Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong during a recording session at RCA Victor Records in New York City, 1946
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Film and theater lover. "On" Long Island. Cats, obviously. Fiona, particularly. Sorry about the politics. Grieving. I miss my mom. Lucky companion of the late TT. I miss my guy. She/her. https://letterboxd.com/NYJaneLane/ ┃ https://shorturl.at/Cd0kk
Every elected Republican is now a Max Miller Republican. Hang that around their necks every damn day.
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 7h agoMike Johnson tells Politico that he's standing behind Republican Max Miller — despite the "serious" domestic abuse allegations against him.
All that came on the heels of Cosby, Weinstein & Pelicot, plus the analyses showing mass shooters get their start abusing women & of course President Rapist. Yet my sense is that most ppl process this as "there sure are a lot of bad apples," rather than as "violent misogyny is organized terrorism."
They could always sign up to give comment at a public meeting.
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 17h agoNew York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
MAGA... you have become accomplices in a heist that robbed your own families. Congrats.
Just approved the final jacket art/copy for @beckbook.com Thank you SOOO much to all the advance readers who were kind enough to blurb!!!!! I will tag you below!!!! In the meantime, everyone go pre-order the book! beckbook.com
![Back cover, with all the many blurbs:
“Riesman gathers an impressive array of interview sources . . . [and] brings a great deal of
empathy to her subject as a longtime fan. . . . Every bit as complex and intriguing as the
pop star himself . . . [A] captivating profile of the Gen X pop sensation.”
—Shelf Awareness (starred review)
“One of the best books I’ve ever read about the forging of an artistic persona—a love story, a
ghost story, a family story spanning three generations of bohemia, and a portrait
of the artist wrestling the forces of evil in a bozo nightmare.”
—Alex Pappademas, senior culture editor at GQ and coauthor of Quantum Criminals
“This biography has everything: sex, secret societies, fashion, betrayal, Hollywood,
rock ’n’ roll—it’s like Pop-Up Video with way more scandal.”
—Colette Shade, author of Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything
“This is alt-rock biography as compulsively readable literary thriller. . . .
In this riveting salvo in her American Myth series, Riesman has captured the dream of the
nineties, but also the nightmare we are yet to wake up from.”
—Aidan Levy, author of Dirty Blvd.: The Life and Music of Lou Reed
“A gripping thrill for longtime fans as well as readers who have never followed the
trippy, lo-fi output of the Gen X icon . . . It lands as a reckoning.”
—Charlie Wells, author of What Happened to Millennials
“An amazing read . . . Riesman’s book manages to reveal all Beck’s carefully hidden truths,
while never fully ruining what pleasure comes of bearing witness to his legendary oeuvre.”
—Niko Stratis, author of The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman
“The Last Temptation of Beck is likely the best book I’ll read all year, and despite the
challenging nature of some of the material, it’s one I read straight through in a single sitting.
Josie’s first two books were great, but this is a masterpiece.”
—Andrew Hickey, host of A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
“Josephine Riesman’s book is as uncategorizable as Beck’s music. . . . Fas…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:474ldquxwzrlcvjhhbbk2wte/bafkreifbugb7x66tuyn5pg4m2ixn7wzfsn7udqnpmkmmgrafaml3xur22e)
I have an “email job” at a computer ALL DAY and not one part of my workday involves AI. Unless you count scrolling past the AI results in google to find the correct answer/website/result, or ploughing through AI phone trees when I call companies to get to a human
Charlie Stross@cstross.bsky.social · 9h agoMy answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.
I’ve been screening our documentary with organizing communities in the South. So far, the organizers mention data centers first at every single event. From racial justice orgs to old school activists who don’t usually think about tech policy. This has legs.
It's the only method of voting where you actually have the ability to research which of the weirdos running for county assessor is a better choice, without holding up a dozen people waiting in line. It's insane to me this isn't how all voting is done in this country. It's so much better.
Zack Davisson@zackdavisson.com · 18h agoWashington has been 100% vote by mail since 2011. I haven't voted in person since 2000. All of our ballots have individual tracking numbers and we get to watch them go through the whole process. It is the best voting system in the US.
Today's gender is Karen Allen dressing up in Pacino's leather bar togs in Cruising (1980).
That statement from the third of the three stories I posted. Best guess? They dig in and it doesn't become a big deal. But is a sign of things to come. Advertising is a gas - it will expand to fill the volume and shape of any available container. (Says the PR man - lol)
It’s amazing that there’s any confusion whatsoever about why so many straight women have zero interest in dating straight men nowadays
Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 21h agoSurely someone has studied our modern epidemic of conservative men with unwashed asses.
amazing how so few of the gazillion think pieces criticizing women for not dating straight men fail to mention the whole “many of them literally don’t wash their asses” thing:
Nikolaj Bill@nikolajbill.bsky.social · 18h agoI remember a coworker in her late twenties saying this on how dating was so difficult. I was not surprised by her first two complaints: general anger issues and having few outside hobbies. I WAS surprised at her mention of how many men apparently don’t wash their hair or butts.
Believe it or not R. Crumb has this covered in the 1970s.
Dieticians feeding fascists All of them with unwashed asses Evil minds that plot destruction With the East Wing in construction
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