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Favoriting September 26, 2024: feeling like a surrealist poet

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Artist Track Album Label New Approx. start time
jan steele  distant saxophones   Favoriting Jan Steele/John Cage: Voices and Instruments  antilles/obscure    0:00:00 (Pop-up)
suzanne ciani  lay down beside me   Favoriting the velocity of love      0:09:53 (Pop-up)
dave clarkson  prelude to the subconscious   Favoriting dreamadelica ( music for dream machine)      0:17:55 (Pop-up)
marika hackman  the ground   Favoriting big sigh      0:21:10 (Pop-up)
El Perro del Mar  The Truth and the Dead Know   Favoriting big anonymous  city slang  *   0:25:10 (Pop-up)
future pilot A.K.A  A-N-U-R-U-D-H   Favoriting secrets from the clockhouse      0:27:01 (Pop-up)
 
marcos valle  mais do que valsa   Favoriting previsao do tempo      0:35:25 (Pop-up)
Sababa 5 &. Yurkika  nasnusa   Favoriting Kokoro  batov  *   0:37:41 (Pop-up)
kairu  going through   Favoriting rain/water  brut direst disques  *   0:42:57 (Pop-up)
smokey & miho  Consolacao   Favoriting Tempo de Amor: Songs by Baden Powell      0:45:31 (Pop-up)
asher white  runes   Favoriting home constellation study  feeding tube/ ba da bing  *   0:49:46 (Pop-up)
jason stein  anchor   Favoriting anchors  TAO Forms  *   0:54:21 (Pop-up)
nico  the fairest of the seasons   Favoriting Chelsea Girl      0:57:26 (Pop-up)
 
the green child  dreamcom   Favoriting shimmering basset      1:08:33 (Pop-up)
nala sinephro  continumm 3   Favoriting Endlessness  warp  *   1:11:43 (Pop-up)
Mahti  pala 6   Favoriting Konsertti 1  VHF  *   1:15:44 (Pop-up)
theoxenia  a resurrection kink   Favoriting (adventures in) stasis  soft abuse  *   1:20:15 (Pop-up)
burnt sugar the arkestra chamber  repatriation-of-the-midnight-moors (oakanda rmx 2)   Favoriting angles over oakanda      1:26:12 (Pop-up)
Roy Ayers Ubiquity  gott afind a lover   Favoriting lifeline      1:37:59 (Pop-up)
Bobbi Humphrey  Home Made Jam   Favoriting Freestyle      1:45:01 (Pop-up)
ofege  Whizzy Ilabo   Favoriting try and love      1:49:40 (Pop-up)
pebbles  Giving You the Benefit (7" Version)   Favoriting new jill swing 1988-94  ace  *   1:53:43 (Pop-up)
 
lafayette rock band  baba hya   Favoriting malik  Strut    2:07:27 (Pop-up)
patrice rushen  all we need   Favoriting straight from the heart      2:12:58 (Pop-up)
the miracles  ain't nobody straight in L.A.   Favoriting Jon Savage's the Secret Public: How The LGBTQ+ Aesthetic Shaped Pop Culure 1955-1979  ace    2:18:44 (Pop-up)
francine thirteen  tiamat   Favoriting psalm of tiamat  Fpe  *   2:22:50 (Pop-up)
Nubiyan Twist featuring nile rodgers  lights out   Favoriting find your flame  strut  *   2:24:50 (Pop-up)
arthur russell  instrumental #4   Favoriting first thought best thought      2:28:31 (Pop-up)
the wild bunch feat sandra cross  country living   Favoriting       2:38:31 (Pop-up)
 
lonnie holley  coming back ( from the distance between the spaces and time)   Favoriting MITH      2:42:00 (Pop-up)
Susumu Yokota  a ray of light   Favoriting mother      2:48:41 (Pop-up)
Hareton Salvavanini  viver   Favoriting S.P. 73      2:52:02 (Pop-up)
Astrud Gilberto  The Girl From Ipanema   Favoriting the essential astrud gilberto  verve    2:55:24 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

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Handy Haversack:

Gray Thursday greetings, Trouble and all the Troubled.
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Woo:

Good morning
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No Big Thing in Chicago:

Good morning Trouble and fellow listeners with troubles.
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common:

hello, trouble. hello everyone.
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unpopularfred:

greetings modern world!
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strangegait:

morning
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Trouble:

good morning thursday peoples!
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Chris in Kensington Bklyn:

Greetings to DJ Trouble and all.
  9:03am
Mup Mahoy:

Hiiiii!
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Hellraiser 2024 9:04am
Charles in Chicago:

↳ Song: "distant saxophones" by "jan steele"
nice
Avatar 9:04am
augustejuillet:

↳ Song: "distant saxophones" by "jan steele"
Love this tune. The whole record is fantastic.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:05am
Handy Haversack:

That NPR station is stepping all over the 91.1 signal on ONE of our radios but not the other ...
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Hellraiser 2024 9:05am
Charles in Chicago:

for a minute i thought francis bacon's face was obscured by a cat sitting on his shoulder. but it's just art.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:06am
StringOFperils:

He was probably pretty drunk when he painted it
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:06am
Peter from Saranac Lake NY:

Good morning Trouble and troubled humans.
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JG:

↳ Handy Haversack @9:05
That happens in my car, but the FMU signal at home on the Sansui is strong like bull
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Hellraiser 2024 9:07am
Dances with Moomins:

Just in from a run to the art supply store in Helsinki, and found the HellRaiser flyer in my mailbox! Cheers to the Troubled Modernists.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:09am
chresti:

Morning Trouble and Troubled!
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Hellraiser 2024 Swag For Life Member 9:10am
tom tom the pipers son:

good morning trouble... funny, i wouldn't have pegged you for a bacon fan....nice furniture in painting....he started ouit as a furniture designer...hellos all
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:10am
listener james from westwood:

Morning, Trouble and all!
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Hellraiser 2024 Swag For Life Member 9:11am
Zip7:

Good morning Troubled modernists! Since I have some down time, I'm listening to every record I have. A much greater appreciation of Teo Macero's editing when going through those sprawling Miles box sets. And what a delight to rediscover overlooked wonders! Nathan Davis's "Jazz Concert in a Monastery" is just fantastic
Avatar 9:11am
Tea for Suze:

No way, I was just thinking about this song!
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Hellraiser 2024 9:11am
Charles in Chicago:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:10
Everybody loves bacon, right? (Except Muslims, Jews and vegeterians...)
Avatar 9:13am
Mark91:

