Brian Nicholson
briannicholson.bsky.social
Brian Nicholson
@briannicholson.bsky.social
repulsed
Really bothers me when a movie is billed as a comedy or a book is blurbed as hilarious when it very plainly isn't
November 27, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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people pirate most stuff when they're broke as shit and buy all they can when they're not, except for all the shit you can't see without piracy 'cause no one sells it. people pay when they have the cash and, increasingly, they have no cash. blame The End Of Mass Prosperity In The Imperial Core.
piracy discourse is so exhausting and passe, but i will observe that every truly great collector of physical media I know has a big harddrive of pirated books and movies. you literally cannot have one without the other
November 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
These superhero movies are missing the perfect opportunity to have New York City be a character. A character named New York City Man
November 26, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Everyone in the world: what the fuck is that movie Hamnet? Why is it called that?
Me: I don't know. That's the lady who made The Eternals though
November 26, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Weakest Coens iirc are O Brother Where Art Thou, Man Who Wasn't There, and Inside Llewllyn Davis. O Brother is the one I might be wrong about because I saw it when I was young but I'm pretty sure the others pale in comparison to the dumb comedies people complain about
November 26, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Caroline Durieux (1896-1989)
November 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
@iosifescu.biz i want to hear more about the Gridnief chat, reading YNH rn
November 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
If you do any kind of public-facing art or writing, how aware of that is your family?
November 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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The Goslings would win
November 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Not normally a trigger warnings kinda guy but this morning the playlist at the place i was ordering a bagel from was so bad as to trigger the old fight-or-flight and I do feel like i should've been warned
November 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I've been saying this was coming and people should invest in cookbooks
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.

Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM
It's interesting Bandcamp won't write about your music on their blog if you price your mp3s as free. I understand people wanting their music to be free and don't think artists should acquiesce to the market/rentier class. But it's also good to assign value to your work and have people write about it
November 25, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Haven't listened to this yet - hipped by Bandcamp's monthly "Best Experimental Music" column - but Sydney Spann was around in Baltimore, as was Maggie Fitzpatrick, who provides the cover art
Victual Vittle Bottle Cunt, by Iris Our
5 track album
recitalprogram.bandcamp.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Do you think Thomas Pynchon watched Columbo
November 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Got this years ago when the record store I worked at was throwing it out unplayed, but I only ever rediscovered it when it would not be seasonally appropriate to play. Until now
November 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Because felching is back in the news I must report that when I was in high school there was a girl with the last name Feltcher who had a skinhead boyfriend and when I was like why would you be a Nazi that's stupid she basically blamed the fact that black kids made fun of her last name
November 23, 2025 at 12:29 AM
New Blastitude Substack chronicles a trip from Chicago to Detroit exurbs to see a 50 Years Of Destroy All Monsters museum exhibition up until next March
ROAD TRIP REPORT: Detroit, 2025 (Part 1 of 3)
On the occasion of "Mythic Chaos: 50 Years of Destroy All Monsters" at the Cranbrook Art Museum (November 2, 2025 - March 1, 2026)
blastitude.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Surrealism show at the Philadelphia Museum Of Art show incredible. Beyond the expected hits - Dali, Ernst, Varo, Carrington, Magritte - the André Masson pieces really hit. Also great pieces by Jacqueline Lamba, Gunther Gerzso, and Roberto Montenegro. Absolutely worth a daytrip
November 21, 2025 at 10:14 PM
SEO is likely bad for writing and the internet in general but I do think bands should care enough about it that they don't name themselves after acts that already exist and have achieved some notoriety. Not really a search engine thing so much as a Discogs database thing
November 20, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Have you heard about politics? They're like this thing that sucks
November 20, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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Self-replicating cars cause the apocalypse

From: Automania 2000 (1963), dir. John Halas, Halas & Batchelor
November 20, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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tonight!!!... NO SUCH THING AS AN UGLY DUCKLING... b-sides, rarities, gems, nuggets, what have you... because ALL DUCKS are HOT DUCKS and most tunes?? are bops... crooners, swooners, winners & losers, soul, dub & assorted oldies.. on new flanland..wfmu.org/sheena live and wfmu.org/playlists/ne later
November 20, 2025 at 12:14 AM
As much as I dislike dumb-on-purpose genre stuff, often the key to writing comedy for me is to actively try to think of the dumbest thing
November 19, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Tone Glow interview with billy woods is very good, @misterminsoo.bsky.social is a great interviewer
Tone Glow 199: billy woods
An interview with the New York-based rapper about death, growing up in Zimbabwe, and leaving behind the people and places you love
toneglow.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:55 AM
I was wearing a sunglasses/turtleneck combo yesterday(dilated pupils from the doctor/cold weather) and wishing I looked this cool
Pierre Cardin Spring/Summer 2009 Ready-To-Wear Collection, Théoule-sur-Mer, France (2008)

Photo by Valery Hache
November 18, 2025 at 11:23 PM