Brownsville.

Nice car. This green color was hugely popular in Pontiacs starting around 1968. Like, 90% of Pontiacs you'd see on the street were this color.

This week's installment of my radio show, "It's Complicated" (an hour of prog and prog-adjacent music), comes stumbling your way tonight at 7 p.m. ET. Listen on the web at wfmu.org or via the miraculous @wfmu.bsky.social app.

Lovers of live music: I'm playing with Girls on Grass next Sunday, 9/28, at Mama Tried, the fabulous outdoor space that is one of Brooklyn's best-loved venues. We rock fiercely, and you should come see us (and also sample Mama Tried's amazing chili). Afternoon show!

All the journalists participating in this charade are enabling this. They show up like desperate puppies every day only to be beaten and insulted again. If these press conferences didn't benefit the Trumpists they wouldn't be doing them. Have some dignity.

Not to call them out by name, but: That NYT parody account was a work of genius that shaped the zeitgeist and spawned many imitators, but it has long since run its course. Like a great sitcom that has obviously run out of ideas, they should have the good sense to go out on a relative high.

"Pictured: Donald Trump moments before he surprised Charlie Kirk's widow by ramming his tongue down her throat."

"All present and accounted for."

Brits love the future perfect tense so much. It's virtually never heard in the US. In this case, the speaker is saying "The word 'relentless' is probably used to describe me," which sounds more natural to my (American) ears. #copyediting

Early morning Clinton Hill.

Sunny Corner/sunny corner, Weeksville.

Bob Brainen doing a Kinks special focused on Rasa, Ray Davies's first wife, whose voice is present on a ton of early Kinks records, though she was never credited and was basically invisible.

Looking for a silent movie? I have reviewed over 770 of them from every genre and era! All organic human brainspace, typos and all, no AI, here's my index: moviessilently.com/index-of-mov...

Ocean Hill is a name you don't hear very often. Even in the '60s when it was in the news a lot (ugliness surrounding the teachers' strike) it was always "Ocean Hill–Brownsville."

Jesus. The knowledge pool is going to be completely poisoned by this stuff. I hate to think where we'll be after it churns through the system for another ten years.

There was nothing unique about the people working in Nazi death camps. If ordinary Germans can be persuaded to treat their fellow human beings that way, ordinary Americans can.

Lecture by Henry Flynt at Issue Project Room in. Brooklyn. Covered his studies in mathematical theory and philosophy as much as music, mostly in the early '60s. I wonder how much of the non-music material the audience understood. For me: not too much. I should have done more prep.

Broadway Junction.

Cypress Hills.

Cypress Hills.

Holy cow. "We will never [start showing ads, start charging fees, sell your data, etc.]" is almost always a lie.

Hard to express how much I dislike my building's internet-connected intercom/buzzer system. Mark Hurst (@markhurst.bsky.social) talks about how it's a surveillance system (true), but it's also just an overly complicated piece of junk. The old traditional buzzer system was a million times better.

"Democratic leaders will support resolution honoring Charlie Kirk": These may be the dumbest people who ever lived. An absolute laughingstock. JFC. thehill.com/homenews/hou...

When the heck did this happen? (NTS Radio stations "unavailable in my region" through the TuneIn app.) I listen to NTS Expansions a lot, and as of a few days ago this doesn't work, though fortunately I can still listen via the NTS app.

Good luck firing 200 million people. The celebrations will dwarf V-E Day.

Walking down Houston St. with a visitor from London: "Is this NoHo?" "This is Ho."

E&O Liquor, Empire Blvd., featuring Molly's, "arguably the world's best tasting Irish cream."

NER, Utica Ave.

They're playing "Driven to Tears" in the restaurant and that reminds me that the first two (maybe three?) Police albums were pretty damn good.

How did I never think of this before? My friend's train is running late. We've got a narrow window to eat before our movie. So I texted her a photo of the menu and her food will be ready when she gets here.😇

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Great article from @columjournreview.bsky.social on the sorry state of eBook DRM monopolies. University presses are complicit in this trend. Independent music distributors abandoned DRM decades ago--that model could work for nonprofit/small publishers too. www.cjr.org/analysis/the...

The old Canarsie Lumber sign has been covered up. Sacrilege! But I have photos of it somewhere, and my pal Jason Das got some nice sketches of it when we made the trek out here ten years or so ago.

"I never have any trouble deciding what to wear. Why is it so hard for you?"

Seen in the wild: 1972 Olds 442 ("four four two"), pristine condition. Man, the kids in my old neighborhood used to drool over these.

Apart from the many other problems with Instagram's interface, it's surprising how bad it sucks with photography. Photo-related features that are standard in every other app in the world are absent from IG, presumably the world's most popular app for photos.

Good talk on the work of architect Denise Scott Brown (best known as co-author of the landmark "Learning from Las Vegas") at the Center for Architecture last night. I really didn't need another shelf-hogging photography book in my apartment, but the flesh is weak.

390 Gates Ave.

I don't think anyone on the Supreme Court is going to save us, but credit where it's due: Sotomayor's rebukes to the six fascists have been blistering, smart, and relentless.

Red Hook. #photography

Sticking it to The Man today by getting a covid booster. It's my duty as an Ashkenazi Jew.

Last night's installment of my weekly radio show featured music by André Duchesne, Rob Mazurek & Exploding Star Orchestra, Video-Aventures, and more. Hear it or see the playlist at the link. www.wfmu.org/playlists/sh... @wfmu.bsky.social

21st-century schizoid storefront, Brownsville.

Mobile Barber Shop, Canarsie.

Coming up at 7 p.m. ET: This week's grand episode of my radio show, "It's Complicated" (an hour of prog and prog-adjacent music). Tune in at 91.1 FM in and around NYC, on the web at wfmu.org, or via the miraculous @wfmu.bsky.social app. (Shown: Polish prog band Exodus.)

Dating apps have their problems, but on the whole I think they're great and they work. I've been in relationships with several wonderful women I met on dating apps. There's no way I would have met them otherwise. I know loads of people who met their long-term partners on dating apps.

"A bright hit of fruit flavor": Druggy slang makes it into the New York Times Cooking section.

It took maybe fifteen years for Reagan's legacy to be completely rewritten and for him to be accepted as some kind of saint by politicians across the (US) political spectrum. It took about twenty minutes for this to happen with Charlie Kirk, arguably an even more despicable human than Reagan.

Furious because I carelessly bought cashews with onion (which had been mistakenly put in the wrong bin) instead of plain cashews, at the @foodcoop.bsky.social. But I'm more furious that these exist. Cashews seasoned with onion?