“I can handle the cross, it’s the splinters that get me.” - my dear departed Mom
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Joyce Linehan
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Lover of Mercy (the virtue and the dog). In love with Massachusetts. Faster Miles An Hour. Indie label runner. Of course I have a substack.
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There's only one king.
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Ed Sheeran provided a public service to songwriters and should be thanked. He had the resources and profile to fight and shine light on a spurious lawsuit that might have damaged A LOT of artists if it went another way. How you and I feel about his music just might be irrelevant.
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#SongsForToday, The Weekend in Music Birthdays, May 5 to 7: War, Johnnie Taylor, Delia Derbyshire, Bunker Hill, Barbara Randolph, Googoosh, Mouth & MacNeal, The Real Thing, Prisonaires, Mary MacGregor, Dent May, Jimmy Ruffin, Thelma Houston, Pete Wingfield
Teaching a class in Public Admin at this semester. My first time! At UMass, the students are remarkable. Sharing this great interview one did with on the important topic of #OverdosePrevention. youtube.com/watch?v=CAsDmt #harmreduction #suds #mapoli
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It's #BandcampFriday and here at Ashmont Records, we lowered the price of all of our single LPs to $20. Buy more than one to save on shipping!
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The traffic in Boston is bumpahdabumpah everywhere, including on the base path at Fenway Park.
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That IS a milestone.
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We reached a big milestone this morning! We have zero COVID inpatients at Tufts Medical Center for the first time since March 21, 2020.
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Please visit your favorite indie bookstore to buy this gem, or put it in your library queue!
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Today my new book, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska, is officially released! Thanks to so many, but let me put @springsteen right there at the top. Without him, a book without the kind of life-force only he can bring.
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#SongForToday: Linda Hoover, born this day in 1951 in New Jersey, made one album in 1970 with guys who would become Steely Dan. Hers is a remarkable story of missed opportunity and a petty, vindictive record company executive. Becker and Fagen wrote this.
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It's a *great* book. And the story did the trick: 'Deliver Me' was #1194 at Amazon yesterday -- now it's #63 [with a bullet!!]...
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Same. Truth told I was a mite disappointed that ‘the room’ wasn’t the faded ramshackle farm house I always imagined. Still, something amazing about that brilliant album and the world it brings forth being created in a non-descript suburban bedroom.
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#SongsForToday: The Week in Music Birthdays, May 1 - 4: Big Maybelle, Little Walter, Titus Turner, Judy Collins, Pacific Gas and Electric, Marva Whitney, Reather Dixon, Rota Coolidge, Linda Hoover, Link Wray, Richard “Groove” Holmes, Leslie Gore, more
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#SongsForToday, The Weekend in Music Birthdays, April 28 - 30: Blossom Dearie, Peter Anders, Emma Ruth Pought, Jacques Dutronc, Willie Colon, Duke Ellington, Nino Tempo & April Stevens, Willie Nelson, Tammi Terrell, Lorraine Chandler, Tommy James, more
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Join the Master of Design Innovation program for Utopia/Dystopia: AI and the Future of Design on today at 4pm EST in the DMC Lecture Hall!
For more information and how to register, visit calendar.massart.edu/event/utopia_d
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OMG. I had no idea there was to be a book about Connie Converse!
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Grateful to for showcasing student and alumni work this weekend at the #Somerville Theatre. #film #movies #Boston
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This week we're celebrating Boston's Independent Film Festival! IFFBoston was started to provide Boston with the type of film event it had been looking for: one that discovers emerging talent and celebrates the leading edge of cinematic story tellers.
calendar.massart.edu/event/independ
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Duly elected legislator blocked from fully doing her job, disenfranchising her constituents.
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Montana Republicans vote to ban Rep. Zooey Zephyr, the transgender lawmaker who criticized her colleagues for restricting trans rights, from chamber. cnn.it/3n7VILC
“We got ears, say cheers.”
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Disney sues Ron DeSantis and his hand-picked oversight board, accusing the Florida governor of weaponizing his political power cnn.it/3NgSlN5
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I am very excited about this coming followup to Richard Rothstein's The Color of Law, a brilliant, readable, groundbreaking history of intentional racist #housing policy in the United States. justactionbook.org/?utm_source=po #segregation
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#BannedBooks should have foil-embossed stickers on them, like a shiny badge of honor.
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Oscar-nominated #Filmmaker Debra Granik will receive an honorary doctor of fine arts degree from next month. #film #mapoli
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We are so excited to share the news of MassArt's 2023 commencement speaker, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Debra Granik, will deliver the commencement address and receive an honorary doctor of fine arts degree at the ceremony.
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I think Baltimore should put me in as a pinch hitter just so Chris Sale can get a strikeout. It would be the humane thing.
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#SongsForToday Week in Music Birthdays: Freddie Scott, Robert Knight, Calexico, Tony Christie, Bjorn Ulvaeus, Leontine Dupree, Stories, Bobbi Humphrey, Claude Larson, Francis Lai, Duane Eddy, Zodiacs, Giorgio Moroder, Gary Wright, Wet Willie, Motors, more
I can't wait to read this new one by , especially after reading ' review! bostonglobe.com/2023/04/20/art #springsteen #musicwriting
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It's a nice place to work! MassArt is looking for a Marketing VP! hireculture.org/jobdetails.asp
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#SongsForToday The Weekend in Music Birthdays, April 21 to 23: Louvin Brothers, Slide Hampton, Bobby McClure, Fanny, Gabby Pahinui, Charles Mingus, Joe Cuba, Glen Campbell, Jack Nitzsche, Di Melo, Ace, Essra Mohawk, John Miles, Captain Sensible
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NO IDEA. But I would certainly listen.
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I’m not sure if playing two hours of Roadrunner covers Friday @bocwmbr is more likely to help or hurt efforts to make it the Official Rock Song of Massachusetts. Perhaps @ashmont knows! (I’ll do it regardless)
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. will award honorary degrees this year to former student and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Debra Granik; artist and community builder Rob "ProBlak" Gibbs; and architect David Lee. massart.edu/massart-award- #film #Massachusetts #BostonFilm #publicart
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BPD Missing Person Alert: 11-Year-Old Rosa Perez of Dorchester bpdnews.com/news/2023/4/13
