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Chris Phillips

@chrisphillips.bsky.social

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Publisher/editor/writer now archaeologist/archivist, The Backstreets Publishing Empire, Inc. | Still behind the counter at Backstreet Records, til the lease runs out: https://tinyurl.com/bd68sybw | #TeamWaves | proud Oberlin dad | cosmic horror junkie

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Chris Phillips @chrisphillips.bsky.social · 15h

I’m late to the party on Monster: Ed Gein, but I just watched ep 1…. a little thrown by the inclusion of recent RNC footage, but wiling to see where this thing goes!

Dan Harmon @danharmon.bsky.social · 6d

Watched Monster: Ed Gein. Didn’t outright dislike but didn’t understand a lot of choices. Felt like message was “everyone co-opted Gein and he never got credit.” But it shows you everyone giving him credit. And..well, wearing corpse tits isn’t quite like inventing jazz or coining “eyebrows on fleek”

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Dak @dak.myatproto.social · 4d

🎶Whoa, Black Betty🎶

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Chris Phillips @chrisphillips.bsky.social · 2d

Well… I have. And not only that, I have rocked down to there.

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Hobby Drifter in Tokyo @hobbydrifter.bsky.social · 9d

White people who have spent decades thinking “Born in the USA” is patriotic and “Every Breath You Take” is a great wedding song are suddenly very concerned about not being able to understand lyrics to some songs at the Super Bowl halftime show.

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Chris Phillips @chrisphillips.bsky.social · 2d

Hitting the 10/31 Boris show! 🩷🎃

Chris Phillips @chrisphillips.bsky.social · 2d

Come on, you guys, is all this really any way to speak about an actual Grand Moff in the Galactic Empire?

Chris Phillips @chrisphillips.bsky.social · 2d

Two middle fingers up!
(in a good way)

Chris Phillips @chrisphillips.bsky.social · 2d

Koji Shiraishi’s SENRITSU KAIKI series, kinda hands down.

How many horror franchises keep getting more fun as they go along?

Carpenter’s Halloween may be better… but the Halloween franchise is not.

Chris Phillips @chrisphillips.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks for writing this, CLR — we saw the Durham show 9 days prior, and you captured the thoughts buzzing around my head… while being more charitable than I’d been feeling, so this helps me reframe it for myself.

Chris Phillips @chrisphillips.bsky.social · 2d

“Near mint? Or vg++?”

Chris Phillips @chrisphillips.bsky.social · 2d

“Give Me It” or “A Hundred Years” might be fairer use

Chris Phillips @chrisphillips.bsky.social · 2d

“George, I don’t even understand your question — I’m just an unfrozen caveman lawyer, George, I don’t know what an audio tape is! Is there a gremlin inside that transcribes conversations?”

Chris Phillips @chrisphillips.bsky.social · 3d

Only if the fight scene goes on for AT LEAST five minutes straight and shows all the action, no montages.

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Peter Blackstock @peterblackstocksd.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve been making this case for awhile now, and I think it should especially be the case in legacy media. The Associated Press needs to issue a style edict that “antifa” should always be spelled out as anti-fascist. How about it, @apnews.com? If you disagree, I’d like to hear your counterargument.

Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 3d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Chris Phillips @chrisphillips.bsky.social · 4d

oh yes, do go on

Chris Phillips @chrisphillips.bsky.social · 4d

And he was born in the back seat of a moving taxicab

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SUGAR @sugarcopperblue.bsky.social · 4d

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Chris Phillips @chrisphillips.bsky.social · 5d

Also no moment when Jesus spoke out specifically against upholstering with human skin or fashioning a belt from nipples, but I think we can safely infer his take

Chris Phillips @chrisphillips.bsky.social · 6d

Same year as the @amnesty.org Human Rights Now! tour, which couldn’t have hurt

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Tony Michaels 🎙 @thetonymichaels.bsky.social · 6d

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Chris Phillips @chrisphillips.bsky.social · 6d

At the 1988 state finals for Essay Writing (90 minutes, no reference materials), i thought I was dead in the water when the theme was Current Events. Then i got my topic: Apartheid in South Africa.

Lifted details from “Sun City” and “Biko” and came in 1st.

“In Port Elizabeth, in September 1977…”

Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.social · 6d

I wrote my 5-page philosophy paper a few hours before class, but I had a fever and was DELIRIOUS, so I wrote it in the style of a Socratic dialogue and made an A.

Laura Lorson @lauralorson.net · 6d

We should all tell our stories like this...mine is "the time I totally forgot about an essay and cranked out a paper on Deleuze & Guattari's Anti-Oedipus in two hours and ended up winning an award for it"

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Chris Phillips @chrisphillips.bsky.social · 6d

Since Springsteen, Waits, Westerberg and the Beasties (even at two/thirds strength) have gotten love already, let’s go with… Kathleen Edwards!

Chris Phillips @chrisphillips.bsky.social · 6d

Sub in Waits for Tweedy, and that’s my answer too. RIP MCA

Chris Phillips @chrisphillips.bsky.social · 6d

@laurahooq.bsky.social your kind of town, Chicago is

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 6d

I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.

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