All The City Lights
@atcl.bsky.social
Fan of music, cargo bikes, the #EastBay, and humor. Not a fan of the seemingly inexorable slide into fascism. #ShoupPilled. Follow me if you want to have far too many song-a-day #MusicChallenge posts sliding into your timeline.
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Just like the stores are already taking down their Halloween stuff and getting up their holiday displays, it's time to start thinking about next month's cover song #MusicChallenge. Start lining up now for #5CoverSongsBlackFriday.
#NotKnownEnough
#MusicChallenge
least obscure ➡️ who??
Day 28 - The Kilbanes
📍 Oakland, CA
Monthly listeners: 40
Kate Kilbane (with husband Dan Moses) somewhat specializes in concept albums/rock musicals based on Greek myths, finding feminist themes in the tales of Medea and Procne & Philomela.
#MusicChallenge
least obscure ➡️ who??
Day 28 - The Kilbanes
📍 Oakland, CA
Monthly listeners: 40
Kate Kilbane (with husband Dan Moses) somewhat specializes in concept albums/rock musicals based on Greek myths, finding feminist themes in the tales of Medea and Procne & Philomela.
November 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
#NotKnownEnough
#MusicChallenge
least obscure ➡️ who??
Day 28 - The Kilbanes
📍 Oakland, CA
Monthly listeners: 40
Kate Kilbane (with husband Dan Moses) somewhat specializes in concept albums/rock musicals based on Greek myths, finding feminist themes in the tales of Medea and Procne & Philomela.
#MusicChallenge
least obscure ➡️ who??
Day 28 - The Kilbanes
📍 Oakland, CA
Monthly listeners: 40
Kate Kilbane (with husband Dan Moses) somewhat specializes in concept albums/rock musicals based on Greek myths, finding feminist themes in the tales of Medea and Procne & Philomela.
#readandplay (543)
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky
“No rules. The only limit is our imagination.”
Read 📚 & Play🎶
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky
“No rules. The only limit is our imagination.”
Read 📚 & Play🎶
November 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
#readandplay (543)
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky
“No rules. The only limit is our imagination.”
Read 📚 & Play🎶
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky
“No rules. The only limit is our imagination.”
Read 📚 & Play🎶
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen.
1. Gordon Lightfoot (8/10/1988, Meadow Brook Music Hall, Rochester Hills, MI)
2. Barenaked Ladies (6/1/1996, DTE Energy Music Theatre aka Pine Knob, Clarkston, MI)
3. Ben Folds Five (10/14/1999, Riviera Theatre, Chicago, IL)
1. Gordon Lightfoot (8/10/1988, Meadow Brook Music Hall, Rochester Hills, MI)
2. Barenaked Ladies (6/1/1996, DTE Energy Music Theatre aka Pine Knob, Clarkston, MI)
3. Ben Folds Five (10/14/1999, Riviera Theatre, Chicago, IL)
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen.
Weird Al Yankovic
Glenn Miller Orchestra
The Replacements
Afghan Whigs
The GoGos
Weird Al Yankovic
Glenn Miller Orchestra
The Replacements
Afghan Whigs
The GoGos
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen.
The Black Crowes
Cher
Slayer
Prince
Kenny Rogers
The Black Crowes
Cher
Slayer
Prince
Kenny Rogers
November 28, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen.
1. Gordon Lightfoot (8/10/1988, Meadow Brook Music Hall, Rochester Hills, MI)
2. Barenaked Ladies (6/1/1996, DTE Energy Music Theatre aka Pine Knob, Clarkston, MI)
3. Ben Folds Five (10/14/1999, Riviera Theatre, Chicago, IL)
1. Gordon Lightfoot (8/10/1988, Meadow Brook Music Hall, Rochester Hills, MI)
2. Barenaked Ladies (6/1/1996, DTE Energy Music Theatre aka Pine Knob, Clarkston, MI)
3. Ben Folds Five (10/14/1999, Riviera Theatre, Chicago, IL)
#5CoverSongsBlackFriday
#MusicChallenge
3. “Songs of Love,” Ben Folds (covering The Divine Comedy)
Shops mentioned, lines mentioned.
#MusicChallenge
3. “Songs of Love,” Ben Folds (covering The Divine Comedy)
Shops mentioned, lines mentioned.
November 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM
#5CoverSongsBlackFriday
#MusicChallenge
3. “Songs of Love,” Ben Folds (covering The Divine Comedy)
Shops mentioned, lines mentioned.
#MusicChallenge
3. “Songs of Love,” Ben Folds (covering The Divine Comedy)
Shops mentioned, lines mentioned.
#NotKnownEnough
#MusicChallenge
least obscure ➡️ who??
