Pat Padua
@anamelessyeast.bsky.social
A freelance writer and dog lover with too many records
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Did Andreas Gursky ever make a Black Friday series
November 29, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Did Andreas Gursky ever make a Black Friday series
Properly baked, and I kinda prefer the burnt ones
November 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Properly baked, and I kinda prefer the burnt ones
Happy Thanksgiving from overbaked bourbon chocolate pecan pies that taste like giant cookies
November 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Happy Thanksgiving from overbaked bourbon chocolate pecan pies that taste like giant cookies
From Lou’s lost John Hughes movie
November 27, 2025 at 3:36 PM
From Lou’s lost John Hughes movie
Nice, Elmore Leonard namechecking 70s Oliver Nelson
November 26, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Nice, Elmore Leonard namechecking 70s Oliver Nelson
Ah, the 80s! With General Strike (a Steve Beresford/David Toop project), Eithne Ni Bhraonain (aka Enya), Jah Wobble, and field recordings from around the world.
Various Artists, Touch Travel (Touch cassette 1984)
Various Artists, Touch Travel (Touch cassette 1984)
November 22, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Ah, the 80s! With General Strike (a Steve Beresford/David Toop project), Eithne Ni Bhraonain (aka Enya), Jah Wobble, and field recordings from around the world.
Various Artists, Touch Travel (Touch cassette 1984)
Various Artists, Touch Travel (Touch cassette 1984)
Weeding records, and the two crying babies lps are definite keepers but the duck calling records can maybe go
November 18, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Weeding records, and the two crying babies lps are definite keepers but the duck calling records can maybe go
Tonight in records I forgot I had
November 16, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Tonight in records I forgot I had
Today’s autumnal religious mail call: a needlepoint Fabiola
November 13, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Today’s autumnal religious mail call: a needlepoint Fabiola
Ordered a copy of the brochure from a 2005 Bogardy exhibit in North Carolina (co-curated by former NGA film programmer Peggy Parsons—anyone I know in contact with her?) and the way they wrapped it is fantastic
November 13, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Ordered a copy of the brochure from a 2005 Bogardy exhibit in North Carolina (co-curated by former NGA film programmer Peggy Parsons—anyone I know in contact with her?) and the way they wrapped it is fantastic
Bogardy was a regular Capitol Hill presence until his death at n 1992, frequenting St. Peter’s on the Hill and the Chesapeake Bagel shop. Any of my old Hill/LOC peeps remember him?
November 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Bogardy was a regular Capitol Hill presence until his death at n 1992, frequenting St. Peter’s on the Hill and the Chesapeake Bagel shop. Any of my old Hill/LOC peeps remember him?
Today’s biggest church yard sale score: for $2, a painting by Catholic outsider artist Alexander Bogardy, a DC/Baltimore resident with work in the Smithsonian
November 8, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Today’s biggest church yard sale score: for $2, a painting by Catholic outsider artist Alexander Bogardy, a DC/Baltimore resident with work in the Smithsonian
Highly concerned on multiple levels about the Elf-branded Mrs. Butterworth’s syrup
November 8, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Highly concerned on multiple levels about the Elf-branded Mrs. Butterworth’s syrup
Was surprised to find 2 inch video recently at an estate sale in my brother’s condo
November 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Was surprised to find 2 inch video recently at an estate sale in my brother’s condo
Sending out a bat signal for The Reynolds Girls
November 3, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Sending out a bat signal for The Reynolds Girls
Ironically harder to hear as an album than Made in USA. All I hear are pieces from the perfectly-sequenced Bossa Nova 2001 with singles and bits of Overdose mixed in. I do appreciate the English-language “Happy Sad,” and this music will always remind of the year my mother died.
October 28, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Ironically harder to hear as an album than Made in USA. All I hear are pieces from the perfectly-sequenced Bossa Nova 2001 with singles and bits of Overdose mixed in. I do appreciate the English-language “Happy Sad,” and this music will always remind of the year my mother died.
30 years ago, I’d reach for the visionary Bossa Nova 2001 or Overdose before either of the Matador comps that broke them stateside. But tonight, this hits me as a solid greatest-early hits.
Pizzicato Five, Made in USA (Matador 1994)
Pizzicato Five, Made in USA (Matador 1994)
October 22, 2025 at 4:33 AM
30 years ago, I’d reach for the visionary Bossa Nova 2001 or Overdose before either of the Matador comps that broke them stateside. But tonight, this hits me as a solid greatest-early hits.
Pizzicato Five, Made in USA (Matador 1994)
Pizzicato Five, Made in USA (Matador 1994)
Tonight in later Sonny
October 6, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Tonight in later Sonny
Been hitting a bad run of tapes so it’s nice to crack open some sealed deadstock
October 4, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Been hitting a bad run of tapes so it’s nice to crack open some sealed deadstock
I used to see Andrew White, who lived in Brookland, on the Metro, so I was sorry I didn’t buy his self-published autobiography while he was alive. So I was happy to find it on eBay for all of $11.27
October 2, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I used to see Andrew White, who lived in Brookland, on the Metro, so I was sorry I didn’t buy his self-published autobiography while he was alive. So I was happy to find it on eBay for all of $11.27
What if you were immersed in the fevered basement brains of two beer-swilling potheads you don’t have anything in common with, whose every aesthetic choice is terrible, but you find them utterly endearing? Incompetent and inarticulate, but strangely compelling.
October 2, 2025 at 2:11 PM
What if you were immersed in the fevered basement brains of two beer-swilling potheads you don’t have anything in common with, whose every aesthetic choice is terrible, but you find them utterly endearing? Incompetent and inarticulate, but strangely compelling.