Great news sounds today on Gold Bolus from the late, great Phill Niblock plus Dave Soldier, William Hooker, and David First called Paiva River Songs. Phill's rivers sounds + drums, strings, guitar, harmonica, etc davidfirst.bandcamp.com/album/paiva-...

I didn't watch the ceremony and now I can't seem to find who won the Tony for Best Railway Cat

Understated consequence of this: how can you convince your hospital board that it must keep offering trans youth care if one of the leftmost politicians in America set his new clinic at 19 and over? It sets a horrible precedent.

I wonder if a rapper could build a entire career around talking about how hard their nipples are

I bet that in her private life, Marilyn Monroe had a great slacks game.

If you're unfamiliar with my work, a great thing to know right off is that I was voted Rootin' Tootinest Lil Cowboy three times from 1993 to 2002

beautifully said about communal love in @thesicktimes.org (from this thesicktimes.org/2026/06/05/i...)

Lauryn Hill's "Doo Woo (That Thing)", but it's about shrimp

The coolest way to be alone in a park is to bring a baseball bat and a wooden flute. Alternate playing slow-moving tunes on the flute and swinging the bat in tight, fast arcs

Later this month, thingNY is playing new work by our own Gelsey Bell 3x at The Cell on 23rd St in Manhattan. We're presenting a workshop version of Gelsey's new piece Sickbed 7pm Fri 6/19, and 4pm and 7pm on Sat 6/20 You can get tix here: www.tickettailor.com/events/thece...

How many of your passwords are based on the song Hang on Sloopy?

How to Permanently Block Google AI Overviews and Get 10 Blue Links Back: A Thread

I like the Robyn Hitchcock line (I’m paraphrasing) “someone told me that Madonna was a coat check girl at Danceteria… I didn’t know Danceteria had a coat check!”

What about a Eurovision song with the lyric “you move so smooth like cowabunga”?

Milk! You know I need a beverage Milk! Not just any beverage Milk! You know a need a gulp Milk!

this Caetano always works for me www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdRm...

I like the way that horses and donkeys eat and I aspire to be more like them

Dempsey and Firpo? More like Dempsey and Twerpo if you ask me.

here's a set I did last week (starting around 1:03:50) at Mama Tried in case you're curious, the vibes are high, the band is tight, my intonation is wonky cause there was not a working monitor youtu.be/FancrCod7Nw?...

cool beans out in June on Gold Bolus: Paiva River Songs from Phill Niblock, William Hooker, Dave Soldier, and David First, now with a couple preview tracks up davidfirst.bandcamp.com/album/paiva-...

my love language is a Revised Dingus Egg

If you want to watch the video of our workshop on the operas of Robert Ashley from Tuesday @roulettenyc.bsky.social, you're in luck cause here it is: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwTy...

so far, much of the analysis of Callais out there is focused on what the Court's rulings did to the Voting Rights Act, which is reasonable but now I want to talk about what the Court did to the Constitution bc the threat of Callais goes far beyond the VRA alone ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...

Tomorrow at 7pm at @roulettenyc.bsky.social, me & @whatcoloris.bsky.social & Gelsey are going to give people a little peek behind the curtain of Robert Ashley's operas to see how they work. roulette.org/event/a-work...

As a not-that-much-yogurt consumer, I feel that consuming cow yogurt is a failure. Sheep, goat, buffalo, non-dairy yogurt is around me and I will always go for non-cow over cow, in the yogurt department.

I’d like to think I’m the NYC avant garde’s #1 Tommy James and the Shondelles lover

@sharpflower.bsky.social Thank you for reviewing one of the worst op-eds I have ever had the displeasure of reading podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

Just had first rehearsal yesterday for a great show that happens in 10 days. It's my songs w me singing & playing foot-powered synth, plus @jefftobias.bsky.social & Alfredo Colón on alto saxes & Wendy Eisenberg on guitar. It's at Mama Tried, 7pm on Thu 5/7, pass the hat show. Come on down!

Yes yes, it's this that should serve as a wake up call

The slings AND arrows of outrageous misfortune??? In THIS economy?

Some mornings you need a dumb song, and maybe today it's this one www.youtube.com/watch?v=g__G...

begging all of the artists i follow to do this so i can repost their work

That’s me in the garden That’s me in the bonsai Pruning with precision

some cool new microtonal chamber music from Joshua Mastel & Alec Goldfarb is in pre-order on Gold Bolus today alecgoldfarb.bandcamp.com/album/firmam...

Juventud? More like groovin-tud if you ask me.

Great show last night at the Library of Congress with ThingNY performing Raven Chacon and then Raven played a new piece on Morton Subotnick's Buchla 100. Also nice to talk with Raven in person for the first time in 10 years.

great interview with Kristina Warren about the new Gold Bolus album Tusk is up over at @foxydigitalis.bsky.social foxydigitalis.zone/2026/04/09/k...

Turns out thingNY's Saturday show in DC has some (free!) tickets available now: www.loc.gov/item/event-4... and our NYC show on Monday has some (not free but only $22!) tix too: new-ear.org/2026/02/06/t...

How do they Cramsci all that Gramsci?

a week from today, thingNY is at the Library of Congress playing music by Raven Chacon, and Raven will do a solo set too, and then two days later we're all in NYC at Fridman Gallery doing the same program tix still available for the NYC show! (which is masks required) new-ear.org/2026/02/06/t...

A UES street ASPCA hawker just told me “you have immaculate energy”, and while I know it’s just sales tactics, it made me feel nice

So Eric Clapton wrote a song about how after the clock strikes 12am, he’s going to expose himself to everyone?

nice interview w Lily & Chloe Holgate of Sibyl in @thetonearm.com about sibyls past & present, about singing in 2nds, about writing in isolation, etc www.thetonearm.com/sibyl-and-th...

>@gittlitz.bsky.social, the author of a new book, "Metropolitans: New York Baseball, Class Struggle, and the People’s Team," argues that the Mets need to connect with a "political moment" in NYC to succeed.

my most old person yelling at clouds opinion is that it's very rude to not put dashes in when writing out your phone number, like who can parse/read 1112223333? why not write it nicely as 111-222-3333, that's so much better!

There’s a lot more kids named Kobe born after 1996, but you don’t see a bump in Shaquilles after 1992 to the same degree, and that feels backwards to me. Even more so given Shaq as affable pitch dad today.

great read on @thesicktimes.org "While Nichols still had uncomfortable pregnancy symptoms, like bloating, ultimately she said 'pregnancy was a cake walk' compared to the prior four years of Long COVID." thesicktimes.org/2026/03/24/i...

Thread. I'm begging people to realize how much we've already given in just the past 25 years. I'm old enough to remember when surveillance wasn't ubiquitous and before ICE or the TSA existed. There was even a time when the average cop wasn't kitted out for full on urban warfare.