The Farmer’s Husband An alternate history in which Rocket from the Tomb’s writer and guitarist Peter Laughner continues to live, the following work of fiction is a companion piece to the essay “‘A Proud and Booming Indust...

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A work of short fiction about punk, the Amish, agrarianism, and Ohio.

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Blue Sky Boys - Down On The Banks Of The Ohio YouTube video by senswinthecup

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"A Proud and Booming Industry" - Pittsburgh Review of Books In cruelest April of 1978, “a guy in Kent, Ohio,” began sending toRobert Christgau a “‘Ragazine of High and Low Art’ dedicated to the proposition that

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#Branding

#Pittsburgh #ProletarianNovel #CityofClans #OutofThisFurnace #TheMachineintheGarden beltmag.com/art-is-still...

In Defense of Directness (Of which I am Mostly Incapable) For Jason Riley and Josh Fornelli…

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Western Union (Fritz Lang, 1941) Western Union (Fritz Lang, 1941)

#WesternUnion #FritzLang #Western

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Star Wars Movies, Star Trek Movies, & the Pleasures of the Episode I write this with some hesitancy—first, because my greatest enthusiasm for Star Wars was at age seven, circa 1980, ensconced in action figures, plastic ships, and cross-sections of larger vessels fash...

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#ElonMusk #Twitter After careful consideration, I have decided that Elon Musk's July 2023 rebranding of Twitter was largely so that he would no longer have to hide his search history.

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Containers

After the lightning:
vessels too large to contain,
linemen shore live wires.

#haiku #entropy #recycling

19 Haikus & headlines

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Crossroads (Walter Hill, 1986) When one does one’s review, be it on Letterbox or for bylined pay or whatever, one is really self-explaining.

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Pub Housing “Office at Night” (Edward Hopper, 1940)

#avocado #avocadotoast #pub #Hemingway #housing #consumerism #calories #saving #loneliness #membership #community #hegemony

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Matt Wanat Matt Wanat

#fiction #essay #filmcriticism #filmbooks

I'll store this work in progress here.

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Shoestring - Private Ear - S01 E01 YouTube video by speedsportvideos

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Thanks for sharing.

#WilliamGass #OrsonWelles #LancasterOhio

Nobody ever seems satisfied with the consultant. SpongeBob-style "One...year...later": "We've decided to hire a consultant." Consultants and legacy projects are the worst.

Climate Cynicism My Head Also in the Sand

#ClimateChange #SonnyChiba

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#PerryMason #RaymondBurr #RayCollins

#Freud, #Grandparents, #Nepotism, #PopularPsychology

#zeugma #rhetoric #literaryterms #tools #DIY

Cultural Literacy, Fandom, & Defense of the Fair-Weather Fan When Groucho Marx turns up as a mystery guest on What’s My Line?

#StarTrek #Swiftie #TheSimpsons #EDHirsch #CulturalLiteracy #Fandom #TwilightZone #ImaginedCommunities #Cult #GrouchoMarx #Freud

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#Mr.Arkadin #Cleofrom5to7 #AgnesVarda #OrsonWelles

Micro-Jeremiad for the Brave New World AI-Enhanced Headshots

#AI #AIenhancedselfies #AIHeadshots #TheSimpsons #Dystopia #PostHuman

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#StarTrek #DaggeroftheMind

The Wax Paper — Wanat - The Amish Boys Read Zane Grey

#ZaneGrey #BookMobile #Amish #ShortFiction #WaxPaper

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