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@markears.bsky.social
Chicago based. Musician & plant lover. Into hiking, modular synths, literature and art.
TIL…
Farewell Tom Stoppard. I know I'm supposed to consider "Arcadia" your best work, but there's no improving on Brazil's taut first hour & the office dialogue in particular.
November 29, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE IS ESCAPISM
November 29, 2025 at 9:04 PM
PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE IS ESCAPISM
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Oh my heck, it IS magic. There's "self-heating concrete" scitechdaily.com/revolutionar...
Revolutionary Concrete From Drexel Melts Snow and Ice Naturally
Drexel researchers show concrete with phase-change material can warm itself when temperatures fall. There’s a patch of concrete on Drexel University’s campus that could portend a frost-free future for...
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November 29, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Thanksgiving: I'm thankful for the marvelous Tom Waits song "Chicago" — and the fantastic new cover version by Mavis Staples — and for the chance to write about it. www.chicagomag.com/arts-culture...
Maybe Things Will Be Better in Chicago
A spirited Mavis Staples cover of Tom Waits‘s “Chicago” gives us reason to muse on music, migration, and our city.
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November 28, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Thanksgiving: I'm thankful for the marvelous Tom Waits song "Chicago" — and the fantastic new cover version by Mavis Staples — and for the chance to write about it. www.chicagomag.com/arts-culture...
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J. C. Leyendecker's original cover art for the Saturday Evening Post edition of November 24, 1928, depicts the pilgrim's progress over three-hundred years.
November 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
J. C. Leyendecker's original cover art for the Saturday Evening Post edition of November 24, 1928, depicts the pilgrim's progress over three-hundred years.
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OTD 48 years ago Jane Suck and I wrote the post punk electronica manifesto New Musick in Sounds. I’m still very proud of this: we caught something in our fevered queer brains. Note the very early (the first?) use of the term post punk. Articles included Kraftwerk, Eno, Devo, TG, the Residents, Ubu
November 26, 2025 at 11:55 AM
OTD 48 years ago Jane Suck and I wrote the post punk electronica manifesto New Musick in Sounds. I’m still very proud of this: we caught something in our fevered queer brains. Note the very early (the first?) use of the term post punk. Articles included Kraftwerk, Eno, Devo, TG, the Residents, Ubu
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Yoko Ono Returns to the U.S. With a 200+ Work Retrospective
Yoko Ono Returns to the U.S. With a 200+ Work Retrospective in Chicago
“The exhibition will really open a lot of eyes, so people will realize how much Yoko Ono has done for the arts.”
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November 26, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Yoko Ono Returns to the U.S. With a 200+ Work Retrospective
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to all my fellow coil fans:
please consider not buying the newest scatology re-release from some bizarre
please consider not buying the newest scatology re-release from some bizarre
November 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
to all my fellow coil fans:
please consider not buying the newest scatology re-release from some bizarre
please consider not buying the newest scatology re-release from some bizarre
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Today's fact: the paint tube was invented ten years after the photograph.
November 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Today's fact: the paint tube was invented ten years after the photograph.
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Honcho, 1998, I had a monthly column for a few years which could be covering anything from a sex party to an interview to a review of the Venice biennale. RIP Udo Kier
November 24, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Honcho, 1998, I had a monthly column for a few years which could be covering anything from a sex party to an interview to a review of the Venice biennale. RIP Udo Kier
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'This came out before David Byrne and Eno did ‘Jezebel Spirit’. Tony Wilson always used to say, ‘They ripped you off’ [laughs] but we were just doing similar stuff at the same time."
’Sluggin’ fer Jesus’ - The Strange World Of… Early #CabaretVoltaire
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’Sluggin’ fer Jesus’ - The Strange World Of… Early #CabaretVoltaire
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November 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
'This came out before David Byrne and Eno did ‘Jezebel Spirit’. Tony Wilson always used to say, ‘They ripped you off’ [laughs] but we were just doing similar stuff at the same time."
’Sluggin’ fer Jesus’ - The Strange World Of… Early #CabaretVoltaire
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’Sluggin’ fer Jesus’ - The Strange World Of… Early #CabaretVoltaire
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RIP Jimmy Cliff. This remains one of the all time great songs of defiance. youtu.be/pmc5H6zAi6M?...
The Harder They Come
YouTube video by Jimmy Cliff - Topic
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November 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
RIP Jimmy Cliff. This remains one of the all time great songs of defiance. youtu.be/pmc5H6zAi6M?...
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RIP Udo Kier 🥀🥀🥀
I interview him when Kingdom Hospital was released in cinema, and carried on with a fashion spread, curating him into Visions of Excess in Brum England, Berlin travels, and lots of Palm Springs times in the early 2000s.
I interview him when Kingdom Hospital was released in cinema, and carried on with a fashion spread, curating him into Visions of Excess in Brum England, Berlin travels, and lots of Palm Springs times in the early 2000s.
November 24, 2025 at 1:58 AM
RIP Udo Kier 🥀🥀🥀
I interview him when Kingdom Hospital was released in cinema, and carried on with a fashion spread, curating him into Visions of Excess in Brum England, Berlin travels, and lots of Palm Springs times in the early 2000s.
