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Travis J Cook

@travisjcook.bsky.social
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he/him. Movies. Music. Culture. Baseball. Politics. Lord of the RIngs.Thoughts are my own and wholly representative of me, an idiot. travisjcook.com

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Travis J Cook @travisjcook.bsky.social · 10h
In Werewolves of London, is Warren Zevon CLARIFYING that he saw Lon Chaney Jr walking with the Queen? Or saying he ALSO say Lon Chaney Jr walking with the Queen? INQUIRING MINDS NEED TO KNOW.
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Travis J Cook @travisjcook.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Been revisiting Led Zeppelin over the past week, and just want to emphasize that "Since I've Been Loving You" remains a song you finish before turning off and leaving the car.
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Travis J Cook @travisjcook.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Had the privilege of meeting her when she visited our undergrad in 2008 with her late husband. Member of the same theatre fraternity as me and my friends! Excellent actor, RIP.
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Travis J Cook @travisjcook.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Well, it’s happened. Heard “Ms. Jackson” on the radio and sang along to the below lyrics instead of the actual damn lyrics
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Travis J Cook @travisjcook.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I saw Jurassic Park in theatres when I was six. I say “saw” but I very visibly watched through my fingers for about half of it.
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Travis J Cook @travisjcook.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Do not speak to me of the Deep Magic, you…TCU undergrads…I was there when it was written.
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Talkin' Baseball @talkinbaseballbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Munetaka Murakami champagne celebration interviews are must-see TV
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Travis J Cook @travisjcook.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If you'd told me in 2024 - at any point - that the Chicago White Sox would win a playoff series before the Cincinnati Reds, I'd have laughed my ass right into the river.
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Travis J Cook @travisjcook.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
LMAO GO PHILS HAHAHA
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
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Travis J Cook @travisjcook.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Walked into a bar after class to catch the end of the Bears game. Reader, this is the one bar in Chicago not showing the game.
Tetsuo in the anime masterpiece Akira Akira playing on a TV in a bar in Chicago the same night as a Chicago Bears home game for Monday Night Football; nobody present gives a shit
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Travis J Cook @travisjcook.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Sad he didn't get THE win, but glad the Tigers rallied to win during JV's last game.
Justin Verlander walking off the Detroit Tigers baseball field for the last time while holding his daughter's hand, no i'm not crying you're crying shut up
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Travis J Cook @travisjcook.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Man, they gotta quit cuttin' onions up in here.
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BevoOne @bevowon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
h/t @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social
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Travis J Cook @travisjcook.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
youtu.be/47TgUnrIArQ?...
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Dennis Duffy's Politics
YouTube video by Emergency Rendevous
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Travis J Cook @travisjcook.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
No notes:
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Travis J Cook @travisjcook.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Travis J Cook @travisjcook.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Bumping for the evening crowd.
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Travis J Cook @travisjcook.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Wrote a thing about Riot Fest here (Photos by @brbphotographer.bsky.social): liveforlivemusic.com/features/rev...
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Riot Fest 2026 Shines Through Rain & Mud With Iggy Pop, Angine de Poitrine, William Shatner
Chicago's Riot Fest was plagued by heavy rains and thick mud over the weekend, but that never dampened the festival's punk spirit.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Meet Derek.
An AI add with a stickfigure using a computer: "Meet Derek. AI every day. Always hitting a wall. Then he found evenfall. Private AI chat. No ads. No behavioural tracking. More room to create.Screenshots from "The Good Place" of Jason Mantzoukas (Derek) saying: Well I wasn't technically designed for this. But to be fair, I wasn't designed for anything."
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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Azeez Al-Shaair on NFL fine for tribute to slain Palestinian girl: ‘What’s a life worth?’ | Saad Yousuf www.nytimes.com/athletic/760... |
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Azeez Al-Shaair on NFL fine for tribute to slain Palestinian girl: ‘What’s a life worth?’ (Gift Article)
Al-Shaair was fined $11,941 after writing “Hind Rajab" on eye black he wore during Houston's Week 1 game vs. the Buffalo Bills.
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Travis J Cook @travisjcook.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Them: Don’t worry, Angine de Poitraine can’t hurt you, they’re not real. Angine de Poitraine:
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Travis J Cook @travisjcook.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
… … Since nobody - literally nobody - asked… … …would.
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Travis J Cook @travisjcook.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I had a visceral reaction to this (not a positive).
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Super Nintendo Chalmers @snchalmers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Norm McDonald SNL: Now this might strike some viewers as harsh, but I believe everyone involved in this story should die.
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ed Sheeran’s band just quit the Ed Sheeran tour.
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
STEPHEN ROOT EMMY GO GATORS
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Travis J Cook @travisjcook.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Trying to imagine the vibes in both dugouts as this happens in realtime. Ichiro never not giving the assignment his full 100%. www.mlb.com/news/ichiro-...
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52-year-old Ichiro tossed 127-pitch shutout vs. All-Star girls team
Even at 52 years old, there is not much that Ichiro cannot do on the baseball diamond. The Hall of Famer proved as much when he launched eight home runs in the Mariners Alumni Home Run Derby last mont...
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Chad C @chadc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is particularly crazy when you see how many NFL venues are scheduled to host Kanye West, a guy who literally released a song about Hitler. Including two of the stadiums who threatened Sheeran! But he didn’t say anything good about Palestinians so it’s fine.
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mike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
kudos to macklemore here for —right off the bat— the perspective and acknowledgment of who the real victims are
I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.

