J Bogart
@jonathanbogart.net
Library worker, researcher and writer about culture from the first third of the 20th century, depressive.
https://jonathanbogart.net
https://jonathanbogart.net
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Merry Xmas from Milton Caniff with a little bit of @kartoonistkelly.bsky.social mixed in.
December 25, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Merry Xmas from Milton Caniff with a little bit of @kartoonistkelly.bsky.social mixed in.
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Tintin magazine, dated December 25, 1947.
December 25, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Tintin magazine, dated December 25, 1947.
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Torchy Brown in Heartbeats by Jackie Ormes from December 23, 1950. A great example of her work.
December 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Torchy Brown in Heartbeats by Jackie Ormes from December 23, 1950. A great example of her work.
current winter soundtrack tidal.com/album/110674...
Morton Feldman - Rothko Chapel
Listen to Rothko Chapel on TIDAL
tidal.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:54 PM
current winter soundtrack tidal.com/album/110674...
unfortunately my brain is broken in too many directions, even with unlimited free time it would take dozens of lifetimes just to ingest everything i want to, never mind processing and synthesizing it for the edification of others
I have always said it, I will continue to say it, we are limiting the productive potential of millions of freaks by demanding they earn a wage to survive instead of enabling them to do whatever thing their brain is broken for
December 22, 2025 at 8:58 PM
unfortunately my brain is broken in too many directions, even with unlimited free time it would take dozens of lifetimes just to ingest everything i want to, never mind processing and synthesizing it for the edification of others
visiting family in houston and they’re so excited to make a day trip to three blocks that are doing their best to replicate about a dozen neighborhoods in chicago. the people yearn for walkability
December 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
visiting family in houston and they’re so excited to make a day trip to three blocks that are doing their best to replicate about a dozen neighborhoods in chicago. the people yearn for walkability
love to baffle a cool young record store clerk by handing them a 78 in my stack of purchases. a manager had to walk them through how to look it up on discogs to price it
December 20, 2025 at 7:19 PM
love to baffle a cool young record store clerk by handing them a 78 in my stack of purchases. a manager had to walk them through how to look it up on discogs to price it
i probably did get some vocabulary from music (manicotti from a Keith Green skit-song about manna in the Exodus comes to mind) but i was so much more widely read than i was listened into my mid-twenties that most of my vocabulary came from text
December 20, 2025 at 1:31 AM
i probably did get some vocabulary from music (manicotti from a Keith Green skit-song about manna in the Exodus comes to mind) but i was so much more widely read than i was listened into my mid-twenties that most of my vocabulary came from text
Um. That would be quite the left turn.
December 19, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Um. That would be quite the left turn.
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I confess I wish we'd gotten the pop future The Black Eyed Peas threatened us with rather the one we got
December 19, 2025 at 3:21 AM
I confess I wish we'd gotten the pop future The Black Eyed Peas threatened us with rather the one we got
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sound recordings from 1925 are finally about to enter the public domain in the US. here's a gem from '25, one of the first Boswell Sisters sides, "Nights When I Am Lonely": www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtot...
Very Early Boswell Sisters - Nights When I Am Lonely [1925].
YouTube video by mrblindfreddy9999
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December 18, 2025 at 3:29 PM
sound recordings from 1925 are finally about to enter the public domain in the US. here's a gem from '25, one of the first Boswell Sisters sides, "Nights When I Am Lonely": www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtot...
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It’s the day of San Lázaro / Babalú-Ayé. The 11th anniversary of the ill-fated Obama opening to Cuba.
open.spotify.com/track/6AJwRC...
open.spotify.com/track/6AJwRC...
Viejo Lázaro
open.spotify.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:20 PM
It’s the day of San Lázaro / Babalú-Ayé. The 11th anniversary of the ill-fated Obama opening to Cuba.
open.spotify.com/track/6AJwRC...
open.spotify.com/track/6AJwRC...
fans of my newsletter: i had to skip december’s booked outing due to illness. i wouldn’t be surprised if something else turns up before the end of the year, though.
