Michelle Chihara
@thisblue.bsky.social
Los Angeles since 2003. Media Studies, Critical Finance; power ballads; history of this wild city Find me at michellechihara.com
(Pple always tell me it doesn't matter if your ideas get scooped/stolen bc yours are always different or better in some way... never makes me feel better!) fwiw @seeshespeak.bsky.social's excellent book is quoted on the "course pledge" page of my History of TV grad seminar at USC!
September 15, 2025 at 10:34 PM
(Pple always tell me it doesn't matter if your ideas get scooped/stolen bc yours are always different or better in some way... never makes me feel better!) fwiw @seeshespeak.bsky.social's excellent book is quoted on the "course pledge" page of my History of TV grad seminar at USC!
I’m visiting Seattle to show my kid where her great-grandparents had a store before the family—including my dad (a citizen)—were incarcerated and interned.
This is on the wall next to the old Chihara Jewelry.
Stay strong Seattle #LAstrong #handsoffourdemocracy
This is on the wall next to the old Chihara Jewelry.
Stay strong Seattle #LAstrong #handsoffourdemocracy
June 13, 2025 at 1:42 AM
I’m visiting Seattle to show my kid where her great-grandparents had a store before the family—including my dad (a citizen)—were incarcerated and interned.
This is on the wall next to the old Chihara Jewelry.
Stay strong Seattle #LAstrong #handsoffourdemocracy
This is on the wall next to the old Chihara Jewelry.
Stay strong Seattle #LAstrong #handsoffourdemocracy
Grand Park this morning, turning out to fight to free David Huerta
June 9, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Grand Park this morning, turning out to fight to free David Huerta
Did I run up the steps? Yes I did!
March 19, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Did I run up the steps? Yes I did!
Just got an email from my friend and mentor (I'm a prof at a SLAC) who has been the DEI associate dean for a few years about the preliminary injunction from the Maryland district court. It prevents federal agencies from continuing their harmful enforcement of the unlawful policies…1/
March 11, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Just got an email from my friend and mentor (I'm a prof at a SLAC) who has been the DEI associate dean for a few years about the preliminary injunction from the Maryland district court. It prevents federal agencies from continuing their harmful enforcement of the unlawful policies…1/
This is essentially a pithier version of what I wrote about Musk and Tesla derivatives, before Twitter and the election, for Finance Aesthetics.
January 16, 2025 at 4:54 PM
This is essentially a pithier version of what I wrote about Musk and Tesla derivatives, before Twitter and the election, for Finance Aesthetics.
Instructions were:
Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. • 1 album per day for 20 days and no particular order. •No explanations no reviews just covers. “day” 2 #MusicSky #musicchallenge #Music
Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. • 1 album per day for 20 days and no particular order. •No explanations no reviews just covers. “day” 2 #MusicSky #musicchallenge #Music
December 15, 2024 at 5:15 AM
Instructions were:
Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. • 1 album per day for 20 days and no particular order. •No explanations no reviews just covers. “day” 2 #MusicSky #musicchallenge #Music
Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. • 1 album per day for 20 days and no particular order. •No explanations no reviews just covers. “day” 2 #MusicSky #musicchallenge #Music
…in the form of abandoned developments here. The Oceanwide towers in downtown Los Angeles are empty and given over to street artists and base jumpers. They went up with Chinese capital through the EB-5 cash-for-greencard program, before the developer went bust. 2/4
December 13, 2024 at 5:13 PM
…in the form of abandoned developments here. The Oceanwide towers in downtown Los Angeles are empty and given over to street artists and base jumpers. They went up with Chinese capital through the EB-5 cash-for-greencard program, before the developer went bust. 2/4
This makes me feel 16 (and I’m still gonna post about critical finance) but here goes:
Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. • 1 album per day for 20 days and no particular order. •No explanations no reviews just covers. #MusicSky #musicchallenge #Music
December 13, 2024 at 6:41 AM
This makes me feel 16 (and I’m still gonna post about critical finance) but here goes:
Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. • 1 album per day for 20 days and no particular order. •No explanations no reviews just covers. #MusicSky #musicchallenge #Music
We just keep have to keep working to understand how we got to a place where this is a question
November 18, 2024 at 5:39 AM
We just keep have to keep working to understand how we got to a place where this is a question
Kipo is not a good dog, but she is a good soul. #dogsofbluesky
November 13, 2024 at 2:27 PM
Kipo is not a good dog, but she is a good soul. #dogsofbluesky
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #124,929! Fwiw
September 19, 2024 at 2:10 PM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #124,929! Fwiw
Are you in need of emergency healing?
https://www.michellechihara.com/post/soulhouse-rabbit-hole
https://www.michellechihara.com/post/soulhouse-rabbit-hole
November 10, 2024 at 9:53 AM
Are you in need of emergency healing?
https://www.michellechihara.com/post/soulhouse-rabbit-hole
https://www.michellechihara.com/post/soulhouse-rabbit-hole
Neither left nor right shark
June 17, 2023 at 6:17 AM
Neither left nor right shark
I don’t know as much about Harry Carr as perhaps I should, and this book is problematic and nuts, but I just picked it up at an event and I’m really feeling the ink-stained wretches on Pegasus (Pegasi?) as a sign of the greatest civilization
November 10, 2024 at 9:53 AM
I don’t know as much about Harry Carr as perhaps I should, and this book is problematic and nuts, but I just picked it up at an event and I’m really feeling the ink-stained wretches on Pegasus (Pegasi?) as a sign of the greatest civilization
Straight outta 2022, it’s the 2023 New Directions in Print Culture Studies round table!
I’m talking cultish tendencies, anticapitalist influencers, and Bullet Journals TM.
@profworden @AyendyBonifacio @DarkStars__
Come talk print culture with us Saturday 12pm! #MLA2023
I’m talking cultish tendencies, anticapitalist influencers, and Bullet Journals TM.
@profworden @AyendyBonifacio @DarkStars__
Come talk print culture with us Saturday 12pm! #MLA2023
November 10, 2024 at 9:53 AM
Straight outta 2022, it’s the 2023 New Directions in Print Culture Studies round table!
I’m talking cultish tendencies, anticapitalist influencers, and Bullet Journals TM.
@profworden @AyendyBonifacio @DarkStars__
Come talk print culture with us Saturday 12pm! #MLA2023
I’m talking cultish tendencies, anticapitalist influencers, and Bullet Journals TM.
@profworden @AyendyBonifacio @DarkStars__
Come talk print culture with us Saturday 12pm! #MLA2023