Alton Smith
@altonsmith101.bsky.social
Ensemble instructor and piano teacher at Old Town School of Folk Music, Chicago, IL
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In light of today’s absolutely fucking deranged “I’m in a war movie” speeches by Trump and Hegseth, I give you the plaque at West Point.
September 30, 2025 at 4:28 PM
In light of today’s absolutely fucking deranged “I’m in a war movie” speeches by Trump and Hegseth, I give you the plaque at West Point.
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Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today
September 16, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today
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maybe there's still some good left in this world after all
July 28, 2025 at 2:46 AM
maybe there's still some good left in this world after all
Why couldn’t Ted Turner have been the billionaire that took over everything?!!
March 27, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Why couldn’t Ted Turner have been the billionaire that took over everything?!!
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i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
January 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
RIP Garth Hudson, last of The Band, probably THE touchstone group of my musical life for the past 20+ years. Too many ends of an era of late… www.theringer.com/2025/01/22/m...
The Old Man and the Keys: The Improvised Legacy of Garth Hudson
Writer, musician, and Hold Steady member Franz Nicolay remembers the Band’s famed keyboardist and sage eccentric, who died Tuesday at age 87
www.theringer.com
January 23, 2025 at 12:24 AM
RIP Garth Hudson, last of The Band, probably THE touchstone group of my musical life for the past 20+ years. Too many ends of an era of late… www.theringer.com/2025/01/22/m...