Martin Devaney
@martindevaney.bsky.social
Songs, stories, poems. Books, bands, baseball, breakfast. Unofficial mayor of St. Paul. Pig’s Eye Records. anecdote books. Also: Folios (the band). St. Paul, MN https://linktr.ee/martindevaney?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
Based on the overwhelming consensus that I’ve heard in both public feedback and private conversations from government officials, service providers, encampment residents, and public health experts, I do not believe we are prepared to responsibly close the encampments beginning tomorrow.
St. Paul prepares to clear homeless encampment amid questions
On July 8, citing a growing number of fires, fatal overdoses and reported sexual assaults, St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her announced plans to close the city’s three largest homeless encampments on a rolling...
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A week out from year three of the Fort Road Folk Fest! Music 1-midnight, we hit at 4 on the patio stage w/ guest guitar slinger @steventurous.bsky.social
Heartbroken. He was a sweet guy. I opened for The Frames in 2002 at the 400 Bar for their first MN show. Kept up with him for several years through the triumph of Once, and last saw him at the Winnipeg Folk Fest about 15 years back and he remembered me and was so kind. Huge loss.
Stereogum@stereogum.com · last wk.Glen Hansard has died in a motorcycle crash at age 56
Hauling books out in the heat: not the best! But I’ll scale back and still be here today with a small inventory:
Crowd at Pavement so far is 75% people who were not born when they broke up the first time around, which rules.
“If students are using it to compose, which is the biggest tragedy of all, they’ll never learn to write. And their voice is stolen from them.”
Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT was ‘silencing an entire generation’
He called AI writing “pastiche nonsense.”
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Our beloved neighborhood cafe & music venue Pillar Forum has been shut down by the City for fire code violations. They were working on the problem but the City decided they can’t host music anymore. Pillar was there for us every day during the Surge. Chip in a couple bucks so they can pay staff.
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Come stay cool at the Squirrel tonight 6-8, if you’re so inclined. I’ll be doing a lot of breathing.
Damn. Been rewatching episodes on YouTube late at night lately. Amazing when they have the ads included…
Phil Nobile Jr.@philnobilejr.bsky.social · 3w ago120 MINUTES was an absolute oasis in pre-internet pop culture. So many bands that you could ONLY find there (TV-wise) became ubiquitous online later (and relatively recently). A pioneer. consequence.net/2026/07/dave...
August 8th at White Squirrel Bar! Third annual(?) Music on both stages 1-midnight, vintage market in the parking lot, food from Angry Line Cook! Free! Full lineup soon:
Great listen, as usual. But also wondering how Sony came to own the punk rock merch warehouse in the first place…?
City Cast Twin Cities@citycasttwincities.bsky.social · 3w agoToday: The Kings Road Merch union, the makers of your fave punk merch, are fighting to keep their jobs after Sony moved to shut down their warehouse. Plus, Gary Hines pulled his band out of the Aquatennial in the 1960s. That still matters today. twincities.citycast.fm/podcasts/uni...
counterpoint: the dead should make it harder for me to speak ill of them
anecdote books pop-up today at the market in the parking lot of the Squirrel for Pet Rock! whitesquirrelbar.com/event/pet-ro...
Pet Rock Fest! A Benefit For The Animals - The White Squirrel Bar
***All Performances On The Indoor Stage*** Band Lineup: 2pm-Handsome Midnight 3pm-MLLT 4pm-Economic Headwinds 5pm-Sunsets Over Flowers 6pm-Garf 7pm-Gentleman Speaker 8pm-Surrounded By Water 9pm-Paul C...
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Amazingly (predictably?) my very first boombox from 1993 is the only radio that picks up the Twins in the garage:
Still got a pair of tickets for tonight, decent balcony seats on an aisle $35 face value, no fees…
Martin Devaney@martindevaney.bsky.social · 4w agoDoes anyone need a pair of balcony tickets for Thursday? Not able to make it. Face value or whatever is fair…
Does anyone need a pair of balcony tickets for Thursday? Not able to make it. Face value or whatever is fair…
Much like the odd radio spin, seeing a couple of my records in the library system warms my ol’ heart.
