Circuits

My wife and I hung out with a neighbor couple we're friendly with a few nights ago, and at some point over the course of the evening when the discussion turned to music, we introduced them to The Lambrini Girls. That type of stuff is way beyond their usual taste, but they were fascinated by it […]

Don't turn around, here comes last night's radio show again courtesy of the WFMU archives! There are those who say the truth lies somewhere between Ry Cooder and Nightmares on Wax. In this case, a straight shot directly at the middle lands on either Kool Keith or Rip […]

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#ElsewhereOnHere, I saw someone talking about the Howard Dean scream that torpedoed his presidential ambitions in the 2004 democratic primaries. Which reminded me that shortly after that happened, I cut the infamous speech's audio with the Venom stage banter thing to play on WFMU.

"Do I still […]

My father in law had a stroke around 15 years ago and has trouble speaking as a result of the residual aphasia. He's an old school Brooklyn boy from way back when, and I enjoy spending time with him, even if I'm the one doing most of the talking these days. Anyway, I'm hanging with him tonight […]

A pot of steaming hunter's chicken -- meat, vegetables, and broth bubble away in a blue Le Creuset stovetop pot.

I wanted a steamy comfort dinner last night, and ultimately landed on Nigella Lawson's super easy Chicken Cacciatore recipe, which I first made around 20 years ago after watching the related segment on her old TV show. I was beat after an exceptionally manic week at the […]

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A beat up vinyl copy of William S. Fischer's "Circles" LP from 1970. An all-white cover surrounds a circular photo of Fischer, a middle-aged black man with a slightly receding hairline gazing skeptically towards the camera. Below that is the logo for Embryo Records. In the upper left, there are three stickers: a pricetag for $4.99, one that reads "Poor Condition", and another idendifying it as a "DJ/monaural" copy. The number "56" is also written in black marker in the upper corner by a previous owner.

I've never been precious about the condition of vinyl records -- as long as it plays through without skipping, I don't mind some scratchy background noise on an old or second-hand album. (Long ago, a listener to my radio show dubbed it "love crackles", a phrase I still […]

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I'm finding myself quite taken with this new record by GUSHES -- the self described "mythic chamber prog" band headed up by Brooklyn's Jennae Santos. It's way outside my usual lane(s), but the otherworldly vox, big riff energy, and time signatures requiring a slide rule to make sense of all […]

NOTHING, A RUDE WORD. NEXT QUESTION.

(Still obsessed with this side-by-side comparison video... scroll down in my timeline, I posted the whole thing a week or two ago.)

#sexpistols #kevineldon #billgrundy #amish

Recent conversation with one of my students who is deeply into DIY culture, super obscure music, and radical politics.

Her: I don't understand the appeal of Mastodon, no one uses it.

Me: (Gesturing around my office at archive of DIY print fanzines, independent music releases, flyers from gigs […]

Stocks Aren't Salvation Political consequences of the ownership society

Good piece from Hamilton Nolan today: "Stocks Aren't Salvation: Political consequences of the ownership society"

https://substack.com/home/post/p-178498758

A nighttime photo of dark trees reflecting off a perfectly still lake.

Lights at a house on the other side of a lake are illuminated through the silhouette of bare trees.

Nice views, though. I like how the reflection of the trees on the water looks like a wavform.

I'm at a work retreat at a lake house well below the Jersey Dixon Line and there's a lawn sign down the street that says "Go Woke, Go Broke!"

This is a post about feeling sorry for dipshits.

Thing I tell my teenage kid all the time:

Never assume your basic human rights are here to stay. Never be complacent. Every victory is hard won, and must be closely guarded -- forever. Protest, yell, forge unlikely alliances, and never shrink in the ugly, sneering face of bigotry. And show up […]

A screencap from Heather Cox Richardson's email that says: "Tonight, legal scholar John Pfaff wrote: “Every race. It’s basically been every race. Governors. Mayors. Long-held [Republican] dog-catchers. School boards. Water boards. Flipped a dungeon master in a rural Iowa D&D club. State senators. State reps. A janitor in Duluth. State justices. Three [Republican] Uber drivers. Just everything.”

From Heather Cox Richardson's daily email.

This is the first morning in a long time that I woke up actually **excited** to read the news (instead of fearfully peeking around the corner at the news, poking it with a stick first, and wishing that maybe it was dead.)

@VCP All of it. All of the pizza.

#NewJersey #MikieSherrill #Venom

I really needed this.

(This is a post about tonight's election results and the second drink I am about to have.)

Hey New Jersey, please go out and vote for Mikie Sherrill today if you like your great public schools, strict gun laws, and abortion rights. To lefties who won't vote for her because of some disappointing statement she's made in the past on some progressive cause or another, I am asking you to […]

I Voted sticker

unquestionably the longest lines i've experienced in 20+ years as a brooklyn voter, including 2008.

Suiting up and plugging in for the semi-annual Everybody's Very Tired Because Of The Time Change Show. Fundraising parlor tricks have been put away (thanks to everyone who made WFMU's October Hellraiser a slam-bang success!), so it's just you, the night, and the music […]

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Apparently, the next Teddy Boy revival has been canceled.

@bourgwick Good god, man — did you lose a bet?

Last night's trick or treater headcount was the worst in all the years we've lived here, but it was fun hanging out in the driveway with neighbors and watching little kids react to the Mummies videos I was screening on the garage door.

Camped out in front of the house with our usual Halloween setup: firepit, red wine, video projector screening my Halloween YouTube playlist, and Indian pizza. Let’s do this! (Photos later, when it gets dark.)

A scene featuring a snowy street with a boy looking up at a man in a window. The man is asking the boy what day it is, conveying a sense of urgency and excitement.

#Fensterfreitag #comedy #muppets #AMuppetChristmasCarol

@alisynthesis This music is way better than the banal Christian folk played at my church growing up. 🤔

@alisynthesis I'm kind of obsessed with track 11, in which the preacher actually gets bit by the snake. 😮

If I still have to register for your fucking website, it's not a "gift link".

In the midst of last Sunday's all vinyl 45 show on WFMU, I rather unexpectedly said: "Somewhere between Spizzenergi and Waylon Jennings is where you'll find the truth".

These remarks have fuckall to do with Robert Wyatt (pictured here), but **nothing** gets clicks like […]

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