Dave Mandl
@dmandl.bsky.social
WFMU DJ, writer (The Wire, Los Angeles Review of Books, etc.), bassist, photographer, amateur linguist. Founder, Brooklyn Psychogeographical Association.
Web: dmandl.tumblr.com
Instagram: @dmandl
Playlists from my radio show: https://wfmu.org/playlists/GX
Web: dmandl.tumblr.com
Instagram: @dmandl
Playlists from my radio show: https://wfmu.org/playlists/GX
Can't say that I would completely trust these barbers.
November 14, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Can't say that I would completely trust these barbers.
#NowPlaying "Dead Right" by Officer! They've moved farther away from charming pop into more hard-left political content ("Infinite Greed," "The Internationale," "Those Evil Tories"). Not the biggest fan of this kind of political stuff, but I still love them. klanggalerie.bandcamp.com/album/dead-r...
November 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
#NowPlaying "Dead Right" by Officer! They've moved farther away from charming pop into more hard-left political content ("Infinite Greed," "The Internationale," "Those Evil Tories"). Not the biggest fan of this kind of political stuff, but I still love them. klanggalerie.bandcamp.com/album/dead-r...
Gerritsen Beach, late afternoon.
November 13, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Gerritsen Beach, late afternoon.
#NowReading "Encounters," by Denise Scott Brown (best known as the co-author of "Learning from Las Vegas"). Hundreds of mostly "mundane" photos taken from the mid-'50s to the '70s as research for her architecture and teaching practice. A lush collection with several excellent critical essays.
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
#NowReading "Encounters," by Denise Scott Brown (best known as the co-author of "Learning from Las Vegas"). Hundreds of mostly "mundane" photos taken from the mid-'50s to the '70s as research for her architecture and teaching practice. A lush collection with several excellent critical essays.
Tune in to WFMU tonight at 7:00 to hear this week's installment of my radio show, "It's Complicated" (an hour of prog and prog-adjacent music)! Listen at 91.1 FM in and around NYC, on the web at wfmu.org, or via the incomparable @wfmu.bsky.social app.
November 10, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Tune in to WFMU tonight at 7:00 to hear this week's installment of my radio show, "It's Complicated" (an hour of prog and prog-adjacent music)! Listen at 91.1 FM in and around NYC, on the web at wfmu.org, or via the incomparable @wfmu.bsky.social app.
Seen in Red Hook. I don't know how old this place is, but there was a time when loads of bagel places in Brooklyn were just called "Hot Bagels"—or at least that's all it said on the sign.
November 10, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Seen in Red Hook. I don't know how old this place is, but there was a time when loads of bagel places in Brooklyn were just called "Hot Bagels"—or at least that's all it said on the sign.
Interesting convo with a friend who owns a hip NYC record shop about a sudden renewed interest in CDs, which were a negligible part of his business till recently.
November 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Interesting convo with a friend who owns a hip NYC record shop about a sudden renewed interest in CDs, which were a negligible part of his business till recently.
I will go to my grave believing that that sound on the Zombies' "Time of the Season" is a splash cymbal, not someone saying "Ahhh," as everyone else seems to believe. A splash is a tiny cymbal with very little sustain.
November 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I will go to my grave believing that that sound on the Zombies' "Time of the Season" is a splash cymbal, not someone saying "Ahhh," as everyone else seems to believe. A splash is a tiny cymbal with very little sustain.
The Steve Keene table at the @wfmu.bsky.social fair was a nice surprise. Boxes full of Keene paintings, all $2. There was a Mary Hopkin one I wanted, but I only had $10 bills. I went to another table to get change, went back five minutes later, and someone had bought it.😕
November 9, 2025 at 12:49 PM
The Steve Keene table at the @wfmu.bsky.social fair was a nice surprise. Boxes full of Keene paintings, all $2. There was a Mary Hopkin one I wanted, but I only had $10 bills. I went to another table to get change, went back five minutes later, and someone had bought it.😕
if you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
November 8, 2025 at 7:40 PM
if you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
Naming a business based in Red Hook "Low Tide" is real gallows humor. This neighborhood was (for example) devastated by Hurricane Sandy. A friend of mine who had his stuff in a storage space here lost everything.
November 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Naming a business based in Red Hook "Low Tide" is real gallows humor. This neighborhood was (for example) devastated by Hurricane Sandy. A friend of mine who had his stuff in a storage space here lost everything.
I've seen "new lease in life," "new lease on life," and "new lease of life." Which is it? (Merriam-Webster says "on.") #copyediting
November 8, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I've seen "new lease in life," "new lease on life," and "new lease of life." Which is it? (Merriam-Webster says "on.") #copyediting
...And again, this time in a headline.
November 8, 2025 at 1:54 PM
...And again, this time in a headline.
Ongoing mainstream-media enabling of Trumpism (NYT in this case): How can anyone watch the hundreds of videos of what's happening around the country and describe it as a "federal immigration crackdown"?
November 8, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Ongoing mainstream-media enabling of Trumpism (NYT in this case): How can anyone watch the hundreds of videos of what's happening around the country and describe it as a "federal immigration crackdown"?
What the hell is this?
November 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
What the hell is this?
Love Love Love, Sheepshead Bay.
November 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Love Love Love, Sheepshead Bay.
E. 98 St. Mobile Tire Shop, Brownsville.
November 7, 2025 at 12:17 PM
E. 98 St. Mobile Tire Shop, Brownsville.
Seen in the wild (Gerritsen Beach): 1964 Thunderbird.
November 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Seen in the wild (Gerritsen Beach): 1964 Thunderbird.
Oct. 28: Donate my WFMU scarf to Housing Works, because I have a fancier one, and who needs two scarves?
Nov. 5: Lose my fancier scarf. No idea where.
Nov. 5: Lose my fancier scarf. No idea where.
November 6, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Oct. 28: Donate my WFMU scarf to Housing Works, because I have a fancier one, and who needs two scarves?
Nov. 5: Lose my fancier scarf. No idea where.
Nov. 5: Lose my fancier scarf. No idea where.
Why do I have to download your app (and presumably create an account) just to get my tickets for an event tonight? All three of those "Get your tickets" links/buttons take me to the App Store.
November 5, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Why do I have to download your app (and presumably create an account) just to get my tickets for an event tonight? All three of those "Get your tickets" links/buttons take me to the App Store.
Wow. I called the Lomography folks a few months back to tell them that I'd lost the lens cap on my Diana F+ camera. Never heard back from them, so I assumed they didn't stock replacements (as I'd feared). By complete surprise I received this package today. So nice.
November 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Wow. I called the Lomography folks a few months back to tell them that I'd lost the lens cap on my Diana F+ camera. Never heard back from them, so I assumed they didn't stock replacements (as I'd feared). By complete surprise I received this package today. So nice.