zou
@zouxou.bsky.social
"If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing." ~Kingsley Amis.
#NoirvemberChallenge
Day 3. The Film Noir that Made You a Fan
When I was twelve I saw this one rainy Saturday afternoon on the TV. I didn't know what Film Noir was, but I knew I loved this kind of movie.
Day 3. The Film Noir that Made You a Fan
When I was twelve I saw this one rainy Saturday afternoon on the TV. I didn't know what Film Noir was, but I knew I loved this kind of movie.
November 3, 2025 at 3:58 AM
#NoirvemberChallenge
Day 3. The Film Noir that Made You a Fan
When I was twelve I saw this one rainy Saturday afternoon on the TV. I didn't know what Film Noir was, but I knew I loved this kind of movie.
Day 3. The Film Noir that Made You a Fan
When I was twelve I saw this one rainy Saturday afternoon on the TV. I didn't know what Film Noir was, but I knew I loved this kind of movie.
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#NoirvemberChallenge
Favorite #FilmNoir opening scene... Cloris Leachman in Kiss Me Deadly (1955) #Noirvember
Favorite #FilmNoir opening scene... Cloris Leachman in Kiss Me Deadly (1955) #Noirvember
November 1, 2025 at 3:20 AM
#NoirvemberChallenge
Favorite #FilmNoir opening scene... Cloris Leachman in Kiss Me Deadly (1955) #Noirvember
Favorite #FilmNoir opening scene... Cloris Leachman in Kiss Me Deadly (1955) #Noirvember
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Shirle Milete - Big Country Blues [US, Country Soul/Country Rock/Country Funk/Townes Van Zandt Cover] (1969)
https://redd.it/pxpxsd
https://youtu.be/GNfi9C_2SiU
https://redd.it/pxpxsd
https://youtu.be/GNfi9C_2SiU
Shirle Milete - Big Country Blues [US, Country Soul/Country Rock/Country Funk/Townes Van Zandt Cover] (1969)
youtu.be
November 1, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Shirle Milete - Big Country Blues [US, Country Soul/Country Rock/Country Funk/Townes Van Zandt Cover] (1969)
https://redd.it/pxpxsd
https://youtu.be/GNfi9C_2SiU
https://redd.it/pxpxsd
https://youtu.be/GNfi9C_2SiU
updated my lego white house with the paved rose garden and demolished east wing
October 22, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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The muppet show is returning.
I repeat
THE MUPPET SHOW IS RETURNING.
Kermit was my first crush this is momentous.
If this little girl’s giggle, Kermit’s disgruntled face & the last 10 seconds of this don’t make your day better then I cannot account for you:
I repeat
THE MUPPET SHOW IS RETURNING.
Kermit was my first crush this is momentous.
If this little girl’s giggle, Kermit’s disgruntled face & the last 10 seconds of this don’t make your day better then I cannot account for you:
September 19, 2025 at 8:37 AM
The muppet show is returning.
I repeat
THE MUPPET SHOW IS RETURNING.
Kermit was my first crush this is momentous.
If this little girl’s giggle, Kermit’s disgruntled face & the last 10 seconds of this don’t make your day better then I cannot account for you:
I repeat
THE MUPPET SHOW IS RETURNING.
Kermit was my first crush this is momentous.
If this little girl’s giggle, Kermit’s disgruntled face & the last 10 seconds of this don’t make your day better then I cannot account for you:
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Happy #WorldLetterWritingDay, people! I know technically every day is a letter writing day, but let’s join forces and all write one today. Someone out there will really appreciate getting yours even if they had no idea they would. It’s like sending happiness into the future. 🌏💌
September 1, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Happy #WorldLetterWritingDay, people! I know technically every day is a letter writing day, but let’s join forces and all write one today. Someone out there will really appreciate getting yours even if they had no idea they would. It’s like sending happiness into the future. 🌏💌
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Hanson - Catch The Beat [UK ; Funk Rock / Soul] (1973) Frontman and session musician Junior Hanson would later rename himself as Junior Marvin, who joined Bob Marley and The Wailers in 1977.
https://redd.it/qyy9a5
https://youtu.be/cSMNlyIrlpg
https://redd.it/qyy9a5
https://youtu.be/cSMNlyIrlpg
Hanson - Catch The Beat [UK ; Funk Rock / Soul] (1973) Frontman and session musician Junior Hanson would later rename himself as Junior Marvin, who joined Bob Marley and The Wailers in 1977.
youtu.be
August 27, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Hanson - Catch The Beat [UK ; Funk Rock / Soul] (1973) Frontman and session musician Junior Hanson would later rename himself as Junior Marvin, who joined Bob Marley and The Wailers in 1977.
https://redd.it/qyy9a5
https://youtu.be/cSMNlyIrlpg
https://redd.it/qyy9a5
https://youtu.be/cSMNlyIrlpg
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Train strikes, plane delays, sinkholes on the interstate. New Jersey, a state of constant motion, is stuck between stations. My essay of frustration:
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/n...
New Jersey, State of Constant Motion, Learns to Live With Immobility
www.nytimes.com
May 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Train strikes, plane delays, sinkholes on the interstate. New Jersey, a state of constant motion, is stuck between stations. My essay of frustration:
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/n...