Interesting musical content. I certainly appreciate it, but the timing of this (right on the heels of Wake and Bake) is a tad bit jarring. Lovely content for the wee-hours of the morning. IMHO there is a time and a place for EVERY musical type/style on WFMU-- this is definitely the place, but I'm not sure this is the time for it.
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listener james from westwood:

Hell yes for Ciani!
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Hellraiser 2024 Swag For Life Member 9:13am
Michael C St Lou:

Hello! and agreed, it is nearly impossible to go wrong w bacon
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Hellraiser 2024 Swag For Life Member 9:14am
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Charles in Chicago @9:11
ha! exactly what i meant...thought trouble vegetarian
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:14am
StringOFperils:

↳ Charles in Chicago @9:11
Not to mention, pigs.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:14am
Trouble:

have you seen this? suzanne ciani on dave letterman www.youtube.com...
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Hellraiser 2024 Swag For Life Member 9:15am
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Mark91 @9:13
i don't get that at all
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Hellraiser 2024 9:15am
Charles in Chicago:

↳ StringOFperils @9:14
Have you seen the little piggies, clutching forks and knives?
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Hellraiser 2024 9:15am
No Big Thing in Chicago:

↳ Trouble @9:14
!!!
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Spankyflop:

↳ Trouble @9:14
I loved the Letterman morning show!
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Trouble:

@ mark 91; that's the joy of wfmu, each dj gets to do the show that they want to do.
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Hellraiser 2024 Swag For Life Member 9:17am
Zip7:

In his book "20th Century Dreams," Guy Peellaert has a hilarious painting of Bacon painting a portrait of Margaret Thatcher
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:18am
Woo:

↳ Trouble @9:16
Wake then the Modern World works for me.
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Hellraiser 2024 Swag For Life Member 9:19am
tom tom the pipers son:

funny... is thatcher screaming like the pope
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Hellraiser 2024 Swag For Life Member 9:19am
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Zip7 @9:17
^^^^^^^^^
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Hellraiser 2024 Swag For Life Member 9:19am
Michael C St Lou:

especially baked w some maple syrup, brown sugar, paprika and or cayenne
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Hellraiser 2024 9:20am
Charles in Chicago:

↳ Trouble @9:14
Classic clip. Reminds me of the time Stevie Wonder appeared on Cosby (yeah I know) and explained sampling to Theo. "Jammin' on the 1" m.youtube.com...
Avatar 9:21am
Mark91:

↳ Trouble @9:16
Agreed.
Zzzz.... ;-)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:21am
Trouble:

@mark 91: perhaps this show isn't for you
  9:22am
tgrace55:

This song sounds like it’s out of a 90s video game or something, very chill and cool
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Hellraiser 2024 Swag For Life Member 9:24am
tom tom the pipers son:

i have a recently published website that i'd like to share so take a look if you like...
tommoore525.wixsite.com...

be back in about half hour
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Hellraiser 2024 9:25am
Charles in Chicago:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:24
nice work Tom!
  9:25am
Toothgrinder Tom:

It was actually raining earlier this morning - not really rain though but more of a fine mist.
  9:27am
Lucky:

This set is amazing!!!!
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Trouble:

gracias@lucky!
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Charles in Chicago:

↳ Mark91 @9:21
the beauty of the archives is that you can listen to this show late at night if you prefer (although this timeslot suits me just fine!)
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Hellraiser 2024 Swag For Life Member 9:31am
Webhamster Henry:

Hi there Trouble Listeners!
  9:32am
the serpent:

β€œEric Adams: Just Another Pig”
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TDK60:

Bonjour DJ T.
  9:32am
Mike In DC:

Umm don't forget George Santos has been convicted
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:33am
StringOFperils:

↳ Mike In DC @9:32
The only conviction that guy has ever known
  9:34am
Mike In DC:

And Rep D'Espositonis in trouble for putting mistress on congressional payroll. And fiancee's kid, too! New York is keeping up!
  9:35am
Mike In DC:

E'sposito is in trouble***
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Hellraiser 2024 9:36am
Charles in Chicago:

↳ Mike In DC @9:35
does he like bacon?
  9:36am
Mike In DC:

D'Esposito, even. Dang typos.
  9:37am
Mike In DC:

↳ Charles in Chicago @9:36
Probably so!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:39am
G:

mais do que valsa = More Than Waltz

previsao do tempo = Weather Forecast (could also, less commonly, mean Time Forecast)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:39am
Trouble:

here is a schedule for shredding etc in Hudson County:
Saturday, September 28th, Mobile Shredding, Jose Marti School (Field Parking Lot), Union City, West Hudson Park (Duck Pond Parking Lot), Kearny
Sunday, October 6th, HHW/E-Waste Recycling/Tire Amnesty, Gregg Park (Lot #1), Bayonne, Municipal Complex (13-15 Linden Ave), Jersey City
Saturday, October 12th, Mobile Shredding, DPW (1500 Jefferson Street), Hoboken, DPW (217 71st Street), Guttenberg
Saturday, October 19th, HHW/E-Waste Recycling/Tire Amnesty, DPW (357 Bergen Ave), Kearny, DPW (1500 Jefferson Street), Hoboken
Saturday, October 26th, Mobile Shredding, Lincoln Park (Duncan Ave Parking Lot), Jersey City
Saturday, November 2nd, Mobile Shredding, DPW (6200 Dewey Ave), West New York, Red Bull Arena (North Parking Lot), Harrison
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Hellraiser 2024 Swag For Life Member 9:40am
Ken From Hyde Park:

Good morning, Trouble and mayors in trouble with the feds.
  9:40am
Toothgrinder Tom:

Re nasnusa, perfect moment for this!
  9:40am
Toothgrinder Tom:

I have a lot of bag wealth.
  9:41am
Lucky:

↳ Trouble @9:39
That's good information!!!
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Dan S:

Indictment of our elected and appointed Government officials. Proof that there's more that unites NJ and NY than divides us. LOL
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:43am
StringOFperils:

This sounds a lot like Can's 'Blessed Easter'
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:44am
Trouble:

exactly@ dan s!
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Hellraiser 2024 Swag For Life Member 9:44am
strangegait:

Tapping my toes a lot to this show! Thanks!
  9:44am
Mike In DC:

↳ Ken From Hyde Park @9:40
Uh oh why is Trouble in trouble with the Feds? FCC POLICE! FREEZE!
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d-_-b __Listener Jonny in MA:

Hi TROUBLE!!!! I've been lurking!!! I always love our THursday mornings. Best to everyone.
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Hellraiser 2024 Swag For Life Member 9:46am
strangegait:

↳ Mike In DC @9:44
Hope the Jazz Police aren't out to get Trouble.
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Trouble:

glad to hear about the toes @ strangegait
  9:49am
Mike In DC:

↳ strangegait @9:46
I think they rebranded to "jazz isn't a label we would apply to our work" police
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:50am
Bones:

The problem (as it were) with listening to Trouble's show is that every week my Discogs cart gets heavier and heavier
  9:51am
Dave V:

Maybe NJ will also get recognized for having better pizza and bagels than NY, lol.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:51am
Handy Haversack:

↳ Mike In DC @9:49
They ignore consent decrees AND traditional song structure.
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Hellraiser 2024 Swag For Life Member 9:54am
strangegait:

↳ Handy Haversack @9:51
Not unlike the fusion junta.
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Dan S:

Some have suggested that Eric Adams will now be well qualified to run for US president. Donald Trump scoffs at this, pointing out that he's already been convicted of a felony, so he's still way ahead of Adams in presidential credentials.

OK, I'm done for the day. :-)
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Hellraiser 2024 Swag For Life Member 9:56am
strangegait:

This bit is Tortoise-y
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TDK60:

Here's your schedule for neighborhood food composting:
Oops! Forgot. Adams took that away.
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Hellraiser 2024 Swag For Life Member 9:58am
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Charles in Chicago @9:25
thank you charles @ 9:25
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Hellraiser 2024 Swag For Life Member 9:58am
Zip7:

My favorite NYC corruption scandal involved the Sheriff of New York County, Thomas Farley, who testified during the citywide investigation in the 1930s. Judge Seabury elicited this testimony:
Seabury: Where did you keep these moneys you had saved?
Farley: In a safe-deposit box at home in my house.
Q: Whereabouts at home in the house did you keep this money that you had saved?
A: In the safe.
Q: In a little box in a safe? A: A big safe.
Q: But a little box in a big safe?
A: In a big box in a big safe. Q: Was the box crowded or very full?
A: Well, it was full and plenty in it.
Q: Now, Sheriff, was this big box that was safely kept in the big safe a tin box or a wooden box?
A: A tin box.
Q: Giving you the benefit of every doubt on sums from your official vocation, the $83,000 extra you deposited in 1929 came from the same source that the other money came from?
A: It did. Same tin box.
Q: Kind of a magic box?
A: It was a wonderful box.
Q: A wonderful box. What did you have to do - rub the lock with a little gold, and open it to find more money?
A: I wish I could.
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Handy Haversack:

↳ TDK60 @9:57
I'll spend the weekend in the library researching alternate methods -- oh, wait. Adams got rid of weekend hours for libraries. I guess I'll just have to enjoy one of our clean, well-kept public restrooms instead.
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Micheal:

↳ Song: "the fairest of the seasons" by "nico"
My 18 year old just discovered Nico, which is nice! Thanks, Trouble!
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Hellraiser 2024 Swag For Life Member 10:00am
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Zip7 @9:58
funny ....hopefully farley was convicted...
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TDK60:

↳ Handy Haversack @10:00
Morning, Handy.
Fare evader? Careful, you could be shot.
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Juli P:

Wow: high cheek bones
πŸ™„
  10:05am
traven:

↳ Zip7 @9:58
Thanks for sharing. It all reminds me of the song "Little Tin Box" from the Broadway play "Fiorello".
  10:05am
Fredericks:

Another moral panic.
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Hellraiser 2024 Swag For Life Member 10:06am
Michael C St Lou:

only 1 type of book should be banned/burned IMO, and they'not in libraries or schools
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WoodsOfMaine:

It’s just pathetic. And of course, most of the people involved in this have not read a single one of the books.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:08am
Handy Haversack:

↳ TDK60 @10:02
Weird how we have plenty of money to keep the subway full of heavily armed police.
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TDK60:

A local library here (NYC) does have a Banned Books Week table with some of the challenged books. A good thing.
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BillyLundun:

Up with libraries!
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Hellraiser 2024 Swag For Life Member 10:09am
tom tom the pipers son:

this book banning trend seems like an inverse of 'keeping up with the joneses" ..." keeping down with the joneses"
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WoodsOfMaine:

Trouble, you’re teaching them how to think. What are you, a socialist?!! ;-)
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maurer:

preach!
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Handy Haversack:

A very depressing article in Hellgate today about how the NYPL is suppressing its own branch librarians from putting up displays featuring books about Palestine even as it congratulates itself on fighting censorship and banned books.
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Hellraiser 2024 Swag For Life Member 10:10am
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ WoodsOfMaine @10:09
right... how not what...
  10:11am
Squinchy:

↳ Handy Haversack @10:10
I saw that. Cowardly.
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Hellraiser 2024 Swag For Life Member 10:12am
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Handy Haversack @10:10
litera-cide
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:14am
Trouble:

NO @ woods of maine. I am a marxist...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:15am
Handy Haversack:

↳ Squinchy @10:11
And branch librarians are really keyed in to what their communities want. If they are putting up displays about Palestine it's because they have patrons who want more information. Because they are in the best sense of the words civil servants. So the library managers (NB: politicians, not librarians) are acting against their own mandate.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:15am
WoodsOfMaine:

↳ Trouble @10:14
Right! Sorry, I can’t keep my isms straight these days. So many to choose from!
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Hellraiser 2024 Swag For Life Member 10:15am
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Trouble @10:14
RIP frederic jameson
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TDK60:

↳ Handy Haversack @10:10
Oh no, HH. The plot thickens.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:17am
Handy Haversack:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @10:15
Oh, damn. I hadn't heard!
  10:17am
Mike In DC:

Umm don't forget George Santos has been convicted
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Hellraiser 2024 Swag For Life Member 10:18am
Michael C St Lou:

funny story, when the trend I re-sorted all that I owned to the most prominent display and it was around the holidays so told our grown children I wanted any banned books I didnt already have, my daughter said what bands?
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Hellraiser 2024 Swag For Life Member 10:18am
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Handy Haversack @10:17
couple of days ago
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:20am
Trouble:

Karl marx wrote in the 1800's so he's sort of OG @woods of maine
  10:21am
traven:

