John Semley
@johnsemley3000.bsky.social
writer and researcher, covering books, films, and psychoactivity, in no particular order. a pocket full of spare change and anger unlimited.
no no fair enough. I’m 39 and I feel like I was at the tail end of the high school attitude where you COULD NOT like, say, the Dead and hardcore at the same time. which was ahistorical! hardcore guys loved the Dead! anyway now nobody cares and that’s probably for the best.
November 23, 2025 at 5:38 PM
no no fair enough. I’m 39 and I feel like I was at the tail end of the high school attitude where you COULD NOT like, say, the Dead and hardcore at the same time. which was ahistorical! hardcore guys loved the Dead! anyway now nobody cares and that’s probably for the best.
I went to the Pop Culture Museum in Seattle once and the grunge exhibit was just walls of video testimonials of guys with skullets being like “before the internet, you had to hike uphill both ways to buy a zine, which I bet you don’t even know what this is!!!”
November 23, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I went to the Pop Culture Museum in Seattle once and the grunge exhibit was just walls of video testimonials of guys with skullets being like “before the internet, you had to hike uphill both ways to buy a zine, which I bet you don’t even know what this is!!!”
why would I do that to myself?
November 21, 2025 at 5:35 PM
why would I do that to myself?
he was doing rookie Caleb Williams numbers
November 21, 2025 at 4:34 AM
he was doing rookie Caleb Williams numbers
this is strike one, sir. you know what happens at strike three….
November 20, 2025 at 7:31 PM
this is strike one, sir. you know what happens at strike three….
(Helen DeWitt voice)
Breathless, the classic of Godard, the home video release of which no cinephile should be without.
Breathless, the classic of Godard, the home video release of which no cinephile should be without.
November 20, 2025 at 12:02 AM
(Helen DeWitt voice)
Breathless, the classic of Godard, the home video release of which no cinephile should be without.
Breathless, the classic of Godard, the home video release of which no cinephile should be without.
that was a horrible call but I doubt 2/22 Jared Goff was gonna string together some upset drive.
November 17, 2025 at 7:42 PM
that was a horrible call but I doubt 2/22 Jared Goff was gonna string together some upset drive.