal Albert Hall during his ‘Rough and Rowdy Ways’ tour.
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