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Michaelangelo Matos
Author, historian, critic, journalist
St. Paul
he/him
The Underground Is Massive (Dey Street, 2015); Can't Slow Down (Hachette, 2020)
I edit books - inquire within
Beat Connection: DJ mixes newsletter - http://michaelangelo.substack.com
Author, historian, critic, journalist
St. Paul
he/him
The Underground Is Massive (Dey Street, 2015); Can't Slow Down (Hachette, 2020)
I edit books - inquire within
Beat Connection: DJ mixes newsletter - http://michaelangelo.substack.com
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BC148 - Five Mixes: RA Podcast à la POW, January-May 2025
Catching up with the year in Resident Advisor mixes, with some help
michaelangelo.substack.com
Now up at Beat Connection: Catching up on the year in @residentadvisor.bsky.social podcasts, with some tips from Passion of the Weiss's Michael McKinney.
michaelangelo.substack.com/p/bc148-five...
michaelangelo.substack.com/p/bc148-five...
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Now up at Beat Connection: Catching up on the year in @residentadvisor.bsky.social podcasts, with some tips from Passion of the Weiss's Michael McKinney.
michaelangelo.substack.com/p/bc148-five...
michaelangelo.substack.com/p/bc148-five...
BC148 - Five Mixes: RA Podcast à la POW, January-May 2025
Catching up with the year in Resident Advisor mixes, with some help
michaelangelo.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Now up at Beat Connection: Catching up on the year in @residentadvisor.bsky.social podcasts, with some tips from Passion of the Weiss's Michael McKinney.
michaelangelo.substack.com/p/bc148-five...
michaelangelo.substack.com/p/bc148-five...
Now up at Beat Connection: Catching up on the year in @residentadvisor.bsky.social podcasts, with some tips from Passion of the Weiss's Michael McKinney.
michaelangelo.substack.com/p/bc148-five...
michaelangelo.substack.com/p/bc148-five...
BC148 - Five Mixes: RA Podcast à la POW, January-May 2025
Catching up with the year in Resident Advisor mixes, with some help
michaelangelo.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Now up at Beat Connection: Catching up on the year in @residentadvisor.bsky.social podcasts, with some tips from Passion of the Weiss's Michael McKinney.
michaelangelo.substack.com/p/bc148-five...
michaelangelo.substack.com/p/bc148-five...
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December 1, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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Reading and looking at art and examining things closely—observing, noticing—are my entire raison d'être, and I'm just really fucking grateful that I had people to teach me those skills and that I grew up in a time when those things were still valued
November 30, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Reading and looking at art and examining things closely—observing, noticing—are my entire raison d'être, and I'm just really fucking grateful that I had people to teach me those skills and that I grew up in a time when those things were still valued
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Road House. (It takes place in a world where someone can become a nationally famous *bar bouncer*. Fantasy.)
Without saying Lord of the Rings, name a fantasy film.
November 30, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Road House. (It takes place in a world where someone can become a nationally famous *bar bouncer*. Fantasy.)
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I am not one of those "musicals are terrible" bros but even I was kind of thrown by how much I enjoyed 'Summer Stock'
November 30, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I am not one of those "musicals are terrible" bros but even I was kind of thrown by how much I enjoyed 'Summer Stock'
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November 30, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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everywhere the repudiation of making, reading, learning, process. everywhere the negation of mediation. that's immediacy baybee.
November 30, 2025 at 2:21 PM
everywhere the repudiation of making, reading, learning, process. everywhere the negation of mediation. that's immediacy baybee.
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"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
November 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
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Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
November 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
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Barbara Stanwyck with Rod La Rocque in THE LOCKED DOOR (1929). Directed by
George Fitzmaurice, this was Stanwyck’s first talkie and first starring role.
George Fitzmaurice, this was Stanwyck’s first talkie and first starring role.
November 30, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Barbara Stanwyck with Rod La Rocque in THE LOCKED DOOR (1929). Directed by
George Fitzmaurice, this was Stanwyck’s first talkie and first starring role.
George Fitzmaurice, this was Stanwyck’s first talkie and first starring role.
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November 30, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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2 HONEY 2 CRISP
November 29, 2025 at 9:29 PM
2 HONEY 2 CRISP
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The elders were wrong: You SHOULD hate the player AND the game.
November 29, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The elders were wrong: You SHOULD hate the player AND the game.
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Yeah, I wrote IN THE BREWING LUMINOUS: THE LIFE & MUSIC OF CECIL TAYLOR last year - the first full-length Taylor bio. The publisher's in Germany but you can get it via AbeBooks in the US:
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In the Brewing Luminous - AbeBooks
In the Brewing Luminous: The Life & Music of Cecil Taylor by Philip Freeman and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at AbeBooks.com.
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November 29, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Yeah, I wrote IN THE BREWING LUMINOUS: THE LIFE & MUSIC OF CECIL TAYLOR last year - the first full-length Taylor bio. The publisher's in Germany but you can get it via AbeBooks in the US:
www.abebooks.com/servlet/Sear...
www.abebooks.com/servlet/Sear...
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Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
hsph.harvard.edu
November 28, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
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Who’s gonna tell ‘em
November 29, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Who’s gonna tell ‘em
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"This is a war crime" about the boat strikes doesn't make any sense because there's no war. The law of armed conflict doesn't apply to unilateral strikes against private actors.
The word you're looking for is "murder".
The word you're looking for is "murder".
November 29, 2025 at 12:23 AM
"This is a war crime" about the boat strikes doesn't make any sense because there's no war. The law of armed conflict doesn't apply to unilateral strikes against private actors.
The word you're looking for is "murder".
The word you're looking for is "murder".
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It is tragic that this person was put in a position where she lost her life for no reason other than to serve the vanity of a man determined to establish dominance over a city that hates him
"In the months leading up to the D.C. deployment, Beckstrom worked for a community health center that serves people with mental illness and substance abuse disorders." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
National Guard member killed in D.C. shooting remembered for 'heart of gold'
The slain soldier’s former boyfriend recalled her empathy and generosity. “She doesn’t even have to know you and she’ll do anything for you,” he said.
www.nbcnews.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:53 PM
It is tragic that this person was put in a position where she lost her life for no reason other than to serve the vanity of a man determined to establish dominance over a city that hates him
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“I was just following otters.”
November 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
“I was just following otters.”
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If lives weren’t in the balance, we could dwell on how _risible_ it feels to watch this guy cast as a sentinel of Western civilization, Trump cast as a Christian avenger, and RFK Jr. presented as a paragon of scientific values.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 5:40 AM
If lives weren’t in the balance, we could dwell on how _risible_ it feels to watch this guy cast as a sentinel of Western civilization, Trump cast as a Christian avenger, and RFK Jr. presented as a paragon of scientific values.
I understand why some of my friends don't honor today at all, and I celebrate them too, because I am thankful for you all!
November 27, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I understand why some of my friends don't honor today at all, and I celebrate them too, because I am thankful for you all!