Roz Milner
@rozmilner.bsky.social
Transfemme Guy Davenport// As seen in the Toronto Star, Lambda Literary, Broken Pencil, Full Stop, The Bulwark, the Ex-Puritan, and elsewhere // rozwords on twitch // your dad’s fave books/jazz writer
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Roz Milner
@rozmilner.bsky.social
· Jan 30
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Hi! I’m Roz Milner and I’m a freelance writer and critic that has written for everything from Xtra to Lambda Literary to the Toronto Star to Exclaim Magazine. Would you like me to write for you? Let me know here or drop me a line: milnerwords.wordpress.com/contact/
@dollarfiftyslice.bsky.social with the most high concept stream I’ve ever seen: a drive by vtuber nativity scene @oceonax.bsky.social @vtuberloveslug.bsky.social @glottal.bsky.social
December 18, 2025 at 9:39 PM
@dollarfiftyslice.bsky.social with the most high concept stream I’ve ever seen: a drive by vtuber nativity scene @oceonax.bsky.social @vtuberloveslug.bsky.social @glottal.bsky.social
84 and still cooking - his duo album with @vijayiyer.bsky.social is one of my faves of this year
Happy 84th birthday to Wadada Leo Smith. (Psst... don't tell anyone, but we're talking about working on something together next year.)
December 18, 2025 at 9:15 PM
84 and still cooking - his duo album with @vijayiyer.bsky.social is one of my faves of this year
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I am shaking the cobwebs of some of my earlier pieces, revising and polishing and posting them on my Substack. This one is about the role of the "public intellectual" and its pitfalls. open.substack.com/pub/lauranel...
The Public Intellectual as Dilettante and Polymath
Review of Robert Boyers, Maestros and Monsters: Days and Nights with Susan Sontag and George Steiner (Mandel Vilar Press/Dryad Press, 2023)
open.substack.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I am shaking the cobwebs of some of my earlier pieces, revising and polishing and posting them on my Substack. This one is about the role of the "public intellectual" and its pitfalls. open.substack.com/pub/lauranel...
My dirty secret is I wanted to improv comedy
December 18, 2025 at 8:39 PM
My dirty secret is I wanted to improv comedy
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I always thought Elvis would get clean and do a Jane Fonda workout.
(I know I know he’s not really dead I KNOOOW)
(I know I know he’s not really dead I KNOOOW)
albums we missed because they died early:
- Jim Morrison doing a chicago blues record with 80s sounding drums
- Jim Morrison doing a chicago blues record with 80s sounding drums
December 18, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I always thought Elvis would get clean and do a Jane Fonda workout.
(I know I know he’s not really dead I KNOOOW)
(I know I know he’s not really dead I KNOOOW)
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Charlie Parker with Nelson Riddle and his Orchestra. Would have been huge.
albums we missed because they died early:
- Jim Morrison doing a chicago blues record with 80s sounding drums
- Jim Morrison doing a chicago blues record with 80s sounding drums
December 18, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Charlie Parker with Nelson Riddle and his Orchestra. Would have been huge.
I gave my sex the ol snip and flip
December 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I gave my sex the ol snip and flip
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You *can* change your sex.
I *did* change mine.
If this makes you uncomfortable, stop being part of the problem.
I *did* change mine.
If this makes you uncomfortable, stop being part of the problem.
December 18, 2025 at 7:32 PM
You *can* change your sex.
I *did* change mine.
If this makes you uncomfortable, stop being part of the problem.
I *did* change mine.
If this makes you uncomfortable, stop being part of the problem.
