Alison Fensterstock
@alisonf.bsky.social
Teenage werewolf / inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read / fensterstock@gmail.com
Editor of NPR Music’s HOW WOMEN MADE MUSIC (Harper One ‘24) coauthor of a biography of Bunny Matthews (Historic New Orleans Collection Press, someday)
Editor of NPR Music’s HOW WOMEN MADE MUSIC (Harper One ‘24) coauthor of a biography of Bunny Matthews (Historic New Orleans Collection Press, someday)
As an almost lifelong freelancer in the arts sphere, would you rather a) make a comprehensive up-to-date CV or b) stick a cactus up your butt and eat worms at the same time
November 12, 2025 at 10:10 PM
As an almost lifelong freelancer in the arts sphere, would you rather a) make a comprehensive up-to-date CV or b) stick a cactus up your butt and eat worms at the same time
CITY TO TRUMP: DROP DEAD
November 5, 2025 at 2:45 AM
CITY TO TRUMP: DROP DEAD
Took me a minute to dig this up - from September 2015 at the Alabama Music Hall of Fame
November 4, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Took me a minute to dig this up - from September 2015 at the Alabama Music Hall of Fame
RIP Donna Jean ❤️⚡️💙 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/a...
Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, Grateful Dead Singer, Dies at 78
www.nytimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:25 PM
RIP Donna Jean ❤️⚡️💙 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/a...
There needs to be a term like Swedish death cleaning for what you do in middle age when you realize your house is full from all the stuff you magpied in your twenties and thirties and now you must make room for the stuff you will surely gather in the next half (god willing)
October 23, 2025 at 10:17 PM
There needs to be a term like Swedish death cleaning for what you do in middle age when you realize your house is full from all the stuff you magpied in your twenties and thirties and now you must make room for the stuff you will surely gather in the next half (god willing)
This unfortunately just makes me picture a bucket of soup, a list of soups to be served in buckets
October 9, 2025 at 7:13 PM
This unfortunately just makes me picture a bucket of soup, a list of soups to be served in buckets
Apropos of nothing I think people are overusing the word “material” to sound smartypants when “real” or sometimes “tangible” would do
September 18, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Apropos of nothing I think people are overusing the word “material” to sound smartypants when “real” or sometimes “tangible” would do
Today at water aerobics they played smells”Smells Like Teen Spirit,” it was like a joke about aging Gen Xers you’d tell someone to edit out for being too cute, and yet there it was lol
August 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Today at water aerobics they played smells”Smells Like Teen Spirit,” it was like a joke about aging Gen Xers you’d tell someone to edit out for being too cute, and yet there it was lol
Do you think all the Kryptonian dogs look like Krypto or are there many breeds, like here on earth, except of course super
July 20, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Do you think all the Kryptonian dogs look like Krypto or are there many breeds, like here on earth, except of course super
Just listened to a BBC Newshour interview with a man who wrote a book about the history of movie props. “People in narrative cinema are always doing things, and they have to do things with things,” he said
July 17, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Just listened to a BBC Newshour interview with a man who wrote a book about the history of movie props. “People in narrative cinema are always doing things, and they have to do things with things,” he said
Maybe it’s the Gen X half of me talking but I still really don’t know what a “going-out top” is (I read my Strategist newsletters today)
July 2, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Maybe it’s the Gen X half of me talking but I still really don’t know what a “going-out top” is (I read my Strategist newsletters today)
Apropos of nothing, every time I get a letter from the NOLA tax assessor I get “tax assessor” stuck in my head to the tune of Neko Case’s “Fox Confessor”
June 23, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Apropos of nothing, every time I get a letter from the NOLA tax assessor I get “tax assessor” stuck in my head to the tune of Neko Case’s “Fox Confessor”
Oddly thrown off listening to ATC today and hearing Ari Shapiro keep pronouncing “piano” with two syllables
June 6, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Oddly thrown off listening to ATC today and hearing Ari Shapiro keep pronouncing “piano” with two syllables
I can’t be the first person to learn about the new Star War called Andor (suspiciously similar to where the Ewoks are from) and then try to make up a song about how it’s Andor with an A, not Endor with an E to the tune of “Liza with a Z”
… or am I
… or am I
June 4, 2025 at 3:59 AM
I can’t be the first person to learn about the new Star War called Andor (suspiciously similar to where the Ewoks are from) and then try to make up a song about how it’s Andor with an A, not Endor with an E to the tune of “Liza with a Z”
… or am I
… or am I
I wish everyone a good sleepy, dusty Delta day youtu.be/cJZ_ViDADOE
Ode To Billie Joe
YouTube video by Bobbie Gentry - Topic
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June 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I wish everyone a good sleepy, dusty Delta day youtu.be/cJZ_ViDADOE
Reposted by Alison Fensterstock
I would buy this if it had just a few more of the lyrics from Up On Cripple Creek (because if the name is really changed it fucks up the scansion of one of my favorite songs)
June 2, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I would buy this if it had just a few more of the lyrics from Up On Cripple Creek (because if the name is really changed it fucks up the scansion of one of my favorite songs)
Cheese is a privilege, not a right, I just told my dog
But on second thought is this actually true? Where is the case law
But on second thought is this actually true? Where is the case law
June 1, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Cheese is a privilege, not a right, I just told my dog
But on second thought is this actually true? Where is the case law
But on second thought is this actually true? Where is the case law
Reposted by Alison Fensterstock
Can’t spell CAMELS without SCAM
May 16, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Can’t spell CAMELS without SCAM
Chicago-style pope
May 8, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Chicago-style pope
I’ll be on WWOZ for kitchen sink tonight, ten to midnight central, if appointment listening is your sort of thing. I think it’ll be my favs from second weekend of the fest and maybe some extra piano because it’s WWOZ’s Piano Night, but I can’t make any promises
April 29, 2025 at 12:03 AM
I’ll be on WWOZ for kitchen sink tonight, ten to midnight central, if appointment listening is your sort of thing. I think it’ll be my favs from second weekend of the fest and maybe some extra piano because it’s WWOZ’s Piano Night, but I can’t make any promises
Reposted by Alison Fensterstock
They couldn’t even give David Jo his flowers after he was dead
April 28, 2025 at 2:02 AM
They couldn’t even give David Jo his flowers after he was dead
Obviously Carol Kaye should have been inducted into the Rock Hall as soon as the sidemen category was invented, and the sidemen category should have been invented a lot sooner. Still, some points:
April 28, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Obviously Carol Kaye should have been inducted into the Rock Hall as soon as the sidemen category was invented, and the sidemen category should have been invented a lot sooner. Still, some points: