Happy Tax Day. Just a reminder, as you potentially owe Uncle Sam: Mass incarceration costs the U.S. $445 billion every single year.

Kings: No The Kinks: Yes.

World continues to end. [looks up how to cook millet]

Release Day! “Unreliable Narrator,” my solo album of acoustic guitar instrumentals (17 of ‘em!) is out today exclusively on Bandcamp (eat it, Spotify). Do you like the guitar playing of Nick Drake, William Tyler, Bert Jansch, Nathan Salsburg, and Robyn Hitchcock? So do I! What a coincidence!

Not so much circular breathing. More like circular snacking.

My cat is an apex cuddler.

It took almost exactly a year, but I’m pleased to finally announce: Andrew Chalfen : 1 Philadelphia Parking Authority: 0

This is exactly right

@siracusa.social @hotdogsladies.bsky.social Also in the teeth of all Earthlings since the 1950’s atomic testing: strontium.

(cues andy samberg saying “not better” in the lonely island’s “jack sparrow”)

Oh man I'd really love to see your faces and give you hugs and play music for you and we can tell each other that we're gonna get through it more than alright.

Saturday afternoon is free and all ages and will have many pretty notes, some chords, a soupçon of heavy riffage, and some improvisation so long as it’s meticulously planned out in advance.

New 3D wall sculpture: “Dazzle Ship VII” - acrylic, wood, glue, ink transfer, on wood panel. 48” x 12” z 4”. May be hung in any 90 degree orientation. It’ll be in an upcoming solo show here in Philly. News about that soon!

This Thursday evening I Think Like Midnight are proud to be opening for Minami Deutsch (from Japan) at Johnny Brenda’s here in Philly. Doors at 8, ITLM at 9. 21+ A must for fans of krautrock fuzz psych freakout which for a fact I know you are.

@hotdogsladies.bsky.social Speaking of live music clips to watch repeatedly, this Rascals Ed Sullivan Show from Feb ‘67. Dino Danelli’s drumming. Woof. Plus the camera operator lingering on him because he looks like Paul McCartney. youtu.be/F57vofWYADg

Please stop barfing on my Spanish notebook.

CVS piped-in music update: This afternoon was Big Star’s “September Gurls.” What is even happening?

it really is astonishing how quickly it goes from “civil war” and “blood in the streets” to “wow guys it’s just a sad tragedy” when it becomes inconvenient

The local CVS keeps coming up with piped-in music gold. Iggy, solo Lou Reed, and today: The Replacements.

Meanwhile…

Iggy Pop song playing at the neighborhood CVS this afternoon, so at least there’s that.

Bandcamp Friday! Get your ITLM rekkuds and downloads! And then come to our Philly shows on Sat & Sun!

I Think Like Midnight 2-show weekend!

Seems unlikely in these cruel times, yet here be: An enjoyable and positive vibe thing you can experience this Saturday afternoon! We’d love to see you so come on by.

New work: “More Than the Sum” - acrylic, wood, glue, ink transfer, on wood panel. 12” x 12” x 4”. This work is now on display in the group show “Pop Art-esque” at Art Scene West in San Diego, CA ( @artscenewest ) through Aug 5.

Sunday Sunday Sunday!

Good beer. Good food. Good live music.

the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states

Try out this one tomorrow: [to the tune of "Glory Glory Hallelujah"] You're a little tiny ________ (x3) F. U. D. T. use 1 for each round: fascist racist grifter rapist bully Nazi douchebag baby loser ____

What do I gotta do to get you screen-addled doom-scrolling jackals off the couch and into the streets this Saturday? And might I suggest that since you may be a bit emotionally torqued afterward, you should totally head over to Johnny Brenda’s to experience beer and quality rock music at 9pm sharp

What is it health insurers do again?

“The Post Office loses money” yeah so does the Fire Department, shut the fuck up

Death cult continues to death cult.

This Thursday from 6-9pm is the opening reception for “Meeting New Circles,” a three-artist show at Box Spring Gallery in the Crane Arts Building in Philly! The circles I’m presenting were created over a 17-year period, but they may be new to you. Stop on by!

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

This administration flip-flops like a trout at the bottom of a fishing boat. Thank you to everyone who makes it flip (and flop).

Nice people made the best Nazis. My mother spent her childhood in Nazi Germany surrounded by nice people who refused to make waves, chose not to focus on politics... They were lovely, kind people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away. Naomi Shulman www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...

“Saving money”

why the fascists want to completely destroy higher education, in table form

I know I say this a lot, but I hope we are done—finally done—with accepting the GOP’s efforts to equate its “tough on crime” stance as meaning it actually want to ensure that laws are obeyed. It’s about social control—enforcement as a means of regulating disliked out groups.

INCREDIBLE Ruling! Judge Reyes just ruled that transgender people have served honorably in the military, judges Trumps trans military ban - which states trans people are inherently dishonorable - as unconstitutional and motivated by animus. Trans military members may continue to serve.

Russian Asset-in-Chief Abusive Dad-in-Chief Mob Boss-in-Chief Fascist Grifter-in-Chief Hijacker-in-Chief

What George Bailey-type who wished he’d never been born got us to this outcome?

Spiderman reboot for current times: With great power comes absolutely no responsibility.

He’s certainly acting as if he were a Russian asset.

About two weeks of work, here. Wood cutting, priming, painting, touch-ups, two coats UV varnish, , a protest supporting Federal civil servants, letters to congressfolk and governors. And some epoxy resin-filled randomized rescue blocks.

Probably not the first one to do this.