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Rob Tannenbaum

@robt.bsky.social

Writer, but who isn’t? Currently producing a four-CD box set of CBGB bands 1974-1984, and working on a documentary about a band you’ve never heard of.

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03.09.2025 11:53 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The people who thought a child-trafficking business was being run out of a nonexistent pizza restaurant basement have no theories or even curiosity about why the president hasn’t been seen in almost a week? Suddenly they’re all “Hey, let’s not jump to conclusions”?

02.09.2025 11:27 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/arts/music/who-pete-townshend-roger-daltrey-interview.html?unlocked_article_code=1.gk8.t0gu.LPXFzulIz_vE&smid=url-share

I talked to Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey about the Who's farewell tour of N. America and why they didn't quit after 1982's "farewell tour." Also, Daltrey explains the one condition that would have to be met before he agreed to make another Who album. Enjoy the #giftlink. t.co/lM00n6LgyI

24.08.2025 18:17 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

What’s the big deal with Trump meeting Putin? All of us get performance reviews at some point in our careers.

16.08.2025 12:06 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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"Let me be crystal clear: crime in DC is ending and ending today."

11.08.2025 17:38 — 👍 23108    🔁 8034    💬 1221    📌 434

My new band is called The Squeegees. We do Squeeze songs in the style of The Bee Gees. I don't expect us to be popular.

10.08.2025 23:00 — 👍 17    🔁 2    💬 3    📌 1
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The AI explosion means millions are paying more for electricity Across much of the eastern U.S., electricity bills have jumped. The reason? Data centers required for AI and other tech wonders are driving up electricity demand.

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

30.07.2025 15:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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If you have friends who voted for Trump because they believe “illegals” need to be deported, and those friends aren’t incensed that ICE is also deporting U.S. citizens who are people of color, then “legality” was never their motivation.

13.07.2025 11:52 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Compare and contrast. Only one of these headlines can be true, and gee, I wonder which one it is. Anyone?

12.07.2025 15:54 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Full disclosure, Pennebaker later claimed I had maliciously misquoted him. His publicist stopped bothering me after I told her I'd recorded and transcribed the entire interview, and it had been fact-checked.

06.07.2025 17:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Middle age starts when you're closer to the next time you poop your pants than you are to the last time you pooped your pants.

06.07.2025 16:59 — 👍 30    🔁 2    💬 3    📌 0

It had been a full ten hours since my last gummy. Also, hey!

30.05.2025 22:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

There isn't a real grownup in sight, which is routine for a kids movie, but Tutu, Mrs. Kokoa, and Cobra Bubbles are sympathetic allies for the kids, rather than mustachio-twirling villains.

27.05.2025 17:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Took my son to see the "Lilo & Stitch" movie this weekend, and I can't remember the last time I laughed so hard in a theater. Part of the appeal for adults, I think, is seeing kids struggle with being surrogate parents -- Nani is Lilo's parent, and Lilo is Stitch's parent.

27.05.2025 17:36 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Good thing you know where to text me.

26.05.2025 00:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Good point.

25.05.2025 23:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Also, where can I buy that salmon colored blazer?

25.05.2025 21:21 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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80 Years Young, Rod Stewart is Still As Sexy as Ever The rock legend talks about his impressive career, family, famous friends and his railroad modeling hobby. Plus, we recommend essential songs by decade.

There are things in life better than talking to Rod Stewart, but there aren’t many things and I’m having trouble remembering them right now. So please enjoy my interview with Rod, which covers many topics, including his health, retirement, and a new Faces album. www.aarp.org/entertainmen...

25.05.2025 21:16 — 👍 22    🔁 3    💬 3    📌 0

(Not) too soon.

21.04.2025 13:23 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine!" - Patti Smith, age nine, disrupts the neighborhood Easter egg hunt

20.04.2025 15:11 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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They Tried To Kill Us, We Survived, Let's Eat, by Good For The Jews from the album Songs Even The Goyim Might Like

Which is the greatest Passover song of all time? Is it "Dayenu," reportedly written by God, or "They Tried to Kill Us, We Survived, Let's Eat," which I wrote? Pretty sure my song has a better hook.

goodforthejews.bandcamp.com/track/they-t...

12.04.2025 20:32 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Wow, the biggest Tesla bull, Dan Ives, just slashed his target on the stock by 43%, citing a brand crisis caused by Musk and Trump's trade policies.

To all those who showed up at protest nationwide or turned in your Tesla, thank you! Take a bow.

06.04.2025 21:56 — 👍 1501    🔁 212    💬 28    📌 11
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Donald Trump is holding a $1 million dollar-a-person candlelight dinner tonight at Mar-a-Lago.

How incredibly tone-deaf as he's crashing the economy and the stock market.

04.04.2025 19:21 — 👍 1725    🔁 684    💬 242    📌 93

Right wingers are always talking about "the racism of low expectations" without ever talking about the racism of racism.

03.04.2025 15:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I watched about fifteen minutes of “White Lotus” and couldn’t shake the feeling that I was inside a Randy Newman song.

11.03.2025 00:30 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

For all you "Not Yet A Constitutional Crisis" people: The kid at Columbia with a green card currently in secret ICE detention for thoughtcrime is a four alarm fire.

09.03.2025 23:36 — 👍 2948    🔁 817    💬 27    📌 13

"I'm kind of considered fairly dangerous myself" never fails to make me laugh.

09.03.2025 15:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Can we set our clocks ahead to 2028?

08.03.2025 21:16 — 👍 18    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

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