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Brandon Wainerdi

@ActuallyBrandon

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Co-Writer: STAR WARS ENCYCLOPEDIA. Contributor: @StarWars , @SW_Insider , @FANGORIA . Host: @TalkingBay94 . Work: @OriginalFunko . Formerly: @MondoNews , @Drafthouse .

Austin, TX
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@ActuallyBrandon
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3 months
The cover has finally been revealed for the upcoming STAR WARS ENCYCLOPEDIA! I’m a small part of the incredible team who put this together, and I can’t wait to for people to read it this fall!
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3 months
open the schools!!!!!
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3 months
BILLY BUTCHER IS EOMER??????!?!!! THIS IS BLOWING MY MIND
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a bunch of movie reviewers i’ve never heard of saying MEGALOPOLIS is bad and a bunch of movie reviewers who i trust and who write for established publications saying MEGALOPOLIS is good. unsure who to believe.
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4 years
This man is in the NBA Finals.
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2 months
thank you for spoiling ALIEN: ROMULUS :) sorry my 7PM Thursday ticket that i’ve had for months wasn’t soon enough for you to get 30 likes talking about the third act :)
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8 years
We are all Myles Garrett
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2 months
muppetvision 3D needs to be protected it is the most important piece of media in american history
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9 months
unsure if the @TAMU War Hymn has ever been played by an Indian wedding band during the traditional Baraat (groom’s procession) … but now it has, thanks to @ReaganAHunter .
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2 years
Just ordered in a metric ton of Indian food and about to settle in to *finally* watch RRR.
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@ActuallyBrandon
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4 years
Congratulations to NBA Champion, Alex Caruso. 👨🏻
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1 year
Happy “‘There Was a Fourth Indiana Jones Movie?’ Week” to all the most annoying people on this app.
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@ActuallyBrandon
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3 years
softly call the mustard
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Bryan Fischer
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6 years
@swaggie_hunter Who am I? MAGGIE’S LONG TERM BOYFRIEND What do I want? SOME ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ON VIRAL SOCIAL MEDIA OF OUR TWO YEAR RELATIONSHIP
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@ActuallyBrandon
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5 months
lol do not remember posting this but i stand by it
@ActuallyBrandon
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7 years
@ScottWamplerBMD i will tweet this to be put on the top of your twitter tombstone
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@ActuallyBrandon
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1 year
RIP to Paul Reubens, the voice of the greatest tour guide in the galaxy :(
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@ActuallyBrandon
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7 years
@ScottWamplerBMD i will tweet this to be put on the top of your twitter tombstone
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10 months
um … is that the complete hardcover series of PAPER GIRLS (the critically acclaimed, very progressive @ImageComics series) on Santos’ shelf?
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@JohnFetterman
John Fetterman
11 months
I thought my ethically-challenged colleague @BobMenendezNJ could use some encouragement given his substantial legal problems. So, I approached a seasoned expert on the matter to give ‘Bobby from Jersey’ some advice.
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4 years
Today was my grandfather’s funeral. He was a great man, founding @TAMU Nuclear Science, leading the Texas Medical Center for 30 years, and being my grandpa. He’s the reason I went to A&M and the reason I am the man I am today.
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5 years
In College Station to say “Here” tonight for my Uncle, Wally Attisha, Class of ‘97.
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7 years
Yeah, definitely looks better than the convenient, main campus counseling and student services it replaced.
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7 years
We got a sneak peek at a model room for @TAMU ’s new on-campus hotel👌
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5 months
stuck in my head tonight (and every night), RIP wampler
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8 years
Baby. Von. Miller.
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9 months
So, yes, I am proud to say I am one of the writers for the upcoming official STAR WARS ENCYCLOPEDIA, from @DKbooks . It's been a fun few months working with a ton of very talented co-contributors, and I'm excited for this (my first @STARWARS book?!) to be published this fall.
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@ActuallyBrandon
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2 years
This is my nightmare, this is my hell.
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@ActuallyBrandon
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3 years
Mike Flanagan ... welcome to the resistance
@flanaganfilm
Mike Flanagan
3 years
So I'm dying to show my son THE ABYSS and I cannot find a proper version of the movie anywhere. At all. It's on Amazon Prime Video in a low-res 4x3 presentation, but otherwise... nothing. HOW CAN THIS BE
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4 years
All these racist boomers are like "I'm canceling my season tickets because the A&M quarterback is using his voice and platform to say what he feels" and I'm just like, hell yeah, more season tickets opened up, maybe I'll be able to afford good seats sooner
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@ActuallyBrandon
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3 years
Finally got to see our @MondoNews SDCC Wolverine 1/6 Scale figure, in person, and it might be the greatest collectible I’ve ever owned.
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@ActuallyBrandon
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4 years
It’s been a week on the job, so I feel like I can announce my new gig without jinxing it: I’m now working at @AlamoDrafthouse as Marketing Campaign Manager for @MondoNews . If you know me even a little bit, you know this just a dream come true. ✨
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8 years
ok but havent guns ALWAYS been allowed inside kyle field
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8 years
Thank you, Josh. Thank you, Myles. Thank you, Trevor. Thank you, Conner. (Thank you, Aggieland.)
