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Gil Roth & his Virtual Memories Show @vmspod.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

New #newsletter is out! We've got a new podcast about #BunnyMatthews feat. @alisonf.bsky.social & @tisserand.bsky.social, neat links to check out, BIRDY! sniffing in the backyard, my very strange Yom Kippur, an echocardiogram flex, & more, so GO READ! buttondown.com/vmspod/archi...

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Postal Services

We've got a new podcast about Bunny Matthews, some links to check out, BIRDY! sniffing in the backyard, my very strange Yom Kippur, an echocardiogram flex, and more!

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Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I remember doing a panel with the Exciters once and that is indeed what they remembered warmly 50 years on from their tour opening for the Beatles - being protected from awful Jim Crow venue rules on tour together in the American South

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Phil Nobile Jr. @philnobilejr.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

What do you call an ad for a bagel and cream cheese

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Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Whoops, I haven’t been on here in a while but in deep self-interest I’m coming by to say I have a new book coming out next weekend! Please come to the festivities! hnoc.org/events/bunny...

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Bunny Day

Join us for a daylong celebration of the life and work of legendary New Orleans cartoonist and writer Bunny Matthews.

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Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Let’s spin the Astor Place cube and smoke Camel Lights and just sort of hang around

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Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Tem uma programa muito psicedelico esse noite na WWOZ 90.7 FM New Orleans!! Discos exoticos do America do Sul para Lefty Parker!! Kitchen Sink, 10-midnight, weird and psychedelic South American records from Lefty! WWOZ dot org! Que bom! Eu nao falo portugues muito bem mas eu tento um pouco.

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Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Unsure how much reach this account on this platform has but I freaking adore Nellie McKay and I am very glad she’s playing Monday!! It’s like WWOZ Piano Night but with just one person and supporting real cats, not just jazz cats

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Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Don’t ask why this occurred to me but does anyone else think the Nancy Meyers white couch set dressing aesthetic is maybe a comment on the triumph of menopause

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Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

The dog was just starting to give me a paw and then WITHDREW it because he saw it was a bullshit healthy treat

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Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Bon Moreno! Bon Mamdami! A very happy new mayor to both my cities

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Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

The Las Vegas Sphere has totally succeeded in branding because I just saw some ball drop prep videos and I wondered “what is the Sphere doing for New Year’s Eve.” THE SPHERE OWNS THE PUBLIC ROUNDNESS SPACE

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Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Ok so obviously I have heard “Have a very Jerry Christmas” quite a bit but this is the first time I’ve heard “and a happy Bob Weir”

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Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Before the end of 2025 I promise to decide whether I like Geese or Goose better, it’s looking like Goose but that’s not saying a lot

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Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Tonight 10-midnight CT on @wwozneworleans.bsky.social! Lefty had to buy an extra suitcase to bring home all the records he brought in Brazil and we will play them. Feliz Natal!!

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Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Spare a thought this holiday season for the young people toiling in the cannoli mines at Angelo Brocato’s. It’s intense over there #verylocalskeet

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Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Christmas starts now! Or at 7pm central, when I sub in on WWOZ til 10 with a holiday set. 90.7 FM and WWOZ dot org if you’re in the North Pole!

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Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

I did understand (barely) what this link was going to be, but

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Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Wait, I have another joke American Can’t O

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Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

I can’t be the first person to wonder if Olivia Nuzzi and Ryan Lizza were only together because of all the Zs

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Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

So far every language I’ve tried on a language app thinks I will be eating a sandwich and ice cream all the time as if every country is like the boathouse cafe in Central Park

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Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Wish I could say I skipped school to hear Jan speak at the NYU beat conference in 1994, right before her death (I was a particular kind of nerd and in fact my school let me go downtown in lieu of class) but anyway very good choice NYRB!! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/b...

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Her Father Wrote ‘On the Road.’ She Lived Her Own Version.

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Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

As an almost lifelong freelancer in the arts sphere, would you rather a) make a comprehensive up-to-date CV or b) stick a cactus up your butt and eat worms at the same time

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Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Took me a minute to dig this up - from September 2015 at the Alabama Music Hall of Fame

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Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

There needs to be a term like Swedish death cleaning for what you do in middle age when you realize your house is full from all the stuff you magpied in your twenties and thirties and now you must make room for the stuff you will surely gather in the next half (god willing)

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Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

This unfortunately just makes me picture a bucket of soup, a list of soups to be served in buckets

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Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Apropos of nothing I think people are overusing the word “material” to sound smartypants when “real” or sometimes “tangible” would do

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Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Today at water aerobics they played smells”Smells Like Teen Spirit,” it was like a joke about aging Gen Xers you’d tell someone to edit out for being too cute, and yet there it was lol

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Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Do you think all the Kryptonian dogs look like Krypto or are there many breeds, like here on earth, except of course super

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Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Just listened to a BBC Newshour interview with a man who wrote a book about the history of movie props. “People in narrative cinema are always doing things, and they have to do things with things,” he said

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Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Maybe it’s the Gen X half of me talking but I still really don’t know what a “going-out top” is (I read my Strategist newsletters today)

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Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Apropos of nothing, every time I get a letter from the NOLA tax assessor I get “tax assessor” stuck in my head to the tune of Neko Case’s “Fox Confessor”

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Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Oddly thrown off listening to ATC today and hearing Ari Shapiro keep pronouncing “piano” with two syllables

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Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

I can’t be the first person to learn about the new Star War called Andor (suspiciously similar to where the Ewoks are from) and then try to make up a song about how it’s Andor with an A, not Endor with an E to the tune of “Liza with a Z” … or am I

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Human Rights Campaign @hrc.org · 01/06/2025

*Eagle screech* 🦅🏳️‍🌈

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Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

I would buy this if it had just a few more of the lyrics from Up On Cripple Creek (because if the name is really changed it fucks up the scansion of one of my favorite songs)

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Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Cheese is a privilege, not a right, I just told my dog But on second thought is this actually true? Where is the case law

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Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

I’ll be on WWOZ for kitchen sink tonight, ten to midnight central, if appointment listening is your sort of thing. I think it’ll be my favs from second weekend of the fest and maybe some extra piano because it’s WWOZ’s Piano Night, but I can’t make any promises

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Caryn Rose @carynrose.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

They couldn’t even give David Jo his flowers after he was dead

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Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Obviously Carol Kaye should have been inducted into the Rock Hall as soon as the sidemen category was invented, and the sidemen category should have been invented a lot sooner. Still, some points:

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Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Welcome to the Rock Hall, Cyndi Lauper! Once I got caught in the scrum of folks leaving her show at House of Blues NOLA next to ALLEN TOUSSAINT so I awkwardly asked if he enjoyed the show and he told me she was “always so enjoyable and just a wonderful evening”

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Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

At 48, I’ve unlocked a new level of aging: needing my readers to pluck the random hairs out of my face

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