Alison Fensterstock
@alisonf.bsky.social
Teenage werewolf / inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read / fensterstock@gmail.com
Editor of NPR Music’s HOW WOMEN MADE MUSIC (Harper One ‘24) coauthor of a biography of Bunny Matthews (Historic New Orleans Collection Press, someday)
Editor of NPR Music’s HOW WOMEN MADE MUSIC (Harper One ‘24) coauthor of a biography of Bunny Matthews (Historic New Orleans Collection Press, someday)
The Las Vegas Sphere has totally succeeded in branding because I just saw some ball drop prep videos and I wondered “what is the Sphere doing for New Year’s Eve.” THE SPHERE OWNS THE PUBLIC ROUNDNESS SPACE
January 1, 2026 at 1:30 AM
The Las Vegas Sphere has totally succeeded in branding because I just saw some ball drop prep videos and I wondered “what is the Sphere doing for New Year’s Eve.” THE SPHERE OWNS THE PUBLIC ROUNDNESS SPACE
Ok so obviously I have heard “Have a very Jerry Christmas” quite a bit but this is the first time I’ve heard “and a happy Bob Weir”
December 29, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Ok so obviously I have heard “Have a very Jerry Christmas” quite a bit but this is the first time I’ve heard “and a happy Bob Weir”
Before the end of 2025 I promise to decide whether I like Geese or Goose better, it’s looking like Goose but that’s not saying a lot
December 26, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Before the end of 2025 I promise to decide whether I like Geese or Goose better, it’s looking like Goose but that’s not saying a lot
Tonight 10-midnight CT on @wwozneworleans.bsky.social! Lefty had to buy an extra suitcase to bring home all the records he brought in Brazil and we will play them. Feliz Natal!!
December 22, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Tonight 10-midnight CT on @wwozneworleans.bsky.social! Lefty had to buy an extra suitcase to bring home all the records he brought in Brazil and we will play them. Feliz Natal!!
Spare a thought this holiday season for the young people toiling in the cannoli mines at Angelo Brocato’s. It’s intense over there #verylocalskeet
December 19, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Spare a thought this holiday season for the young people toiling in the cannoli mines at Angelo Brocato’s. It’s intense over there #verylocalskeet
Christmas starts now! Or at 7pm central, when I sub in on WWOZ til 10 with a holiday set. 90.7 FM and WWOZ dot org if you’re in the North Pole!
December 8, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Christmas starts now! Or at 7pm central, when I sub in on WWOZ til 10 with a holiday set. 90.7 FM and WWOZ dot org if you’re in the North Pole!
I did understand (barely) what this link was going to be, but
December 7, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I did understand (barely) what this link was going to be, but
Wait, I have another joke
American Can’t
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American Can’t
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December 7, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Wait, I have another joke
American Can’t
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American Can’t
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I can’t be the first person to wonder if Olivia Nuzzi and Ryan Lizza were only together because of all the Zs
December 1, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I can’t be the first person to wonder if Olivia Nuzzi and Ryan Lizza were only together because of all the Zs
So far every language I’ve tried on a language app thinks I will be eating a sandwich and ice cream all the time as if every country is like the boathouse cafe in Central Park
November 24, 2025 at 3:38 AM
So far every language I’ve tried on a language app thinks I will be eating a sandwich and ice cream all the time as if every country is like the boathouse cafe in Central Park
Wish I could say I skipped school to hear Jan speak at the NYU beat conference in 1994, right before her death (I was a particular kind of nerd and in fact my school let me go downtown in lieu of class) but anyway very good choice NYRB!! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/b...
Her Father Wrote ‘On the Road.’ She Lived Her Own Version.
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November 18, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Wish I could say I skipped school to hear Jan speak at the NYU beat conference in 1994, right before her death (I was a particular kind of nerd and in fact my school let me go downtown in lieu of class) but anyway very good choice NYRB!! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/b...
As an almost lifelong freelancer in the arts sphere, would you rather a) make a comprehensive up-to-date CV or b) stick a cactus up your butt and eat worms at the same time
November 12, 2025 at 10:10 PM
As an almost lifelong freelancer in the arts sphere, would you rather a) make a comprehensive up-to-date CV or b) stick a cactus up your butt and eat worms at the same time
CITY TO TRUMP: DROP DEAD
November 5, 2025 at 2:45 AM
CITY TO TRUMP: DROP DEAD
Took me a minute to dig this up - from September 2015 at the Alabama Music Hall of Fame
November 4, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Took me a minute to dig this up - from September 2015 at the Alabama Music Hall of Fame
RIP Donna Jean ❤️⚡️💙 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/a...
Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, Grateful Dead Singer, Dies at 78
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November 3, 2025 at 9:25 PM
RIP Donna Jean ❤️⚡️💙 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/a...
There needs to be a term like Swedish death cleaning for what you do in middle age when you realize your house is full from all the stuff you magpied in your twenties and thirties and now you must make room for the stuff you will surely gather in the next half (god willing)
October 23, 2025 at 10:17 PM
There needs to be a term like Swedish death cleaning for what you do in middle age when you realize your house is full from all the stuff you magpied in your twenties and thirties and now you must make room for the stuff you will surely gather in the next half (god willing)
This unfortunately just makes me picture a bucket of soup, a list of soups to be served in buckets
October 9, 2025 at 7:13 PM
This unfortunately just makes me picture a bucket of soup, a list of soups to be served in buckets
Apropos of nothing I think people are overusing the word “material” to sound smartypants when “real” or sometimes “tangible” would do
September 18, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Apropos of nothing I think people are overusing the word “material” to sound smartypants when “real” or sometimes “tangible” would do
Today at water aerobics they played smells”Smells Like Teen Spirit,” it was like a joke about aging Gen Xers you’d tell someone to edit out for being too cute, and yet there it was lol
August 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Today at water aerobics they played smells”Smells Like Teen Spirit,” it was like a joke about aging Gen Xers you’d tell someone to edit out for being too cute, and yet there it was lol
Do you think all the Kryptonian dogs look like Krypto or are there many breeds, like here on earth, except of course super
July 20, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Do you think all the Kryptonian dogs look like Krypto or are there many breeds, like here on earth, except of course super
Just listened to a BBC Newshour interview with a man who wrote a book about the history of movie props. “People in narrative cinema are always doing things, and they have to do things with things,” he said
July 17, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Just listened to a BBC Newshour interview with a man who wrote a book about the history of movie props. “People in narrative cinema are always doing things, and they have to do things with things,” he said
Maybe it’s the Gen X half of me talking but I still really don’t know what a “going-out top” is (I read my Strategist newsletters today)
July 2, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Maybe it’s the Gen X half of me talking but I still really don’t know what a “going-out top” is (I read my Strategist newsletters today)
Apropos of nothing, every time I get a letter from the NOLA tax assessor I get “tax assessor” stuck in my head to the tune of Neko Case’s “Fox Confessor”
June 23, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Apropos of nothing, every time I get a letter from the NOLA tax assessor I get “tax assessor” stuck in my head to the tune of Neko Case’s “Fox Confessor”
Oddly thrown off listening to ATC today and hearing Ari Shapiro keep pronouncing “piano” with two syllables
June 6, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Oddly thrown off listening to ATC today and hearing Ari Shapiro keep pronouncing “piano” with two syllables