bonanos @bonanos.bsky.social · 03/10/2026all right all right Wordle 1,932 4/6 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 100
Reposted by bonanosCoach Jerry (referee 🔵) @gopher33j.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I have my great great great grandfathers diary in my possession - he drew this in 1845. There were no photos so he drew what he saw. I am sharing Henry T Whinfield’s art for the first time ever to the world. This is a world debut. 14525109
bonanos @bonanos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026You can hear the voice in Schmitt's head telling him to "go on offense" at 3:15. So confident in his self-own. 001
bonanos @bonanos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Far as modern country and youth baseball, it turns out one kid on the team selected an AI-generated “outlaw country” song as his walk-up jam. And boy is it not good. Link upon request only. 000
bonanos @bonanos.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The Langley song is popular where I live, so I've heard it around -- Target, youth baseball and such. It makes me think of the way "Seven Year Ache" echoes Fleetwood Mac. Also, it's a good day to revisit Robbie Fulks' essay on Shania Twain. I've come back to it often. talkhouse.com/the-spectacl... 120
Reposted by bonanosthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Jackie Jackson died two days ago. His death did not get the fanfare that the big celebrities get but I assure you he was no less than any of them: a titan astride the earth. In this thread, a few of the songs he played bass on. You know these songs. You know their bass parts. youtu.be/DKVB_CtU8XQyoutu.bePressure DropYouTube video by Toots & The Maytals - Topic 211061361
bonanos @bonanos.bsky.social · 25/09/2026My interview for my current job, in 2014, was nine and a half hours long. I brought a thermos. 010
bonanos @bonanos.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Tonight is giving us our first break from the late summer heat down this way. I stepped outside for a moment, and look who was hanging out on the backyard power line. Hoot. 120
bonanos @bonanos.bsky.social · 24/09/2026My Instagram feed showed me the president of Nauru announcing that the name of the country is now Naoero. I guess Instagram gets me, for better and for worse. 100
Reposted by bonanosDominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 23/09/2026Re-shared this great 2020 piece by Ismail Muhammad on "Alabama" the other day, if ya haven't read www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/06...theparisreview.orgOn John Coltrane’s “Alabama” by Ismail MuhammadJune 17, 2020 – The sonic landscape that John Coltrane conjures on “Alabama” suggests something about the temporality in which black grief lives. 0156
Reposted by bonanosSam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Today is Coltrane's centennial. So I'm re-upping this piece I wrote on his first biographer in 2014. Piece won an ASCAP Deems Taylor-Virgil Thomson Prize. One of my favorite projects. www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/06...theparisreview.orgAn Absolute Truth: On Writing a Life of Coltrane by Sam StephensonJune 3, 2014 – A few years ago I found a used, first-edition hardcover of Dr. Cuthbert Ormond Simpkins’s 1975 book, Coltrane: A Biography, online for $150. I had long 2207
bonanos @bonanos.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Here's a nice transcription of the opening section of Coltrane's "Psalm" (part IV of 'A Love Supreme'), with the words he was reciting through his horn. 173
bonanos @bonanos.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Its extreme Frippiness threatens to make Hall a role player on his own first solo album, but once the odd juxtapositions’ shock value wears off, you’ve still got a singer and a sound that work together. Side One arrives in stages; the flip starts even better. B1 here: youtu.be/kH18-9vAvuQ?... 000
bonanos @bonanos.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Getting an early start on #CDFriday in my home office. It’s a wonderful set of covers, and it was my first exposure to Bobby Charles. (Hi Andy @vetiverse.bsky.social, if you’re out there.) 240
bonanos @bonanos.bsky.social · 16/09/2026imagining Ed Sheeran, blissfully asleep for a few hours, waking up to all this, like that woman with the bad tweet who flew to South Africa 150
bonanos @bonanos.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Digging J.J. Cale lately. Looking at the back cover of ‘Really,’ and these dates and sessions are sending me. Why was he cutting tracks at four studios in two states within a week’s time? 240
bonanos @bonanos.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Ahmet Ertegun thought the drums on “In the Air Tonight” came in too late, so he demanded a different mix for the single. “You’ve got to put the drums on earlier.”youtu.bePhil Collins - In The Air Tonight [Single Version] [Digital 45] [HQ]YouTube video by Single Versions, Edits, & Promos 111
