HCMarks
✍️ Author, CABINET OF CURIOSITIES out now from St. Martin’s Press
🎬 Classic film host on Mometu app
🕚 Classic film/Old Hollywood historian on TikTok @lobbyintros
🔗 More at linktr.ee/hcmarks
- The creativity was done already by the people who made what the AI is using to “create” its derivative garbage.
- Just got a call from another real estate scammer looking to buy our house. I told them $3 million. They hung up. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Leo Laporte should probably throw in the towel at this point. I’ve never seen someone fall so far from becoming a champion of tech to an out-of-touch curmudgeon. “CES is pointless.” “Wicked was a terrible movie.” “I’m on a show about Apple, but don’t think anything Apple does is worthwhile.”
- It’s a shame, because I grew up watching him on TechTV. Now it’s just sad to see how bad of an influence John Dvorak was on him.
- Is there a tool, AI or otherwise, that would allow me to upload a diagram of a room in my house with all the furniture placements and measurements and then tell it: “Rearrange this room in a way to maximize space/efficiency?”
- Reposted by HCMarksHow do we have 800 of these articles and none contend with the fundamental issue which is rich liberals don’t want to fund left media, they want to fund liberal media which is bloodless and partisan, by definition. GOP courts its extremes, liberals discipline theirs. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/28/u...
- Reposted by HCMarksimpressive Bill Gates was the subject of a brutal NYT report about how he met multiple times with post-conviction Jeffrey Epstein, his wife of 27yrs divorced him over it, then he produced some Netflix hagiographies of himself, gave $50 million to the Harris campaign and everyone just forgot about it
- Reposted by HCMarksMy review of WICKED (2024) www.tiktok.com/t/ZTYMxEkGY/
- Reposted by HCMarksLovely time had at @moviehistories.bsky.social film club with a POV noir caper. Was not expecting the gimmick to sustain itself Montgomery as director nails it fairly well! Another fab outing with fine film pals!
- Reposted by HCMarksI've decided to hawk the book and the game once and precisely once this entire holiday season, so I figured I'd get in a head start before you're all inundated, and today's the day. Dog not included.
- 500 words down this morning in the WIP. Haven't written fiction in so long. Felt good. #amwriting
- Reposted by HCMarksThe fact that we're boiling the oceans faster than ever expressly for the purpose of making this is probably the most fitting end to humanity.
- Reposted by HCMarksit begins www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/u...
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- Reposted by HCMarksMy thing is, if they’re not even willing to speak up to defend their own, what could we possibly expect them to do for anyone else?
- Reposted by HCMarksit disgusts me the national democratic party barely pushes back at this attempt from the right to wind back LGBTQ rights decades after claiming to be the party of LGBTQ rights
- Just signed copies of CABINET OF CURIOSITIES at The Strand in NYC! Another dream fulfilled! 🥰✍️📖 #author #writer #booksky #writersky
- Headed to @barnesandnoble.bsky.social in Union Square NYC to sign some books. If you’re local, come say hi!
- Reposted by HCMarksFour social media platforms from now we’ll realize the problem was inside us the whole time
- Reposted by HCMarksHi, I'm Erik. I'm a literary agent and one of the founders of @headwaterlit.bsky.social. I also host @printrunpodcast.bsky.social, a show about the publishing industry that, if you followed me because of that publishing starter pack, you will love. I do both these things with @lzats.bsky.social.
- While it’s exciting to see this place grow, let’s temper expectations. Because until this place becomes a hub for live/breaking news, it won’t be the “town square” we’re all hoping for.
- Reposted by HCMarksI’m giving away a 4K UHD / Blu-ray edition of Criterion’s stunning I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE / THE SEVENTH VICTIM All you have to do it LIKE this, REPOST, and FOLLOW The winner will be chosen at random on 5th Dec! To enter twice, sign up at at Patreon via the link in the bio! Good luck!
