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This but, you know, minus one day
November 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM
monogramdp.bsky.social
Had the same thought.
November 13, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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gregpak.net
Hey, friends in NYC! Come hang out with a buncha cool comics creators and fold zines and make posters to push back against ICE! A @handsoffnyc.bsky.social and @bkindivisible.bsky.social event at @anyonecomics.bsky.social in Brooklyn! It's gonna be a blast!

www.mobilize.us/indivisiblen...
Hands Off NYC Zine and Poster Fun in Brooklyn with local comics creators! · Indivisible Brooklyn
Join New York comic creators to fold zines and make posters to push back against ICE in our city! Stay to fold and color a while or just swing by to pick up zines and posters to distribute in your nei...
www.mobilize.us
November 11, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Reposted by David Patterson
johnlingan.bsky.social
Happy 80th birthday to Neil Young, an Olympian figure and the subject of some of the funniest quotes in BACKBEATS thanks to his tempestuous relationship with Kenny Buttrey.

“Neil hires some of the best musicians in the world and has 'em play as stupid as they possibly can.”
Neil Young was among the folk rockers to follow Dylan's lead to Music City. He was still largely known as a crunchy electric guitarist at that point; he used distortion to signify joy and abandon on "Cinnamon Girl" and heartbreak on "Ohio." But his recent songs had been written during extensive physical recovery, like Dylan's had been, and were calmer for it. Buttrey, along with Tim Drummond on bass, Jack Nitzsche on piano, and Ben Keith on pedal steel, became Young's Nashville band, which he dubbed the Stray Gators. Harvest, the record they made together, was Young's biggest in every way. It featured a full orchestra on multiple tracks, two career-defining singles ("Old Man" and "Heart of Gold," his first number 1), guest background vocalists Ronstadt and James Taylor, and some of his best songwriting, particularly the straightforwardly country title track. Buttrey helped Young achieve that, even if their relationship was hardly chummy. "Neil tells everybody what to play, note for note," Buttrey said later. "If you play somethin' he doesn't like, boy, he'll put a look on you you'll never forget. Neil hires some of the best musicians in the world and has 'em play as stupid as they possibly can." Young told Buttrey not to play cymbals, and to hit his hi-hats with his nondominant left hand. Everything about Neil Young was defiant— his overdriven guitar tones, his nasal high tenor, the mix of unaffected directness and inscrutable poeticism in his lyrics. And that extended to his sense of rhythm. The prehistoric stomp of his work with Crazy Horse, like his distinctive hammer-on acoustic guitar style, was all about riding a groove, and the ambitious productions of Harvest didn't get in the way of that goal. "Out on the Weekend" and especially "Harvest" have a methodical, subdued gait that comes directly from Young's strumming, not the drums, as Buttrey acknowledged. The strings of Young's guitar fill the spaces where cymbals would otherwise go. "It's just ultra-, ultra-simple, a laidback kinda thing nobody but Neil does, and if you're right with him it sounds great, and it sounds awful if you're not," Buttrey explained. "If I can't see Neil's right hand when he's playin' guitar, then I'm not playing. His rhythm playing is just perfect—it'll feel like he's slowing down, but it's just the Neil Young feel. No drummer should ever hold Neil to a certain tempo, because if you put a metronome on it, you kill the Neil Young feel." After the success of Harvest, Young brought the Stray Gators on a 1973 tour, the first time Buttrey had allowed himself to be lured out of the studio and on the road. Supposedly the drummer requested an exorbitant payment of $100,000 to offset his lost record-making wages, which prompted the other musicians to ask the same. The anger never abated between Buttrey and Young, who was also reeling from the recent overdose death of his friend and Crazy Horse guitarist Danny Whitten. Increasingly reliant on tequila to calm his nerves, playing in bigger venues than ever before, and bereft of his harder-rocking backing group, Young was at his wits end through this tour and took it out on Buttrey. "Neil would just jump all over me," Buttrey said. Young kept hectoring him to hit the bass drum harder and get bigger sticks, and Buttrey kept buying thicker and thicker ones until a music store clerk told him, "Son, anything bigger than this is gonna have bark on it." Young once got so angry he punctured Buttrey's snare with a drumstick during a sound check. "I was playin' ten times louder than I had ever played in my life," the drummer recalled. "I was tryin' thicker heads, bigger sticks. It was drivin' me crazy. I looked down at the snare drums one night and saw somethin' splatter. My hand would bleed, it was drippin' down the stick and formed a big puddle on the snare. And when I hit the drum, blood would fly through the air.. It was the roughest time of my life." He quit midway through the tour, and the other musicians, Young included, plowed ahead in wretched shape from overdrinking. Incredibly, Young released a live album from this tour, Time Fades Away, though he chose performances from the leg that featured Jefferson Airplane drummer Johnny Barbata as Buttrey's replacement. It also contained only raw and rowdy new songs, recorded sparely, not the recent melodic hits that made his fame. In the longer context of his career, especially the chilling records that followed in Young's "ditch trilogy," it remains an exhilarating album, with songs that aren't found elsewhere in his catalog and a bleary, brown sound to match its cover. Yet Young basically disowned it, and let it fall out of print for nearly fifty years.
November 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Reposted by David Patterson
sarahweinman.com
A good night at Books Are Magic among treasured friends — that is how you launch a book. Thank you all who made it out tonight!
I’m sitting on the left in a blue striped sweater dress. Alex Mar is on the right all in black. We’re at Books Are Magic in Brooklyn Heights. Megan Abbott took the photo.
November 13, 2025 at 3:47 AM
monogramdp.bsky.social
This should be getting more attention. Please, spread the word, and participate if you can.