↳ Trouble @10:14
No kidding! I' m a Marxist too - Groucho, Chico, Harpo, and Zeppo!
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Hellraiser 2024 Swag For Life Member 10:21am
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Handy Haversack @10:17
his last book, an overview of french theorists, up for pre order a verso website
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:22am
Handy Haversack:

↳ Trouble @10:20
Trouble, did you read China MiΓ©ville's recent annotations of / essay on The Communist Manifesto? A really good exegesis of it and a restoration of its vitality.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:22am
Handy Haversack:

↳ Handy Haversack @10:22
shop.wordbookstores.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:23am
WoodsOfMaine:

↳ Song: "a resurrection kink" by "theoxenia"
Good gawd, I thought this was Jandek for a second there...
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Hellraiser 2024 Swag For Life Member 10:24am
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Trouble @10:20
i know your kidding, but one doesn't need to agree with marx on everything to be a marxist
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Trouble:

no @handy i haven't. the original is so tremendously readable, he was a great writer.
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Hellraiser 2024 Swag For Life Member 10:25am
2/3 of the Perrin Family:

↳ Handy Haversack @10:22
great read
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Mike W:

Handleton can ya re-fix that link you just posted? It didn’t take me there...
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Beast of Boonton:

Roseate spoonbill bird spotted in Union Beach, NJ - www.app.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:28am
Trouble:

How do you know that i am kidding @tomtom? how do you know anything about me?
  10:30am
robotashley:

This song is blowing my mind, I love it
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:30am
Handy Haversack:

↳ Mike W @10:27
The Word Bookstore link? Working for me:

shop.wordbookstores.com...

Not sure how else to post it. Bookshop.org link?

bookshop.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:30am
Trouble:

that is amazing@beast of boonton!!!
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Hellraiser 2024 Swag For Life Member 10:31am
strangegait:

↳ Beast of Boonton @10:27
That's amazing!
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Hellraiser 2024 Swag For Life Member 10:31am
strangegait:

Oops. Sorry to parrot you, Trouble. It is amazing tho.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:32am
Handy Haversack:

↳ strangegait @10:31
Parroting a spoonbill. That could lead to dancing.
  10:33am
Toothgrinder Tom:

@Zip7 9:58 that sounds eerily similar to the lyrics of a song from the hit musical β€˜Fiorello’ called β€˜Little Tin Box.’
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:33am
Trouble:

no parroting understood @strangegait, that bird is simply amazing, that's all there is to it!
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strangegait:

Do you think birds in wildly flamboyant colors know how fabulous they are? Or is it just their normal?
  10:35am
Toothgrinder Tom:

Bradbury’s β€˜Fahrenheit 451’ - prescient much?
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Mike W:

Thanks HH, my browzr doesn’t like the link but i’ll find it
  10:37am
Col & Eddie in the app:

New Cure song’s been out for 3 hours
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Handy Haversack @10:30
thanks for link...just bought book...site worked fine
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Mike W @10:37
A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
By China MiΓ©ville

$21.95

ISBN-13: 9781642598919
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Crownless Gander:

Marx on electoral politics: "Even when there is no prospect whatsoever of their being elected, the workers must put up their own candidates in order to preserve their independence, to count their forces, and to bring before the public their revolutionary attitude and party standpoint. In this connection they must not allow themselves to be seduced by such arguments of the democrats as, for example, that by so doing they are splitting the democratic party and making it possible for the reactionaries to win. The ultimate intention of all such phrases is to dupe the proletariat. The advance which the proletarian party is bound to make by such independent action is indefinitely more important than the disadvantage that might be incurred by the presence of a few reactionaries in the representative body."
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Zip7:

↳ Toothgrinder Tom @10:33
Yeah that song was based on this testimony. Account is from NY Times
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Charles in Chicago:

↳ Song: "gott afind a lover" by "Roy Ayers Ubiquity"
weird mix on this, those vibes are so far forward.
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Trouble @10:28
well i'm actually not sure what i DID mean by that...but what i was in my head was that marxism has changed since 1800's....
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Mike W:

Weird that not only does my browsr dislike that link, but The Word’s own site gives zero search results for the book and Mieville. The Cosmos speaks to me strangely, as ever.
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Charles in Chicago:

↳ Trouble @10:20
Understanding Marx will straighten out your head,
More than anything that you've ever read
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Crownless Gander @10:42
www.spusa2024.org
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tom tom the pipers son:

the mieville book is not available through word bookshop... was just refunded
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Charles in Chicago:

↳ Crownless Gander @10:42
Great quote, can you tell me the source?
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Crownless Gander:

↳ Handy Haversack @10:46
Right on. Lots of good alternative choices out there, actually.
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Trouble:

@ tom tom: marxism is a lens to examine the machinations of society, no matter the time period.
  10:47am
traven:

↳ Crownless Gander @10:42
It's always saddened me that third party candidates are excluded from the presidential debates.
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Malcolm:

gooseberry jam?
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strangegait:

Jazz flute--The Jazz Police will be placated.
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Crownless Gander:

↳ traven @10:47
It's a vicious cycleβ€”they're excluded because people don't vote for them; people don't vote for them because they're excluded.
  10:49am
Lucky:

Even full on business schools study Marx. They may disagree with his valuations or solutions, but much of the economic theory tracks for them.
  10:49am
Lucky:

↳ strangegait @10:48
AJCAB
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Handy Haversack:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @10:46
Weird, that's where I got it -- and they will order anything from their distributor. Is it backordered? That's not what it says in the search results. Mike's strange cosmos is spreading!
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Malcolm:

↳ Lucky @10:49
haha!
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Handy Haversack @10:50
the distributor is out of book
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WoodsOfMaine:

↳ Crownless Gander @10:48
And people don’t often vote for them because of the realities of the electoral college. Sadly.
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unpopularfred:

↳ Lucky @10:49
I think business schools study Marx but take his criticisms as instructions. "How should we grease the gears of industry?" "It says here to use the blood of workers." "Excellent! Let's do that."
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Crownless Gander:

↳ WoodsOfMaine @10:51
Yeah, it's rigged along a lot of axes. But the idea that folks are expected to vote for one of two people who both plan to continue doing literally the worst thing a leader of any state can possibly do is just infuriating, and I hope will cause people to do whatever else they can instead.
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Trouble @10:47
i agree, wasn't saying otherwise
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Mike W:

