Do they not have roof parties in Bushwick and ridgewood? Views aren’t as good out there I’ll grant that.
as someone who moved to nyc in 2021 at age 23 this sort of thing makes me so jealousView quoted post on X
Alex Yablon
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Policy analyst @nyccouncil, write about policy and economics when I can. formerly @patriotact and @teamtrace.
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dunedin sound one of the more glaring omissions from the p4k indie rock list - to my mind those bands set the template for the "indie" sound as distinct from post-punk or new wave. amateurish, jangly, mid-tempo, erudite/obscurantist, still in love with guitars.
notably americans' revealed preference over the last 50 years has been to dramatically reduce spanking. even if 3/4 may say it's ok in a survey, fewer and fewer parents actually do it. unh.edu/ccrc/sites/def…
I asked @AJentleson about this and he argued in terms of spanking: “There are a lot of issues that carry very strong signal with voters that aren’t the ones we are constantly debating”View quoted post on X
these guys got seriously snubbed by the pitchfork indie rock list
Found some vintage Troy Jackson footage in the CNN archives during their 1998 logger protest. (on the right)View quoted post on X
We’ve all talked about the hood a lot, but not so much the umbrella used as a cane.
“I asked his entourage whether it would be better to take off the hood to meet the Pope but they said it was his way to be normal — taking it off would have meant changing who he was”
Fr. Antonio Spadaro explaining why Bob Dylan wore a hood to meet the Pope Leo XIVView quoted post on X
