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Travis Monty-Bromer @travismobro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thursday Night Football should just be minor league football. These games blow.

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Travis Monty-Bromer @travismobro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Flyers tanking for Landon DuPont already?

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026

[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right

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Scorigami @nflscorigami.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

🏈 CHI 59 - 37 CAR FINAL ✅ That's Scorigami!! It's the 1096th unique final score in NFL history.

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Travis Monty-Bromer @travismobro.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I was told these guys were good at soccer. They’ve scored as many goals as I have today. #WorldCup

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Travis Monty-Bromer @travismobro.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I haven’t been this embarrassed by my country since… yesterday. #USA 🇺🇸

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Joe: I am a 73 year-old retired mechanic in Forsberg, Nebraska. My 3 biggest problems are Iran's uranium enrichment capability, the casting of Helen in Christopher Nolan's "Odyssey," and the ability of Tennesseeans to check out "Roots" from a library 1000 media outlets: can we please talk at length

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Travis Monty-Bromer @travismobro.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

My “recommended for you” on Disney+ is out of this world. They know me so well, but also not at all.

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Jason, ex Inferis @benedictsred.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I’m not proud of it but if Forrest Gump started talking to me on a bench I’d have left

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Go make some good trouble today. 💚

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Douglas Reyes-CeroÑ @dreyesceron.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

At 9:18, 3rd period of the Finland-Switzerland women's ice hockey QF game, the ice crew came to clean the ice during a pause What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling

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Travis Monty-Bromer @travismobro.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Do you think the Patriots would trade Maye for Aaron Rodgers right now? #HereWeGo

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Scoutprime @scoutprime.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

LOL.... i wanted to hear JD getting booed at the Olympics and when i searched for it on YouTube i got this

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Travis Monty-Bromer @travismobro.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Avery Hayes is the greatest player in Penguins history! 🐧 🏒 @penguinsnhl.bsky.social

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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 26/01/2026

Tom Brady the QB getting hit vs Tom Brady the announcer when someone else gets hit

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

surely some public comments from the president would defuse this

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Travis Monty-Bromer @travismobro.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

That was all past bad thoughts. Present and future bad thought (like how disgraceful that OT interception was) are fair game.

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Travis Monty-Bromer @travismobro.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

The Bears are oddly lucky Loveland got injured on the drive. That was a veteran play by Kmet on that play to get open. I don’t think Loveland gets open there.

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Travis Monty-Bromer @travismobro.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Caleb Williams… I take back every bad thing I’ve ever thought about you. #BearDown

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Travis Monty-Bromer @travismobro.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

How has CJ Stroud ever won a playoff game?

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Travis Monty-Bromer @travismobro.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Stidham szn incoming (just how game ready is Drew Brees?)

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Travis Monty-Bromer @travismobro.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

I am so excited to bet against the Broncos in the Super Bowl. I might be able to pay off my mortgage. #ThisYearsChiefs

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Gregg Rosenthal @greggrosenthal.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

final tally: 6 Bills scoring drives 5 turnovers 0 punts

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Nathan Fielder is playing center

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Travis Monty-Bromer @travismobro.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

This game just feels like a preview of what we’re all gonna watch HOU-PIT do tomorrow night again

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Gonna start an NFL conspiracy theory where all outcomes are targeted to optimize the power of the most important city in America, Pittsburgh

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Midge @midge.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

don’t wrap presents on the floor without a plan on how to get back up

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Travis Monty-Bromer @travismobro.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Christmas is officially over. Time to ignore my family to watch this football game between two teams long eliminated from playoff contention. 🎅🏼 🏈 💵

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Travis Monty-Bromer @travismobro.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Everyday is a new opportunity for this team to embarrass themselves. Combined 7 goal 3rd period lead blown in one weekend.

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Travis Monty-Bromer @travismobro.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

That might be the most embarrassing Penguins loss I have ever seen

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Travis Monty-Bromer @travismobro.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Happy Giving Tuesday! Akron Children's Museum is about 75% of the way toward our fundraising goal for a new water table. I would love for you to make a donation today to this new exhibit. We want to continue using the museum to inspire play and curiosity. secure.qgiv.com/event/making...

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Making Waves for the Canal Corner

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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Hell with it, I'm just going to post the whole thing here via screencap and alt text. It's Kaleb Horton, man, his writing always deserves the second read, especially since it could have just easily been lost forever like so much else. Read it, share it.

A look at forgotten Hollywood landmarks
By Kaleb Horton

Let's say you come in from down south, and you're looking for an unsung movie landmark.

So you fly in to LAX, rent a car, blow right past Hollywood, leave Los Angeles county heading north, go over the Grapevine, gape at the monumental hills and, wow, there really is a Smokey Bear Road, then you turn off the air conditioner when the sign tells you. Once you come down the grade too fast and see the world's loneliest Denny's, you're well on your way to what you're looking for – the middle of nowhere.

You're going to Kern County to find the spot where Alfred Hitchcock filmed one of the greatest scenes in movie history, the crop duster sequence from "North by Northwest." It takes place in Indiana, of course, but the Indiana road sign and the imported corn field can't deceive this Bakersfield native. The parched and desolate heat of the scene feels too much like Kern County.

