Jay Babcock
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Semi-educated guesser. LANDLINE: jaybabcock.substack.com Past: Arthur Magazine co-founder/editor. babcock dot jay at gmail dot com
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Brightening reality with two recent photos of her majesty Poison Ivy, via 'Haunt of The Cramps' fb account. The

(The gentleman is American photographer and music video director Rocky Schenck.)

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Ditto. Can't stop thinking about it
paul thomas anderson's "one battle after another" is a great damn movie. casting & acting are amazing, the pynchon edge is distinct, its look & roll are made for these times.
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One Battle After Another | Official Trailer 2
YouTube video by Warner Bros.
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edsunspot.bsky.social
Artwork for “Protector”, a new single by Helado Negro. Out today
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nytpitchbot.bsky.social
Trump is practicing dementia in the right way.

by Ezra Klein
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anthologyfilm.bsky.social
GREASER’S PALACE
by Robert Downey Sr.
1972, 91 min, 35mm (Fri-Mon) + DCP (Tues-Thurs)

October 17-23

AFA RESTORATION PREMIERE!

Details: www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screeni...
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charlescmann.bsky.social
As the guy in the White House has recently insisted, today is Columbus Day. What to do about it, given Indigenous peoples’ entirely merited dislike of the whole thing? A couple-three ideas that I've been thinking about. 1/
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Resource! 37-song playlist. "In Depression-era Milwaukee, Hicks chases an heiress among Nazis and Big Bands — the list below sets the adventure’s tone."

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SHADOW TICKET – Thomas Pynchon
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timsteller.bsky.social
The Trump administration acknowledges their deportations could make food prices rise even more. So, instead of pursuing a legalization regime, they want to bring in more agricultural workers on visas. AND ALSO, they want to lower the wages of those visa holders.

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Feds: ICE raids a reason to cut pay for legal foreign farmworkers
The Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigration will likely result in fewer farmworkers. That means farmers should be able to pay legal migrant workers less, a new U.S. Department of
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jaywbabcock.bsky.social
"Wary to the end, Peter never published anything substantive about them, but he clearly intended to. **He labored on a Bigfoot book on and off for some thirty years.** It was the last work on his desk when he died, in 2014. "
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"He and I never spoke of Bigfoot again; he must have sensed my skepticism. Occasionally I wondered about this quirky manifestation of his naturalist’s curiosity, his Zen-tinged musing about sasquatches and their cousins the yeti. ...
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“Any sensibly minded person will be hoping Neil Young hires these three righteous goons as his next festival backing band. Hey hey, my my. Avant rock will never die.” @thequietus.com

Read JR Moore's full review of Orcutt Shelley Miller: thequietus.com/quietus-revi...
Columnfortably Numb: Psych Rock For October By JR Moores | The Quietus
JR Moores selects the best psych, post hardcore and noise rock to emanate fuzzily from the corners of the globe
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Trump, speaking in the Israeli parliament, boasts about the weapons the U.S. has provided and says "you obviously used them very well."
An estimated 20,000 children have died in the war in Gaza.
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Captain Beefheart on The Dr. Demento Show, December 3, 1978. doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/6409334...
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I skimmed through this — if they discussed their use of this absolutely potent style of hillbilly (?) rock n roll in the church, I missed it
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I am LIVE on the radio air/streams until Noon ET playing all new music for your mind, body and soul.

Tune in and follow this thread for the playlist.

Direct: wvkr.org

Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/station/w...

#nowplaying:

1. Wednesday Knudsen - Skyline - Atrium (Spinster 2025)
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