Lit, hist, art, music. Toggling btwn the 1790s and the 1970s, I write abt seduction, friendship, arts scenes/circles, NYC. 33 1/3 on Marquee Moon. Professing English at NYU since 2001. Missing me here search the WFMU comments board.
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The B-52s' Cosmic Thing and Erykah Badu's New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh)* are officially publishing in the 33 1/3 series today, and you are definitely going to want to add these to your collection. đ *Coming November 2025 for UK-based Erykah fans!
"You're a charlatan. That's what you are." -- Cantwell to RFK Jr
Also, Caleb's got a great post up rn about rereading Moby-Dick when you're Ahab's age:
Steamboats are ruining everything. Am I right, @calebcrain.bsky.social?
Not gonna argue.
first day of teaching fit check
I just can't.
These people.
Fucking hell.
"the real violence in Chicago - like across america - is not the violence of the streets but the violence of policy: underfunded schools, disappearing jobs, healthcare deserts, food apartheid, and a criminal justice system that treats poverty like a capital offense." spiritual leadership 9-2-25
Schumer is out of his fucking mind. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Remembering when he hired a Nazi staffer who was too far right even for DeSantis.
Itâs not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters itâs that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.
once again tapping the sign
Have we looked into the possibility that it's a zombie fungal/cordyceps infection?
The two genders.
I miss his show. And Iâm usually too lazy to turn the dial.
Just looked things over. Glad to have Trouble and Michele back too. Will miss the Lariza/Naomi Shambles afternoon. Enjoying Lariza now. That was a nice summer one-two...but coming back to Michele/Creamo feels like a legit season change.
Yes excited to see that too!
Will it cancel out the chocolate hummus? (Also, it's hard to beat that guy's "bone-petite" malapropism. What a dork.)
Oh man, I hadn't scanned the schedule closely yet!
important PSA: @actualylt.bsky.social hanukkah tickets on sale this friday, with no-fee tix at record grouch in greenpoint. see you at the bowery ballroom in december!
Shows I want pitches for: Desperate Housewives Dawsonâs Creek Greyâs Anatomy Fresh Prince of Bel Air CSI NCIS Living Single American Idol The Big Bang Theory Downton Abbey Fleabag The Simpsons Marvelous Mrs Maisel Parks & Recreation Saturday Night Live The Muppet Show Brooklyn-99 Girls NYPD Blue ER
This is who they are
Someone on the @wfmu.bsky.social comments board just said that Iggy Pop sometimes sounds like Kermit and now I'm wondering how Henson never managed to pull off "I Wanna Be Your Frog"?
So many bangers, this fucking guy
Logging on.
I hope Susan Collins is very concerned.
Platner: Our taxpayer dollars can build schools and hospitals in America, not bombs to destroy them in Gaza.
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 1/2
Thanks goodness they have RFK Jr. on hand to monitor any potential imbalance in his bodily humors
Judge Sooknanan is giving a master class in judging during the Trump Administration -- but really in how judges should always value the people whose lives are affected by their decisions.
It was really fun to just belt it out. I think we'll be back for more for sure.
Mike Lee: "Oh dear!"
You guys see where this is going? Right?
I called this segregationist way back in February: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I canât overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.
Lots of fun. The alternative Solfège was a little hard to get right off the bat but we managed. We may try to hit this group that meets in the W Village. Sam was a fun ringmaster. Highlights for me were âAll Is Wellâ and âThe Dying Californian.â
@davebee.bsky.social You were missed. We definitely thought of you!
What weâre doing tonight as the sun goes down over the river. You?
They were super obnoxious. I thought at first they were Cuomo types but I think they originate as a group in the 2018 midterms.
I was so embarrassed for them. One insult after another from passers-by (including me).
Few albums have created as clear a dividing line between âbefore thisâ and âafter this.â Happy 60th.
Gonna reboot the Muppet Show and rename Statler and Waldorf âAdorno and Horkheimer.â
Thereâs a perfect symbol of America as a nation of immigrants, just sitting right there.
Perfect afternoon on the water yesterday with the Seaport Museumâs 1885 schooner Pioneer. (ALT: a sweep of the harbor from the Statue of Liberty to the Brooklyn Bridge, all under perfect blue skies.)
I would read an academic murder book in which the murder was solved by reading the syllabus
Just yelled at a Fox News crew in Washington square park which was all delightful as usual. âLook at all this crime!â as they were looking to do on the street interviews. Blood boiling yâall!!
Every accusation is a confession. They did Pizzagate bc they knew Trump was balls deep with Epstein. Their obsession with the Weekend at Biden's conspiracy is just the latest version. What are they hiding about Trump's health as they spray paint him and truck him around for their fascist pony shows?
What is up with their cruise ship graphic design aesthetics anyway?
