David Deal
@davidjdeal.bsky.social
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Pop culture junkie
How Elvis rediscovered greatness:
festivalpeak.com/how-elvis-re...
#ElvisPresley
#Elvis
#Music
#Essay
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How Elvis Rediscovered Greatness
Why do artists lose their creative spark? And how do they regain their mojo?
https://festivalpeak.com/how-elvis-rediscovered-greatness-eade82592c7e
about 1 month ago
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Empathy in the Checkout Lane:
davidjdeal.medium.com/empathy-in-t...
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Empathy in the Checkout Lane
The grocery store cashier standing in front of Jan and me looked like someone who had been standing for a long time. Not just today. For…
https://davidjdeal.medium.com/empathy-in-the-checkout-lane-4aac7fc96f5d
about 1 month ago
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Dia de Los Muertos, Pilsen, Chicago
#Pilsen
#DiaDeLosMuertos
#Chicago
#music
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5 months ago
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Wicker Park, Chicago.
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
#TransRights
#Chicago
6 months ago
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How Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here depicted loss on an album cover:
festivalpeak.com/how-pink-flo...
#PinkFloyd
#WishYouWereHere
#Vinyl
#AlbumCoverArt
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How Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here” Portrayed the Art of Absence on an Album Cover
Two men, one of them in flames, shake hands in a studio back lot. The image of a nude woman emerges from a red veil. A diver breaks the…
https://festivalpeak.com/how-pink-floyds-wish-you-were-here-portrayed-the-art-of-absence-on-an-album-cover-475705425912
6 months ago
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Father John Misty, the Salt Shed, July 17, 2025.
#FatherJohnMisty
#Photography
#ConcertPhotography
8 months ago
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“Lilo & Stitch” and “Mission: Impossible” Show Why Theaters Matter in a Streaming World (my new
@hackernoon.com
article):
hackernoon.com/lilo-and-sti...
#LiloandStitch
#MissionImpossible
#TomCruise
#Movies
#Film
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“Lilo & Stitch” and “Mission: Impossible” Show Why Theaters Matter in a Streaming World | HackerNoon
#StitchImpossible is reigniting a debate about the place of movie theaters in a streaming-first world.
https://hackernoon.com/lilo-and-stitch-and-mission-impossible-show-why-theaters-matter-in-a-streaming-world
10 months ago
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OpenAI wants to design how you live with AI (my latest for
@hackernoon.com
):
hackernoon.com/openai-wants...
#OpenAI
#SamAltman
#JonyIve
#AI
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OpenAI Wants to Design How You Live With AI | HackerNoon
Read this post to dig into the broader implications of OpenAI's acquisition of Jony Ive's startup.
https://hackernoon.com/openai-wants-to-design-how-you-live-with-ai
10 months ago
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reposted by
David Deal
Janice Deal
11 months ago
Warm thanks to walk · listen · create for hosting a conversation between myself and author Sharon White, and to Ann de Forest for moderating our confab for the Walking America platform! Tune in here:
walklistencreate.org/video/walkin...
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Walking America 5 – Janice Deal, Sharon White hosted by Ann de Forest
Video recording of a Walking America event. There are two basic plots in literature, the late John Gardner once suggested – somebody goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. In two new novels, a...
https://walklistencreate.org/video/walking-america-5-janice-deal-sharon-white-hosted-by-ann-de-forest/
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Sharon Van Etten 🔥
#SharonVanEtten
#Music
#Video
#Concert
#MusicSky
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11 months ago
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I'll just leave this here.
www.fastcompany.com/91329575/non...
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None of the objects on the Oval Office mantle were made in the U.S.
Trump’s gilded Versailles version of the White House’s Oval Office decor misses the entire point of Louis XIV’s luxurious palace.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91329575/none-of-the-objects-on-the-oval-office-mantle-were-made-in-the-u-s
11 months ago
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In my new article for The Riff, I write about a night in April that felt like a lifeline: two musicians, Olivia Kaplan and Miya Folick, holding a room together with quiet force while the world outside threatens to come undone.
#Music
#OliviaKaplan
#MiyaFolick
#Writing
medium.com/the-riff/run...