Typical, I’m a failure at everything except being a vector for bad galactic vibes
  10:55am
Philip:

dig the psych
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bixa (𝘣𝘦𝘦-𝘩𝘒):

hullo hullo
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still b/p:

↳ Song: "Home Made Jam" by "Bobbi Humphrey"
Was trying to check if that was Stevie's harmonica on Bobbi's track. She did play with him on, at least, his Another Star.
  10:56am
Lucky:

Pebbles!
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Charles in Chicago:

↳ Charles in Chicago @10:45
Another great book inspired by Marx - I read this back in college "Everything Solid Melts Into Air" www.versobooks.com...
  10:56am
Lucky:

↳ unpopularfred @10:53
Yessss!
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WoodsOfMaine:

↳ Crownless Gander @10:54
Yeah, there are a few states making moves, like in Maine there’s ranked choice voting, which the republican screeched out. Given the β€œpopularity” of gerrymandering, I don’t have a lot of hope for meaningful change in my lifetime.
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Charles in Chicago:

↳ Charles in Chicago @10:47
Ah I found the source of that quote - Marx, "Address to the Central Committee," p. 117.
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paddy in matawan:

↳ Song: "Giving You the Benefit (7" Version)" by "pebbles"
This is great. There is so much obscure stuff from the 80s that I want!
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Crownless Gander:

Ranked ballot unfortunately doesn't help that much, as long as it's still for a first-past-the-post system, from what I understand. Proportional representation is really needed to change things. Here in Canada, too, though we at least don't have the electoral college, thank god.
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Jason from Houston:

↳ Song: "Giving You the Benefit (7" Version)" by "pebbles"
Soooooooo good.
  10:59am
traven:

↳ Crownless Gander @10:48
True. The two major parties have rigged the system to their favor over the decades. I personally feel that they fear giving any third party candidates a national forum to put forth their ideas.
  10:59am
Lucky:

↳ still b/p @10:56
It is Stevie...
  11:00am
Toothgrinder Tom:

What is the role of human agency in Marxism? If the system ends up collapsing and evolving through its own contradictions?
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Malcolm:

↳ Song: "Giving You the Benefit (7" Version)" by "pebbles"
sounds like an intriguing comp. Their latin freestyle one was really fun
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still b/p:

↳ Lucky @10:59
Yes, just saw Discogs credit showing it was.
Thanks.
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Crownless Gander @10:59
You can have ours. Seriously, go ahead. It's all yours.
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Crownless Gander:

↳ Toothgrinder Tom @11:00
It's a social science, so it doesn't deny individual agency, just is interested in how that plays out on higher levels.
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bixa (𝘣𝘦𝘦-𝘩𝘒):

enjoying catching up on the chat here today. always so many books to check out
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Charles in Chicago:

↳ WoodsOfMaine @10:57
Nebraska just rejected a push to eliminate their proportional allotment of electoral votes (which would have benefitted Trump). And it was a Republican who stood up for it. Way to go Mike McDonnell www.cbsnews.com...
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Handy Haversack @11:00
You can have Missouri, too. We do NOT need it.
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Mxter Baba:

Rest In Power Marcellus Williams πŸ™πŸΏ
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WoodsOfMaine:

Rules?!! Like: Thou shalt not kill? Yeah. Right.
  11:04am
Peter v:

Love this info Trouble!!
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WoodsOfMaine:

↳ Charles in Chicago @11:03
Kind of shocking.
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bixa (𝘣𝘦𝘦-𝘩𝘒):

↳ Mxter Baba @11:03
amen RIP Marcellus Khaliifah Williams.
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Neanderthal Head:

just signed on to say, you're making good trouble, trouble.
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Michael C St Lou:

↳ Handy Haversack @11:03
thanks a lot. I did grow up and educated in Illinois if that helps at all
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Charles in Chicago:

↳ Handy Haversack @11:03
Ever been to Kansas City, Handy?
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Franco Twinkie:

We're living in dark times, indeed.
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Noir Lover:

I am not shocked most Americans don't vote. Many people are only focused on what's in front of them and don't feel like voting matters to them.
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tom tom the pipers son:

the "recognition" of personhood of a fetus strangely echoes the "recognition" of corporations as "persons"
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Neanderthal Head:

voting is important, but, as adolph reed, jr says, its a way of consolidating what we win on the ground by organizing.
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Ξ²rian:

We hit 45% here in Madison for a summer primary. PRIMARY!
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Edison Mausoleum:

Oklahoma had a woman governor recently, but she wasn't exactly a champion of women's rights
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Threemoons πŸŒ›πŸŒ•πŸŒœ:

Hey Trouble, fellow Troublemakers. YES VOTE VOTE VOTE.
  11:07am
You:

The most corrupt cities are governed by Democrats.
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Charles in Chicago @11:04
No, I haven't. I *would* like to see the Negro Leagues museum some day. Except after last time, K8 and I vowed never to go to Missouri again.
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Stanley:

↳ Crownless Gander @10:59
Crownless - same system over here, first past the post. I was always for proportional representation but at our recent general election the far right got 14% of the vote, which would translate as 90 seats instead the fuckers got 5. So now, I'm not so sure.
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Franco Twinkie:

↳ Neanderthal Head @11:06
I like to think that my vote cancels the vote of one shit for brains idiot.
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Threemoons πŸŒ›πŸŒ•πŸŒœ:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @11:06
Yup, a blastula is more important than a female host body (which is all the Rethugs see women as -- that or Emotional Support Animals for manbabys). OTOH corporations are "people" that can never be jailed and can kill with impunity.
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Charles in Chicago:

Women of the world, take over! www.youtube.com...
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Ken From Hyde Park:

"Don't vote for criminals" might not be a bad campaign slogan to have.
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Charles in Chicago:

↳ Handy Haversack @11:08
KC is really cool, and that museum is awesome.
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Bobby:

Alright feels good in here
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Bobby:

↳ Handy Haversack @11:08
Worth the trip!
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Threemoons πŸŒ›πŸŒ•πŸŒœ @11:08
exactly it 3moons....hi!
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Crownless Gander:

↳ Stanley @11:08
Yeah, well, that's a problem with democracy in general. But my feeling is that PR electoral systems are the most democratic, and generally encourage multiple parties with multiple viewpoints who all have to negotiate to come to decisions, because none ends up with a majority.
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Threemoons πŸŒ›πŸŒ•πŸŒœ:

Also, I've started re-reading the excellent series Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis. Yes, Ellis turned out to be yet another perv who manipulated and fucked scores of his female fans all while claiming that his life-partner and mother of his child was "unstable, but didn't want to leave her." Still, give the man his fucking royalties this time and READ THIS. Its core theme is....a Presidential election and how fucked up the whole process is. Really. en.wikipedia.org...
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TDK60:

It Can't Happen Here.
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WoodsOfMaine:

↳ TDK60 @11:11
I bought a copy of that during the orange goon years but had to put it on the shelf. Too much.
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Crownless Gander @11:10
does that make it a parliementary gov't?
  11:13am
traven:

↳ Noir Lover @11:06
And usually those people who don't vote are the ones who complain the loudest about the policies of the government.
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Handy Haversack:

↳ TDK60 @11:11
Now THAT is a book worth reading!

bookshop.org...
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TDK60:

↳ TDK60 @11:11
That was meant to convey: it can.

