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Wire Magazine Festival. Chicago’s Empty Bottle. September 2004. Photog unknown. Miles Davis, name in the press a lot this week because of milestones connected to his artistic contributions and birth and such, said to some typically confused journo back in the 1960s that music was his constant companion. Like some people processed language he could claim that it’s physical presence occupied the room just as surely as did oxygen. Or the interviewer’s own face.
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In the face of (now) seemingly endless music press chatter about what punk rock means, or is supposed to mean, emerges a meme of the old guard vs the new. But how new and old is it really? 1982. Like minutes before our 1st show with the Circle Jerks. Courtesy of their magnanimity. (Photographer Unknown) Los Angeles is a weird place.
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Five years ago, almost to the day, I got fired from a digital news company named OZY for starting this Substack. Five years later my ex-CEO Carlos Watson is a convicted felon but that's not all... Having his almost-10-year-sentence and $97 million in fines commuted by President Donald Trump for an undisclosed amount of bribe cash, convicted felon Carlos Watson, here staring at my crotch, believes Jews were out to get him.
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When every punchline is "nigger" what's the joke? “Backstage” at a winery at my second ever bow as a stand-up comic. It was a “success”. So much so that they’ve asked me to never come back. Again. Like, ever. “You looking for something that goes with your TAN?!?” I guess he expected a healthy guffaw, this men’s clothing salesman, for the wit and wisdom that got him to drop that on me mere minutes after I entered the store where his job was to sell said clothing to men. Like me. Or maybe not.
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This photo with Duane Denison, taken at Dour, was mere seconds before I refused to let go of his shaking hand and open-hand slap him with my left. At least that was the plan. (Photo by Chris “Fozzy” Holden) [Note: The emails have been consistent and clear. Though I believe these stories to be old and covered in both my memoir and the FIGHT book, enough haven’t heard them, so here’s some version of them, again. Enjoy.] “Oh man,” he was laughing.
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“I know what you’re wondering…’did he fire five or only six shots?’ Well in all of this excitement I kinda forgot myself.” He was the nicest old guy. Outside of the cataract’d left eye, with a bluish, white film covering it, Billy looked like a central casting version of the kindly old guy who ran a news stand in some film noir potboiler. White, stooped and with a tight-cropped head of gray hair I made him for about 60 years old. A hard, old 60.
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Yeah, but look at all of the good things he’s done. Like…well… the cat rescue thing…AND about 30 percent of your records, bitches. [Photo by Austin Powell] Standing in a 7-11 in Long Beach, California, Oxbow’s drummer at the time, Tom Dobrov, stood shoulder to shoulder with Greg Ginn, founder of SST Records and Black Flag. They were facing a magazine stand. Not really looking through the magazines, but clearly looking AT them. Sort of. Seconds turned to minutes. Minutes into uncomfortably more minutes.
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How do I know it wasn’t him? Look what I just found. My deepest heartfelt apologies sir.
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Steve Albini, and the author, during the recording of Oxbow’s Let Me Be a Woman. This is my rifle. This is my gun. One is for killing. The other’s for fun. We were driving by Kent State University, the scene of extrajudicial killings of antiwar protesters by members of the National Guard. Whipping Boy, my band, was on its second tour of the United States and this, in 1983, was a chance to meet all of the people we social media’d with well before there was such a thing as social media.
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This was a stock image I had planned to use in a knock-off magazine I wanted to publish called ALTAR BOY: A Magazine for the WAYWARD PRIEST. Buuutttt…it works here just as well. Last week’s substack, In Defense of…Anthony Kiedis?, instead of being what I imagined it to be – me adulting my way to letting bygones be bygones in regard to my hatred of the man – instead turned into a referendum on his admitted pedophilia.
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A book by Steve Gullick which, surprisingly, pits Kiedis’ first 1990 appearance in the UK with mine with OXBOW. (From Showtime by Steve Gullick) They say consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. But this kind of consistency was involuntary. It was a slowly-I-turned type of deal where the mere mention of the band, or the man who fronted it, would send me into a slathering rage.
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A musical noumenon regardless of who makes the music? Mysteries abound. (BUNUEL and Friends: Photo by Annapaola Martin) “If it’s me and your granny on bongos, it’s The Fall.” You get the sense that after these words left his mouth Mark E. Smith, founder and singer for The Fall, sat back, satisfied. He had spoken, some measure of his truth, and it was good. For him.
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Aaron Turner. Singer. Guitarist. And savior of dreams. (Photo by Kasia Meow) Like the Dinosaur Jr. record You’re Living All Over Me, the Trump Administration tends to do that. Mostly, I imagine, as it’s one of half a dozen ways to extinguish hope. Outrage after outrage. Body after body. Lie after lie. It’s a dizzying whirligig of shit and the shit adjacent.
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Here he comes to save the day! Abraham Macayan noting that never does a man stand as tall as when he stoops to crush a 320-pound teammate. There are these weird inflection points, places where certain people will gather to get a gander at what is indubitably real. During the birth of my first daughter, I stood by the foot of the bed as my then-wife endured the tortures of the damned to deliver her. The doctors in attendance demanded I sit down.
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Jesse Jackson shown in three photos

