happy new year 2026.

MERRY CHRISTMAS 🎄🎁!

Hegseth has to GO.

Rest In Power to the GOAT. Jack DeJohnette - the incredible drummer, pianist, & composer, whose influence & importance to Jazz, and contemporary improvised music can not be overstated. @LivingColour offers heartfelt condolences to his family, fellow musicians, friends & fans💜

LINKS?!

Reverend guitars Talisman from the Vernon Reid Totem series

Thank you all so much for my 08/22/58 birthday wishes! Ironically (coincidentally?) I had to just verify my age on this butterfly 🦋

Ozzy Osborne. Black Sabbath. Broke EVERY rule. Especially their own. Ozzy Osborne was Larger Than Life in ways that defy mere description. Feared. Beloved. Revered Metal began with Him. As well as its ensuing Panic. He changed EVERYTHING. Farewell To The The King ! 👑 🖤 🌹

Happy Juneteenth! A holiday of Liberation, & Unsuppressed TRUTH.

“I am no better / And neither are You We are the same / Whatever We Do You love me / You hate me / You know me / And Then / You can’t figure out The Bag I’m in/ I, I, I, / Am Everyday People “ -Sylvester Stewart, a.k.a Sly Stone - Everyday People. Rest In Power to the GOAT. 🌹

Thanks to Mick Jagger, Ed Stasium. Paul Hamingson. Margot Core, Michael Caplan Dave Glew, Walter Yetnikoff, Steve & Harvey Leeds, Roger Cramer, Jim Grant, Greg Tate, The BRC, Hilly Krystal, CBGB, Frank Gallagher, Irving Plaza. Unique, Skyline, Sound On Sound, & Right-Track, & everybody else who had♥️

I’m copy and pasting this to Ken Haas. Now

Ouch

Happy Passover, if you sit at Seder. Enjoy.

The volatility between the 2 countries has been needlessly ratcheted up to a space of unpredictability. Taipei chips are at the heart of tech advancement. Its independence is precarious, only held together by perceived stability in the region. These Tariff Wars are absolutely not helping

That the stock market has rebounded, should not give false comfort.The expanding Econ conflict with China could easily spill over into real War. If Beijing is pushed far & hard enough? Taipei is in a Problem.American isolation from its allies could factor in to pushing One China’s timetable forward.

The Ghost Of MLK rang the Stockmarket bell 🛎️ . Welcome To Hell 😈.🔥

To My Hibernians afore midnight 💚! House of Pain - Jump Around (Official Music Video) [HD] youtu.be/jrL_LzX5wv4?... via @YouTube

Body blows. All day.

Angie Stone - Holding Back The Years [Simply Red cover] (Live on 2 Meter... youtu.be/ou2yacI8VFw?si… This tune hits my mood, right about now ❤️‍🩹. Rest in POWER, Queen Angie 👑

Supremely BUMMED about the passing of David Johanson aka Buster Poindexter of The LEGENDARY New York Dolls, & the singer of the hit cover of The Mighty Arrow’s (cousin on my Mother’s fam side) Hot! Hot! Hot! One of Shaolin’s Finest, & a Major Dude. He ROCKED. He Rolled. ❤️‍🩹 🌹

Buy Nothing Day? I’m IN. Local shops ONLY Bodegas, Cornershops Food trucks Mom & Pop Music Stores Independent Book sellers & record stores Green markets Cash 💰 ONLY @Amazon @Target @Apple @reverb @Starbucks @WholeFoods @Walmart, etc NOPE. To midnight

Roberta Flack ❤️‍🩹

The Media taking its collective eye off the ball

Dark Day Anniversary 🌑

Happy Valentine 💌 ’s Day , Lovers ♥️💜❤️‍🩹💔🖤💚💙💟❤️‍🔥🩶

Happy Valentine 💌 ’s Day , Lovers ♥️💜❤️‍🩹💔🖤💚💙💟❤️‍🔥🩶

Every time I hear Right Wing talking points abt The “Radical”Left, that’s Centrist (at BEST?). 👁️ 🤣. WE HAVE NO “LEFT”. The accusation is ludicrous.The idea that healthcare shouldn’t BANKRUPT US, being seen as a Socialist Plot is LAUGHABLE. Capitalism is EATING US ALIVE at the Table Of The OLIGARCHS

We (along with Anthrax) were one of the handful of Rock bands that embraced Rap & Hiphop early on. I’m very proud of the fact that I played on the very first Publuc Enemy record Yo! Bum Rush The Show!

Problematic as FBI & CIA are ? The Secret Police to follow, loyal Only To Him, shouldn’t give most of us comfort. What we take for granted? Presumption of innocence? Rules of warrants, & evidence? Security of possessions & privacy? Will fall away quickly. Welcome to Blackness. Make yourselves Comfy!

At a Certain Point- the sheer incoherence of what is happening; the complete insanity of removing people with YEARS of experience with, & knowledge of, not only how things work, but how the working parts INTERACT with each other, is going to GRIND EVERYTHING we take for granted to an anarchic HALT.

Well played.

Just so’s we’re clear - an unelected, unvetted, Oligarchic, Drug Addict with NO SECURITY CLEARANCE & NO FORMAL BUDGETARY EXPERIENCE has been given COMPLETE ACCESS to Treasury & Social Security assets to do WHO KNOWS WHAT?! WITH A MYSTERY “ TEAM” who ALSO HAVE NO BUSINESS HANDLING OUR RECORDS!?

That’s the key to the facade- never to grimace or snarl. To be unfailingly pleasant & polite. The darker passions have their place. In privat.

Never doubt Your heart 💜

I have never been more alarmed with the state of the government in my LIFE. How is it POSSIBLE that Elon Musk is ALLOWED to do what he’s DOING? How has he been given ACCESS to the TREASURY? to OUR SOCIAL SECURITY INFO?!!!

I applaud his individual integrity. It’s going to take a LOT more than a few positive Human Interest memes to counteract what has been unleashed at all levels of life. Every single step of decency is appreciated.

Fear

Black Cats RULE

It is finally raining in L.A. I hope it helps more than it hurts.🔵

Is HipHop is dead as a music of political resistance,as an even rarely progressive movement? Sad to say, it seems to have wholesale capitulated to rightwing oligarchism. Snoop’s utter transformation as MAGA’S favorite Pet Of The Moment is, I fear, the tip of a terrible iceberg of Toxic Materialism.

Saying “It’s just stuff”. is shockingly insensitive- That lone picture of a greatgrandparent. A hard won diploma. That baby sippycup that’s ALWAYS in the kitchen drawer, even though he’s 34 & never calls. A record collection your uncle left to you. The appliances can be replaced. #I♥️LA.

I’m on it with #Reverendguiitars re; left handed Totem models.

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Best Justice Money can buy!

My Brotha! WhutUp?!🖤

40 Year's ago, tonight, Black Rock Coalition threw it's first public event, our Drop The Bomb dance party. Today is also the 3rd anniversary of the passing of BRC co-founder & my Funkadelic Boho partner-in-crime, Greg Tate, who would have been 67 on October 14th💔❤️‍🩹💙.

BRAD! WhutUp Bruh!?👊🏿♥️

The horror on this young woman’s face is palpable.