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chris @knightscrest.bsky.social · 2h

shout out to a gloomy day in da windy citay

chris @knightscrest.bsky.social · 5h

any way, with new people coming over here: please watch Kiss Of The Spider Woman

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chris @knightscrest.bsky.social · 6h

oh shit. i've been locked down for a while but thanks for the heads up. might be time to pull the plug entirely

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chris @knightscrest.bsky.social · 6h

what even happened on the other site this time

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chris @knightscrest.bsky.social · 2d

still thinking about kiss of the spider woman. make movie musicals great again

chris @knightscrest.bsky.social · 3d

pretty excited to see kiss of the spider woman…idk it calls to me

chris @knightscrest.bsky.social · 4d

eat them the fuck up tigers!!!!!!!

chris @knightscrest.bsky.social · 9d

this is devastating

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chris @knightscrest.bsky.social · 9d

kind of craving an x files rewatch

chris @knightscrest.bsky.social · 10d

kojima being a last dinner party stan rocks dude. their recent singles have been nothing short of incredible imo

小島秀夫 @hideokojima.bsky.kojimaproductions.jp · 10d

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joycecaroloates.bsky.social @joycecaroloates.bsky.social · 12d

of myriad elements in "One Battle After Another" it is the sound track that demands our attention immediately before the first images materialize for us to see.
& throughout, imaginative, unpredictable & inspired music which would constitute some sort of weird autonomous art-work of its own.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15d

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 17d

This footage is still my favorite. It's like Little League all over again for some of those guys in the dugout. You have that one teammate who's just better than everyone else

Chad Moriyama @chadmoriyama.bsky.social · Sep 2

Shohei hits a homer off Chandler at 120 MPH, gets hilarious reactions from everybody involved.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 18d

"In a genre dominated by contemporary political screeds, he wrote something that could have been written 400 years ago and could be sung 400 years from now."

Kaleb Horton on Shane MacGowan, and anyone writing Horton's obituary would be forgiven for pinching the line.

www.gq.com/story/shane-...

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 18d

kaleb was right about damn near everything and not that it’s my business to render judgments but for him to be the one who died and not one of many much dumber and worse people is just hateful to me

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 18d

This final post from Kaleb Horton is very beautiful and hits hard. This is just so sad. RIP.

2025, So Far

I wish I had a time machine so I could go back in time and talk to my dad in 1988, just before I was born, and tell him what it’s like to live in the future. I’d tell him all the amazing things that a...

kalebhorton.ghost.io

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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 18d

And now I'm just spelunking around and here's this Facebook post by Kaleb Horton from September 2017. It was three months after MTV dumped its freelancers. I'm sure it would have been a piece there; instead he posted this on FB just to have it written out: Toys 'R' Us as societal microcosm.

$The ghost sightings happen in stupid places, unexpected places, and uncool places. A few months ago, I went with Marie to the Toys R Us on Victory Blvd. in Burbank, which still looks exactly like it did in Back to the Future in 1985 somehow. It's not nostalgia that you see there, it's just a customer base and economic model that's aging and won't be around a lot longer, and it's *boring.* There's no reason for anyone to ever go to Lancer's, the little diner by that Toys R Us. Because it's not good. People go there out of tradition, and old habits. 80 and 90 year olds go there. We were lining up for a Nintendo, which is still a hard thing to keep stocked in stores. Toys R Us was actually the best place to obtain one, because it's no longer a place children beg their parents to take them to. When we went in, wham, there it was. The ghost of 1996. I was 8 years old, for a fraction of a second. The feeling wasn't nostalgia, it was a kind of temporal dislocation. A confusion. But it wasn't an immaculate 1996, it was a fading 1996. It was lonelier than I remember it. It's time for Toys R Us to go out of business. It was time ten years ago, fifteen. There are reasons to be nostalgic about the 20th century. We weren't plugged into so many wires, so many screens. We were a little bit closer to the process of manufacturing and agriculture than we are now. We made more things by hand, and our goals as people were uniquely audacious and driven by mad, desperate power that was temporary and had to end.$

But the 20th century was hopelessly cruel and soaked in blood. The 20th century gave us flight, but it also gave us bombs that can end the world and Richard Nixon and his evil sidekick Kissinger and it gave us new mutations of slavery and race and class subjugation and it gave us useless, disgusting monuments to Confederate slavers and traitors and cowards. It gave us President Trump, who wouldn't exist today without New York City's collective cocaine addiction in the 1980s.
I want to find the ghosts, not because I miss the past -- the good old days can't return because they're imaginary and what you really miss is youth and if you're lucky a warm feeling of safety -- but because I don't even know what things we'll lose, or when we'll lose them, or how long we have to document them. I know ghosts when I see them. Toys R Us for the mundane side and the Salton Sea for the widescreen wasteland side. But I have absolutely no idea how many there are.
I figure people go first, then places. Those are the things we have a limited time to physically document and historically examine and preserve on film. The ideas will go away much slower, and some of them may be eternal, like cold wars. But those are a lot less fun because you don't get to drive to them.

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chris @knightscrest.bsky.social · 19d

had an out of body experience in reaction to multiple needle drops in one battle after another

chris @knightscrest.bsky.social · 22d

i really loved this flick when i watched it for the first time a few weeks ago but it is Very tropey. i think i just found de niro charming and the score bangs!

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 26d

seeing another rash of voter blaming and i wonder how people reconcile this with all the times dem senators - in deep blue states, even - that people voted for and put into office decided to give unanimous consent to GOP shit so they could go on vacation. they voted 'correctly', and yet, get nothing

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27d

these people are genuinely idiots

Andrew Solender @andrewsolender.bsky.social · 27d

NEW: Expect some drama in House Dems’ meeting this AM over a vote to honor Charlie Kirk.

Some members undecided. Others voting no or “present.” But some in the party fear anything but a unanimous vote for it will be a messaging coup for the GOP.

@Axios.com
www.axios.com/2025/09/18/c...

House Democrats fume about vote to honor Charlie Kirk: "We're being totally set up"

The vote has been the topic of frenzied discussions in Democrats' closed-door meeting this week.

www.axios.com

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chris @knightscrest.bsky.social · 27d

hoping to go to our first ever chicago film fest….

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · Sep 14

The world's richest man is inciting mass violence based on the ramblings of a man who was exposed for running a BDSM and SA forced milking porn ring (possibly diverting money he had scammed from his fans through video game fundraising for a title he never made).

Yes this is real life

Grummz: The left just blew all their trust. Normies see a nice guy doing a simple debate, not a political speech, not leading a rally or a riot, getting gunned down in 4K.

Elon Musk: RAGE!

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · Sep 14

*dusts off this piece I wrote in 2021* www.mediamatters.org/new-york-pos...

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