Mark Tough
@marktough.bsky.social
Doin' stuff at the nexus of tech, community development, and education. Geezer Xer. Iowa farm boy, 33-year Baltimore City rowhomie. Indie music, Patterson Park, pinball, disc golf, hiking, cat appreciating, econ/soc.
Still have the 45.
Life Is A Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me) -- Reunion
aka the kinda-precursor to It's the End of the World As We Know It (if only in a scat vocals sense)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kySY...
Life Is A Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me) -- Reunion
aka the kinda-precursor to It's the End of the World As We Know It (if only in a scat vocals sense)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kySY...
Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)
YouTube video by Reunion - Topic
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February 5, 2026 at 2:12 AM
Still have the 45.
Life Is A Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me) -- Reunion
aka the kinda-precursor to It's the End of the World As We Know It (if only in a scat vocals sense)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kySY...
Life Is A Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me) -- Reunion
aka the kinda-precursor to It's the End of the World As We Know It (if only in a scat vocals sense)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kySY...
Also, the only neo-Victorian bar restaurant in the world where I have ever seen patrons having full-on intercourse during dinner (yes, they were in a basement bar alcove but still).
February 2, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Also, the only neo-Victorian bar restaurant in the world where I have ever seen patrons having full-on intercourse during dinner (yes, they were in a basement bar alcove but still).
Closing suuuuuucks.
Closing after 30 years and having got up the creek enough not to be able to pay staff REALLY sucks.
And for my money, the best brewers in the city if one's judging by their capacity to utterly it brewing the things they chose to brew.
Closing after 30 years and having got up the creek enough not to be able to pay staff REALLY sucks.
And for my money, the best brewers in the city if one's judging by their capacity to utterly it brewing the things they chose to brew.
February 2, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Closing suuuuuucks.
Closing after 30 years and having got up the creek enough not to be able to pay staff REALLY sucks.
And for my money, the best brewers in the city if one's judging by their capacity to utterly it brewing the things they chose to brew.
Closing after 30 years and having got up the creek enough not to be able to pay staff REALLY sucks.
And for my money, the best brewers in the city if one's judging by their capacity to utterly it brewing the things they chose to brew.
And I say ruefully, as a 60-year-old Xer, the numbers suggest that a PRECISE cut of GenX would likely be worse.
January 29, 2026 at 9:52 PM
And I say ruefully, as a 60-year-old Xer, the numbers suggest that a PRECISE cut of GenX would likely be worse.
Buckminster Fuller?
January 29, 2026 at 9:49 PM
Buckminster Fuller?
There are still good people there (Serwer, Applebaum, probably 5-10 others) but MAN, they are overbalancing for Decaf Contrarian Centrists.
January 29, 2026 at 5:24 PM
There are still good people there (Serwer, Applebaum, probably 5-10 others) but MAN, they are overbalancing for Decaf Contrarian Centrists.
TL/DR: I wuz wrong.
January 29, 2026 at 3:09 AM
TL/DR: I wuz wrong.
Very good points that I am surprised I wasn't aware of. So please upgrade my former 70% agree to 99%.
January 29, 2026 at 3:06 AM
Very good points that I am surprised I wasn't aware of. So please upgrade my former 70% agree to 99%.
Broadly sympathetic to this. But granting that Roger's a grump who's always been a bit of a bully, did he ever really have a heal turn like Love's HOF speech? Or try incessantly to pull Pete from his deeper rabbit holes?
Side note: I personally catered Love in the late 80s and the suck was real.
Side note: I personally catered Love in the late 80s and the suck was real.
January 29, 2026 at 2:57 AM
Broadly sympathetic to this. But granting that Roger's a grump who's always been a bit of a bully, did he ever really have a heal turn like Love's HOF speech? Or try incessantly to pull Pete from his deeper rabbit holes?
Side note: I personally catered Love in the late 80s and the suck was real.
Side note: I personally catered Love in the late 80s and the suck was real.
The team with the home locker room just down the hall in the same stadium just hired a guy who paid a voluntary FAMILY visit to the Oval Office last year and was endorsed for his new job by the guy behind the desk therein so . . .
