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onezero
@onezero.bsky.social
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Musician, programmer, vertebrate.
Current activity: snwv, CMB Cold Spot, solo instrumentals. Mostly ambient guitar. Pittsburgh. He/him/his.
https://onezeromusic.com/
https://snwv.bandcamp.com/
https://mauricerickard.bandcamp.com/
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Your rhymes, I say, are quite a hook.
Sad that they are not in this book.
The cover of the book Quantum Criminals, a collection of essays by fans of Steely Dan.
November 1, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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A spooky portent
Dried foam on the inside of a glass mug in the shape of a cartoon ghost, complete with eye-holes. Its head is tilted to the side and its arms are upraised. Foam Ghost © 2025 by Maurice Rickard is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
October 26, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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"Weird stuff." Like building a skyscraper out of whipped cream? Copying the text of an encyclopedia in chalk, all over city sidewalks? Lecturing the birds in the park? Leaving little piles of dirt in front of everyone's door? Heck, do it! You don't need my permission.
Screenshot of the beginning of a spam email saying "Hi, I'm Amelia, I'm 27 years old and I really want to do weird stuff."
September 30, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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I think it’s important for people to know about Larv.
The side of a brick building in Chicago, behind 33 W. Jackson Blvd. Someone has spray painted a vertically aligned portrait of a caterpillar with a happily contented expression. Above the caterpillar is the text “Larv,” presumably our pleasant caterpillar’s name. I like Larv. Larv is good.
September 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Yes, Silkworm in their quartet manifestation:
The band Silkworm, performing onstage. Joel RL Phelps stands straight, singing a microphone, playing a carved-top Les Paul double cut. Tim Midyett is slightly bent over a Travis Bean wedge bass. Drummer Jeff Panall is slightly visible behind Michael Dahlquist’s drums. Andy Cohen is playing a Les Paul, and leaning toward the center of the stage. The club is dark, and the band is lit mostly in red. A row of audience members’ heads is visible at the bottom of the frame.
September 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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I can't stop looking at the back of this Bartell bass. I like this character.

reverb.com/item/9173512...
The back of a late-60s- or 70s era Hohner Bartell bass. Its stained blond wood, with the grain prominent. On the back is a large, snap-fastened yellow pad covering the access cavity. The neck is bolted on with two bolts resembling eyes, and between them is what is likely a micro-tilt adjustment that resembles a small mouth in the shape of an "o." The horns of the bass resemble upstretched arms. Perhaps this character wants to give us a hug.
September 17, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Doctor I trust more than RFK Jr:
Black and white photo of the band Dr. Feelgood performing onstage, likely in the late 1970s. Singer Lee Brilleaux is on his knees, legs spread wide, playing harmonica. Guitarist Will Johnson is at the left, either about to kneel or about to rise. His face is turned toward the drummer, and he’s vigorously playing a Fender Telecaster. He has a full head of hair here. At stage right, the suit-clad bassist looks off-frame.
September 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Now it's bothering me that I didn't blend the logo better into the image, so...
A panel from a Plasticman comic in which an alien impersonating Plasticman has distended his lower jaw and is pouring salt into it. In a popular remix of this panel, the box of salt has been altered with the label "powder that makes you say 'yes'," with the dialog for the alien altered to have him say "Yes." This version is essentially the same, although the word "yes" in both has been replaced with the letterforms of the logo for the band Yes. A panel from a Plasticman comic in which an alien impersonating Plasticman has distended his lower jaw and is pouring salt into it. In a popular remix of this panel, the box of salt has been altered with the label "powder that makes you say 'yes'," with the dialog for the alien altered to have him say "Yes." This version is essentially the same, although the word "yes" in both has been replaced with the letterforms of the logo for the band Yes. (The band logo and box label are now at 75% opacity, to blend a bit better into the image.)
September 6, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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I'm surely not the first person to think of this one, but I had to see it realized.
A panel from a Plasticman comic in which an alien impersonating Plasticman has distended his lower jaw and is pouring salt into it. In a popular remix of this panel, the box of salt has been altered with the label "powder that makes you say 'yes'," with the dialog for the alien altered to have him say "Yes." This version is essentially the same, although the word "yes" in both has been replaced with the letterforms of the logo for the band Yes.
