Xopher Besinger
@xopherbesinger.bsky.social
Maybe I will reveal my secret tumblr
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I wrote a poetry chapbook & my plan was to self-publish a little run but the idea of any kind of self-promo/commerce fills me with despair. So I just made a pdf copy if you would a copy message me here or get a hold of me somehow
Oh hey sometimes people ask if I still make music and basically no I don't but I did do this record I think is cool with @matthelgeson.bsky.social and its bandcamp Friday, we keep talking about doing another one, the first only took us like 25 yrs to do so maybe soon?
Every Song Needs Three Things, by Renegade Priests
8 track album
renegadepriests.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Oh hey sometimes people ask if I still make music and basically no I don't but I did do this record I think is cool with @matthelgeson.bsky.social and its bandcamp Friday, we keep talking about doing another one, the first only took us like 25 yrs to do so maybe soon?
"You spent 2025 listening to...music you really like!"
Wow! Thanks music app I pay for so I can listen to music I really like! We truly live in a wondrous world
Wow! Thanks music app I pay for so I can listen to music I really like! We truly live in a wondrous world
December 3, 2025 at 11:46 PM
"You spent 2025 listening to...music you really like!"
Wow! Thanks music app I pay for so I can listen to music I really like! We truly live in a wondrous world
Wow! Thanks music app I pay for so I can listen to music I really like! We truly live in a wondrous world
This harassment/discrimination in the work place training that I now have to spend an extra hour clicking around on & "engaging" with is discriminatory against people like me who are able to get things done in a timely manner
December 3, 2025 at 5:53 PM
This harassment/discrimination in the work place training that I now have to spend an extra hour clicking around on & "engaging" with is discriminatory against people like me who are able to get things done in a timely manner
They're saying he's the least woke president ever
Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
December 2, 2025 at 7:44 PM
They're saying he's the least woke president ever
This is the only quiz that matters
Today is Giving Tuesday—and the final day of Bookmatch! If you haven’t taken the quiz yet, now’s your last chance to support n+1 and get some reading recommendations while you’re at it.
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December 2, 2025 at 7:27 PM
This is the only quiz that matters
Wait I was kidding!
Put Brosmer in
December 1, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Wait I was kidding!
Fortunately its poetry so no one will read it
this is quite the detail
November 30, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Fortunately its poetry so no one will read it
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Farewell Tom Stoppard. I know I'm supposed to consider "Arcadia" your best work, but there's no improving on Brazil's taut first hour & the office dialogue in particular.
November 29, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Farewell Tom Stoppard. I know I'm supposed to consider "Arcadia" your best work, but there's no improving on Brazil's taut first hour & the office dialogue in particular.
Cecil Taylor Unit 78 box set when?
Cecil Taylor Unit 6 (1978) - YouTube
The Cecil Taylor Unit 6: Cecil Taylor - piano Raphé Malik - trumpet Jimmy Lyons - alto sax Ramsey Ameen - violin Ronald Shannon Jackson or Kenny Tyler or Ste...
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November 29, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Cecil Taylor Unit 78 box set when?
This new trend were journals don't send rejection notices but just let you know by ignoring you is fucking annoying
November 29, 2025 at 2:53 PM
This new trend were journals don't send rejection notices but just let you know by ignoring you is fucking annoying
Butlerian Jihad let's fucking go!
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Butlerian Jihad let's fucking go!
DMV hack: go immediately after a snowstorm, no waiting!
November 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
DMV hack: go immediately after a snowstorm, no waiting!
SUNDAY
One Too Many Salty Swift and Not Goodbye (Live) - YouTube
youtube.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:40 PM
SUNDAY
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Trump filling out his NYC DSA membership card to vote on primarying Jeffries right now
November 21, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Trump filling out his NYC DSA membership card to vote on primarying Jeffries right now
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Zohran cucked Trump in less than an hour, adjust what you think political strength looks like if you don’t think it looks like him
November 21, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Zohran cucked Trump in less than an hour, adjust what you think political strength looks like if you don’t think it looks like him
THURSDAY not new or nuthin' but a fantastic document of the Raygun Suitcase/Pennsylvania-era by what is probably my favorite line-up
Oh, Pennsylvania, I Do Remember Thee - 1998, by Pere Ubu
14 track album
pereubu.bandcamp.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:28 PM
THURSDAY not new or nuthin' but a fantastic document of the Raygun Suitcase/Pennsylvania-era by what is probably my favorite line-up
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Billy Woods, America's current greatest songwriter, at the 7th Street Entry.
November 18, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Billy Woods, America's current greatest songwriter, at the 7th Street Entry.
A few yrs back when things were esp bleak I watched this special once a week
Good news: If you would like to watch Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants on YouTube I have done a painstaking 4k upscale of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0gW...
November 17, 2025 at 4:12 AM
A few yrs back when things were esp bleak I watched this special once a week
FRIDAY I do not like being reminded this was 30 yrs ago...I also remember being completely bent out of shape over the .65 in taxes
Fugazi Live at First Avenue Minneapolis MN USA 10/15/95_FLS0736, by Fugazi
28 track album
fugazi.bandcamp.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:38 PM
FRIDAY I do not like being reminded this was 30 yrs ago...I also remember being completely bent out of shape over the .65 in taxes
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Sorcerer (1977) dir. William Friedkin
November 13, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Sorcerer (1977) dir. William Friedkin
MONDAY all gas / no breaks
Keep Hanging On
YouTube video by Husker Du - Topic
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 3:13 AM
MONDAY all gas / no breaks
One thing about social media culture/our current world, we spend way too much time thinking & worrying about stuff that as my mom would say is "none of our beeswax"
November 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
One thing about social media culture/our current world, we spend way too much time thinking & worrying about stuff that as my mom would say is "none of our beeswax"
I'd like to report a murder
November 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I'd like to report a murder
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I very gently rewrote the announcement of the title change my boss wrote and she asked if I used AI to write it
November 5, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I very gently rewrote the announcement of the title change my boss wrote and she asked if I used AI to write it