These MAGA types are rallying in Washington Square today if anyone wants to go laugh at them. Tell them Max Eastman sent you. Overheard a kid in a MAGA hat telling a passer-by: "Zohran sucks!"
To them, "disease control" means weaponizing it. It's sort of how they think about cloud-seeding and "controlling" the weather.
"By age eight, your authoritarian should begin gerrymandering. For example, if you tell them to clean the kitchen, and they redefine it to exclude the dishwasher, theyâre on the right track."
They've been brainwashed into thinking the CDC *causes* diseases and targets them. I wish I were joking.
thatâs right, move toward the abyss
With O'Neill (apparently) taking over CDC (if they ever get around to firing Monarez), I think it's worth looking back to Project 2025 and asking what they actually intend to *do* to CDC. So, I went to remind myself today. Here's what's in store:
Art depicting âSandwich Guyâ now at the scene of the alleged misdemeanor.
Holy shit I hadn't seen this video until now.
What was it that first attracted Number Ten to the former President of Columbia Univeristy who infamously set heavily armoured police on protesting students, calling them âa clear and present dangerâ, and then resigned
yo this guy is cooking
happy LABOR day weekend! find your WORKERS OVER BILLIONAIRES protest! almost 1000 planned in all 50 states and DC www.newsweek.com/map-list-cit...
Daryl Hall will be excited to find out.
And what Trump is doing to the country.
www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/27/t...
Joe Brainard gets it. ("Poem," 1971, remediated by Mikko Kuorinki at the Kiasma museum in Helsinki, 2010-11.)
I have a friend in town and took them yesterday to 14th & U to show them where the famous sandwich incident happened. That spot needs a historical marker.
More Anti-AI art coming. I ran out of mats again.
Over 1 hour of clips from videotaped Other Music NYC in-store performances: Blonde Redhead, Teenage Fanclub, Ida, The Rapture, Mayo Thompson, Momus, The Clientele, Handsome Boy Modeling School and many many many more youtu.be/XEMaYswpv-I
Well, here we go This is the op-ed in which I denounce the Riesman Center for Harvard Hillel Pray 4 Josie harvardindependent.com/avoid-the-bu...
Irwin was my gateway to @wfmu.bsky.social almost 25 years agoâŚ
"Desperado" is still my fav. Hooray for Irwin!
đ¨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time. When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member âyou need to get the f*ck out of here. Iâm going to make you leave.â
So much for small-government conservatism. Pure fascism in plain sight
#NIH is hanging by a thread. The #CDC has been decimated. #RFK Jr. and Russell #Vought are psychopaths--I don't say this frivolously--they are cold, calculating, inflicting violence on millions through public policy. It is where we are right now. These men are not normal. 1/
More abt the PS 22 5th grade chorus (Staten Island), which I first remember hearing on a Passion Pit album in the early 00s.
Itâs really remarkable.
IT IS NOTABLE THAT THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT WE HAVE NOT SEEN ANYBODY IN THE MILITARY DO
Help Vicki Bennett/People Like Us fund a new album project!: www.indiegogo.com/projects/peo...
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Cleanse your timeline with the most wholesome Velvets cover ever. Worth watching all the way through.
After all the fancy constitutional arguments & faux historical glosses, this is the practical endpoint of the unitary executive theory. Because when presidential power is effectively unchecked, the only thing preventing it from devolving into authoritarianism is the decency of the officeholder.
Seems familiar
You can also check out a deeper dive at this talk we did a couple years ago for Rhizome DC. This covers a lot of details of this remarkable crew of folklore workers that we wont really be able to dig into for this event. Notes on the Virginia Folklore Society - Dr. Aldona Dye & Daniel Bachman
Motion to rename Trump's cabinet "the cracker barrel."
Why are they so fucking weird?
NEW RESULT: Democrats have flipped a state Senate in Iowa. This was a seat Trump carried by 11%, but Democratic nominee Catherine Drey has just won it by 10.4%. This is the second legislative flip by Dems in Iowa this year. It also means the GOP loses its supermajority in Iowaâs senate.
The flipside of this stupid meme is the supposed shock of a beautiful woman reading a serious book.
I'm gonna tell my kids this is the plot of Hermsprong: or, Man As He Is Not, by Robert Bage (1796).
Hey! We share a Bday! I have two laps on you though.
the ideal way to play Flaming Lips' Zaireeka has finally been invented
also! the 50th anniversary of HORSES is approaching. i wrote a book! i am available!
Logging on.
Everybody needs to stop what they're doing and listen to @markhurst.bsky.social's riveting conversation with Webb Keane (ANIMALS, ROBOTS, GODS) on @wfmu.bsky.social from earlier this evening.
Thatâs what I was listening to when I ran into you this afternoon. đĽ
