Dan Flashes on piano and guy with hair on drums are absolute beasts on this 1980 "Bulbs" (one of Van's most under-appreciated songs from his classic era).

Remembering the great David Jude Jolicoeur a.k.a. Trugoy The Dove, who passed away on this day in 2023.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD…

Gen Z and Milennials are spending too much money on barrels and suspnders to wear around town

#ThankYouDave 🕊️

The U.S. State Department has ordered certain public libraries nationwide to cease processing passport applications, disrupting a long-standing service that librarians say their communities have come to rely on and that has run smoothly for years. bit.ly/4qwOviL

15% of the population of Ireland entered the US between 1851 and 1860 9% of the population of Norway entered the US in the 1880s 6% of the population of Italy entered the US from about 1900-1910

Alice Coltrane performing a beautiful harp solo (1987)

The Velvet Underground - Dec 70/Jan 71 and Loaded is released to almost universally strong reviews - plus the addition of their first compilation. The beginning of the VU myth begins here by looking back on itself. grantmcphee.substack.com/p/the-velvet-u… grantmcphee.substack.com/p/the-velvet-u…

Frederick Wiseman dead at 96 nytimes.com/2026/02/16/mov… Here he is at a Community Board 3 meeting in 2014 as he filmed “In Jackson Heights”

I clipped this from Wiseman’s ‘Belfast, Maine’ to share with a friend. A high school teacher on Herman Melville. youtu.be/_EGGHJT7obo?si…

frederick wiseman yelling into your ear at the club:

Ray Padgett elicits a hilarious Bob Dylan/Paul Simon anecdote from trumpeter Chris Botti in his latest interview at Flagging Down the Double E’s. Perfectly timed to the discourse: open.substack.com/pub/dylanlive/… Ray Padgett

willie colón was so good that even his christmas album is a classic youtu.be/OdwQjukWcfE?si…

That time in 1979 when Lou Reed opened a Kansas City show with a WC Fields movie

It would be cool if, after you died, you could see the top five times you almost died.

"I believe that goofiness is sacred." Another aquarium drunkard piece: I spoke with Peter Stampfel (Holy Modal Rounders, Fugs) about his latest album of jingles and devotionals, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Harry Smith, and praying while stoned. Read: aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/02/24/pet…

This Anthropic and Pentagon standoff is not getting enough attention. Anthropic is prepared to walk away from a $200M contract because they’re concerned about how the Pentagon wants to use their tech for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance. We are at a dangerous intersection

In memory of Éliane Radigue the makers of this documentary have made it free to view online. What a lovely gesture vimeo.com/541076521/d661…

Wasn’t there a movement to STOP development of Sunnyside Yards a few years ago? Is this a much better deal?