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“Randall📀Roberts”
@liledit.bsky.social
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Writer/Editor/DJ. In Sheep’s Clothing Hi-Fi, Mizzou. Past: LA Times critic/editor; retail vinyl buyer; delivery boy. I develop and implement integrated marketing techniques to actualize long-term strategic goals. https://linktr.ee/LilEdit
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A colorful vintage-style wall display featuring multiple retro signs. On the left, a framed sign reads “ACME” at the top and “AURA BALANCER and SHOE BUFFER” below, illustrated with a white sneaker and “before” and “after” faces — the latter glowing with a radiant halo — followed by the phrase “¡Es Miraculoso!” To the right, a life-sized cutout of a smiling policeman holds a yellow “STOP” sign and raises one hand in greeting. Beneath the main sign, another small sign reads “SUPERCHARGED FLASHLIGHT CRACKER YANKEE BOY.” The display is lit warmly against a dark wall with metallic and blue accent lighting.
November 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Endless bliss.
November 11, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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The City Museum in St. Louis.
November 11, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
November 8, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Ric and the Icks are running the Kennedy Center lol.
November 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Post something random for the collective amusement.
November 6, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Diane Ladd as Ida Sessions impersonating Mrs. Mulray.
November 3, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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🍁 I love playing records in public in the afternoon. If you are in the St. Louis area — or anywhere in the world, for that matter, you’ve got time — come by the Royale in South City this Saturday. Autumn afternoon music.🍁
November 2, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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This Bob Ross sticker! 💀🎨💀

(detail of a NY Times photo by Evan Jenkins)
A person at a Chicago protest wearing a tactical-style vest customized with paintbrushes and a skull logo resembling Bob Ross’s afro silhouette. They hold a brightly colored sign reading “BOB ROSS VIBES ONLY,” featuring a stenciled portrait of Bob Ross and layered graffiti-style lettering.
October 20, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Define "Perfect Ending"?
Isabelle Huppert as Erika Kohut in The Piano Teacher, standing in a stark, fluorescent-lit conservatory room. Her face is drawn and tear-streaked, and she presses a knife against her chest.
October 18, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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The gatefold for D’Angelo’s ‘Voodoo,’ issued by @lightintheattic.bsky.social, is something to behold.
A vinyl pressing of D’Angelo’s album Voodoo stands open on a deep orange carpet in a warmly lit room filled with bookshelves and records. The front cover features a black-and-white photograph of D’Angelo shirtless, looking directly at the camera, while the spine shows the album title in red gothic lettering. The back cover displays an image of musicians in motion, partially obscured by reflections. In the background, mid-century furniture and album art add to the cozy, analog atmosphere. The gatefold interior of D’Angelo’s Voodoo vinyl box set stands open on an orange carpet, revealing liner notes and credits printed in dense columns over a textured brown-and-gray background. Small photographs of D’Angelo and collaborators appear among the text, layered with graphic design elements that evoke aged paper and paint. Behind the record sleeve, a cozy room with bookshelves, records, and mid-century furniture glows with soft natural light from a nearby window.
October 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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The best sweatshirt.
October 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Laddio Bolocko on a Saturday. #records
A cozy, dimly lit listening nook filled with vinyl records, books, and audio gear. On the top shelf sits a silver Technics SL-1200 turntable next to a Rane TTM 57SL DJ mixer, both connected by visible cables. Below them are stacks of records and books, and a sign reading World History propped on a rear shelf. A black-and-white Laddio Bolocko album cover featuring a saxophonist dominates the center of the scene, partially leaning against the shelf, while another monochrome record Laddio Bolocko inner sleeve with a portrait of rad bassist Ben Armstrong from Edwardsville, Illinois rests among the LPs below. The warm tones of wood, sunlight, and orange fabric lampshades give the room a nostalgic, analog glow.
October 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Attempting to capture the Hacky Sack guy while driving. He’s been keeping it up for 40 years.
September 27, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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From William H. Gass’s ‘The Tunnel,’ a grimly prescient novel about fascism and narcissism, conveyed by a horridly unreliable narrator.
Alt text: A black-and-white page from William Gass’s novel The Tunnel shows two triangular diagrams titled “The Pennants of Passive Attitudes and Emotions.” Each pennant is subdivided into labeled zones representing negative traits. The left pennant lists envy, spite, secretiveness, resentment, bigotry, long-suffering, frigidity, niggardliness, and malice. The right pennant includes sullenness, churlishness, hypocrisy, self-pity, vindictiveness, pettiness, procrastination, sloth, and jealousy. The shapes resemble flags, with darker and lighter shading distinguishing the emotional categories.
