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Who Cares Anyway: Post-Punk San Francisco & the End of the Analog Age (via @headpress.bsky.social): https://amzn.to/3M3L162 WCA podcast: https://whocaresanywaysf.wordpress.com/podcast Fatal Strategies (new podcast): https://fatalstrategies.substack.com

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Who Cares Anyway @leavinghashurt.bsky.social · Feb 8

"I just devoured this 560-page tome in what was effectively three glued sittings, and I’d very much like to tell you about it. It’s one of the best rock books I’ve read in years, and I’ve read a few." - Jay Hinman

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“Who Cares Anyway – Post-Punk San Francisco and the End of the Analog Age” – by Will York

I recognize that writing about Will York’s engrossing new book on San Francisco’s 1977-94 “post-punk” sub-underground takes us off our chosen journalistic beat a bit. Clearly, this is a book, and m…

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Who Cares Anyway @leavinghashurt.bsky.social · 10d

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paul cringes at ace’s jokes 2 minutes 7 seconds straight

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Who Cares Anyway @leavinghashurt.bsky.social · 10d

I feel like this one hasn't aged as well as the one after it (or even the one before it).

Who Cares Anyway @leavinghashurt.bsky.social · 23d

They're just worried about competition with their own preferred drug smugglers.

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Who Cares Anyway @leavinghashurt.bsky.social · 27d

No, he's actually been providing surplus value based on their model.

The Arenado contract is underwater, but not the Contreras one.

Who Cares Anyway @leavinghashurt.bsky.social · 27d

Nothing wrong with the Contreras contract. He's still an above average hitter (and defender) at 1B.

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Gregory Daurer aka Gregory Ego @gregoryego.bsky.social · Sep 25

GREGORY EGO PHOTOS: Born to Loose. Bruce Loose with Flipper at the Lion's Lair in Denver, 3/31/2012...

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Who Cares Anyway @leavinghashurt.bsky.social · Sep 23

Big difference is that in tennis, there's an actual line on the ground, whereas the strike zone is more of an abstract construct that varies from batter to batter...

Who Cares Anyway @leavinghashurt.bsky.social · Sep 19

Another Flipper/Bruce Loose photo question...

I've seen this one credited to Claire Sutherland, who seems to have been based in or around Boston, but I can't find any info on her.

Can anyone enlighten me? Is she still around?

Who Cares Anyway @leavinghashurt.bsky.social · Sep 16

Some of the gear used in making that album. The "Silicon Valley sound" was still very much analog in those days.

Who Cares Anyway @leavinghashurt.bsky.social · Sep 16

There is a new Quiet Room album, started in 1982 and finished earlier this year after the tapes were rediscovered:

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Who Cares Anyway @leavinghashurt.bsky.social · Sep 16

A new podcast episode is available—an interview with Philip Peters of early 80s Palo Alto electronic/synth pop outfit Quiet Room.

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WCA Podcast, Ep. 28: Philip Peters (Quiet Room)

With this episode, we take a trip back to Silicon Valley (as it was just coming to be known) at the dawn of the 1980s. The same area that gave rise to the Sleepers and U.X.A. during the original 19…

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Who Cares Anyway @leavinghashurt.bsky.social · Sep 14

This photograph of Flipper at the 9:30 Club (Washington, DC) doesn't have a photo credit, but it's too good just to be some rando's anonymous Wikipedia contribution.

Any leads on who might have taken it?

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Flipper (band) - Wikipedia

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Creamo Coyl @creamocoyl.bsky.social · Sep 11

I wrote about French punk label Idiotape Records for this month's Tape Label Report.
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The Tape Label Report, August 2025

Five tape labels to know and love this month.

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Fly PR @flypr.bsky.social · Sep 10

Will York speaks to guitarist Andy Hawkins of Blind Idiot God "about how he developed his distinctive guitar sound..." fatalstrategies.substack.com/p/ep-3-andy-...

Who Cares Anyway @leavinghashurt.bsky.social · Sep 9

This was from Bruce's year in NYC (1984). He and Susan had a band, Altered States of America, that included Daniel Carter on saxophone.

They played a few gigs but never recorded, although somewhere there are rehearsal tapes and maybe a live recording.

Who Cares Anyway @leavinghashurt.bsky.social · Sep 9

In other words, it wasn't intended as a photo of "Bruce from Flipper." They just happened to be passengers in the guy's cab.

And now it's part of this prestigious collection (meaning it'll probably be too $$$ to use in the book).

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Ryan Weideman

Ryan Weideman Exhibitions: In Sequence, 26 Jun - 29 Aug 2025; 20th Anniversary Exhibition, REWIND, 16 Dec 2021 - 19 Feb 2022; Ryan Weideman, In My Taxi, 1 - 17 Jun 2017; DISCOVERIES, A special selecti...

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Who Cares Anyway @leavinghashurt.bsky.social · Sep 9

"Snake People, Lower East Side, 1984"

This photo of Bruce Loose with Susan Miller (guitarist on his solo A-side "What's Your Name?" and later member of Bad Posture and Frightwig) was part of a series of taxicab passenger photos.

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Ryan Weideman, Snake People, Lower East Side, 1984

Gelatin Silver Print

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The Other Side of Life (Pumpkin Stylist) @theothersideoflife.bsky.social · Sep 5

R.I.P. Bruce Loose.

FYI currently reading "Who Cares Anyway" and highly recommend it!

Who Cares Anyway @leavinghashurt.bsky.social · Sep 5

After a prolonged struggle with life, Bruce "Loose" Calderwood of Flipper passed away from an apparent heart attack earlier this week at the age of 66.

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Who Cares Anyway @leavinghashurt.bsky.social · Sep 8

It turns out that this article/interview was the very beginning of the work on Bruce's memoir. A lot of material from that initial interview (most of which did not make it into the SFBG article) will finally appear in his book when it comes out, hopefully next year.

Who Cares Anyway @leavinghashurt.bsky.social · Sep 8

Rereading the 2005 article just now, I found several factual errors on my part:

*Bruce lived in Humboldt County, not Mendocino
*Album came out in '82, not '81
*Ricky died in '92, not '91
*Bruce did take part in a few of those "Punk Tribute to..." compilation tracks (tho they weren't his idea)

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Who Cares Anyway @leavinghashurt.bsky.social · Sep 8

The UK Guardian article (the most thorough Bruce obit yet) quotes from my 2005 SF Bay Guardian article on Bruce:

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Who Cares Anyway @leavinghashurt.bsky.social · Sep 8

The most thorough Bruce obituary so far. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

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Gregory Daurer aka Gregory Ego @gregoryego.bsky.social · Sep 7

Pescacontrarian: Bruce Loose draws the Flipper fish. Ruby Ray photo exhibit, March 29, 2012...

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Stereogum @stereogum.bsky.social · Sep 6

R.I.P. Bruce “Loose” Calderwood, longtime Flipper vocalist and bassist. Calderwood fronted the San Francisco punks on all four of their studio albums beginning with 1980’s ‘Album – Generic Flipper,’ an LP with a heavy, plodding sound hugely influential to bands like Nirvana. Bruce Loose was 66.

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Who Cares Anyway @leavinghashurt.bsky.social · Sep 6

He did, but now I've got other people second-guessing it...

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