Repost of this weekend's filk festival schedule with location-agnostic times in UTC.

This weekend, the festival is real! And check out this lineup. So chuffed to be on the bill with all these great songwriters and musicians.

Proverb 82 knows that the holidays can be stressful times. Like we needed more of that :)

Latest review up at BroadwayWorld.

Pirate Cove Music Fest opens with Laconia Order’s vantablack-and-chrome menace, if you survive Pancreas Awareness Month’s MRI chaos. Saturday brings The Entitlement Junkies’ catharsis pit (steel toes advised). Sunday’s Enduring Welcome shimmers, plus Mother Gives You and Someone Should Start A Band.

Proverb 81 recalls that Auden said "poetry makes nothing happen."

Proverb 80 reminds us that the medium is the message.

Posting stupid memes after being accused of murder is the response of a sneering, spoiled punk who has been caught doing wrong and is now daring the local fuzz to take him in and risk the anger of his rich dad—a role fulfilled by Donald Trump, in this case. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Nothing like final edits on your page proofs—and the only correx are three soft hyphens. Whew. Looking forward to reading the fantastic pieces in this this scholarly collection, "Marshall McLuhan: Then And Now," coming in March 2026 from Büchner, Eds. Lars C. Grabbe, Andrew McLuhan, and Tobias Held.

PCMF enters biohazard mode this week. Anticipated Comorbidity opens with DSM-5 musique concrète, Subclade K brings lays down a deep time hot-lab groove, and The Anamorphic Assets close with mind-bending avant-perlin noise. Bring sunscreen, a HIPAA release, and a working model of atmospheric forcing.

Proverb 79 would prefer not to step on any of them in the dark.

Proverb 78 reminds everyone that violence can be metaphorical. Alles klar? But also, remember that the best iterated Prisoner's Dilemma strategy is benevolent tit-for-tat, so don't push your luck.

PCMF kicks off with the unstoppable riot grrrl energy of Quiet Piggy. Leave your hammers at the box. Saturday’s Bone Saw Bingo brings unhinged chaos and sick beats, and Sunday’s Supine In A Bog drifts through anaerobic synth soundscapes. Surströmming will be available at the concession stand. Enjoy?

Latest review up at Medium. "Thotbot Implantation Center," A delightfully quirky post-apocalyptic multimedia performance in Somerville, MA by @getthotbot.bsky.social

Proverb 77 tests its code in production.

Pirate Cove Music Fest goes full color-cathode-ray retro! Edith Keeler Must Die leads Friday’s trek, Paul Lynde To Block unleashes glitter-cannon game-show chaos, and And What About Naomi? brings earnest, paranoid variety-hour gorilla suit vibes. UHF-limbo undercard included. Willoughby, next stop.

I swear Proverb 76 is not a reaction to any one particular show we recently saw.

“Seat of Your Pants” composer and playwright Ethan Lipton, discusses adapting Thornton Wilder’s “Skin of Our Teeth” with D.R. Lewis at the American Theater Critics/Journalists Conference. At the Public, opens 11/13. Get tickets now before the reviews hit; this is the best show we’ve seen this season

We have spun the Alamo. Downtown at the Public for the ATCA conference today and seeing “Seat of our Pants” (the musical of “Skin of our Teeth) and “The Baker’s Wife”

I am about to see the future.

Joel Kirk of “Discovering Broadway” talks about the importance of supporting artists. “Recklessly invest in the people you believe in.” With ATCA’s Lou Harry, and composer Zoe Saldana.

Panel on the new Broadway play “Liberation” at the American Theater Critics/Journalists conference, NY

PCMF: Tonight: The Noperthedron busts open math rock touring their monster debut album ¡No Pasaran! Saturday, Lethal Kinetic Strike unleashes death metal from above. Sunday, Surprise Bidet brings avant-surf chaos of which one must be silent. And don't miss S09.90XA's PCMF debut! Free on the beach.

Proverb 75 sez turn those speakers up full blast... cf: rockhall.com/inductees/wa...

ngl teared up a little

Proverb 74 reminds you to also consider density altitude.

