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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The best take on Kate Zacharia 😂😂😂😂😂

scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The irony of Bret Stephens, truly one of the most basic-ass prose stylists at the NYTimes opinion page, complaining about DEI, clutching pearls about whether or not the nat’l book prizes are going to good writers (as opposed to colored and queer ones) is hilarious and rich Such a fucking loser lol

“The Literary World’s D.E.I. Checklist” is Bret Stephen’s’ latest bellyaching about all the victimized straight white dude writers not winning all the major awards anymore 🙄

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

When you remember your new apartment is around the block from Mamouns so now it’s the third time you been there in eight days 😍

A photo of the awning outside Mamouns, the amazing legendary middle eastern spot in Manhattan

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This reminds me of the time a student in my 70s film course said she didn’t like watching many of the films because “everyone and everything looks so dirty!”

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Mother Toni was always teaching the children. Here she is with words that resonate now more than ever. I miss her so much.

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Okay, you know Noah Wyle is a true Dreamgirls (and Broadway) fan because of the song he sang with Sheryl Lee and the names he dropped 😍✊🏾 (And also because he called it a “cast album” and not a soundtrack lol)

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I love the Beatles but I hate Beatles discourse on social media. Of course, it takes Black folks to make it fun and smart 😂

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I love R.E.M., I love R.E.M.-related content, and I love librarians 💜

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

This dude. Legit hitting all the right notes. #AbdulElSayed

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I may be getting old but I like being around for the future. And now El Sayed got me all up in my Wolverine feels 🫣 Don’t stop believin’ indeed

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I miss the days when I didnt have to hear sooooo many weird and half-assed and unserious and parasocial opinions about the casting…. of an actor…. in a movie. More names and words to add to the “hidden” list, I guess.

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

so, I been watching old eps of Password on Buzzr Contestant comes on, slim white guy named Eric Garber, from Keystone Heights, FLA. Says he’s spending the summer writing a play with a friend Maybe it’s the weird historian in me but sometimes I google folks on old shows to see where they ended up

Andrew Holleran, author of beautiful novels, older than he was on Password

Cover of Dancer from the Dance, his amazing first novel from 1978

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Can anyone tell me why so many IG reels that come up in my feed have that “view Instagram profile” thing on the page, blocking subtitles and shit, when one could easily click the account’s name to…view the profile? Is there no way to remove that?

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The only Odyssey adaption that I care about is the flop 1976 Yul Brynner/Joan Diener musical, the exquisitely titled Home Sweet Homer #TheaterSky

One sheet poster for Home Sweet Homer, a 1976 Broadway musical starring Yul Bruner

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Peppa Pig will forever be so diabolically real for this 😂😂

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

preach, young brotha ✊🏾🙏🏾✊🏾

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

If you get this you my play cousin forever 😂😂

Gene Hackman as a conservative senator in a still from The Birdcage. He’s on the phone and says “Lindsey Graham died? With a hooker? A he? And he was Black?”

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

My mother: Was Lindsey Graham married? Me:

Nene Leakes, head turned away, shadily brushing off someone with “okay girl bye”

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

😂😂😂👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

An exchange on Threads:

itswilwheaton posts:

I'm not a math genius or anything, so I'm just doing some quick arithmetic here, and we are supposed to believe that Mitch McConnell spent a total of about four hours on the phone with a bunch of different people yesterday, but didn't have one minute to speak to a credible journalist.

Sure, Jan.

theeveplumb responds:

Hey wait a minute

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Okay, as both an MJ and a Grease fanatic, this is wild 😮😂

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

"I don't mind straight people as long as they act gay in public” — Dennis Rodman’s t-shirt, 1996, around the time he came out as bi, when I interviewed him for VIBE and hung out with him and his friends in. Chicago who did drag. What a time.

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I love Gunsmoke but I never understood why Doc’s office is on the second floor of that building. As many injured folks as he has to tend to, it would be so much easier if they didn’t always have to climb stairs or be carried up the stairs to be cared for lol 📺

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

one of the scenes I’m writing about in this essay about 60s music and movie style. Watching this on TV one Saturday afternoon as a kid was the moment my Ann-Margaret obsession took hold 🤩 from Viva Las Vegas (George Sidney, 1964) #filmsky

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Leaving Ann Arbor, I will miss the hot, friendly, flirty straight Arab guys 🤣😍🤣

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

when you need a break from work, turning to classics always calms me down, and Critierion always comes to the rescue

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Quite appropriately found this in a box while packing up the apartment. Brought back 90s memories of when I followed the Knicks intensely haha

Front of my Vintage NY Knicks jersey from the 90s. Number 34 for Charles Oakley

Back of my Vintage NY Knicks jersey from the 90s. Number 34 for Charles Oakley

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I know the book has been in the works for a minute but I can’t help but feel as if the title Jill Biden’s new memoir, A View From the East Wing, is meant to be read as a shady dig at the lummox’s stupid ballroom 🤷🏽‍♂️

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

In late-breaking news out of Bedrock, both Ann-Margrock and the Way Outs have quietly pulled out of the America 250 Celebration Concerts

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

The Silver Platters have quietly pulled out of the America 250 Celebration Concerts

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

When I got the NYU offer, one of my thoughts was, I’ll be able to go to Cozy for lunch sometimes! Wow. I guess I won’t 😪😪

Text reads: “Say goodbye to another old-school NYC diner. Ownership of the Cozy Soup 'n' Burger on Broadway at Astor Place announced that the 54-year-old diner is closing on June 21. The reasons: Rising costs and declining business.”

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Check out Tennessee Williams, looking like he could be my great uncle on my father’s side…the milk train may not have stopped there anymore but when it did I think he was selling chocolate milk 🤷🏽‍♂️🫣

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I don’t think I’ll ever get used to “1900s” when folks are talking about, idk, 1937 or 1956 or even 1972 😬 Please y’all, just say “the 20th century,” bless y’all sweet young hearts lol

a social media post that says:

“Hey, Where can I watch old black cinema?

I'm talking early-mid 1900s”

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

RIP Rex Reed and many many deep abiding thanks for writing a review of the Broadway production of The Wiz that always prompts such great discussion when I teach the film

Rex Reed on The Wiz
(1975)
"Next to bombing the White House, I can't imagine a better way to start a race war than to denigrate The Wizard of Oz and everything it stands for in the minds and hearts of children of all ages. Descendants of L. Frank Baum, creator of the Oz stories should sue. Judy Garland fans should picket the theater where this monstrosity is playing...How dare they demolish the greatest American fairy tale. Garbage is garbage, no matter what color it is, and this all-black sacrilege is at the top of the rubbish pile."

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Somehow that typo is so indicative of these shenanigans this year

The New York Times celebrates the “Meg Gala” instead of the “Met Gala” 🤭

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

George Faison’s choreographic genius that gave us a Yellow Brick Road as performed by a corps of 4 incredible dancers is still one of the most creative things I’ve ever seen on a Broadway stage.

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