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Tony H

@tonyhightower.bsky.social

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New Yorker in Paris. I run, I dad, I won reasonably big on Jeopardy & Millionaire (and Cash Cab) in a previous life. Serious @joannascutts.bsky.social stan. He/him.

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Tony H @tonyhightower.bsky.social · Nov 6

So... if anyone is looking into the idea of moving to Europe, for whatever reason, I know people who were hugely helpful for us, and I'm happy to share any & all info I have.

My DMs are open.

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Tony H @tonyhightower.bsky.social · 8h

I was joking about this, but if we can reclaim Pepe the frog from fascism, then let's take thelat as a W.

Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 8h

Nazis everywhere are pissed off that Antifa is co-opting the frog and making it a left wing symbol.

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Tony H @tonyhightower.bsky.social · 15h

Word up to every single one of those, but especially Iris Dement. She's been infuriatingly good for decades now.

Tony H @tonyhightower.bsky.social · 17h

Glad I bought stock in ketchup this morning. Someone's gonna paint some walls.

Tony H @tonyhightower.bsky.social · 18h

Keeping it arbitrarily to just women from this century, and excluding hip-hop completely because that's just a cheat code:

Courtney Barnett
Chappell Roan
Carly Rae Jepsen
Lucy Dacus
Maren Morris
Lucinda Williams
Sara Bareilles
Charli XCX

There's more, but I'm busy this morning.

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 5d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

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Tony H @tonyhightower.bsky.social · 18h

For starters.

Tony H @tonyhightower.bsky.social · 18h

You know, we didn't need to take back Pepe, but y'know, here we are

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 23h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Tony H @tonyhightower.bsky.social · 21h

This reminds me, I really have to reorganize my Nerve Rack.

pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 21h

Nice try, “Paul A. Thompson”

A Pitchfork review for One Battle After Another that call it a “nerve-wracking masterpiece”, written by one Paul A. Thompson

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250 Years Ago News @250yearsagonews.bsky.social · 2d

Oct. 8, 1925: Vincenzo Peruggia, the man who stole the “Mona Lisa,” dies of a heart attack on his 44th birthday outside Paris. The Italian worker at the Louvre walked off with the masterwork in 1911 and kept it two years, claiming he wanted to return it to Leonardo’s home country.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 4d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 4d

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Tony H @tonyhightower.bsky.social · 3d

Honestly, on balance, that sounds like a W. You advanced the plot! A thing happened that had to happen!

Tony H @tonyhightower.bsky.social · 4d

Yup. If you're only stepping off the train now, your threshold for fascism is already way too fucking high.

Tony H @tonyhightower.bsky.social · 4d

Huh.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 4d

Rite Aid closes all remaining stores after 63 years in business

"All Rite Aid stores have now closed. We thank our loyal customers for their many years of support." Rite Aid, once one of America's biggest pharmacy chains, shuttered its remaining 89 stores this wee...

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Tony H @tonyhightower.bsky.social · 4d

History is made every day.

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Martin O'Leary @strangetea.bsky.social · 7d

If you can afford it, support good film criticism today.

The alternative are these idiots spewing word salad reviews that are little more than a semi coherent recap that manages to insult the craft of filmmaking while misunderstanding every creative choice that was made.

Martin O'Leary @strangetea.bsky.social · 7d

Have just seen a popular Youtuber reviewing a stone cold horror classic complaining about the camera work (describing it as "bad"...) because it made them feel anxious during a scene of tension which "was probably done on purpose".

I fucking despair.

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Tony H @tonyhightower.bsky.social · 5d

My kid saw his first Jacques Tati film this afternoon, and I think... it may have changed him. Fingers crossed!

boxd.it/bh76dl 🎥

A ★★★★ review of Mon Oncle (1958)

My kid's first Tati, and he ate it up. He loved the dogs, the silliness of the Villa, the whistle game, the whole dinner party scene, and (of course) he found Hulot utterly charming. Mission accomplis...

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Tony H @tonyhightower.bsky.social · 5d

And Mojo's sister Cynthia took a whole nother path besides.

pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 5d

Hard to think of a father and son who had more divergent careers than Richard and Mojo Nixon

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Tony H @tonyhightower.bsky.social · 5d

I do like those glasses.

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Tony H @tonyhightower.bsky.social · 8d

Fahrenheit 451, brought to you by Kingsford Charcoal!

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 9d

Jane Goodall was my first childhood hero, as I loved animals as a kid and was inspired by her story. I still remember the National Geographic specials about her. RIP.

Jane Goodall reaches out and touches a small monkey.

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Tony H @tonyhightower.bsky.social · 9d

Or the Romanovs, for that matter.

Tony H @tonyhightower.bsky.social · 9d

I'd be willing to bet my left arm that he most certainly has no clue whatsoever who the Ceausescus are.

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Tony H @tonyhightower.bsky.social · 9d

I like both those people. Interesting.

Tony H @tonyhightower.bsky.social · 10d

If I had a Letterboxd-style top four for albums, this would be on it.

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Tony H @tonyhightower.bsky.social · 10d

Not really. I just saw footage from of them hurling abuse at (I think) Rory McIlroy. I wish I was surprised.

Tony H @tonyhightower.bsky.social · 11d

Damn. Well done, all of youse. Keep it going.