Day 27 - Timothy Monger
📍 Ypsilanti, Michigan
Monthly listeners: 60
One of the 3 songwriters from Day 25 act Great Lakes Myth Society, Monger has continued with several solo releases. You may note Neutral Milk Hotel influences on this track.
#MusicChallenge
least obscure ➡️ who??
Day 27 - Timothy Monger
📍 Ypsilanti, Michigan
Monthly listeners: 60
One of the 3 songwriters from Day 25 act Great Lakes Myth Society, Monger has continued with several solo releases. You may note Neutral Milk Hotel influences on this track.
November 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
#NotKnownEnough
#MusicChallenge
least obscure ➡️ who??
Day 27 - Timothy Monger
📍 Ypsilanti, Michigan
Monthly listeners: 60
One of the 3 songwriters from Day 25 act Great Lakes Myth Society, Monger has continued with several solo releases. You may note Neutral Milk Hotel influences on this track.
#MusicChallenge
least obscure ➡️ who??
Day 27 - Timothy Monger
📍 Ypsilanti, Michigan
Monthly listeners: 60
One of the 3 songwriters from Day 25 act Great Lakes Myth Society, Monger has continued with several solo releases. You may note Neutral Milk Hotel influences on this track.
#MusicInMusic
#MusicChallenge
Day 27 - "The Buck Starts Here," Robbie Fulks
Country week continues with this tribute to the cathartic powers of Buck Owens, with a little Hank Williams thrown in.
#MusicChallenge
Day 27 - "The Buck Starts Here," Robbie Fulks
Country week continues with this tribute to the cathartic powers of Buck Owens, with a little Hank Williams thrown in.
November 27, 2025 at 5:54 PM
#MusicInMusic
#MusicChallenge
Day 27 - "The Buck Starts Here," Robbie Fulks
Country week continues with this tribute to the cathartic powers of Buck Owens, with a little Hank Williams thrown in.
#MusicChallenge
Day 27 - "The Buck Starts Here," Robbie Fulks
Country week continues with this tribute to the cathartic powers of Buck Owens, with a little Hank Williams thrown in.
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Only 22 more votes for this to have the most total votes for a 1989 match!
The Best Album of 1989 Round 7 Match #128 - THE FINAL MATCH TO DETERMINE THE BEST ALBUM OF 1989
#1 Pixies, DOOLITTLE
vs.
#3 De La Soul, 3 FEET HIGH AND RISING
forms.gle/WZbDEMmYBZda...
#1 Pixies, DOOLITTLE
vs.
#3 De La Soul, 3 FEET HIGH AND RISING
forms.gle/WZbDEMmYBZda...
The Best Album of 1989 Round 7 Match #128 - The Final Match: Pixies vs. De La Soul
This is the Best Album of 1989 match for Wednesday, November 25th, 10am CST. It will be open for 24 hours, and the winner will be declared The Best Album of 1989. The losing album will be named The Se...
forms.gle
November 27, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Only 22 more votes for this to have the most total votes for a 1989 match!
You just died.
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
November 27, 2025 at 4:37 AM
You just died.
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
Gonna go ahead and just catch up now.
#5CoverSongsBlackFriday
#MusicChallenge
Day 2 - "Wrecking Ball," Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit with Father John Misty (covering Gillian Welch)
"We were riding high until the '89 quake
Hit the Santa Cruz Garden Mall"
youtu.be/QxIWn9S799s?...
#5CoverSongsBlackFriday
#MusicChallenge
Day 2 - "Wrecking Ball," Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit with Father John Misty (covering Gillian Welch)
"We were riding high until the '89 quake
Hit the Santa Cruz Garden Mall"
youtu.be/QxIWn9S799s?...
November 27, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Gonna go ahead and just catch up now.
#5CoverSongsBlackFriday
#MusicChallenge
Day 2 - "Wrecking Ball," Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit with Father John Misty (covering Gillian Welch)
"We were riding high until the '89 quake
Hit the Santa Cruz Garden Mall"
youtu.be/QxIWn9S799s?...
#5CoverSongsBlackFriday
#MusicChallenge
Day 2 - "Wrecking Ball," Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit with Father John Misty (covering Gillian Welch)
"We were riding high until the '89 quake
Hit the Santa Cruz Garden Mall"
youtu.be/QxIWn9S799s?...
I got my days messed up and now I'm 24 hours behind! #MusicChallengeStruggles
#5CoverSongsBlackFriday
#MusicChallenge
Day 1 - "The Power of Love," The Hold Steady
Don't need no credit card to ride this train!
youtu.be/FxoiBgvYSMc?...
#5CoverSongsBlackFriday
#MusicChallenge
Day 1 - "The Power of Love," The Hold Steady
Don't need no credit card to ride this train!
youtu.be/FxoiBgvYSMc?...
