Moss Elixir
@sorryforlaughing.bsky.social
She/her. Interests: art films, cult films, vintage television, video art, late night radio, backlisted books, dharma bums, suburban anomie, field recordings, found footage, lost futures, words, sounds, you.
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We play the cello, the trumpet, and the banjo
November 24, 2025 at 3:36 AM
We play the cello, the trumpet, and the banjo
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Udo took a chance on my rinky-dink festival in Vancouver back in 2000 - he went on TV interviews with me, carried 35mm film prints up stairs, went to get me coffee and even live-dubbed Giancarlo Giannini's voice when BLACK BELLY OF THE TARANTULA showed up without subs. RIP Udo, you were a star 🌟
November 24, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Udo took a chance on my rinky-dink festival in Vancouver back in 2000 - he went on TV interviews with me, carried 35mm film prints up stairs, went to get me coffee and even live-dubbed Giancarlo Giannini's voice when BLACK BELLY OF THE TARANTULA showed up without subs. RIP Udo, you were a star 🌟
Watching A House of Dynamite & it is my tragic duty to buck the trend here & say that while it's no Fail-Safe I'm largely enjoying it. Currently in the part of act two where I'm disappointed the call to the Russian official wasn't announced as "Premier Kissoff's calling again & he's hopping mad!"
November 24, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Watching A House of Dynamite & it is my tragic duty to buck the trend here & say that while it's no Fail-Safe I'm largely enjoying it. Currently in the part of act two where I'm disappointed the call to the Russian official wasn't announced as "Premier Kissoff's calling again & he's hopping mad!"
Farewell, Udo Kier. You will always be Curly in Barb Wire* to me & there's not a goddamned thing you can do about it.
*I sincerely enjoyed Barb Wire, Pam Anderson & Kim Basinger are my eternal "will watch her in any old thing"** blondes
**Not Cool World though, sorry Kim but that fuckin' reeked
*I sincerely enjoyed Barb Wire, Pam Anderson & Kim Basinger are my eternal "will watch her in any old thing"** blondes
**Not Cool World though, sorry Kim but that fuckin' reeked
November 24, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Farewell, Udo Kier. You will always be Curly in Barb Wire* to me & there's not a goddamned thing you can do about it.
*I sincerely enjoyed Barb Wire, Pam Anderson & Kim Basinger are my eternal "will watch her in any old thing"** blondes
**Not Cool World though, sorry Kim but that fuckin' reeked
*I sincerely enjoyed Barb Wire, Pam Anderson & Kim Basinger are my eternal "will watch her in any old thing"** blondes
**Not Cool World though, sorry Kim but that fuckin' reeked
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My hot take is that over the next 10 years, we're going to see more emphasis on and investment in the humanities at Ivy League and other fancy schools just as state schools and small privates continue to decimate and even eliminate the humanities.
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
My hot take is that over the next 10 years, we're going to see more emphasis on and investment in the humanities at Ivy League and other fancy schools just as state schools and small privates continue to decimate and even eliminate the humanities.
I forget which urbanist political scientist said it but I completely agree that metropolitan areas, not state & county lines, need to be our future political & social planning boundaries—no, I’m not “from Chicago” but my present & future are tied far more closely to it than to the rest of my state.
*taps the sign*
November 23, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I forget which urbanist political scientist said it but I completely agree that metropolitan areas, not state & county lines, need to be our future political & social planning boundaries—no, I’m not “from Chicago” but my present & future are tied far more closely to it than to the rest of my state.
A movie that takes place where you’re from (famous & obscure editions):
November 23, 2025 at 6:57 PM
A movie that takes place where you’re from (famous & obscure editions):
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Snowy owls flying at dusk in Chicago
November 23, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Snowy owls flying at dusk in Chicago
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American Comics: There is simply no way to sell an original series
Manga: We are on Vol 19 of "My Neighbor Said Hi"
Manga: We are on Vol 19 of "My Neighbor Said Hi"
November 22, 2025 at 10:28 PM
American Comics: There is simply no way to sell an original series
Manga: We are on Vol 19 of "My Neighbor Said Hi"
Manga: We are on Vol 19 of "My Neighbor Said Hi"
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Her smug aura mocks me
November 22, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Her smug aura mocks me
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"Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning."
November 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
"Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning."
Paul Robeson made his 1925 screen debut in Oscar Michaux's Body & Soul playing good & evil twins, the evil one a sociopathic preacher, & hated it so much he later denied being in it at all (I gotta disagree--though it's a silent & so no famous Robeson voice he's got charisma flying off the screen).
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 22, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Paul Robeson made his 1925 screen debut in Oscar Michaux's Body & Soul playing good & evil twins, the evil one a sociopathic preacher, & hated it so much he later denied being in it at all (I gotta disagree--though it's a silent & so no famous Robeson voice he's got charisma flying off the screen).
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“Loose Chicken On The N Train” sounds like what Mingus would’ve titled his surrealist arrangement of an Ellington standard.
A train crew found a loose chicken on an N train this morning—and couldn’t get it to leave.
Loose chicken fouls N train as subway stowaway slows morning commute
A loose chicken gave new meaning to “free range,” scoring a gratis subway ride to Coney Island on the N train Thursday morning after it was discovered fouling a subway car in storage.
www.nydailynews.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:37 AM
“Loose Chicken On The N Train” sounds like what Mingus would’ve titled his surrealist arrangement of an Ellington standard.
I’ve said this before but MST3K was one of my undeclared film schools, I went from thinking “ha ha stupid movies” to interested in them for their own sake & my innate ideas of what film is about & for were fundamentally changed. Film still isn’t for The Sidehackers however, that should be illegal.
Which MST3K movie was actually the best *movie*? Which one has the most non-ironic fans and defenders.
Danger: Diabolique comes to mind (though certainly not the best of the Diabolique films). This Island Earth as well, since they had to pick something a bit more palatable for the theatrical film.
Danger: Diabolique comes to mind (though certainly not the best of the Diabolique films). This Island Earth as well, since they had to pick something a bit more palatable for the theatrical film.
November 22, 2025 at 12:40 AM
I’ve said this before but MST3K was one of my undeclared film schools, I went from thinking “ha ha stupid movies” to interested in them for their own sake & my innate ideas of what film is about & for were fundamentally changed. Film still isn’t for The Sidehackers however, that should be illegal.
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With ICE and border patrol goons spreading out across the country, I put together a resource guide for buying, printing, and distributing whistles, based on my own experience. Now is the time to whistle up, hope this helps. dansinker.com/posts/202…
November 21, 2025 at 9:35 PM
With ICE and border patrol goons spreading out across the country, I put together a resource guide for buying, printing, and distributing whistles, based on my own experience. Now is the time to whistle up, hope this helps. dansinker.com/posts/202…
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unfortunately this is my resting face
November 21, 2025 at 8:45 PM
unfortunately this is my resting face
There's a very short list of films where no matter how often I've seen them, whenever they show up I have to sit down & watch them again--one's the most clichéd possible choice, Casablanca, & another is Gun Crazy which also captures my culture's firearms obsession better than any modern-day attempt.
Everyone - EVERYONE - should see this movie. Even if you don't like noir, even if you don't like classic movies, even if you don't want to see something made 75 years ago, GUN CRAZY is a wild, impossible masterpiece of the crime genre. It's suspenseful, thrilling, sad, dramatic, and hot as fuck.
November 21, 2025 at 7:19 PM
There's a very short list of films where no matter how often I've seen them, whenever they show up I have to sit down & watch them again--one's the most clichéd possible choice, Casablanca, & another is Gun Crazy which also captures my culture's firearms obsession better than any modern-day attempt.
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I wasn't entirely happy with how this unit went. I've noticed a reactionary response to these films from students, which they mask as enlightened."We [undefined] have moved on as a society, so there's no need to watch such confrontational films anymore." Needless to say, I disagree.
