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Alison Fensterstock

@alisonf.bsky.social

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Teenage werewolf / inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read / [email protected] Editor of NPR Music’s HOW WOMEN MADE MUSIC (Harper One ‘24) coauthor of a biography of Bunny Matthews (Historic New Orleans Collection Press, someday)

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Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · 2d

This unfortunately just makes me picture a bucket of soup, a list of soups to be served in buckets

Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · 23d

Apropos of nothing I think people are overusing the word “material” to sound smartypants when “real” or sometimes “tangible” would do

Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · Aug 29

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Fuck Katrina

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Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · Aug 20

Today at water aerobics they played smells”Smells Like Teen Spirit,” it was like a joke about aging Gen Xers you’d tell someone to edit out for being too cute, and yet there it was lol

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Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · Jul 20

Do you think all the Kryptonian dogs look like Krypto or are there many breeds, like here on earth, except of course super

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Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · Jul 17

Just listened to a BBC Newshour interview with a man who wrote a book about the history of movie props. “People in narrative cinema are always doing things, and they have to do things with things,” he said

Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · Jul 2

At least til they invented Everlane, now I do have some collared linen shirts I guess

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Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · Jul 2

I know it’s what my mom would call “separates” in re clothing but I either wear t-shirts or a whole ass dress?

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Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · Jul 2

Maybe it’s the Gen X half of me talking but I still really don’t know what a “going-out top” is (I read my Strategist newsletters today)

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Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · Jun 23

Apropos of nothing, every time I get a letter from the NOLA tax assessor I get “tax assessor” stuck in my head to the tune of Neko Case’s “Fox Confessor”

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Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · Jun 6

Oh, like in Ebony & Ivory. “Side by side on the pyah-no…”

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Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · Jun 6

Pyah-no

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Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · Jun 6

Oddly thrown off listening to ATC today and hearing Ari Shapiro keep pronouncing “piano” with two syllables

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Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · Jun 4

I read “Alone” and got my adventure husky photos and then stopped

Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · Jun 4

They’re v nice people

Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · Jun 4

I may have specifically ordered hi res images of huskies in Antarctica from the Byrd Foundation just to make some nice home office wall art

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Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · Jun 4

Too late

Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · Jun 4

Siberian huskies also

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Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · Jun 4

I can’t be the first person to learn about the new Star War called Andor (suspiciously similar to where the Ewoks are from) and then try to make up a song about how it’s Andor with an A, not Endor with an E to the tune of “Liza with a Z”

… or am I

Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · Jun 3

I wish everyone a good sleepy, dusty Delta day youtu.be/cJZ_ViDADOE

Ode To Billie Joe

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Human Rights Campaign @hrc.org · Jun 1

*Eagle screech* 🦅🏳️‍🌈

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Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · Jun 2

I would buy this if it had just a few more of the lyrics from Up On Cripple Creek (because if the name is really changed it fucks up the scansion of one of my favorite songs)

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Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · Jun 1

Cheese is a privilege, not a right, I just told my dog

But on second thought is this actually true? Where is the case law

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Rude Katy @rudekaty.bsky.social · May 22

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Squeee!!!

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Author Night at Hubbell Library: Alison Fensterstock

This definitive history of women’s vital role in music features archival interviews, essays, photographs, and illustrations from over fifty years of NPR's coverage of musical heroes and creators.

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Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · May 16

Can’t spell CAMELS without SCAM

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