I wrote this one in one go in 2022, kicked around different arrangements & ultimately something with accordion & trombone and pizzicato bass + voice was the right fit. @whatcoloris.bsky.social did a particularly nice job with the accordion, here’s a photo of us rehearsing from a couple months ago.

Look at how rad Dennis looks! Come watch him conduct thingNY at Merkin Hall performing music by Jerome Kitzke on Thursday at 7:30! He’s a great conductor!

Twins, separated at birth and then reunited in maturity

Look at this beautiful little tape I made that's now in pre-order, with a darn viscacha on the front, a hyrax on the J card, and a creamsicle cassette. It's beautiful and you can order it here daveruder.bandcamp.com/album/lil-ol...

Party people: I am pleased to say that 1 month from today I'll be doing the first show in ~2 yrs of my own songs. It happens at Cooper Park in Wburg (near the corner of Olive & Maspeth) at 4pm on Sun 9/14. I'm backed by @whatcoloris.bsky.social on accordion and Miranda Agnew on trumpet

Folks, Thee Reps is dropping our 2nd album this month, and you can get it on cassette OR get BOTH of our albums on cassette (for a mere $15) over at Bandcamp. We'll even ship it your way before the official release date! theereps.bandcamp.com/album/crypto...

Happy special blue caps for K4P seltzer season for those who celebrate

via @thesicktimes.bsky.social re the feeling 40% of people have that things will never go back to pre-COVID normal and the diminishing expectation of things returning to normal over the past few years

Got a haircut yesterday and been rocking a new green part of my FloMask and feeling nice about how I look, so here’s me after particularly good therapy today

if you're up for a post-mortem on elections thing (I haven't been), this is a real good one
www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

It ruled to work on thingNY's new big piece Mouthful this past weekend. It's a piece where we each take turns doing various parts and it's exciting to me! And yes we will feed each other baby bird style! Tix & info: www.bricktheater.com/event/natura...

I’ve heard of novelizations of films but never heard of them turning the movie about how much weight you lose when you die into a coffee shop, cool idea

here's a #bakersdozen for @thequietus.bsky.social as the people seem to be doing

Allow to offer a few reasons why "post-pandemic" is not a useful phrase.

Most obvious to me is that we are in no way done with Covid. We are in a huge spike right now. The CDC stopped using the word pandemic and the emergency ended in May but that didn't... (peoplescdc.substack.com/p/peoples-cd...)

finally reading the major 972 article on deaths in Gaza. Seen this quote floating around, & what's most horrifying to me is the mindframe where the bombing that kills both the target and the bystanders is still greenlit with this in mind, that the IDF thinks (potentially) killing the target is...

next big thing I'm involved in is happening Sat Dec 2nd at Public Records in Gowanus and it's an evening of music by and inspired by the great ellen o. I'll be playing with a version of Thee Reps and Sweat Lodge. Hope you will join us.

Happy brain fruit season if you’re celebrating