I interview him when Kingdom Hospital was released in cinema, and carried on with a fashion spread, curating him into Visions of Excess in Brum England, Berlin travels, and lots of Palm Springs times in the early 2000s.
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Same, kid. Same.
November 24, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Same, kid. Same.
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To help artists find “a path to the deviations within themselves,” Nayland Blake has a few (or 100) thoughts. Assignments include installing shelves on the street and making a sculpture that “produces the pleasure of being ignored.”
100 Assignments From Nayland Blake
While these assignments will not turn someone else into me, they will provide the practitioner with a path to the deviations within themselves.
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November 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
To help artists find “a path to the deviations within themselves,” Nayland Blake has a few (or 100) thoughts. Assignments include installing shelves on the street and making a sculpture that “produces the pleasure of being ignored.”
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Lee Miller contact sheet of her photos of Leonora Carrington and Max Ernst in 1939 - probaby at their house in France, which they were forced to leave by the nazis, after which they left for Mexico www.worldofinteriors.com/story/leonor...
November 22, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Lee Miller contact sheet of her photos of Leonora Carrington and Max Ernst in 1939 - probaby at their house in France, which they were forced to leave by the nazis, after which they left for Mexico www.worldofinteriors.com/story/leonor...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne added the “w” to his family name because he was ashamed of his great-great-grandfather, a judge in the Salem witch trials.
it is interesting, all family trees have that one ancestor they're really ashamed of, and now we're seeing the making of those ancestors in realtime. three, four, five generations down the road these will be the people everyone wishes they didn't have blood-ties to and skims over their lives.
DOJ is now recruiting for immigration judges by calling them “deportation judges.”
That’s seems really bad.
That’s seems really bad.
November 22, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Nathaniel Hawthorne added the “w” to his family name because he was ashamed of his great-great-grandfather, a judge in the Salem witch trials.
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Happy anniversary to the Max Headroom incident, the greatest example of signal hijacking.
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November 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Happy anniversary to the Max Headroom incident, the greatest example of signal hijacking.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hea...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hea...
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Chicago skyline, 1958
November 21, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Chicago skyline, 1958
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A Guide to J.G. Thirlwell’s Foetus
Source: Bandcamp Daily. James George Thirlwell was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia, where he studied art before moving to England in 1978 to participate in London’s exploding punk scene. While working at Virgin Records as the independent label buyer,…
Source: Bandcamp Daily. James George Thirlwell was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia, where he studied art before moving to England in 1978 to participate in London’s exploding punk scene. While working at Virgin Records as the independent label buyer,…
A Guide to J.G. Thirlwell’s Foetus
Source: Bandcamp Daily. James George Thirlwell was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia, where he studied art before moving to England in 1978 to participate in London’s exploding punk scene. While working at Virgin Records as the independent label buyer, Thirlwell played synthesizer in post-punk group pragVEC and developed working relationships with Steven Stapleton of Nurse With Wound and William Bennett of Whitehouse and Come.
avantmusicnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
A Guide to J.G. Thirlwell’s Foetus
Source: Bandcamp Daily. James George Thirlwell was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia, where he studied art before moving to England in 1978 to participate in London’s exploding punk scene. While working at Virgin Records as the independent label buyer,…
Source: Bandcamp Daily. James George Thirlwell was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia, where he studied art before moving to England in 1978 to participate in London’s exploding punk scene. While working at Virgin Records as the independent label buyer,…
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Yesterday, striking baristas took action at Starbucks’ biggest distribution center that serves the entire east coast.
Today, union stores in 25+ MORE cities are joining our national, open-ended ULP strike!
Our union isn’t slowing down… in fact, we’re just getting started. #NoContractNoCoffee $SBUX
Today, union stores in 25+ MORE cities are joining our national, open-ended ULP strike!
Our union isn’t slowing down… in fact, we’re just getting started. #NoContractNoCoffee $SBUX
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 20, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Yesterday, striking baristas took action at Starbucks’ biggest distribution center that serves the entire east coast.
Today, union stores in 25+ MORE cities are joining our national, open-ended ULP strike!
Our union isn’t slowing down… in fact, we’re just getting started. #NoContractNoCoffee $SBUX
Today, union stores in 25+ MORE cities are joining our national, open-ended ULP strike!
Our union isn’t slowing down… in fact, we’re just getting started. #NoContractNoCoffee $SBUX
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Jeremy Allen talks to Stephen Mallinder about The Cabs' first decade, the eternal struggle to find the right drum machine and inventing anti-fascist dance routines.
The Strange World Of… Early #CabaretVoltaire
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The Strange World Of… Early #CabaretVoltaire
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November 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Jeremy Allen talks to Stephen Mallinder about The Cabs' first decade, the eternal struggle to find the right drum machine and inventing anti-fascist dance routines.
The Strange World Of… Early #CabaretVoltaire
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The Strange World Of… Early #CabaretVoltaire
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no one is writing for lapsed catholics like @jpbrammer.bsky.social is writing for lapsed catholics
I wrote about Rosalía's "Lux," martyrdom, and our collective gastrointestinal health johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/eat-me
Eat Me
On Rosalía's "Lux" and our collective gut health
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November 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM
no one is writing for lapsed catholics like @jpbrammer.bsky.social is writing for lapsed catholics