January 28, 2026 at 12:31 PM
The team with the home locker room just down the hall in the same stadium just hired a guy who paid a voluntary FAMILY visit to the Oval Office last year and was endorsed for his new job by the guy behind the desk therein so . . .
Or "Hocus Pocus" by Focus
January 28, 2026 at 2:12 AM
Or "Hocus Pocus" by Focus
I had been following him on FB (and Twitter back in the day) and found him sometimes ok as Resist accounts go, albeit verbose AF. But my god, the way he framed and described this whole thang on FB this morning was SO far removed from reality and so remarkably butthurt. Unfollowed. Onward....
January 28, 2026 at 1:59 AM
I had been following him on FB (and Twitter back in the day) and found him sometimes ok as Resist accounts go, albeit verbose AF. But my god, the way he framed and described this whole thang on FB this morning was SO far removed from reality and so remarkably butthurt. Unfollowed. Onward....
So take/
These dampened wings/
And let them dry again ...
These dampened wings/
And let them dry again ...
January 25, 2026 at 5:47 PM
So take/
These dampened wings/
And let them dry again ...
These dampened wings/
And let them dry again ...
Following up . . .
There was a relaxation for 4-6 weeks here. Seems pretty clear that is over now. Four families from the K-8 three blocks from my home have had members abducted by ICE.
There was a relaxation for 4-6 weeks here. Seems pretty clear that is over now. Four families from the K-8 three blocks from my home have had members abducted by ICE.
January 24, 2026 at 4:23 AM
Following up . . .
There was a relaxation for 4-6 weeks here. Seems pretty clear that is over now. Four families from the K-8 three blocks from my home have had members abducted by ICE.
There was a relaxation for 4-6 weeks here. Seems pretty clear that is over now. Four families from the K-8 three blocks from my home have had members abducted by ICE.
Reposted by Mark Tough
Hey, the excellent Minneapolis arts and culture magazine Racket took down their paywall for the day, so you can go read their coverage of the occupation unhindered. Start here: racketmn.com/voices-of-th...
January 23, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Hey, the excellent Minneapolis arts and culture magazine Racket took down their paywall for the day, so you can go read their coverage of the occupation unhindered. Start here: racketmn.com/voices-of-th...
Defector but for music.
Infinitely better option than sending Conde Nast your dollars for a long-since hollowed out Pitchfork.
Infinitely better option than sending Conde Nast your dollars for a long-since hollowed out Pitchfork.
if u want to subscribe to an independent, worker-owned music and culture pub w/great criticism (and features, interviews, blogs etc) from five ppl you know and love, hearing things launched in october 2024 in the wake of conde nast's pitchfork layoffs :)
www.hearingthings.co
www.hearingthings.co
Hearing Things
Independent music journalism. No algorithms. We promise.
www.hearingthings.co
January 20, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Defector but for music.
Infinitely better option than sending Conde Nast your dollars for a long-since hollowed out Pitchfork.
Infinitely better option than sending Conde Nast your dollars for a long-since hollowed out Pitchfork.
I haven't deep-dived Hearing Things, but what I've seen, I've liked.
January 20, 2026 at 9:42 PM
I haven't deep-dived Hearing Things, but what I've seen, I've liked.
DC has reverted to black and white.
January 19, 2026 at 9:42 PM
DC has reverted to black and white.
All good, man. We'll all keep rolling.
January 19, 2026 at 11:05 AM
All good, man. We'll all keep rolling.
... thanks for all you're doing.
January 19, 2026 at 2:25 AM
... thanks for all you're doing.
... activity where I live and I offerred a simple read on what is very obvious to activists in southeast Baltimore as an additional data point and you chose to dunk and assume I was somehow encouraging people to chill, even when I fucking said I knew my comment could be misconstrued. Still ...
January 19, 2026 at 2:24 AM
... activity where I live and I offerred a simple read on what is very obvious to activists in southeast Baltimore as an additional data point and you chose to dunk and assume I was somehow encouraging people to chill, even when I fucking said I knew my comment could be misconstrued. Still ...