Arthur Durkee
@phoenixdragon1.bsky.social
Composer, poet, book artist, printmaker, letterpress, graphics, recording studio, photography, type designer. Pan/poly/neurodivergent/queer.
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Even though I own a ukulele and a mandolin, and used to own a guitar, I’ve never given them much time. It occurs to me that’s because at heart I don’t want to play guitar lead instruments, I want to play bass.
Chapman Stick remains my main instrument, because it covers all those functions.
Chapman Stick remains my main instrument, because it covers all those functions.
January 21, 2026 at 3:37 AM
Even though I own a ukulele and a mandolin, and used to own a guitar, I’ve never given them much time. It occurs to me that’s because at heart I don’t want to play guitar lead instruments, I want to play bass.
Chapman Stick remains my main instrument, because it covers all those functions.
Chapman Stick remains my main instrument, because it covers all those functions.
While I think it’s great that their moral principles drive faith leaders to speak out now against Trump’s hateful rhetoric and domestic terrorism, there have been voices speaking out from moral principles all along. That y’all defer to the moral authority of faith leaders is part of the problem.
January 21, 2026 at 3:20 AM
While I think it’s great that their moral principles drive faith leaders to speak out now against Trump’s hateful rhetoric and domestic terrorism, there have been voices speaking out from moral principles all along. That y’all defer to the moral authority of faith leaders is part of the problem.
My pet peeve is the people who seem to think that the disabled parking spaces are cart returns.
You know what grinds my gears,
When people park in the lane infront of a store instead of the parking lot because "they're only gonna be a minute".
When people park in the lane infront of a store instead of the parking lot because "they're only gonna be a minute".
January 21, 2026 at 2:07 AM
My pet peeve is the people who seem to think that the disabled parking spaces are cart returns.
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I think we’ve got better and more culturally-varied street food than I could have imagined, cool jackets galore, and drugs that make us think we’re really fast and strong before they kill us.
we're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)
January 20, 2026 at 10:02 PM
I think we’ve got better and more culturally-varied street food than I could have imagined, cool jackets galore, and drugs that make us think we’re really fast and strong before they kill us.
Office for the night: digitizing 30-year-old DAT tapes of our music into the computer, which I will remaster and release on my #bandcamp site. The Celtic Dub session came through beautifully, and is some of the oddest stuff Dangerous Odds ever did. Just you wait.
#music #poetry #improv
#music #poetry #improv
January 20, 2026 at 6:05 AM
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Today we honor Dr. King by remembering that his legacy wasn’t comfort or quiet it was courage, sacrifice, and resistance in the face of injustice. He knew progress is never handed down; it’s pushed forward by ordinary people who refuse to accept inequality as normal.
January 19, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Today we honor Dr. King by remembering that his legacy wasn’t comfort or quiet it was courage, sacrifice, and resistance in the face of injustice. He knew progress is never handed down; it’s pushed forward by ordinary people who refuse to accept inequality as normal.
January 20, 2026 at 4:30 AM
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Did you catch that special coverage announcement at the end of the show?
On Thursday morning, former special counsel Jack Smith will be testifying to Congress. That evening Rachel and the gang will break down that testimony in extended special coverage from the long desk.
1/22 at 8pmET on MS NOW
On Thursday morning, former special counsel Jack Smith will be testifying to Congress. That evening Rachel and the gang will break down that testimony in extended special coverage from the long desk.
1/22 at 8pmET on MS NOW
January 20, 2026 at 3:33 AM
Did you catch that special coverage announcement at the end of the show?
On Thursday morning, former special counsel Jack Smith will be testifying to Congress. That evening Rachel and the gang will break down that testimony in extended special coverage from the long desk.
1/22 at 8pmET on MS NOW
On Thursday morning, former special counsel Jack Smith will be testifying to Congress. That evening Rachel and the gang will break down that testimony in extended special coverage from the long desk.
1/22 at 8pmET on MS NOW
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Men who defend Jonathan Ross for murdering Renee Good are not safe to be around. End those relationships.
January 19, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Men who defend Jonathan Ross for murdering Renee Good are not safe to be around. End those relationships.
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If you're a soldier in the 11th Airborne Division being ordered to prep for deployment to Minnesota or Greenland, remember that you have the right to apply for conscientious objector status.
Call the GI Bill Rights hotline: 1-877-447-4487
Call the GI Bill Rights hotline: 1-877-447-4487
January 19, 2026 at 7:23 PM
If you're a soldier in the 11th Airborne Division being ordered to prep for deployment to Minnesota or Greenland, remember that you have the right to apply for conscientious objector status.
Call the GI Bill Rights hotline: 1-877-447-4487
Call the GI Bill Rights hotline: 1-877-447-4487
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“MLK showed us the power of the voices of ordinary people—not the powerful or wealthy, but the underprivileged, the ordinary, and the oppressed.
Their voices changed the world before, and I believe their voices will change the world again."
Their voices changed the world before, and I believe their voices will change the world again."
MLK Jr.'s fight for civil rights was an environmental battle as well
“King understood that the struggle for equality is expansive and all-inclusive.”
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January 19, 2026 at 4:00 PM
“MLK showed us the power of the voices of ordinary people—not the powerful or wealthy, but the underprivileged, the ordinary, and the oppressed.
Their voices changed the world before, and I believe their voices will change the world again."
Their voices changed the world before, and I believe their voices will change the world again."
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." —MLK Jr.
January 19, 2026 at 3:44 PM
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." —MLK Jr.
RIP Ralph Towner
This one hurts. He has been a powerful influence on my own music for decades. Always on my list of favorite guitarists, and composers. Thank you for all the music.
This one hurts. He has been a powerful influence on my own music for decades. Always on my list of favorite guitarists, and composers. Thank you for all the music.
January 18, 2026 at 6:47 PM
RIP Ralph Towner
This one hurts. He has been a powerful influence on my own music for decades. Always on my list of favorite guitarists, and composers. Thank you for all the music.
This one hurts. He has been a powerful influence on my own music for decades. Always on my list of favorite guitarists, and composers. Thank you for all the music.
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Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
January 18, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
Our latest newly remastered release of performance poetry accompanied by improvised music from Dangerous Odds. Enjoy!
arthurdurkee.bandcamp.com/album/voices...
arthurdurkee.bandcamp.com/album/voices...
January 18, 2026 at 5:30 AM
Our latest newly remastered release of performance poetry accompanied by improvised music from Dangerous Odds. Enjoy!
arthurdurkee.bandcamp.com/album/voices...
arthurdurkee.bandcamp.com/album/voices...
So much this. I dis in fact this week retreat into a book just to escape and calm down for a bit. It worked.
I also finished editing and remastering another album of my old music for my Bandcamp.
I also finished editing and remastering another album of my old music for my Bandcamp.
Wondering why you should write now with the world the way it is? Have you taken time recently to read a book? Was it a welcome relief? A moment of calm? Of normalcy? Sure it was. That's why you need to write, so your book can be that for someone else. And, of course, you do it for yourself too.
January 18, 2026 at 2:09 AM
So much this. I dis in fact this week retreat into a book just to escape and calm down for a bit. It worked.
I also finished editing and remastering another album of my old music for my Bandcamp.
I also finished editing and remastering another album of my old music for my Bandcamp.
Whatever you eat, you’re still going to die.
Moralizing about it makes no difference whatsoever.
Moralizing about it makes no difference whatsoever.
January 18, 2026 at 2:03 AM
Whatever you eat, you’re still going to die.
Moralizing about it makes no difference whatsoever.
Moralizing about it makes no difference whatsoever.
I fell in love with Swinburne’s musicality when I first read him in my teens. For a Victorian poet he can be beautifully unpredictable. I’ve yet to set any of his poems to music; perhaps I ought try a choral setting someday.
I am tired of tears and laughter,
And men that laugh and weep;
Of what may come Hereafter
For men that sow to reap:
I am weary of days and hours,
Blown buds of barren flowers,
Desires and dreams and powers
And everything but sleep.
And men that laugh and weep;
Of what may come Hereafter
For men that sow to reap:
I am weary of days and hours,
Blown buds of barren flowers,
Desires and dreams and powers
And everything but sleep.
January 18, 2026 at 1:59 AM
I fell in love with Swinburne’s musicality when I first read him in my teens. For a Victorian poet he can be beautifully unpredictable. I’ve yet to set any of his poems to music; perhaps I ought try a choral setting someday.
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Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance. From this solidarity we will grow stronger. This is what our current moment requires.
January 17, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance. From this solidarity we will grow stronger. This is what our current moment requires.
Watched a documentary on dreaming and everything they say you’re not supposed to experience or be able to do in dreams . . . I do all of them. 😏 I always dream lucid, I can remember them as I wake, I’ve heard music in a dream that I wrote down when I woke, and so on. I know I’m different but . . .
January 17, 2026 at 5:48 AM
Watched a documentary on dreaming and everything they say you’re not supposed to experience or be able to do in dreams . . . I do all of them. 😏 I always dream lucid, I can remember them as I wake, I’ve heard music in a dream that I wrote down when I woke, and so on. I know I’m different but . . .
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For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention.
The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping.
Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.
www.ms.now
January 16, 2026 at 6:55 PM
For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention.
The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
I love the creative design of book illumination of 100 years ago.
the bookseller impulse to document early 20th century cloth hardcover design
January 17, 2026 at 2:31 AM
I love the creative design of book illumination of 100 years ago.
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I was telling one of my kids that it was physically impossible for an ad to play between songs on any of the records I own, and they asked "and you only have to pay for it once?" and you could see how strange that seemed. You cannot overstate how many basic rules of media consumption have changed.
January 16, 2026 at 4:59 AM
I was telling one of my kids that it was physically impossible for an ad to play between songs on any of the records I own, and they asked "and you only have to pay for it once?" and you could see how strange that seemed. You cannot overstate how many basic rules of media consumption have changed.