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Matthew Perpetua @fluxblog.bsky.social · 1h

funny how Crisis On Infinite Earths is our reality now - algorithmic culture making everyone live in infinite contradictory parallel Earths crashing together, the only path forward being unification into a coherent new Earth

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Joe Regan @jregan.bsky.social · 13h

Yeah, I was looking for a Silver Age Legion collection yesterday and good luck with that across titles and different volumes. (I did somehow manage to find it though?)

Marvel is just as bad, my pet peeve is that facsimile editions are listed as separate titles by issue! 🤬

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Joe Regan @jregan.bsky.social · 13h

Yeah, I’m there with you. I think you get Trimpe’s power with Severin’s inks maybe sanding down some of the rough edges without compromising things

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Joe Regan @jregan.bsky.social · 13h

I haven’t really revisited those yet—got some of those kinda scatter-shot as we did back in the day.

I *think* I like Trimpe’s work better with a tighter (if that’s the right word) inker than some of his slightly later work. Your thoughts?

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Joe Regan @jregan.bsky.social · 15h

Couple of heroes (and a villain) shaking sticks at you too

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Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 2d

46 years ago
Members of British ska groups The Selecter, Madness and The Specials on Brighton Beach at the first date of the 2 Tone Tour in October 1979.

Photo by Chalkie Davies

#punkrock #ska #thespecials #madness #theselecter #history #skahistory

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 3d

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 8d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · 2d

Eclectic Laundry
Eclectic, AL

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Joe Regan @jregan.bsky.social · 2d

I love me a record company promotional inner sleeve but this one with a Jerry Stiller & Anne Meara comedy record between Led Zeppelin IV and Exile on Main Street is 👨‍🍳💋🤌

LP inner sleeve with various LPs from the Atlantic/Atco/Cotillion/Asylum stable of artists including Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, CSN&Y, Yes, and oddly enough, utter classics from Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones framing a Stiller & Meara comedy album

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Joe Regan @jregan.bsky.social · 2d

Today’s pickups courtesy of the Atomic Records pop-up: 2 comps, one with Milw. bands, one of post-punk NYC scenesters, taking a flyer on the Garland Jeffreys LP, and have seen “(We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang” referenced a few times recently so felt like stumbling on a copy was kismet

Four LP covers—Garland Jeffreys’ self-titled; Start Swimming compilation featuring the Bongos, Raybeats, The dBs, Bush Tetras, and Fleshtones; Badger-a-go-go including a host of late ‘80s Milwaukee bands; and Heaven 17

Back cover of the Heaven 17 LP with “(We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang” opening Side Two

Joe Regan @jregan.bsky.social · 3d

Seeing early performances by Christopher Walken and Jeff Goldblum (both verrrrry much in precursors to what they’re known for) was an added bonus, Sigourney Weaver is there too but you really have to look hard

Joe Regan @jregan.bsky.social · 3d

Watching ANNIE HALL (1977) and thinking while the events of the movie unfold, Television or the Talking Heads are playing at CBGB, totally different worlds separated by a few miles

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Joe Regan @jregan.bsky.social · 3d

Watching ANNIE HALL (1977) and thinking while the events of the movie unfold, Television or the Talking Heads are playing at CBGB, totally different worlds separated by a few miles

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Ken Parille @kenparille.bsky.social · 3d

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Annie Zaleski @anniezaleski.bsky.social · 3d

Cannot believe I am just learning Diane Keaton directed the music videos for Belinda Carlisle’s “Heaven is a Place on Earth” AND “ I Get Weak.” youtu.be/NOGEyBeoBGM?...

Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by BelindaCarlisleVEVO

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Joe Regan @jregan.bsky.social · 3d

29 (I’m including DC!) plus two asterisk cases: AK (drove through, did stop for gas), NH (*think* I was there as a youngster but not sure)

My big gaps are the Plains, Mountain, and Southwest states and oddly enough, northern New England (lived in NJ for almost 30 years)

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Joe Regan @jregan.bsky.social · 4d

Theme song sung by Johnny Nash of “I Can See Clearly Now” fame!

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Joe Regan @jregan.bsky.social · 4d

Got to see this silent classic on the big screen with live accompaniment on the Mighty Wurlitzer

Title card for THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (1923) starring Lon Chaney

Intro screen for Milwaukee’s Oriental Theater with a gentlemen playing the Wurlitzer organ, just before he and the instrument descend into the pit

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Joe Regan @jregan.bsky.social · 4d

<Jim Ross voice> MAH GAWD!!! SUB-ZERO ISN’T EVEN IN THE DC MULTIVERSE!!!!

(ok, I realize there have been some crossovers but roll with me here)

Comicsbeat @comicsbeat.bsky.social · 4d

NYCC ’25: Sub-Zero from Mortal Kombat to appear in DC KO, along with other characters

At the annual Jim Lee and Friends panel at NYCC, the publisher revealed Sub-Zero and other well-known characters are coming to DC KO.

NYCC ’25: Sub-Zero from Mortal Kombat to appear in DC KO, along with other characters

At the annual Jim Lee and Friends panel at NYCC, the publisher revealed Sub-Zero and other well-known characters are coming to DC KO.

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Joe Regan @jregan.bsky.social · 4d

👍 I’d say the Detroit book is the strongest of the 3 as it deals with the break-up of the Supremes, John Sinclair and the Yippies, along with the riots. The Harlem book is relatively the weakest maybe because the music aspects of the books aren’t as focused or centralized as in the other two cities

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Joe Regan @jregan.bsky.social · 4d

2/2 NYC recs

Love Goes to Buildings on Fire (Hermes) - Five years (1973-1977) in NYC that saw the birth of disco, salsa, hip-hop and punk

This Must Be the Place (Rifkin) - history of various NYC music scenes and communities with a special focus on the venues that hosted them in the ‘50s-‘10s

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Joe Regan @jregan.bsky.social · 4d

Here’s 1/2 NYC recs—some of the same ground as Dream Palace but from different angles

The Village (Strausbaugh)-history of Greenwich Village

The Downtown Pop Underground (McLeod) - art, music, theater, film, etc. scenes in downtown NYC during the ‘60’s-’70s

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Joe Regan @jregan.bsky.social · 4d

Detroit ‘67, Memphis ‘68, Harlem ‘69 (Cosgrove) - book series that goes month-by-month dovetailing the stories of the music scenes in the respective cities Motown/MC5, Stax, Summer of Soul, etc—with the major events of the day—Detroit riots, MLK assassination, Black Panthers

Detroit 67: The Year That Changed Soul by Stuart Cosgrove

The Epic Story of Motown and Detroit's Independent Soul Music Scene It’s January 1967—and one of ...

app.thestorygraph.com

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Joe Regan @jregan.bsky.social · 4d

And since you’re a technologist, you might find The Idea Factory interesting, it’s a history of Bell Labs where basically the cornerstones of today’s technology were created

The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Gertner

A sweeping, atmospheric history of Bell Labs that highlights its unparalleled role as an incubat...

app.thestorygraph.com

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Joe Regan @jregan.bsky.social · 4d

Really too many to list but I’m a sucker for anything on music scenes/cities/communities and anything NYC art & music scene-wise in the 20th century so hmu if you’re looking for something in that vein

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Joe Regan @jregan.bsky.social · 4d

Absolutely loved this book (maybe you put it on my radar before?) It would be a huge task but I’d love to see someone try to make an anthology TV series (non-linear?) based on it.

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