Pirate Cove Music Fest: MÉTÂhÖSĘ deconstructs brand worship with autopoietic agents on Friday; Saturday’s South Carerddd blends cybergrind apocalypse and demented mumbling; Sunday’s Zero Matter rips spacetime on Negative Density Horizon. Bring a towel, a Geiger counter, and something to believe in.

Best thing I’ve won in an Interfilk auction: one-of-a-kind Agent Carter sock puppet by Erin Bellavia (used in Via Bella’s Pegasus Concert performance Friday). It has weird hypnotic powers & suggests that you, too, should donate to Interfilk to support filker travel to cons. Do not ignore the puppet.

I have been a Daily News reader since the 1960s, when my Teamster father-Local 804-would bring the paper home every night. I actually subscribed, out of a stupid notion about saving print journalism. Well. Let me just say, fuck you and your spineless Vichy editorial board.

Tearing Down The House (With apologies to the Talking Heads) Stand back He’s got a giant backhoe Too late He’s chewing up a building That survived the war of 1812 Tearing down the house

Pirate Cove Music Fest time! What a week. Vindictive Prosecution headlines Friday touring behind their multi-platinum album (the number we hear is 7 million) “Motion to Dismiss.” Saturday kicks it up a notch with Cassandra’s Mallet. Expect massive cosplay for their TikTok smash “Maleus Maleficarum.”

Now comes Proverb 73 with a generalizable rule from Taskmaster.

An image of a building in ruins just came up in my feed, and before I read the caption, I couldn't tell whether it was Kiev, Gaza, or the White House.

Proverb 72 cannot believe we have come to this point, but here we are.

This is just to say i have taken back everything i ever sent you in the chat and which you were likely quoting in a story Forgive me you're not a journalist so it's weird just letting you know.

Latest review up at BroadwayWorld.

The Times still assumes that it's "people in rooms" who make news and that "people in the street" don't. This is the new normal for institutions that depend on a Mad King's largesse for access to those rooms.

Karen and I went from the Portsmouth event up to Providence, and it was packed. Just about the most folx I've seen at the State House; the mall was full all the way down to Gaspee Street. We couldn't get close; here's the best shot I got of Rep. David Morales, one of the excellent speakers.

Big crowd at Turnpike Ave in Portsmouth. #NoKingsPortsmouthRI

Big fun this weekend at the Pirate Cove Music Fest! Friday’s Kavanaugh Stop brings their trademark agitpop, and we expect dancing in the pit. You know their moves from all those videos. We want to see that Portland hop.

Proverb 71 reminds us that infosec matters. Don't make things easy.

A POEM ABOUT LINE BREAKS Sometimes it's just where a line breaks that makes the words meaningful like this week i saw a headline: French crisis piles which sound terrible until i read the next line pressure on Macron and i said whew that's much better.

Proverb 70 is calling all inflatable frogs, T-rex, unicorns...

Robert De Niro: “Now we have a would-be king — King Donald the First. Fuck that. I’m Robert De Niro and I’m asking you to stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18th” 👉👉 nokings.org

I've started re-recording a very old album that was part of the e-lit novel "Uncle Buddy's Phantom Funhouse." Here's the first bit. Photo by Adam Chinitz.

The gulls are unionizing and the dolphins paying off Big Oil for the extra real estate—it's festival time at Pirate Cove! Friday opens with Plenary Authority, touring behind their new album Faraday Cage, a dense weave of drone-metal harmonics and normalized compliance.

Proverb 69 would like to reframe resistance as an opportunity for solidarity, art, and joy.

Proverb 68 reminds us that the territory for today's culture wars is the soul of America.

A folk/filk twofer! Michelle and Ed Siegal host "The Not So Far Apart Open Mic," featuring originals from local musicians. They've been doing this for a while (Episode 71!) youtu.be/XQBqdIAkiBU?...

Paper Mill Playhouse to see “Bull Durham” with music and lyrics by NESR instructor Susan Werner!