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Sean Howe
@seanhowe.bsky.social
· Sep 14
allow yourself to not wallow in the stipulated news cycle.
Reposting this as a reminder to myself as much as anything.
Robert Altman, on the filming of THE LONG GOODBYE:
“Sterling Hayden did the same scene twice, once drunk and once stoned, and he was great both times.”
“Sterling Hayden did the same scene twice, once drunk and once stoned, and he was great both times.”
November 11, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Robert Altman, on the filming of THE LONG GOODBYE:
“Sterling Hayden did the same scene twice, once drunk and once stoned, and he was great both times.”
“Sterling Hayden did the same scene twice, once drunk and once stoned, and he was great both times.”
I've blocked everyone but you
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
I've blocked everyone but you
Enjoy some music while you rest your eyes and prepare to log off for the night.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDzo...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDzo...
Velvet Scene (RVG Remaster)
YouTube video by John Coltrane - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Enjoy some music while you rest your eyes and prepare to log off for the night.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDzo...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDzo...
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"Fugs Film!" feature doc world premiere Wed Nov 12 at IFC Center in NYC w/ filmmaker Chuck Smith and Fug Ed Sanders doing Q & A, 2nd screening Nov 14 w/ Smith and Jeffrey Lewis Q & A // also you can screen it online in your hovel for a brief period, info at link
www.docnyc.net/film/fugs-fi...
www.docnyc.net/film/fugs-fi...
FUGS FILM! - DOC NYC
WORLD PREMIERE DOC NYC alumnus Chuck Smith revels in 1960s sounds and the spirit of counterculture with this politically pointed look back at the volatile
www.docnyc.net
November 10, 2025 at 12:49 AM
"Fugs Film!" feature doc world premiere Wed Nov 12 at IFC Center in NYC w/ filmmaker Chuck Smith and Fug Ed Sanders doing Q & A, 2nd screening Nov 14 w/ Smith and Jeffrey Lewis Q & A // also you can screen it online in your hovel for a brief period, info at link
www.docnyc.net/film/fugs-fi...
www.docnyc.net/film/fugs-fi...
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And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
‘How is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison system
In the year’s most shocking documentary, The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for help
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
one day I'm going to come across that Doris Danger treasury I bought at Rocketship Comics in Carroll Gardens 15 years ago and I'm going to laugh again
November 9, 2025 at 5:24 AM
one day I'm going to come across that Doris Danger treasury I bought at Rocketship Comics in Carroll Gardens 15 years ago and I'm going to laugh again
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Honored and elated to have won a 2025 ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award for “Extinctophonics: The Game Of Jim” in Maggot Brain #18. Hugest gratitude to @mikemcgonigal.bsky.social and Mairead Case for giving it a home.
MB remains analog-only, but you can read the piece here:
MB remains analog-only, but you can read the piece here:
The Game Of Jim — Andy Zax
www.andyzax.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Honored and elated to have won a 2025 ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award for “Extinctophonics: The Game Of Jim” in Maggot Brain #18. Hugest gratitude to @mikemcgonigal.bsky.social and Mairead Case for giving it a home.
MB remains analog-only, but you can read the piece here:
MB remains analog-only, but you can read the piece here:
"Editorial board" is such a cloak of cowardice
November 9, 2025 at 4:44 AM
"Editorial board" is such a cloak of cowardice
Drunk Lindsey Graham:
"Ron Dermer...I've given the first shekel to your campaign...And every great Jewish person comes from Miami Beach.
"I feel good about the Republican party. I feel good about where we're going as a nation. We're killing all the right people."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbDU...
"Ron Dermer...I've given the first shekel to your campaign...And every great Jewish person comes from Miami Beach.
"I feel good about the Republican party. I feel good about where we're going as a nation. We're killing all the right people."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbDU...
Lindsey Graham: "I'm In The ‘Hitler Sucks Wing’ Of The Republican Party—What Is This Hitler S---?"
YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News
www.youtube.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Drunk Lindsey Graham:
"Ron Dermer...I've given the first shekel to your campaign...And every great Jewish person comes from Miami Beach.
"I feel good about the Republican party. I feel good about where we're going as a nation. We're killing all the right people."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbDU...
"Ron Dermer...I've given the first shekel to your campaign...And every great Jewish person comes from Miami Beach.
"I feel good about the Republican party. I feel good about where we're going as a nation. We're killing all the right people."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbDU...
"Cazenovia has worked to honor its history, most recently commemorating the 175th anniversary of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law Convention.... Steps away from that abolitionist site, a law enforcement hub tied to a Sheriff’s dept. with an active ICE agreement is being proposed w/o community consent."
