Alison Fensterstock
@alisonf.bsky.social
Teenage werewolf / inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read / fensterstock@gmail.com Editor of NPR Music’s HOW WOMEN MADE MUSIC (Harper One ‘24) coauthor of a biography of Bunny Matthews (Historic New Orleans Collection Press ‘26)
New #newsletter is out! We've got a new podcast about #BunnyMatthews feat. @alisonf.bsky.social & @tisserand.bsky.social, neat links to check out, BIRDY! sniffing in the backyard, my very strange Yom Kippur, an echocardiogram flex, & more, so GO READ! buttondown.com/vmspod/archi...
Postal Services
We've got a new podcast about Bunny Matthews, some links to check out, BIRDY! sniffing in the backyard, my very strange Yom Kippur, an echocardiogram flex, and more!
buttondown.com
New #podcast: @alisonf.bsky.social and @tisserand.bsky.social join the show to celebrate their amazing new book, BUNNY MATTHEWS: HIS LIFE, ART & OBSESSIONS! Great talk, so GIVE IT A LISTEN: chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-6... #AlisonFensterstock #MichaelTisserand #BunnyMatthews #NewOrleans
Episode 692 – Alison Fensterstock and Michael Tisserand
Virtual Memories Show 692: Alison Fensterstock and Michael Tisserand “New Orleans has come to be defined by this hyper-awareness of its own identity. It’s all music, food, and culture, …
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I remember doing a panel with the Exciters once and that is indeed what they remembered warmly 50 years on from their tour opening for the Beatles - being protected from awful Jim Crow venue rules on tour together in the American South
Paul Blinkhorn@paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 2w agoYou can't blame Ed Sheeran for caving in to American stadium owners I suppose. I mean, take these guys in the 60s, they refused to play to racially-segregated audiences in stadiums in the southern states of the USA and who remembers them now?
What do you call an ad for a bagel and cream cheese
Whoops, I haven’t been on here in a while but in deep self-interest I’m coming by to say I have a new book coming out next weekend! Please come to the festivities! hnoc.org/events/bunny...
Bunny Day
Join us for a daylong celebration of the life and work of legendary New Orleans cartoonist and writer Bunny Matthews.
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Let’s spin the Astor Place cube and smoke Camel Lights and just sort of hang around
Tem uma programa muito psicedelico esse noite na WWOZ 90.7 FM New Orleans!! Discos exoticos do America do Sul para Lefty Parker!! Kitchen Sink, 10-midnight, weird and psychedelic South American records from Lefty! WWOZ dot org! Que bom! Eu nao falo portugues muito bem mas eu tento um pouco.
Unsure how much reach this account on this platform has but I freaking adore Nellie McKay and I am very glad she’s playing Monday!! It’s like WWOZ Piano Night but with just one person and supporting real cats, not just jazz cats
Don’t ask why this occurred to me but does anyone else think the Nancy Meyers white couch set dressing aesthetic is maybe a comment on the triumph of menopause
The dog was just starting to give me a paw and then WITHDREW it because he saw it was a bullshit healthy treat
Bon Moreno! Bon Mamdami! A very happy new mayor to both my cities
The Las Vegas Sphere has totally succeeded in branding because I just saw some ball drop prep videos and I wondered “what is the Sphere doing for New Year’s Eve.” THE SPHERE OWNS THE PUBLIC ROUNDNESS SPACE
Ok so obviously I have heard “Have a very Jerry Christmas” quite a bit but this is the first time I’ve heard “and a happy Bob Weir”
Before the end of 2025 I promise to decide whether I like Geese or Goose better, it’s looking like Goose but that’s not saying a lot
Tonight 10-midnight CT on @wwozneworleans.bsky.social! Lefty had to buy an extra suitcase to bring home all the records he brought in Brazil and we will play them. Feliz Natal!!
Spare a thought this holiday season for the young people toiling in the cannoli mines at Angelo Brocato’s. It’s intense over there #verylocalskeet
Christmas starts now! Or at 7pm central, when I sub in on WWOZ til 10 with a holiday set. 90.7 FM and WWOZ dot org if you’re in the North Pole!
I did understand (barely) what this link was going to be, but
I can’t be the first person to wonder if Olivia Nuzzi and Ryan Lizza were only together because of all the Zs
So far every language I’ve tried on a language app thinks I will be eating a sandwich and ice cream all the time as if every country is like the boathouse cafe in Central Park
Wish I could say I skipped school to hear Jan speak at the NYU beat conference in 1994, right before her death (I was a particular kind of nerd and in fact my school let me go downtown in lieu of class) but anyway very good choice NYRB!! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/b...
Her Father Wrote ‘On the Road.’ She Lived Her Own Version.
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As an almost lifelong freelancer in the arts sphere, would you rather a) make a comprehensive up-to-date CV or b) stick a cactus up your butt and eat worms at the same time
Took me a minute to dig this up - from September 2015 at the Alabama Music Hall of Fame
There needs to be a term like Swedish death cleaning for what you do in middle age when you realize your house is full from all the stuff you magpied in your twenties and thirties and now you must make room for the stuff you will surely gather in the next half (god willing)
This unfortunately just makes me picture a bucket of soup, a list of soups to be served in buckets
Apropos of nothing I think people are overusing the word “material” to sound smartypants when “real” or sometimes “tangible” would do
