Happy Nudie-versary to Phil “Phashion Icon” Lesh, who wore his custom Nudie suit on stage in Chicago 53 years ago today. As far as I know, he wasn’t photographed in his suit again until 2007, shortly after it came back into his possession

Surely there’s a descendant of Pigasus the Immortal who could secure the nomination in 2028

Taking a break from writing to remind everyone that my cat is frighteningly cute

ICE agent asked why he's taking pictures of a legal observer's car, replies: "Cuz we have a nice little database and now you're considered a domestic terrorist. So have fun with that."

Let us all have the courage displayed by the residents of Minneapolis.

In preparation for this year’s Dead Scholars Caucus, I’ve catalogued hundreds of vintage Dead t-shirts sold on eBay. This shirt from 1979 (which recently sold for $341.96) is easily one of the coolest I’ve seen

I swear so many brands capitalize on consumers’ lack of material literacy by positioning satin as something luxurious. They know many consumers conflate silk and satin, however, the former is a fiber and the latter is a weave structure

I find it odd and deeply unsettling that I’ve yet to see any obit mention Bob Weir’s prolific career as a fashion model

🧶 of Bob Weir singing cowboy poets. There is a version of this song where he introduces it as from his favorite cowboy poet and you can hear the audience guessing everyone but that cowboy poet Bob Dylan. No one did this song better than Weir. youtu.be/h9MoMDuKUgM?...

Educators, you can bring Bob Weir into the classroom using his profile from NYC’s Hidden Voices: Americans with Disabilities in United States History. You can download it here: www.weteachnyc.org/resources/re...

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Highly recommend this interview with Andrew Epstein, Zohran’s campaign comms director. I really love the framing of Zohran’s campaign as a love letter to NYC, and felt that was reflected beautifully in his inaugural address yesterday: thedigradio.com/podcast/zohr...

Mamdani arrives to his mayoral inauguration at City Hall in a motorcade of NYC taxi cabs—workers he went on hunger strike with in 2021.

Overheard on the F train: “There’s never been a beautiful, smart, or artistic person who’s addicted to huffing paint”

I got myself the best possible Christmas gift this year (five weeks early). Nothing will ever compare

Just received my copy of Grateful Dead Studies volume 6, in which you’ll find my review of Mordechai Rubinstein’s “Dead Style.” You can check out the review (along with some far more brilliant scholarship) here: gratefuldeadstudies.org/volume-6/

Petit Percy

New Alice + Olivia x Grateful Dead collection at their Georgetown store, featuring some excellent No Kings/Anti Musk protestors outside (there’s a t*sla store next door)

Nearly ten years after their first, Alice + Olivia has released another Grateful Dead collection, which includes mini dresses, a rather conspicuous vegan leather jacket, and another Dancing Bear-adorned ballgown skirt (this one retails for $1,795, the first iteration retailed for $1,298)

Goodnight, friends

Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.

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BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani will be the next mayor of New York City after running on a platform centered on making the city affordable for working people.

💔 fare thee well, deej. 💔

I’m not sure of the exact terminology of what we are calling this but I am going with feathery peplum. Some early #1960s Givenchy whose skirt is demure and quiet whose bodice is having a proper party @metmuseum.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

I honestly did not consider that Diane Keaton was capable of dying.

Feeling very seen by this question in @rollingstone.com’s “World’s Hardest Grateful Dead Quiz,” except that it’s inaccurate; neither Ralph Lauren nor Gucci has collaborated with the Dead. The GD x Gucci collab was a made up April Fool’s Day post from Live for Live Music !!

That the contents of my iTunes library look like this could be my reddest flag or my greenest, depending on who you ask

Over the past 16 months, @thenation.com has published regular dispatches from Lujayn, a teenager in the Gaza Strip. Lujayn has endured huge loss and trauma. Now she, along with the rest of Gaza, is starving. But she is still writing. This is her latest. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Normalize treating Palestinians as the cherished human beings they are (and, heartbreakingly, were). www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

Your Guide on How to Support Mutual Aid Groups in Palestine as Humanitarian Crisis Deepens

Really like this project by Ari Versluis and Ellie Uyttenbroek. Titled Exactitudes, it's a series of portraits stretching back 20 years that shows how people style themselves to signal they're part of a group and unique individuals within that group. exactitudes.com

Over a month after seeing Superfine, I’m still thinking about how the Costume Institute consistently used ebony mannequins throughout the exhibition, but opted for faceless forms for these zoot suits, presumably as a nod to their intersectional and cross-cultural significance. So smart

the mamdani campaign has eaten all of the Ws

Wild to watch the Democratic Party rallying to push back what they perceive as a threat to order. It turns out they do have it in them to speak out and act with one voice, just not over what we need them to in order to save our country.

Spanish luxury fashion house Loewe just released a Grateful Dead capsule collection featuring $950 shirts. Creative Director Jonathan Anderson (who’s set to take over at Dior) was one of the first designers to feature GD iconography in a luxury collection for his eponymous label 13 years ago (pic 3)

Some of the best Dead t-shirts are unattributed. One of my hopes in creating deadheadstylearchive.com was that we might locate the makers. Recently, Jonathan Thomas shared this shirt, and shortly thereafter the son of the couple who made the shirt in ‘93 reached out and shared the story behind it

Explosive moment during tonight's NYC mayoral debate: Cuomo: "He’s never dealt with the city council, he’s never dealt with the Congress..." Mamdani: "I’ve never had to resign in disgrace...I have never hounded the thirteen women who credibly accused me of sexual harassment."

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has endorsed fellow Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani as her first choice for New York City mayor.

I can’t wait for Zohran to win so I can finally say “I love my mayor” and mean it

Two words- Claire McCardell. I think everything she does is fabulous, including this #ootd, a 1950s summer dress in a pink and purple pear pattern by Bates Fabric, a company she partnered with for many of her designs. It has many McCardell features, like the unique, visible

The Working Families Party has fought for a more affordable New York for decades. I am honored to lead their slate as their first choice for Mayor. Our city is done with the corrupt politics of the past and ready for a new generation of leadership. Let’s win it together.

My heart is bursting after talking on the phone with my grandmother, who very excitedly informed me that she just read about a “new book called Loud and Clear by a man named Brian” in the Cape Cod Times @thebanderson.bsky.social

So sad that kids today will never know the deeply meaningful experience of googling 'em dash' and copying and pasting it as plain text every time you want to em dash because you're fucked if you can ever remember the keyboard shortcut

Geeta of India block printed shirts were fairly popular among Deadheads in the late 80s, although I rarely see them anymore. Spotted this one at Beacon’s Closet today, but this is one is a cotton/rayon blend—an unfortunate sign of the times

Once again thinking about my magnum opus: The Jerry Garcia Bar & Grill

Study hard in university. Pass your courses. Learn. Hone your critical thinking skills. Work and be brave. And if you do, the university will withhold the degree you earned, if you say Palestinians are humans who should not be slaughtered with your government's help. #academicsky

Aruna D’Souza’s “Imperfect Solidarities” is a quick read, but a very impactful one. Loved it so much, and can’t recommend enough: www.floatingoperapress.com/product/impe...

Peggy-O in 1978 vs. Peggy-O in 1983