Stop Calling Me Frank
@stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social
Working up a fever in a one-horse town.
Somerville garage-punk-pub-rock band on Rum Bar Records. The music stuff is the band’s; the politics, academic crotchets, crap-takes and low-effort posts are mine.
Somerville garage-punk-pub-rock band on Rum Bar Records. The music stuff is the band’s; the politics, academic crotchets, crap-takes and low-effort posts are mine.
It’s wild that the longest-serving GOP speaker of the house is literally a convicted pedophile.
November 13, 2025 at 7:52 AM
It’s wild that the longest-serving GOP speaker of the house is literally a convicted pedophile.
“People will put up with many things if you are excellent at math”: The Jeffrey Epstein Story
November 13, 2025 at 1:01 AM
“People will put up with many things if you are excellent at math”: The Jeffrey Epstein Story
Repost with an iconic fictional band.
November 12, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Repost with an iconic fictional band.
Evergreen
November 11, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Evergreen
Frankenalia from 1987
November 9, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Frankenalia from 1987
My mom remembers fluoroscopes at the shoe store. I love the scientism: technicians collecting “test-data”and using the “scientific way of approaching the problem of poorly-fitted shoes eliminates guesswork.”
November 8, 2025 at 3:58 AM
My mom remembers fluoroscopes at the shoe store. I love the scientism: technicians collecting “test-data”and using the “scientific way of approaching the problem of poorly-fitted shoes eliminates guesswork.”
Not a joke, exactly, but this moment during the the trial:
November 8, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Not a joke, exactly, but this moment during the the trial:
Where do you see yourself in five years?
ME:
ME:
November 7, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Where do you see yourself in five years?
ME:
ME:
REPORTER: How do you want to be identified in the story?
ANONYMOUS SOURCE: Doesn’t matter. Just make me sound cool—like I do an important job.
REPORTER:
ANONYMOUS SOURCE: Doesn’t matter. Just make me sound cool—like I do an important job.
REPORTER:
November 7, 2025 at 7:00 AM
REPORTER: How do you want to be identified in the story?
ANONYMOUS SOURCE: Doesn’t matter. Just make me sound cool—like I do an important job.
REPORTER:
ANONYMOUS SOURCE: Doesn’t matter. Just make me sound cool—like I do an important job.
REPORTER:
Lee Brilleaux from Dr. Feelgood, seen here evaluating your potential value to his Canvey Island heroin-smuggling operation.
November 6, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Lee Brilleaux from Dr. Feelgood, seen here evaluating your potential value to his Canvey Island heroin-smuggling operation.
This White House seems exquisitely vulnerable to rumors & rat-fucking.
Trump will protect his status & delusional vanity even if it burns down the GOP. He’s horrified by the very idea of succession. And he’d hate to hear any whispering from restless, ungrateful Republicans looking to “move on.”
Trump will protect his status & delusional vanity even if it burns down the GOP. He’s horrified by the very idea of succession. And he’d hate to hear any whispering from restless, ungrateful Republicans looking to “move on.”
November 5, 2025 at 4:06 PM
This White House seems exquisitely vulnerable to rumors & rat-fucking.
Trump will protect his status & delusional vanity even if it burns down the GOP. He’s horrified by the very idea of succession. And he’d hate to hear any whispering from restless, ungrateful Republicans looking to “move on.”
Trump will protect his status & delusional vanity even if it burns down the GOP. He’s horrified by the very idea of succession. And he’d hate to hear any whispering from restless, ungrateful Republicans looking to “move on.”
“Get in, loser. We’re going to chronicle the morally-bankrupt complicity of American political media.”
November 3, 2025 at 3:51 PM
“Get in, loser. We’re going to chronicle the morally-bankrupt complicity of American political media.”
You can only call it Yoo-hoo if it is produced in the Yoo-hoo region of France. Otherwise, it’s called a “shelf-stable brown drink.”
November 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM
You can only call it Yoo-hoo if it is produced in the Yoo-hoo region of France. Otherwise, it’s called a “shelf-stable brown drink.”
This morning email announcement always makes my day. @andrewhickey.500songs.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
This morning email announcement always makes my day. @andrewhickey.500songs.com
I first heard them on this compilation when I was maybe 14:
November 1, 2025 at 2:34 AM
I first heard them on this compilation when I was maybe 14:
October 29, 2025 at 12:03 AM
MUPPET HEART
October 27, 2025 at 8:39 PM
MUPPET HEART
I can still remember this cool older dude I worked with telling me how fantastic Skylarking was, right after it came out exactly 39(?!) years ago today. He was right.
October 27, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I can still remember this cool older dude I worked with telling me how fantastic Skylarking was, right after it came out exactly 39(?!) years ago today. He was right.
Boston’s best (free) monthly musical event: The Sunday afternoon Mess-Arounds @ the Square Root in Roslindale.
Yesterday: Rick Barton (Dropkick Murphys) & Stephen Fredette (Scruffy the Cat); Stupidity (from Stockholm on Wicked Cool Records); Evan Shore (from Muck and the Mires)+ host Jay Allen.
Yesterday: Rick Barton (Dropkick Murphys) & Stephen Fredette (Scruffy the Cat); Stupidity (from Stockholm on Wicked Cool Records); Evan Shore (from Muck and the Mires)+ host Jay Allen.
October 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Boston’s best (free) monthly musical event: The Sunday afternoon Mess-Arounds @ the Square Root in Roslindale.
Yesterday: Rick Barton (Dropkick Murphys) & Stephen Fredette (Scruffy the Cat); Stupidity (from Stockholm on Wicked Cool Records); Evan Shore (from Muck and the Mires)+ host Jay Allen.
Yesterday: Rick Barton (Dropkick Murphys) & Stephen Fredette (Scruffy the Cat); Stupidity (from Stockholm on Wicked Cool Records); Evan Shore (from Muck and the Mires)+ host Jay Allen.
Happy birthday, Bootsy Collins 💫💫
October 26, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Happy birthday, Bootsy Collins 💫💫
I have a similar relationship with William Empson’s terrifying permanent neck-napkin.
October 25, 2025 at 4:03 AM
I have a similar relationship with William Empson’s terrifying permanent neck-napkin.
Siouxie Sioux for all of ioux this afterniouxn
October 21, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Siouxie Sioux for all of ioux this afterniouxn
We had an Intellivision video game system, which wanted to catch some of that Tron box-office magic back in 1982.
October 21, 2025 at 5:48 AM
We had an Intellivision video game system, which wanted to catch some of that Tron box-office magic back in 1982.