I'm going to be hanging up the weekly radio show for a while towards the end of December -- the speed of life and work are accelerating lately to the point where I just don't have the time to do it properly. So while it's always sad to make these decisions, I've been […] [Original post on c.im]

Welcome to Hell.

Close down the holiday weekend in the Starlite Lounge with three hours of freeform radio. Tonight's 9 PM invocation will be delivered by William S. Burroughs, with a benediction from Killah Priest wrapping things up shortly before midnight. What happens in the middle […] [Original post on c.im]

"Red states are full of working people who are getting screwed by Republican policies yet vote Republican anyhow because they loathe the Democratic Party so much. Those people can be won back by working class candidates who campaign on pro-worker issues, and are not Democrats." […]

Almost 25 years ago, I was tasked with having a number of these made by a local signmaker in Jersey City Heights. The parking lot they used to adorn is long gone (FMU sold it to a developer), but I spied one of the signs in Station Manager Ken's office this past Tuesday […] [Original post on c.im]

Earlier today, a relative proudly shared AI videos she’d “created” of my parents (both now deceased) when they were a young couple. Just short clips, based upon well known family photos that were taken in the 1950s. These AI clips were… appalling. The fluidity of my parents’ movements, the […]

I was in Jersey City last night, where these stupid UberEats delivery/surveillance robots are seemingly everywhere. While walking down the street with a pal from @WFMU , I invoked @markhurst 's name and I swear the robot lumbering along in front of us suddenly […] [Original post on c.im]

Some long(er) form tracks in the bins for tonight's show on the WFMU Drummerstream. Come for the Negativland but STAY for Jimmy Smith and Eve Libertine. 9 PM - midnight (NYC time) Listen || Playlist || Chat: https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/158294

More objects should possess the tactile charm of the inner sleeve to Led Zeppelin's "Houses of the Holy". I don't know what kind of paper that is (and I suspect that later pressings probably used cheaper stock), but I swear I could identify it by touch while blindfolded […] [Original post on c.im]

the grand opening of oakshire place mobile home sales of union city, tennessee, may 1970, with free entertainment by... who?!

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@pmpress/115589091106361446 I KNOW WHAT EVERYONE'S GETTING FOR CHRISTMAS.

Crust Pants vs. Battle Vest

A student called me "sir" today. #theoldness

My daughter is attending a friend’s 16th birthday party this weekend. This is an easy lift because this friend lives right down the road from us, but the dad genes kicked in enough for me to still ask stuff like “What time do you have to be there”, “Do you have a gift for her”, and “What time […]

My wife and I hung out with a neighbor couple we're friendly with a few nights ago, and at some point over the course of the evening when the discussion turned to music, we introduced them to The Lambrini Girls. That type of stuff is way beyond their usual taste, but they were fascinated by it […]

Don't turn around, here comes last night's radio show again courtesy of the WFMU archives! There are those who say the truth lies somewhere between Ry Cooder and Nightmares on Wax. In this case, a straight shot directly at the middle lands on either Kool Keith or Rip […] [Original post on c.im]

#elsewhereonhere, I saw someone talking about the Howard Dean scream that torpedoed his presidential ambitions in the 2004 democratic primaries. Which reminded me that shortly after that happened, I cut the infamous speech's audio with the Venom stage banter thing to play on WFMU. "Do I still […]

My father in law had a stroke around 15 years ago and has trouble speaking as a result of the residual aphasia. He's an old school Brooklyn boy from way back when, and I enjoy spending time with him, even if I'm the one doing most of the talking these days. Anyway, I'm hanging with him tonight […]

I wanted a steamy comfort dinner last night, and ultimately landed on Nigella Lawson's super easy Chicken Cacciatore recipe, which I first made around 20 years ago after watching the related segment on her old TV show. I was beat after an exceptionally manic week at the […] [Original post on c.im]

I've never been precious about the condition of vinyl records -- as long as it plays through without skipping, I don't mind some scratchy background noise on an old or second-hand album. (Long ago, a listener to my radio show dubbed it "love crackles", a phrase I still […] [Original post on c.im]

I'm finding myself quite taken with this new record by GUSHES -- the self described "mythic chamber prog" band headed up by Brooklyn's Jennae Santos. It's way outside my usual lane(s), but the otherworldly vox, big riff energy, and time signatures requiring a slide rule to make sense of all […]

NOTHING, A RUDE WORD. NEXT QUESTION. (Still obsessed with this side-by-side comparison video... scroll down in my timeline, I posted the whole thing a week or two ago.) #sexpistols #kevineldon #billgrundy #amish

Recent conversation with one of my students who is deeply into DIY culture, super obscure music, and radical politics. Her: I don't understand the appeal of Mastodon, no one uses it. Me: (Gesturing around my office at archive of DIY print fanzines, independent music releases, flyers from gigs […]

Good piece from Hamilton Nolan today: "Stocks Aren't Salvation: Political consequences of the ownership society" https://substack.com/home/post/p-178498758

I'm at a work retreat at a lake house well below the Jersey Dixon Line and there's a lawn sign down the street that says "Go Woke, Go Broke!" This is a post about feeling sorry for dipshits.

