Matt B, People's Book
@mattbormet.com
I own a bookstore @peoplesbooktakoma.com
I am a low power FM DJ https://spinitron.com/WOWD/dj/164535/Matt-Bormet
I am a high power poster
Sell me your zines for my store if they don't suck
I am a low power FM DJ https://spinitron.com/WOWD/dj/164535/Matt-Bormet
I am a high power poster
Sell me your zines for my store if they don't suck
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Matt B, People's Book
@mattbormet.com
· Jan 22
I like owning my little store and meeting people who walk into it every day and looking into their eyes and having a conversation and understanding other people are inherently good and you should treat them as such, until they give you other reason. So yeah
Listening to Axacan by @danielbachman.bsky.social for the first time in a while. it still rules and is a great preview of where he was headed with his more recent work. Very highly recommended
danielbachman.bandcamp.com/album/axacan
danielbachman.bandcamp.com/album/axacan
Axacan, by Daniel Bachman
10 track album
danielbachman.bandcamp.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Listening to Axacan by @danielbachman.bsky.social for the first time in a while. it still rules and is a great preview of where he was headed with his more recent work. Very highly recommended
danielbachman.bandcamp.com/album/axacan
danielbachman.bandcamp.com/album/axacan
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oh you think the jokes in thomas pynchon novels are corny? the names? you don't like the songs? you might like the single greatest stylist of the 20th century and the one novelist who almost grasps the totality if he wasn't so "cringe" for you? should we throw a party? call the papers?
November 27, 2025 at 3:30 AM
oh you think the jokes in thomas pynchon novels are corny? the names? you don't like the songs? you might like the single greatest stylist of the 20th century and the one novelist who almost grasps the totality if he wasn't so "cringe" for you? should we throw a party? call the papers?
People's Book Black Friday doorbusters: we open at 9am and nothing is on sale. We have books and zines. And coffee. Someone will be nice to you if you come by. Thanks.
November 27, 2025 at 1:02 AM
People's Book Black Friday doorbusters: we open at 9am and nothing is on sale. We have books and zines. And coffee. Someone will be nice to you if you come by. Thanks.
I guffawed real good at this one
November 26, 2025 at 12:10 AM
I guffawed real good at this one
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whole lot to munch on in this wonderful retrospective interview with @negativlandland.bsky.social, with juicy new details about the U2 affair, including the roles of r.e.m. (accidental, unrighteous) & sinead o'connor (intentional, righteous)
November 25, 2025 at 2:03 AM
whole lot to munch on in this wonderful retrospective interview with @negativlandland.bsky.social, with juicy new details about the U2 affair, including the roles of r.e.m. (accidental, unrighteous) & sinead o'connor (intentional, righteous)
Silver spring Thanksgiving Parade report: it's good
November 22, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Silver spring Thanksgiving Parade report: it's good
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Jon Camp Band Record Release Show TONIGHT at @rhizomedc.bsky.social @centripetalforce.bsky.social
www.rhizomedc.org/new-events/2...
www.rhizomedc.org/new-events/2...
Jon Camp Band (Record Release Show) / Marian McLaughlin / Dura — Rhizome DC
Friday November 21 * doors at 6:30, music at 7:15 * $15 * TICKETS Jon Camp is a fingerstyle guitarist and composer based out of the DC region. Jon blends melody, twang, and drone into...
www.rhizomedc.org
November 21, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Jon Camp Band Record Release Show TONIGHT at @rhizomedc.bsky.social @centripetalforce.bsky.social
www.rhizomedc.org/new-events/2...
www.rhizomedc.org/new-events/2...
Had fun biking books to the @jrdarchivist.bsky.social event at UMD today. It was weird and gray outside and nice to be on trails.
November 21, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Had fun biking books to the @jrdarchivist.bsky.social event at UMD today. It was weird and gray outside and nice to be on trails.
m8 I'm chuffed
The BBC Scotland commentary for Kenny McLean’s halfway line goal is glorious. Stuff of dreams. 🔥
Congratulations #Scotland, see you at the World Cup.
