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Chris Barrus

@quartzcity.bsky.social

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Usually at mas.to/@quartzcity & quartzcity.net

Perception manager and drone wielder. Supplemental career making stuff for macOS and surrounding forbidden zones. Occasionally turns a wrench at the Mount Wilson Observatory.

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Monrovia has a civic fireworks show that unexpectedly has the right balance of dorky old-timey small-town patriotism and pyromania that’s free and easy to get to.

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Critical Nostalgia's avatar Critical Nostalgia @highway62.bsky.social
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The Society of the Spectacle (1967, DeBord)

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Bill Geerhart's avatar Bill Geerhart @conelrad6401240.bsky.social
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The Los Angeles day drinkers are only slightly interested by the news of the mutated giant ants. THEM! (1954). Released 70 years ago this week.

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Ned Raggett's avatar Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social
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Just alerting my shoegaze/psych/drone compatriots that Simon Scott of Slowdive's Three Quarter Skies project has a new song out mixed by him along with Dave Pearce. Yes, THAT Dave Pearce; if you know, you know. Attn @quartzcity.bsky.social and @highway62.bsky.social etc

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I just launched my newsletter: kalebhorton.ghost.io

If anybody has any tips on things like enabling subscribers/payment mechanisms etc., I’d appreciate it. I still find the dashboard pretty unintuitive.

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Stoked to learn there's a book about Toxic Shock Records - legendary punk store in Pomona (later Tucson). Along with Rhino Claremont, it was *my* record store when I was living out there in '79-'83. I still have records I bought from them! fluke.bigcartel.com/product/toxi...

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Helen Barrett's avatar Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social
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How are these south London allotments connected to the Velvet Underground? 1/4

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The only two helicopter jokes I know (Q. What do you call a collection of parts flying in formation? A. A helicopter. Q. How do helicopters fly? A. They don’t, the ground itself rejects them)

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the Mountain Goats's avatar the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social
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so called "bad" movies are, picture for picture, better than every dull-ass blockbuster in the queue. we live in the cursed age of expensive fan-service IP soft-serve but Roger Corman was an actual entertainer, travel safely home, you entertained countless people over the years

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Audley: leftover wizard's avatar Audley: leftover wizard @audleyzdarke.bsky.social
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I would like to point out, however, that duck is delicious.

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Ragnell's avatar Ragnell @ragnell.bsky.social
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What tech needs nowadays is a batshit crazy sex wizard who reads Aleister Crowley and anticipates the Hermetic Ascension instead of Roko's Basilisk.

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Critical Nostalgia's avatar Critical Nostalgia @highway62.bsky.social
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When you figure out that universities exist to service their endowments and don't exist for other reasons like they say they do, things become a lot clearer.

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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I've told this story before, but when my paternal grandmother passed, her daughters fought for DAYS over who would get her precious ever-guarded recipe book, finally agreed they would share it, opened it to copy down the recipes and found it had only 1 entry which said "Book I pretend has recipes"

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Chris Barrus's avatar Chris Barrus @quartzcity.bsky.social
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The sky really did go out. With about four seconds left, clouds moved in - feels like a storm is coming

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I don’t get out of bed for a 4.8

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start this day off with a big “hell yeah!”

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Critical Nostalgia's avatar Critical Nostalgia @highway62.bsky.social
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Fixed that new office AI daemon.

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Tyler King's avatar Tyler King @tylerking.bsky.social
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Reddit has signed a $60 million agreement to license material on the site to an unnamed AI company for training data. If you’ve ever posted/commented, you’re now part of the scrape. No word on what if any opt-out will be available to users.

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Matt Weston's avatar Matt Weston @tarfumes.bsky.social
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New Mark Knopfler-led charity single for the Teenage Cancer Trust features many guitarists…including one I absolutely did not expect…

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Trevor Henderson 🍉's avatar Trevor Henderson 🍉 @slimyswampghost.bsky.social
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thinking about Big Tex. thinking about how he burned.

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Barry Crain's avatar Barry Crain @barrycrain.bsky.social
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Just found this ancient parchment in my flat files. I was a big fan of Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper back in the day, and now I wish I'd sent this to 'em.

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I suspect Ang Lee’s Hulk is another inflection point - an outer limit on what the audience will/won’t accept from the rebooted and how quickly a replacement reboot can shove it out of the way like the Vanishing Kommissar

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I was 12 — Superman ‘78 felt like an older style of movie. My dad liked it a lot more than I did.

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I suspect Who Framed Roger Rabbit the year before is another point - IP scavenging, “this cartoon isn’t just for kids” phrasing everywhere, a plot that’s relatively secondary to amount of IP easter eggs per frame, and being crazy successful at it. Surprised at how much the film is forgotten now.

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Mojo Nixon transcends on stage with the Pleasure Barons. An incredible “Elvis Is Everywhere” filled with 1989 San Diego references (Roberto’s, Horton Plaza)

m.youtube.com/watch?v=mOLN...

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If you see this, post a famous fictional weapon

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Full disclosure: I discovered a lot of cool comics in the back pages of the CtA bi-weeklies and one of my fave comics ever (Puma Blues) was published by A-V. I have a complicated way to say “fuck that guy”

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Name a comic book series that’s complete in your collection.

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Evan Dorkin's avatar Evan Dorkin @evandorkin.bsky.social
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Dragging it out again. Have a fun one.

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Chris Barrus's avatar Chris Barrus @quartzcity.bsky.social
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I’m also projecting a bit. I drove through Kitchener once (end of winter ‘93) uncomfortable intensity like the Inland Empire of LA. All kinds of weird ideas grow out there

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FUCK why didn't I think of that

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