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Running for Cover with Olivia Kaplan and Miya Folick
“Dear Mister Fantasy play us a tune Something to make us all happy Do anything take us out of this gloom Sing a song, play guitar Make it…
https://medium.com/the-riff/running-for-cover-with-olivia-kaplan-and-miya-folick-c7122d8e3cc2
11 months ago
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Japanese Breakfast, Salt Shed
#JapaneseBreakfast
#concert
#music
#photography
11 months ago
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Nick Cave and the sea of hands. Beautiful.
#NickCave
#Concert
#Music
#Video
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11 months ago
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Olivia Kaplan, the Subterranean, April 24, 2025
#OliviaKaplan
#Music
#Photography
#ConcertPhotogrpahy
11 months ago
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Nick Cave, the Salt Shed, April 29, 2025.
#NickCave
#Music
#Photography
#ConcertPhotography
#Concert
11 months ago
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Nick Cave at the Salt Shed, Chicago
#NickCave
#Concert
#Photography
#ComcertPhotography
11 months ago
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Miya Folick, Chicago Subterranean.
#MiyaFolick
#Music
#Photography
11 months ago
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Happy
#BookLaunchDay
@janicemdeal.bsky.social
@newdoorbooks.bsky.social
!
#Books
#Reading
#Literature
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11 months ago
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Beth Gibbons
@bethgibbons.bsky.social
🔥
#BethGibbons
#music
#concert
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12 months ago
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reposted by
David Deal
Janice Deal
12 months ago
My Q&A w/Nathaniel Popkin of
@newdoorbooks.bsky.social
covers the themes of my new novel "The Blue Door," which Nathaniel edited. Thank you to Nathaniel and to my publisher New Door Books!
#Publishing
#Books
#Writing
#Literaryfiction
www.newdoorbooks.net/post/an-inte...
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An Interview with Janice Deal
A Q&A with Janice Deal, author of The Blue Door, conducted by Nathaniel Popkin of our Editorial Board, the book's principal editor.This is a novel about a mother, Flo, grappling with something horribl...
https://www.newdoorbooks.net/post/an-interview-with-janice-deal
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Hello Iggy Pop
#IggyPop
#Music
#Concert
#Video
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12 months ago
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Iggy Pop, The Salt Shed
#Photography
#ConcertPhotography
#IggyPop
#Music
about 1 year ago
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We all lose something. Some of us lose everything. My new essay inspired by a random encounter at a license plate renewal office:
medium.com/@davidjdeal/...
#Essay
#Writing
#Aging
#Memoir
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When You Lose Everything
Jan and I stepped into the license plate renewal office on a raw March afternoon, the kind of cold that settles in your bones and stays. We…
https://medium.com/@davidjdeal/when-you-lose-everything-32551a30d78c
about 1 year ago
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Matthew Paige, DeeOhGee
#DeeOhGee
#Music
about 1 year ago
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Lauren Mayberry
#LaurenMayberry
#Photography
about 1 year ago
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Huzzah!!!
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about 1 year ago
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A great reason for
#LedZeppelin
&
#Vinyl
fans to visit MoMA:
www.moma.org/collection/w...
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Zacron (Richard Drew). Album cover for Led Zeppelin, III. 1970 | MoMA
Zacron (Richard Drew). Album cover for Led Zeppelin, III. 1970. Lithograph. 12 1/2 x 12 1/2" (31.8 x 31.8 cm). Committee on Architecture and Design Funds. 156.2015. Architecture & Design
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/189051#:~:text=Zacron%20(Richard%20Drew)%20Album%20cover%20for%20Led%20Zeppelin%2C%20III%201970
about 1 year ago
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DOGE Quietly Deletes the 5 Biggest Spending Cuts It Celebrated Last Week
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/u...
#DOGE
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DOGE Quietly Deletes the 5 Biggest Spending Cuts It Celebrated Last Week
The cuts, highlighted on an earlier version of the “wall of receipts” posted by Elon Musk’s team, contained mistakes that vastly inflated the amount of money saved.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/upshot/doge-spending-cuts-changed.html?smid=tw-share
about 1 year ago
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Masterpiece
#JimiHendrix
#Vinyl
#NowSpinning
#Nowplaying
about 1 year ago
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I am grateful that 50 years ago, Led Zeppelin were arrogant enough to believe that their throwaway songs were better than someone else's best efforts. A masterpiece.
#LedZeppelin
#Music
#Vinyl
#NowSpinning
#NowPlaying
#PhysicalGraffiti
about 1 year ago
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Forever Young: Music & Loss (my new essay about music & my life):
medium.com/the-riff/for...
