Joyce Linehan
@ashmont.bsky.social
Bureaucrat. Lover of Mercy (the virtue and the dog). Bostonian. Student at The Flying University. No Kings, except Elvis. Flag by Corita. https://joycelinehan.substack.com/
@jtkantor.bsky.social Vicky Wickham left us about a week ago. She co-wrote “You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me.” That’s my request. Also, hi!
Our Which Side series is now a franchise! Welcome, Nashville! How cool is that?
It’s August 4, and it’s the Feast of Sithney, the misogynist patron saint of mad dogs. As the tale goes, he was asked to be the patron saint of women seeking husbands, but he refused, saying he’d rather be the patron of mad dogs, and get some rest.
America - Mad Dog (1975) | LIVE
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Songs about dephlogisticated air, in honor of Joseph Priestly.
Ten For Today: Oxygen
Gary Higgins, Jean-Michele Jarre, Sweet, City Streets & Lorrie Lucas, The Halo Benders, Symbiosis, The Dishes, Willy Mason, Catfiish & The Bottlemen, Ludwig A.F.
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I am hoping I am just missing it, but I have seen no local media coverage of the @wpbl.bsky.social #Boston Hunters, whose inaugural season begins this weekend.
On this day in 1956, President Eisenhower signed the law making “In God We Trust” the official motto of the country, and mandating the phrase be added to all currency. The Founding Fathers could not be reached for comment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUE7...
In God We Trust
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Reservations are available for the August edition of @whichsideboston.bsky.social. Authoritarianism is not slowing down, so neither are we. Make your reservation here: tickets.24hourmusic.com/default.asp?...
From my smart friend Emily Isenberg: Friendship is infrastructure.
Friendship Is a Group Project
Adult friendship is a group project, and half of us are not opening the doc. On loneliness, social fitness, and why belonging takes actual reps.
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Dakha Brakha is back in the US later this month. Chicago, Minneapolis, New England. I CANNOT RECOMMEND THIS SHOW HIGHLY ENOUGH!
Dates - DakhaBrakha
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It’s July 19, and on this day in 1799 in Egypt, one of Napoleon’s soldiers found the Rosetta Stone, which held the key to deciphering the ancient writing system of hieroglyphics, and Throwing Muses lyrics. It is now in a British museum, despite repeated calls for it to be repatriated.
Throwing Muses - "Rosetta Stone"
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18th of July/ Someone in the sky...
Hilly Fields (1892)
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We have BIG PLANS for our big anniversary show on Tuesday. But I can't tell you about them. You'll have to come and see for yourself.
One week from tonight. Very excited to celebrate and grow the community we have built together over the past year.
Henry David Thoreau was born this day in 1817. He wrote, “If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer,” which makes for much better lyrics than “If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because his legs are shorter.”
Michael Nesmith - Different Drum
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It’s July 11, and on this day in 1804, Aaron Burr mortally wounded Alexander Hamilton in a Broadway musical workshop performance.
Giorgio Moroder - The Duel (Electric Dreams) (1984)
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Reservations are now open for a very special anniversary edition of @whichsideboston.bsky.social, on July 21 in Fort Point. www.whichside.boston/tickets
TICKETS — Which Side Are You On? A Protest Music Teach-Out
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Happy 75th birthday to Ned Sublette. If you don't know this song of his, released in 1981, maybe you know Willie Nelson's post-Brokeback Mountain version, released in 2006, or Nelson's duet with Orville Peck, released in 2024.
Ned Sublette - Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly
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Willie Wright was born this day in 1939. According to his bio, he never signed to a major label beacause he “deliberately chose artistic freedom over the sharecropper's existence to which many of the best artists of his generation were subjected.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH7P...
Nantucket Island
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“Let revenge or ambition, pride, lust or profit tempt these Men to a base and vile action, you may as well hope to bind up a hungry tiger with a cobweb as to hold such debauched patriots in the visionary chains of Decency or to charm them with the intellectual Beauty of Truth and reason.”
Ten For Today: Patriotic Dissent
The Impressions, John Prine, The Pointer Sisters, Mike Curb Corporation, Leonard Cohen, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Aaron Lee Tasjan, The Avett Brothers, Willie Jones, Wilco
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