- Reposted by HCMarksJames Cagney didn’t just do Yankee Doodle Dandy because he wanted to. It was because he HAD to, in an increasingly hostile, anti-Communist Hollywood www.tiktok.com/t/ZTYNvJWSq/ #hollywood #blacklist
- So aside from writing books, I also run a successful TikTok channel called “Let’s All Go to the Lobby @lobbyintros.bsky.social,” where I talk classic film. It’s helped me land a side job as a classic film host - like the kind you might see on TCM. Mometu.com #booksky #filmsky #classicfilm
- Signed a bunch of copies of #cabinetofcuriositiesbook at the @barnesandnoble.bsky.social in Bridgewater, NJ today. Snag a copy today! Makes a great gift!
- Reposted by HCMarksUS police will never be anything different than this. Ever.
- Reposted by HCMarksI’ve learned a lot about life from writing about history for a living. Here are 5 of my biggest lessons (you can read or listen): nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/tru...
- MY BOOK IS OUT TODAY!!! us.macmillan.com/books/978125... Pick up your copy of Cabinet of Curiosities wherever fine books are sold! #author #writer #books
- Reposted by HCMarksHope folks enjoy my new book Through a Noir Lens Adapting Film Noir Visual Style cup.columbia.edu/book/through... www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0231... #Film #Cinema #media #filmstudies #cinemastudies #FilmNoir #filmhistory #mediastudies #cinemahistory #mediahistory #mediaindustry #noir #books #Noirvember
- I'm back - figured I needed a place to chat that wasn't in video form. If ur interested in following my exploits: I'm on the new streaming app Mometu (mometu.com) as their resident classic film host! Also on TikTok at www.tiktok.com/@lobbyintros chatting about classic film & Old Hollywood history
- Forgot to post this here (I’m mostly on TikTok these days): check out the cover to the new CABINET OF CURIOSITIES book coming this November, co-authored by yours truly! PRE-ORDER TODAY! static.macmillan.com/static/smp/c...
- Sooooo…I’m gonna be published in November!
- Reposted by HCMarksI dunno if "war" is the right term for a first-world military systematically murdering civilians on an industrial scale
- TIL they make headphones for dogs and I’m wondering why didn’t they call them “AirBuds?”
- Reposted by HCMarksI was so delighted to see my new book, Through a Noir Lens: Adapting Film Noir Visual Style, in the Columbia University Press catalog. Hope folks enjoy it! cup.columbia.edu/book/through... issuu.com/columbiaup/d...
- Reposted by HCMarksJust posted my intro for White Christmas (1954) - watch it before you watch the movie! www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8msMCpV/
- Check your Amazon accounts. A recent hack allowed people to add drop addresses to re-route deliveries. I had one for a locker about 25 minutes away in my address list.
- UPDATE: According to Amazon, it wasn’t a hack. Just Amazon being fucking idiots. www.hitc.com/en-gb/2023/1...
- Reposted by HCMarkswe literally had white supremacists chanting "jews will not replace us" on a campus and nothing *close* to this was suggested
- Reposted by HCMarks"Hello, we have a reservation for the night." "No you don't."
- Reposted by HCMarksThis is the intellectual equivalent of seeing someone wearing a camouflage T-shirt and pretending their torso is invisible. Woooaaah man where'd it go, hahaha
- The cybertruck really looks dumber than I could have ever imagined.
- lol shut up dork
- Reposted by HCMarksShut it down, immediately. This is such a dangerous practice; it could easily be used to incite violence or to spur population movement. It's disgusting the lengths to which some media corporations will go to avoid paying for on-the-ground written & photo journalism. petapixel.com/2023/11/07/a...
- The anti-TikTok/social media rhetoric being echoed across mainstream media and govt today reeks of the post-Crash anti-Communist sentiment that got its foothold in the ‘20s as labor realized capitalism wasn’t going to save them and embracing communist/socialist ideology was the way out of poverty.
- The Red Scare was a reaction by corporations and the US govt to the idea that average Americans would a) rise up against them and b) lift themselves out of their station in life. It was a distraction to pit the impoverished against one another. Class warfare.
- Upton Sinclair ran for governor of California as a socialist in 1934. Both democrats and republicans conspired against him so he would lose because he was “too radical.” Hollywood filmed attack ads against him. He lost. This is still happening with progressive candidates today.
