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Raja is an absolutely terrible choice folks.

Damn, even Sesame Street is scoring off me

she also colored "My Blue Heaven", which might be one of the most beautiful comics ever printed

The secret hero of Moore's Swamp Thing run.

So sad to share that legendary colorist Tatjana Wood has passed away at the age of 99. Her pioneering painterly touch graced scores of DC & Vertigo series. She was truly one of a kind and a special friend. May her memory be a blessing.

Crowds of Mourners Line Up for Memorial Services for Jesse Jackson in Chicago The protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate will lie in repose for two days at the headquarters of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition before events in Washington, D.C., ...

A line of mourners streamed through a Chicago auditorium to pay final respects to the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. as cross-country memorial services began in the city the late civil rights leader called home.

We may not have the best health care in the world but we definitely have the most expensive health care in the world.

That never works for me.

And now they own your media consumption habits as data to sell and exploit

The Women of Detroit House "Detroit was house before it was techno. That’s a fact."

How Stacey "Hotwaxx" Hale, Kelli "K-Hand" Hand, and other female artists set the course of Detroit house music to come.

“MacArthur Park” songwriter Jimmy Webb congratulates Olympic gold medalist Alysia Liu, who skated to Donna Summer’s hit version of the song in her free skate. Laufey and PinkPantheress, whose songs Liu also skated to last week, have congratulated the Olympian as well.

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‘We watched 9/11 from the rooftop, blasting the music out’: how The Disintegration Loops became a requiem for the attacks It is an epic piece of music that literally falls apart – and it perfectly captured the end-of-days chaos after the tragedy. Composer William Basinski and musician Anohni recall its febrile birth in N...

Nice feature today in The Guardian. lovely chat with my dear ANOHNI about the Disintegration Loops. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...

Bye bye COBOL on IBM Mainframes….

Thomas Pynchon Saw American Fascism Coming The elusive author of paranoid, absurdist novels looks more and more prescient these days.

This piece from @motherslug.bsky.social on Thomas Pynchon and our current predicament is superb

I re-read VINELAND ahead of the release of ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER and it not only held up, it resonated more with me than when I first encountered it in the '90s

www.currentaffairs.org/news/thomas-...

Lucy to Charlie Brown; You have that on a 45!?!"

Willie Colón, trombone and salsa legend, dies at 75 Throughout his career, Colón released more than 40 albums, pioneering a salsa sound influenced by the streets of New York City and beloved by Latin immigrant households around the globe.

Willie Colón, trombone and salsa legend, dies at 75

A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

2026 basically

Amazing. But then there’s the soundtrack. OMG!

Loved it. And loved that they touched on his flamboyance and his general aversion to heteronormativity. And just a glint of the one guy he liked before he decided no, only music.

Oh damn…

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Gay Harlem Renaissance exhibit at the NY Historical Society Museum highlights Black LGBTQ+ artists, writers, performers | abc7ny.com share.google/dggkPn91AI6i...

Nayland Blake - New York Studio School Registration is not required for in-person attendance. Nayland Blake is an artist, writer, educator and curator. Born in New York City in 1960, they attended Bard College and then California Institute...

Next Tuesday at the New York Studio School: "Mess for Success: examples from my confusing career"

Black Dahlia Confession
~ Weegee (1947)

Hemingway was once bet that he couldn’t write the world’s happiest short story in just 5 words. He replied,

That tour lived up to the record big time

Arrigo Park's Columbus statue to be replaced by one of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, city says

A monument of Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, the first American saint, will be installed in Little Italy’s Arrigo Park, according to the Chicago Park District — potentially bringing closure to the yearslong saga to replace the park’s Christopher Columbus statue.

I wasn’t there but a lot of my best friends were (and are in the doc!)

YouTube video by Inside The Music You Weren't There - A History of Chicago Punk 1977 to 1984 | Full 2 Hour Documentary

youtube.com/watch?v=gxWO.... @suzannef.bsky.social

P.s. Today is Huey’s birthday