Ok fair

They’re selling Girl Scout cookies outside the dispensary

(Guy doing impressions) “If Italo Calvino wrote record jacket copy, I think it might go something like this”

Hell yeah Tom www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-57...

Rupert Holmes-Dean Friedman summit meeting

Buster is risen

Once spider get inside the piano, he lay multiple spider eggs

RIP one of the great characters of the touring circuit, Paul Jackson of the Adelphi in Hull www.thehullstory.com/allarticles/...

Tonight in Chatham

HED: Oh no, the kids have decided a song you like is actually good DEK: Get ready to hear it 300 times in the next two weeks until you’d rather die

Two words which are somehow not synonymous: unease, disease

Not trying to call anyone out here but this is pretty sloppy

Get you a guy who can do both (as well as less savory side-hustles)

Delightful and relevant to my interests www.nytimes.com/athletic/713...

Real-life “But doctor…”

I write over here every two weeks, for about a year and a half now; perhaps, if mime, music labor, and Johnny Mathis talk appeal, you could be the one who nudges it over 2000 subscribers. Perhaps. pianofighter.substack.com/p/encounter-...

An overconfident Team USA getting embarrassed by a much smaller country in front of a global audience is their last and most beautiful tribute to the American military yet

very funny to see an athlete say jesus christ is the reason they were able to beat america

Hell yeah

Roman Anthony seems like a nice kid and it would be a shame to infect him with the sour militarism of this deeply unpleasant Team USA

Profound commitment to doing absolutely nothing today

Fan letter to Starlog from 1980, featuring a rare photo of H.R. Giger in a Mickey Mouse hat

Hello Bluesky! I am looking for anyone who cares about/writes about/thinks about Rebecca West. I've been on a 10 year mission to get her a blue plaque in London and am finally allowed to re-apply after it was last turned down. I'd welcome help building a strong application. Thank you 💙🙏

Joan Armatrading is to dollar record bins as Graham Greene is to used book shops (actually good stuff available in absurd quantity)

“A rotund, bisexual menace”

Golden age of reading the first four grafs (before hitting the paywall)

Trapped in the

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?