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# The Spirit of the Information Superhighway
- URL: https://www.jamesreeves.co/november-20-2022/
- Published: 2022-11-20T23:52:48.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-15T03:48:46.000Z
- Description: It’s like some mythical creature from the past has wandered into the middle of a twelve-land expressway.
- Author: James A. Reeves
- Tags: Notebook

A brittle Sunday with temperatures in the 20s. [The part-time faculty strike against The New School](https://news.artnet.com/opinion/the-new-schools-part-time-faculty-cant-afford-not-to-strike-were-fighting-to-survive-2213334?ref=jamesreeves.co) continues, and the administration has hired a [union-busting law firm](https://www.akerman.com/en/work/services/practices/labor-employment/labor-law.html?ref=jamesreeves.co). This afternoon I phone banked and attended online bargaining meetings, and all I can say is our union leaders are doing the Lord’s work.

Last night I managed to find my way onto Mastodon. I didn’t think I had the appetite for another social media channel, but when my friend [O](https://www.mroliverblank.com/?ref=jamesreeves.co). mentioned it had the same spirit as the early 00s information superhighway, I decided to log on. It was heartening to find some familiar avatars in a space blessedly free of advertisements, promotional horseshit, and the other grift mechanics to which we’ve become accustomed. Mastodon feels oddly wholesome, perhaps even too wholesome, as if a non-commodified space like this shouldn’t even exist nowadays. It’s like some mythical creature from the past has wandered into the middle of a twelve-land expressway. I’m not sure what I’ll do over there, but [here I am](https://mastodon.world/@jamesreeves?ref=jamesreeves.co).

This week’s edition of Sam Valenti IV’s [Herb Sundays](https://herbsundays.substack.com/p/herb-sundays-62-veronica-vasicka) series features Veronica Vasicka, a diligent archivist of jet-black 1970s and 1980s synthetics and the founder of one of my favorite imprints, [Minimal Wave](https://minimalwave.com/?ref=jamesreeves.co). If you’re not familiar, start with the [Minimal Wave Tapes](https://minimalwave.bandcamp.com/album/v-a-the-minimal-wave-tapes-volume-1?ref=jamesreeves.co), then dig into the [Lost](https://minimalwave.com/releases/release/the-lost-tapes-lp/?ref=jamesreeves.co), [Found](https://minimalwave.com/releases/release/the-found-tapes/?ref=jamesreeves.co), [Hidden](https://minimalwave.bandcamp.com/album/the-hidden-tapes?ref=jamesreeves.co), and [Bedroom](https://minimalwave.bandcamp.com/album/the-bedroom-tapes?ref=jamesreeves.co) tapes.

The soundtrack has been sorted for our 2000-mile drive in three days. Now C. and I can focus on packing.

[V/A The Minimal Wave Tapes: Volume 1 by Various](https://minimalwave.bandcamp.com/album/v-a-the-minimal-wave-tapes-volume-1?ref=jamesreeves.co)