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8 years
"RT @Drake : To the city I love and the people in it...Thank you for everything #VIEWSfromHWY6 "
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9 years
For all this talk about Back to the Future, no one has mentioned the 1955 Texas A&M Football cameo in Part 2.
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8 years
Tried to covertly ship a mug from that Gilmore Girls podcast to my office and that really backfired on me
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@ActuallyBrandon
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3 years
Happy 130th birthday to my favorite author of all time, J.R.R. Tolkien. Here’s my current shelf. Love you, Professor.
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@ActuallyBrandon
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1 year
It’s just these four over and over and over again: - Indiana Jones has no impact to the plot of Raiders - Temple of Doom is bad (??!?) - Last Crusade is just safe and middling - “There have only been three Indy movies hahah” and / or a reference to a fridge or vine swinging
@EricVespe
Eric Vespe
1 year
Me preparing myself for the deluge of extremely bad Indiana Jones takes coming over the next month or so:
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5 months
“MEGALOPOLIS has no chance at being nominated for an Oscar.” Bitch? Who cares?
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1 year
"event movies" are good because they get people to the theatre, but they are also bad because these people seemingly have never been in public before
@alamodrafthouse
Alamo Drafthouse
1 year
Us when we see people talking or texting during the movie.
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1 year
Yeah, I’m religious, I believe in the holy trinity.
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1 year
Yeah, I'm religious, I believe in the holy trinity.
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@ActuallyBrandon
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7 years
@theHart_ofTX @THR give me a creed spinoff and ill let it slide
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1 year
So, uh.
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9 years
Can we just be co-Super-Regional-champions I'm tired
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@ActuallyBrandon
Brandon Wainerdi
8 months
I am so proud of this piece, my oral history of Max Rebo and his band, which appears in next month’s STAR WARS INSIDER #224 . From ROTJ to the Special Editions to THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT, it was a real honor to trace this blue Ortolan’s journey.
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@ActuallyBrandon
Brandon Wainerdi
4 years
In case @GregAbbott_TX needs to be reminded: Texas is 49th in vaccine distribution (and is the second largest state). You just spent last month killing Texans because of your inaction during the winter storm, I guess you wanted to start March the same way.
@SarahFromLBK
Sarah Self-Walbrick
4 years
NEW: Gov. Greg Abbott announces in Lubbock that businesses can now operate at 100% capacity. “It is now time to open Texas 100%.”
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@ActuallyBrandon
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4 years
Good morning @realDonaldTrump you fucking loser
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3 years
What is Halloween, if not spandex persevering?
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@ActuallyBrandon
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5 months
i really think that everyone who posts on this corner of the internet has been just doing their best Wampler impression. i feel so lucky to have gotten to know him, after admiring him and his words from afar. just crushing.
@EricVespe
Eric Vespe
5 months
Scott Wampler passed away today. He was my friend, co-host, and partner in crime. I’m still in shock. I don’t know many details, but I know it was sudden and he was with friends.
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4 months
RIP Wampler, I had to explain “the pipe” to my wife today.
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6 years
@jhwasc @swaggie_hunter Whenever she feels like it. It’s 2018 and she’s her own person.
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3 years
I have discovered the greatest hats of all time.
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1 year
Watching CRYSTAL SKULL because it’s my birthday and it’s a good movie
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7 months
holy shit, @SuperYakiShop knocked it out of the park with their DUNE (1984) Super Duper Yaki Club mystery bundle. gonna go cosplay as a vintage Kyle McLachlan press photo today. 🥰
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3 years
No time for love, Dr. Jones. ❤️❤️
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3 years
Little photo dump of where we spent the last part of our honeymoon: “GoldenEye”, the location of Ian Fleming’s private Jamaican villa, where he wrote every James Bond novel.
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6 years
@DeeGoots @IAMRayPark is the best. (It is very weird to see Darth Maul smiling but I am *very* into it.)
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1 year
Are people watching movies with their eyes closed
@FilmEasterEggs
Film Easter Eggs & Details
1 year
#Oppenheimer ’s opening scene parallels the final scene with the ripple effects of raindrops vs nukes
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6 years
Goddammit that’s my little brother
@Ronnie_Woodard
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6 years
Oh to be in college again. I can dig it.
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4 years
Literally cannot think of a single Texas beer
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3 years
It looks like Star Wars Insider #209 solicits are out, so I can finally talk about a piece I have been SO excited about ... my interview with *everyone* who was inside the Jabba puppet. Dreams come true, etc. etc.
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@ActuallyBrandon
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4 years
Anyone who tweets “whoever wins, just remember God is in control” probably voted for Trump
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7 years
@starwars hey @jonfavs i have an idea
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7 months
normalize bringing action figures of your movie to award shows (congrats GODZILLA MINUS ONE!)
