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I don't post much, but when I do it's probably about birds, records, or The Drive-By Truckers. Mental health worker. Cat dad. Yes, that’s me in a dress. What of it?
I don’t stream, so I don’t have a year-end wrap up. Closest thing I have is the report from my smart feeder.
#Birding #BirdingCommunity #BirdBuddy
#Birding #BirdingCommunity #BirdBuddy
December 22, 2025 at 4:20 AM
I don’t stream, so I don’t have a year-end wrap up. Closest thing I have is the report from my smart feeder.
#Birding #BirdingCommunity #BirdBuddy
#Birding #BirdingCommunity #BirdBuddy
“I love the poorly educated."
—Donald J. Trump
—Donald J. Trump
FOX: If you cut something by 100%, the cost goes down to 0. If you cut it by 600%, the drug companies are actually paying you
LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times
F: Not a 600% cut
L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times
F: Not a 600% cut
L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
December 18, 2025 at 8:50 PM
“I love the poorly educated."
—Donald J. Trump
—Donald J. Trump
If you like records and/or the emotional and cultural impact music can have on our lives, you need to check out IHTOV.
If you really, really like records (etc.), you need to write for IHTOV.
#Musicsky #VinylCommunity #Vinyl #Records
If you really, really like records (etc.), you need to write for IHTOV.
#Musicsky #VinylCommunity #Vinyl #Records
today on IHTOV:
today is the first anniversary of the day IHTOV launched. i wrote a little something about the experience, the joy, and the work. thanks a million for making IHTOV a success
ihavethatonvinyl.com/liner-notes/...
today is the first anniversary of the day IHTOV launched. i wrote a little something about the experience, the joy, and the work. thanks a million for making IHTOV a success
ihavethatonvinyl.com/liner-notes/...
First Anniversary
On the first anniversary of IHTOV
ihavethatonvinyl.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:13 PM
If you like records and/or the emotional and cultural impact music can have on our lives, you need to check out IHTOV.
If you really, really like records (etc.), you need to write for IHTOV.
#Musicsky #VinylCommunity #Vinyl #Records
If you really, really like records (etc.), you need to write for IHTOV.
#Musicsky #VinylCommunity #Vinyl #Records
There’s a lot to love about IHTOV, chiefly that it’s a sane and diverse and non-judgey and non-gatekeepery safe house for people to share memories under the guise of music chitchat. If you like music you should check it out. If you really like music you should write something.
tomorrow is the first anniversary of IHTOV. made the first post on 12/17. tomorrow i will have anniversary post, as well as an incredible interview (part 1) with jay darlington of kula shaker. made it a year!
December 16, 2025 at 7:34 PM
There’s a lot to love about IHTOV, chiefly that it’s a sane and diverse and non-judgey and non-gatekeepery safe house for people to share memories under the guise of music chitchat. If you like music you should check it out. If you really like music you should write something.
One of the very best comments I’ve read on this matter.
One way that the reaction to Rob Reiner's murder mirrors Charlie Kirk's is that the best way to eulogize each of them is to quote their words, and in both cases, doing so pisses off conservatives.
Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
December 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM
One of the very best comments I’ve read on this matter.
Just FYI, IHaveThatOnVinyl is publishing a zine with some past writing to celebrate its first year of existence—info below. I may have a piece in it.
#Musicsky #VinylCommunity
#Musicsky #VinylCommunity
made a post about the zine so you don't have to go looking for the post here if you want to purchase ihavethatonvinyl.com/liner-notes/...
Introducing: The IHTOV Zine
In honor of IHTOV’s first anniversary on December 17th, we have made a zine commemorating ten pieces from over the course of that year, chosen by a small committee.
ihavethatonvinyl.com
December 15, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Just FYI, IHaveThatOnVinyl is publishing a zine with some past writing to celebrate its first year of existence—info below. I may have a piece in it.
#Musicsky #VinylCommunity
#Musicsky #VinylCommunity
So the guy who’s the subject of possibly the most rock ’n’ roll photo ever is 70 today. (Photo by Pennie Smith, The Palladium, NYC, 11/21/79.) #TheClash #Musicsky #VinylCommunity
December 15, 2025 at 2:31 PM
So the guy who’s the subject of possibly the most rock ’n’ roll photo ever is 70 today. (Photo by Pennie Smith, The Palladium, NYC, 11/21/79.) #TheClash #Musicsky #VinylCommunity
Released 50 funkin’ years ago today. It’s a supergroovalisticprosifunkstication thang.
#Musicsky #Vinyl #VinylCommunity #Parliament
#Musicsky #Vinyl #VinylCommunity #Parliament
December 15, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Released 50 funkin’ years ago today. It’s a supergroovalisticprosifunkstication thang.
#Musicsky #Vinyl #VinylCommunity #Parliament
#Musicsky #Vinyl #VinylCommunity #Parliament
Was chatting with a friend who felt sheepish about playing Christmas records before Thanksgiving. I don’t get it: It’s only a few weeks every year, so why wait? Lean into the joy and spin those records.
#Musicsky #VinylCommunity
#Musicsky #VinylCommunity
December 14, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Was chatting with a friend who felt sheepish about playing Christmas records before Thanksgiving. I don’t get it: It’s only a few weeks every year, so why wait? Lean into the joy and spin those records.