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Sinkholes open on Interstate 80, but why? Because the New Jersey past needs to remind the New Jersey present of what once was. My story: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/n...
Sinkholes, Bane of Today’s Drivers, Offer Peek Into a Lost Mining Past
www.nytimes.com
May 25, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Sinkholes open on Interstate 80, but why? Because the New Jersey past needs to remind the New Jersey present of what once was. My story: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/n...
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To all professionals (and retirees) in the journalism, film, television, radio, theatre, entertainment, and arts world, join the challenge to post a photo of yourself in your job. Just a picture, no description. The goal is to flood social media with our profession.
July 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
To all professionals (and retirees) in the journalism, film, television, radio, theatre, entertainment, and arts world, join the challenge to post a photo of yourself in your job. Just a picture, no description. The goal is to flood social media with our profession.
@kayforparks.bsky.social I'm hoping for new leadership to restore this District 5 jewel.
August 16, 2025 at 5:04 PM
@kayforparks.bsky.social I'm hoping for new leadership to restore this District 5 jewel.
This was not reported and only accessible with the tool.
August 16, 2025 at 1:23 PM
This was not reported and only accessible with the tool.
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Thanks to all the people posting AI today. I follow too many people as it is and you're making it easy for me to cull the herd.
August 11, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Thanks to all the people posting AI today. I follow too many people as it is and you're making it easy for me to cull the herd.
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If you're headed to @newportfolk.bsky.social, do not miss singer and songwriter Mon Rovîa and his band, who gifted us with a gorgeous FUV Live session of four songs, including "crooked the road." Watch/listen: wfuv.org/content/mon-...
Mon Rovîa is back in NYC on 11/18 at Irving Plaza. #monrovia
Mon Rovîa is back in NYC on 11/18 at Irving Plaza. #monrovia
July 24, 2025 at 8:52 PM
If you're headed to @newportfolk.bsky.social, do not miss singer and songwriter Mon Rovîa and his band, who gifted us with a gorgeous FUV Live session of four songs, including "crooked the road." Watch/listen: wfuv.org/content/mon-...
Mon Rovîa is back in NYC on 11/18 at Irving Plaza. #monrovia
Mon Rovîa is back in NYC on 11/18 at Irving Plaza. #monrovia
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Twins!
July 17, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Twins!
I'm fully on board!
I will join the Cake Resistance.
July 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I'm fully on board!
Gift Article: “From 1974 - 1976 Bicentennial Minutes” took 60 seconds between some of TV’s most popular shows to have celebrities, artists and politicians tell viewers what had happened 200 years ago that day.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/a...
July 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Gift Article: “From 1974 - 1976 Bicentennial Minutes” took 60 seconds between some of TV’s most popular shows to have celebrities, artists and politicians tell viewers what had happened 200 years ago that day.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/a...
"The house, on stilts about fifty yards from the river up our steeply sloped yard. Concrete pillars put our family’s place a few feet above the 100 year floodplain. More than once I’d tried to imagine the waters rising that high, but it seemed impossible."
www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
“The River House Broke. We Rushed in the River.”
The July 4 Texas flooding ripped our Kerr County home from its pillars, pulling us into the water and into the night. Then morning came.
www.texasmonthly.com
July 11, 2025 at 9:49 PM
"The house, on stilts about fifty yards from the river up our steeply sloped yard. Concrete pillars put our family’s place a few feet above the 100 year floodplain. More than once I’d tried to imagine the waters rising that high, but it seemed impossible."
www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
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Not only Superman but many comic characters are 'immigrants' - Wonder Woman, Martian Manhunter, Aquaman, Constantine (DC); Sub-Mariner, Scarlet Witch, Thor, Black Panther, Wolverine (Marvel); many more.
But it never used to matter, and they were appropriated for American superhero teams anyway.
But it never used to matter, and they were appropriated for American superhero teams anyway.
July 8, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Not only Superman but many comic characters are 'immigrants' - Wonder Woman, Martian Manhunter, Aquaman, Constantine (DC); Sub-Mariner, Scarlet Witch, Thor, Black Panther, Wolverine (Marvel); many more.
But it never used to matter, and they were appropriated for American superhero teams anyway.
But it never used to matter, and they were appropriated for American superhero teams anyway.
I saw this photo on the NYT, and was immediately reminded of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. Girls in both were doomed. At Mystic, girls in cabins with vaulted ceilings could cling to the rafters, while girls in the flat ceiling cabins could only escape thru windows - which meant being washed away.
July 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I saw this photo on the NYT, and was immediately reminded of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. Girls in both were doomed. At Mystic, girls in cabins with vaulted ceilings could cling to the rafters, while girls in the flat ceiling cabins could only escape thru windows - which meant being washed away.
This story (gift article) about Hmong cuisine in Minnesota made me cry. “The Hmong didn’t choose Minnesota,” Mr. Xiong said. “Minnesota chose the Hmong.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/d...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/d...
What Is Great Hmong Food? These Chefs Have the Answer.
www.nytimes.com
July 2, 2025 at 2:23 PM
This story (gift article) about Hmong cuisine in Minnesota made me cry. “The Hmong didn’t choose Minnesota,” Mr. Xiong said. “Minnesota chose the Hmong.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/d...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/d...