September 6, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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John Cage (1912-1992) and John Cale (1942-) did know each other, and performed together at least once: on Cage's marathon realization of Erik Satie's Vexations. Here they are at a changeover, Cage (standing) taking over for Cale (seated).
The 1963 performance of Erik Satie's Vexations, John Cale (seated at the piano) about to leave his shift. Behind him, John Cage (standing) is about to begin his shift. The performance lasted 18 hours and 40 minutes. Photo (and more information) from https://werksman.home.xs4all.nl/cale/bio/1963.html
August 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Only $4.99 for lead cups?
A dessert counter window with a sign reading “PB Cups $4.99.”
August 24, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Show me your getaway vehicle
Photo of a British Racing Green 1948 Ariel Square Four motorcycle with Watsonian Enclosed Sidecar. It's parked on grass in front of a stand of trees. The photo is from this listing: https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1948-ariel-square-four-2/
August 16, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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What’s that, Spanmmer? You’ve given me an…NFT? You shouldn’t have.
A preview of a spam email in which the spammer claims to send an NFT of some supposed value.
August 16, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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(zip bombs enter the chat)
The Kool-Aid man bursts through an interior wall.
August 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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A message sprayed on an asphalt patch on a street, saying “FIX THIS!!!”
August 6, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Ah, here we are:

youtu.be/qd1Xmr2YY7c?...
A frame of a Youtube video showing the back of one of Kevin Shields's Jazzmasters, labeled with tuning notes, one on the neck plate reading E A B G G E (for "I Only Said"), and one across the back reading "d a a a a d."
July 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Composer Eliane Radigue, wearing black and a bright blue scarf, is revealed to be a Time Doctor.
June 30, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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A-how how how
A highway exit sign for the communities of Howe and Lagrange
June 23, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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A photograph of a sign reading “I’m here! Now what?”
June 19, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Don't ask questions you don't want the answers to.
A screenshot of a text conversation. The sender is likely a wrong-number/sweetheart-scammer opening with "Do you have any plans for tomorrow?" The response: "Dude. So many plans." Then "Going to find a phone booth and fill it with marshmallows." And then "Going to leave empty pairs of shoes on street corners."
June 11, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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You may not like it, but this is what two high-agency males look like:
Steely Dan, photographed during the late 1970s. They're in a house or apartment, and both are smiling. Walter Becker on the left has long hair and a beard. He wears sunglasses and a plaid shirt. His arms are crossed. Donald Fagan on the right is holding a cigarette and smirking. They're both looking toward something to the right of the frame.
June 6, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Someone’s inspired aesthetic intervention on the bike trail:
A fallen tree next to a bike trail. On top of it, someone has left a commercial coffee percolator, plugged into an electrical outlet they’ve installed on the fallen trunk. To the right, they’ve installed hot and cold water faucets. Photo ©️ Maurice Rickard, 2025. All rights reserved.
May 25, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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I’m not sure what’s going on with this building, but it’s aimed squarely at my demographic.
A former storefront featuring a painting reproducing the cover of Pavement’s Slanted & Enchanted. The street number above the door is painted as a mechanical odometer, with a new number rotating into the last place.
May 22, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Why yes, I did buy Steve Albini’s copy of the Zimbo Chimps single.
The back sleeve of the Zimbo Chimps single “In a Cave” b/w “Inca Vacation.” The image is a brown on yellow half-tone of (presumably) the band sitting on a couch in the corner of an alley, next to a sculpture made of scrap materials. The band is credited as Mark Erskine, T.Z., Teaspoon O. Toejam, and Hal A. Paingo. They were signed to Budget Ranch records of Pomona California. Next to the single is a slip of paper serving as a certificate of authenticity from Byron Coley. The image is a black and white reproduction of the cover of Big Black’s Racer X: a distant explosion.
May 16, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Without downloading any new pics, where are you at mentally?
A thin, bearded Angus MacLise sits against a roughly plastered wall. His shirt is open, his eyes closed. In his right hand is a wire sculpture of three equilateral triangles joined at one vertex, with two circles joining them. His left hand covers his forehead and holds a thin wavy sculpture resembling a stream of rising smoke.
May 10, 2025 at 2:30 AM