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therealjimsanto.bsky.social
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@therealjimsanto.bsky.social
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audio artist, noisemaker, writer, poet, web 1.0, neo-old New Yorker, ex-Catholic, science (quantum physics, cosmology, paleontology, archeology) & global history nerd. big fan of comic art online! #OnePiece https://linktr.ee/jimsanto
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thanks! was not my favorite venue but at least i didn't burn to death there. you know what was a worse death trap? The Lismar Lounge on 1st Ave., a basement room at the bottom of a hellishly narrow iron spiral staircase. hahahahaha! downtown in the '80s, man oh man
Old street level photo of Lismar Lounge. The windows on either side of the entrance are covered over with images of hellish flames. The black double doors are adorned with twin Jolly Rogers. Inviting!
December 6, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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we like da Moon
Moonrise over Queens. A tree branch appears to caress the Orb.
December 4, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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i really should get me a new Tele
Jim Santo playing a Telecaster on stage. He's very pale and you can see up his nose.
December 4, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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hmmph. front of house too good for those two. dunno why, the sound's never good behind the amps and PA. then again, i would have totally been there!
John and George lurking in the wings at the Booker T. and The MG's show, like a coupla creepy Brits. There's also some kid off to the side in the photo looking cooler than either Beatle.
December 4, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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random audience members...or are they?
George Harrison's digging the groove. John Lennon is happier than he's ever been.
December 4, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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i like this clip when JFK stops his weird nephew from torturing Shadrach!
RFK Jr. is using an object to stir the water in a large glass vase-like container, disturbing the salamander within, as President Kennedy grabs the little weirdo's right arm, pulling it away and rescuing the hapless amphibian.
December 3, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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imagine:
you walk up to a person, show them an image, and ask, "What do you think about this?

the person replies, "I'm sorry, I can't say; I'm blind. Would you please describe it for me?"

do you:
A) describe it for them
or
B) say to them, "Your opinion is not worth the effort," and walk away

???
This skeet is about ALT text. The image is nothing more than a purely black square.
December 2, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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forever my favorite
A young George Harrison of The Beatles winks at the camera during a formal photo shoot.
November 29, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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today's hero
U.S. District Senior Judge Cameron McGowan Currie of the District of South Carolina. Credit: U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of South Carolina. Judge Currie is a white woman with moderately short red hair, wearing black rimmed eyeglasses and judicial robes over a white blouse with a loose collar, seated behind the bench in a courtroom. An American flag is partly visible to Currie's right. The top of a black Dell laptop, out of focus, occupies the lower fifth of the image.
November 24, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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"I Want to Know What Love Is" by Foreigner was the #1 song on January 30, 1985.
crop of the Jaws movie poster removing the title
November 24, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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Tune In...
Turn On...
Turn Into a Complete Fucking Asshole?
Timothy Leary in a loud striped suit and dark tie, holding is hands to his eyes as if peering through a pair of binoculars.
November 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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good morning, Professor! looks as if someone's up to no good:
Gmail alert on today's Letters From An American. A big red box withe white letters reading: "This message seems dangerous. Many people marked similar messages as phishing scams, so this might contain unsafe content."
November 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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poster: on the left is shit, on the right, Shinola. know the difference!
November 17, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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A photo of Bill Clinton laughing superimposed with: "Come in here, dear boy, have a cigar."
November 17, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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A comic by Aline & R. Crumb from 2020 titled "Bad Diet & Bad Hair Destroy Human Civilization" that pokes fun at Trump's crazy hair-do.
November 15, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Dimon has Morgan's nose in a jar. they're chums. order in Chinese every Tuesday.
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon giving a thumbs up because why the fuck wouldn't you?
November 15, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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BREAKING: Trump demands investigation of J.P. Morgan's ties to Epstein!
A black & white photo of John Pierpont Morgan, a/k/a J.P. Morgan, a prominent American financier and banker who played a key role in shaping the country's financial landscape in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He's a balding, grey-haired white man with piercing eyes and a bulbous, misshapen nose over a dark, busy moustache. He's posed sitting, glaring at the camera, wearing an expensive suit and holding a sheaf of papers. His whole presentation screams FUCK YOU, PEASANT.
November 14, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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"never forget"
Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani in a department store. Rudy is in drag, wearing a blonde wig, heavy makeup, and a shiny pink shawl over a grey and green dress. Rudy appears to be trying perfume as Trump looks on with evident desire.
November 14, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Rego Park: Sin City
Looking north on Woodhaven Boulevard in Queens, New York. In the foreground is a square illuminated sign advertising SMOKE SHOP: Vape, E-Cig, Pipes, Hookah, Cigarettes, Kratom, Craft Beer, Lucky Lotto, Quick Draw, ATM, and Cigar; a black awning with white block letters and an illustration of a hookah promotes similar offerings. Beyond, stretching into the distance, are vertical illuminated signs attached to separate storefronts, advertising LIQUORS, CIGARS, and CANNABIS. Behind me, unseen: a Columbian fried chicken restaurant. Two people are walking toward me on the sidewalk, oblivious to this satanic paradise!
November 14, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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happy friday! especially to these two squirrels
November 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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how dare you
An awesome on-stage photo of Dimebag Darrell looking extremely awesome. You know else was awesome? Franklin Delano Fucking Roosevelt, that's who! He's on the dime! One hundred dimes got you a dimebag, man!
November 13, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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madman theory
Monty Python Spanish Inquisition meme: Nobody Expects An Invasion of Benelux!
November 13, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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let me take a wild guess
Grover Norquist, a happy man (Jonathan Ernst / Reuters) Death of Marat by David
November 10, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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what if, instead of Donald Trump, we'd elected Dick Cavett President of the United States?
Dick Cavett on the left, Trump on the right, both young, blonde and on television.
November 7, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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R.I.P. J.D. King of the Coachmen
Facebook post by Thurston Moore: J.D. King, comics illustrator, and founder of 1979 NYC art rock band The Coachmen has passed away. J.D. (or simply, John, as I knew him) and I met in ‘78 at Cutlers Record store in New Haven CT as we both hovered over the Velvet Underground section (it was empty) and began talking about all things Punk. He graduated RISD that year and moved with a bunch of art rock lads to downtown NYC cohabitating in the infamous South Street building housing Cindy Sherman, Robert Longo, Kathryn Bigelow a.o. He invited me, my guitar, and my sleeping bag to move in and we started a band named The Coachmen. We broke up in ‘80 and I started what would soon morph into Sonic Youth. New Alliance/SST records posthumously released our one recording “Failure to Thrive” (J Mascis told me “it’s your best record”) J.D. is the tall guy in the pix with glasses (the first one is live at A’s, the posed ones are by Tama Bruder except the clipper ship one by Elodie Lauten)— We stayed in touch through email but I hadn’t seen him since the 80s. He was super important to my life’s journey and I send him, his family and friends all my best, all my love - T
November 6, 2025 at 8:38 PM