Keep the U.S. out of war with Iran! On June 13, 2025, the Israeli government launched multiple missile strikes targeting Iran, triggering what Iran is calling a “declaration of war.” In the subsequent days, the two countries have launch...

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Bannering and passing out flyers at 40th Space Symposium.

More from book launch - book cover, me learning to forge.

Hannah Martin book launch at Beth-El, "Sparking Peace," a kids' description of RAW Tools.

Well over a thousand in downtown Colorado Springs for Hands Off rally. City Hall block is filled and crowds continue two blocks south on Nevada.

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I'd always meant to check out Monument, Colo.'s Super Junk Vintage, because they promised "eclectic vinyl." "Yeah, yeah," I thought, "probably mainstream and overpriced." Hey, early Jane Siberry, mid-period Wet Willie, and the very first Jefferson Airplane!

The only violence coming from the protest at Phil Long Music Hall was from the "MAGA Force" trying to run people over. At the state GOP gala, attendees were paying $1500 to hear Steve Bannon and a Jan. 6 convicted protester. There is nothing left of the GOP but a Nazi stormfront.

Civil resistance vs. vigilantism: Has nonviolent protest lost its relevance? “To do an extreme act of violence, a person must not have seen any hope. There are groups creating a pathway to positive change.”

Hey, when Debbie Kelley did a long front-page piece on nonviolence that quoted Matt Jones and myself at length, I had no idea it got picked up by the Jerusalem Post!

Finally caught up with Spencer LaJoye at Vista Grande. What a remarkable songwriter and musician!

4 p.m., March 18: "Oh, an inch or two might stick on the ground."
6 p.m., March 18: "Run for your lives! It's the blizzard Apocalypse! All freeways are CLOSED."
Oh, Colorado, I think you enjoy doing this.

Earplugs front and center at Ent Center!

Electrowave Electronic Music Festival 2025 - Year 2, Day 2 - Conor Bourgal on found sound, and A.I. panel.

A beautiful, breezy day on Pikes Peak.

Electrowave Electronic Music Festival, Year 2, Day 1 - Ent Center for the Arts, Colorado Springs- Ambient/downtempo and synthesizer petting zoo.

David Keenan
Volcanic Tongue
2025
Just like the Glasgow record store from which the book got its title, this is an unparalleled compendium of the musical underground!

Circuit des Yeux
Halo on the Inside
2025

Angel Corsi and Ingrid Avison house concert at Chez Facknitz.

International Women's Day rally in Colorado Springs, Pioneer Museum with Marzia Sadat.

Haruki Murakami's new one, "The City and Its Uncertain Walls," is his best since 1Q84. Trippy beyond measure.

Connor Garvey, Jesse Powers and Jeremy Facknitz at Buffalo Bicycle Lodge.

Lunch with Abi at Santo in Boulder.

MJ Lenderman and Wild Pink

YouTube video by The Midnight Special Personality Crisis - New York Dolls | The Midnight Special

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David Johansen, New York Dolls Frontman, Dies at 75 David Johansen, the frontman and last surviving member of proto-punk band New York Dolls, who went on to act in films such as "Scrooged," has died.

The man. What a painful last few weeks. Had a long chat with David in the line for the port-a-potties in the big New York disarmament march of 1982. I saw the NY Dolls at a Spartan Speedway midnight show the night of my junior prom (top that). A giant will be missed.
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Telling Rep. Jeff Crank - No to oligarchs! Save Ukraine!

More than 350 turn out for Indivisible meeting at FUMC!

In Trump’s Washington, a Moscow-Like Chill Takes Hold A new administration’s efforts to pressure the news media, punish political opponents and tame the nation’s tycoons evoke the early days of President Vladimir V. Putin’s reign in Russia.

Do not kid yourselves. We are already here.

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Loring Wirbel's review of The Second Coming 4/5: It's been a decade since Garth Risk Hallberg wrote one of the finest debut novels of recent memory, City on Fire, about the New York blackout of 1977 and the beginning of the punk era surrounding...

My review of Garth Risk Hallberg's "The Second Coming"

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Kate Bush and other artists protest AI copyright laws with silent album Music stars including Kate Bush and Damon Albarn say law changes would damage people's livelihoods.

A great idea!

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