paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner)
@danlehner.bsky.social
Opened at gunpoint in a Lady Footlocker. Trombonist, composer, bandleader (The Great Long Meadow Fire, True East, Store Hours). Brooklyn, NY. he/him.
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my parents told me they were watching the news about Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding when they were in the hospital with my sister, which is always really funny to me because that’s what a movie would do if it were like “we have to show that it’s January 1994”
November 11, 2025 at 4:31 AM
my parents told me they were watching the news about Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding when they were in the hospital with my sister, which is always really funny to me because that’s what a movie would do if it were like “we have to show that it’s January 1994”
just want to add, as a side note, that I find the “; &” to be a weirdly inspired punctuation combo. it has more of a musical value than a grammatical one.
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 AM
just want to add, as a side note, that I find the “; &” to be a weirdly inspired punctuation combo. it has more of a musical value than a grammatical one.
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demanding a famous folk singer write a moving ballad about the time I fell ass first into an ice fishing hole
November 11, 2025 at 2:08 AM
demanding a famous folk singer write a moving ballad about the time I fell ass first into an ice fishing hole
reminded of a guy a few years ago who did “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” at karaoke on this exact day at Montero, which is a Brooklyn mariner-themed bar, and that the vibe was perfect except that the song is like seven minutes long and doesn’t have a chorus
November 10, 2025 at 9:14 PM
reminded of a guy a few years ago who did “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” at karaoke on this exact day at Montero, which is a Brooklyn mariner-themed bar, and that the vibe was perfect except that the song is like seven minutes long and doesn’t have a chorus
I’ve always loved the abrupt ending of this song and I learned recently that it’s literally because they ran out of tape and decided to just go with it
youtu.be/-7hbqxnhzU8?...
youtu.be/-7hbqxnhzU8?...
D'angelo - Untitled (How Does It Feel)
YouTube video by music
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I’ve always loved the abrupt ending of this song and I learned recently that it’s literally because they ran out of tape and decided to just go with it
youtu.be/-7hbqxnhzU8?...
youtu.be/-7hbqxnhzU8?...
this isn’t even the right stereotype about Bluesky! the actual legit criticism is that the core user base *only* talks about things like Senate inside baseball and not, like, movies or pop culture
the hipsters, they’re ordering double frufru mocha soy frappuccino. doesn’t anybody order a black coffee anymore
November 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
this isn’t even the right stereotype about Bluesky! the actual legit criticism is that the core user base *only* talks about things like Senate inside baseball and not, like, movies or pop culture
doing the inverse of the “comic book hidden in a newspaper thing” where I rig my phone to make loud sports gambling noises but I’m actually reading Jane Austen
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 PM
doing the inverse of the “comic book hidden in a newspaper thing” where I rig my phone to make loud sports gambling noises but I’m actually reading Jane Austen
you used to see that fool surfin’ every week
November 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
you used to see that fool surfin’ every week
my thing on this for a while is that both having the tattoo and the way he dealt with messaging it in the campaign is a canary in a coal mine for being a big idiot but I’m just not sure what type of idiot that portends
Mills would vote to reopen the government. Who gives a fuck about some tattoos
November 9, 2025 at 10:02 PM
my thing on this for a while is that both having the tattoo and the way he dealt with messaging it in the campaign is a canary in a coal mine for being a big idiot but I’m just not sure what type of idiot that portends
okay so having chewed on this a little bit I’ve come to view it as an extremely interesting remix of the strained paternal relations and mortality-facing of “The Royal Tenenbaums”, if lacking a bit in establishing the same emotional foundation
November 9, 2025 at 7:26 PM
okay so having chewed on this a little bit I’ve come to view it as an extremely interesting remix of the strained paternal relations and mortality-facing of “The Royal Tenenbaums”, if lacking a bit in establishing the same emotional foundation
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a kind of hard-to-explain time
November 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
a kind of hard-to-explain time
my daughter says everything like my wife and I — modern northeastern US with most of the stereotypically signifiers tamped down — except for the word “dog” which for some reason she says like a Bayside, Queens soccer mom
November 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM
my daughter says everything like my wife and I — modern northeastern US with most of the stereotypically signifiers tamped down — except for the word “dog” which for some reason she says like a Bayside, Queens soccer mom
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November 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
new adventure in driver sociopathy: guy outside my apartment leans on his horn for at least 15-20 seconds, if not more. I go to the window - he's behind a school bus that's actively letting off kids.
November 7, 2025 at 8:21 PM
new adventure in driver sociopathy: guy outside my apartment leans on his horn for at least 15-20 seconds, if not more. I go to the window - he's behind a school bus that's actively letting off kids.
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"It is with a heavy heart I announce the sale of my long term ape, Salazar" is a pretty good first line for a novel.
November 5, 2025 at 3:05 AM
"It is with a heavy heart I announce the sale of my long term ape, Salazar" is a pretty good first line for a novel.
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if it's true that Lander doesn't have a role in the upcoming admin because Zohran and/or his people don't think there's a fit, the silver lining is that Z might avoid a fatal pitfall that someone like Bernie fell into, which is "loyalty to a fault"
November 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
if it's true that Lander doesn't have a role in the upcoming admin because Zohran and/or his people don't think there's a fit, the silver lining is that Z might avoid a fatal pitfall that someone like Bernie fell into, which is "loyalty to a fault"
I am not a particularly religious man but “Mr. Beast-themed amusement park funded by the Saudis” just feels like a place a holy war needs to be waged upon
November 6, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I am not a particularly religious man but “Mr. Beast-themed amusement park funded by the Saudis” just feels like a place a holy war needs to be waged upon
there’s nothing I or most of us could do in Miles Davis’s presence that would not piss him the fuck off right away
I asked this before over at The Old Place and the answers delighted me. So again:
Who is an artist you admire who you suspect would not like you if they met you personally?
I think Peter Dinklage is fantastic. I would absolutely get on his last nerve. He'd be looking for the door while we spoke.
Who is an artist you admire who you suspect would not like you if they met you personally?
I think Peter Dinklage is fantastic. I would absolutely get on his last nerve. He'd be looking for the door while we spoke.
November 6, 2025 at 9:34 PM
there’s nothing I or most of us could do in Miles Davis’s presence that would not piss him the fuck off right away
I'm not nearly as deep an election nerd as some, but I have to imagine "entered the general in a three-way race with an independent who was a highly-known member of the same party during the primary" makes the "how well did Zohran actually do" question somewhat complicated
November 6, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I'm not nearly as deep an election nerd as some, but I have to imagine "entered the general in a three-way race with an independent who was a highly-known member of the same party during the primary" makes the "how well did Zohran actually do" question somewhat complicated
it would be extremely funny to me if this cracked 1000 QT's
I think everybody has a “Wallace Shawn from Young Sheldon” — my first one would probably be “Vincent Price, the guy who did the voice of Ratigan in The Great Mouse Detective”
November 6, 2025 at 6:33 PM
it would be extremely funny to me if this cracked 1000 QT's