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.
Record #1214: Patti Smith, Horses (1975, 12”, US, Arista Records)
November 15, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Record #1214: Patti Smith, Horses (1975, 12”, US, Arista Records)
Record #1213: Willie Nelson, Yesterday’s Wine (1975 reissue, 12”, US, RCA Victor)
November 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Record #1213: Willie Nelson, Yesterday’s Wine (1975 reissue, 12”, US, RCA Victor)
To celebrate #Noirvember, I'm going to share with you my thirty favorite film noir movies (in alphabetical order). One each day.
THE NARROW MARGIN (1952; dir. Richard Fleischer)
THE NARROW MARGIN (1952; dir. Richard Fleischer)
November 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
To celebrate #Noirvember, I'm going to share with you my thirty favorite film noir movies (in alphabetical order). One each day.
THE NARROW MARGIN (1952; dir. Richard Fleischer)
THE NARROW MARGIN (1952; dir. Richard Fleischer)
Record #1212: Joy Division, Substance 1977-1980 (2013 reissue, 2x12”, bootleg, US)
November 14, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Record #1212: Joy Division, Substance 1977-1980 (2013 reissue, 2x12”, bootleg, US)
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Everyone’s gangster until they hear their own voice on a recording.
November 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Everyone’s gangster until they hear their own voice on a recording.
Record #1211: Lewis, L’Amour (2014 reissue, 12”, US, @lightintheattic.bsky.social)
November 14, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Record #1211: Lewis, L’Amour (2014 reissue, 12”, US, @lightintheattic.bsky.social)
Record #1210: Hound Dog Taylor and The HouseRockers, Hound Dog Taylor and The HouseRockers (1971, 12”, US, Alligator Records)
November 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Record #1210: Hound Dog Taylor and The HouseRockers, Hound Dog Taylor and The HouseRockers (1971, 12”, US, Alligator Records)
To celebrate #Noirvember, I'm going to share with you my thirty favorite film noir movies (in alphabetical order). One each day.
MURDER, MY SWEET (1944; dir. Edward Dmytryk)
MURDER, MY SWEET (1944; dir. Edward Dmytryk)
November 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
To celebrate #Noirvember, I'm going to share with you my thirty favorite film noir movies (in alphabetical order). One each day.
MURDER, MY SWEET (1944; dir. Edward Dmytryk)
MURDER, MY SWEET (1944; dir. Edward Dmytryk)
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)
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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)