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See link below for Manson book! American Studies, UMass Boston Current Project- “Boston Sounds, 1974-1999” @fsu_UMB 🇵🇸 Books on Black-Jewish relations (Right to Sing the Blues and Leo Frank), 9/11 and Manson. skyhorsepublishing.com/9781628728941/…

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · Nov 12

Start with the debut record by my daughter’s bf Alfredo Colon (Blood Burden). Great alto player and bandleader

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 11h

Didn’t really have a tv

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 11h

💜💜💜

Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 11h

I just mentioned the tv show Cheers to my 28 year old child who was raised in Boston and she said “what’s that?”

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 14h

Deep

Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 14h

Oh fun!

Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 15h

It is HONK! and the tuba reps for Palestine

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 19h

Hahaha ok who put me on the list, good one!

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 21h

These a gift from my daughter, visiting from Brooklyn

Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 21h

My cola

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 1d

Sweet

Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 1d

Have my kid home visiting, highly recommend

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 1d

Kind of you

Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 1d

“In public”

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 1d

I really appreciate that when Cardi wants to pay homage to her man’s thing she just efficiently says she wants to hold it while he pees and doesn’t belabor some overwrought redwood tree imagery.

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 1d

Good teaching day but appended two words to something I said that inadvertently changed my whole meaning in a way that made me blush right down to my soul.

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 2d

My vague sense is that she has largely discredited herself but I’m still grateful to Nicki Minaj: as the parent of a girl who hit her teens in early 2010s I remember NM’s music opening up some very important conversations.

Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 2d

Well put

Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 2d

Oh man I’m old enough to remember the men’s movement weirdos in the 1990s who talked about being “intact” and now this putz is serving crackpot cocktails?

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

RFK JR: There are many other confirmations -- there are two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism. It’s highly likely because they are given Tylenol

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 2d

Ohhhh

Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 2d

But my favorite Dylan Hicks’ song is actually “Ambulance”—one of the most gorgeous songs ever about being a Dad and coming to accept that you cannot always protect or keep your kid but you can slip a few bucks to them before they start the drive back to [quiet sob] their own home.

Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 2d

You should listen to Dylan Hicks. Start with “Gallery A”—just a few perfect verses about a museum guard who sees an enigmatic solo patron laugh one day, cry another, shouts out John Berger and Franz Marc, and curates an outro with horns and piano that articulates giggly joy.

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Day! youtu.be/RvV3nn_de2k

Sammy Hagar - I Can't Drive 55

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 2d

Whoa. The moment when that cop in NYC can’t believe the miners don’t have dental insurance

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 2d

I often think fondly of the student in my older kid’s 8th grade class who managed to smuggle in as his yearbook quote a line from Saddam Hussein about fire raining from the sky on the United States.

In 2003.

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 2d

That is really something

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