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Everyone should watch the first season of Killing Eve, which, for eight episodes, teases out incredible "will they, won't they" sexual tension that had zero chance of being sustainable over four seasons.

This is your periodic reminder that Lindsey Graham wasted his cruel, pathetic life in pursuit of power and then all of sudden fell over dead and was forgotten.

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A quick check-in on cancelation culture.

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This just popped up on FB and, man, it is such a bummer that most of us only get to live this experience for a few months in a long life.

Me holding my first kid when she was five months old

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I definitely went out and bought Lou Reed's NEW YORK after reading Anthony DeCurtis's review.

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Technology will likely destroy humanity, but in the short term it helps build community for people who couldn't find it when I was a kid. So there's my optimistic take for the day.

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I'm tempted to recommend Confess, Fletch three times but I'll also add votes for Pacifiction and Master Gardener.

Yesterday I drove my kids over to Nashville to see UNDERTALE: The Determination Symphony, and I assure you the Ryman has never seen a more wholesome, neurodiverse audience in its long and storied history.

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Doctor Mike Is Horrified by Steve-O’s Health Habits | Wild Ride #282

I listened to this after seeing social clips and my god Steve-O is the *ideal* MAHA dumb-guy spokesperson. Have we studied the correlation between MAHA, life optimization, and addiction/recovery? My personal hell would be getting trapped in a room with Steve-O, RFK Jr, Dax Shepard, and Pete Hegseth.

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If you see this, post a vampire who isn’t Dracula

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Has Paul Hollywood won any awards? He’s the only constant over all these years, and deserves more credit.

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This season of bake off is a real celebration of neurodiversity.

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Darren Hughes @longpauses.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Anyone else watching the new season of bake off? Every time Nigella Lawson takes a bite it’s like she’s learning how to eat for the first time. Very odd.

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It’s been good for my conscience/ethics to spend so much time in his imagination. He was sooo messy in his personal life but had such keen clarity about the soul of America. I’m interested in thinkers who came to reject Christianity but still found a moral force in its language and imagery.

Darren Hughes @longpauses.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I’m hoping to hit my goal of reading all of Baldwin in 2026. I’m up to the mid-‘70s and it has been time very well spent. He’s as close to a prophet as anyone I can think of from my lifetime.

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@gemko.bsky.social I think you have the wrong MOUSE on your list of 2026 NYC releases. MOUSE, directed by Kenny Riches, had a one-week run in NYC (thanks to winning the Regal prize at my festival). MOUSE, directed by Kelly O'Sullivan and Alex Thompson, is being released by IFC in early November.

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If you’re a fan of classic Claire Denis, AVEC KIM, the new short she made with Kim Gordon, is on MUBI. The visual style reminds me more of Trouble Every Day than anything she’s made since. It’s really good.

Especially when you consider that Ringo, the oldest Beatle, had turned 25 three months before the recording.

Darren Hughes @longpauses.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I opened up Netflix and was served a clip from the Nate Bargatze movie in which the joke is he’s too dumb to buy eggs because there are so many choices in 2026 and I guess I want him to fall into a deep hole

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America is such a strange place in 2026, and I hope the lineup represents that too. I love these films and look forward to sharing them in November.

Darren Hughes @longpauses.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is my fourth year of programming the Film Fest Knox American Regional Cinema Competition, and it was never more difficult to select only five. This lineup represents, I hope, the great quality and diversity of work being made right now--at all budgets and in various modes of production.

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Darren Hughes @longpauses.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Aaron Sorkin looks like Peter Sellers in The Party. Apologies if that combination of words and images offends.

Darren Hughes @longpauses.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I want Dems to win both house of Congress for so many reasons and one of them is to give Jack Smith a damn break.

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Darren Hughes @longpauses.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This really is quite a scene! Schmitt is furious by the end of it, I assume because one of his staffers is an idiot who fed him a bad "gotcha." It sure is fun watching an arrogant schmuck be humiliated by a woman colleague.

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Darren Hughes @longpauses.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A filmmaker who had regained theatrical rights to one of his films informed me recently that he had "no materials" -- meaning no print, no DVD, no nothing. I then told him, somewhat sheepishly, that I had a pretty good file I'd found on KG. I'm guessing all programmers have stories like this.

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Darren Hughes @longpauses.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“We always knew that you, the Americans, would realize, one day, that you fought on the wrong side!” - a French woman to James Baldwin, ca. 1953

Darren Hughes @longpauses.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My hot take is that "Eminence Front" is the best Who song, which makes me think Pete, John, and Kenny could've been an interesting trio.

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Darren Hughes @longpauses.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I guess mine would look something like this. 10. The Pitt 9. Friday Night Lights 8. Mad Men 7. Gilmore Girls 6. Top Chef 5. Deadwood 4. Andor 3. The Great British Baking Show 2. Twin Peaks: The Return 1. The Wire

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Darren Hughes @longpauses.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is on my to-read pile by the bed!

Darren Hughes @longpauses.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Wish I could've been there! We'll be rolling out the rest of the Film Fest Knox program over the next two weeks. I'm pretty excited about the lineup. :)

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Darren Hughes @longpauses.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’ve mentioned my 80yo evangelical mother on here before. She’s now talking about the midterms and referring to the opposition as “we.” “He’s destroying everything I love about this country.” This from a woman who voted enthusiastically twice for GWB.

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Can honestly say I haven’t watched a minute of these films.

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Nearly all of my guilty pleasures are from the early '90s. I can't decide if that's because music was shitty in the early '90s, because my taste was shitty in the '90s, or because music is at its most cringy 30 years after being popular?

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I've been listening to "guilty pleasure" music all day (this is @leegee.bsky.social's fault), which brought me, inevitably, to Throwing Copper by Live, and it's interesting how, in hindsight, this whole album is basically a butt rock cover of "Bullet the Blue Sky." www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBrj...

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This guy is running a 2024 general campaign. Does he honestly think it'll work in the 2028 Dem primary?

Darren Hughes @longpauses.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My parents were 22 and 17 when The Beatles played Sullivan but they completely missed rock. Dad only liked big band, so he had some Chicago records, but mom's musical exploration stopped at Connie Francis. Ten years ago they asked if I liked Bob DIE-lan, mispronouncing the icon of their generation.

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We should all use this as our email signatures for the rest of the year.