David Vest
@davidvest.bsky.social
World's oldest living promising young pianist. Songwriter, poet, knuckleball-pitching bandleader. https://ffm.to/davidvest
Go on -- ask me one more time to prove I'm human.
September 16, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Go on -- ask me one more time to prove I'm human.
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If I have to close a popup window to read the text on your homepage, I hereby declare your site enshittified.
September 15, 2025 at 7:47 PM
If I have to close a popup window to read the text on your homepage, I hereby declare your site enshittified.
I need a search engine that will exclude pages written with AI.
September 12, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I need a search engine that will exclude pages written with AI.
Repeat this phrase whenever someone touts AI: "Monsters from the id."
September 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Repeat this phrase whenever someone touts AI: "Monsters from the id."
I really love the new album by @ronsexsmith.bsky.social! Great new songs, brilliantly recorded.
August 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I really love the new album by @ronsexsmith.bsky.social! Great new songs, brilliantly recorded.
“It’s my Party and I’ll lie if I want to, lie if I want to — you would lie, too, if it happened to you.”
July 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
“It’s my Party and I’ll lie if I want to, lie if I want to — you would lie, too, if it happened to you.”
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There is great wisdom in Alabama, but you have to look for it. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
June 28, 2025 at 3:27 AM
There is great wisdom in Alabama, but you have to look for it. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The line between corporate tracking and stalking on the internet seems to have vanished long ago.
June 17, 2025 at 3:24 AM
The line between corporate tracking and stalking on the internet seems to have vanished long ago.
"If we want to talk about what makes America great, we should talk about the Marshall Plan. No country in the world ever rebuilt the cities of its enemies, and that’s what we did after World War II." -- James Lee Burke
June 4, 2025 at 7:54 PM
"If we want to talk about what makes America great, we should talk about the Marshall Plan. No country in the world ever rebuilt the cities of its enemies, and that’s what we did after World War II." -- James Lee Burke
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Happy Jackie Robinson Day...
“A new breed of Republicans has taken over the GOP. It is a new breed which is seeking to sell to Americans a doctrine which is as old as mankind — the doctrine of racial division, the doctrine of racial prejudice, the doctrine of white supremacy.”- Jackie Robinson.
“A new breed of Republicans has taken over the GOP. It is a new breed which is seeking to sell to Americans a doctrine which is as old as mankind — the doctrine of racial division, the doctrine of racial prejudice, the doctrine of white supremacy.”- Jackie Robinson.
April 15, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Happy Jackie Robinson Day...
“A new breed of Republicans has taken over the GOP. It is a new breed which is seeking to sell to Americans a doctrine which is as old as mankind — the doctrine of racial division, the doctrine of racial prejudice, the doctrine of white supremacy.”- Jackie Robinson.
“A new breed of Republicans has taken over the GOP. It is a new breed which is seeking to sell to Americans a doctrine which is as old as mankind — the doctrine of racial division, the doctrine of racial prejudice, the doctrine of white supremacy.”- Jackie Robinson.
"I like my toast burnt and scraped," he said. "Anything else is just warm bread."
April 15, 2025 at 3:45 PM
"I like my toast burnt and scraped," he said. "Anything else is just warm bread."
Lovely review of CrissCross (latest album by Terry Robb and me) in the new Living Blues.
digital.livingblues.com/living-blues...
digital.livingblues.com/living-blues...
Living Blues Living Blues #295 Page 52
Living Blues #295 (March/April 2025) features harp player Wallace Coleman on the cover. Coleman had a surprising first job in the blues. He was hired by Robert Lockwood Jr. because of his skills as an...
digital.livingblues.com
April 14, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Lovely review of CrissCross (latest album by Terry Robb and me) in the new Living Blues.
digital.livingblues.com/living-blues...
digital.livingblues.com/living-blues...
“I see people who are supposed to know better standing around like furniture.”
March 31, 2025 at 7:19 PM
“I see people who are supposed to know better standing around like furniture.”
"Let's be honest, everyone looks a little tragic on a Segway." (Ian Taylor)
March 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
"Let's be honest, everyone looks a little tragic on a Segway." (Ian Taylor)
Marshall Allen has released his debut solo album at the age of 100, and it's the best new music I've heard so far this year in any genre.
marshallallen.bandcamp.com/album/new-dawn
marshallallen.bandcamp.com/album/new-dawn
New Dawn, by Marshall Allen
7 track album
marshallallen.bandcamp.com
February 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Marshall Allen has released his debut solo album at the age of 100, and it's the best new music I've heard so far this year in any genre.
marshallallen.bandcamp.com/album/new-dawn
marshallallen.bandcamp.com/album/new-dawn
Gulf of Central America (fixed it for ya'll).
Screw Google for capitulating to this childish nonsense.
February 12, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Gulf of Central America (fixed it for ya'll).
Very cool to see friends and label mates win Juno nominations for Blues Album of the Year.
www.cbc.ca/lite/story/1...
www.cbc.ca/lite/story/1...
Here are all the 2025 Juno nominees(external link)(external link)(external link)(external link)(external link)(external link)(external link)(external link)(external link)(external link)(external link)...
www.cbc.ca
February 11, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Very cool to see friends and label mates win Juno nominations for Blues Album of the Year.
www.cbc.ca/lite/story/1...
www.cbc.ca/lite/story/1...
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The Chiefs can still be named Super Bowl champions if Mike Pence has the courage.
February 10, 2025 at 4:04 AM
The Chiefs can still be named Super Bowl champions if Mike Pence has the courage.
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Black excellence: Twice as qualified, half as respected, and still passed over or labeled as a ‘DEI hire.’
Black folks have always known this because we’ve seen it happen to our own family members. I know I have.
Black folks have always known this because we’ve seen it happen to our own family members. I know I have.
February 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Black excellence: Twice as qualified, half as respected, and still passed over or labeled as a ‘DEI hire.’
Black folks have always known this because we’ve seen it happen to our own family members. I know I have.
Black folks have always known this because we’ve seen it happen to our own family members. I know I have.
Apparently we're not required to have an opinion on everything -- or to publish every opinion we have. Who knew?
February 2, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Apparently we're not required to have an opinion on everything -- or to publish every opinion we have. Who knew?
