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New favorite alternate-history fan fiction

You could do your promo photo in front of a brick wall, or you could be George Brassens sharpening a machete

Cover photo choice appreciation

Found an autographed copy of Sophie Tucker’s memoir, which opens opens with her yukking it up with J Edgar Hoover, hell yeah

When J. Robbins produced one of my records I made him a mood board playlist and said "I've been listening to a lot of Marshall Crenshaw" and he looked at me funny and said "That's the first time anyone's ever said 'Marshall Crenshaw' in this room"

if the waldron is matt, the knuckler is flat if the waldron is mal, that's a piano, y'all

Very sad to hear of the passing of the songwriter Timothy Bailey. I love this song of his: timothybaileyandthehumans.bandcamp.com/track/elling...

Venue update!

I'm playing a PS21 festival afterparty in Chatham NY next Thursday

The myth of the bad corp vs the virtuous corp www.reuters.com/business/spo...

Update

Doesn’t he know you need some time to acetelyne to the day?

Within thirty seconds of opening my eyes my son asked me if I could buy him a blowtorch

For the current issue of @nybooks.com, I wrote about Igor Levit, classical music, and fascism past and present: www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

after exhaustive research I present to you the most Dickensian name on almost every MLB roster (*indicates non-roster)

That’s the good stuff archive.org/details/rick...

Yeah I back the BLUE, Birds Living Under the Expressway

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Tailor/seamstress Other gendered pairs of entirely different words for the same work?

If Christopher Sorrentino’s “Sound On Sound” were back in print I’d put it on my syllabus just saying @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social

10 years ago I was voted drummer 91 on Rolling Stones top 100 drummers of all time. People always ask what the perks are so here’s a big one, while I’m folding my kids endless pile of laundry I can think to myself “10 years ago I was voted drummer 91 on Rolling Stones top 100 drummers of all time!”

Imagine thinking bob dylan has your best interests at heart

Exercise as a form of socially-sanctioned procrastination

Thank you -- I'm shuffling now. The mp3 format may be best, but I've also created a YouTube playlist that (I think!) captures at least 98% of what you've compiled. (Reverse alphabetical, because I added them manually while scrolling up in iTunes.) music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Every year I like to compile an audio yearbook of music that, for whatever reason, stuck in my ear. No particular order, best on shuffle! drive.google.com/file/d/1vXZF...

Solo flute // flute ensemble

And I'm not willing to cede dominance to guitarists (cf, if I may, Canetti "Crowds and Power": "Ancient memories of what it meant when man first stood upright still play an important part in any representations of power.")

Addendum open.substack.com/pub/pianofig...

Billy Wilder lore

My “no gilty” license plate has people asking a lot of questions already answered etc etc

Nothing says “hate” more than a Roland Jazz Chorus

Check out this wild item, found on a suburban Virginia street

Congratulations

Fielded immediate correction from my father: “Hawks and ravens definitely ride thermals & are gliders w larger wingspans. Crows are more flappers. Maybe it’s because of their particular wingspan limitations, although they do sometimes fly in spirals or circles too.” substack.com/home/post/p-...

Delighted to hear Cory Doctorow refer to tech monopolies as “a handful of inbred companies with corporate Hapsburg jaws”

A first: I left a show before the headliner I’d bought tickets to see because I hated the openers so much

Rest in power one of the great songwriters of our time m.youtube.com/watch?v=C7cF...

What a wild interpretation!

What a treat to get to make music with these people again

every sports team is a Ship of Theseus

Low-key casting coup in the Springsteen movie is Yeah Yeah Yeahs drummer Brian Chase as a more convincing young Max Weinberg than Max’s actual drummer son would have been

FWIW the weed store by me if absolutely dominated by the camo crowd

Are we making a distinction between “dog-walking” and “boat-racing”?

Anyone goofing on kids for the six-seven thing should look deep in their soul and ask whether they ever thought or said quietly to themselves "nice" after seeing the numbers six-nine

The loneliest path