Congratulations #Scotland, see you at the World Cup.
November 18, 2025 at 11:44 PM
m8 I'm chuffed
It's gonna be real real good!! 8 pm tonight! @centripetalforce.bsky.social
Tonight, I’ll be taking to the airwaves of Takoma Radio (WOWD, 94.3 FM), playing a solo guitar set featuring the entirety of my new album, Proceed, on @mattbormet.com's Days Have Gone By show. We’ll also spin and chat about some tunes that influenced the album. Tune in via the dial or WOWD’s site!
November 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
It's gonna be real real good!! 8 pm tonight! @centripetalforce.bsky.social
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Tonight, I’ll be taking to the airwaves of Takoma Radio (WOWD, 94.3 FM), playing a solo guitar set featuring the entirety of my new album, Proceed, on @mattbormet.com's Days Have Gone By show. We’ll also spin and chat about some tunes that influenced the album. Tune in via the dial or WOWD’s site!
November 17, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Tonight, I’ll be taking to the airwaves of Takoma Radio (WOWD, 94.3 FM), playing a solo guitar set featuring the entirety of my new album, Proceed, on @mattbormet.com's Days Have Gone By show. We’ll also spin and chat about some tunes that influenced the album. Tune in via the dial or WOWD’s site!
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Gonna take a little bluesky break - seven apes have wrung my neck. I would love to keep posting but every time I open the app I am strangled by over half a dozen wild eyed apes. They broke my neck back and forth with their powerful small hairy hands.
November 14, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Gonna take a little bluesky break - seven apes have wrung my neck. I would love to keep posting but every time I open the app I am strangled by over half a dozen wild eyed apes. They broke my neck back and forth with their powerful small hairy hands.
Katie Wilson becoming Seattle mayor is the first step in the Georgist revolution, two hundred years after it began
November 12, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Katie Wilson becoming Seattle mayor is the first step in the Georgist revolution, two hundred years after it began
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do not say this to me
November 10, 2025 at 7:25 PM
do not say this to me
@rilaws.bsky.social You have no idea how correct you are. The most intense political battle I was involved in over eight years as a staffer on Capitol Hill was about DCA flights and where they were allocated. Life or death to save an extra hour drive to Dulles every week
November 10, 2025 at 4:50 AM
@rilaws.bsky.social You have no idea how correct you are. The most intense political battle I was involved in over eight years as a staffer on Capitol Hill was about DCA flights and where they were allocated. Life or death to save an extra hour drive to Dulles every week
Kinda messed up that YouTube begins feeding you exclusively Warren Zevon stuff in the algorithm once you turn 43
November 9, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Kinda messed up that YouTube begins feeding you exclusively Warren Zevon stuff in the algorithm once you turn 43
"the viral blanket"
November 7, 2025 at 12:31 AM
"the viral blanket"
Can't shake this song haydenpedigo.bandcamp.com/track/radioa...
Radioactive Dreams, by Chat Pile & Hayden Pedigo
from the album In The Earth Again
haydenpedigo.bandcamp.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Can't shake this song haydenpedigo.bandcamp.com/track/radioa...
Now on sale @peoplesbooktakoma.com
“Searing, witty, critical and defiant … It feels just as pressing now as it did in the early 1990s. … The pages of Gendertrash are filled with poems, essays, rants, fictions, speeches, surveys, interviews, resource lists and personal ads—largely for and by trans people, against...
This trans zine from the ’90s has never been more relevant | Xtra Magazine
“Gendertrash From Hell” collects all the issues of the iconoclastic publication. It’s a major event
xtramagazine.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Now on sale @peoplesbooktakoma.com
You guys ever read the Iowa Baseball Confederacy by WP Kinsella
November 2, 2025 at 4:03 AM
You guys ever read the Iowa Baseball Confederacy by WP Kinsella
I'm not allowed to stay up this late for this shit anymore, baseball is a game for degenerates
November 2, 2025 at 3:21 AM
I'm not allowed to stay up this late for this shit anymore, baseball is a game for degenerates
