@rasher.bsky.social
Education evaluator trying to save the world using math. Erstwhile Shakespeare professor. Music challenges, cat photos, Chicago events and ephemera, figure skating. Occasional Star Trek: DS9 podcaster and culture newsletterer. They/them, él/elle/-o.
Day 38: Yandel ft. Wisin - Como Antes (2017, Puerto Rico, NKC✅ PC✅ single✅)
Sometimes you just gotta roll down the windows and shake your culo. The nostalgia-laden lyrics make this almost wholesome. #THETENX5
Eleven years since you crossed the black sands. I wish I could say that the world is better than you left it (although it will always be better for having had you in it) but at least there is a new Young Sam to help carry on the Pratchett name and ethos. Love you always ❤️
In February, unhoused residents of Legion Park on Chicago's northwest side submitted a counterproposal to the city, which plans to evict them from their tent homes on March 17. 26 community groups signed on in support:
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Day 37: Cardi B - Bodak Yellow (2017, USA, NKC✅ PC✅ single✅)
Not a boast or a diss, just a factual statement about how the scales have rebalanced. There's so much skill in making intricate lyrical turns sound languid. 11 POINT BONUS for making money moves. #THETENX5
I've been wearing my "I Voted" sticker on my jacket since I dropped off my ballot last week, and today the guy at the dispensary complimented me on it.
Day 36: Carly Rae Jepsen - Cut to the Feeling (2017, Canada, NKC✅ PC✅ single✅)
What's that I hear? The most perfect pop song of the 21st century? 12 POINT BONUS for ah-ah-ah-aaaah. #THETENX5
Day 35: Cait Brennan - Benedict Cumberbatch (2017, USA, NKC✅ PC✅ single✖️)
It's depressing to look up what an artist has been doing lately and find out the answer is young onset Parkinson's Disease. I'm glad Brennan stayed healthy enough to write the definitive trans girl breakup song. #THETENX5
i actually think "books should be difficult and somewhat painful to read and you are Bettering Yourself through Struggle" is a worse attitude for mass literacy than "I have specific preferences and like reading a lot of fun stories" tbh
Day 34: Lorde - Green Light (2017, New Zealand, NKC✅ PC✅ single✅)
What if we went out dancing, and it was disappointing and isolating, but we thought it might get better? 11 POINT BONUS for the lyrical cold open and that piano riff. #THETENX5
the existence of a can opener implies the existence of an entity whose sole purpose is to manically and arbitrarily reseal cat food into new cans.
a grim and unnecessary cycle.
we must break the wheel.
Happy Gary Retrograde everyone!
The next two weeks are the only two weeks out of the year when Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman
Thank you to all the people who are good at talking about random things for hours.
Day 33: Hugo - อย่ามาให้เห็น (2017, UK/USA, NKC✅ PC✅ single✅)
Englishman of Thai descent based in New York makes rock album in Thai, creates cross-cultural masterpiece. The title is pronounced "Xya ma hi hen" and means "Don't let me see you again." #THETENX5
Cryptid sighting for #Caturday! As well as Momo being the prettiest girl.
half an hour left in voting here Xness crowd, don't miss Elana's brooding-haunting goth cover of "She Talks to Angels"!
My day began with discovering that Downstate Donuts delivers, and I don't see how things can get better from here. The LCD Soundsystem show tonight has a tough act to follow.
Day 32: Childish Gambino - Redbone (2016, USA, NKC✅ PC✅ single✅)
A dysfunctional, distrustful relationship as a metaphor for racial politics - how 2016! The funk bass is so fat, and Donald Glover's falsetto is so sweet, that they almost drown out the pointed message. #THETENX5
The REAL TRUTH behind The Black Crowes breakout 1990’s hit She Talk to Angels revealed in my essay @marchxness.bsky.social! Why She Talks to Angels was always goth (I even recorded a goth cover).
We also revisit my 1st rock concert—the Crowes in 1992.
Vote for my essay!
move slow and repair things
Day 31: Common ft. Stevie Wonder - Black America Again (2016, USA, NKC✅ PC✖️ single✅)
Two legends collaborating on an intellectual, sonically layered history of slavery, racism, and how Black Americans have shaped our culture. And it doesn't feel like homework! #THETENX5
If I shit on your dining table it’s not a distraction from me shitting in your bed.
I also shat in your sock drawer.
Day 30: Piso 21 ft. Maluma - Me Llamas (2016, Colombia, NKC✅ PC✅ single✅)
I heard this sweet Reggaeton-lite ballad blasting from car windows constantly in 2016, and it was stuck in my head long before I knew what it was called and who performed it. #THETENX5
the aquifer that supplies joliet is running out of water, yet officials are moving forward with a plan to build the state’s largest data center in the city.
the project, spearheaded by two out-of-town investors, could consume up to 55 million gallons of water and 1.8 gigawatts of energy each year.
Turn to @kellygarcia.bsky.social for some facts and then have a look at our guide to the upcoming Cook County judicial election.
Day 29: Gaelynn Lea - Someday We'll Linger in the Sun (2016, USA, NKC✅ PC✅ single✅)
Lea won the inaugural NPR Tiny Desk Contest with this song, which features her haunting voice and distinctive violin technique and makes the most of her unique physical presence. #THETENX5
Trans people are trying to build a world where this would be up to the individual and society accepts that. We do not live in that world now. 99% of the pressure on trans people right now is to stop being trans
The fact that we still exist under these conditions is evidence enough of our existence
Every trans person who refuses to shrink their identity to fit the room is expanding the world for everyone else.
THERE'S A LOOSE DONKEY IN WOODSTOCK
HIS NAME IS DOMINIC
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Day 28: Mitski - Your Best American Girl (2016, USA/Japan, NKC✅ PC✅ single✅)
Mitski at her most Pixies-esque, shredding her rage at the impossible standards for women of color. #THETENX5