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See link below for Manson book! American Studies, UMass Boston Current Project- “Boston Sounds, 1974-1999” @fsu_UMB 🇵🇸 Books on Black-Jewish relations (Right to Sing the Blues and Leo Frank), 9/11 and Manson. skyhorsepublishing.com/9781628728941/…
Stumbled on my daughter’s kindergarten class pic (she’s 28) and I was very pleased that I could convey not only a majority of names but also some key details (“she was a biter”; her grandma was crossing guard; I went to a Bruce show in Providence with her Dad”). History matters!
That’s antisemitic
Blessings
When I moved to this block where I’ve lived almost 30 years now there was an old woman I used to trade gossip with. She’s long gone and I’m now the keeper of the flame.
I never ever put any of the most important things about my life on social media. But it makes me insensibly mad when I remember that’s probably true of all of you too.
Why do you have to be so withholding?
Yes!
Gallego
Hah!
The hip hop archive at UMass Boston is a model: a dynamic group of librarians, community members, and academics have worked together to develop a truly impressive protocol for collecting up hip hop related materials. Lots has been digitized--have a look!
openarchives.umb.edu/digital/coll...
Really important piece, though a bit too pessimistic I think. There has been amazing work done--at UMass Boston and elsewhere, to collect and digitize this archive.
t.co/LdKv5UaKX6
Hard to argue with T! But I’ve always been more of a Grant guy and some days Horsebreaker Star is my fave
Fave LP?
1970s striped couch real ugly
That couch once walked among us
@dmittelman.bsky.social
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Oh hi!
West Orange
Jeopardy has come for My Hometown
One of the best
We want bread and roses too
Beautiful
Dusty and Cattle almost too much to bear
Milkman (Teamster!) and watchmaker
Continued my interview today with a very major Boston music industry figure and got to the part about the owner of the Strawberries chain, Morris Levy—perhaps the last of the great Jewish gangsters.
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Being my most essential self online tonight (popping into other people’s music threads to say “oh my God! I love that one too!”)
Like what are we supposed to do?
Just preordered the new Sturgill Simpson/Johnny Blue Skies lp because I really like Sturg but also it’s on shiny clear vinyl and I’m just a wee little magpie.
Perfect
True
I was just out in Natick having an early dinner with some friends and to commemorate being back on suburban ground, I did something I haven’t done in years: got pulled over.
Showing amazing restraint, when the cop asked where I was headed, I did not say “ask your Mom.”