#vinyl
#music
#memoir
#writing
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Forever Young: Music and Loss
“If you feel pain, you’re alive. If you feel other people’s pain, you’re a human being.” — Leo Tolstoy
https://medium.com/the-riff/forever-young-music-and-loss-01e7edb8604a
about 1 year ago
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Huzzah
@janicemdeal.bsky.social
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#Books
#Writing
#Literature
add a skeleton here at some point
about 1 year ago
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6Kitty
#concert
#photography
#music
about 1 year ago
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6Kitty
#photography
#music
#concert
about 1 year ago
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6Kitty
#photography
#concert
#music
about 1 year ago
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How Kendrick Lamar elevated the Super Bowl halftime show from entertainment to art:
medium.com/@davidjdeal/...
#KendrickLamar
#SuperBowl
#SuperBowlHalftimeShow
#Essay
#HipHop
#Music
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Kendrick Lamar’s Artistic Super Bowl Halftime Show
Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show drew more viewers than the game between the Eagles and Chiefs. As impressive as the numbers were…
https://medium.com/@davidjdeal/kendrick-lamars-artistic-super-bowl-halftime-show-d17dace60db7
about 1 year ago
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Tay Roebuck
#Photography
#concert
#music
about 1 year ago
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đź‘‹đź‘‹đź‘‹ Kendrick
#KendrickLamar
#SuperBowl
#SuperBowlHalftimeShow
about 1 year ago
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Kendrick Lamar’s journey to the Super Bowl halftime show:
www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
#KendrickLamar
#SuperBowl
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'They're inviting a movement to the main stage': Kendrick Lamar's road to the Super Bowl
Ahead of Kendrick Lamar's headline performance at the Super Bowl half-time show, we explore the rapper's journey from the streets of Compton to pop culture ubiquity.
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20250207-how-kendrick-lamar-came-to-headline-the-super-bowl
about 1 year ago
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Why there will never be another Super Bowl ad like "1984":
medium.com/@davidjdeal/...
#SuperBowl
#SuperBowlAds
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Why There Will Never Be Another Super Bowl Ad like “1984”
Can any Super Bowl ad match the impact of Apple’s “1984”?
https://medium.com/@davidjdeal/why-there-will-never-be-another-super-bowl-ad-like-1984-12764b799525
about 1 year ago
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Lauren Mayberry, Thalia Hall
#Photography
#LaurenMayberry
#Music
about 1 year ago
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The 25 Best Super Bowl Ads of the Past 25 Years
www.adweek.com/brand-market...
#SuperBowl
#SuperBowlLIX
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The 25 Best Super Bowl Ads of the Past 25 Years
ADWEEK selects 25 of the best Super Bowl ads from the past 25 years.
https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/the-25-best-super-bowl-ads-of-the-past-25-years/
about 1 year ago
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Geordie Greep.
#Concert
#concertphotography
#photography
about 1 year ago
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Dawson Daugherty, Almost Monday
#music
#concert
#concertphotography
#photography
about 1 year ago
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How the 2025 Grammys achieved relevance:
medium.com/@davidjdeal/...
#Grammys
#Beyonce
#CowboyCarter
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Beyoncé!: How the 2025 Grammys Achieved Relevance
The “Do the Grammys even matter?” question dates back decades, probably since “Winchester Cathedral” beat “Eleanor Rigby” and “Good…
https://medium.com/@davidjdeal/beyoncé-how-the-2025-grammys-achieved-relevance-07359e1f048d
about 1 year ago
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Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars California Dreamin’ at the Grammys
#Grammys
#LadyGaga
#BrunoMars
about 1 year ago
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Excellent
#Photography
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about 1 year ago
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"No buy" is a wise strategy unless you're talking about
#vinyl
:
www.wsj.com/personal-fin...
#nobuy
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The Americans Pledging to Buy Less—or Even Nothing
People are tiring of overconsumption and want to pay off debt.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/the-americans-pledging-to-buy-lessor-even-nothing-7edeacf3?mod=e2fb&fbclid=IwY2xjawIMc6JleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHTElvQtVrQWRGz2hrR9Nl1taSx2ygYmr7d1XNIb-p2w1P8LPFkoiZ9J59Q_aem_zWHHnCBKrl3BDvL7ozsScQ
about 1 year ago
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I wish you peace.
#Photography
about 1 year ago
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