- But now the Left—& the youth, who skew Left mostly—have a place to congregate online. They exchange ideas that go against the media’s pro-Israel rhetoric. They share their hatred for late stage capitalism & billionaires. THAT’s why Washington wants to ban it. It’s not about China. It’s about silence
- Reposted by HCMarksIsrael now admits that IDF helicopters killed civilians and says Hamas didn't even know about the rave. What a world we live in. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
- Ever since quitting Twitter, I funneled my energy into building a platform on TikTok. I host a channel dedicated to Old Hollywood & classic film history where I host classic film intros like what you’d find on TCM. I’m over 5k followers now & would ❤️ for u to join me: www.tiktok.com/@lobbyintros...
- Reposted by HCMarksJoe Biden went to Jeff Bezos' paper to tell the American people he will continue to spend OUR money making sure Bibi is allowed to kill every Palestinian child in Gaza. BUT, he's also gonna do them the favor of keeping them away from visiting our garbage country. What a guy! Vote Blue! 🌊
- Reposted by HCMarksHoly shit elon is actually facing consequences
- Reposted by HCMarksAI is going just great www.404media.co/users-cant-s...
- Reposted by HCMarksLook, I get how satisfying this is, of *course* we were right, and everyone knew it -- but union negotiations aren't about who is right. They're about who has more power and is able to exert it. We didn't win because of our moral superiority. We won because our power was greater than theirs.
- Reposted by HCMarksBRO WHAT THE FUCK lmfao
- I can’t tell if Brianna Wu claiming to be “on the left” while also bragging about how many Porsches and $10k pinball machines she owns and claiming “Communism is bad please stop TikTok” is funny or infuriating. Regardless, keep her away from politics.
- Reposted by HCMarksYOU LOVE TO SEE IT Local elections matter!
- Reposted by HCMarksSo AMPTP’s best and final offer was, if we pay you for a digital scan we don’t ever want to ask or pay again if we use a digital scan of you while you are alive or dead. SAG’s response, ummm..no. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
- Reposted by HCMarksThe AMPTP is saying, "If you're rich & popular, we won't use AI to fuck you over." 1) Naked Divide & Conquer move, so ham-fisted kids would laugh it off the playground 2) No one enters the game as a star so, while you're not one & not protected, they'll harvest your image rights #SAGAFTRASTRONG
- Reposted by HCMarks“Last Best and Final.” Carol’s three favorite words — because they’re a classic unionbusting trick. The WGA got “last best finaled,” and we kept right on negotiating for the AI protections we needed. Because AMPTP rhetoric doesn’t change the facts.🧵 www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
- Not gonna lie - the entire time I was making this, I was wondering “what would @bcdreyer.bsky.social think?” www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8SX1cB9/
- Reposted by HCMarksThis journalist tweeted five days ago about “trying to withstand to continue coverage” in Gaza despite more than 12 journalists already being killed. Sky News just reported that Roshdi Sarraj, the man who tweeted this, was killed in an Israeli strike: news.sky.com/story/israel...
- Reposted by HCMarksI love helping others and hate asking for help. But, we need it. Please know I've done all I can. Payment plans. Extra clients. Working day + night. Eating less so my kids have what they need. But it isn't enough. We need help. Thank you for your consideration.
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- Reposted by HCMarksBREAKING: Disney VFX workers have voted unanimously to unionize with IATSE. They become the second ever VFX team to form a union. Marvel workers won their union just last month.
- Lol blocked by Jeff "No One Loves Hearing Me Speak More Than Me" Jarvis because I called him out on his bullshit stance that Amazon has been good for competition in retail. Keep riding those corporate coattails, boomer.
- It doesn’t surprise me that Jarvis (and Manjoo) are wrong about Amazon, a company that has caused the demise of thousands of smaller businesses and exploits its workers. It chokes the communities where it builds warehouses, it clogs USPS, and it steals IP from independent sellers.
- This user blocks the quoter.Well-said by Farhad Manjoo: Amazon is a monopoly only if the FTC can define its market as ... Amazon. It has and provides plenty of competition, all good for consumers.... The Flaw in the Case Against Amazon www.nytimes.com/2023/09/29/o...
- Jeff is also wrong in claiming AI illegally ingesting full books and spitting out summaries/variations is “transformative.” Boomer capitalism apologia is killing society.
