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Wayne & Wax
@wayneandwax.bsky.social
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musicologist at Berklee, farmer at Belmont Acres, amateur bassist, erstwhile DJ, reggaetonera hasta la tumba
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when I get an email informing me that a previously email has been "recalled" even though it's still right there in my inbox
everyone's favorite "drawing of a spider" -- from that 2008 meme where a guy tried to settle a debt of $233.95 with the emailed drawing, and then demanded it back when they said no
November 19, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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would seem to go without saying that Bad Bunny is not an immigrant -- nor are millions of Spanish speakers in the US -- but apparently not
a snippet from today's NYT morning newsletter: Charlotte Jones, co-owner of the Cowboys, defended Bad Bunny being selected for the Super Bowl halftime show, saying, “Our whole society is based on immigrants that have come here and have founded our country, and I think we can celebrate that.”
November 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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She smiles and says “I will always love you”
a cropped image from the cover of Aphex Twin's Windowlicker, where his face has been shopped on a woman's body
November 8, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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interestingly, it appears to be the most popular song on the album -- a fact that Benito himself has expressed (happy) surprise about
screengrab of Bad Bunny's profile on Spotify showing DtMF as the most popular song
November 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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ducklings when you refresh their food and water
October 23, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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took these on the same day. Chicago is a gloriously Mexican city.
Mexican styled street art in the Chicago metro Mexican styled street art in the Chicago metro
October 22, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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took this picture 15 years ago in Chicago (Oct 2010). been seeing this coming for a while.
a wall in Chicago reading: Declaration of Immigration We are a nation of immigrants No inhumane treatment No deportation No family separation No detention No wall No human being is illegal National security is used to foster ethnic tension
October 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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beautiful day for picking peppers and repudiating tyranny 🌶️
me holding an uprooted but well fruited jalapeño plant, wearing purple sunglasses and a guillotine T-shirt
October 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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also, we have ducklings !
October 16, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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getting autumnal out there, but still picking habaneros in the backyard and tomatillos at the farm
a small orange habanero pepper in my hand, in the background through the window is my backyard/garden a half bushel basket full of tomatillos, also pictured is a pannier full of poblanos peppers and a butternut squash sticking out of another basket
October 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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a very Bolaño + sherry afternoon
a bottle of Lustau fino sherry (que se llama "Jarana"!) and a library copy of Roberto Bolaño's El Espíritu de la Ciencia Ficción
October 13, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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thinking the kids might be all right
a sticker on a light blue bicycle that reads "hot girls hate fascists" with the first 3 words in white and the last on red
October 6, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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the perfect meal to follow a talk about reggaeton and copyright at Duke Law School ;)
poster for a talk I just gave at Duke Law about the lawsuit over dembow. pictured: Bad Bunny, yours truly, and a bit of our reggaeton book cover
October 3, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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in Durham, the pernil comes with greens, mac and cheese, & pork rinds #BoricuaSoul
my pernil plate from Boricua Soul (American Tobacco campus, Durham, NC): roasted pork, PR style, with tostones, pickled onions, greens, rice & beans, Mac & cheese, & pork rinds
October 3, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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see, e.g., Timothy Taylor, "The Commodification of Music at the Dawn of the Era of "Mechanical Music" (Ethnomusicology
Vol. 51, No. 2, Spring/Summer, 2007, 281-305), which includes the following advertisement from 1910
an advertisement from a 1910 issue of Everybody's Magazine for "The Piano That Means Music--The Pianola Piano." The ad copy reads: When people buy a piano nowadays, they buy it for music. The day when pianos were bought as ornaments is past. It is the PIANOLA PIANO that has wrought this change." It continues, in a new paragrap: "Everyone can play the PIANOLA Piano--artistically, humanly--from the moment it comes into the home. Naturally, there, people prefer it to the old style of piano, that took so long to learn to play."
October 1, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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"and keeps your work unique"
a sloppy ad (Bluesky post) for a gen AI "sentence rewriter" that allegedly "simplifies complex sentences and keeps your work unique"; the add is full of hashtags and features an AI generated image of a fetching, light brown skinned student hard at work (smiling broadly)
October 1, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Rauw really goes there on his new homenaje, "Caribeño" (though Chan Chan is an odd choice for "afromambo"), affirming longstanding Caribbean cultural exchange
open.spotify.com/track/3AMxTv...
lyrics from Rauw Alejandro's track "Caribeño" giving props to Jamaica, Cuba, and Haiti for such music as reggaeton, salsa, and merengue
September 29, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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in today's harvest: chinese broccoli, napa cabbage, king richard leeks
a heaping purple bucket of chinese broccoli side-shoots a blue bread rack holding 10 cleaned napa cabbages, sitting on top of another blue bread rack (overturned) blue bread rack holding a dozen large leeks
September 26, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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made some sauerkraut. maybe enough to get through the winter.
my hand pulling a handful of sauerkraut from a 2 gallon white plastic bucket (food grade) and filling quart jars using a red funnel eight quarts of sauerkraut packed into ball jars
September 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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look at this snuffleupagun flower
my hand holding a long frond of flowers from a red-dye amaranth in my garden, the rest of the plant is also very snuffleupagun and sideshowbobbish
September 18, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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I liked it better when it was perfect and blue
new building going up in my neighborhood, now covered with random cladding
September 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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was absolutely tempted by the satanically priced "white green" figs
a display of figs at whole foods. they're "white green" figs -- a light green color rather than purple -- and are priced at $6.66lb. more like #hellfoods
September 14, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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sweet september morn at the farm
big yellow basket of big ripe red and yellow tomatoes two big baskets of peaches tractor bucket full of baskets of butternut squash farmshare basket of veggies. shown: napa cabbage, Chinese broccoli, tomatoes, carrot tops, and a paper lunch bag (full of unpictured cherry tomatoes)
September 13, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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look at this freaking sunflower
me standing beneath a humungo sunflower, which must be about 9 feet tall with a flower head the size of a large man's. literally feeling like it's looking down at me. gigantic sunflower, with leaves a foot and a half across and a flower head bigger than my own head
September 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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<<Ningún congreso salvó jamás una república.>>
the top of page 29 of El General en su Laberinto, por García Marquez, in which Simon Bolívar says to Manuela Saenz, <<Ningún congreso salvó jamás una república.>> (translation: "No Congress has ever saved a Republic.")
August 26, 2025 at 4:54 PM