November 27, 2025 at 12:35 AM
I got my days messed up and now I'm 24 hours behind! #MusicChallengeStruggles
#5CoverSongsBlackFriday
#MusicChallenge
Day 1 - "The Power of Love," The Hold Steady
Don't need no credit card to ride this train!
youtu.be/FxoiBgvYSMc?...
#5CoverSongsBlackFriday
#MusicChallenge
Day 1 - "The Power of Love," The Hold Steady
Don't need no credit card to ride this train!
youtu.be/FxoiBgvYSMc?...
Downzoning: Just Don’t
This paper provides strong evidence that downzoning is associated with reduced construction and increased spatialized segregation. Don’t do it if you want a more equitable city!
Read the whole thing: findingspress.org/article/1474...
Read the whole thing: findingspress.org/article/1474...
Downzoning Chicago: How Local Land Use Policy Has Reduced Housing Construction and Reinforced Segregation | Published in Findings
By Yonah Freemark, George Kisiel. Downzonings were used by US cities in the postwar period to preserve neighborhood character. These land-use policies were associated with lower housing supply, higher...
findingspress.org
November 26, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Downzoning: Just Don’t
#MusicInMusic
#MusicChallenge
Day 26 - "Country Heroes," Hank Williams III
Alright folks, we're now entering "country week." Country singers love singing about other country singers who represent a better, more authentic past.
Mentioned: George Jones, David Allen Coe, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash
#MusicChallenge
Day 26 - "Country Heroes," Hank Williams III
Alright folks, we're now entering "country week." Country singers love singing about other country singers who represent a better, more authentic past.
Mentioned: George Jones, David Allen Coe, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash
November 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
#MusicInMusic
#MusicChallenge
Day 26 - "Country Heroes," Hank Williams III
Alright folks, we're now entering "country week." Country singers love singing about other country singers who represent a better, more authentic past.
Mentioned: George Jones, David Allen Coe, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash
#MusicChallenge
Day 26 - "Country Heroes," Hank Williams III
Alright folks, we're now entering "country week." Country singers love singing about other country singers who represent a better, more authentic past.
Mentioned: George Jones, David Allen Coe, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash
#NotKnownEnough
#MusicChallenge
least obscure ➡️ who??
Day 26 - Andy Breckman
📍 New Jersey
Monthly listeners: 150
What if I told you the creator of MONK—yes, the TV show about the multi-phobic detective—briefly had a "career" as a comedic folk singer, and his songs are fantastic and hilarious?
#MusicChallenge
least obscure ➡️ who??
Day 26 - Andy Breckman
📍 New Jersey
Monthly listeners: 150
What if I told you the creator of MONK—yes, the TV show about the multi-phobic detective—briefly had a "career" as a comedic folk singer, and his songs are fantastic and hilarious?
November 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
#NotKnownEnough
#MusicChallenge
least obscure ➡️ who??
Day 26 - Andy Breckman
📍 New Jersey
Monthly listeners: 150
What if I told you the creator of MONK—yes, the TV show about the multi-phobic detective—briefly had a "career" as a comedic folk singer, and his songs are fantastic and hilarious?
#MusicChallenge
least obscure ➡️ who??
Day 26 - Andy Breckman
📍 New Jersey
Monthly listeners: 150
What if I told you the creator of MONK—yes, the TV show about the multi-phobic detective—briefly had a "career" as a comedic folk singer, and his songs are fantastic and hilarious?
Post a famous bathroom scene
November 26, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Post a famous bathroom scene
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All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
U.S. President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate.
www.cnbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:37 AM
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
#NotKnownEnough
#MusicChallenge
least obscure ➡️ who??
Day 25 - The Original Brothers and Sisters of Love / Great Lakes Myth Society
📍 Ann Arbor, Michigan
Monthly listeners: 200
We gotta pump those numbers up, because this is one of my all-time favorite bands. Folk rock that actually rocks.
#MusicChallenge
least obscure ➡️ who??
Day 25 - The Original Brothers and Sisters of Love / Great Lakes Myth Society
📍 Ann Arbor, Michigan
Monthly listeners: 200
We gotta pump those numbers up, because this is one of my all-time favorite bands. Folk rock that actually rocks.
November 26, 2025 at 5:39 AM
#NotKnownEnough
#MusicChallenge
least obscure ➡️ who??
Day 25 - The Original Brothers and Sisters of Love / Great Lakes Myth Society
📍 Ann Arbor, Michigan
Monthly listeners: 200
We gotta pump those numbers up, because this is one of my all-time favorite bands. Folk rock that actually rocks.
#MusicChallenge
least obscure ➡️ who??
Day 25 - The Original Brothers and Sisters of Love / Great Lakes Myth Society
📍 Ann Arbor, Michigan
Monthly listeners: 200
We gotta pump those numbers up, because this is one of my all-time favorite bands. Folk rock that actually rocks.
