Bruce Adams
@bruceadams.bsky.social
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Author "You're With Stupid: kranky, Chicago, and the Reinvention of Indie Music" / higher ed comms / formerly w/kranky, touch & go records / Michigan Wolverines / Syracuse Orange / New York Football Giants / orange tabby cats
Author "You're With Stupid: kranky, Chicago, and the Reinvention of Indie Music" / higher ed comms / formerly w/kranky, touch & go records / Michigan Wolverines / Syracuse Orange / New York Football Giants / orange tabby cats
Paraphrasing my wife: MAGA/ICE don’t understand Chicagoans are stubborn.They grab their whistles and get back out there day after day. “It’s like dibs.”
November 7, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Paraphrasing my wife: MAGA/ICE don’t understand Chicagoans are stubborn.They grab their whistles and get back out there day after day. “It’s like dibs.”
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You're with Stupid
2023 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research, Association for Recorded Sound Collections An insider's look at how Chicago's undergro...
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November 6, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Saturday night in Urbana was the Emo Met Gala at the American Football House.
October 27, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Saturday night in Urbana was the Emo Met Gala at the American Football House.
Good times with Windy & Carl in Dearborn Space Rock City.
October 22, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Good times with Windy & Carl in Dearborn Space Rock City.
PICTS: In the News!
New research may rewrite origins of the Book of Kells, says academic
Exclusive: Author challenges assumption monks on Iona created manuscript, instead positing its origins are Pictish
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September 26, 2025 at 12:31 PM
PICTS: In the News!
Laid up with a nasty cold. Help arrived, just in time.
September 7, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Laid up with a nasty cold. Help arrived, just in time.
Another search for Gibson City suspect concludes unsuccessfully www.news-gazette.com/news/another...
Another search for Gibson City suspect concludes unsuccessfully
A possible sighting of a man accused of shooting two police officers on Saturday led Illinois State Police and other agencies to the Sibley area today.
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August 14, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Another search for Gibson City suspect concludes unsuccessfully www.news-gazette.com/news/another...
It makes me proud to see this. @krankyltd.bsky.social plays the colored vinyl game to good purposes and not for the sake of juicing sales or to follow the crowd.
we are releasing a ltd color variant of @lowtheband.bsky.social 'things we lost in the fire' and donating the proceeds to cancer charity.
August 4, 2025 at 5:52 PM
It makes me proud to see this. @krankyltd.bsky.social plays the colored vinyl game to good purposes and not for the sake of juicing sales or to follow the crowd.
I’m keeping this one.
generational demography is astrology for third place Jeopardy finishers
that’s a very Gen X coded comment there
July 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I’m keeping this one.
@lowtheband.bsky.social We’re looking forward to Sept. 20 in Urbana!
June 18, 2025 at 8:45 PM
@lowtheband.bsky.social We’re looking forward to Sept. 20 in Urbana!
You should know that @stephenebaker.bsky.social was once in @krankyltd.bsky.social band Tomorrowland and has continued to make wonderful music.
May 30, 2025 at 9:49 PM
You should know that @stephenebaker.bsky.social was once in @krankyltd.bsky.social band Tomorrowland and has continued to make wonderful music.
If you ever thought of yourself as a rebel, free thinker, nonconformist, freak, or outsider; observing the audience at a Pere Ubu show quickly reminded you of what a normie you really were. What a range of individuals were in those rooms.
April 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
If you ever thought of yourself as a rebel, free thinker, nonconformist, freak, or outsider; observing the audience at a Pere Ubu show quickly reminded you of what a normie you really were. What a range of individuals were in those rooms.
Reposted by Bruce Adams
Repost with your favorite James Bond (wrong answers only)
April 13, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Repost with your favorite James Bond (wrong answers only)
@utexaspress.bsky.social is having a spring sale. Use code UTXSPRING and save 40% on “You’re with Stupid.”
April 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM
@utexaspress.bsky.social is having a spring sale. Use code UTXSPRING and save 40% on “You’re with Stupid.”
People who know me know that I’m skeptical about protests. But this not the time for quibbling. HANDS OFF.
April 6, 2025 at 1:13 AM
People who know me know that I’m skeptical about protests. But this not the time for quibbling. HANDS OFF.
Well, this is a new one.
March 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Well, this is a new one.
A perfect pairing.
reading some @bruceadams.bsky.social with Slint on in the background
March 17, 2025 at 12:50 AM
A perfect pairing.
Book sighting in Chicago: your Barnes & Noble over dere by your Diverseys.
February 25, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Book sighting in Chicago: your Barnes & Noble over dere by your Diverseys.
Book sighting at McNally Jackson Books in NYC. Excelsior!
February 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Book sighting at McNally Jackson Books in NYC. Excelsior!
I saw two college students, male and female, wearing berets today and my NY Times/Atlantic think piece is ready: “Are Zoomers being Frenchified? They already want to work 30 hrs a week and like croissants.”
February 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I saw two college students, male and female, wearing berets today and my NY Times/Atlantic think piece is ready: “Are Zoomers being Frenchified? They already want to work 30 hrs a week and like croissants.”
Chester enjoys the placement of his scratchy pad. No 2 in the series.
February 14, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Chester enjoys the placement of his scratchy pad. No 2 in the series.
Chester is enjoying his giraffe blankie. #2 in a series
January 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Chester is enjoying his giraffe blankie. #2 in a series
Reposted by Bruce Adams
Jules Feiffer, 1974
January 20, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Jules Feiffer, 1974
Along with “Feiffer on Nixon,” hugely important to my younger self. Rest triumphant.
January 21, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Along with “Feiffer on Nixon,” hugely important to my younger self. Rest triumphant.
Chester FINALLY gets his own giraffe blankie.
January 16, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Chester FINALLY gets his own giraffe blankie.