J Bogart
@jonathanbogart.net
Library worker, researcher and writer about culture from the first third of the 20th century, depressive.
https://jonathanbogart.net
https://jonathanbogart.net
the matrix. i understand its value, i just don’t care in any non-intellectual way and that’s not enough
What is the movie you have seen the most times that you would say you do NOT like?
January 17, 2026 at 4:54 AM
the matrix. i understand its value, i just don’t care in any non-intellectual way and that’s not enough
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Bouyon to di world ! 💃🏾
bouyon around the world report: guadeloupean bouyon superstar kelvin visits cabo verde for a funaná-inflected banger primarily in portuguese kriolu
youtu.be/bs2TGgnt_n8
youtu.be/bs2TGgnt_n8
Alex Ak.s X Kelvin - DAMA LA (official video )
YouTube video by AK.S Official
youtu.be
January 16, 2026 at 9:58 PM
Bouyon to di world ! 💃🏾
bouyon around the world report: guadeloupean bouyon superstar kelvin visits cabo verde for a funaná-inflected banger primarily in portuguese kriolu
youtu.be/bs2TGgnt_n8
youtu.be/bs2TGgnt_n8
Alex Ak.s X Kelvin - DAMA LA (official video )
YouTube video by AK.S Official
youtu.be
January 16, 2026 at 6:52 PM
bouyon around the world report: guadeloupean bouyon superstar kelvin visits cabo verde for a funaná-inflected banger primarily in portuguese kriolu
youtu.be/bs2TGgnt_n8
youtu.be/bs2TGgnt_n8
always nice to see my 2009 scan turn up around the internet, even reformatted like this
January 16, 2026 at 5:48 PM
always nice to see my 2009 scan turn up around the internet, even reformatted like this
more time has now passed between the release of ke$ha's animal and today than passed between the release of the beatles' help and joy division's closer
January 16, 2026 at 5:29 PM
more time has now passed between the release of ke$ha's animal and today than passed between the release of the beatles' help and joy division's closer
note for the morning crowd: i've been writing about one movie every evening this week, here's last night's
is 1950-1976 a coherent era in film or does it just fall between the two eras i care about (the 30s & 40s, and my own lifetime, in that order)
boxd.it/cE3UMR
boxd.it/cE3UMR
A ★★★★ review of Winchester '73 (1950)
Retro Wednesdays, #1 my third plex library covers movies made between 1950 and 1976; the randomize feature tonight put me right at the beginning of the period with this classic psychological western, ...
boxd.it
January 15, 2026 at 3:23 PM
note for the morning crowd: i've been writing about one movie every evening this week, here's last night's
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Boutique Foraine by Taro Okamoto, 1937
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137665
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137665
January 15, 2026 at 6:09 AM
Boutique Foraine by Taro Okamoto, 1937
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137665
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137665
finally getting around to catching up on the last two months of 2025's music. might get to 2026 by march.
January 14, 2026 at 5:59 PM
finally getting around to catching up on the last two months of 2025's music. might get to 2026 by march.
jesus christ youtube what the fuck is this auto-dub feature, if i'm listening to music in other languages i do NOT want a robot voice translating it into english over top
January 14, 2026 at 5:20 PM
jesus christ youtube what the fuck is this auto-dub feature, if i'm listening to music in other languages i do NOT want a robot voice translating it into english over top
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Hi, hello, I wrote a few words today about Silent Pictures, a pair of no-dialogue color comic albums which represent the final works of Kevin O’Neill, co-creator of Nemesis the Warlock, Marshal Law and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
January 14, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Hi, hello, I wrote a few words today about Silent Pictures, a pair of no-dialogue color comic albums which represent the final works of Kevin O’Neill, co-creator of Nemesis the Warlock, Marshal Law and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
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It frustrates me that in between the Soundies of the 40s and the Rock & Roll films of the mid-late 50s, there’s a massive gap in non-crossover Black artists on film, and that gap neatly coincides with the birth of rock & roll. Like it’s crazy to me that there’s no film of Wynonie Harris performing!