Hi Woods. I read it around then, too.
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Mike Sin:

The fact that the turnout for 2020 was that low, the fact that any woman in her right mind in 2024 would pull the lever for Trump, and the fact a fair percentage of the population supports pardons for the terrorists that attacked the Capitol building on 1/6/21 tells me that although US was once the country with the most potential to be greatest in the world... we ended up being the f-ed up, untamed mongrels that most countries predicated we be in 1783.
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Crownless Gander:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @11:13
I don't think necessarily. Any kind of democratic government with multiple representatives.
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Threemoons πŸŒ›πŸŒ•πŸŒœ:

↳ Crownless Gander @11:10
Yup. The Electoral College is an embarassing holdover from the Civil War Era and gives Joe Slackjaw Cousinfucker effectively 5x the voting power of people in those "elite urban enclaves" otherwise known as "actually, where most of the US population actually lives these days." And the Rethugs will fight tooth and nail to keep it that way because without the electoral college, you would never see another Yalliban Rethug President ever again. Yeah, Uncle/Cousin Cletus can still vote for his Dad/Brother for local dog catcher, local corrupt judge, etc, and send his cousin/son to the House/Senate, but the White House? Nope.
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d-_-b __Listener Jonny in MA:

↳ Song: "all we need" by "patrice rushen"
Thanks for this Trouble!!! Great track!
  11:14am
You:

I’m voting for Harris because Trump might overrule Row v Wade again
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Stanley:

↳ Crownless Gander @11:10
We'll be watching how Germany fares over the next few yesr.
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TDK60:

↳ Handy Haversack @11:13
Thanks, Handy. It should be at your local library, right?
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d-_-b __Listener Jonny in MA:

↳ Threemoons πŸŒ›πŸŒ•πŸŒœ @11:14
I love you a little bit right now.
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WoodsOfMaine:

↳ Mike Sin @11:14
A friend of mine often says that the β€œidea of the United States is circling the drain.” Can’t say that I disagree.
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Crownless Gander:

↳ You @11:14
Ha ha!
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Handy Haversack:

↳ TDK60 @11:15
Should be!
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TDK60:

↳ Handy Haversack @11:15
In Missouri?
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Threemoons πŸŒ›πŸŒ•πŸŒœ:

↳ You @11:07
Unless you're talking about minor stuff like voter suppression, gutting school budgets, constant pushing the lines between Church and State, and other very corrupt blatant civil rights law-breaking. In that case, the Rethug States and their little hamlets of scared, stupid, heavily armed minions take the gold every time.
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HyperDose:

↳ d-_-b __Listener Jonny in MA @11:15
πŸ”₯ *loosens tie* it's heating up in here! ♨️
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Franco Twinkie:

↳ traven @11:13
Exactly. Just like the people who complain about immigrant have never been out of the United State

Provincial dumbfucks.
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Crownless Gander @11:14
right, was just thinking that because it sounds like a coalition gov't
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Crownless Gander:

Dang, gotta step back out. Thanks for the engaging convo, folks, and for the great music, Trouble!
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Handy Haversack:

↳ TDK60 @11:16
Somewhat dicier.
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Mxter Baba:

↳ Neanderthal Head @11:04
yeah!! I appreciate Trouble’s trouble!
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WoodsOfMaine:

↳ Threemoons πŸŒ›πŸŒ•πŸŒœ @11:14
β€œSlackjaw cousinfucker”…gotta write that down.
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Threemoons πŸŒ›πŸŒ•πŸŒœ:

↳ WoodsOfMaine @11:17
Take it and run with it! Vaya con Dios! :)
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Ken From Hyde Park:

↳ Franco Twinkie @11:16
And undoubtedly have immigrants tenting their yards and properties.
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Mxter Baba:

oh, and hello folx! just tuning in here upon an autumnal west coast morning
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Franco Twinkie:

↳ Ken From Hyde Park @11:18
Or scrubbing the toilet at Chick Fillet.
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bixa (𝘣𝘦𝘦-𝘩𝘒):

↳ WoodsOfMaine @11:15
i've heard that too. and empires have a 250 year cycle... tick tock...
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iiibeat:

Kinda like how VP Harris supports abortion rights AND the Neo-Con death war machine.
Wait . . That is actually consistent. Nevermind! lol
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TDK60:

↳ Mxter Baba @11:18
Oh hello, Mx B. How did I miss?
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Threemoons πŸŒ›πŸŒ•πŸŒœ:

↳ d-_-b __Listener Jonny in MA @11:15
Why thank you! Needed to hear that today. :)
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Franco Twinkie:

↳ Mxter Baba @11:18
Howdy Babba!
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(Murakami Whywolf))):

↳ Mike Sin @11:14
You forgot '…and proud of it.'.