September 21, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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September 20, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Eberhard Weber - ‘The colours of Chloe.’
September 10, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Show us the last four albums you listened to
Electric Satie – Gymnopédie ’99 A grid of blue geometric squares on a white background, each shaded like a beveled tile. The title “electric satie” and “gymnopédie ’99” appear in lowercase at the lower right, minimal and modernist in style. Morton Subotnick – The Key to Songs / Return A pixelated hand rendered in blocky white lines hovers against a hot pink striped rectangle on black. The title “The Key to Songs / Return” floats at the top right, and Morton Subotnick’s name in pink sits at the lower left. Kikagaku Moyo – Kumoyo Island A psychedelic mural featuring twin waterfalls, orange flowers, birds in flight, and a glowing island temple framed by two large trees. In front sits a retro green patterned couch, with scattered oranges on the wooden floor, blurring the line between set and artwork. Lost Coast: Some Visionary Music from California A cream-colored background with green vine-like cables looping through stylized star-shaped flowers. The title is spelled out in decorative green lettering across the center: “Lost Coast: Some Visionary Music from California.”
September 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Doctor I trust more than RFK Jr.
September 7, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Post a random picture or else everything will go bad in September.
A 19th-century engraving depicts three women seated in chairs, gazing toward a large, ornate mechanical instrument with rows of pipes, horns, and decorative carvings. The elaborate machine sits on a pedestal in a grand room with tall draped curtains, columns, and finely detailed furniture. The women wear formal dresses with lace and full skirts, their hairstyles pinned in curls, as they appear to listen or observe the contraption in action.
September 1, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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This too.
Album cover for the Mekons’ Fear and Whiskey. The artwork shows a stylized illustration of a long, empty road stretching into the distance toward a silhouetted city skyline under a reddish-purple sky. The band’s name “mekons” appears in white on the left, and the album title “Fear and Whiskey” is written in light script on the right.
August 30, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Morning chill-out with the KLF. #compactdiscs
A compact disc jewel case rests on top of a laptop covered with stickers. The CD cover shows sheep lying in a green pasture beneath a large tree and cloudy sky, with a fence and stone wall in the background. Behind it, a living room with big windows reveals trees outside; inside are a plant on a low table, a mirrored ball, a lava lamp, and stacks of books and magazines.
August 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Do newly acquired books from estate sales count?
A teal hardcover book titled “Clockwork Music” by Arthur W.J.G. Ord-Hume. The subtitle reads, “An illustrated history of mechanical musical instruments from the musical box to the pianola: from automaton lady virginal players to the orchestrion.” The cover features a white illustration of a decorative mechanical organ front, labeled “A. Ruth & Sohn Waldkirch i.B.,” with two carved figures standing on either side of pipework. The book rests on a reddish-brown carpet.
August 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Hit up a $1-2 cd sale at Hitt Records today.
A collection of compact discs are spread across an orange carpet. The arrangement is loose, with some tapes aligned in rows and others slightly angled. Visible covers include a mix of graphic art, photography, and typography. Designs range from colorful abstract patterns to stark black-and-white portraits. Among them are covers featuring a close-up of a woman’s face, a sepia-toned photograph of an old house, and bold typographic treatments such as “Hot House.” The overall effect is eclectic, reflecting a wide spectrum of musical styles and eras.
August 23, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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New acquisition by artist Frank Stack. In pencil: “Music. What can you do with that shit? Play it. Sing it. Fake it. Drone it. Intone it. Listen to it. Sleep to it. Groove with it. Ignore it. Dine to it. Hop to it. Hump to it. Dance to. Prance. Make Romance. But you can’t draw it. Figgit about it.”
A colorful hand-drawn artwork shows a nightclub dance floor with two figures under a disco ball. In the foreground, a green-toned dancer stands with hands on hips, viewed from behind. Another figure in red dances near the mirrored wall, their reflection visible. Black and green brushstrokes suggest dramatic lighting and movement. Above the drawing, faint penciled words read: “MUSIC, WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH THAT SHIT? PLAY IT, SING IT, FAKE IT, DROWN IT, IGNORE IT. LISTEN TO IT, SLEEP TO IT, GROOVE TO IT, DINE TO IT. HOP TO IT, HUNT TO IT, DANCE TO IT, PRANCE, MAKE ROMANCE. BUT YOU CAN’T DRAW IT. FIGGIT ABOUT IT.”
August 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM