Standard drug slang among kids in my neighborhood: "I was speeding my face off last night," but "I was tripping my balls off last night." No one would ever say that they were tripping their face off. Not sure how the girls described tripping. #slang #speed #acid

Ridgewood.

Stein is not a Green. She's a Putin shill, or a Trump shill—also an "anti-war" activist who supports mass-murderers like Assad. Any real Green will see right through this grifter.

Richmond Hill, 11/1/24.

Tax the f*cking churches.

Excited to be seeing Tati's "Playtime" on the biiiig screen (BAM) tonight. It's surely one of the most meticulously staged and photographed films ever made, absolutely awe-inspiring.

Atlantic Ave.

The second and final day of the WFMU Record Fair is today, at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Manhattan. This is (honestly) the world's greatest record fair. I'll be there from 12:30, at the FMU record table, so say hi if you're there. wfmu.org/recordfair/

Sunny day, Park Slope.

A guy at the WFMU Record Fair asked me if I know what this is. Yes, I do. Do you?

It's a 45 rpm record changer.

See "Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat" (now at Film Forum in NYC). The editing, design, research, and depiction of Black radicalism—partly through the music of Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach—are the absolute best. If only they didn't glorify Khrushchev as an anti-colonialist. Come on.

Time for the semi-annual exercise in figuring out how to reset the clock on my microwave.

Important message to pro-Palestinians and anarchists who refuse to vote for Harris here: Trump will be FAR worse for the Palestinians. If you're waiting for fundamental social change for the better from an elected official you'll be waiting forever. Real change comes from below.

I was given this glove for my hand injury. It doesn't seem to have helped at all, but I'm going to start wearing it all the time because it allows me to avoid shaking hands with people, which is now unbelievably painful.

This week's installment of "It's Complicated" (an hour of prog and prog-adjacent music) comes your way tonight at 7:00 NYC time. Hear it live at wfmu.org or via the wonderful WFMU app. (Pictured: After Dinner.)

Imagine caring what these dopes have to say.

My days on this hellsite may be numbered. I'm on Mastodon and Bluesky, so if you are too please follow me there and let's live together in peace and harmony. I'm [email protected] and dmandl.bsky.social. No plans to sign up on Threads.

Twitter was once the greatest thing in the world. Oh well. Is this kind of outcome inevitable when a resource is owned by private individuals or governments, instead of communally? Probably. Anyway, I'm gone from here for now. Find me on Mastodon or Bluesky, both thriving.

Popping in here briefly to say: If we're friends here and you've moved to that other place where the sky is blue, let me know. I'm no longer active here and will probably be deleting my account soon. If you haven't moved over there, seriously consider it.