December 17, 2025 at 12:40 PM
fans of my newsletter: i had to skip december’s booked outing due to illness. i wouldn’t be surprised if something else turns up before the end of the year, though.
for the morning crew
i do have a front-runner for my song of the year, which i have not noticed publicly before even though i’ve been compulsively listening to it since may. afro-colombian dancehall with resonances across all the empires of the americas. llegó babylon indeed.
youtu.be/bE9-mgRmLIY
youtu.be/bE9-mgRmLIY
December 17, 2025 at 12:14 PM
for the morning crew
of course i can’t sleep when i have to get up early for travel so instead i’m mentally laying out a comprehensive index of twentieth century high, pop, and junk culture called The Omnibrow’s Handbook
December 17, 2025 at 5:42 AM
of course i can’t sleep when i have to get up early for travel so instead i’m mentally laying out a comprehensive index of twentieth century high, pop, and junk culture called The Omnibrow’s Handbook
i do have a front-runner for my song of the year, which i have not noticed publicly before even though i’ve been compulsively listening to it since may. afro-colombian dancehall with resonances across all the empires of the americas. llegó babylon indeed.
youtu.be/bE9-mgRmLIY
youtu.be/bE9-mgRmLIY
December 17, 2025 at 2:47 AM
i do have a front-runner for my song of the year, which i have not noticed publicly before even though i’ve been compulsively listening to it since may. afro-colombian dancehall with resonances across all the empires of the americas. llegó babylon indeed.
youtu.be/bE9-mgRmLIY
youtu.be/bE9-mgRmLIY
Post a black and white panel and tell us who drew it.
This one is El Cubri (artist: Pedro Arjona)
This one is El Cubri (artist: Pedro Arjona)
December 16, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Post a black and white panel and tell us who drew it.
This one is El Cubri (artist: Pedro Arjona)
This one is El Cubri (artist: Pedro Arjona)
my christmas present to myself has been sorted.
The Quiet Wit of Rea Irvin: Rediscovering The Smythes by Tammi Morton-Kelly www.tcj.com/the-quiet-wi...
December 16, 2025 at 4:53 PM
my christmas present to myself has been sorted.
i'm still ~200 songs shy of getting through my 2025 to-listen backlog, after which i can start to weed through the 1K+ songs i've saved to return to, i have no chance of winnowing it down to a top anything reasonable by the end of the year
December 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM
i'm still ~200 songs shy of getting through my 2025 to-listen backlog, after which i can start to weed through the 1K+ songs i've saved to return to, i have no chance of winnowing it down to a top anything reasonable by the end of the year
this is the video i would have shared so boosting ann’s words is a bonus
One time Eric and I were at the Princeton Record Exchange and in the famous two-dollar pins we found a treasure trove of Joe Ely records. We bought them and wow did we get schooled about Texas music. A great and genuine troubadour. We just lost him. RIP www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NpD...
Joe Ely - She Never Spoke Spanish To Me - International Country Festival 1978 • TopPop
YouTube video by TopPop
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December 16, 2025 at 6:22 AM
this is the video i would have shared so boosting ann’s words is a bonus
19, my first email account was juno rather than aol but otherwise, yes, i was alive in the twentieth century
Show your age
17 (have never used a fax machine, a record player, or a phone booth)
17 (have never used a fax machine, a record player, or a phone booth)
December 16, 2025 at 6:19 AM
19, my first email account was juno rather than aol but otherwise, yes, i was alive in the twentieth century
the death of the twentieth century continues apace.
December 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
the death of the twentieth century continues apace.
just spoke out loud for the first time in a few days after having been down with the worst illness i’ve experienced since covid in 2021 and it took longer than expected to shake the rust off
December 14, 2025 at 7:43 PM
just spoke out loud for the first time in a few days after having been down with the worst illness i’ve experienced since covid in 2021 and it took longer than expected to shake the rust off
the similarity between the UK and US versions of Xmas pop is that they are both reprieves from stereotype: in the US, gentle, nostalgic music is a reprieve from loud nonstop hustle work-hard play-harder life, in the UK jolly carousal is a reprieve from keep-your-head-down mustn’t-grumble grayness
December 13, 2025 at 7:22 PM
the similarity between the UK and US versions of Xmas pop is that they are both reprieves from stereotype: in the US, gentle, nostalgic music is a reprieve from loud nonstop hustle work-hard play-harder life, in the UK jolly carousal is a reprieve from keep-your-head-down mustn’t-grumble grayness