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Critical Nostalgia
@highway62.bsky.social
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Feral writer. Intergenre. Opstmodern. Hedorahgroove. Smogwave. The Hazeland books. Horror fantasy crime on the streets of 80s LA.

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Same picture
November 29, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Today's CRT. Tiny, obscure game. You've probably never heard of it.
Two dudes, one black-haired in profile and one manic blonde flattop haircut with cigar staring balefully at the viewer. CRT image.
November 29, 2025 at 5:11 PM
highway62.bsky.social
Today's CRT.
Closeup of a Mr. Do videogame screen, featuring a cherry, a monster in a tunnel and a block of greenish earth.
November 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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The Knuckleheads are thankful to have a warm home, even if it's too noisy right now.
Two orange kittens sleeping head to head.
November 28, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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The form of the destroyer has been chosen.
Two trays of excessively cheesy mac and cheese.
November 27, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Awright, who ordered da headcrab?
A roasted turkey in a big aluminum pan.
November 27, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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November 27, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Here is today's CRT. Enjoy.

Pretty sure it's from Predator v Aliens (Final Fight clone number whatever.)
An anime woman in profile with something else strange and abstracted on frame right. Close up of a CRT monitor image.
November 27, 2025 at 3:51 PM
highway62.bsky.social
Since @crtpixel.bsky.social is taking off for the holiday, I might post a few of these sorts of photos from my collection.
Close up of a Donkey Kong CRT screen, featuring the titular Kong and a few stacked barrels, some ladders and even a princess.
November 26, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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*discussion of genre as real rules*

Me:
November 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Here's a random photo taken at the Long Beach Comic-Con in 2004. See if you can find Chip Zdarsky.
A somewhat busy convention aisle filled with cloth draped tables and people who make comics.
November 25, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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"Block with no warning. Mute in silence. These are the actions that move mountains."
Benicio Del Toro in One Battle After Another
November 24, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Thanksgiving turkey update.
Not a turkey but a perfectly-crusted prime rib
November 24, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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If you see this, post your getaway vehicle
The sinister and satanic car from the 1977 film of the same.
November 23, 2025 at 11:32 PM
highway62.bsky.social
Thanksgiving turkey.
Prime rib, trussed and seasoned.
November 23, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Please enjoy this glitch frame from Death Race 2000, back when it was streaming on Netflix.
A glitch frame. Is glitchy.
November 23, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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A movie that takes place where you're from.
Interior of the Chet Holifield building, made up to be a totalitarian playland in Death Race 2000, open anodyne spaces with blood red upholstered furniture. View of the manmade lake at a park in Southern California, circa the mid-seventies. Bucolic and un-developed except for a huge ziggurat structure, which is not part of a matte painting but 100% real. Exterior of the Chet Holifield building in Orange County, ziggurat structure prominent. The fake President of the future US is getting ready to speak from a gaily-decorated stage. Interior of the Chet Holifield building, a white expanse of tile flooring broken up by columns. A strange black figure in a mask and cape is walking away from the camera. Paul Bartel as a weird doctor figure is standing between the figure and the viewer, arms out, urging us to stop.
November 23, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Planning my next vacation:

via oldmanpeace on tumblr
Italic sans serif red text on a black background reading ROUND TRIP TO HELL IN A FLYING SAUCER
November 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Let's grill
Burning coals in a barbecue grill, spitting sparks and glowing Halloween orange
November 23, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Apropos of the latest dispatch from @mindlessones.bsky.social - this little something something hanging on my office wall.
Double page spread from an issue of The Filth by Grant Morrison and Chris Weston, showing winged assassins flying out of a comic book page after having killed a superhero inside the comic book. Inside the other comic book.
November 23, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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I'm losing my mind.
Jane Lynch as the evil coach from Glee saying "I'm going to create the most cutesy description of my books"
November 23, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Fine.
Fire burning in a backyard fire pit. Smell of smoke and faintly rotten wet leaves in the air.
November 22, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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"Another rocket, Elon?"
A high-level bureaucrat looks over his glasses in disbelief, his brow furrowed.
November 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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His time has come:
Paul Winfield as the alien commander who is not Darmok, but recites allusion and reference to the myth of Darmok as a means of communication. He has a curious but determined look on his face, beneath the prosthetic forehead.
November 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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The only king I acknowledge
King Kong towering over the NY skyline, holding Fay Wray in one paw. The scale of things does not seem quite right.
November 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM