Five Mixes by Optimo (Espacio)/JD Twich--it's really ten, but who deserves it more? R.I.P. to one of the greatest selectors ever. michaelangelo.substack.com/p/bc138-five...

Even more Foxfire Coffee Lounge memories over at Beat Connection! (For paying subscribers.) michaelangelo.substack.com/p/wa018-more...

250922_014454_D.clj tweegeemee.com/i/250922_014454_D #ProceduralArt#generative

that's TWITCH, obv.

Essential read and listen here. I am kindly cited at one point.

Five Mixes by Optimo (Espacio)/JD Twich--it's really ten, but who deserves it more? R.I.P. to one of the greatest selectors ever. michaelangelo.substack.com/p/bc138-five...

Deluxe Surplus Store (1970s; 1980s) 929 Centennial Place Source: Hennepin County Library

I was actually versed enough in history to know the OG Nazis were all creepy nerds and resentful failsons, but having to live it in real time fucking sucks so much ass.

"During every exam period in Cambridge, it has become customary for the Brattle Theatre to run a Bogart film festival. Sometimes they don't even list the pictures; they just put a large photograph of him outside the theater." Peter Bogdanovich, Esquire, 1964

Like the Jimmy Fallon ride (?) has a line at Universal. People love it. They laugh at the weird "jokes' he is telling in the pre-ride. My 8 year old said it was one of his favorite rides because it was "so funny." PEOPLE LOVE THESE GUYS. They do NOT love...Erick Erickson.

Fun times talking about the importance of altweeklies with the crew of @racketmn.com @coyotemedia.org and @emmaruthless.bsky.social and @usefulnoise.bsky.social we talk about the good, bad, and the ugly of them and I tell the story of one of my favorite and most notorious columns.

Great podcast from @racketmn.com featuring @tromano.bsky.social and @emmaruthless.bsky.social talking about the history of alt-weeklies. racketmn.com/racketcast-e...

By @staceywescott.bsky.social, who has been doing stellar work for the Chicago Tribune.

Great podcast from @racketmn.com featuring @tromano.bsky.social and @emmaruthless.bsky.social talking about the history of alt-weeklies. racketmn.com/racketcast-e...

Bands I mistake for one another because I've never listened to either: The Housemartins and the House of Love

Now up, the first half of my look at all ten mixes from Resident Advisor’s mammoth 1000th podcast, or what we oldsters would once have called a “box set.” michaelangelo.substack.com/p/bc137-five...

h/t @matoswk.bsky.social (from michaelangelo.substack.com/p/bc137-five...) b/c this mix from Mark Ernestus is most excellent: soundcloud.com/resident-adv...

US Constitution Article III, section 3: “Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them”

can't stop thinking of how little kids died in chapel, praying on the first day of fall term, but somehow Charlie Kirk--a man who accepted school shootings as the guarantor of unconstrained gun access--is the martyr. may God have mercy on the innocent; Charlie Kirk was not of them.

RA Tape Pack

bottle rug

Now up, the first half of my look at all ten mixes from Resident Advisor’s mammoth 1000th podcast, or what we oldsters would once have called a “box set.” michaelangelo.substack.com/p/bc137-five...

Get ready, friends, this is going to be major. Next May. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/611489...

and sometimes I think about how "liberal Hollywood" helped make this fella a star

Gotta admit, the Redford I'm craving to see again is Downhill Racer--on a big screen, please.

250916_234526_M.clj tweegeemee.com/i/250916_234526_M #ProceduralArt#generative

My Robert Redford obit. I reflect on his remoteness and his specialness as a star. wp.me/pzXeC-kqL

Redford was a real one. Sundance changed everything. Here he is talking with Amy Taubin about his career at the Walker Art Center. R.I.P. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOsT...

More Foxfire Memories 3: Looking back at the club’s critical role in the emerging late-90s emo circuit. For paying subscribers! michaelangelo.substack.com/p/wa017-more...

we at @coyotemedia.org intend to do “alt-weekly-style” journalism. But what does that mean? Called up some writer heroes to ask. Thank you for yappin w/ me @annkpowers.bsky.social @tromano.bsky.social @supermarke.bsky.social & Brontez who is too punk for BlueSky www.coyotemedia.org/what-we-talk...

hadn’t seen the actual letter. this is a dream exhibit. a unicorn.

Excited about @coyotemedia.org, covering the Bay Area. A strong start here, on the meaning of the alt-weekly in an era where they've comprehensively vanished. Murderer's row of expert witnesses: @tromano.bsky.social, @annkpowers.bsky.social, @48hills.bsky.social. www.coyotemedia.org/what-we-talk...

It truly cannot be restated enough that earlier this year Trump pardoned everyone involved with J6, the largest event of political violence in the US in my lifetime. They have absolutely no credibility here and deserve to be confronted with this fact whenever they're in public.

Melody Maker on “A Quick One While He’s Away,” 1966: "Pete’s magical achievement — a sort of miniature pop opera . . . There are several sections, including a country and western bit and some 18th century music. It’s fun, and a new departure for any pop group.”

I fooled myself into thinking I was fucking around. No, I was doing research.

Q: Do you think it would've been fitting to lower the flags to half staff when Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota House Speaker, was gunned down by an assassin? TRUMP: I'm not familiar. The who?

Minnesota, land of people who curtly say "Excuse me" when you're five feet away from them.

Minnesota, land of people who curtly say "Excuse me" when you're five feet away from them.

I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.

The right is literally killing each other for not being homophobic or antisemitic ENOUGH, but these jokers are still out here complaining about the “intolerant left“ for POSTS

The idea that leftists wanted Kirk dead is absurd. We all saw Tucker fall and be replaced, Rush dying and being replaced. Bigoted white guys are a dime a dozen.

I was listening to an old Casey Kasem American Top 40 (I find this soothing these days) from 1985 where he told the story of Wendy Carlos, who scored The Shining and Tron, and her journey to becoming trans. Casey got all the pronouns right and it was presented as a slice of life, feel good story

idyllic saturday o-bliteration by/with oneida, at forest park in queens.

Feel like I’m going insane with the revisionist history that Charlie Kirk fostered open debate. He chilled speech and his targeting of professors for wrongthink led to threats, harassment, and being forced out of their jobs. His legacy is chilling speech right now, about him

Come on, man.

You're going to see a lot of "he's a violent antifascist leftist" and "he's a groyper" but the core of Tyler Robinson's motivation is almost certainly that he's an online-poisoned idiot gamer.

Keep picturing Patel dropping the casings in terror after reading “if you read this youre gay”

If an object exists in physical space, it is not therefore "now online," you idiot headline writers.

If you want to condemn political violence, then you should condemn ICE violence, stripping people of Medicaid coverage and killing thousands as a result, destroying public health systems that will kill thousands more, deploying the National Guard against US residents, etc.

Charlie Kirk was not a “free speech activist” and any outlet that tells you he was is lying to you. He wanted unlimited freedom for himself and as little as possible for the people he hated, ie anyone who wasn’t a white male conservative. His values were trash