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Bruce Adams

@bruceadams.bsky.social
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bruce-adams.com Author "You're With Stupid: kranky, Chicago, and the Reinvention of Indie Music" / higher ed comms / formerly w/kranky, touch & go records / Michigan Wolverines / Syracuse Orange / New York Football Giants / orange tabby cats

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Bruce Adams @bruceadams.bsky.social · 21h
I did it. I finally went out and did it. bruceadams838221.substack.com/p/if-you-wan...
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If you want a say, you better go out and grow it.
Announcing an irregular newsletter
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Bruce Adams @bruceadams.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Two boys
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Bruce Adams @bruceadams.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So would anyone out there be interested if I started a newsletter? Updates on the Low book, music coverage plus the occasional tidbit on college sports, grooming, etc..
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Bruce Adams @bruceadams.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Horse Lords 9.27.26, Gallery Art Bar, Urbana IL. My expectations were high and they were exceeded.
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Bruce Adams @bruceadams.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Every time I think I should give up on college football for all the reasons I look at NFL uniforms and ask myself why bother?
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Bruce Adams @bruceadams.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Always a good time to admit that. Looking at end of year lists is a great time to admit that..
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Bruce Adams @bruceadams.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“Thank you sir, may I have another?”
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Bruce Adams @bruceadams.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Basic and Salaryman 9.25 Crystal Lake Park, Urbana IL
Basic performance alongside a small lake park.Salaryman performing in Urbana.
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Bruce Adams @bruceadams.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
There’s no good reason for good reporters to sit around the White House waiting for someone to tell them what the story will be. The people who are there value proximity to power more than they do supplying their readers with insight into the workings of government.
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Bruce Adams @bruceadams.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I never had the pleasure of his company in person on the phone. I mailed him stuff and he wrote about stuff and for that I’m grateful.
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Bruce Adams @bruceadams.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Liquid filled vinyl, oh I know it’s serious.
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dale @clangorofdale.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Colin Newman is 72 today. Here he his 47 years ago.
youtu.be
map ref 43 degrees N 110 degrees W WIRE 16/18
YouTube video by Benjamin Renard
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Bruce Adams @bruceadams.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Triad of Desire
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Bruce Adams @bruceadams.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Perfect in every way. Thanks @bgutzeit.bsky.social
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Bruce Adams @bruceadams.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
East Coast elites don’t care about college football!
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Bruce Adams @bruceadams.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I’ll be there!
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Bruce Adams @bruceadams.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Raging Fire came through Ann Arbor, MI several times. I had a co-worker at Schoolkids Records who was nuts about them.
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Bruce Adams @bruceadams.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Tolono? The Loose Cobra!
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Bruce Adams @bruceadams.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
London friends, who can go to this show and buy me a Duet Emmo hoodie?
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Bruce Adams @bruceadams.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Again and again I bring vinaigrette dressing to work with my salad. Again and again I have spots and splotches on my clothes. What is my problem?
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Bruce Adams @bruceadams.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Last night I dreamt that I was commissioned to write a multi volume biography of Wire entitled “An Evening of Fun in the Metropolis of Your Dreams.” But I had forgotten to write the book on 154 - my favorite album of all time.
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Bruce Adams @bruceadams.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Halas went to Illinois, which is where the Bears’ orange and blue came from.
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Bruce Adams @bruceadams.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The five Simpsons lines I’ve uttered most: 5) I don’t know what I’m doing 4) Since the beginning of time, Man has yearned to block out the sun 3) Donuts, and with greater productivity, the promise of more donuts 2) Dorkus Amorkus 1) Patience Milty, climb the ladder
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Bruce Adams @bruceadams.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
As if AI “costs nothing .”
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Bruce Adams @bruceadams.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
What’s ‘is name? Sammy A! What’s ‘is name? Sammy A! Sammy, Sammy, Sammy A! Sammy, Sammy, Sammy A (That one’s for @edzitron.com )
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Bruce Adams @bruceadams.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Just going through my 7 inches
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Bruce Adams @bruceadams.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Never surrender never give in never let hallucinations win.
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Bruce Adams @bruceadams.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I am about to query ChatGPT. My head really hurts.
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Bruce Adams @bruceadams.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
In the real singularity, you’d be the first to go!
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Bruce Adams @bruceadams.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Driving around San Francisco in a van spray painted “Open AI suffered for their technology, now it’s your turn.”
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Bruce Adams @bruceadams.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Prefolding
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Bruce Adams @bruceadams.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I’m pretty sure Sun Tzu wrote about this strategy
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Bruce Adams @bruceadams.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Up your strasse @pkmonaghan.bsky.social ?
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Bruce Adams @bruceadams.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I think this is going to be pretty interesting. theuntemperedcosmos.com
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The Untempered Cosmos
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Bruce Adams @bruceadams.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
As per instructions to rock: youtu.be/_hNgltshWA8?...
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Model Worker (Remastered 2007)
YouTube video by Magazine - Topic
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Bruce Adams @bruceadams.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Same here. The movie can never capture the experience of watching the players come on stage and the music develop. You can’t replicate the initial shock of seeing Adrian Belew play guitar on film.
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Bruce Adams @bruceadams.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
S-s-s-say fellas, why don’t you tie me to the mast here so I can listen to what those gals are singing but I won’t be able to get off the ship.
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Bruce Adams @bruceadams.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The hipster intern!
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Bruce Adams @bruceadams.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Not outlandish at all.
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Bruce Adams @bruceadams.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Comrade Stalin! A mistake has been made!
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Bruce Adams @bruceadams.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Pathetic enabler
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Bruce Adams @bruceadams.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Imagine there’s no heaven.
Recipe card with ingredients and directions for Lime Horseradish Jello.
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Bruce Adams @bruceadams.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Dane County Sheriff: this is your chance to
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Bruce Adams @bruceadams.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Oh, so that’s what you kids are calling it now.
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Bruce Adams @bruceadams.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Will it order it’s cartridges? And if so, can it hack into Amazon and get cartridges for free when needed?
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Bruce Adams @bruceadams.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
@countbinface.bsky.social sees what They Don’t Want You to See.
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Bruce Adams @bruceadams.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Ask Me About Lorelei
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Bruce Adams @bruceadams.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
And these are the houses that are turned into rental units sub-divided into tiny apartments with students stuffed in them. The NIMBYs feed the process and object to new buildings that would mitigate the problem (at least a little bit.)
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Bruce Adams @bruceadams.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I think some of it has to do with older and retired academics owning these big old houses that are slowly decaying because they can’t keep them up.  Younger homebuyers can’t and won’t buy four or five bedroom houses.
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Bruce Adams @bruceadams.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Retired academics here describe renters ( younger academics, much less students) as “transients.”
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