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Fall Foliage Report for Maryland Oct. 9 – Unpredictable Conditions

Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 22h

Baltimore: I saw a huge meteor while driving up Harford Road last night. I thought it was Starlink or maybe a problem with my brain, but turns out there's a meteor shower. The Draconids last through tonight: watch the north sky.

news.maryland.gov/dnr/2025/10/...

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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 1d

ICE detained a U.S. citizen without arrest, and you’ll never guess his last name. Miranda! If I were editing this script, I’d say that was too “on the nose.”

www.koin.com

Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 1d

Now with AI, there's a map of a map of a territory. Once AI starts fully eating itself, there won't even be a map.

Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 2d

If you wanted to script a scenario to perfectly vindicate the work of Jean Baudrillard, it would be Trump II.

A simulacra of a president running a simulation of a presidency, based on simulacra of news broadcast by simulations of news media.

Baudrillard is to Trump II what Foucault was to GWB.

Starved, Displaced, Killed: Gaza’s Journalists Persist Despite Dire Conditions - Nieman Reports

Reposted by Lawrence Lanahan

Nieman Reports @niemanreports.org · 3d

Local journalists in Gaza remain the world’s only witnesses to the war and its atrocities. They are starved, traumatized, displaced, killed — yet managing to continue reporting from one of the most dangerous places on Earth.

niemanreports.org/gaza-journal...

The record death toll for news workers in Gaza is just one of the grim realities facing those still reporting as the Israel-Hamas war grinds into its third year.

niemanreports.org

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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 2d

Baltimore Kinks fans: come see an all-Kinks night with Glad Pulses, Starlings, The Jennifers, ZOCKO!, Batworth Stone, and The Lucky Stiffs on Oct 24 at 1919.

Reposted by Lawrence Lanahan

Greg Morton @invisibae.bsky.social · 8d

NEW INVESTIGATION:

Investors have spent years falling in love with the 'debt service coverage ratio' loan.

The loans have allowed access to vast sums with few conditions, and now make up 40% of mortgage dollars in Baltimore.

Now they're going bad.

(Story below ⬇️)

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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 9d

Three, a political system can’t address problems; it can be used by people to solve problems.

I would not base a headline on a survey question like this.

Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 9d

Two, how can a “political system” be “politically divided”? A nation can be politically divided, but a system? And the system, in respondents’ eyes, has become more divided over time? The political system hasn’t changed: people have.

Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 9d

I’ve been out of survey research for years, but this bugs me. 🧵

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

One, why not just ask “Do you think America’s political system can still address the nation’s problems?”, then give us the percentages on “yes” and “no”? For the “no” group, you can then ask why…

The tone in newspapers, when I started out as a copy editor forty years ago, was that the copy desk was a place where reporters fetched up ...

Reposted by Lawrence Lanahan

John McIntyre @johnemcintyre.bsky.social · 9d

What we lost when we did away with the copy desk.

What we have lost

johnemcintyre.blogspot.com

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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 15d

Can't believe it's been six years since I wrote this song "during this renegotiation/of what counts as civilization." disappearingink410.bandcamp.com/track/counti...

Counting Backwards from Nonzero, by Disappearing Ink

from the album Recount

Drone Strike in Haiti Kills 8 Children at a Birthday Party

Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 16d

Amazing what counts as “law enforcement” these days. This one was outsourced to Erik Prince. The prevailing wind of impunity for slaughtering children continues to blow strong across the globe.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/u...

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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 18d

Good morning to whoever is blazing that J at 8:30 in the Waverly Y parking lot.

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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 23d

You bet, thanks. Fascinating to see artists revisit their work or get autobiographical. In this ep, I talked about BPB's "Sings Greatest Palace," Simon's In the Blue Light, Dirty Projectors' Rise Above. Also love both arrangements of C. Shaw's "Other Song." llanahan.wixsite.com/rearranged/e...

Episodes | Rearranged podcast

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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 23d

Got so excited reading @gabrielkahane.bsky.social on arranging that I'm writing again at @rearrangedpodcast.bsky.social: it's about Kahane's new song, Glenn Miller, and how the appearance and disappearance of instrumental passages stoke the fire of a song's meaning.
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Exit Signs

Gabriel Kahane's "Where are the Arms" and the power of disappearance in musical arranging

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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · Sep 8

This features a cameo from none other than Ken Starr, telling his client, "Inappropriate, yes. Criminal, no."

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/m...

How JPMorgan Enabled the Crimes of Jeffrey Epstein

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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · Sep 5

It's interesting to look back on over twenty years of recording. I'm glad I kept pushing myself to try new ideas and new sounds on my solo stuff, and I love what we're doing in Glad Pulses. We're writing a slew of songs right now and hope to record another full-length this winter.

Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · Sep 5

I still love this first release from my current band Glad Pulses. Three songwriters: extremely collaborative work after several albums getting a solo studio tan. My contributions deal with theophany, basketball, aging, jealousy, and temptation. gladpulses.bandcamp.com/album/blue-a...

Blue and Bright, by Glad Pulses

13 track album

gladpulses.bandcamp.com

The Charm of Abstraction, by Disappearing Ink

Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · Sep 5

This 2023 "no guitars" album embraces influences like hip-hop and R&B that I'd always loved as a listener but never allowed into my writing. There's a Dionne Warwick cover and a track that's almost entirely samples of Elliott Gould in The Long Goodbye. disappearingink410.bandcamp.com/album/the-ch...

12 track album

Recount, by Disappearing Ink

Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · Sep 5

One year later, I recorded the EP "Recount" to deal with the pandemic and political unraveling. I wrote "Suspicion showers, violence flowers" in October 2020, and recorded the vocals, unwittingly, as the Jan. 6 insurrection transpired. Dark stuff. disappearingink410.bandcamp.com/album/recount

3 track album

Surprises, by Disappearing Ink

Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · Sep 5

Another six years, and I got out Surprises, recorded and mixed at home. Guitar solos--absent from the last record--aplenty. More keyboards, a cover of a Yo La Tengo cover, and the loop-chopping freak out "All Some None." disappearingink410.bandcamp.com/album/surpri...

10 track album

There Is No Time and Nothing's Been, by Disappearing Ink

Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · Sep 5

Ten years later, this album is all Baltimore, with great local jazz, free improv, and guitar pop players, recorded at Tempo House. It's the first time I heard myself sounding like myself. It includes the violin/cello duet "Cowbear and the Punisher."
disappearingink410.bandcamp.com/album/there-...

10 track album