Library worker, researcher and writer about culture from the first third of the 20th century, depressive. https://jonathanbogart.nethttps://bsky.app/profile/jonathanbogart.nethttps://bsky.app/profile/jonathanbogart.net/post/3mx33pmyyjs2nannual post about me being a grinch/scrooge but for halloween, but you have fun out there04 Oct 2026 19:03 +0000at://did:plc:5wsgr2vivfbdmctjv6qcgofa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mx33pmyyjs2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/jonathanbogart.net/post/3mwzjvmc6ns24ever since covid i've been in the habit of not making the internet shows i watch my social media interlocutors' problem, but since i've been linking all my letterboxd reviews: boxd.it/gCrU1D https://boxd.it/gCrU1D04 Oct 2026 04:11 +0000at://did:plc:5wsgr2vivfbdmctjv6qcgofa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwzjvmc6ns24https://bsky.app/profile/jonathanbogart.net/post/3mwxhssvrtc2li’d almost forgotten how buzzed i get when i stay up all night writing something, how the hell am i supposed to sleep now03 Oct 2026 08:29 +0000at://did:plc:5wsgr2vivfbdmctjv6qcgofa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwxhssvrtc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/jonathanbogart.net/post/3mwxanjh56s2nhypothesis: Bill Blackbeard's Smithsonian Book of Newspaper Comics is exactly equivalent to Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, as the comics of the 1980s assimilated an injection of their own forgotten history in much the same way that the pop of the 1960s had done03 Oct 2026 06:20 +0000at://did:plc:5wsgr2vivfbdmctjv6qcgofa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwxanjh56s2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/jonathanbogart.net/post/3mwx2tzh7bk2ntrying to write at length about something that matters to me without lapsing into nineteenth-century sonorities challenge (impossible)03 Oct 2026 04:37 +0000at://did:plc:5wsgr2vivfbdmctjv6qcgofa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwx2tzh7bk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/jonathanbogart.net/post/3mwvvb3n5b22d"influence" is a tricky thing to pin down, as is "classic," not to mention "novel." but sticking to prose fiction and giving myself two for each decade of life: narnia chron., huck finn, lotr, code of the woosters, howards end, the fermata, middlemarch, manhattan transfer, niebla [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Oct 2026 17:24 +0000at://did:plc:5wsgr2vivfbdmctjv6qcgofa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwvvb3n5b22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/jonathanbogart.net/post/3mwtvsp74vc22apparently i'm an anarcho-syndicalist, with the same morality phrase [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Oct 2026 22:29 +0000at://did:plc:5wsgr2vivfbdmctjv6qcgofa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwtvsp74vc22https://bsky.app/profile/jonathanbogart.net/post/3mwttxhaxlc22everyone answering with 21st century work shows exactly why i'm useless as a contemporary culture writer because my automatic thought was the plays of Shakespeare if only because of the sheer volume of critical writing (including school essays) over the centuries [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Oct 2026 21:55 +0000at://did:plc:5wsgr2vivfbdmctjv6qcgofa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwttxhaxlc22https://bsky.app/profile/jonathanbogart.net/post/3mwtc6lgdx222forever and ever [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Oct 2026 16:37 +0000at://did:plc:5wsgr2vivfbdmctjv6qcgofa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwtc6lgdx222https://bsky.app/profile/jonathanbogart.net/post/3mwt75z2um222i should pop into each of my youtube profiles and see what's recommended more often: this early "rhumba band"-era rendition of the classic son also known as "La Negra Tomasa" is a bit of a revelation youtu.be/bymhcBKb2S8 [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Oct 2026 15:43 +0000at://did:plc:5wsgr2vivfbdmctjv6qcgofa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwt75z2um222https://bsky.app/profile/jonathanbogart.net/post/3mwt35y4de222hadn't heard this swing arrangement of one of my favorite spirituals before youtu.be/DrkXYwmoZUs https://youtu.be/DrkXYwmoZUs?si=cEk0AJRnpwznIR9u01 Oct 2026 14:32 +0000at://did:plc:5wsgr2vivfbdmctjv6qcgofa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwt35y4de222https://bsky.app/profile/jonathanbogart.net/post/3mwr3kromhk2larguably my entire critical project (such as it is) is an attempt to shine a spotlight on the rapidly receding waters of the past and pick out the gold that can still be reached by our nets, to coin a metaphor with zero application to any actual real-world activity [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Sep 2026 19:33 +0000at://did:plc:5wsgr2vivfbdmctjv6qcgofa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwr3kromhk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/jonathanbogart.net/post/3mwox4xhkj22rwe’re sharing favorite albums of the year with the best quarter of it left to go? all right, i GUESS (first time in fifteen years ive listened to enough albums to make a list, rubric is do i want to listen to it again)29 Sep 2026 23:09 +0000at://did:plc:5wsgr2vivfbdmctjv6qcgofa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwox4xhkj22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/jonathanbogart.net/post/3mwmc5scyis23this, more than anything, is why i fell out of love with anglophone chart pop circa 2017: soca, dembow, kuduro, favela funk, coupé-décalé, bouyon, amapiano, reparto, etc. may have their limitations but at least they’re good for dancing to [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Sep 2026 21:48 +0000at://did:plc:5wsgr2vivfbdmctjv6qcgofa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwmc5scyis23https://bsky.app/profile/jonathanbogart.net/post/3mwm33ehawc2vthe pax britannica of the 19th century, built out of the wreckage of revolutions and on the back of paleocolonialism, was followed by the pax americana of the twentieth, built out of the wreckage of world war and on the back of neocolonialism. further wreckage looms now, with no pax foreseeable28 Sep 2026 19:42 +0000at://did:plc:5wsgr2vivfbdmctjv6qcgofa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwm33ehawc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/jonathanbogart.net/post/3mwluivp2cc2vrelated: i've been seeing people mourn the disappearance of silky-voiced male romantics from modern r&b, but i'm pleased to report that the style still survives quite strongly in konpa, bachata, afropiano, and kizomba [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Sep 2026 17:44 +0000at://did:plc:5wsgr2vivfbdmctjv6qcgofa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwluivp2cc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/jonathanbogart.net/post/3mwlr7etrss23my own particular excuse for not having paid much attention to u.s. pop phenomena this decade is that i’ve been too busy trying to keep up with developments in latin american, african and caribbean pop, and i figure that plenty of my peers have the u.s. (and other imperial cores) covered already28 Sep 2026 16:45 +0000at://did:plc:5wsgr2vivfbdmctjv6qcgofa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwlr7etrss23https://bsky.app/profile/jonathanbogart.net/post/3mwlkt7ucgc2vgot a new like on this so i revisited it. holds up, imo [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Sep 2026 14:51 +0000at://did:plc:5wsgr2vivfbdmctjv6qcgofa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwlkt7ucgc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/jonathanbogart.net/post/3mwhr6vp2kk2uif you're going to see one 2026 movie with a strong visual aesthetic about limited horizons in the philippines and centered on relationships between young women, see Filipiñana. but if you're going to see two, this one is good too boxd.it/gvCMkL https://boxd.it/gvCMkL27 Sep 2026 02:34 +0000at://did:plc:5wsgr2vivfbdmctjv6qcgofa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwhr6vp2kk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/jonathanbogart.net/post/3mwk23hvygs2xthe greatest youtu.be/mDAJyA3RS_0 [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Sep 2026 00:18 +0000at://did:plc:5wsgr2vivfbdmctjv6qcgofa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwk23hvygs2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/jonathanbogart.net/post/3mwjyoqlets2gthird show in three days, almost like i’m not a hermit for whom money is getting tight. but i am old enough that i got a balcony seat instead of standing on the floor. [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Sep 2026 23:53 +0000at://did:plc:5wsgr2vivfbdmctjv6qcgofa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwjyoqlets2g