Nobody asked Cazenovia residents if we wanted sheriff’s office in village (Your Letters)
Nobody asked Cazenovia residents if we wanted sheriff’s office in village (Your Letters)
"This is about how decisions are made, whose voices are heard, and whether our communities are shaped by transparency or closed-door deals," says the letter writer.
www.syracuse.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:11 PM
"Cazenovia has worked to honor its history, most recently commemorating the 175th anniversary of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law Convention.... Steps away from that abolitionist site, a law enforcement hub tied to a Sheriff’s dept. with an active ICE agreement is being proposed w/o community consent."
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"[P]rocedurally, had she denied the request, the Justice Department could have gone to another justice.
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, by issuing the order herself, she was able to set the limits."
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Finally, and perhaps most importantly, by issuing the order herself, she was able to set the limits."
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Updated report at Law Dork is published now here:
Justice Jackson temporarily blocks SNAP benefits order to allow appeals court to rule
DOJ asked SCOTUS for a stay as USDA was in the middle of completing its process for making full payments. Update: Jackson's order came a little past 9 p.m.
www.lawdork.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:27 AM
"[P]rocedurally, had she denied the request, the Justice Department could have gone to another justice.
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, by issuing the order herself, she was able to set the limits."
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Finally, and perhaps most importantly, by issuing the order herself, she was able to set the limits."
👇
I don’t understand this stuff but I’m sharing because sometimes an asterisk to bad news is better than despair
I need to emphasize what I say down-thread: this is a temporary, procedural move known as an administrative stay issued in haste by Justice Jackson.
Little to nothing should be read into this ruling for how SCOTUS might ultimately rule on SNAP—either way.
Little to nothing should be read into this ruling for how SCOTUS might ultimately rule on SNAP—either way.
BREAKING: the Supreme Court has granted Trump administration’s request.
November 8, 2025 at 2:47 AM
I don’t understand this stuff but I’m sharing because sometimes an asterisk to bad news is better than despair
Masthead for VAMP, circa 1976
November 8, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Masthead for VAMP, circa 1976
Reminder to donate $$$ to your local food pantry if you can!
www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...
From here, you can click through to find nearby pantries. Donate to them if you can.
From here, you can click through to find nearby pantries. Donate to them if you can.
Find Your Local Food Bank | Feeding America
Find the Feeding America member food bank nearest you. Over 200 member food banks can connect you with free food, food pantries, soup kitchens, and mobile pantries in your community.
www.feedingamerica.org
November 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Reminder to donate $$$ to your local food pantry if you can!
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more sad news from the merry prankster family: just heard that springfield creamery proprietor (& organic yogurt innovator) chuck kesey has departed, only a few months after his wife sue. we spoke with them both about the dead's infamous 1972 benefit a few years ago. www.dead.net/deadcast/sun...
November 6, 2025 at 10:35 PM
more sad news from the merry prankster family: just heard that springfield creamery proprietor (& organic yogurt innovator) chuck kesey has departed, only a few months after his wife sue. we spoke with them both about the dead's infamous 1972 benefit a few years ago. www.dead.net/deadcast/sun...
Funny, was just thinking about Stuart Klawans' writing in the last couple days.
broken record on this but a similarly great beat for left wing media would be covering arts and culture and not just focusing primarily on politics and current events because there's a massive void there right now
it does seem like there’s a major—though potentially fleeting—opportunity to invest in left-wing media. more than a million people in the most populous city in america just enthusiastically elected a democratic socialist and the world is watching. putting $$ towards left media rn is good business.
November 7, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Funny, was just thinking about Stuart Klawans' writing in the last couple days.
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
Big news from CNY
www.syracuse.com/politics/cny...
www.syracuse.com/politics/cny...
Sharon Owens wins, makes history as Syracuse’s first Black mayor
Owens, 62, spent the last eight years as deputy mayor under Ben Walsh
www.syracuse.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Big news from CNY
www.syracuse.com/politics/cny...
www.syracuse.com/politics/cny...
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DECONSTRUCTING COMICS: A talk with @seanhowe.bsky.social about the history of #Marvel Comics! There’s plenty of intra-creator acrimony to be found in "Marvel Comics: The Untold Story", yet Howe found that the book helped some to move on from decades-old wounds. deconstructingcomics.com?p=8926
November 5, 2025 at 6:43 PM
DECONSTRUCTING COMICS: A talk with @seanhowe.bsky.social about the history of #Marvel Comics! There’s plenty of intra-creator acrimony to be found in "Marvel Comics: The Untold Story", yet Howe found that the book helped some to move on from decades-old wounds. deconstructingcomics.com?p=8926
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i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist
the other thing about this is that there is no reason to pit these candidates against each other? each are good fits for their respective electorates and each shows the value of vigorous campaigns focused on the stated material problems of voters.
November 4, 2025 at 1:37 PM
i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist
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Head in hands wondering how this could happen to me, the popular president who posted a video of myself shitting on everyone 2 weeks ago
November 5, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Head in hands wondering how this could happen to me, the popular president who posted a video of myself shitting on everyone 2 weeks ago
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