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Art in the Streets Art in the Streets was the first extensive survey of the history of graffiti and street art to be presented in an American museum. The exhibition took place at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Ange...

Found a full image of that Neck Face piece: artinthestreets.org/media/fdf09a...

See ya in the pit!

TONIGHT! Sea Monkeys, The Stones, The Gaylord Fields All-Star Revue + DJ Rex! WFMU Benefit! Monty Hall, 43 Montgomery Street, Jersey City doors at 7:30, show at 8 @wfmu.bsky.social

Silver grate and sidewalk with gum and other detritus staining them

The author of this caption

Neckface, partially obscured by an intervening rooftop

Ad for a co-working space above a Spanish restaurant and a white cargo van

So I get to spend dinnertime on my birthday sitting at this lovely spot.

Today in Terrible Tales of Teslas: picking up car at parking. Only exit is blocked by a Tesla - driver left & they can't move it. Why? It won't start w/o a pin code. Honestly no idea how long before I can get my car. At least the Tesla isn't on fire w/people autolocked inside.

if you're gone
at least i can smell you
on your underwear.

God Bless Laika, God Bless Poetry, and most of all, may God Bless America! Thank you for your attention to this important matter.

4.
humans are weird
they sneeze like i do
but don't lick their crotches

5.
empty couch seat
i look with honest yearning
for the okay

6.
if you're not going to
you could leave it on the floor
I would finish it

7.
pick it up
or leave it to turn to dirt
i poop regardless

Finally, her magnum opus:

The haiku of Laika McBodahberg, D.Ph.,dog of philosophy:

1.
smelled hot food.
i begged for an hour, but
got a walk instead.

2.
the door shut
they'll be gone all day and
left the butter out

3.
my face is itchy.
good thing my hind leg reaches
all the way up there.

In her mature years, she took up haiku. Her keen eye for the hierarchies of American democracy, her contentment with her lot in the American social order, her commitment to the menial job she worked at every day (using only her chin to hold the floor to ensure it stayed down) - I give you:

In that tradition I would like to offer the words of a humble American who sadly passed away 16 years ago. She was born in Staten Island in 1996 & raised with her 12 brothers & sisters. It was crowded in her childhood enclosure, where she often found comfort snuggling between the fridge & the wall.

...and we all know that American poets writing abt America have always stuck to deeply patriotic themes that uplift our national spirit. One's mind immediately turns to Allen Ginsburg's book America as an exemplar but the same is true farther back to Walt Whitman too.

Today is National Poetry Day in the UK. Because of the historic connections & ruptures betwixt the USA & UK, celebration of NPD is permitted (for now) in the USA so long as the poems are first & foremost American poems...

Ahead of the case caption, a handwritten note: "Trump has pardons and tanks . . . . what do you have?" Judge Young's reply: "Dear Mr. or Ms. Anonymous, Alone, I have nothing but my sense of duty. Together, We the People of the United States –- you and me -- have our magnificent Constitution. Here’s how that works out in a specific case –- "

AAUP v. Rubio is out, and look at how it starts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Dan with "the party-throwing legend with purple fur and a heart of gold" who, when he "isn’t hugging his friends or drinking shakes," is "skateboarding or dancing" on the island bearing his name: Grimace Island.

Grimace is a large, purple, rotund being of indeterminate species with short arms and legs. He is known for his slow witted yet optimistic demeanor. Grimace sometimes goes for long periods of time without speaking; when he does speak he is known for saying "duh" before every sentence.

Me and @jimthepoet.bsky.social at @wfmu.bsky.social

Note: This is not me.

Dan Bodah holds his hands out toward a star in the sidewalk of Hollywood Boulevard with the name Yma Sumac

Yma!

Isn't that one of your 10 best imaginary sound events of 2025?

I did not know them but now I'm looking them up. Or is it solo material I should check out?

S19 Ep4 Show #435: New ways to fry a vocal: Vocal Fry with Dan Bodah Audio & playlist from September 30, 2025

In these dark times, every now & then light shines forth when you least expect it. This glimmer is scheduled in advance though: tune in a beam of paradise on Tuesday at 8pm ET. wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

Cover of Vocal Fry 2019 CD "Stirrups and Crickets: Central Asian Throatsinging Styles" featuring a man with a rifle and a falcon on a horse looking over a snowy mountainside

Cover of the 2022 Vocal Fry CD Devis, featuring a painting of a mass of harpies shaking snakes at a nude man running away with his hands up

Back cover of 2022 Vocal Fry CD "Devis: Women's voices manifesting ultimate truth and supreme power"

CDs I put together for supporters during the 2019 and 2022 @wfmu.bsky.social marathons. I've made about 20 of these mixes over the years, plus a pouch of 5 pins one year.

That's quite an assertion - what does it mean to be native to a place?

On the new Vocal Fry episode, Purple Haze & I take a quick trip thru Yma Sumac's records, from early 1940s Argentine sides as "Imma Sumack" to her 1971 rocksploitation comeback. We rounded out the hour w/some sweet yodels & more. Stream upon demand:
www.wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

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Purple Haze & I about to fry y'all a mess if vocals at @wfmu.bsky.social in 10 minutes!

Those are fair appraisals @cosmossoup.bsky.social. tho tbf Björk goes past yodels to weave many microtechniques in. @vocalfry.bsky.social explores it all at @wfmu.bsky.social on Tuesdays at 8pm ET simulcast online at wfmu.org (also home to 400+ past Vocal Frys you can stream on demand!)

#WFMU got my attention when I saw their bumper stickers in multiple states & provinces, across two countries.

Their #Halloween fund #HellRaiser starts in Oct.

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The deep past is next.

Thank you! I'll send the file tomorrow.

Pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no. — Harvard Gazette Geneticist explains recent analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement.

Humans have traveled and mixed more than previously believed, DNA shows. “People’s stories about their history are almost always wrong,” Reich said. “I don’t think that’s a bad thing. I think that’s a good thing and a humbling thing to be made aware of.”

news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

@jaapblonk.bsky.social, would you be interested in covering the saddest, most surreal cowboy yodel ever yodeled for your pals here at @wfmu.bsky.social? youtu.be/29_WsACNFlQ?...

So glad you like it! Maybe I can do a Mashup w/Newsboy...