mattcarton.bsky.social
Longtime Bay Area English teacher. I like reading Charles Dickens’ stuff. And I’ve read Proust and have lived to tell the tale.
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What’s your Hitchcock Top 5?
1. Notorious
2. North by Northwest
3. The Lady Vanishes
4. Rear Window
5. Rebecca
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That’s my representative, Congresswoman Lateefa Simon - @replsimon.bsky.social - from CA-12! She succeeded Barbara Lee.
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Not 44. Those days are (mostly) done. 3rd floor now houses the Universal 9th grade. So it’s just a lot of odiferous 14-year olds up there.
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And it’s still hot up there on 3rd Floor C, Alex. Some things in this world change. The south side of the C Building does not.
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Tod Browning’s Herbie Rides Again
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Dario Argento’s Benji
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Word
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That’s Vic Hitler, Jr.
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Yup. The plays are still there. Every summer.
Don’t know if you heard that the Cal Shakespeare Festival is no more. A victim of Covid.
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Yes. It looks very familiar. A couple of weeks ago I went to the hardware store up in Woodminster (as an Oakland native, I’m sure you’ve been there). The kids behind the register was a dead ringer for one of my students. It was eerie.
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It’s still a gem. Still a great place to see a movie
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Agreed
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Yes. Thank goodness Axe has been relegated to the dustbin of the late 00s.
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Try being a high school teacher and having to see that every. damn. day.
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#LetterboxdFriday
#LastFourWatched
🎬🎥📽️
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I am going to make a poster of this skeet (and cite you, of course!)
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#LetterboxdFriday
#LastFourWatched
📽️🎬🎥
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I brought your points up with my juniors for the last two periods. And I’ll show them this skeet tomorrow. I know it’ll carry weight because I’ll tell them the post was written by the writer who asked “Is a hot dog a sandwich?”
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Shared this with my juniors. They were…perplexed
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Around the World in 160 Days
The Four Popes
40,000 Leagues under the Sea
Two…Four…Six…
26 Monkeys
Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
The Sixth Man
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For us in California, it could be one of two people you’re alluding to here - Trump or Newsom
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That’s akin to calling a novel “literary fiction”
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I saw some pricing for the upcoming release on Am*zon - $45 or so. Dang tariffs!
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Remove a letter, ruin a movie:
Chives at Midnight
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I’ve been very explicit about how I hate the all-online test
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I told my Lit students this morning to handwrite all notes so that data isn’t scraped
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He also tried doing it in Road to Perdition
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Johnny O’Clock, Stella Dallas
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The CFL is welcome to the Cowboys, though
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Nope. You lost me there.
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You’ve got something there. Canada gets the entire west coast and most of the east coast, as well as much of the Mississippi River.