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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

HBD Tuesday Weld!! Key New Hollywood streak 1968-72: Pretty Poison, Walk the Line, Safe Place, Play it as it Lays ++ More @specktor.bsky.social: lithub.com/inside-the-c... @sheilakathleen.bsky.social: www.sheilaomalley.com?p=106223 @bilgeebiri.bsky.social: www.vulture.com/article/revi...

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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

She did all the great things a good soul can do in this world as everyone’s been sharing. AND she could do this. Your icon could never. youtu.be/06U-7BACuhs?...

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"Yakety Sax (Benny Hill Theme)" Dolly Parton@Mann Music Center Philadelphia 6/15/16

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Matthew Specktor @specktor.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Goddamnit. Well, it seems a good day to remember--EVERY day is a good day to remember--Al Green still walks among us.

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

8/10/70: Diary of a Mad Housewife D Frank Perry/W Eleanor Perry w/Richard Benjamin, Carrie Snodgress, Frank Langella KIno blu w/ @larrythek.bsky.social track More: @specktor.bsky.social: www.theparisreview.org/blog/2021/07... @merrillmarkoe.bsky.social: merrillmarkoe.substack.com/p/why-i-wait...

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Why I Waited 22 Years Before Getting Married

Part 1: TEENAAA:The Terrifying Specter of Richard Benjamin

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Matthew Specktor @specktor.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Having hung out with this record now for several months, I really do reckon it's a masterpiece. "Go there and wiggle," as George Clinton once said prairiewolfcf.bandcamp.com/album/zone-p...

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Zone Poems, by Prairiewolf

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The incumbents who lost their primaries were bad at their jobs. No one “blew up the party.” Voters rejected them. Learn to win voters over or get out. That’s literally the job.

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Matthew Specktor @specktor.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I read this really rather wild Padgett Powell story a few nights ago and I'm still thinking about it. It seems to exist at a midpoint between John Berryman and Renata Adler harpers.org/archive/2026...

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Adventures, by Padgett Powell

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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Insanely good. Why isn’t everyone talking about it all the time. Why do ppl go on and on about Stoner and Mating when this is right there

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Matthew Specktor @specktor.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Been thinking a lot lately about how bonkers great the show Patriot was, and how people who are into Lodge 49 and/or DTF St Louis should hightail their way to watching it ASAP. Because it is, it absolutely rips in ways that TV just doesn’t (and won’t, sadly) anymore

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Samantha Culp @samanthaculp.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Shirley Hazzard's Transit of Venus (as screenwritten by @specktor.bsky.social , who almost was able to make this happen in the early 2000s... still wish the stars would align for it)

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yash @yashwinacanter.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

this is the best i got

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Matthew Specktor @specktor.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

“My ideas, but someone else’s words.” Uh, yeah, man. ok.

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Matthew Specktor @specktor.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Saw this last night, and for all the hints of A24ishness (derogatory), Kane Parsons is massively gifted. Sam’s been on this beat for years

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Matthew Specktor @specktor.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Kicked off today with the (excellent) Boards of Canada record, closing it with a 7:40 of The Backrooms. It’s Hauntological Friday with Tony Dokoupil!

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Matthew Specktor @specktor.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Still one of the best damn things American television has ever delivered

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Matthew Specktor @specktor.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Happy to have a chance to unpack Neil's greatest, dumbest (complimentary) moment. Happy "T-Bone" Day (now designated) to all who celebrate

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Matthew Specktor @specktor.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

As someone who was lucky enough to know Vidal in his twilight years—amazing, lovely man—I…did not know this. Wild

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Matthew Specktor @specktor.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Extremely excited for Hot Jamesian Firehanging Summer. LFG!!

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

🎵 These people are not going to save you 🎵

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Matthew Specktor @specktor.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Reminder that this book slaps even harder than its outstanding cover. The best kind of wild American weirdness—Portis and then some—exists herein

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Jay Babcock @jaywbabcock.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

At minute 31, di Prima talks about moving from NY to SF in 1968, joining in with the Diggers/Free City people there, the work she started generating for certain public events. She reads "April Fool Birthday Poem for Grandpa," which is about the inspiration/example of her anarchist grandfather.

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B-Side Editions @bside-editions.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

An excerpt from WATCHING THE DETECTIVE is up at @oldstermag.bsky.social and Neko Case approves! Please check it out if you're curious. open.substack.com/pub/oldster/...

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Matthew Specktor @specktor.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

As they roll out one heavy hitter after the next to discuss their NY song of choice eloquently and persuasively, I start to wonder about my forthcoming appearance stanning for one of Neil’s most perverse and maligned (but secretly great) songs. JJT is great here

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Frazz @mrs-frazzled.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

ActBlue donors can request refunds if they donated to Swalwell’s campaign. Pass it on.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

This is propaganda.

headline: gen z doesn't want your full-time job. They want several part-time roles, and it's reshaping the entire workforce.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability

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Jeremy Erwin @jeremyerwin.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

The best sounding stereo + mono versions my ears have witnessed, plus a mess of alt mixes and a resurrected ‘67 live set from the Houston Music Theater. 🐇

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The 13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere {Deluxe Edition} [A Prof Stoned Comp] ***Please Download again as per Nov 2024***

CD Quality (16bit/44.1kHz) Info pass: profstoned

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Carmen Celestini @philofwrite.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Well this seems like approval to promote! God's Angry Men is out April 30th! I spent far too many years deep in the John birch Society and the rich men who branched off to make the Hertigae Foundation. Project 2025 was a planned outcome by wealthy, powerful men.

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Matthew Specktor @specktor.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

That this will probably never be in print again bums me out no end. Like T. Rex on soporifics if Marc Bolan wuz a girl. The best.

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Elliot Blake @elliotblake.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Los Angeles Bluesky, I need your help. I just learned that on Saturday at the protest at the downtown Metropolitan Detention Center, a friend’s 18-year-old son was shot in the eye with a pepper ball by DHS, permanently blinding him. He needs justice. If you were there and saw anything, please… 1/5

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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 02/04/2026

I do hope that one day deliberate misgendering and deadnaming will be viewed with the same revulsion as a non black person using the n word. They cause so much harm and distress to trans people. Any cis person who disagrees, well frankly they don't get to decide what hurts trans people.

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Matthew Specktor @specktor.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I’m still not over this loss and I’m never going to be. I swear this man might have led us to the promised land…

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Matthew Specktor @specktor.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Absolute banger sequence/film. Goddamn

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rainy jorbo ☔️ @bookenj.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

paul tibbets, the pilot who dropped the first first atomic bomb on japan, went on a speaking tour after he retired. his biggest message was if americans ever experienced at home, the destruction we caused abroad, there would never be another war. our insulation is critical to protect the war machine

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Matthew Specktor @specktor.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

This film remains one of the sublime bummers (complimentary) of its era.

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Zach Heltzel @zachheltzel.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Kat Abughazaleh used her campaign to try a lot of things that the party should been embracing a long time ago. The entire left coalition is better off because she ran.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

It’s Long Covid Awareness Day (which I think should be the Ides of March, for reasons that will become clear.) Some of you have heard this before. But I wanted to share my Long Covid story, because I think you should hear it. On my birthday in November 2022, I woke up with Covid.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

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Matthew Specktor @specktor.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

These depraved motherfuckers. May they never know peace.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 27/02/2026

Everybody is really sleeping on the “Oracle gets destroyed by openai and data center debt” as a possibility

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Matthew Specktor @specktor.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Today in Tabs is great today, as it so often is, but I can’t get this bit about treating people like things/things like people out of my head

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Matthew Specktor @specktor.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Still laughing about the fact that @samanthaculp.bsky.social dreamed last night about a movie star named “Francesco Cascadia,” with whom she (like everyone in the dream) was obsessed, but who was, in fact, just …Ian Holm.

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