Bill Kaminsky

Bill Kaminsky

@itinfer.bsky.social

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Bill Kaminsky
@itinfer.bsky.social

Maybe it's a little wrong to use a quote from a "meta"-Simpsons episode --- this one being the Season 11 finale that's a parody of those VH1 "Behind the Music" documentaries of musicians' sordid, career-derailing personal lives --- but, man oh man, do I find this quote applicable to so many people!

Sophia_Nyx 🐰@sophianyx.bsky.social

Name a quote from The Simpsons.

Bill Kaminsky
@itinfer.bsky.social

1/2 Though since this is Bluesky, maybe my last post (ie, Snoopy & Woodstock fanart as James T. Snoop & Mr. Stock) isn't that mix of lefty-yet-bound-to-piss-off-other-lefties that's Bluesky's stock and trade. Also, it arguably wasn't enough of a "not quite Star Trek". So, here goes...

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

If you see this, post a not quite Star Trek.

Bill Kaminsky
@itinfer.bsky.social

2/oops, 3 now ...That image is from a t-shirt sold by the sci-fi-focused cultural critic Damien Walter. I bring him up since this challenge "post a not quite Star Trek" requires thinking about what Star Trek is, and I commend these 2 essays of his on that topic: damiengwalter.com/2025/06/12/s...

damiengwalter.comStar Trek is propagandaGet your Science Fiction mythos vs. logos tee here Become a member of the Science Fiction community to continue the discussion Patreon – Subscribe to the Science Fiction podcast feed for long…
Bill Kaminsky
@itinfer.bsky.social

3/3 damiengwalter.com/2026/01/26/p... (Don't be fooled by the admittedly unseemly clickbait-y thumbnail for this 2nd one... it's smart IMHO... opening wiiht Guy Debord's “Capitalism could appropriate even the most radical ideas and return them safely in the form of harmless ideologies" type smart)

damiengwalter.comStar Trek ain’t woke. It’s corporate.Get your COMMIE TREK tee here – Become a member of the Science Fiction community to continue the discussion Website – Patreon – Facebook – Subscribe to the Science Fiction p…
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Bill Kaminsky
@itinfer.bsky.social

P.S. Two bits of Further Reading in case anyone's tremendously interested: 1) www.rollingstone.com/music/music-... on the backstory of that 1989 Cohen/Rollins collaboration and the short lived "Night Music" that ran on NBC as sort of a "Sunday Night Live" that was just live music performances.

rollingstone.comFlashback: Hal Willner Recruits Leonard Cohen, Sonny Rollins for Transfixing 'Who by Fire'Thanks to the curatorial genius of the late Hal Willner, Sonny Rollins and Leonard Cohen teamed up on national television.
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Bill Kaminsky
@itinfer.bsky.social

4/4 But what I cynically thought was Vienna claiming "oh, I meant a general song" to cover the whoopsie that there's no St. Stephen's in Berlin was, I now realize, something else: HER LYING TO COVER HER PROFOUND POWERS OF PROPHECY! Because you know where there is a St. Stephen's? Budapest!

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