Thing I tell my teenage kid all the time: Never assume your basic human rights are here to stay. Never be complacent. Every victory is hard won, and must be closely guarded -- forever. Protest, yell, forge unlikely alliances, and never shrink in the ugly, sneering face of bigotry. And show up […]

From Heather Cox Richardson's daily email.

This is the first morning in a long time that I woke up actually **excited** to read the news (instead of fearfully peeking around the corner at the news, poking it with a stick first, and wishing that maybe it was dead.)

#newjersey #MikieSherrill #venom

I really needed this. (This is a post about tonight's election results and the second drink I am about to have.)

Hey New Jersey, please go out and vote for Mikie Sherrill today if you like your great public schools, strict gun laws, and abortion rights. To lefties who won't vote for her because of some disappointing statement she's made in the past on some progressive cause or another, I am asking you to […]

unquestionably the longest lines i've experienced in 20+ years as a brooklyn voter, including 2008.

Suiting up and plugging in for the semi-annual Everybody's Very Tired Because Of The Time Change Show. Fundraising parlor tricks have been put away (thanks to everyone who made WFMU's October Hellraiser a slam-bang success!), so it's just you, the night, and the music […] [Original post on c.im]

Apparently, the next Teddy Boy revival has been canceled.

Last night's trick or treater headcount was the worst in all the years we've lived here, but it was fun hanging out in the driveway with neighbors and watching little kids react to the Mummies videos I was screening on the garage door.

If I still have to register for your fucking website, it's not a "gift link".

In the midst of last Sunday's all vinyl 45 show on WFMU, I rather unexpectedly said: "Somewhere between Spizzenergi and Waylon Jennings is where you'll find the truth". These remarks have fuckall to do with Robert Wyatt (pictured here), but **nothing** gets clicks like […] [Original post on c.im]

Accidentally said "turducken" when I meant "tofurky" and now everything is ruined.

If cassettes weren't meant to be stolen, why did they make them pocket-shaped?

WFMU hit its goal for the October Hellraiser a full week before the finish line -- AMAZING! I've still got one fundraising show left, which kicks off tonight at 9 PM (NYC time). It's the all vinyl 45 show for Singles Going Steady week. I find this week of programming […] [Original post on c.im]

Right now seems like a really good time for an organized citizens response to the government shutdown. Instead of sitting around waiting for the Republicans to break something else and blame it on Democrats, we should be getting out in front of what they’re doing by saying “if the government […]

Delightful Indian neighbors just brought my family fresh samosas for Diwali. At the same time, the MAGA idiot a few doors down from us was outside shouting and cussing at his toddler-age children. Immigrants win again. This is a post about remembering to vote for Mikie Sherrill for New Jersey […]

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/music/articles/illinois-man-arrested-pretending-rocker-141747845.html Winning quote: "He said he was on tour but needed to cash a royalty check,” a bank teller told police. “He was wearing red sunglasses and smelled faintly of margarita mix, so I thought it […]

Gave a quick talk on campus tonight and was tipped off about a free art book giveaway in the adjoining library. There were a LOT of titles, though the overall impression I got was of a collection which had already been pillaged since the stacks were quite a mess. Still […] [Original post on c.im]

Of the many things I'm enjoying about introducing Twin Peaks to my teenage kid is the way she charges into the room the instant she hears the opening theme start, and then sings along wordlessly in a mock-choral style. This is accompanied by dramatically extending her arms heavenward, as if she […]

I'd somehow never seen this live version of Patti Smith's "Gloria" until 10 minutes ago. WOW! https://youtu.be/VgNeBNMJFZs

Sad to miss the protests today because of an ill-timed work commitment made months ago. But quite heartened by all the amazing pix and vids y'all are posting. Thank you for being out there -- sending this one out to you all: https://youtu.be/AHvXhWJ0oHU

The radio just played that Sarah McLachlan song from the 2007 ASPCA commercial and FUCK YOU I’M NOT CRYING I JUST HSBE SIMETJING IN MY EYE.

Super late notice, but I'm on a post-screening panel for this documentary tomorrow (Saturday, 10/18) at the Princeton Public Library. 1 PM, free. https://youtu.be/J4h5wAuy4Go #collegeradio #communityradio

When parting ways with a fellow Hawkwind fan, it is customary to say: "Rock out with your Michael Moorcock out."