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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 2h

Battle for Brooklyn (2011)

Produced and directed by Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jvsu...

Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 3h

Have been thinking about how hard Tish James, as Councilwoman, fought for my Brooklyn neighborhood(s) vs. the Atlantic Yards project.

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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 7h

If you’re the kind of person who says “Vincent Van Gockh”

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 9h

Here’s a primer on ‘primer.’

It’s pronounced ‘PRIMM-er’ if you mean “a small book” or “a short informative piece of writing.”

It’s pronounced ‘PRY-mer’ if you mean “an initial coat of paint.”

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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 8h

Speaking of Vertigo...!

Joe Boo-nenwald @joegrunenwald.bsky.social · 23d

Somehow the legendary Karen Berger (@karenpberger.bsky.social) has fewer than 1000 followers here. This must be corrected. You know what to do, comics folks.

Karen Berger currently only has 982 followers on Bluesky. What in the WORLD.

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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 8h

Speaking of Vertigo...!

Shelly Bond @sxbond.bsky.social · 3d

TELL YOUR LCS not to sleep on this series—>FOC is TODAY. If “The Boys,” “100 Bullets” and “Stray Bullets” got trashed at a party and had a baby, it would be AMERICAN CAPER.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 13h

An entirely charming Mary Blair concept painting for the 1952 Walt Disney animated short “The Little House”.

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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 13h

It is always a pleasure to talk to my friend Jesse Jarnow; this time, he recorded our conversation for the official Grateful Dead podcast!

jesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social · 13h

on this week’s deadcast, @sg-marshall.bsky.social hit “the music never stopped,” tracing from jam to song, exploring how the music almost stopped & the band had to sell their record labels, & getting into high times magazine & the ‘70s pot biz with @seanhowe.bsky.social. www.dead.net/deadcast/blu...

tracking sheet for Music Never Stopped in Bobby Weir's handwriting with Godzilla & Friends written as artist name

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 1d

What a cover design!

Stefano Pivato, Bella Ciao: Canto e politica nella storia d'Italia

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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · Aug 4

Really savoring Robert Stone's A Flag for Sunrise. Have loved Dog Soldiers for years but had never read anything else except parts of his memoir (also good).

RIYL: Elmore Leonard, Graham Greene, Becker & Fagen

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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 1d

You've probably seen LAURA (8pm), which is, of course, titanic. You will not regret taking the time to watch DAISY KENYON (9:45).

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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 1d

"You can sense complacency now in the debate over extending Trump’s budget authority, which somehow doesn’t touch on his establishment of a secret police force, his deployment of armed service members into U.S. cities, or his selective prosecutions."

Paul Ferguson @fergdawg.bsky.social · 1d

"The point isn’t that we’re headed irreversibly toward totalitarianism, but that we should at this point be on guard against complacency, exploiting all legitimate means to change our course."

www.offmessage.net/p/the-median...

The Median Experience Of Tyranny

If the politics of tyranny were self-discrediting, we wouldn't need mantras like "never again."

www.offmessage.net

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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · Jun 21

A while back I put some thought into doing a book about the 60s & 70s NYPD "Seven-Ups" unit and its depictions in films—the fact that Frankenheimer did his Popeye-heroin-withdrawal FC II movie instead of some of the real stories about Egan and Grosso and Nunziata and Papa and Matthews is a bummer.

Eddie Egan, inspiration for Popeye Doyle

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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · Oct 3

Amazing thread, especially for those with an interest in the NYPD of the 1960s/1970s. (I've been down a rabbit hole, having just read the 1981 book PAPA'S GAME, about the evidence-room theft of the French Connection heroin)

𝕄𝕒𝕥𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕨 ℝ𝕠𝕤𝕖𝕟𝕓𝕖𝕣𝕘 @ashcanpress.com · Aug 7

I'm going to share the weird William Friedkin story that's been stuck in my head almost my whole life. Some folks know this, I guess. But it always blows people's minds.

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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 2d

This is a great essay; read it!

Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 2d

Blast from the past: a piece I did in 2006 about a trio of notoriously ultra-violent, politically reactionary movies from 1971: The French Connection, Dirty Harry, and Straw Dogs

MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 2d

10/7/71: The French Connection (D Friedkin/DP Roizman)
w/Hackman, Scheider, Rey
More:
@pulpcurry.bsky.social: crimereads.com/50-years-rea...
@kphipps3000.bsky.social: www.avclub.com/the-french-c...
We favor, but @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social w/must-read dissent: www.slantmagazine.com/film/caveman...

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Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · 2d

Charlotte Dada - Don't Let Me Down [Ghana - Highlife/afro-soul] 1971 - Really nice cover
https://redd.it/36vtal
https://youtu.be/RjVW4aQ4JB8

Charlotte Dada - Don't Let Me Down [Ghana - Highlife/afro-soul] 1971 - Really nice cover

youtu.be

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J. Gonzo @jgonzo.bsky.social · 2d

Cover I did recently (Custom-lettering by me too)

Joe Schmidt @hsglobalhistory.bsky.social · 2d

Very proud to announce our newest NYC’s Civics for All Comics Group comic Historias de Resistencia #2: Blowouts: The Sal Castro Story by @henrybarajas.bsky.social @louiechin.bsky.social Gab Contreras & @jgonzo.bsky.social Download a FREE copy here: www.weteachnyc.org/resources/re...

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jesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social · 2d

it was/is the honor of 1,000,000 lifetimes to be included on this reading list.

QueenCityJamz @queencityjamz.bsky.social · 2d

Gary Panter's Hippie 60's Movement Before It Was Replaced By A Dancing Bear Reading List from Crashpad (2021). I spy @bourgwick.bsky.social's HEADS on there.

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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 2d

That's the feast that the whiskey priest may yet have to forego!

Henry Fonda in The Fugitive, based on The Power and the Glory

Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 2d

Well I've been plowin' behind the mule, son
A-pickin' cotton all day long

Yes, I've been plow-ow-in'
Pickin' cotton all day long

I said lordy baby
Let's do the fucking news