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New blog.

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New digital art.

Collage, 2019.

We are all in the debris field of a SpaceX mishap

Know your fallacies.

Live music in Carbondale, fall 1967.

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24-hour party people: raving and rebelling in Manchester’s Hulme Crescents Kemi Alemoru speaks to former residents, DJs and familiar guests from the Madchester scene about the lasting impact that Manchester’s Hulme Crescents estate and the notorious Kitchen had on the city’s cultural landscape

"In the midst of the ruinous Thatcher era, Manchester’s Hulme Crescents estate became a haven for squatters, anarchists and acid house ravers, who converged in the hedonistic flat-turned-studio and after-hours club, The Kitchen."

Raving and rebelling in Manchester’s Hulme Crescents:

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My flash fiction "Alien Artifact," previously published by Thrice Fiction, was printed in the second issue of Vandigold fantasy & science fiction magazine, now available locally in limited quantities. Thanks to Jon Hansen & Adeline Tucker for the good work. Inquire via Vandigoldmag@gmail.com.

Mysterious Conjunction.

Hi Jaan!

My 8th music history column appears in this week's Carbondale Times.

Book review.

Change of rulers is the joy of fools.

Social criticism, for best results, can be untangled from stunted partisan rhetoric & fallacies. My interests align with a free human community, not leaders or any regime driven by money, war and exploitation.

Carbondale IL Music Videos This channel is dedicated to the music scene in Carbondale, Illinois, home of SIU. Over the last six decades, we've had a lot of great bands and performers here, some of whom moved away and became wel...

There are a handful of original videos of varying quality and hundreds of videos in the playlists.

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The Tree Octopus unites forest & sea and brings to mind 'alien' life forms sharing this planet. They're known for their inspired laziness as well as their sense of humor and intelligence. They're becoming active at night-time in the cities. Do not ever interfere with a tree octopus.

‘The baddest technician’: how Don Cherry is still making jazz new The man who turned bebop upside down with Ornette Coleman went on to work with artists from Sonny Rollins to Ian Dury – and the London jazz festival is set to show he’s still inspiring

"There are three great trumpet and saxophone pairings in jazz history. Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker, who invented bebop; Miles Davis and John Coltrane, who evolved harmonic complexity and melodic agility; and then Ornette [Coleman] and Don [Cherry], who created cacophony without hierarchy."

Indeed. It's more accurate to say that a more noxious faction of oligarchs is coming into power rather than to pretend it's all just got bad.

#jazzsky | Sun Ra Arkestra | Swirling | Under the direction of Marshall Allen | Recorded in 2020 at Rittenhouse Soundworks in Philadelphia, this double album represents the continuation of a heartfelt rebirth of the Arkestra under Allen’s guidance since Sun Ra left the planet in 1993.

Digital scene, 2025.

#jazzsky | Free Jazz. A Collective Improvisation by The Ornette Coleman Double Quartet | Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, Scott LaFaro & Billy Higgins (left channel); Eric Dolphy, Freddie Hubbard, Charlie Haden & Ed Blackwell (right channel) | Recorded in one take in 1960 | Amazing album.

Being able to write only in sound-bites is a serious limit just like Twitter was. I have three hundred words for this comment. I can see the word counter ticking down on the bottom right side of the post menu.

Automatic digital drawing, circa 2019.

Craig here. I might not use this much.