Critical Nostalgia
LightNews LightNews
banner
highway62.bsky.social
Critical Nostalgia
@highway62.bsky.social
4K followers 660 following 41K posts
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
Posts Replies Media Videos
highway62.bsky.social
Batteries drained. Needing a recharge. Needing to see how someone not me moves words around. Needing to pat a black cat.
A large and fluffy black cat sitting next to a book opened to a page reading "Farewell, My Lovely". A floral bedspread is visible but blurry in the background
November 20, 2025 at 5:24 AM
highway62.bsky.social
Ziggy is helping!
Two orange kittens sleeping on a blanket. The one farthest from the camera is regarding the photographer, head upside down as he tries to figure out what he is going on.
November 20, 2025 at 1:35 AM
highway62.bsky.social
For the CRT brethren out there:
CRT-era image of Arnold as the Terminator, holding up his hand and saying "I swear I will not kill anybody."
November 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
highway62.bsky.social
I don't try to subvert anything in any of the books I write.
November 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
highway62.bsky.social
I welcome the haters.
Salieri in Amadeus, played by F Murray Abraham. He is still dressed richly, even with the bandage about his neck as he is wheeled through the asylum, forgiving the insane their mediocrities.
November 18, 2025 at 4:27 PM
highway62.bsky.social
Only the trampest!
The cover of Supertramp's Breakfast in America, showing an airbrushed airplane window with an airbrushed middle American cafe waitress superimposed over a view of Mahnattan island and some neat skinny sans serif type
November 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM
highway62.bsky.social
Perfect album that came out when I was 16.
The cover of More Fun in the New World by X, featuring a stylized blue X on a yellow field, a background of hand-drawn blue stars and the album name in black type, printed in green and orange.
November 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
highway62.bsky.social
Yup.
Ed Harris as soldier of fortune/adventurer/psychopath William Walker in Alex Cox' film Walker.
November 17, 2025 at 10:03 PM
highway62.bsky.social
Look at this beautiful Japanese release poster for the film version of The Song Remains the Same. Look at it!

via oldmanpeace on tumblr
Orange and black graphic poster, showing images of Led Zeppelin performing in concert along with canted text. You are in awe.
November 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
highway62.bsky.social
Posting things I like

Juxtaposition of modern scaffold and Notre Dame exterior.
Gothic and modern texture
November 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
highway62.bsky.social
Posting things I like.

Ste. Chappelle in the center of Paris
Gothic windows and vaults, so many of them. Dizzying. Gorgeous.
November 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM
highway62.bsky.social
"I have my moments."
Darwyn Joston as Napoleon Wilson in John Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13, a convict in prison blues against shadowy prison bars.
November 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
highway62.bsky.social
Ziggy and Stardust watch from the partial shadows.

Three weeks ago, so they look very different now, more like miniature cats than oddly-proportioned cats.
Two orange kittens mostly in shadow, but revealed by a square of sunlight. They are sticking their heads out from between the rails of a bannister on an upper floor.
November 15, 2025 at 5:51 PM
highway62.bsky.social
You know what they said? Well some of it was true!
Program from 1985's Grad Nite at Disneyland, Anaheim, CA USA. Animotion, Midnight Star, Dazz Band, Shalamar, Shannon, X and Dan Hartman all played.
November 15, 2025 at 4:10 AM
highway62.bsky.social
Big plans:
Fire lit in a backyard fire pit. You feel Reassured, as if there is a bulwark against the coming winter.
November 15, 2025 at 1:45 AM
highway62.bsky.social
Something something evening redness in the west
Closeup of a blood red sunset and streaked clouds.
November 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
highway62.bsky.social
Current 20
Sunset over a paved bike trail, still wet with today's rain. You feel serene.
November 15, 2025 at 1:12 AM
highway62.bsky.social
Bane, played by Tom Hardy, looking down at the viewer. Overlaid text reads VICTORY HAS DEFEATED YOU.
November 14, 2025 at 5:38 PM
highway62.bsky.social
Upgraded robot posting continues
The Minoton, an animated bronze statue of a man with a bull's head, crafted by Ray Harryhausen for the film Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger.
November 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
highway62.bsky.social
Age yourself with gaming
Very mid-late seventies style art for Fairchild Channel F game cartridge boxes, featuring oversized numbers, rainbows and very very small pictures of the gameplay because it was often disappointing. These boxes, however, are not. They are delightful.
November 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
highway62.bsky.social
The brain trust, mere inches away from the keyboard today. Positively radiating the fires of intellect.
Two sleepy orange kittens, stacked upon one another. They are adorable.
November 13, 2025 at 3:16 AM
highway62.bsky.social
"Sucks, doesn't it?"
Rip Torn as Zed in Men In Black (1997, dir. Sonnenfeld)
November 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
highway62.bsky.social
Knucklehead update
Two orange kittens fighting to the death on a fake wood floor. They are fighting over which is the snappiest dresser. They both are.
November 10, 2025 at 10:21 PM
highway62.bsky.social
Hold up. Sydney Sweeney had a movie come out this weekend?

How long before we have a double event?

(And maybe she can't actually carry a movie opening.)
Burn Gorham in Pacific Rim, an Englishman with a terrible haircut and rumpled suit pronouncing, gravely "There will be a double event. And then shortly thereafter three." You are concerned.
November 10, 2025 at 7:46 PM
highway62.bsky.social
"Employees must smile if less than 10 feet from a customer."
Closeup shot of the Chatterer Cenobite's choppers, exposed all the way to the gums and then some. You feel unsettled.
November 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM