Peter Jeffe
@pjeffe.bsky.social
"Understand the reality of our situation, understand that fascism is already here, that people are already dying who could be saved, that generations more will live poor butchered half-lives if you fail to act." - George Jackson
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I love everything about this. That Carlos Alomar backed up Chuck Berry at Rye Playland, a down-market amusement park we went to as kids; the simplicity of Berry's stage cues; and his emphatic dismissal of the idea that you'd need to rehearse rock and roll.
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![“I got this phone call to do a job at the Rye Playland [in Rye, New York, north of New York City]. It was an amusement park, but they had entertainment there under the giant tent and everything. I get there and in walks Chuck Berry with his electric guitar. He walks right up to us and says, ‘When I do like this’ — and he takes his headstock and moves it sideways — ‘you stop.’
“‘And when I do like this’ — and he moves his headstock up and down — ‘you play.’ That was it.
“He turns around to walk out, and I said, ‘Come on…’ I was maybe in my early twenties and naive. I said, ‘Excuse me, Mr. Berry, are we gonna rehearse?’
“That man turned around and looked at me and said, ‘Boy, I ain’t gonna rehearse rock and roll.’
“He turned around, walked out.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:thcz5zwlgps2dpvag3fbp7mi/bafkreidchkfchn74fequ7tiu44ulqbpepsx7lzjphm5r4uj5ugpylajbxi@jpeg)
November 29, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I love everything about this. That Carlos Alomar backed up Chuck Berry at Rye Playland, a down-market amusement park we went to as kids; the simplicity of Berry's stage cues; and his emphatic dismissal of the idea that you'd need to rehearse rock and roll.
www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/c...
www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/c...
I always knew Jimmy Cliff was at the center of reggae's success, but I had no idea that he was responsible for launching both Desmond Dekker's and Bob Marley's careers when he worked with Leslie Kong. In fact he was also responsible for Kong starting his legendary Beverley's record label.
November 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I always knew Jimmy Cliff was at the center of reggae's success, but I had no idea that he was responsible for launching both Desmond Dekker's and Bob Marley's careers when he worked with Leslie Kong. In fact he was also responsible for Kong starting his legendary Beverley's record label.
Or maybe he just looks like one?
November 23, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Or maybe he just looks like one?
Probably this, on the southeast coast of Barbados. While my kids were hanging on the patio I was inside, deathly ill from food poisoning. The real pisser was that it was during the Crop Over festival and we had a babysitter and had planned to party very significantly.
November 22, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Probably this, on the southeast coast of Barbados. While my kids were hanging on the patio I was inside, deathly ill from food poisoning. The real pisser was that it was during the Crop Over festival and we had a babysitter and had planned to party very significantly.
Lol she's spinning in her grave.
November 21, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Lol she's spinning in her grave.
Don't forget that this subpoena only exists because @repsummerlee.bsky.social forced the GOP committee members to vote on it. As Ansari says in this interview:
November 14, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Don't forget that this subpoena only exists because @repsummerlee.bsky.social forced the GOP committee members to vote on it. As Ansari says in this interview:
My god, severe psychic damage just reading the list of contributors.
November 13, 2025 at 9:27 PM
My god, severe psychic damage just reading the list of contributors.
Gertrude Bell, more familiar with the region than most in the foreign office, was also horrified by the suppression of Arab control over their lands:
"It's like a nightmare in which you foresee all the horrible things which are going to happen and can't stretch out your hand to prevent them." 4/n
"It's like a nightmare in which you foresee all the horrible things which are going to happen and can't stretch out your hand to prevent them." 4/n
November 10, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Gertrude Bell, more familiar with the region than most in the foreign office, was also horrified by the suppression of Arab control over their lands:
"It's like a nightmare in which you foresee all the horrible things which are going to happen and can't stretch out your hand to prevent them." 4/n
"It's like a nightmare in which you foresee all the horrible things which are going to happen and can't stretch out your hand to prevent them." 4/n
And I don't care how long ago this was, she's shit.
November 8, 2025 at 9:20 PM
And I don't care how long ago this was, she's shit.
Looks like AI Reagan.
November 8, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Looks like AI Reagan.
Yeah that woman looks super happy. Like all the jolly folks Dorothea Lange snapped.
November 8, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Yeah that woman looks super happy. Like all the jolly folks Dorothea Lange snapped.
I just got my two half-off choices, so many more great ones on sale!
November 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I just got my two half-off choices, so many more great ones on sale!
Yes Screen Rant, out of the dozens of Emma Thompson's acclaimed roles the one that most characterizes her career was her minor supporting role in the Harry Potter movies.
November 1, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Yes Screen Rant, out of the dozens of Emma Thompson's acclaimed roles the one that most characterizes her career was her minor supporting role in the Harry Potter movies.
Every twee renovator's idea of what old-timey fixtures looked like, when in fact they really looked more like this:
November 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Every twee renovator's idea of what old-timey fixtures looked like, when in fact they really looked more like this:
True enough, Christians ended most Indigenous rituals pretty definitively through the practice of their own.
October 30, 2025 at 10:08 PM
True enough, Christians ended most Indigenous rituals pretty definitively through the practice of their own.
Yes, I do hope that the Democratic establishment doesn't welcome the "millions of working-class American men" who think rape victims deserve it and support genocide and imperialist wars. Those people are called Republicans (and worse).
October 24, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Yes, I do hope that the Democratic establishment doesn't welcome the "millions of working-class American men" who think rape victims deserve it and support genocide and imperialist wars. Those people are called Republicans (and worse).
I was on Vieques when they were shutting down the bombing range in 2003. The contrast between the natural beauty of the island and the toxic legacy of our imperialism is striking.
October 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I was on Vieques when they were shutting down the bombing range in 2003. The contrast between the natural beauty of the island and the toxic legacy of our imperialism is striking.
Not to belabor the Platner discourse any further, but anyone who said, at any age, that they would have loved to commit genocide and squash peasant revolts is an absolute piece of shit.
October 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Not to belabor the Platner discourse any further, but anyone who said, at any age, that they would have loved to commit genocide and squash peasant revolts is an absolute piece of shit.
Resistance to oppression isn't cringe. But one of these people is an ally and one isn't and you should know the difference.
October 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Resistance to oppression isn't cringe. But one of these people is an ally and one isn't and you should know the difference.