cc: @bkindivisible.bsky.social
@handsoffnyc.bsky.social

www.falloffreedom.com
Fall of Freedom
Fall of Freedom is an urgent call to the arts community to unite in defiance of authoritarian forces sweeping the nation.
www.falloffreedom.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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indivisible.org Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 2d
For the first time all year, Democrats were riding high and the regime was on the ropes.

If Senate leadership’s goal was to demobilize and depress rank-and-file Democrats, they could not have played their cards better.

This is why we’ve launched the largest primary program that we’ve ever run.
Democratic leaders have failed us again. It's time to get new leaders.
After yet another capitulation by Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats, it's clear we need new leadership capable of mounting a serious opposition to Trump's authoritarian regime. We're launching our la...
www.indivisible2026.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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sarahweinman.com
What a dream review in the @bostonglobe.com by @katekilla.bsky.social! “Excellent, if often enraging” is about as accurate as it gets. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/12/a...
Looking back at when a husband could rape his wife without breaking the law - The Boston Globe
Sarah Weinman’s excellent if often enraging new book chronicles the legal journey of a right that seems so obvious and foundational it’s shocking to learn how newly it was won.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:48 PM
monogramdp.bsky.social
I’m sharing this as a “gift” article so that it’s not behind a paywall.

“In a message obtained by Congress, the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein wrote that Donald J. Trump spent hours at his house with one of Mr. Epstein’s victims.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Reposted by David Patterson
oversightdemocrats.house.gov
🚨BREAKING: Oversight Dems have received new emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate that raise serious questions about Donald Trump and his knowledge of Epstein’s horrific crimes.

Read them for yourself. It’s time to end this cover-up and RELEASE THE FILES.
November 12, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Reposted by David Patterson
benkahncomics.bsky.social
This Saturday we're hosting a workshop to make posters and zines to push back on ICE in New York. RSVP to join me, Spencer Ackerman, Julio Anta, Joe Illidge, Fred Van Lente, Greg Pak, Wendy Xu, and Anyone Comics owner Dimitrios Fragiskatos this Saturday!
www.mobilize.us/indivisiblen...
Hands Off NYC Zine and Poster Fun in Brooklyn with local comics creators! · Indivisible Brooklyn
Join New York comic creators to fold zines and make posters to push back against ICE in our city! Stay to fold and color a while or just swing by to pick up zines and posters to distribute in your nei...
www.mobilize.us
November 11, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Reposted by David Patterson
rollingstone.com
Excerpt ↓In his new book 'Backbeats,' John Lingan explores what made drummers like Watts so extraordinary.

Excerpt ↓
'He Marches Right Through the Song': Steve Albini on How Charlie Watts's Snare Defined The Rolling Stones
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November 10, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Reposted by David Patterson
scribnerbooks.bsky.social
BACKBEATS by John Lingan is an electrifying journey through the history of rock and roll, told through the lives of fifteen iconic drummers and their percussion rivals—from John Bonham and Charlie Watts to Ringo Starr and Questlove. Available 11/11! https://bit.ly/4mFvGYZ
October 17, 2025 at 2:01 AM
monogramdp.bsky.social
Book events are good.
sarahweinman.com Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 2d
Anyway you'll be hearing a lot from me about WITHOUT CONSENT this week and over the next little while. And if you are in Brooklyn, Upper Manhattan, Portland, and DC, please come to one of my events!
Event schedule graphic for WITHOUT CONSENT by Sarah Weinman
November 11, 2025 at 11:29 PM
monogramdp.bsky.social
Enjoy yourself this evening, DC!