#MusicInMusic
#MusicChallenge
Day 25 - "Tina's Glorious Comeback," Dan Mangan
I got introduced to Mangan during #20GreatCanadianTunes. The assumption is that "Tina" in the title/chorus is Tina Turner, and Elvis is Elvis, and "Frankie in his wild years" is either Sinatra or a Tom Waits reference???
#MusicChallenge
Day 25 - "Tina's Glorious Comeback," Dan Mangan
I got introduced to Mangan during #20GreatCanadianTunes. The assumption is that "Tina" in the title/chorus is Tina Turner, and Elvis is Elvis, and "Frankie in his wild years" is either Sinatra or a Tom Waits reference???
November 26, 2025 at 1:24 AM
#MusicInMusic
#MusicChallenge
Day 25 - "Tina's Glorious Comeback," Dan Mangan
I got introduced to Mangan during #20GreatCanadianTunes. The assumption is that "Tina" in the title/chorus is Tina Turner, and Elvis is Elvis, and "Frankie in his wild years" is either Sinatra or a Tom Waits reference???
#MusicChallenge
Day 25 - "Tina's Glorious Comeback," Dan Mangan
I got introduced to Mangan during #20GreatCanadianTunes. The assumption is that "Tina" in the title/chorus is Tina Turner, and Elvis is Elvis, and "Frankie in his wild years" is either Sinatra or a Tom Waits reference???
Reposted by All The City Lights
The time is rapidly approaching for #5CoverSongsBlackFriday, get in the mood by eating a leftovers sandwich & trampling neighbors for a Tickle Me Elmo!
I’m going to try to track and playlist as many of these as I can to get us through Mariah season so join in!
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky
#readandplay
I’m going to try to track and playlist as many of these as I can to get us through Mariah season so join in!
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky
#readandplay
November 20, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The time is rapidly approaching for #5CoverSongsBlackFriday, get in the mood by eating a leftovers sandwich & trampling neighbors for a Tickle Me Elmo!
I’m going to try to track and playlist as many of these as I can to get us through Mariah season so join in!
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky
#readandplay
I’m going to try to track and playlist as many of these as I can to get us through Mariah season so join in!
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky
#readandplay
Reposted by All The City Lights
The docs also reveal the number of hours the FBI devoted to the project, which required some agents to work nights and weekends. The FBI paid personnel $851,344 in overtime for working on the Epstein files between March 17 and March 22.
November 25, 2025 at 9:44 PM
The docs also reveal the number of hours the FBI devoted to the project, which required some agents to work nights and weekends. The FBI paid personnel $851,344 in overtime for working on the Epstein files between March 17 and March 22.
I've avoided wading into the Stancil v. YIMBYs discourse (if you don't know, turn back now, stay away!), but it's pretty telling that a) the folks in the replies saying "there have always been tradeoffs in housing" are Gen X & older and b) those tradeoffs only work one way. By which I mean ...
November 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I've avoided wading into the Stancil v. YIMBYs discourse (if you don't know, turn back now, stay away!), but it's pretty telling that a) the folks in the replies saying "there have always been tradeoffs in housing" are Gen X & older and b) those tradeoffs only work one way. By which I mean ...
#readandplay (540) (and 539?)
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky
This works for both today and yesterday?!
"Someone Who's Cool," The Odds
"In natural selection
I've avoided all detection"
"It was the suit that got me the gig
It was the tear that got me the girl"
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky
This works for both today and yesterday?!
"Someone Who's Cool," The Odds
"In natural selection
I've avoided all detection"
"It was the suit that got me the gig
It was the tear that got me the girl"
November 25, 2025 at 7:47 PM
#readandplay (540) (and 539?)
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky
This works for both today and yesterday?!
"Someone Who's Cool," The Odds
"In natural selection
I've avoided all detection"
"It was the suit that got me the gig
It was the tear that got me the girl"
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky
This works for both today and yesterday?!
"Someone Who's Cool," The Odds
"In natural selection
I've avoided all detection"
"It was the suit that got me the gig
It was the tear that got me the girl"
Reposted by All The City Lights
Trump objectively IS the most openly corrupt president in U.S. history. And suing people to stop them from saying it is part of that unprecedented corruption.
NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history."
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Trump’s Fury at BBC Gets Unnerving Results with Pro-MAGA Edit Stunner
First, British Broadcasting Corporation execs resigned after Trump complained about a segment. Now the BBC edited out a line from a historian that was critical of Trump. Where does this end?
newrepublic.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Trump objectively IS the most openly corrupt president in U.S. history. And suing people to stop them from saying it is part of that unprecedented corruption.
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ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
And did you want a playlist of all 100 of my #TheTwen2ie5 songs in countdown order? Because you *know* I have one.
music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
November 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
And did you want a playlist of all 100 of my #TheTwen2ie5 songs in countdown order? Because you *know* I have one.
music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...