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Frank Hudson
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Founder of the Parlando Project — “Where Music and Words Meet.” Composes, records, researches, writes, & those things feedback into each other.
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Schoolchildren of P.S. 24 in Harlem, New York each holding a package with their contributions for the 'Victory Clothing Collection', January 1946. The clothing was collected from the city's schools and police stations and redistributed to 37 countries.

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Black American Schoolchildren of P.S. 24 in Harlem, New York each holding a package with their contributions for the 'Victory Clothing Collection', January 1946. The clothing was collected from the city's schools and police stations and redistributed to 37 countries.
February 4, 2026 at 2:19 PM
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Historical analogies are arguments. So when someone makes an analogy between today and the Holocaust, or today and anything, think about they are really arguing for. What is the analogy trying to get you to do?

New at @startribune.com
Perry: When is it OK to compare aspects of what’s happening in Minnesota to Nazi Germany?
Gov. Tim Walz has made some such analogies in relation to ICE and has been criticized for it, David M. Perry writes.
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February 4, 2026 at 12:48 PM
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Burning the midnight lamp tonight to finish a mix of a song I made of Claude McKay’s immigrant’s poem “The City’s Love.” frankhudson.org/2026/02/04/t...
The City’s Love
It’s Black History Month, and this year I’m planning on presenting a series of musical pieces based on poems by Jamaican-American writer Claude McKay. McKay is often associated with the early 20th …
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February 4, 2026 at 5:46 AM
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It’s Langston Hughes’ birthday—and the first day of Black History Month. Here are 2 musical settings of Hughes poems that the long running Parlando Project has done: “Dream Variation” & “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” frankhudson.org/2022/02/10/m...
More from Langston Hughes’ “The Weary Blues”
This month I’ve been doing a series of pieces based on poems from Langston Hughes’ first book-length collection The Weary Blues of 1926 — but maybe it’s time to mention that I have already presente…
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February 1, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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I too now find this a poem to love.
charlieconnelly.bsky.social Charlie Connelly @charlieconnelly.bsky.social · 5d
I love this B.H. Fairchild poem so much.
OFTEN THE DYING ASK FOR A MAP So when Locie, embraced by the great softness of bed #12, her late blizzard of silver hair fanning out beneath head and shoulders, asked for one in plaintive, almost desperate tones, I went out to my car and brought back my old, frayed roadmap of Kansas, and she followed the unfolding as if it in itself were a miracle, and then held it over her head, scanning the red interstates and blue country roads without apparent method or intent but smiling her morphined grand smile of awe and wonder within an air of childhood surprise and overwhelming acceptance. Because here it was—the way there, or here, or out or over or in, and here, sweetie, let me hold it for you, let me hold... and her trembling index finger knows no certain path but wanders through the Flint Hills toward Cottonwood Falls, then darts up toward Ossawatomie, and she can smell the new wheat, its dark green deep as the jade of the necklace her husband brought home from the war in the Pacific. And now as she crosses the Kaw River, she sees a young woman standing beneath the moon in a In Kansas, and wondering, what will I be? Who will I marry? Where will we live? Will I have children? And if, at the end, I am lost, how will I find my way home?
January 31, 2026 at 2:14 PM
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Coming next month. Hook it straight into my veins.
A Charles Stepney compilation.
January 30, 2026 at 4:19 PM
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Aretha Franklin - Respect [1967] (Aretha's Original Version)
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January 29, 2026 at 5:59 AM
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This is so good - Aztec Camera performing Van Halen's Jump in Spain in 1984. Watch the full concert at youtu.be/bdmdFCtsjik (THREAD)
January 29, 2026 at 8:47 AM
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I’m late in planning what my long-running Parlando Project could present for February/Black History Month—and this winter’s events in my city might laugh at plans anyway.

Last night in interrupted sleep the poetry of Claude McKay suggested itself.
January 28, 2026 at 6:49 PM
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
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January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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Every year, I reread two things.

One is Dr. Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham Jail.

The other is Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle.

Between the two of them, they are signposts to the world we live in.

You cannot go wrong by following their guidance.
January 27, 2026 at 11:25 PM
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The 1970s, when we used record collections like horoscopes to determine someone’s outlook & personality.
patthomashistorian.bsky.social Pat Thomas author @patthomashistorian.bsky.social · 9d
the Beach Boys really were America’s band! besides Charlie Manson, Patty Hearst was also a fan! she owned Pet Sounds during her time as an SLA outlaw, although her taste leaned towards singer/songwriters:
January 27, 2026 at 1:46 PM
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Last night I completed my post presenting a new song performance of Robert Frost’s “A Minor Bird” hacked together between the events of resistance & mourning in Minnesota. frankhudson.org/2026/01/27/a...
A Minor Bird
The recording of this musical version of a short Robert Frost poem somehow was able to slip itself in-between standing watch, comforting, and grieving this month in Minnesota. Increasingly people o…
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January 27, 2026 at 1:09 PM
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I had a dream that every day was January 6. Like literally the calendar was all 6’s
January 27, 2026 at 11:37 AM
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"Hi, everyone. I know things are hectic as heck right now, but please be sure to fill out your timesheets every Friday by 5 p.m. Central. I can’t pay you unless I know your hours. Please also try to be accurate."
I Am the Payroll Accountant for Professional Protestors in Minnesota, and I Am Swamped
“House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., slammed Minnesota state leaders after anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agitators disrupted a...
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January 25, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
January 25, 2026 at 1:18 AM
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Burning the midnight lamp tonight trying to whip up a new Parlando Project musical piece using a short Robert Frost poem, “A Minor Bird.” Couldn’t play guitar, but I could lay down DI bass & my hack at an organ part.
January 23, 2026 at 6:29 AM
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I can’t sing worth beans, but this is what I’m singing as I consider this:

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January 22, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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…the thin white bark/throwing darts in lovers eyes…
Screen grab of news article headlined about birch trees thin white bark with photo of some birch tree trunks taken from a low angle as they reach up into a blue sky.
January 19, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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Good morning. I read this dispatch from a comrade in Minneapolis this morning and thought that some of you might appreciate it too.
TEXT: Out on patrol with two friends this morning and I kept seeing the beautiful web being woven in Minnesota right now. Not with new materials but woven with wisdom into what was already here. I could feel this net with my hands, this connection as we passed that group of three on the corner of Cedar and Lake, this connection as we listened to someone doing dispatch while their kid yelled in the room behind them. I thought of this today stopping by a locally beloved Mexican restaurant to grab some food for the family and having the owner step up with tears in his eyes and reflect on how much they feel cared for and then the security guard stepped over and asserted that this is what we do, we care for our own. He said, tell people we have them, we've got them and we will keep them safe. All of the worst stories you read are true and there are more of them than what shows up on social media, but there is also this, everything I am writing here in the same morning, driving over to northeast and a junior high has just done a walk out, they are lining a major road in their "are those pants they look like pajamas" clothes and all are holding signs and I am on the phone with someone and I burst into tears when I pass them. This is a net and I remember this very old fishing net someone showed me years ago, guiding my fingers to feel where the net had been repaired over and over again, like scars in the fibers that strengthen rather than break. ICE is sharp, knives that cut with small knicks and sometimes great full arm thrusts that shove and tear through this connected set of scars and fresh material and there are wounds and this is violence and some of you beloveds are being stopped on the road because of how you are read and I am not being stopped and none of this is ever ok and still, I feel the pull and tug of the net that is larger than anything I have experienced TEXT: before. Is there anyone in these cities not showing up in some way? I can't remember the last time I saw or heard anyone have words other than how can I show up? There is a net and it has always been here, it is always here, it's just that sometimes it's hard to see and all that is happening in Minneapolis is that some of the confusion is fading and what is visible is the link and weave and stumble and steady between us. May we keep repairing it as it frays, from those outside and from the rising tension we hold within and may this net grow with wisdom and may bodies tired of holding themselves up alone someday feel like they can relax into the steady certainty of something much bigger than the size of their skin.
January 17, 2026 at 12:29 PM
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i was just gonna watch a minute and ended up watching the whole dang thing. hilarious.
eleoh.bsky.social Eleoh @eleoh.bsky.social · 19d
This is light-hearted and doesn't touch on cases of fuckaroundits, but maybe it'll spark joy. Mid 90s local PBS.

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How To Talk Minnesotan | Full Length Film
YouTube video by Twin Cities PBS
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January 18, 2026 at 2:22 AM
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Nice title. Pleasant music. Favorite piece: “Solid Ice.”
muz4now.com Stan Stewart (muz4now) @muz4now.com · Dec 31
In the last 4 days of 2025, I wrote & recorded these instrumental tracks. I was inspired by winter.

The moods are a reflection both of the times we live in & this time of year for many people.
Winter Meant Wonderment by Stan Stewart
An album by Stan Stewart released on jam.coop - a music platform run by and for artists
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January 17, 2026 at 3:29 PM
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If the current events question is why so many Minnesotans can’t be calm seeing their neighbors & themselves abused by Dear Leader’s loose-cannon secretive police, I have an LYL band song with a refrain taken from 19th c. Abolitionist Wendell Phillips: frankhudson.org/2026/01/16/m...
Mountains of Ice
When you listen to the song you can hear below you might doubt me – but it is not a topical song written about recent events. It was written by Parlando alternative voice Dave Moore in 2014. Dave’s…
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January 16, 2026 at 1:34 PM
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hey Mom can you come pick me up. yeah everyone on the niche microblogging website is arguing about who has the correct emotional posture to the unknowable future again
January 15, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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If I can keep in mind that I’m surplus to needs as a political commentator, I’ll have a longer post on this newly released Parlando Project song. Poet/cartoonist/piano pounder Dave Moore wrote this 12 yrs ago—& the song’s refrain is older yet. Keep telling yourself this isn’t a topical song:
Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet: I'm On Fire (and I've got mountains of ice to melt)
It's been more than a week since I could begin to think of putting out more work on this Project. As I continue, this note is going to read like propaganda, but I'm not much for that, and as best as I...
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January 15, 2026 at 8:31 PM