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Jason Guthartz
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Chicagwa International Airport
2022: Mayor Lori Lightfoot holds a can promoting Chicagwa drinking water canned from tap water from Lake Michigan https://www.chicagotribune.com/2022/05/03/move-over-evian-chicago-introduces-chicagwa-lake-michigan-tap-water-in-a-can/
January 15, 2026 at 2:17 AM
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a few that come to mind
The Class-Set, My STYLE (1975, Mod-Art) Tony Oxley Quintet, THE BAPTISED TRAVELLER (1969, CBS) The cover of the first of the "Tiếng Hát Quê Hương" series of multi-LP box sets of music from Vietnam, released by Мелодия (USSR) in the 1970s. Elbernita 'Twinkie' Clark, YE SHALL RECEIVE POWER (1981, Sound of Gospel)
January 11, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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Embroided "What white nonsense is this?", with flowers
January 10, 2026 at 6:18 PM
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Stephen Miller Update Your Wardrobe Challenge 2026
A black leather jacket with clusters of pointy spikes on the shoulders and sleeves.
January 1, 2026 at 4:25 PM
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The mid-20C bipartisan war on The Communist Threat succeeded in suppressing the more radical leftist factions within all of our institutions.
It's a huge part of How We Got Here.
Where we go from here is up to us.
#AbolishRacialCapitalism #DismantleWhiteness
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
In the late 1940s and the 1950s, the target was the nonexistent threat of Communist teachers; today, it’s the supposed radicalism of the university and its alleged failure to fight antisemitism. The success of both campaigns relies on economic sanctions—and on the collaboration of mainstream academic leaders.
December 31, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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The NYT apparently agrees with Bardot that the global majority of human beings aren't among the animal species worthy of rights 💩
Le Monde headline: Brigitte Bardot's 30 years of sympathy for the far right Convicted five times for racist remarks, the actress – whose foundation announced her death on Sunday, December 28 – remained one of the only French celebrities to openly embrace far-right views. By Clément Guillou Published today https://www.lemonde.fr/en/obituaries/article/2025/12/28/brigitte-bardot-s-30-years-of-sympathy-for-the-far-right_6748895_15.html New York Times headline: Brigitte Bardot, Movie Idol Who Renounced Stardom, Dies at 91 “And God Created Woman” made her a world-famous sex symbol in the 1950s. She later gave up acting to devote her life to animal welfare. By Anita Gates Dec. 28, 2025
December 28, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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My Derek Bailey memorial show on WNUR a few days after his passing:
Thu, 29-Dec-2005 10:00am-12:30pm for DEREK BAILEY (1930-2005) Derek Bailey - Interlude / Mart of Time p2 - Drop Me Off at 96th Street - Scatter - 1987 Spontaneous Music Ensemble - part 3 - Karyobin - Chronoscope - 1968 D Bailey / G Lewis / J Zorn - The Warning Track - Yankees - Celluloid - 1982 Peter Kowald & Derek Bailey - Lost Lots - Duos: Europa-America-Japan [Kowald] - FMP - 1988 Company - The 1st Hackney Scroll: Theology - Fictions - Incus - 1977 Derek Bailey - Tap 1b - Incus Taps - Organ of Corti - 1973 Will Gaines & Derek Bailey - Glidin - Rappin & Tappin - Incus - 1994 Derek Bailey - George - Playbacks - Bingo - 1998 Derek Bailey & DJ Ninj - N/JZ/BM (re-mix) - Guitar, Drums ‘n’ Bass - Avant - 1995 D Bailey / H Bennink / E Parker - Fixed Elsewhere - The Topography of the Lungs - Incus - 1970 Derek Bailey & Evan Parker - Vein Forms: Peter Riley - Compatibles - Incus - 1985 Tony Oxley - Quartets – Eiroc / Santrel - Ichnos - RCA - 1971 The Music Improvisation Company - Wolfgang Van Gangbang - The Music Improvisation Company - ECM - 1970 Bailey / Parker / Braxton - Mutala - Company 2 - Incus - 1976 Bailey / Parker / Lewis / Holland - ATG 2 - Fables - Incus - 1980 Derek Bailey - Self-Erasing - Fairly Early With Postscripts - Emanem - 1987 Derek Bailey & Ernst Reijseger - Trio – minus one - Trios - Incus - 1983 Derek Bailey & Susie Ibarra - Lighter - BIDS - Incus - 2001 Iskra 1903 - Offcut 1 - Chapter One - Emanem - 1972 Derek Bailey & Steve Lacy - Input #5 - Outcome - Potlatch - 1983 Derek Bailey - Scaling - Notes - Incus - 1985 Derek Bailey & Han Bennink - Tether End 1 - Company 3 - Incus - 1976 Derek Bailey - Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone - Ballads - Tzadik - 2002 Derek Bailey - New Year Message 4 - New Year Messages - Table of the Elements - 1984 D Bailey / K Carter / J Stevens - Cheers/Tears - One Time - Incus - 1992
December 26, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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December 25, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Cops have a better chance of keeping their job if they kill someone than if they use a legal substance.
Our systems of whiteness are as perverse as they are cruel.
#DefundCPD #DefundPolice
#AbolishPolice #DismantleWhiteness
Officer Who Shot Anthony Alvarez Will Not Be Fired: Police Board Heather Cherone | July 21, 2022 https://news.wttw.com/2022/07/21/officer-who-shot-anthony-alvarez-will-not-be-fired-police-board
December 22, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Good times.
I brought a dozen bottles of this wine in my checked luggage 🥂
A bottle of Trillium white wine.
