Brian Flota
@brianflota.bsky.social
Humanities Librarian at JMU; co-editor of COMIC BOOKS, SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, AND THE ACADEMIC LIBRARY; co-author of "Sustainable Futures for Comics Collections"; #FirstGen; Opinions mine, vinyl records, etc.
To celebrate #Noirvember, I'm going to share with you my thirty favorite film noir movies (in alphabetical order). One each day.
MILDRED PIERCE (1945; dir. Michael Curtiz)
MILDRED PIERCE (1945; dir. Michael Curtiz)
November 13, 2025 at 6:34 PM
To celebrate #Noirvember, I'm going to share with you my thirty favorite film noir movies (in alphabetical order). One each day.
MILDRED PIERCE (1945; dir. Michael Curtiz)
MILDRED PIERCE (1945; dir. Michael Curtiz)
Record #1209: Sex Pistols, Silly Thing b/w Who Killed Bambi (1979, 7”, UK, Virgin Records)
November 12, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Record #1209: Sex Pistols, Silly Thing b/w Who Killed Bambi (1979, 7”, UK, Virgin Records)
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What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
November 12, 2025 at 10:31 AM
What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
Record #1208: Charlie Parker, New Sounds in Modern Music, Vol. 1 (1953, 7”, US, Savoy Records)
November 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Record #1208: Charlie Parker, New Sounds in Modern Music, Vol. 1 (1953, 7”, US, Savoy Records)
To celebrate #Noirvember, I'm going to share with you my thirty favorite film noir movies (in alphabetical order). One each day.
THE MALTESE FALCON (1941; dir. John Huston)
THE MALTESE FALCON (1941; dir. John Huston)
November 12, 2025 at 2:24 PM
To celebrate #Noirvember, I'm going to share with you my thirty favorite film noir movies (in alphabetical order). One each day.
THE MALTESE FALCON (1941; dir. John Huston)
THE MALTESE FALCON (1941; dir. John Huston)
Record #1207: Wendy Carlos, Beauty In the Beast (1986, 12”, US, Audion Recording Co.)
November 11, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Record #1207: Wendy Carlos, Beauty In the Beast (1986, 12”, US, Audion Recording Co.)
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Marcyliena Morgan, Founder of Harvard’s Hip-Hop Archive, Dies at 75 📜
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/a...
Marcyliena Morgan, Founder of Harvard’s Hip-Hop Archive, Dies at 75
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Marcyliena Morgan, Founder of Harvard’s Hip-Hop Archive, Dies at 75 📜
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/a...
To celebrate #Noirvember, I'm going to share with you my thirty favorite film noir movies (in alphabetical order). One each day.
LAURA (1944, dir. Otto Preminger)
LAURA (1944, dir. Otto Preminger)
November 11, 2025 at 4:07 PM
To celebrate #Noirvember, I'm going to share with you my thirty favorite film noir movies (in alphabetical order). One each day.
LAURA (1944, dir. Otto Preminger)
LAURA (1944, dir. Otto Preminger)
Reposted by Brian Flota
Still makes me laugh.
November 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Still makes me laugh.
Can’t believe none of this made it into
The Lowdown!
Record #1206: Sammi Smith, Help Me It through the Night (1971, 12”, US, Mega Records)
The Lowdown!
Record #1206: Sammi Smith, Help Me It through the Night (1971, 12”, US, Mega Records)
November 11, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Can’t believe none of this made it into
The Lowdown!
Record #1206: Sammi Smith, Help Me It through the Night (1971, 12”, US, Mega Records)
The Lowdown!
Record #1206: Sammi Smith, Help Me It through the Night (1971, 12”, US, Mega Records)
I got some Cap’n Crunch Berries but they screwed up and put just the Berries in there. Oops!
November 11, 2025 at 1:44 AM
I got some Cap’n Crunch Berries but they screwed up and put just the Berries in there. Oops!
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the Berlin Wall fell so that we could has cheezburger
The difference in time between now and I can has cheezburger
Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling
Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling
November 10, 2025 at 11:13 PM
the Berlin Wall fell so that we could has cheezburger
Record #1205: Sonic Youth, Sister (1990s reissue, 12”, UK, Blast First Records)
November 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Record #1205: Sonic Youth, Sister (1990s reissue, 12”, UK, Blast First Records)
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Re-upping @jgbridgergilmore.bsky.social's review of Brooks E. Hefner's BLACK PULP (@uminnpress.bsky.social); hoping THE MARTIAN TRILOGY leads to more of these genre stories from "Illustrated Feature Section" & other Black serials getting rediscovered!