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Gillian Gilbert joins Joy Division; Movement sounds exactly the same as in our timeline other than Ian's vocals; PCL and Brotherhood sound like Movement pt. 2 and pt. 3, then Ian discovers MDMA and Technique sounds exactly the same as in our timeline other than Ian's blissed-out vocals
December 18, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Gillian Gilbert joins Joy Division; Movement sounds exactly the same as in our timeline other than Ian's vocals; PCL and Brotherhood sound like Movement pt. 2 and pt. 3, then Ian discovers MDMA and Technique sounds exactly the same as in our timeline other than Ian's blissed-out vocals
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Elliott Smith’s ill advised Electro Swing outing
albums we missed because they died early:
- Jim Morrison doing a chicago blues record with 80s sounding drums
- Jim Morrison doing a chicago blues record with 80s sounding drums
December 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Elliott Smith’s ill advised Electro Swing outing
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Kurt Cobain & Charli XCX EDM folk album
albums we missed because they died early:
- Jim Morrison doing a chicago blues record with 80s sounding drums
- Jim Morrison doing a chicago blues record with 80s sounding drums
December 18, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Kurt Cobain & Charli XCX EDM folk album
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Gram Parsons’ Stones-adjacent disco album
albums we missed because they died early:
- Jim Morrison doing a chicago blues record with 80s sounding drums
- Jim Morrison doing a chicago blues record with 80s sounding drums
December 18, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Gram Parsons’ Stones-adjacent disco album
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Nujabes and J Dilla collab album that has a bunch of gratuitous rap features
December 18, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Nujabes and J Dilla collab album that has a bunch of gratuitous rap features
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Nick Drake's foray into trip hop: best forgotten, despite Geoff Barrow's best efforts to helm it
Sandy Denny's foray into trip hop: crickets from the press, but its fan reputation snowballs into cult reappraisal; Pitchfork give the deluxe reissue a 10
Sandy Denny's foray into trip hop: crickets from the press, but its fan reputation snowballs into cult reappraisal; Pitchfork give the deluxe reissue a 10
December 18, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Nick Drake's foray into trip hop: best forgotten, despite Geoff Barrow's best efforts to helm it
Sandy Denny's foray into trip hop: crickets from the press, but its fan reputation snowballs into cult reappraisal; Pitchfork give the deluxe reissue a 10
Sandy Denny's foray into trip hop: crickets from the press, but its fan reputation snowballs into cult reappraisal; Pitchfork give the deluxe reissue a 10
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2Pac's nu-metal side project
December 18, 2025 at 7:17 PM
2Pac's nu-metal side project
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Janis Joplin Disco Album (could've gone hard or been terrible depending on who produced it. no way to know)
December 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Janis Joplin Disco Album (could've gone hard or been terrible depending on who produced it. no way to know)
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Hank Williams's cameo in The Beverly Hillbillies Movie.
December 18, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Hank Williams's cameo in The Beverly Hillbillies Movie.
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55 year old Hendrix trying to get back to a less sterile production sound, ends up doing 70min+ album overstuffed with guest cameos
December 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
55 year old Hendrix trying to get back to a less sterile production sound, ends up doing 70min+ album overstuffed with guest cameos
albums we missed because they died early:
- Jim Morrison doing a chicago blues record with 80s sounding drums
- Jim Morrison doing a chicago blues record with 80s sounding drums
December 18, 2025 at 7:03 PM
albums we missed because they died early:
- Jim Morrison doing a chicago blues record with 80s sounding drums
- Jim Morrison doing a chicago blues record with 80s sounding drums
He’s the one that’s weak in the knees
December 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
He’s the one that’s weak in the knees
this is the same kind of self censoring that set off alarm bells when studios did it to placate the Chinese market btw
In the new year you're going to watch Netflix constantly debase itself to secure regulatory approval for its merger with Warner Brothers. This is just the start:
Netflix cancels gay military series ‘Boots’ the Pentagon called ‘woke garbage’
“Boots” followed the story of Cameron Cope, played by Miles Heizer, a gay teen from Louisiana who is bullied and “finds new purpose — and unexpected brotherhood — with his motley …
nypost.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:54 PM
this is the same kind of self censoring that set off alarm bells when studios did it to placate the Chinese market btw
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Oh you’re girlfriend is an ai chatbot
how cute. My girlfriend is artificial intelligence, the seminal IDM compilation released by Warp records in 1993
how cute. My girlfriend is artificial intelligence, the seminal IDM compilation released by Warp records in 1993
December 17, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Oh you’re girlfriend is an ai chatbot
how cute. My girlfriend is artificial intelligence, the seminal IDM compilation released by Warp records in 1993
how cute. My girlfriend is artificial intelligence, the seminal IDM compilation released by Warp records in 1993
I occasionally like to remind Canadian bigots that their tax dollars paid for my bottom surgery and the gay hockey player show
December 18, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I occasionally like to remind Canadian bigots that their tax dollars paid for my bottom surgery and the gay hockey player show