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Happy flag day to all who celebrate. Now hand over your gold. 🏴‍☠️

Friendly reminder that public transit is much safer than driving, from Scientific American.

…Litman’s research puts public transit’s death or injury rate at about one tenth that of car travel.

I picked up “Dopes to Infinity”, but turns out, I didn’t. I’m still in. 🎵

Auto-generated description: A hand holds the Monster Magnet: Dopes to Infinity CD case in front of a keyboard, featuring a colorful sci-fi themed cover. Auto-generated description: A hand holds an open CD case featuring the band Monster Magnet's album Superjudge.

My recent Discogs haul. 🎵

A collection of music CDs and a cassette tape, lying on a wood floor. The CDs are 'The Next Day' by David Bowie, 'The Very Best of John Lee Hooker', 'Down' by The Jesus Lizard, and 'Dopes to Infinity' by Monster Magnet. The cassette is 'The Traveling Wilburys Vol 1'.
Auto-generated description: A display of fresh seafood, including various fish, shellfish, and octopus, arranged on ice in a market setting.

I went to Hamido Seafood last night for a friend’s birthday, an Egyptian fish restaurant in Astoria. You pick your fish, and they fry it up for you while you wait. So good. 🐟

I started getting into The Dandy Warhols. The name really annoys me, but …The Dandy Warhols Come Down is great. 🎵

Andrew Sacher wrote a beautiful elegy for Brian Wilson on Brooklyn Vegan. RIP. 🎵

Brian resonates so much with indie/alternative/underground musicians because, no matter how famous The Beach Boys are, being a Brian Wilson fan means you’re in on one of the most profound secrets in all of pop music history.

Had a great improv show with Loose Corn at The Everything Hour. Fun set, great audience. Thanks to Rachel and Remy for being our brave speed daters! 🎭

Auto-generated description: A promotional poster for The Everything Hour event features performers Ken Litton, Chandlite, and Loose Corn, highlighting creative performances, conversations, and community.

Just saw a dude walking down the street while eating a full plate of plain rice with a fork. Unglued.

Correction: five days ago, I got French metal band Animalize confused with their album title. The band name is Animalize, and the album is called Verminator, not the other way around.

This brought to you by the department of corrections no one complained about.

Oof, I’m late, but happy pride. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Auto-generated description: A group of six black men in matching white outfits is featured on the cover of The Best of The Commodores from the Millennium Collection. The afro future vibes are very strong.

Everyone needs to reckon with how badass The Commodores looked.

There’s a guy selling pop up el pastor tacos a block from my apartment. Let’s go. 🌮

The 31st Ave open street is really cooking. You can tell because I’m doing the disco.

Day six of the micro.blog photo challenge on “contrast”. I think I nailed it. 📷

An orange plastic subway seat from above, the brown speckled vinyl flood below, creating a hard line down the middle of the frame.

“Debutants and schoolboys.” This quote brought to you by a note I jotted down and forgot the entire context behind.

Great article on green dreamer kaméa about the importance of slowness in activism.

“Slowing down is not a function of speed. It’s not, ‘let’s take a break’, ‘let’s go on vacation’, ‘let’s leave it all behind.’ It’s none of that. Slowing down is a function of deepening awareness, noticing the others in the room.

I started listening to the article on 1.5x, then was like, “what am I doing?”

A little on the nose, but here’s my reflection for day 5 of the micro.blog photo challenge. 📷

Auto-generated description: A bearded man in glasses takes a mirror selfie in a kitchen, wearing a graphic t-shirt and denim shorts, with a cart of bananas nearby.

I got a spider bite on my pointer finger last night. I’d point out that I don’t like spider bites, but that would be pointless. 🏴‍☠️

If this isn’t a big ‘ol nostalgia pile, I don’t know what is. Day 4 photo challenge. 📷

An old R2D2 action figure on top of a wooden shelf. To one side is the Star Wars soundtrack on CD, in a cardboard longbox. It has the original Star Wars poster art. To the other side is the Batman Forever audio cassette board game.
Auto-generated description: A woman with terrified pose reaches toward the camera lense, while a hand bursting from a swinging pendulum clock chokes her. This is set against a bold, patterned background with ANIMALIZE and VERMINATEUR text.

Been grooving to Animalize’s new album Verminator. They’re like if ‘80 glam and thrash metal got in a car crash in France. 🎵

Day 3 photo challenge. Shadow of the laundry chair. 📷

A beat up plastic chair that’s broken on one side. There’s a shadow of the legs and seat below it.

I snagged Head Of The Love Club, an EP by up and coming British pop singer Gretel Hänlyn, on the strength of Drive. Nothing else on the record comes close to that one for me, but there’s a lot of promise. She’s one to keep an eye on. 🎵

You know what I think? Me neither.

WTF with Marc Maron is ending. I’ve been listening since 2013, when I heard a clip of the Michael Keaton episode on WNYC while driving around Brooklyn. What a run. 🎙️