That's one thing that bugs me: we've always had barbarians in our midstβ€”they were useful in conquering this country from the peoples whose ancestors conquered it beforeβ€”but they used to know that they needed civilusation, too, and occasionally be embarrassed about our own barbarism. Now they claim that it's all that 'being American' means.
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chris in the redwoods:

↳ Song: "ain't nobody straight in L.A." by "the miracles"
this is amazing! :)
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Threemoons πŸŒ›πŸŒ•πŸŒœ @11:18
can i offer mothercousinfucker?
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Michael C St Lou:

↳ Mxter Baba @11:18
hi, just in time, its been fun
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Noir Lover:

↳ Song: "ain't nobody straight in L.A." by "the miracles"
This is wild!
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Bobby:

Any of you local people coming to Monty tonight? Come to Monty tonight. We’ll say hi. We’ll have a moment
  11:22am
You:

We need a gay president because sexual pleasures beyond human comprehension are a national priority.
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chresti:

Mxter Babakins!
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chresti:

↳ Threemoons πŸŒ›πŸŒ•πŸŒœ @11:20
Threemoons for president!
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Michael C St Lou:

↳ Bobby @11:21
not local, but been wondering about the neighborhood, how is it for walking at night and sleeping ina car? asking for friend of course
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unpopularfred:

↳ You @11:22
your sexual comprehension speaks for all humans, does it?
  11:25am
Toothgrinder Tom:

@Crownless Gander 11:01 let me put it this way: correct me if I’m wrong but if social change arises out of the dialectic of the economic system, then why does one have to do anything at all? Isn’t the outcome already assured (a revolution ushering in a utopian society)?
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jeanjae:

Thank you for encouraging listeners to vote, and thanks for talking about the threats to women's health care. Rock on, sister.
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HyperDose:

Kayleigh Amstutz 2024 πŸŽ«πŸ—³οΈ
We're gonna paint the white house pink! β€οΈπŸ΄πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ
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Threemoons πŸŒ›πŸŒ•πŸŒœ:

America's main problem is that they WERE the world's Golden Child for a hot second. And after WWII, we aalllllllllllllmost got nationalized healthcare and we were the only superpower. Dialing it back to the beginning, we also kickstarted the idea of a government based on a Constitution. Then, eventually, European countries took the idea back and made their own and BETTER configuration of Parliamentary governments, which pretty much *forces* compromise and coalitions. It's not a winner-take-all system.
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Bobby:

↳ Michael C St Lou @11:23
I think the neighborhood is not a problem for walking. Not sure about the sleeping in car part. If anyone on right now lives in JC, maybe they could speak to that part
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Bobby @11:21
Wish I could! I'll make it to one of these, I swear.
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Toothgrinder Tom @11:25
there is very little dialectic in our economy and i don't think marxists are looking for utopia
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Threemoons πŸŒ›πŸŒ•πŸŒœ:

So America stagnated politically while Europe caught up socially. Of course, both the US and much of Western Europe both had ugly pasts that are coming home to bit us all in the ass. The US STILL never really dealt with its bloody foundation of slavery and mass genocide against the indigenous populations, as well as pretty much treating EVERY wave of immigrants like shit in some kind of pecking order to this very day. And Europe...well....colonialism and two very bloody World Wars means that they have a labor problem....as well as the fact that they willingly traded 6 million plus Jews who had been there for hundereds of years and integrated, productive members of society for 10 million mostly male economic refugees who absolutely hate what we would consider Western values.
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Bobby:

↳ Handy Haversack @11:28
I know you haven’t been to one because I put my hands in my pockets, sigh, and look out the window for you
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Michael C St Lou:

↳ Bobby @11:28
perfect. TY so much. jk about sleeping in car part tho, sorta
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Threemoons πŸŒ›πŸŒ•πŸŒœ:

↳ Bobby @11:28
I can't go tonight but I would never sleep in a car unless I really had to.
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Mxter Baba:

all the kins!
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HyperDose:

↳ Mxter Baba @11:31
The hive's a-buzzin today! 🍯🐝🐝
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Bobby @11:30
I feel it every time.
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Threemoons πŸŒ›πŸŒ•πŸŒœ @11:30
by the 10 million, are you referring to recent immigration
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northguineahills:

↳ Threemoons πŸŒ›πŸŒ•πŸŒœ @11:31
I've done it plenty of times, but usually at a resr area or large parking lot, never on an urban street.
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Ken From Hyde Park:

The last time I slept in my car was when I came to Trouble's bird watching event in the Meadowlands. Pulled up in a bank parking lot in northern NJ to nap for a couple hours.
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Bobby:

Ok new plan everyone drive to the Monty thing and then we’ll pick a rest stop and sleep separately in our cars
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Threemoons πŸŒ›πŸŒ•πŸŒœ:

I mean, to our credit, for a hot second (again after WW2) we really did kickstart a lot of the pharmaceutical and technological advancement. Then Reganomics happened and the slow, slow, carefully plotted crawl to pack every court everywhere and lay legal landmines for anything that may remotely give people a sliver of a better quality of life started. It was an intentional slow-burn revenge plan to punish the citizenry for the Civil Rights Movement, and certain very angry old White dudes who wanted their spawn to continue to float on a wave of mediocrity forever.
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Bobby @11:34
See, if the station hadn't sold that parking lot, there'd be a whole nother world of listener meet-ups just waiting to be explored!
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Michael C St Lou:

❀Im there
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Bobby:

↳ Handy Haversack @11:35
TRUE
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bixa (𝘣𝘦𝘦-𝘩𝘒):

↳ Bobby @11:34
that sounds cute
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Threemoons πŸŒ›πŸŒ•πŸŒœ:

And they did that by convincing Uncle Cletus Cousinfucker that anyone remotely smarter or more successful than them was trying to force them to read a book or something, and to cast blame on anyone that looked different than them -- all while American manufacturing was pretty much eviscerated and the destruction of the middle class went on unabated because of outrage politics.
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Toothgrinder Tom:

@tom tom I thought that was the whole appeal?
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northguineahills:

↳ Bobby @11:34
when i played the x-fest in brattleboro, most of the out of the region slept in their cars in the parking lot of the venue.
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Threemoons πŸŒ›πŸŒ•πŸŒœ:

And back to Transmetropolitan -- even though it takes place in the future, it could be now -- one standout line is that "America doesn't manufacture shit anymore; the only thing we export is bad reality TV" or something along those lines. The shit and shenanigans covered in it are an almost perfect parallel of what's going on right now, here, today.
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Threemoons πŸŒ›πŸŒ•πŸŒœ @11:37
there is a definition of the u.s. oince spouted by john kerry who said" everyone in the u.s. has a right to be stupid"
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Threemoons πŸŒ›πŸŒ•πŸŒœ:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @11:39
Yup. And we got Regan because G-d looked down and said unto us "you fuckers don't DESERVE anyone as smart as Carter."
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Toothgrinder Tom @11:38
yes... idk, but it's not what appeals to me about marxism
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Jim Macnie:

thx for the Russell, Ms. T.
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Threemoons πŸŒ›πŸŒ•πŸŒœ:

And back to the idea of the Federalist Society set and packing the courts...the first major play of course was Bush vs. Gore, and once Gore conceded, that's when I knew we were fucked. The Dems are slowly, slowly, SLOWLY starting to realize that you don't bring a fucking teacup poodle and a spoon to a pit bull fight where all of the other participants have rocket launchers.
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Δ¨kΔ—:

I’m stuck in a horribly-organized, massive Bklyn Dem Party meeting in a Marriott ballroom after waiting in a seemingly infinite line for an hour. It’s never clear if the corrupt leadership of this Tammany Hall relic intentionally organizes poorly to get reformers to give up and go home, or if they’re just incompetent. Maybe a little of both! Do we have the votes to topple Eric Adams’s pals this year? Who knows?
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WoodsOfMaine:

↳ Song: "coming back ( from the distance between the space...
This is such a great album!
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WoodsOfMaine:

↳ Threemoons πŸŒ›πŸŒ•πŸŒœ @11:42
Now that I’m thoroughly depressed, I’m gonna go read my backlog of daily Zippy the Pinhead comics...
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Chris in Kensington Bklyn:

↳ Song: "ain't nobody straight in L.A." by "the miracles"
I have this cut on vinyl! It's on their 1975 City of Angels album.
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Threemoons πŸŒ›πŸŒ•πŸŒœ @11:35
Let's not forget that this postwar "prosperity"was only for white Americans and was predicated on retooling a war industrial base to massive production of cars and spreading that to Europe and beyond, massively accelerating the climate crisis and establishing the primacy of the automobile and the supposed "right" to automobility (that is, the growth at any and all cost of fossil fuel companies and manufacturers of cars and planes) -- all of which is the greatest existential threat to the species (with the possible exception of nuclear weapons). So that "advancement" was once again to benefit a tiny (white, wealthy, capitalist) minority at the expense of every other life on Earth. Prosperity? Advancement? I am not seeing it.
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Trouble:

Helllo@jim macnie!!!
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Δ¨kΔ— @11:42
Always bring a book!
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carlton:

THis sounds like John C Reilly is singing
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Threemoons πŸŒ›πŸŒ•πŸŒœ:

↳ WoodsOfMaine @11:44
Somewhere in Idaho a stripper is carrying a tuna casserole around the block! Are we having fun yet?
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Threemoons πŸŒ›πŸŒ•πŸŒœ:

↳ Handy Haversack @11:46
Yup, that too.
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TDK60:

↳ Song: "coming back ( from the distance between the space...
Lonnie Holley sometimes gives me a healing feeling.
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Ken From Hyde Park:

Good news: free test kits are available again: special.usps.com...
Bad news: the virus persists and you may need a test kit.
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Handy Haversack @11:46
the big picture put succinctly...
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Ochre Ogre:

Thanks Trouble!
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Trouble:

Not exactly @ handy: many african americans held factory jobs in that post war boom and were able to provide for their families. when factories started closing in the 60's and 70's that created huge job losses
  11:51am
Toothgrinder Tom:

@WoodsOfMaine 11:44 I’ve been doing that with β€˜Nancy’ lately.
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chresti:

Handy for Presidant!
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Trouble @11:51
in the north...
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TDK60:

↳ Ken From Hyde Park @11:49
Thanks, Ken. I just ordered more.
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WoodsOfMaine:

↳ Threemoons πŸŒ›πŸŒ•πŸŒœ @11:48
Ha!
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WoodsOfMaine:

↳ Toothgrinder Tom @11:51
I sometimes do this thing where I sign up for a newsletter and then let β€˜em get backed up. Not sure why. Existential angst or something.
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Trouble @11:51
True, Trouble, of course. But the wealth extraction of the bosses vs. the meager wealth accumulation of the workers (not to mention redlining and all else) ensured that extraction worked in one direction only.

ALL THAT SAID, thanks for another wonderful show! It went far too quickly!
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northguineahills:

happy thanks. trouble!
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WoodsOfMaine:

Great music and great yakkin’ today, as always. Now, time to read a banned book.
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northguineahills:

↳ Trouble @11:51
detroit is a prime example....
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TDK60:

Merci, Trouble.
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Threemoons πŸŒ›πŸŒ•πŸŒœ:

So yeah, now, we've spread pollution all around the world -- privatized profit and socialized the damage. And any solutions are no longer in America's hands; we fumbled the ball. While we have half the country insisting that a blastula can vote and carry a gun, China is cozying up to India and China is going ahead of us as far as medicine and tech -- the only two fucking things that the US had an edge in back after the wars. AND WE DID IT TO OURSELVES. WE outsourced all of our shit to them and they took it all and copied it. Do you think the Chinese government is going to NOT use fetal tissue for drug development? They have an iron-fisted top down system of government and a high social cohesion, which means they can get shit done a lot faster than us. Its neighbor, India, OTOH is still a shattered nation in many ways post-colonialism BUT it has a huge population and like China, a huge global diaspora of well-to-dos.
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northguineahills:

↳ Song: "a ray of light" by "Susumu Yokota"
lurve susumu yokota....
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Michael C St Lou:

❀❀❀ TY everybody!πŸ₯°
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Threemoons πŸŒ›πŸŒ•πŸŒœ:

Just uploaded a panel from Transmetropolitan in my profile that describes voting in the US perfectly. Have a look!
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common:

↳ Song: "The Girl From Ipanema" by "Astrud Gilberto"
always makes me weepy.
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love2laf:

Thank you trouble, the music selections, the mic breaks (esp urging all to vote), made for a thoroughly modern Thursday. Cheers everyone.
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tom tom the pipers son:

thanks trouble and everyone on the chat
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northguineahills:

↳ common @11:57
me too!
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Noir Lover:

Great show!
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common:

↳ northguineahills @11:57
beautiful
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Threemoons πŸŒ›πŸŒ•πŸŒœ:

Thanks all! Thanks for the great show Trouble, and thanks all for coming to my TED talk.
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Ken From Hyde Park:

Thanks, Trouble. Let us go forth and vote for good things, be it ballots or pocketbooks.
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Dances with Moomins:

Thanks Trouble !
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Threemoons πŸŒ›πŸŒ•πŸŒœ @11:58
ha!
  11:59am
Douglas R:

The girl is my ringtone, and when someone calls, I let it go on so others can hear it to and their heads start bopping.
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bixa (𝘣𝘦𝘦-𝘩𝘒):

thanks trouble <3
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Siriusly:

Thanks for playing the Jan Steele - my first introduction to WFMU was a friend sharing this album with me that he had found on FMU ages ago. I had played the album while he was visiting, and I guess he searched and found in the archives.
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