@leegee.bsky.social
Reporter at @chronicle.com, music nerd, lotsa other kinds of nerd too. Half of @essentialpod.bsky.social and all of @vgplusrecs.bsky.social. He/him
Nice placement!
24.11.2025 16:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0#betteridgeslaw
24.11.2025 14:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Total Baltimore thing (my wife is a native).
24.11.2025 14:17 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I was just discussing this with @wendycloudberry.com: mac and cheese is not a hillbilly food item. At all, ever, much less at a holiday meal.
24.11.2025 14:15 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Line chart showing US teen reading habits since 1985: daily readers fall sharply while those who "hardly ever" read rise to about 48% by 2024.
In every dystopian novel: the government bans books.
In reality: we gave up reading voluntarily.
Image is line paper with writing showing an English word followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled and pronounced. The word is humanity and pronounced yuhwee ahnayhuh
Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.
This all day.
22.11.2025 23:40 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
If you missed the screening of the @baltimorebeat.bsky.social documentary last week, you have another chance coming up at Lexington Market! baltimorebeat.com/watch-the-ba...
21.11.2025 22:34 — 👍 16 🔁 21 💬 0 📌 4Repost with an iconic fictional band.
21.11.2025 17:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"Transparency . . . trust . . . courage . . . "
21.11.2025 16:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Why does it feel like, this being 2025, someone is going to insist that it's un-American to stop experimenting on monkeys in 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . .
21.11.2025 16:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I've just launched The New/Next Film Fest Viewing Archive: a public document listing every film I've screened in the history of @newnextfilmfest.bsky.social and where, when applicable, you can view each film from home (streaming, VOD, and physical media).
Dig in, share, enjoy! tinyurl.com/cm6rwkd9
Top Five Favorite Documentary Genres
1. Following toxic men around with 16 mm cameras, cause who's ever gonna see this crap?
2. Films about people no one ever makes films about
3. Looks like a dangerous, tedious job (it is)
4. Great director portraits of great artists
5. Random Eastern Europeans
I hardly ever spend time in bars anymore, but here’s my hot take: Bars should not have TVs. Sports bars, sure, that’s why they’re there, but a regular old bar should not have a TV on all the time. Sorta defeats the purpose.
17.11.2025 14:15 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
An image of the cover of Daniel Kehlmann’s novel The Director
An excellent book about living under fascism, among other things.
17.11.2025 00:34 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Epstein Emails Reveal a Lost New York The disgraced financier’s recently released documents are steeped in a clubby world that is all but gone.
Seriously, what is wrong with these people?
16.11.2025 12:39 — 👍 7574 🔁 995 💬 448 📌 574It’s funny to note the handful of super fans this guy seems to have found outside Brazil.
15.11.2025 23:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I had some similar trepidations once I realized that the faint threads of plot were never going to “go anywhere,” but by the time I finished I coulda gone another 400-500 pages easily. Happily.
15.11.2025 23:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Coupla years ago, I wrote a piece about what changes when colleges are run predominantly by women, i.e. the president and most of her cabinet are women. There were not many examples I could find!
15.11.2025 17:19 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0So I watched Nouvelle Vague, and while I respect Linklater for many reasons, the film basically reduces Godard to a Funko Pop. I suspect he would have despised it.
15.11.2025 15:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Olive and I have had a couple of conversations about our most-favored cutlery.
15.11.2025 14:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0They played at Big Ears a coupla years ago. Twas good!
13.11.2025 21:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
How is AI *really* impacting jobs?
Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an:
-8% drop in all jobs postings
-~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs
-22% drop in journalism jobs
Haha, you’re going to ruin my ruthless reputation!
Seriously, it was a pleasure chatting, as always, and I hope your very good book finds the readership that needs it.
Skritch break
11.11.2025 20:43 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0#inclinic
"when does your anxiety act up?"
"when I have to stand in line at the food bank"
And, unlike just about everything else Bond, it's never been done!
11.11.2025 17:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I don't understand why they aren't falling all over themselves to do an origin story. It's so wildly obvious that it'd be a perfect way to reboot the franchise and steer around some of its stickier problems circa the mid-2020s.
11.11.2025 17:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Not shoddy at all though.
11.11.2025 15:15 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It’s almost like the people at the various strata of the economy are *connected* somehow . . .
10.11.2025 22:05 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