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To appreciate the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson’s place in history — to understand his role in expanding the Constitution’s promise of freedom and opportunity to those of us once excluded — let photographs be the starting point. Consider three indelible images of Jackson, who died Tuesday at age 84, captured over a span of 40 years. The first was taken on April 3, 1968. Jackson stands on a balcony at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, next to the Rev.
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Jesse Jackson in three photos

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Jesse Jackson in three photos (washingtonpost.com) Jesse Jackson in three photos By Eugene Robinson 2026021713010300 To appreciate the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson's place in history — to understand his role in expanding the Constitution's promise of freedom and opportunity to those of us once excluded — let photographs be the starting point. Consider three indelible images of Jackson, who died Tuesday at age 84, captured over a span of 40 years. The first was taken on April 3, 1968.
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This receipt shows why Trump can’t whitewash America’s history

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Trekkers, religious activities banned in Kanlaon

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BACOLOD CITY — Trekking and religious activities are strictly prohibited in Kanlaon volcano. In a memorandum dated April 12, 2025, the Regional Task Force Kanlaon prohibits any form of pilgrimage and trekking, especially entry into the 6-kilometer Extended Danger Zone (EDZ) during the observance of the Holy Week.
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This receipt shows why Trump can’t whitewash America’s history

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This receipt shows why Trump can’t whitewash America’s history (washingtonpost.com) This receipt shows why Trump can’t whitewash America’s history By Eugene Robinson 2025033120473300 With an angry executive order that targets the Smithsonian Institution — specifically taking aim at the National Museum of African American History and Culture — President Donald Trump is brazenly trying to obscure and whitewash the past. He will fail.
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One big law firm objects to Trump. Another bends the knee.

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As part of his attempt to rule like an autocrat, President Donald Trump is threatening to destroy major law firms that dare oppose him. By caving to such pressure last week, one big firm - Paul Weiss - chose its own well-being over the survival of our democracy. That may sound like hyperbole, but it is not. Thus far, the judiciary has been the only effective restraint on the Trump administration's trampling of the law and the Constitution.
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What can be said about such a sad day? I answered your questions.
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Documenting the courage of Katharine Graham

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Imagine this scenario: A dangerously unhinged president, enraged that a prominent newspaper is about to reveal secrets he wants to keep, leverages the vast power of the White House to threaten the paper's owner with utter financial ruin if the information is published. In-house lawyers strongly advise the owner to back down, warning that the newspaper's survival is at stake. But it is clear that the public has the right to know what the president is trying to hide. What should the owner do?
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Here's what Elon Musk accomplished last week: Trump Cabinet rebellion

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How unhinged and irresponsible is Elon Musk? So much that even President Donald Trump's newly confirmed and MAGA-certified Cabinet members are pushing back. Musk's email blast on Saturday to 2.3 million federal workers - ordering each to submit by Monday "approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week," with failure to respond constituting the employee's resignation - was nothing but an exercise in contempt. And in many agencies, it was promptly countermanded.
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