Mike Rowe @mhrowe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I know, right? It’s kind of wild and part of what I enjoy about that film. Like, why does the film so strenuously make sure I notice small pieces of glass flying around? Oh cause it wants me to duck 010
Mike Rowe @mhrowe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Even the drug in the film is essentially an allegory for 3D. Judge Dredd wants to take 3D away from us. He seems to have succeeded. 010
Mike Rowe @mhrowe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026A film that is also notable for the fact that its originally advertised title of “Dredd 3D” much more accurately describes the film. Even in regular D, the viewer can see shots that oddly suggest how awesome they look when viewed with 3D glasses—except you’re not wearing them. 210
Mike Rowe @mhrowe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I’m pretty sure at this point that even “____ is a CIA psyop” is a CIA psyop. It’s faked moon landings as far as the eye can see. 000
Mike Rowe @mhrowe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Making a list of which insults can be added to which corresponding injuries. 000
Mike Rowe @mhrowe.bsky.social · 29/08/2026King Hu movies on a larger screen at last, I will die happy (hopefully) 010
Mike Rowe @mhrowe.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Getting mad at an article in the New York Times about the surf-crime thriller Point Break 100
Mike Rowe @mhrowe.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Memory of summer as a kid: putting glow sticks in the freezer to make them last longer 000
Mike Rowe @mhrowe.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Posting about my nightmares before falling asleep like it’s a vacation I’m excited about 000
Mike Rowe @mhrowe.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Erik, I’m gonna need you to go ahead and live beautifully. You don’t have to do it every day, obvs, but maybe like every other weekend, like in a custody agreement 010
Mike Rowe @mhrowe.bsky.social · 21/08/2026It has come to my attention that owning three paintings of my cat has failed to make me an exemplar of the “beautiful life” 120
Mike Rowe @mhrowe.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Startling to see this OP suddenly outside of Substack, where she plies her trade or at least did. The Substack algorithm used to push that stuff at me but then learned to stop. Always been a little puzzled by the weird instagram-friendly agitprop. It must make a bit of money… 020
Mike Rowe @mhrowe.bsky.social · 07/08/2026If you don’t know much about automobile-themed combat sports, take a seat and buckle up (this will be thematically important) while I tell you tales of my CarJitsu fandom, which I wrote about for Defector defector.com/carjitsu-is-...defector.comCarJitsu Is Precisely As Dumb As It Sounds | DefectorI discovered CarJitsu this past April at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, where a bout was broadcast on a wall-mounted television above a display of Doritos. There is, truthfully, not m... 020
Mike Rowe @mhrowe.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Listening to Beethoven. Craig Beethoven. Obscure Oklahoma country musician, who died in a plane crash with his friends, Bud “Cream Sauce” Chuckwagon and Erasmus Mozart. Terrible songs, unfortunately. 020
Mike Rowe @mhrowe.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Nevertheless it’s strange to be recommended giving up on life. It’s like the pervasive internet discourse of depression and isolation and hating interacting with other people was just spiritual preparation for accepting that a computer can talk to other people for you (and they are ideally also AI) 010
Mike Rowe @mhrowe.bsky.social · 05/08/2026e.g. getting AI to tell you how to politely scold your neighbors for how they’ve mistreated your trash cans. Also in general the vibe was “ask AI what AI can do for you.” Which, again, in the context of my job, that’s fine with me. I already exchange my semi-precious time for a salary 110
Mike Rowe @mhrowe.bsky.social · 05/08/2026about how AI can make a PowerPoint for you (a helpful use case for the sort of slide decks I sometimes have to make) the person giving the presentation repeatedly invoked how helpful AI is in everyday life, but the examples were apocalyptically awkward, 110
Mike Rowe @mhrowe.bsky.social · 05/08/2026AI has been mandated at my job, so everyone spends time looking for use cases etc, which is fine with me cause I do my job to earn money, but the other day some sort of specialist gave my department a presentation on AI use. It was an intro session so necessarily rudimentary but beyond the demo 110
Mike Rowe @mhrowe.bsky.social · 04/08/2026The fact that Erik likes my writing is like 56% of the reason I write 020
Mike Rowe @mhrowe.bsky.social · 23/05/2025I am extremely flattered to say the least by Erik’s kind words. If anyone sees this and is curious, here’s a link to my blog homepage notesfromtheneogene.substack.comnotesfromtheneogene.substack.comNotes from the Neogene | MH Rowe | SubstackLiterature, books, memory and the neogene. Click to read Notes from the Neogene, by MH Rowe, a Substack publication. Launched 4 months ago. 020
Mike Rowe @mhrowe.bsky.social · 29/03/2025In case you’re interested: Thomas Pynchon, Bill Clinton, Carl Jung, Harold Bloom, and Keanu Reeves all gathered together in this one post: notesfromtheneogene.substack.com/p/paranoid-f...notesfromtheneogene.substack.comParanoid (free)styleOn Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 000
Mike Rowe @mhrowe.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Wrote a bit on C.S. Lewis’s A Grief Observed notesfromtheneogene.substack.com/p/reality-is...notesfromtheneogene.substack.comReality is iconoclasticOn C.S. Lewis's A Grief Observed 000
Mike Rowe @mhrowe.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Wrote about an Edith Wharton ghost story, one of the best I’ve ever read notesfromtheneogene.substack.com/p/edith-whar...notesfromtheneogene.substack.comEdith Wharton and the making of American ghostsOn Edith Wharton's "Afterward" 020
Mike Rowe @mhrowe.bsky.social · 10/02/2025This is a very flattering endorsement for my notes from the neogene! 000
Mike Rowe @mhrowe.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Not yet yet quite present over here on Blue Sky so only today noticed they were here and wanted to thank @barrelhouse.bsky.social and especially editor Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social for publishing my story 020
Reposted by Mike RoweWes Burdine @wesburdine.bsky.social · 28/01/2025I'm glad Erik shared this because it's absolutely hilarious. I went to dinner with @mhrowe.bsky.social the other night just so I could hear him talk about his writing. Also because I like him. 141
Mike Rowe @mhrowe.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Things have changed and will change more, but I I did something I used to do, which is publish a short story. Grateful to Barrelhouse for publishing my light but world-striding story about a mom trying to get her son to stop harassing Rod Stewart online www.barrelhousemag.com/online-lit/g...barrelhousemag.comGreat and Urgent Projects of Passion, by MH Rowe — BarrelhouseClaire had been trying to get her son, Colton, to stop harassing Rod Stewart online. She took away his phone and returned it after a conversation in the kitchen during which Colton's contrition, regre... 2102
Mike Rowe @mhrowe.bsky.social · 11/11/2024Wow, it’s the dramatic final scene, when the one battery thinks the other battery is dead 010