Black Genre Fiction Reimagined: Review of Black Pulp by Brooks E. Hefner
Black Genre Fiction Reimagined: Review of Black Pulp by Brooks E. Hefner Garrett Bridger Gilmore Under Review:Black Pulp. Brooks E. Hefner. University of Minnesota Press, December 2021. In hi…
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org
November 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Re-upping @jgbridgergilmore.bsky.social's review of Brooks E. Hefner's BLACK PULP (@uminnpress.bsky.social); hoping THE MARTIAN TRILOGY leads to more of these genre stories from "Illustrated Feature Section" & other Black serials getting rediscovered!
Record #1204: Jon Hassell, Dream Theory in Malaya—Fourth World Volume Two (1981, 12”, US, Editions EG)
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Record #1204: Jon Hassell, Dream Theory in Malaya—Fourth World Volume Two (1981, 12”, US, Editions EG)
To celebrate #Noirvember, I'm going to share with you my thirty favorite film noir movies (in alphabetical order). One each day.
KISS ME DEADLY (1955, dir. Robert Aldrich)
KISS ME DEADLY (1955, dir. Robert Aldrich)
November 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
To celebrate #Noirvember, I'm going to share with you my thirty favorite film noir movies (in alphabetical order). One each day.
KISS ME DEADLY (1955, dir. Robert Aldrich)
KISS ME DEADLY (1955, dir. Robert Aldrich)
Record #1203: Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane, At Carnegie Hall (2017 reissue, 2x12”, US, Blue Note Records)
November 9, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Record #1203: Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane, At Carnegie Hall (2017 reissue, 2x12”, US, Blue Note Records)
Reposted by Brian Flota
Call for papers for the edited collection, Beyond the American Western: Picturing the Far West in Global Comics: williamgrady.co.uk/cfp/
The volume aims to explore the vibrancy and diversity of the Western genre in comics from around the world.
Deadline for proposals: 14th December 2025
The volume aims to explore the vibrancy and diversity of the Western genre in comics from around the world.
Deadline for proposals: 14th December 2025
November 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Call for papers for the edited collection, Beyond the American Western: Picturing the Far West in Global Comics: williamgrady.co.uk/cfp/
The volume aims to explore the vibrancy and diversity of the Western genre in comics from around the world.
Deadline for proposals: 14th December 2025
The volume aims to explore the vibrancy and diversity of the Western genre in comics from around the world.
Deadline for proposals: 14th December 2025
Record #1202 Funky 4 Plus 1, That’s the Joint (1981, 12”, US, Sugar Hill Records)
November 9, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Record #1202 Funky 4 Plus 1, That’s the Joint (1981, 12”, US, Sugar Hill Records)
Record #1201: Ringo Starr, Crooked Boy (2024 reissue, 12”, US, UMe)
November 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Record #1201: Ringo Starr, Crooked Boy (2024 reissue, 12”, US, UMe)
To celebrate #Noirvember, I'm going to share with you my thirty favorite film noir movies (in alphabetical order). One each day.
THE KILLING (1956, dir. Stanley Kubrick)
THE KILLING (1956, dir. Stanley Kubrick)
November 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
To celebrate #Noirvember, I'm going to share with you my thirty favorite film noir movies (in alphabetical order). One each day.
THE KILLING (1956, dir. Stanley Kubrick)
THE KILLING (1956, dir. Stanley Kubrick)
Record #1200: Wu-Tang Clan, Triumph (1997, 12”, US, Loud Records)
November 8, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Record #1200: Wu-Tang Clan, Triumph (1997, 12”, US, Loud Records)
Record #1199: Bob Dylan, Shadow Kingdom (2023, 2x12”, US, Columbia Records)
November 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Record #1199: Bob Dylan, Shadow Kingdom (2023, 2x12”, US, Columbia Records)
To celebrate #Noirvember, I'm going to share with you my thirty favorite film noir movies (in alphabetical order). One each day.
IN A LONELY PLACE (1950, dir. Nicholas Ray)
IN A LONELY PLACE (1950, dir. Nicholas Ray)
November 8, 2025 at 1:57 PM
To celebrate #Noirvember, I'm going to share with you my thirty favorite film noir movies (in alphabetical order). One each day.
IN A LONELY PLACE (1950, dir. Nicholas Ray)
IN A LONELY PLACE (1950, dir. Nicholas Ray)
Record #1198: David Bowie, Station to Station (1976, 12”, US, RCA Victor)
November 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Record #1198: David Bowie, Station to Station (1976, 12”, US, RCA Victor)