January 14, 2026 at 6:56 AM
It frustrates me that in between the Soundies of the 40s and the Rock & Roll films of the mid-late 50s, there’s a massive gap in non-crossover Black artists on film, and that gap neatly coincides with the birth of rock & roll. Like it’s crazy to me that there’s no film of Wynonie Harris performing!
google ranking grokipedia higher and higher in search results may be the thing that finally gets me to quit using it
January 13, 2026 at 9:19 PM
google ranking grokipedia higher and higher in search results may be the thing that finally gets me to quit using it
based on the best of Elmer Davis’ 1920s comic novels. i wrote about them here a few years ago: www.jonathanbogart.net/blog/2021/4/...
January 13, 2026 at 7:08 PM
based on the best of Elmer Davis’ 1920s comic novels. i wrote about them here a few years ago: www.jonathanbogart.net/blog/2021/4/...
newspaper comic strips were one of the great twentieth century art forms and even though millennials were only there to experience the worst decade for comic strips that the twentieth century had to offer it was still better than what the next century had in store
why did so many millennials read so many newspaper comics? easily 60 percent of my reading diet in elementary/middle school was collected editions of calvin and hobbes, farside, dilbert, peanuts, doonesbury (!), foxtrot (?!?) and i know im not alone. historically unique phenomenon
rather than talk about Scott Adams I want to talk about something weirder (me). Who else was really into Dilbert when you were 12. Who else was like, boy, I can't wait to work a cubicle job
January 13, 2026 at 5:06 PM
newspaper comic strips were one of the great twentieth century art forms and even though millennials were only there to experience the worst decade for comic strips that the twentieth century had to offer it was still better than what the next century had in store
you can take the poster out of the late 90s tcj messboard but
let's not let the fact that scott adams was a huge piece of shit later in life take away from the fact that he also sucked ass as a cartoonist
January 13, 2026 at 4:11 PM
you can take the poster out of the late 90s tcj messboard but
let's not let the fact that scott adams was a huge piece of shit later in life take away from the fact that he also sucked ass as a cartoonist
January 13, 2026 at 3:58 PM
let's not let the fact that scott adams was a huge piece of shit later in life take away from the fact that he also sucked ass as a cartoonist
January 13, 2026 at 4:32 AM
i'm not saying follow me there but i just posted a handful of recent watches, we'll see if it keeps up
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January 12, 2026 at 9:54 PM
i'm not saying follow me there but i just posted a handful of recent watches, we'll see if it keeps up
letterboxd.com/jonathanboga...
letterboxd.com/jonathanboga...
every time i see one of these prompts the bone-deep evangelical training kicks in and i think, rebelliously,
www.youtube.com/watch
www.youtube.com/watch
January 12, 2026 at 8:34 PM
every time i see one of these prompts the bone-deep evangelical training kicks in and i think, rebelliously,
www.youtube.com/watch
www.youtube.com/watch
genuinely, the only comics i had access to that could be a favorite in 1991 were the photocopies i had had the presence of mind to make from the library's copy of the Smithsonian Book of Newspaper Comics the week before my family moved to Guatemala.
“Show me what comic you loved when you were 13, and that’s all I need to know about you.” -Brad Meltzer
January 12, 2026 at 1:27 AM
genuinely, the only comics i had access to that could be a favorite in 1991 were the photocopies i had had the presence of mind to make from the library's copy of the Smithsonian Book of Newspaper Comics the week before my family moved to Guatemala.
the venue where i saw my first concert, and the act
January 11, 2026 at 7:31 PM
the venue where i saw my first concert, and the act
you know how illustrative comics people are about alex raymond? studying frank godwin is how alex raymond became alex raymond. i like his scratchier line better too, but i would
Classic Comics Press just put out a collection of Connie by Frank Godwin. I can't spend the money now but looking forward to eventually getting it. www.lulu.com/shop/frank-g...
January 10, 2026 at 8:57 PM
you know how illustrative comics people are about alex raymond? studying frank godwin is how alex raymond became alex raymond. i like his scratchier line better too, but i would