#Musicsky #VinylCommunity
#Musicsky #VinylCommunity
Proud to be Q&A’d by IHaveThatOnVinyl dot Com. IHTOV is a great blog that’s ostensibly about records, but really about how music impacts our lives in profound and subtle, but meaningful ways. Check it out—or better yet, write something for them!
also on IHTOV today, another in our Q&A sessions, this one from reader scott o'kelley. i love reading about other people's collections, and scott shares some of his favorites ihavethatonvinyl.com/q-and-a/q-a-...
Q&A With Scott O'Kelley
Q&A is an occasional column where people from all walks of life answer questioins about their record collection
ihavethatonvinyl.com
December 14, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Proud to be Q&A’d by IHaveThatOnVinyl dot Com. IHTOV is a great blog that’s ostensibly about records, but really about how music impacts our lives in profound and subtle, but meaningful ways. Check it out—or better yet, write something for them!
This sprawling, beautiful mess of an album was released 45 years ago today. It was my first Christmas working in a record store and we spun side one seemingly on the hour.
#Musicsky #VinylCommunity #TheClash
#Musicsky #VinylCommunity #TheClash
December 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
This sprawling, beautiful mess of an album was released 45 years ago today. It was my first Christmas working in a record store and we spun side one seemingly on the hour.
#Musicsky #VinylCommunity #TheClash
#Musicsky #VinylCommunity #TheClash
This masterpiece was recorded in one moving, beautiful, powerful session 60 years ago today.
#Jazzsky #Musicsky #VinylCommunity
#Jazzsky #Musicsky #VinylCommunity
December 9, 2025 at 1:23 PM
This masterpiece was recorded in one moving, beautiful, powerful session 60 years ago today.
#Jazzsky #Musicsky #VinylCommunity
#Jazzsky #Musicsky #VinylCommunity
No more excuses. It’s time for Christmas music.
Especially on the birthday of The Human Timekeeper, Al Jackson, Jr., born 90 years ago today.
#Musicsky #StaxRecords
Especially on the birthday of The Human Timekeeper, Al Jackson, Jr., born 90 years ago today.
#Musicsky #StaxRecords
November 27, 2025 at 11:24 PM
No more excuses. It’s time for Christmas music.
Especially on the birthday of The Human Timekeeper, Al Jackson, Jr., born 90 years ago today.
#Musicsky #StaxRecords
Especially on the birthday of The Human Timekeeper, Al Jackson, Jr., born 90 years ago today.
#Musicsky #StaxRecords
I’m grateful for many things and many of those things intersect, in one way or another, with music.
Here’s a great read on music as a sumptuous, communal feast.
Happy thanksgiving.
Here’s a great read on music as a sumptuous, communal feast.
Happy thanksgiving.
happy thanksgiving from IHTOV. i wrote about some people who nurtured my love of music for my whole life ihavethatonvinyl.com/liner-notes/...
Giving Thanks
I have this image in my head and I know that while it is based on true events, it is a composite sketch of listening to music in my childhood. I’m standing in front of the stereo cabinet - a piece of ...
ihavethatonvinyl.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:05 PM
I’m grateful for many things and many of those things intersect, in one way or another, with music.
Here’s a great read on music as a sumptuous, communal feast.
Happy thanksgiving.
Here’s a great read on music as a sumptuous, communal feast.
Happy thanksgiving.
If no one tracks these clips with The Stones’ “Star Star” I’ll be extremely disappointed.
November 21, 2025 at 10:01 PM
If no one tracks these clips with The Stones’ “Star Star” I’ll be extremely disappointed.
Seventy years ago today Sam Phillips sold Elvis’ Sun Records catalog to RCA, allowing him to release more records by Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis…and Carl Perkins, among others. #Musicsky #VinylCommunity #DriveByTruckers
Carl Perkins' Cadillac
YouTube video by Drive-By Truckers - Topic
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November 21, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Seventy years ago today Sam Phillips sold Elvis’ Sun Records catalog to RCA, allowing him to release more records by Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis…and Carl Perkins, among others. #Musicsky #VinylCommunity #DriveByTruckers
Irascible, iconoclastic, and still hard-rockin’ Uncle Neil is 80 today. #NeilYoung
November 12, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Irascible, iconoclastic, and still hard-rockin’ Uncle Neil is 80 today. #NeilYoung
This monumental debut was released 50 years ago today and is still just as vital. #VinylCommunity #Musicsky #pattismith
November 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
This monumental debut was released 50 years ago today and is still just as vital. #VinylCommunity #Musicsky #pattismith
A Helluva Town
YouTube video by George Russell & His Orchestra - Topic
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November 5, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Saw an impressive crowd between thunderstorms at the Missouri state capitol in ruby-red Jefferson City.
I saw a lot of hope, determination, and joy. But interestingly, I did not see any hate.
#NoKings
I saw a lot of hope, determination, and joy. But interestingly, I did not see any hate.
#NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Saw an impressive crowd between thunderstorms at the Missouri state capitol in ruby-red Jefferson City.
I saw a lot of hope, determination, and joy. But interestingly, I did not see any hate.
#NoKings
I saw a lot of hope, determination, and joy. But interestingly, I did not see any hate.
#NoKings
And still no Nobel Peace Prize?! Inconceivable!!
October 16, 2025 at 9:07 PM
And still no Nobel Peace Prize?! Inconceivable!!
Now denouncing rape, racism, and Nazis makes you a RINO I guess.
October 16, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Now denouncing rape, racism, and Nazis makes you a RINO I guess.