December 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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all-time favorite Christmas movie
December 18, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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"Providence’s approach to public safety has come into question as recent data reveals a stark contrast between rising police budgets and stagnant crime-solving rates."
upriseri.com/providences-...
#DefundPolice #DismantleWhiteness
Providence’s Police Budget Soars, But Crime-Solving Rates Flatline From Providence to the nation at large, police budgets are soaring while crime-solving rates stagnate. Our investigation delves into decades of data, challenging assumptions about the link between police funding and public safety, and exploring innovative alternatives for creating safer communities.
December 16, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Peter Erskine's face & shirt collar have matching mustaches
Peter Erskine with a mustache and a bowtie that looks like his mustache
December 16, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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"1966 Trio Willem Breuker with Victor Kaihatu (bass), Pierre Courbois (percussion)"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Jgd...
A still image from a 1966 interview (in Dutch) in which Willem Breuker is asked, according to the English subtitles, "Do you believe, as many people do, that free jazz provokes bungling?"
December 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Excerpt from a 2017 Washington Post article: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) thinks Democratic voters just don't care about abortion anymore, at least not to the degree they used to. “It’s kind of fading as an issue,” she told Washington Post reporters on Tuesday. “It really is.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/03/nancy-pelosi-says-abortion-is-fading-as-an-issue-for-democrats-the-opposite-is-true-for-conservatives/
December 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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winter is cool
Bare trees with snow on the branches, and snow on the ground. Little Red Schoolhouse Nature Center (Willow Springs, Illinois). December 7, 2025. A view of the snow-covered water of Longjohn Slough, against a partly-cloudy sky. Little Red Schoolhouse Nature Center (Willow Springs, Illinois). December 7, 2025.
December 7, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Timothy Carey in MINNIE AND MOSKOWITZ (1971, dir. John Cassavetes)
Timothy Carey looking very distraught, saying "Everyday people. That's what's wrong with this world. We ought to get rid of them."
December 6, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Fuck Steve Cropper 💩
littlevillagemag.com/booker-t-and...
The fact that Dr. King was murdered at that location was devastating for [Booker T.] Jones, and it accelerated the beginning of the end for the M.G.s, especially after Cropper told reporters that he blamed MLK for stoking racial tensions in Memphis. Up to this point, Stax had been mythologized as an integrated utopia, but racism still quietly structured people’s everyday lives. “It is a system that is strong and invisible,” Jones said. “It required people to have two faces, I don’t know how else to say it. I think a lot of people had one face at home at the dinner table and another face at work, so who knows how they really felt? So, fast-forward to Booker T. & the M.G.s — a band that the world thinks had this harmonious relationship — but that just could not happen with the kinds of statements that Cropper was making to the press. We were not a solid unit. Maybe musically we were, but otherwise, the truth was that we were not.”
December 4, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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New Year's Resolution:
Evaluate Yanni's music while conscious to determine whether it should continue to impact me subconsciously.
Tidal-generated playlist of my most-played tracks of 2025, showing the top 3 as: "Stupid Love" by The Brand New Heavies feat. Angela Ricci "Who is Gonna Love Me?" by Dionne Warwick "Only a Memory" by Yanni (I have no memory of ever listening to Yanni, who must have infiltrated a music-for-sleeping playlist 😴)
December 3, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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#AbolishZionism #DismantleWhiteness
Fellow white supremacists Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton shaking hands & laughing.
December 2, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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November 20 was the 2nd anniversary of the passing of Mars Williams 💔🥰
November 27, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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this image just sent my entire being into a time warp
a can of Apple Slice soda, available from 1986 to 1988
November 27, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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a beautiful thing to behold 😍
A screenshot of a Cecil Taylor composition consisting of groups of pitches (identified as Eb, F#, etc) with line segments in different configurations, and other markings or codes
November 26, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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John Snyder briefly talks about Ralbovsky in this book:
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CECIL TAYLOR, IN FLORESCENCE (1990, A&M) John Snyder [photo of album cover] My second tenure at A&M, there was a different A & R guy, Steve Ralbovsky. He’d had some successful records, and he wanted to make a statement in the jazz world. That meant the jazz giants: Sun Ra, Cecil, Max Roach, Dizzy, Art Blakey, Gerry Mulligan, and Stan Getz. When he told me what he wanted, I said, “You know, I lost an awful lot of money doing that. I see where you're coming from aesthetically, but they fired me for my aesthetics and for not making money. The lesson I learned was if you don't make money for these guys, like right away, you don't get a chance to do what you think is right. You've got to make money before you can be aesthetically correct. If you're aesthetically correct and you lose money, you will not get to second base.” Steve said, "I can make one pop record, have a hit, and that'll take care of all of this." "Okay," I said. Of course, sooner or later they got rid of him and discontinued the series. In the meantime, though, we got to make some awfully nice records. [18] [18] Nevertheless, Ralbovsky did all right. He subsequently helped develop the careers of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the Strokes, and Ray LaMontagne.
November 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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There's also this 1961 trio session for Atlantic that was never issued:
www.jazzdiscography.com/Artists/Grim...
Date: November 29, 1961 Location: New York City Label: Atlantic Don Cherry (ldr), Don Cherry (c), Henry Grimes (b), Ed Blackwell (d) a. 5829 The Idiot - 4:56 (Ornette Coleman) b. 5830 Harlemite - 8:34 (Don Cherry) c. 5831 Black Elk Speaks - 7:10 (Don Cherry) Details from Raben who says: Erroneously "Black Elk Speaks" was assigned to 2 masternumbers (5831 and 5832). 5829 is untitled - Raben says: Ornette Coleman composition - prob. "The Idiot". Chuck Nessa advises that this recording still exists.
November 25, 2025 at 4:47 PM