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Chris Richards @chrisrichards.bsky.social · 1d

Permanent retort to all the narc pundits boohooing this site is that Rudy Rucker live posts from the 1,085-page Thomas Pynchon novel here

Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 1d

Pynchon "Against the Day" fee.s endless in Zeno way, I'm always half done. Weirdly close to my thoughts, transreal, spooky, mirroring me, Gottingen, logic, infinity, Fourth Dimension, P. D. Ouspensky, Germans. No titled sections, we have to talk page numbers. In Gottingen now, p. 602, heaven.

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Chris Richards @chrisrichards.bsky.social · 5d

In bed at 9pm, up at 3am, filed at 9am. It works! Thanks for reading

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Chris Richards @chrisrichards.bsky.social · 5d

A race to post that one haha 🤓

But you are still right and everything is related/connected

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Chris Richards @chrisrichards.bsky.social · 5d

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Chris Richards @chrisrichards.bsky.social · 5d

I love how these excellent newish books by/about SWIZ, HUGGY BEAR and BILLY CHILDISH tell bigger, broader punk rock truths

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Review | Punk’s next frontier: Revolutionizing the rock-and-roll memoir?

Exciting new books from punk heroes Huggy Bear, Swiz and Billy Childish might be reinventing the form.

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Chris Richards @chrisrichards.bsky.social · 6d

Mixed feelings about TAYLOR SWIFT’s mixed feelings

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Review | Taylor Swift returns with an album of mixed emotions — and mixed results

“The Life of a Showgirl” wants to feel good, but other feelings keep getting in the way.

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Chris Richards @chrisrichards.bsky.social · 6d

DOGO DU TOGO AND THE ALAGAA BEAT BAND can take you there (even when it’s hard to come here)

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Dogo du Togo and the Alagaa Beat Band want to transport you

Though a travel ban has made things difficult for the Togolese group and its D.C. bandleader, the music remains.

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Chris Richards @chrisrichards.bsky.social · 7d

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Chris Richards @chrisrichards.bsky.social · 7d

I have seen ADDISON RAE in concert and the dream is real is the dream

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Review | Addison Rae stepped into reality and became the perfect pop star

In concert, the former TikTok sensation wants to show us what dreams are made of.

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Chris Richards @chrisrichards.bsky.social · 10d

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Chris Richards @chrisrichards.bsky.social · 10d

Writing about the music of Washington D.C. remains one of the highest honors I’ll ever know

Thanks for reading

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Chris Richards @chrisrichards.bsky.social · 10d

This was joyful, tricky business. I love reminding readers how much D.C. has improved our world — but also, canons exclude

Behind the curtain: the critics nominated long lists of works, editors made decisions (who got in; who should write what), a little back and forth, and voila

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Chris Richards @chrisrichards.bsky.social · 10d

THE D.C. CANON!

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The 101 greatest movies, songs, books, artworks (and more!) about Washington, D.C.

Introducing the D.C. Canon, starring Chuck Brown, Olivia Pope, George Washington, Leonardo da Vinci, Duke Ellington, Rites of Spring and — who could forget? — Gort.

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Chris Richards @chrisrichards.bsky.social · 28d

It’s been a legit joy to watch EL COUSTEAU grow up/level up

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Review | El Cousteau grew up to become your favorite rapper’s favorite rapper

Earl Sweatshirt and A$AP Rocky want to rap with him. On his sharp new album, “Dirty Harry 2,” the stylish D.C. native shows why.

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Chris Richards @chrisrichards.bsky.social · Sep 2

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Chris Richards @chrisrichards.bsky.social · Sep 1

This OASIS reunion packs the life-affirming power of 10,000 karaoke nights but if you’re reticent to sing along, I invite you to join me in pondering the meaning of Liam Gallagher’s slouch

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Review | Oasis is back. And this time, the whole world is singing along.

Oasis, the reunited Brit-pop act, finally sounds like the classic rock band it always wanted to be.

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Chris Richards @chrisrichards.bsky.social · Aug 29

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Chris Richards @chrisrichards.bsky.social · Aug 29

This new SABRINA CARPENTER is a gas (and maybe a new kind of pop album, too)

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Review | Is Sabrina Carpenter the funniest pop singer alive?

“Man’s Best Friend” is a pop album that feels as zesty, clever and cathartic as stand-up comedy.

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Chris Richards @chrisrichards.bsky.social · Aug 29

I like traditionalism when, instead of taking us back, it brings good things from the past into the now — which is why I like the music of ZACH TOP

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Review | Zach Top is making a new kind of old-school country music

Like Randy Travis and Keith Whitley before him, the rising young singer knows how to make life’s heaviness feel light.

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Chris Richards @chrisrichards.bsky.social · Aug 26

TikTok is a funnel and SOMBR is a sound

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Chris Richards @chrisrichards.bsky.social · Aug 25

NOURISHED BY TIME says “we don’t have to be so average”

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Review | Nourished by Time isn’t your everyday R&B singer

The Baltimore singer-songwriter’s new album, “The Passionate Ones,” reminds us that “we don’t have to be so average.”

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