Moss Elixir
@sorryforlaughing.bsky.social
She/her. Interests: art films, cult films, vintage television, video art, late night radio, backlisted books, dharma bums, suburban anomie, field recordings, found footage, lost futures, words, sounds, you.
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There's a spider on the ceiling
December 8, 2025 at 11:44 PM
There's a spider on the ceiling
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A coyote with a CTA bus
December 8, 2025 at 9:07 PM
A coyote with a CTA bus
I’m the opposite of stagestruck (& have minus acting talent anyway) but if I were an actor I’d want Mary Woronov’s career, just doing my cult films & sometimes getting to send up Hollywood romantic conventions by being onscreen-married to my gay best friend.
Images from films in which Mary Woronov speaks on the phone
Woronov was BOTD in 1943
Silent Night, Bloody Night (1972)
Sugar Cookies (1973)
Hollywood Boulevard (1976)
Eating Raoul (1982)
Woronov was BOTD in 1943
Silent Night, Bloody Night (1972)
Sugar Cookies (1973)
Hollywood Boulevard (1976)
Eating Raoul (1982)
December 8, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I’m the opposite of stagestruck (& have minus acting talent anyway) but if I were an actor I’d want Mary Woronov’s career, just doing my cult films & sometimes getting to send up Hollywood romantic conventions by being onscreen-married to my gay best friend.
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More on SAIC's shameful treatment of the Video Data Bank.
The School of the Art Institute Turned Its Back on Media Arts
Instead of engaging in dialogue with its dedicated Video Data Bank staff, SAIC chose to callously cross out a budgetary line item.
hyperallergic.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
More on SAIC's shameful treatment of the Video Data Bank.
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Images from film featuring special makeup effects by Rick Baker - BOTD in 1950
The Fury (1978)
An American Werewolf in London (1981)
The Funhouse (1981)
Ed Wood (1994)
The Fury (1978)
An American Werewolf in London (1981)
The Funhouse (1981)
Ed Wood (1994)
December 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Images from film featuring special makeup effects by Rick Baker - BOTD in 1950
The Fury (1978)
An American Werewolf in London (1981)
The Funhouse (1981)
Ed Wood (1994)
The Fury (1978)
An American Werewolf in London (1981)
The Funhouse (1981)
Ed Wood (1994)
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this is less a cat on an amp and more a cat hanging out in a cool but absurdly expensive kitty habitat
December 8, 2025 at 3:39 PM
this is less a cat on an amp and more a cat hanging out in a cool but absurdly expensive kitty habitat
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People who work for Penske Media are obligated to post about the Golden Globes. The rest of us are not. Proceed accordingly.
December 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
People who work for Penske Media are obligated to post about the Golden Globes. The rest of us are not. Proceed accordingly.
Dudes rock (the latest fall fashions)
1959 Japanese Rat Pack or Outsiders? Loved these 5 in Kinoshita’s Farewell to Spring
December 8, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Dudes rock (the latest fall fashions)
Just watched Silver Streak & realized that for decades now I’ve continually vaguely confused it with Midnight Run. The movie itself actually reminds me of Foul Play which was maybe my favorite film in the world when I was 8 years old so a good choice for a quiet Sunday.
December 8, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Just watched Silver Streak & realized that for decades now I’ve continually vaguely confused it with Midnight Run. The movie itself actually reminds me of Foul Play which was maybe my favorite film in the world when I was 8 years old so a good choice for a quiet Sunday.
What I did with the leftover family birthday dinner mashed potatoes. Everybody grab a piece.
December 8, 2025 at 12:01 AM
What I did with the leftover family birthday dinner mashed potatoes. Everybody grab a piece.
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street art that made me stop & look closer, by eternal possessions.
December 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
street art that made me stop & look closer, by eternal possessions.
After a hiatus back reading Emily Dickinson’s letters. Her accounts of how her father & brother Austin couldn’t be under the same roof without fighting & the former lecturing everyone incessantly as the world’s premier politics- & literature-knower, well, humanity never changes much does it.
December 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
After a hiatus back reading Emily Dickinson’s letters. Her accounts of how her father & brother Austin couldn’t be under the same roof without fighting & the former lecturing everyone incessantly as the world’s premier politics- & literature-knower, well, humanity never changes much does it.
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Happy 76th Birthday, Tom Waits!
