New Grudge just dropped. In my world, that is excellent news.
@timkabara.bsky.social is back In Praise of Grudge in this week’s ANYTHING FOR A WEIRD LIFE.
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Seated. At the venue (The Ottobar). The afternoon's reading:
Correct. Still working on that. Then, I'll write.
I went to a show last night! Crazy, right? Here’s what happened.
@timkabara.bsky.social is back with the debrief on Pearl, Muscle, Androgynous Bulge @ Holy Frijoles in this week’s ANYTHING FOR A WEIRD LIFE
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A series of No. 2 pencils subdivided by manufacturer and a golden pocket watch on a wood paneled table.
How I a) procrastinate or b) prepare to write.
The Werner Herzog book club meets at 1pm 02/28 @ The Bun Shop.
Seated. At the venue (H. Frijoles). The evening's reading:
Yes. I did that when I was a teenager boy. You regress and progress towards adulthood. Depends on the evening.
In other news...
Choose your fighter.
A man in a strange outfit, neon yellow cap, black mask, floral print cape, festooned in colorful garb, plays a keyboard next to a lone lit candle . . .
@timkabara.bsky.social returns In Praise of Human Host in this week’s ANYTHING FOR A WEIRD LIFE
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Each day and in every way, I see my dream of a broken unusable Internet coming closer and closer to reality. I would like to humbly thank the handful of ultra-rich people who will accidently achieve my dream through their incompetence, hubris, and basic misunderstanding of other humans. #AIhooray
This year, I turn 50. That makes me, at best, a scene elder. You could also call me “scene elderly.” Either is fine.
@timkabara.bsky.social is in with some Advice for Becoming “Scene Elderly” in this week’s ANYTHING FOR A WEIRD LIFE
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Many events this Sunday will be advertised as happening during "The Big Game" because the name of said big game is copyrighted, so you can be sued for using it. In the scene I am in, I sometimes think we lost a bit of something along the way to that big game youtu.be/9wcLVh4yf6Q?...
“When did Lungfish break up?”
Will Journobot1995™ pass the Lungfish test? Can you?
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Turned a student on to The Boredoms today. Now I can retire.
As I checked out, the clerk complimented my choice. But the question that is key is
“What do you know about Baltimore Club Music?”
@timkabara.bsky.social is back with another CD you may have missed in this week’s ANYTHING FOR A WEIRD LIFE
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So, the story is... it's going to snow. In Baltimore, old traditions continue. I was explaining to a new friend in a long grocery line that yes, this is a bit of a "panic mode" thing, sure, but at least you get to hang out with the neighbors in line, something to talk about... something to do.
As their set progressed, a victory lap of sturm and drang, wild howls and heavy heavy hardcore in full effect, I reflected on thirty years of this here wild scene.
@timkabara.bsky.social is back with the scene report in this week's ANYTHING FOR A WEIRD LIFE.
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Seated. At the venue (Metro Baltimore). The evening's reading:
I don’t know about you, but things are getting rough AND tough in my neck of the woods in 2026. It feels like the world is ending. Here are some things you can do when you have that feeling.
@timkabara.bsky.social returns with good advice for hard times in this week’s ANYTHING FOR A WEIRD LIFE ↓
Seated. At the venue (Mercury Theater). The evening's reading:
In Southeast Baltimore in the 1980s, today was the "deadline" to take down your holiday decorations.
Now that the word "run" as a verb is part of headline news, many have posed the following question: youtu.be/_wDNQBD-qQE?...
Seated. At the venue (H. Frijoles). The evening's reading:
Seated. At the venue (H. Frijoles). Line out the door to get in. Show will sell out. The evening's reading:
Seated. At the venue (Ottobar).The evening's reading:
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4. $$$ people (#2) would be just as satisfied with an AI generated list
5. The pleasing and palatable are championed over the challenging, subversive, and disruptive
Top Five Reasons I Don't
1. Art can't be ranked or measured
2. These lists are a function of commerce- shopping lists for $$$ spending season, not a "year"
3. The lists are stealing the labor of people like me who spend 24/7/365 engaged in thoughtful art consumption and contemplation
Seated. At the venue (Ottobar). The evening's reading:
In the midst of what some call "dead week," I dream of the sleeping giant awakened and seeing what is on the end of its fork in the coming new year: youtu.be/IaWt6d1iDqs?...
