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Dave Mandl
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WFMU DJ, writer (The Wire, Los Angeles Review of Books, etc.), bassist, photographer, amateur linguist. Founder, Brooklyn Psychogeographical Association.
Web: dmandl.tumblr.com
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Playlists from my radio show: https://wfmu.org/playlists/GX
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Sunset Park.
December 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Anti-ICE billboard, 18th St.
December 28, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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“Les Douze Mois de l’Année: Nivôse” by Marthe Romme (French) - Pochoir on paper / 1919 - Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam, Netherlands) #WomenInArt #MartheRomme #Romme #Rijksmuseum #ArtDeco #FashionPlate #Pochoir #WinterArt #WomensArt #WomanArtist #WomenArtists #art #artText #BlueskyArt #WomenPaintingWomen
At upper left, a handwritten French couplet floats among snowflakes; at bottom, the title reads “nivôse.” “de la neige les flocons de la saison sont les papillons” The literal English translation is “Of snow, the flakes; of the season, the butterflies” which naturally means “Snowflakes are the season’s butterflies.” Created as part of Les Douze Mois de l’Année (The Twelve Months of the Year), the title “Nivôse” borrows from the French Republican calendar, where it is “snowy” month that falls roughly from late December into mid-January. A stylized woman (an idealized fashion figure) strides through thick, falling snow against a flat gray background. Her face is simplified in warm peach tones and mostly tucked into an oversized, cloud-like wrap of white fur that loops around her neck and sweeps across the lower foreground like a muff or stole. A small cap patterned with red rosettes sits on her head, tied with long blue ribbons that trail behind her. She wears a dramatic, wind-caught cape in a cream-and-blue lattice, each square centered with a red flower motif. Bright red stockings and sharp red heels punctuate the winter palette. The print is made by pochoir (color applied through hand-cut stencils) so edges appear crisp and the colors sit in velvety, opaque layers, with a hand-finished precision that was prized in luxury fashion illustration. In 1919, just after World War I, Paris fashion imagery often balanced optimism with restraint, and French artist Marthe Romme’s figure seems to embody that tension with warmth wrapped tightly around the body, style kept graphic and controlled, and color rationed to a few emphatic notes. Publishing houses such as Sauvage issued portfolios like “Les Douze Mois de l’Année” as collectible sets, turning the passage of time into a gallery of silhouettes. Romme’s winter becomes a visual statement that’s quiet, pared back, and still luminous … where snow floats like ornaments and braving the cold weather looks chic.
December 25, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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BQE.
December 28, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Found my old copy of the Hagstrom 5-Borough NYC Atlas. Apparently they stopped publishing these years ago and copies now fetch big bucks. That's no comfort to me, because I'll now have to guard this with my life. #maps #paper
December 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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I don't understand why musicians who want to back out of playing the Trump/Kennedy Center don't just do what Van Morrison did with his contractual-obligation album: Go up there and play a bunch of completely ridiculous thirty-second-long joke songs.
December 28, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Gowanus, snowy day.
December 27, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Bushwick. #photography
December 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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My Instagram account wasn't hacked (strong password!), but some scammer created a fake account that looked like mine and convinced a bunch of my friends to follow it. They got messages like this (screenshot). Don't fall for scams like this if you see one.
December 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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It's one of the most wonderful times of the year: WKCR's Bachfest, running round the clock till New Year's Day: www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/
WKCR 89.9FM NY
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December 27, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Ocean Hill.
December 26, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Biking in Brooklyn today is not a great idea, no matter how many layers you have on.🥶
December 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Red Hook, Christmas Day. (Impossible to appreciate this on a phone screen, but 🤷‍♂️.)
December 26, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Xmas gifts: two books that have been on my list for ages. Yay!
"Estates" by Lynsey Hanley (UK housing estates, that is) and "The Audible Past" by Jonathan Sterne.
December 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Someone in Park Slope has good taste in music. On the other hand, they're dumping these books, so...
December 26, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Hamilton Ave., Christmas morning. #photography
December 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Probably the best day of the year for urban landscape photography (because there are no cars or people on the street), but I could only squeeze in an hour or so before meeting the daughter. #photography
December 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Sick fuck.
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Trump to child from Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania is great, we won Pennsylvania, actually three times. We won it a landslide.
December 24, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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“Like prime, but with human beings”
A box car used in the holocaust to transport human beings to the camps.
December 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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A more prosaic explanation for why Jews eat Chinese food on Christmas: Everything else is closed for the holiday. (Though we do love Chinese food.😋)
December 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Red Hook, sunny Xmas Eve morning.
December 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Ho-ho-holiday greetings! I’m guest-hosting Wake this morning and bringing you my annual Holiday Music Funktacular with all your favorites and (hopefully) none of the songs you’re sick of hearing by now!
Join me from 6am - 9am EST on @wfmu.bsky.social, or stream the archive later if you miss it!
Me with a Santa hat in WFMU’s record library
December 24, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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So you can kill as many innocent Jewish civilians as you want to and escape charges of antisemitism as long as you claim it's "aimed at the Zionist policies of Israel as a state." What's wrong with people's brains?
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So the younger shooter, in a video submitted to the court, claims the shooting was aimed at the Zionist policies of Israel as a state. This is distinct from being an attack against Jewish people as a group. Once again the pro-Zionist coalition and right wing media jumped the gun and got it wrong.
December 24, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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"Renoir Drawings" at the Morgan Library. (Also includes some paintings and watercolors.) See it.
December 23, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Epstein record EFTA00020517 features an FBI intake report dated 10/27/2020. An unidentified individual had reported that Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein had raped an unidentified woman when she was a child. #OpDeathEaters
Details: On 10/27/2020, at 3:20 p.m. Eastern. Time, , date of birth cellular telephone number called the FBI National Threat Operations Center (NTOC) Unit, to report potential information related to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. III provided the following information: III reported around 1997, he made contact with birth whom he had known from 6 or 7 years prior as they had a son together. III and ended up dating, as explained she was having money issues and problems with her daughters. III noted they were friends from before. During the contact in 1997, asked III how to spell "Ghislaine" numerous times, as noted she had taken her daughters up to see one of the "supposed father's" who lived in Niagara Falls, NY recently. date of reported she had met a lady who invited her daughters , date of birth-, and , date of birthto a fancy hotel and met Donald Trump and some of his friends in 1997. continued asking III how to spell "Ghislaine" implying Ghislaine had given her money and would give her additional money if needed. On Christmas Eve of 1999, or the day prix:, III was over visiting his son, who he had with years prior. III began talking to , as she seemed to be acting strange and III if he needed a ride home. III about his time driving a limousine for two years in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. During time as a driver, he had met Donald Trump. III noted he picked the President up in 1995 and took him to the DFW Airport. III reported some of things President Trump had spoken about during the ride while on his cell phone were very concerning. III reported he was "a few seconds from pulling the limousine over on the median and within a few seconds of pulling him out of the car and hurting him due to some of things he was saying" as caller choose not to. III noted Trump continuously stated the name "Jeffrey" while on the phone, and made references to "abusing some girl." III was unsure who he was talking to nor who he was referencing. As III talked about his time …
December 23, 2025 at 7:36 PM