Prepping for to teach my Intro students film history through a case study of New Queer Cinema. It's probably a sign of how bad things have gotten that I'm actually more nervous about how they'll respond to these films than I am when I screen parts of Birth of a Nation or Triumph of the Will.
November 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I wasn't entirely happy with how this unit went. I've noticed a reactionary response to these films from students, which they mask as enlightened."We [undefined] have moved on as a society, so there's no need to watch such confrontational films anymore." Needless to say, I disagree.
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bolo tie with chrysoprase setting, extra-long staples, genuine saffron, money clip in the shape of daffy duck, extendable turf rake, “live laugh love”parody signs reading “stop drop roll”, extra-strength paracetamol from tj, middle-tier monthly patreon subscription to dr. bronner’s copywriter
reaching stick, pants zipper-upper robot, butler whose only job is to get you a cotton pad when you're doing skincare, bamboo that grows exactly fast enough to turn on the light switch every morning, guy to cut back the bamboo at night, overnight oats from the store
November 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
bolo tie with chrysoprase setting, extra-long staples, genuine saffron, money clip in the shape of daffy duck, extendable turf rake, “live laugh love”parody signs reading “stop drop roll”, extra-strength paracetamol from tj, middle-tier monthly patreon subscription to dr. bronner’s copywriter
Real admiration for French ingenuity in taking a happy easy listening song about coming home to your beloved on a beautiful summer evening & turning it into an angsty yé-yé melodrama called “Sadness, Not Heartbreak.”
De la peine pas de chagrin
YouTube video by Claude François - Topic
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November 21, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Real admiration for French ingenuity in taking a happy easy listening song about coming home to your beloved on a beautiful summer evening & turning it into an angsty yé-yé melodrama called “Sadness, Not Heartbreak.”
Coworker who “doesn’t believe in” vaccines & thinks apple cider vinegar can cure everything from fevers to metastasis has already been wretchedly ill at least three times since September but you know, everyone needs at least one hobby they really enjoy I guess.
every winter I get a flu shot and then don't get the flu and everyone else doesn't get a flu shot and then does ... like. people!
November 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Coworker who “doesn’t believe in” vaccines & thinks apple cider vinegar can cure everything from fevers to metastasis has already been wretchedly ill at least three times since September but you know, everyone needs at least one hobby they really enjoy I guess.
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Always keep Freja in Friday
November 21, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Always keep Freja in Friday
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it is not Perfect, but it is Good, i think, simply in terms of reducing suffering
NEW — Today, Cook County became the first county in the U.S. to establish permanent funding for guaranteed income at the county level.
The Cook County Board of Commissioners approved $7.5 million for the program through its FY 2026 budget, which totals $10.12 billion.
thetriibe.com/2025/11/cook...
The Cook County Board of Commissioners approved $7.5 million for the program through its FY 2026 budget, which totals $10.12 billion.
thetriibe.com/2025/11/cook...
Cook County becomes the first county in the US to establish permanent funding for guaranteed income • The TRiiBE
On Thursday, the Cook County Board of Commissioners approved the FY 2026 budget, which includes $7.5 million to fund the county’s guaranteed basic income program.
thetriibe.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:22 AM
it is not Perfect, but it is Good, i think, simply in terms of reducing suffering
A good thing about being a grownup is you can make a big loaf of bread & then just rip a fresh piece off with your bare hands & eat it soaked in olive oil, you are beyond the reach of the law.
November 20, 2025 at 11:55 PM
A good thing about being a grownup is you can make a big loaf of bread & then just rip a fresh piece off with your bare hands & eat it soaked in olive oil, you are beyond the reach of the law.
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If I could reduce all my political ideas to one sentence, it would be this: You can't leave a bad system intact, and leave all the abusive and awful people created by that system unpunished, and maintain the same fuel that powered that system, and expect things to be different in the future.
November 20, 2025 at 8:13 PM
If I could reduce all my political ideas to one sentence, it would be this: You can't leave a bad system intact, and leave all the abusive and awful people created by that system unpunished, and maintain the same fuel that powered that system, and expect things to be different in the future.