Chuck Sipperley
@waxyams.bsky.social
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‘Sweet Smell of Success’ is “a bleak and unsparing depiction of obeisance before power in a morally bankrupt culture,” @splicedpersonality.bsky.social writes: crookedmarquee.com/classic-corn...
November 22, 2025 at 12:15 AM
‘Sweet Smell of Success’ is “a bleak and unsparing depiction of obeisance before power in a morally bankrupt culture,” @splicedpersonality.bsky.social writes: crookedmarquee.com/classic-corn...
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Turn off your gd npr
www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/story/j...
www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/story/j...
John Coltrane Birthday Broadcast | WKCR 89.9FM NY
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September 23, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Turn off your gd npr
www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/story/j...
www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/story/j...
Rare win for the village public library.
August 28, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Rare win for the village public library.
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After Musk’s update to Grok, it is now calling itself “MechaHitler”.
Yes, this is real.
Yes, this is real.
July 8, 2025 at 10:40 PM
After Musk’s update to Grok, it is now calling itself “MechaHitler”.
Yes, this is real.
Yes, this is real.
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Indie Bookstore Day is the biggest day of the year for independent bookstores in North America outside of the holidays. Amazon would rather loss lead so hard they make zero profit on this event than see you get in the habit of visiting your local indie. Don’t fall for it.
it blows that Am*zon is doing a big book sale on Indie Bookstore Day. they’re doing it on purpose to try to squash indie bookstores and I hope whoever came up with that idea stubs their pinky toe every day forever
April 19, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Indie Bookstore Day is the biggest day of the year for independent bookstores in North America outside of the holidays. Amazon would rather loss lead so hard they make zero profit on this event than see you get in the habit of visiting your local indie. Don’t fall for it.
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Now available for preorder - Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde—Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop by J. Hoberman
A groundbreaking cultural history of 1960s New York, from the legendary writer on art and film
A groundbreaking cultural history of 1960s New York, from the legendary writer on art and film
Everything Is Now
Like Paris in the 1920s, New York City in the 1960s was a cauldron of avant-garde ferment and artistic innovation. Boundaries were transgressed and new forms created. Drawing on interviews, memoirs, a...
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March 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Now available for preorder - Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde—Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop by J. Hoberman
A groundbreaking cultural history of 1960s New York, from the legendary writer on art and film
A groundbreaking cultural history of 1960s New York, from the legendary writer on art and film
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Eternity's Pillar, a mid-80s tv show created by Alice Coltrane, is on @criterion.bsky.social
Eternity’s Pillar - The Criterion Channel
Throughout the mid-1980s, viewers tuning in late at night to Los Angeles’s KTTV Channel 11 could catch a broadcast unlike any other: ETERNITY’S PILLAR, a journey through the astral plane created and h...
www.criterionchannel.com
February 4, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Eternity's Pillar, a mid-80s tv show created by Alice Coltrane, is on @criterion.bsky.social
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When Trump speaks of turning Gaza into the ‘Riviera of the Middle East,’ he draws on a deep reservoir of American myths. The proposal crystallizes how empires have behaved throughout history as well as how exploitative landlords dispose of the poor. Evict and redevelop. Exterminate and settle.
The Rivierization of the World - Boston Review
Trump’s plans for Gaza crystallize the dreams of empire.
www.bostonreview.net
February 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
When Trump speaks of turning Gaza into the ‘Riviera of the Middle East,’ he draws on a deep reservoir of American myths. The proposal crystallizes how empires have behaved throughout history as well as how exploitative landlords dispose of the poor. Evict and redevelop. Exterminate and settle.
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Sōichirō Tomioka, Trees, 1961
October 29, 2024 at 1:54 PM
Sōichirō Tomioka, Trees, 1961