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6 years
Can’t wait to buy the Benjamin Knox painting of this game
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2 years
The modern obsession with runtime being a barometer of quality is wild. Where did this come from? I don’t care how long something is, as long as it’s properly paced, or I am trying to get my wife to watch the Lord of the Rings Extended Editions
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DiscussingFilm
2 years
The season finale of ‘THE LAST OF US’ will be 43 minutes long. Read our review:
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2 years
It’s been a long week, so getting Star Wars Insider #217 in the mail, which features Part 1 (!) of my interview with @ILMVFX ’s John Knoll, really means a ton. The phrase “dream come true” is thrown around a lot, but this one really is.
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1 year
It’s been a weird day!
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1 year
So uh
@GiganticCranium
Mac Smith
1 year
Brandon & I met Marcia Lucas tonight at the ROTJ 40th reunion party. She was so sweet
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3 years
Congrats to Baby Ryan on graduating from @TAMU today! The @TAMUlibraries Read Poster Prophecy™️ has been ✨fulfilled✨.
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4 years
Here is your annual reminder that one time when I was a Marketing Intern, I had to dress like the Easter Bunny and hop to the pitcher’s mound for @AggieBaseball .
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1 year
For as long as I worked at @alamodrafthouse , I never was able to convince them to do my custom Indy movie party menu. And, for that, I will always live in deep shame (for them!!!!!).
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TALKING BAY 94
1 year
Ok fine @drafthouse I’ll order them all
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2 years
My true worst nightmare is occurring right now: explaining to a room full of adults why I was in London for a Star Wars convention
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8 years
My little brother, a senior in high school, went on his final visit to the A&M campus this weekend.
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1 year
@TAMU what will you do about the racist old guys who are actually running the school :)
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2 years
10/10. No notes. Perfect movie.
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6 years
@electrolemon this officially part of the Ladybird Expanded Universe™ canon
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5 years
one ring to rule them all
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@ActuallyBrandon
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3 years
Finally got a new frame for my @Jock4twenty art from the @MondoNews House Party 2018. 😍
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3 years
ok it’s time 2 get married
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8 years
❌ Maroon Out Curse ❌ 5-0 Curse ❌ College Gameday Curse
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@ActuallyBrandon
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2 years
My first piece as a contributor on @StarWars is now up, going through the best moments from TALES OF THE JEDI. Thanks to @dan_brooks and @KristinBaver for the incredible opportunity!
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6 months
i am traveling to Japan for the first time because of Star Wars, i love it.
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TALKING BAY 94
6 months
see y'all in Japan. (oh my god)
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11 months
we used to be a proper country
@TolkienWonder
The Wonder of Tolkien
11 months
This is a vibe. Lord of the Rings Thanksgiving Day Parade float in 1978 including Gandalf, Aragorn, Galadriel and Hobbits!
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2 years
Today's Star Wars Insider #211 has a dream piece for me: I was able to put together an oral history of the Special Editions, interviewing 9 of the cast and crew (including Dennis Muren!) about bringing the trilogy back to the big screen in 1997.
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3 years
My new whip. #TheBatman
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2 years
my new friend (it’s as big as a dog) @MondoNews
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1 year
Ok so … isn’t this the same as INDY 5? Where is the outrage where are the #hot #takes
@Variety
Variety
1 year
#MissionImpossible7 collected $56.2 million between Friday and Sunday, a lackluster start for a movie that cost nearly $300 million before marketing.
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4 years
one of my proudest achievements: you're looking at a man who had take Accounting twice lol
@TalkingBay94
TALKING BAY 94
4 years
actually this reminds me that, somehow, my incredulous mug is still literally the face of the @TAMU Accounting program lol
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Brandon Wainerdi
2 years
Ordered Pad Thai from Uber Eats, they got the order wrong, I ate that, I got a refund, and then I ordered my real order again.
@KDTrey5
Kevin Durant
2 years
Did u add to your legacy today? If so, what did u do?
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7 years
6 years ago today, my sports life peaked.
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8 years
🚨 JOHNNY AND VON DANCING AND SINGING TOGETHER AT A DRAKE CONCERT IN PARIS MY HEART IS FULL 🚨
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1 year
i've been in a private poster commission from artist @RogerMotzkus since last March and it is shipping next week and i think its the prettiest print i've ever bought omg
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3 years
Me and my buddy, Bob.
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Brandon Wainerdi
1 year
This is going to be fine! No venture capital firm has ever ruined a good product in the name of profit!
@Variety
Variety
1 year
Letterboxd has been acquired by Tiny, a Canadian holding company, in a deal that values the popular social site for film fanatics at about $50 million.
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is this 24 hour star wars marathon that i drove to dallas for the stupidest star wars thing ive ever done
@TalkingBay94
TALKING BAY 94
5 months
ok wish me luck, here we go.
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@cuppycup @TexAgs (•_•) <) )╯ this here / \ (•_•) \( (> is the best student section / \ (•_•) <) )╯ in all of college football / \
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I feel really lucky to have gotten to interview him for Star Wars Insider, one of his last published features. Robert Watts changed cinema forever.
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TALKING BAY 94
14 days
RIP Robert Watts, a hero of STAR WARS and INDIANA JONES.
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7 years
Can't wait to buy an ill-advised Cleveland Browns jersey for the second time in three years.
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