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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner)
@danlehner.bsky.social
Opened at gunpoint in a Lady Footlocker. Trombonist, composer, bandleader (The Great Long Meadow Fire, True East, Store Hours). Brooklyn, NY. he/him.

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attn Brooklyn:
sadly, I am not, in fact, going to be playing a brass band gig at a robot fighting league event but at least it’s not happening for a very funny reason
November 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I'll give it this, "bronzed face all chiseled angles" is some champion-level "technically correct" work
November 25, 2025 at 8:28 PM
kind of a different calculus when no one is threatening to withhold federal funding from a city with an economy 1/4th the size of ours
November 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
lol
November 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
really funny to come across this because it's:

1) actually my fault and
2) for a completely different reason than the three listed
Seeing a spate of Star Wars mentions on the feed and I can’t tell if that’s because of Star Wars news, a shared meme riff, or the ceaseless drone of Star Wars chatter we will all be plagued with until death mercifully rescues us.
November 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Week 9:

9m running (5:00 + 4:00), 1m walking, 3x
November 25, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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“You know what the best part of my day is? It’s for about ten seconds from when I open the app to when I get your account, because I think maybe you’ll have deactivated. No goodbye, no ‘taking a mental health break’, nothing — you just logged off”
December 30, 2024 at 4:13 PM
Alex Vitale on transition team to advise the community safety plan + Jessie Tisch as police commissioner is………..interesting.
November 24, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I didn’t genuinely didn’t mean to but I realized after the fact that “JB Pritzker’s Star Wars ranking” is like the platonic post for this site — couldn’t have farmed more engagement if I tried
November 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
haven’t seen ROS or Solo but this seems like a pretty ball-knowing list from Pritzker, particularly if he volunteered the name “Star Wars” rather than “A New Hope”
November 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
need a discourse break: what’s your go-to karaoke song? mine is “Brandy” by Looking Glass. very comfortable range-wise, easy-going, crowd usually loves it
November 24, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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November 23, 2025 at 11:36 AM
one of the things I appreciate about Eggers is that he uses the alienating quality of strict period accuracy to his advantage — you don’t feel at home with these characters and that’s good, it makes it feel like it’s actually happening in a real but foreign time
November 23, 2025 at 6:08 PM
to be clear, this doesn’t really influence my opinion of the meeting overall, but I’m pretty firmly of the belief that the “it’s okay you can just say yes” answer from Trump is just indicating that he doesn’t care if he’s called a fascist, not necessarily that he’s owning it
November 22, 2025 at 11:51 PM
November 22, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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buying 10,000 middle schoolers tickets to the 76ers 67th game of the season to create the most annoying event in existence
November 22, 2025 at 6:36 PM
RFK Jr. dirty talking like “"̵Y̵r̸ ̵o̷p̶e̴n̸ ̸m̵o̷u̴t̵h̸ ̴a̴w̴a̶i̶t̷i̸n̴g̶ ̷m̴y̵ ̷h̵a̵r̶v̴e̵s̴t̶,̴ ̶D̶r̶i̶n̵k̴ ̴f̶r̵o̸m̵ ̶m̶e̷ ̵L̴o̷v̵e̷.̶"̵”
I said in another thread that the act itself isn’t that much of a problem for me, it’s the fact I’m hearing everything in RFK’s voice
November 22, 2025 at 6:09 PM
truth hydrogen bomb and I can’t readily think of a retort to Whitmer doing the same that doesn’t feel like special pleading
a significant reason Mamdani can get away with this and other Dems can’t is less that he’s charmed Trump and more that he’s charmed you, dear reader, which is why you’re not yelling at him for being a collaborator or an appeaser right now
November 21, 2025 at 10:09 PM
look all you have to do to take on the NYC mayor’s job as a progressive is be generationally charming while also wanting to do the worst job in all of electoral politics, I don’t know what’s so hard about this
November 21, 2025 at 9:17 PM
attn Brooklyn:
November 21, 2025 at 8:48 PM
“lol once again you’ve foolishly voted for a candidate to the right of my preferred one, a hypothetical Leninist who can win over winemoms”
November 21, 2025 at 2:19 PM
things happening on the other site you wouldn’t believe
November 21, 2025 at 4:52 AM
picking up the toddler from 2K at 5:00 in September: “let us walk home in the jaunty sunshine of early childhood education”

picking up the toddler from 2K at 5:00 in November: “I have abandoned my baby in the dead winter’s darkness, never to know living things again”
November 20, 2025 at 10:16 PM
the present is violent and shameful, but to add insult to injury, it’s also embarrassingly stupid, like: “our ancient, 50/50-on-what-day-of-the-week-it-is president expressed killing the opposition via an Iron Cross anon account he ReTruthed (a feature from a social media site he owns)”
November 20, 2025 at 6:32 PM
two criticisms of Zohran in the talksphere right now are 1) appointing a police commissioner who associates with people who call him a terrorist 2) endorsing a Palestinian candidate for NYSA who said 9/11 wasn’t worse than colonialism

which is to say: NYC bay-bee! a tent as big as the Apple!
November 20, 2025 at 2:08 PM