Fletcher Powell

Fletcher Powell

@fletcherpowell.bsky.social

Program Director, producer, host, and movie critic at KMUW Wichita. Co-host of the PMJA award-winning public radio show and podcast You’re Saying It Wrong. “Pearl-clutching" - Forbes.com

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They only have one of the more famous annual cross-state rides in the country

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Joe Mitchell: "Thank God you're building the ballroom. Thank God you're getting rid of those awful bike lanes. We don't ride bicycles in Iowa."

Everyone in public radio remembers it was actually “shithole” because we all got to say “shithole” on the air that day

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Libya, Hemen, Haiti, Somalia -- remember what I called them? Shit house countries."

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i loved that book when i was a lil kid. these dickheads better not fuck this up

DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net

First look at Dwayne Johnson as the Chicken Man in Benny Safdie's ‘LIZARD MUSIC’. The film follows a young boy who finds a secret late-night broadcast of lizards playing otherworldly music that opens a hidden door to the whimsical Chicken Man.

I also had no idea what this was before talking to @kandrpetras.bsky.social about it on our show, and once I found out, I also discovered why I had no idea what it was (it seems absurd!).

Jesse Sheidlower@jessesword.com

I regularly report this when it comes up in class: 0% of my students this year have any idea what the "hopefully" usage controversy is. Have never even heard of it. These are MFA writing students.

look, the truth is, once the weather turns, I eat chili day after day after day, and there's nothing you can do about it except possibly make it cost-prohibitive, and even then I will continue to fight

I so wish he’d gotten a chance to play Paul Robeson #HATM

Andrew Harrell@harrell76.bsky.social

Tony Todd has such a commanding voice . Like Robert, England as Freddie and Doug Bradley’s pinhead, nobody really accepts anyone but him in this role. #HATM

I’m literally 45 seconds into this new Norm Macdonald documentary and I’ve already said “ah Norm, goddammit!” out loud and gotten a bit teary-eyed. I’m sure I’ll keep it together for the next two hours.

Alonso is right! And also, I watched Exorcist II in prep for seeing the doc, and... I had a heck of a good time, sincerely, not ironically, with that nutty-ass movie.

Alonso Duralde@aduralde.bsky.social

Still haven’t seen Boorman and the Devil, one of the year’s best docs? It makes its TCM debut Friday night, followed by a presentation of its subject, Exorcist II: The Heretic. #filmsky 📽 @davidkittredge.bsky.social @tcmtv.bsky.social

MARJOE is great, but also the woman who made it, Sarah Kernochan, also made one other feature, called STRIKE!, renamed ALL I WANNA DO! and buried by Harvey Weinstein, and it’s totally fabulous. Anyway, watch MARJOE and STRIKE!

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On the last episode of GBBO, Paul said something about how cookies should be “naughty,” and @nigella.bsky.social said she doesn’t approve of talking about food as naughty b/c we should take pleasure where we can get it. I’ve always agreed with that and also what Elon said here.

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I can't believe this fucking movie still isn't out, how much longer do we have to hear this shit

IGN@ign.com

Marvel fans need to prepare for "a very surprising ending" to Avengers: Doomsday, directors Joe and Anthony Russo have teased. https://bit.ly/4z1aMtK

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Sharing the illustration I created for Wichita Public Library’s 150th anniversary for today’s #kidlitartpostcard. I’m still not over being picked to do this 💘 Portfolio: jordankirtley.com Seeking representation #library #reader #books #kidlitart #libsky #booksky

Watched a short film that had a sort of cheeky metacommentary that I thought really made it a lot more fun than it would have been otherwise, then I realized I just had the audio description turned on

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People truly believe their children are not autonomous beings. I see this over and over again with the transphobes in my comments. They think their children are a direct extension of themselves. Not only that they are the boss of their kids, but that their kids don’t have independent humanity.

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I love it when I hear advice to sleep well, get a solid 8 hours every night. Oh great. Thanks. Should I go ahead and dunk a basketball too? Be a virtuoso violinist while I’m at it? Are there any other results you’d like me to spontaneously achieve?