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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 9h

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Challenge: choose cool cover versions of great songs. Only one per day, if not every day, for as long as one can.

No explanations, no reviews

youtu.be/lFHg0AJ76ts?...

Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 10h

Not a tin pot dictator but a disposable bedpan one.

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 12h

Sad to hear that, but not entirely surprised as the investment firm that bought the place seemed to have issues.

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · Jun 23

"The Wardobe In The Taco Bell Parking Lot" was not the comeback CS Lewis ecpected it to be.

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 12h

Okay, the third entry in the C.S. Lewis "low fi Narnia" reboot almost won me over, but still not going through that portal.

Picture of an upside down cabenit and what might be a dissecated christmas tree from "The Chair Which Wasn't Silver But A Good Ikea Piece With Few Stains"

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 12h

Stanley Tigerman did this with a Jewel Osco in Uptown that include a set of 2 floor aparments with faux 2 flat home facades.

www.artic.edu/artworks/233...

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 12h

But perhaps we expect too much from what I hear is a really good long form NIN music video.

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 12h

But also: who could have preducted a not good movie from the guy who directed the 5th Pirates of the Carribian movie & the bomb sequel to Maleficent and mostly written by a guy whose career is half uncredited touchups to films like Eragon?

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 13h

The well off will embrace violent authoritarians as not all that bad rather than allow any hint of lower class power has been true for over a century. Since the late 1800s really but most brazen since the late 20s.

Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · Oct 14

And here is the NYT Editorial from 9/27/1930.
"If it be true that a watched pot never boils, the menace of ADOLF HITLER has been grossly, exaggerated." The editorial insists the German people don't actually believe what he says and also implies it's the fault of communists.

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 13h

A reminder that in the 1930s the NYT's primary German correspondent was a Nazi sympathizer who constantly downplayed their extremism to the point other American correspondents, who were often not brave in their criticism, still complained about his bias.

Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · Oct 14

"Guido Enderis, was known to sit in the bar ...spouting “a loudmouthed defense of Nazism,” ..the Times had no intention of doing anything about Enderis ...it valued his close connections to the Nazi government, as it had throughout the 1930s."
www.tabletmag.com/sections/his...

The New York Times’ ‘Nazi Correspondent’

As Adolf Hitler rose to power in Germany and then embarked on his program of world conquest and mass extermination, The New York Times’ Berlin bureau chief was busy slanting the news in his favor

www.tabletmag.com

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Delbert Grady Seasons @delbertgseasons.bsky.social · 13h

Playing the hits

Germany's Election

HITLER CONDEMNS RIOTS.; He Says They Were Provoked by Paid Agents in Germany.
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Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES.
Sept. 18, 1931

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 14h

Because at least Hobbes kind of recognizes that all against all can be the upper class which is why Marx respected him despite fundementally disagreeing with him.

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 14h

Just realized that with his odious conclusion, Hobbes is a precursor to the seemingly enlightened lib who still supports tyrants, including the "war of all against all" which can be deemed crime panic, yet has enough good ideas & candor to be better than Ezra or current "moderate" clownshows.

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 14h

Would like to dunk on them with this image & how Hobbes used the state as body to say an absolute monarch is the best kind of commonwealth, despite most of his book being an argument for democracy, but they'd have no clue what I was referencing let alone that it was a sick burn.

The frontispiece of the book Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes; depicting the king as a head of a body made up of his subjects.

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 22h

Write it in the sky with hundred foot letters of burning flame

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Nov 13

if i've learned one thing from doing union stuff while also doing other forms of organizing, it's that you're better off with people you disagree with who are nevertheless trying to do the same thing as you than with people you agree with who aren't trying to do anything

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 14h

Haven't watched it yet but should.

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 14h

He was so good as the beast in the basement. Lookingglass & Zimmerman at the height of their powers.

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 15h

It may seem odd to say, but Tony Fitzpatrick still passed too young. As an artist and poet and writer and Chicago historian, he had years if not decades of relevance left.

Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 16h

I saw Fitzpatrick in a theater show about mass killers in 1990 as James Huberty, who carried out the McDonald’s massacre. He was riveting in a depiction that was both human & a political commentary that's still relevant. An artist in so many ways. RIP.

chicagoreader.com/arts-culture...

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Ray Pride @raypride.bsky.social · 17h

Tony Fitzpatrick, 1958-2025

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 16h

I saw Fitzpatrick in a theater show about mass killers in 1990 as James Huberty, who carried out the McDonald’s massacre. He was riveting in a depiction that was both human & a political commentary that's still relevant. An artist in so many ways. RIP.

chicagoreader.com/arts-culture...

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 16h

Went to a Tony Fitzpatrick show at a gallery /studio last year & he was so friendly, discussing the iconography of his latest work & my interest in dick tracy & fearless fosdick. He recognized me as 1 of his 10s of thousands of longtime supporters, not by name or anything, but still good at that.

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 16h

That film is collaborative is why Annie Hall is solid despite Allen becoming vile - Keaton & others.

She directed an episode of Twin Peaks & was great, for example, in the tv version of a Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You, a theater staple.

Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 1d

That this account turned off comments instead of deleting it means she's a disnfo agent out of intent or vanity and should be blocked.

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 1d

This is fake - do not trust this account.

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 1d

This is a fake video and despite being told many times "jenn budd" has not taken it down DO NOT TRUST OR FOLLOW THIS ACCOUNT.

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