December 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Happy 76th Birthday, Tom Waits!
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Lillard in Twin Peaks smokes literally everything Tarantino has ever written.
December 6, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Lillard in Twin Peaks smokes literally everything Tarantino has ever written.
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kohr's orange boardwalk, seaside heights, new jersey, 1978
December 6, 2025 at 2:36 PM
kohr's orange boardwalk, seaside heights, new jersey, 1978
I always enjoy artistic discourse that always ends up being another variation on “would you let your daughter marry a Rolling Stone?” & whose answer is always another variation on “if her name is Anita Pallenberg she’s hardly asking your permission.”
December 6, 2025 at 2:17 AM
I always enjoy artistic discourse that always ends up being another variation on “would you let your daughter marry a Rolling Stone?” & whose answer is always another variation on “if her name is Anita Pallenberg she’s hardly asking your permission.”
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Scorsese interview: Man isn't meant to have immortality. He did that to himself, that's what the church taught me. But maybe if you promise you're only gonna use your eternal life to make art it should be okay. I don't know.
Tarantino interview: Keanu Reeves should have been stillborn.
Tarantino interview: Keanu Reeves should have been stillborn.
December 5, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Scorsese interview: Man isn't meant to have immortality. He did that to himself, that's what the church taught me. But maybe if you promise you're only gonna use your eternal life to make art it should be okay. I don't know.
Tarantino interview: Keanu Reeves should have been stillborn.
Tarantino interview: Keanu Reeves should have been stillborn.
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I volunteer to become the Northern Illinois editor of Vanity Fair. Can file copious musings on the effects of road salt on my Mustang.
December 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I volunteer to become the Northern Illinois editor of Vanity Fair. Can file copious musings on the effects of road salt on my Mustang.
This short film about some of the Vietnamese refugees employed as extras in Apocalypse Now is very good anyway, but entirely worth it just for the part where two of them agree "yeah, except for our scene the movie kinda sucks."
WE WERE THE SCENERY a film by CHRISTOPHER RADCLIFF.
A free, curated platform streaming one film every week.
www.lecinemaclub.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:41 PM
This short film about some of the Vietnamese refugees employed as extras in Apocalypse Now is very good anyway, but entirely worth it just for the part where two of them agree "yeah, except for our scene the movie kinda sucks."
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Headmistress Natasha Lyonne
Zohran should create little schools everyone has to go to that teach you to still talk with a 1987 nyc dirtbag accent the way the Irish do with Gaelic
December 5, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Headmistress Natasha Lyonne
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Comparing ham radio (aka amateur radio) with the Big Tech AI sludge factories.
New from me - Ham radio could save your life:
buttondown.com/creativegood...
New from me - Ham radio could save your life:
buttondown.com/creativegood...
Ham radio could save your life
In September 2024, Hurricane Helene blew in from the Gulf of Mexico to wreak destruction in an unlikely place: the mountains of western North Carolina....
buttondown.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Comparing ham radio (aka amateur radio) with the Big Tech AI sludge factories.
New from me - Ham radio could save your life:
buttondown.com/creativegood...
New from me - Ham radio could save your life:
buttondown.com/creativegood...
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Chicagoans will pay $76 per person this year for police misconduct settlements.
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Chicagoans will pay $76 per person this year for police misconduct settlements.
Re the Ivies jumping into ay-aye, wouldn’t be shocked if in the next few decades we see new “by humans for humans” colleges founded that slowly supplant them as the “elite” institutions of choice. They may not even stay libertarian-rightist any more than the Ivies are still Christian-sectarian.
The sheer number of Silicon Valley tech families I know who would immediately sign up lol. Nobody enforces no screens as much as that crowd. I regularly get death stares because I park my kid with Miss Rachel when he gets restive in restaurants lol.
The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.
December 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Re the Ivies jumping into ay-aye, wouldn’t be shocked if in the next few decades we see new “by humans for humans” colleges founded that slowly supplant them as the “elite” institutions of choice. They may not even stay libertarian-rightist any more than the Ivies are still Christian-sectarian.
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There is a fifth wave of ska, beyond that which is known to rude boys
December 2, 2025 at 8:24 PM
There is a fifth wave of ska, beyond that which is known to rude boys
If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.
December 5, 2025 at 3:13 AM
If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.