bonanos @bonanos.bsky.social · 06/09/2026At a fIREHOSE gig around 1991 I saw a stage diver kick a mic stand into Ed’s face. Ed handed the guy a chip from his tooth and said, “Here’s a souvenir of you being an asshole.” 140
bonanos @bonanos.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Hi, I’m Paul, a writer, editor and family man. I play music every day. I love Dusty Springfield’s delivery of “please don’t eat and run” in “Breakfast in Bed.” The tiniest pause in just the right spot, and then you know. Would you like to introduce yourself with a small song moment you like? 020
Reposted by bonanosAlex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Here's the official announcement of Parton's passing from her reps, along with the request that in lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com 69135058680
bonanos @bonanos.bsky.social · 25/08/2026the four tom hits with all that gated reverb, whenever the song needs punctuation; the two (or more?) basses, one of which is apparently Simon on a six-string; the low b-vox flown in at the end; the reversed bass break of course; and so much more. hats off to (roy) halee and happy 40th ‘graceland’ 100
bonanos @bonanos.bsky.social · 16/08/2026shout-out to Ryan Vilade of the Tampa Bay Rays, whose walk-up song is “Unwritten” by Natasha Bedingfield 200
bonanos @bonanos.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I like the way the ring wear matches up with the cover art. 030
bonanos @bonanos.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I know people are sore about the weird run that scored in the Red Sox/Jays game last night, but man do I love the fourth out rule.mlb.comRed Sox score on fourth-out rule after review | 08/10/2026The Red Sox score a run after the \"fourth-out rule\" is invoked following an umpire review in the top of the 7th inning 1130
bonanos @bonanos.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Here’s my #CDFriday: Grace Jones comp, mostly extended mixes (12”, dub, “long version”) engineered/mixed/produced by the late Alex Sadkin, hanging between his other big ones, Marley ‘Survival’ and Talking Heads ‘Speaking in Tongues.’ What a pair of ears. 050
Reposted by bonanosAaron Meyers @aaronmeyers.bsky.social · 04/08/2026"Today is August 4, 2026" There Will Come Soft Rains By: Ray Bradbury 231546898
bonanos @bonanos.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Walter Johnson had the all-time record when I was a kid. Four more for Scherzer, and Johnson will be out of the top 10. 100
bonanos @bonanos.bsky.social · 01/08/2026One key bit here is that “communications staff now outnumber policy staff in certain House and Senate offices.” Reminds me of the bit about the GOP now being the legislative wing of Fox News. 020
bonanos @bonanos.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Anybody want any of Tom Verlaine’s records? They’re going fast www.discogs.com/seller/acade... 000
bonanos @bonanos.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I realize reticence vs. reluctance is a common error. But could you describe this person as "reticent"... ever? 000
bonanos @bonanos.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Harrison Bader The Florida Gator Was out drunk and running amok He went and got smashed Then, predictably, crashed Into a damn fire truck 020
Reposted by bonanosGeoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Incredible story: With the help of AI, U.S. officials created a map that mislabeled every country in Africa. www.reuters.com/world/africa...reuters.comUS government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conferenceA U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screen... 34728195
bonanos @bonanos.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Well this sucks. I hadn't followed his career much lately, but the Frames were an ace live band. I'm glad I took the advice of an Irish bartender to go down to GAMH and see them; little did I realize I'd find in that room every Irish bartender I'd ever seen in San Francisco. RIP Glen Hansard.irishexaminer.comOscar winning musician Glen Hansard dies after motorcycle crash in DublinThe Oscar-winning singer-songwriter and The Frames frontman died following a single-vehicle motorcycle crash in Dublin on Wednesday. 140
bonanos @bonanos.bsky.social · 29/07/2026The Wikipedia page for Jackie Treehorn’s house has embedded language referring to materials and aesthetics that “tie the rooms together” in a “natural, zesty” enviroment, bravoen.wikipedia.orgSheats–Goldstein Residence - Wikipedia 110
Reposted by bonanosCasey Drottar @caseydrottar.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Detroit Squirrel update: The Tigers' entire grounds crew went out on the field to try to get that thing out of there and all that's missing is the Benny Hill theme 631446308