The scene people know off-hand — Cary Grant running from an airplane — isn't why "North by Northwest" is a classic. The film's greatness, as was often the case for Hitchcock, lies in its build-up, its suspense, its mood. The plane moment is almost anticlimax. It is those five minutes before Grant's desperate escape that constitute a mathematically perfect suspense scene. So expert is Hitchcock's hand that he creates suspense, a slow burning dread, with no camera tricks and no music in broad daylight.

Grant's character is a prototypical James Bond. His perfect suit, fast wit, high-alcohol tolerance and effortless charisma have got him out of every predicament so far. In the city, among people, he has powers. Take him away from people, put him nowhere, and he's just like us — totally helpless. He has no powers: His suit is no good out here; his million-dollar tailoring and perfect haircut is just vanity now. No amount of pretending can provide escape. Here, is the one place where he can die, and he gets by on the grace of God. All he can do is wait for what's coming.

So when you seek the lost landmark of this scene, you're looking for an idea as much as a place. You're on Highway 99 now, going 30 miles north of Bakersfield, looking for an unassuming patch of dirt that carries spiritual weight. The scene was filmed neart Garces Highway to the west of Delano. You'll think there's a handy exit for it. There's not. You'll probably get lost in Delano, counting on a connection. You're at once a million miles from Hollywood and a hundred miles away. It's lonely. The horizon sprawls forever like there's nothing past it. There are broken down trucks on the side of the road, plumes of smoke from faraway fires. You'll find Garces eventually.

You'll pass a bar called Rosy's Place, abandoned houses, an oil field, a prison, a cemetery, a sign that says "we clean headstones," and a whole lot of gold-on-brown punctuated by an occasional trailer or car going faster than you. You're looking for where Garces meets Corcoran Road. That's where this "North by Northwest" scene was filmed. You'll get a vague idea where it is but you'll never be exactly sure, since there's little impetus for clear signage 10 miles from a prison. Maybe Corcoran Road is unlabeled. Besides, that Indiana sign and the prop cornfield haven't been there in 56 years.

If you're anything like me, you'll lose the light and call it a day, unsatisfied with the route you took. You return to I-5 northbound. From the 5, you'll meet Route 46, and go through a place called Lost Hills, then back in to the location from Corcoran Road instead. That's how Hitchcock probably did it. More intuitive.

Still in the middle of nowhere, but on your way to Corcoran Road, you're right next to another Hollywood landmark: Blackwells Corner, James Dean's last stop. It's a glorified Texaco, and gas is 50 cents a gallon more than it should be. They sell Jelly Bellys and '50s kitsch artifacts — plates with Marilyn Monroe's face on them, and so forth. They really figured out how to cash in on death. You don't want to stop here.

But I stopped. I asked the kid at the Blackwells Corner counter how to get to Corcoran Road. He gave me a look that said "there's no reason to go there," and then wearily told me where to go anyway. I was about 8 miles from the destination.

Going there is a meditative experience. You're not just going to the middle of nowhere. You're going to the perfect nowhere. Going alone, in the hypnotic heat of the Central Calfiornia Valley, you might even forget what year it is. There is no reason to believe the road would be so well preserved for half a century, intimately tied to the career of an actor born in Bristol 111 years ago, but it has been.

There's an abandoned house. A barn with a cross on it. But almost nothing has changed in 56 years. At some point new lines were added on the road. There's overgrowth where there didn't used to be overgrowth. A couple discarded Budweiser cans from who knows when, but mostly it's identical. This is the same sleepy loneliness that Alfred Hitchcock used to make great art in 1959. And that may sound dull, but tranquility is the point. You stand on that dirt and there's no distraction from what's in your soul. It's an inner destination, not an outer one.

I told my grandma about it when I got back to Bakersfield. She told me her Uncle Harold thought it was the prettiest road in America. And she showed me a picture of a Corcoran grade school class posing in the dirt with Grant and Hitchcock. It's just a field trip picture. The kids are fidgeting, many with arms folded, some shielding their eyes from the sun, all with obedient smiles. They'd all be in their sixties now, but they'd remember where this road is.

It emphasized the ugliness of James Dean's last stop becoming a place to sell T-shirts. It's about what we preserve, and what we don't, and what we remember, and what we don't. It's easy to find shrines to morbidity and hard to find meaningful places. For those, you have to go looking.

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Travis Monty-Bromer @travismobro.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Why can’t I watch a multiview of the Pens and Pitt games on ESPN+? Seems like a huge benefit miss on my paid subscription @espn.com

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Travis Monty-Bromer @travismobro.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

How are we feeling about a Scrubs reboot being official @sheaserrano.bsky.social ? Are we gonna get another Scrubs PDF?

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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

rest in peace kaleb horton. this is my husband's eulogy for our friend. davesplace.substack.com/p/my-eulogy-...

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My Eulogy for Kaleb Horton

A few notes:

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Travis Monty-Bromer @travismobro.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

We may have just witnessed the best @penguinsnhl.bsky.social game of the season. Better enjoy it. #LetsGoPens

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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

I saw this racist bullshit coming the second our classrooms switched from blackboards to whiteboards.

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Travis Monty-Bromer @travismobro.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Hey @sheaserrano.bsky.social I thought this subscription was called Good Movie, not All Time Great Movies. #ThereGoesCollegeSoccer

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