But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.
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Travis J Cook @travisjcook.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Boy what a meltdown by Green Bay.
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Travis J Cook @travisjcook.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Death, taxes, and Derrick Henry running for ~120 yards and 3 TDs.
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Travis J Cook @travisjcook.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I’m out of bourbon, but I’m not sure whether I ran out of that before the Reds ran out of capable pitchers or vice versa.
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Travis J Cook @travisjcook.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I’m on the final episode of the original Twilight Zone series, have been watching for about two years now start to finish, and I gotta say, this final final episode feels like some kinda cosmic joke. It bad.
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Travis J Cook @travisjcook.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Name a non-LOTR character who could resist the one ring.
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Atticus & Scout on Swing
Alt: To Kill A Mockingbird: Atticus & Scout on Swing
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Travis J Cook @travisjcook.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Finding the goodwill from seeing neighborhood dog fraends has evaporated, so...trawling through Grecian villas on AirBnB for travel ideas next summer...
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Vulture @vulture.com · 11/09/2026
In a new interview, Lilly Wachowski called out both J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk for their contributions, financial and otherwise, to the anti-trans movement, saying that support for their work directly funds trans genocide.
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Lilly Wachowski Says Supporting Harry Potter Funds Trans Genocide
In a new interview, Lilly Wachowski called out both J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk for their contributions, financial and otherwise, to the anti-trans movement, saying that support for their work directly funds trans genocide.
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Travis J Cook @travisjcook.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It's a simple thing, but on our morning constitutional, my day always gets a little better seeing neighborhood dogs that I recognize. Its like seeing a friend in the train car on the way to work. Little joys.
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Travis J Cook @travisjcook.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Yeah they did.
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Travis J Cook @travisjcook.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Gonna potentially open myself up to some hate, but the movie Singles is, at best, just okay. The soundtrack? All timer. But the movie is utterly forgettable.
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A Tea Walks Home Alone at Night @teaberryblue.net · 06/09/2026
The reason that the Harry Potter apologists won't just read better books is because they're not looking for good stories...if they were, they wouldn't have glommed on to Harry Potter. They're looking for the camaraderie and social phenomenon that Harry Potter was in the 2000s.
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Travis J Cook @travisjcook.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Holy hell the new Chat Pile record is terrific.
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Travis J Cook @travisjcook.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
You know, I'm starting to think that there's more than just Two Guys with that moving truck company.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem died with fewer rights than she had during her lifetime. That fact needs to be front and centre of every media report, every dedication, every discussion of her death.
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Travis J Cook @travisjcook.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
We usually have a dumb/generic sitcom we watch at home while watching a serious show. Currently alternating Lost with How I Met Your Mother, and I gotta say the first four seasons of HIMYM are impeccable. Ted’s a Ross-sized douche, of course, but the comedic timing is solid throughout.
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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
this is excellent
stigmatizing Rowling’s weaponization of childhood not only requires personal withdrawal for most people, it necessitates something much more difficult: being a giant fucking killjoy. You should tell people discussing the show that you’re not watching it, and why, and you should let yourself openly cringe at your sister-in-law’s Harry Potter tote bag, and you should bring up unprompted that the onslaught of legislation against trans people makes you sad and angry, presuming it does, and you should do this because, not despite, the fact that it will make you look annoying as hell and may make everyone present uncomfortable. (You probably won’t even get the kudos of looking like a cool ally, because you’re still ultimately talking about Harry Potter. Sorry about that.)
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Defector @defector.com · 02/09/2026
It's time to grow up: defector.com/its-time-to-...
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It’s Time To Grow Up | Defector
HBO’s new Harry Potter TV series is premiering this Christmas Day. Under current plans, it will last at least a decade. The trailer looks like the original films were run through an AI generator, but…
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Travis J Cook @travisjcook.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I would support @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social raising membership & tickets prices if it meant having @beeragon.bsky.social on retainer to produce these marvelous little shorts for every film series. (I mean, let them do what their heart leads them to, but i'm just saying, I'd watch oh so many more)
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Travis J Cook @travisjcook.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It too hot.
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Travis J Cook @travisjcook.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Introduce yourself with ten acts you've seen live Counting Crows The National Allman Brothers Band Slipknot Wu Tang Clan Phoebe Bridgers Meshuggah Dave Matthews Band Bob Dylan The Smashing Pumpkins
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