Critical Nostalgia
@highway62.bsky.social
Feral writer. Intergenre. Opstmodern. Hedorahgroove. Smogwave. The Hazeland books. Horror fantasy crime on the streets of 80s LA.
No rep. Bad reputation.
California · highway62press.com
No rep. Bad reputation.
California · highway62press.com
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Happy international men’s day. Find yourself the bros you can hang out with and be your authentic self.
November 19, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Happy international men’s day. Find yourself the bros you can hang out with and be your authentic self.
Just watching Trump go from tweet (even the old limit) length to these massive walls of text that nobody's reading is sad. He used to have it and now he just goes and goes and goes.
November 20, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Just watching Trump go from tweet (even the old limit) length to these massive walls of text that nobody's reading is sad. He used to have it and now he just goes and goes and goes.
Ziggy is helping!
November 20, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Ziggy is helping!
Five pages today? Mostly on extracurricular stuff that wasn't quite in the outline?
Not my finest hour, but I gotta honor the work of the Night Shift and figure that I'll find a way to weave it all together.
Not my finest hour, but I gotta honor the work of the Night Shift and figure that I'll find a way to weave it all together.
November 20, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Five pages today? Mostly on extracurricular stuff that wasn't quite in the outline?
Not my finest hour, but I gotta honor the work of the Night Shift and figure that I'll find a way to weave it all together.
Not my finest hour, but I gotta honor the work of the Night Shift and figure that I'll find a way to weave it all together.
Well well well, if it isn't the consequence of my own actions.
#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Well well well, if it isn't the consequence of my own actions.
Marked For Death, by Emma Ruth Rundle
8 track album
emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Snake Plissken casually lights an American Spirit and briefly gazes into the smoke before walking out into the dark.
NEW: Cryptocurrencies have lost >$1 TRILLION in market value since Oct. 6.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Crypto World Wipes Out $1 Trillion as Bitcoin Plunges Anew
The great crypto crash of 2025 entered a new phase on Wednesday, as Bitcoin plunged to its lowest level in seven months, extending the more than $1 trillion wipeout across the digital‑asset world.
www.bloomberg.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Snake Plissken casually lights an American Spirit and briefly gazes into the smoke before walking out into the dark.
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Ever see something so straight it punches through and becomes very gay?
When I was watching XPlay, this Mountain Dew ad came on where this guy forcefemmes transgenderizes his homie.
November 19, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Ever see something so straight it punches through and becomes very gay?
President Not During An Active Investigation
November 19, 2025 at 11:26 PM
President Not During An Active Investigation
Okay, now to read the pages I wrote yesterday and--
Oh no.
OH NO.
Oh no.
OH NO.
November 19, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Okay, now to read the pages I wrote yesterday and--
Oh no.
OH NO.
Oh no.
OH NO.
If the value of a commodity is just sitting there not actually being used, is any of that value real? Asking for a cryptocommodity.
November 19, 2025 at 10:24 PM
If the value of a commodity is just sitting there not actually being used, is any of that value real? Asking for a cryptocommodity.
I know folks gotta eat, but putting up links to Patreon or Ghost-paywalled articles just makes me grouchy.
November 19, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I know folks gotta eat, but putting up links to Patreon or Ghost-paywalled articles just makes me grouchy.
I don't try to subvert anything in any of the books I write.
November 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I don't try to subvert anything in any of the books I write.
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going to a concert on friday I just found out about
November 19, 2025 at 8:19 PM
going to a concert on friday I just found out about
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November 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Oh, so "character as problem to solve/cure" is something we can talk about now? 'Cause c'mon. It's been endemic for a long time. Granted, the intensity level of the phenomena is different in the Prestige Streaming Age.
November 19, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Oh, so "character as problem to solve/cure" is something we can talk about now? 'Cause c'mon. It's been endemic for a long time. Granted, the intensity level of the phenomena is different in the Prestige Streaming Age.
Through episodes 5&6 of True Detective. I'm brought to mind of discussions of old forms being loaded up and ramped up with new intensities of action onscreen and how the old stuff doesn't have a charge any more so it has to get juiced and more juiced in an effort to be labeled as mature.
November 19, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Through episodes 5&6 of True Detective. I'm brought to mind of discussions of old forms being loaded up and ramped up with new intensities of action onscreen and how the old stuff doesn't have a charge any more so it has to get juiced and more juiced in an effort to be labeled as mature.
There's not a single line in the new one that gets a laugh like this. I know, that's by design.
But I know which movie I'm still thinking about nearly 40 years on and which one will be "Oh yeah, that was a thing that happened."
But I know which movie I'm still thinking about nearly 40 years on and which one will be "Oh yeah, that was a thing that happened."
I feel like the new Running Man is “technically” a better movie than the Arnold one, but the Arnold one is so much better at being what it wants to be than this movie is. It sets much lower goals but it meets them.
November 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM
There's not a single line in the new one that gets a laugh like this. I know, that's by design.
But I know which movie I'm still thinking about nearly 40 years on and which one will be "Oh yeah, that was a thing that happened."
But I know which movie I'm still thinking about nearly 40 years on and which one will be "Oh yeah, that was a thing that happened."
Letting fans shape the shows is a bad idea. Always was. Always will be.
November 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Letting fans shape the shows is a bad idea. Always was. Always will be.
Hold up. You're telling me that the lawyers appointed to a vendetta criminal case by an incompetent President are themselves incompetent?
Big if true.
Big if true.
November 19, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Hold up. You're telling me that the lawyers appointed to a vendetta criminal case by an incompetent President are themselves incompetent?
Big if true.
Big if true.
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one big part of this, which i mention in the piece, is that sometimes the episodes themselves are good! even great!
even then, penultimate flashbacks turn the whole season into a seek-and-find exercise where you're looking for the real show under the one you've allegedly already been watching
even then, penultimate flashbacks turn the whole season into a seek-and-find exercise where you're looking for the real show under the one you've allegedly already been watching
November 19, 2025 at 5:28 PM
one big part of this, which i mention in the piece, is that sometimes the episodes themselves are good! even great!
even then, penultimate flashbacks turn the whole season into a seek-and-find exercise where you're looking for the real show under the one you've allegedly already been watching
even then, penultimate flashbacks turn the whole season into a seek-and-find exercise where you're looking for the real show under the one you've allegedly already been watching
Episode 08 - Which Witch is Which?
YouTube video by jlaury1986
www.youtube.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM
LLM based content concatenation has always drawn dudes who think they have the idea, the big idea that will bust stuff open and they've never managed to put together a coherent single thought. They seek the prestige and audience of getting out through a big and legit platform.
Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
November 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
LLM based content concatenation has always drawn dudes who think they have the idea, the big idea that will bust stuff open and they've never managed to put together a coherent single thought. They seek the prestige and audience of getting out through a big and legit platform.
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Happy Spacemen 3 Day to all who celebrate / happy 60th birthday to both Jason Pierce & Sonic Boom!
youtu.be/1RNONtLh7w0?...
youtu.be/1RNONtLh7w0?...
Losing Touch with My Mind
YouTube video by Spacemen 3 - Topic
youtu.be
November 19, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Happy Spacemen 3 Day to all who celebrate / happy 60th birthday to both Jason Pierce & Sonic Boom!
youtu.be/1RNONtLh7w0?...
youtu.be/1RNONtLh7w0?...