This book RULES

Oakland, come get this at the book box on Lawton & 45th st

All The Young Dudes All The Young Dudes (Mott the Hoople, with Bowie guide vocal). All The Young Dudes (Mott the Hoople). All The Young Dudes (Bowie). Wide-Eyed Boy From Freecloud/ All The Young Dudes (Bowie, live, 19…

"Why did David Bowie give away his best song? Mott the Hoople didn’t know. The band, watching Bowie demo “All the Young Dudes”, were baffled by his generosity. Asked if they wanted the song, 'we broke our necks to say yes.'"

bowiesongs.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/a...

Gelli Haha - Switcheroo Listen to Switcheroo on TIDAL

This is really good.

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Starring: Shelby Helburn, Christina's Trip, Suver, Malaphor, Jung Mudra, Figure Eight, TASTE, Camellia Boutros, Plastic Candles, samplelov, Sacramento, Flamingos, ZETI, AroMa, Dear Banshee, Natasha Sandworms, False Figure, La Doña, and Turner Capehart.

Ep 400: "Change Your Life" — I Luv Mondays on BFF.fm I Luv Mondays with Will on BFF.fm. Listen to show archives, or tune in live Monday 10:00 – 11:00am. BFF.fm is a San Francisco community radio station supporting emerging and underground artists and br...

Episode 400! I said some weepy stuff on the show page because I'm so lucky to be playing the Hits of the Bay on @bff.fm

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The Fatherless Fantasy Of ‘Bridgerton’ | Defector In the world of Netflix’s Bridgerton, the wildly popular Regency romance adapted from an equally popular book series, some things are constant: The women wear organza and brocade gowns; everyone takes...

I love when an essay points out something true—and, in retrospect, totally obvious—that I had never noticed before. All the dads in Bridgerton are dead.

More on this flabbergasting novel anon, but will just say for now how excited I am for Joe Fletcher's The Chimeras—destined to be a classic of weird experimental horror and, along with books like Grant Maierhofer's Hidden World, a keystone for the new wave of UFO literature.

Clear YouTube video by Suver - Topic

This is my favorite song right now, Suver's music puts me in touch with my gentleness:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZUy...

Bay Area — come celebrate May Day in Oakland with me, @quinnslobodian.com, and @charmainechua.bsky.social. The most sober analysis imaginable... followed by drinking

I Luv Mondays I Luv Mondays with Will on BFF.fm. Listen to show archives, or tune in live Monday 10:00 – 11:00am. BFF.fm is a San Francisco community radio station supporting emerging and underground artists and br...

10am sharp:

The 400th Episode of I Luv Mondays !

I titled it "Change Your Life", for many reasons.

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Longtime Immigration Court Interpreter Arrested by ICE at South Texas Airport The state’s only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years.

From @gaigedavila.bsky.social: Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years.

Really nice one.

I didn’t even know who he was. But I’d already purchased The Tunnel from the student bookstore, just because it looked cool.

The Writing Center had a graffiti wall. Before the event I took a marker and wrote the final line of Ellison's Invisible Man. I realized Gass was standing behind me, watching to see what I’d write. “That's a good one,” he said.

TGIF, here’s my William Gass story:

I was 19 years old in 1998 when I saw David Foster Wallace read from the not-yet-published “Brief Interviews w/ Hideous Men” at the Wash U in St. Louis Writing Center, introduced by Gass. [1/3]

ORB HAPPY HOUR TODAY! Come drink or eat with us, nothing stressful. 4-6pm, Nido's Backyard, on Oak street. (We do these every month or so. Everybody is chill.)

Graphic featuring a rendering of our new building at the corner of Leidesdorff and Commercial in downtown San Francisco. Text reads: Opening 2027, Help open our doors.

Graphic featuring the text: After 26 years, the Center for the Art of Translation is opening a permanent public home in San Francisco--affirming that writers and translators are essential to civic life and inviting readers to encounter the world and each other with curiosity and understanding.

The Center for the Art of Translation is excited to announce the public phase of our $17M capital campaign to build a permanent literary and cultural center in downtown San Francisco steps from the Transamerica Pyramid. 🌁

Center for the Art of Translation to Open Literary Space in San Francisco The new headquarters of the nonprofit, which is home to Two Lines Press, will feature event spaces, offices, and a bookstore dedicated exclusively to translated literature. It is slated to open in 202...

Yay! Another publisher-operated bookshop!

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Graphic featuring the event with Olga Ravn on The Wax Child, April 15, 7 pm ET, at the Center for Fiction, in person and livestreamed.

Next Wednesday! @olgaravn.bsky.social introduces her new novel, THE WAX CHILD, translated by Martin Aitken, at The Center for Fiction, 4/15, 7 pm ET! A live remote viewing will be held at CAT in San Francisco, 4 pm PDT. You can also livestream this event worldwide. Register at buff.ly/MDjtRlU

The noise about sideshows The screeching moral panic over the sideshow hides what it really is: an event, shaped by cops and capital flight, where Oakland youth fight for a place to play.

Read the article about the history of Oakland's sideshows that everyone at r/OaklandCA (that's the reactionary Oakland subreddit) absolutely hated: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/sideshow-his...

This is excellent: a fifty year history of muscle cars, mass cruising, and sideshows in Oakland.

On a minor note one of my favorite things about Oakland is that Oakland rap fans listen to Oakland rap.

Great piece, by a talented MC as well

The Reds, Pinks and Purples - Houses (Official Video) YouTube video by firerecords

The Reds, Pinks and Purples have a new song and a video by Katiana Mashikian (April Magazine, bassist in live RPPs). youtu.be/BkRwqR8r3k8

Graphic featuring the event: Kanako Nishi & Allison Markin Powell on Sakura with Marie Mutsuki Mockett, April 18, 7pm, at Black Bird Bookstore & Café in San Francisco.

On tour from Tokyo, writer and artist Kanako Nishi and translator Allison Markin Powell present Kanako’s breakout novel SAKURA. They'll be in conversation with Marie Mutsuki Mockett at Black Bird Bookstore & Café in the Outer Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco on April 18 at 7 pm: buff.ly/hCk4J8u

or asterismbooks.com

McCarthy’s exhumation?

Papa! I’m stunting on them, papa! It’s ever so based

China could be the world’s biggest public funder of science within two years Forecast by science-policy researchers raises questions about where the epicentre of global research will shift to in the coming decade.

We already see this.
I'm party of an international team of water scientists giving lectures on freshwater to Chinese university students. The first class has 1,500 students and they expect 10,000 to take the course. 10,000!
Just on #water issues.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...