No throwing sandwiches!

Or, hey, do that, if you want, it’s your party.
andreapitzer.bsky.social Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 6d
A reminder that I'll be at Kramers (aka, Kramerbooks) in Dupont Circle with @johnlingan.bsky.social on Tuesday 11/11 at 7pm to talk about his very fun book BACKBEATS: A HISTORY OF ROCK AND ROLL IN FIFTEEN DRUMMERS, on its publication day. Come hang out with us!
A book cover, with an image of a drum kit on a round podium in the foreground, with a photo of a policeman and a crowd in the background. Lettering on the bass drum reads "A HISTORY of ROCK and ROLL in FIFTEEN DRUMMERS" below it, in a plainer typeface is "JOHN LINGAN, author of A SONG FOR EVERYONE."
November 11, 2025 at 1:53 PM
monogramdp.bsky.social
BACKBEATS releases today! Like John himself, the book is great company wherever you may go. He covers huge breadths of music history, locates & brings forward the beats & the people behind the singers & the strings, & with deft, memorable writing; solid, quick & with flourishes. Like a drummer!
November 11, 2025 at 1:52 PM
monogramdp.bsky.social
Veterans are showing up across the country today to take a stand against fascism right here in the USofA.

Please get out there and support them if you can.

www.vetssayno.org
November 11, 2025 at 1:41 PM
monogramdp.bsky.social
Congratulations, always, to Sarah Weinman for doing the work, and being recognized for the work.

“She focuses on the stories of the women behind key cases and crimes, allowing them the depth of hindsight, and the rich humanity that trials by their very nature flatten.”-Rachel Louise Snyder, NYTBR
sarahweinman.com Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 2d
Today is the publication day for WITHOUT CONSENT, a book I am so proud to share with the world, and that the New York Times Book Review says "is years — decades — overdue."

Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
Image of several physical hardcovers of WITHOUT CONSENT: A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle To Make Spousal Rape a Crime by Sarah Weinman, published by Ecco on November 11, 2025 (that's today!)
November 11, 2025 at 1:36 PM
monogramdp.bsky.social
Sarah’s WITHOUT CONSENT releases tomorrow. It’s about a man who did the worst things a human being can do, and a woman who tried to do her best. It’s about people who were largely not ready to be on stage in front of the world, or to make history, or create laws, but they did those things anyway.
November 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
monogramdp.bsky.social
Agreed!
November 6, 2025 at 4:47 PM
monogramdp.bsky.social
Good morning, New York!

Please, get out and vote, if you have not already!
November 4, 2025 at 12:31 PM
monogramdp.bsky.social
A couple more hours to collect one of these, on this absolutely gorgeous Fall afternoon, Brooklyn. (And talking to you, too, New York City!)

After that, polls are open from 6 am to 9 pm on Tuesday, 11/4.

Vote for Zohran while you’re there.

portal.311.nyc.gov/article/?kan...
November 2, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Reposted by David Patterson
indivisible.org
2️⃣ days until Election Day — and you can help GOTV for Democratic candidates from anywhere:

Virginia: indivisi.org/va-calls

New Jersey: www.indivisibleonenj.org/gotv-2025?fb...

New York: volunteer.zohranfornyc.com/phonebanking...

California: neighbor2neighbor.io/campaign/fb6...
Virginia 2025: Phonebank · Indivisible
## All eyes are on Virginia this November! ### Help Indivisible deliver wins for candidates who will put Virginia first, from the top of the ticket all the way down to the local school board! Let’...
indivisi.org
November 2, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Reposted by David Patterson
monogramdp.bsky.social
Scarves were handed out as campaign swag!
October 19, 2025 at 8:22 PM
monogramdp.bsky.social
The @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Cost of Living Classic is underway in Coney Island, with @chrispolanco.com from @soccercooligans.com as the mc and guest happy warrior public servant @justinbrannan.bsky.social

Still time to get down here and enjoy the gorgeous weather and easy going day, NYC.
October 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM