Jacob Garchik @jacobgarchik.bsky.social · 13/10/2026They charged her $450, but they gave her most of a working $450 camera, and then they were left with most of her camera, which was a broken camera. That doesn't seem like a good scam! 000
Jacob Garchik @jacobgarchik.bsky.social · 13/10/2026They are both 60s/70s models with light meters, with only cosmetic differences in the design...if the woman's camera was especially valuable for some reason, why they give her a different camera but with the top plate from the first one? 100
Jacob Garchik @jacobgarchik.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Mystified by this story. A woman brought her vintage Rolleiflex into a camera shop for repair and they replaced it with...a different, working vintage Rolleiflex? Why would they do that? Story claims it's "cheaper" - why would it be cheaper? www.reddit.com/r/AnalogComm... 100
Reposted by Jacob GarchikAward-Winning Reporter Dave Colon @davecolon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I should be allowed to drive a pickup truck into the guy who hit these kids crossing with the signal and then claimed to have the light nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/10/09/o...nyc.streetsblog.orgCycle Of Rage: One Crash Shows How Reckless Car Drivers Ruin Kids' Childhoods - Streetsblog New York CityWe want our kids off their phones and reading books in the library. Too bad drivers don't give a shit. A rant from Streetsblog Editor Gersh Kuntzman. 217227
Jacob Garchik @jacobgarchik.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Tarrifs on Chinese tubas, while the trump-loving owner of Conn Selmer shut down the only US plant making tubas to move it to China. jacobgarchik.substack.com/p/rip-americ... 084
Reposted by Jacob GarchikMad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026It's so sad that we can easily see what's really going on here 5379
Jacob Garchik @jacobgarchik.bsky.social · 09/10/2026A did a teaching post in the form of a rant about other people's teaching posts. jacobgarchik.substack.com/p/double-ton... 021
Reposted by Jacob GarchikEthan Iverson @ethaniversonpiano.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Ethan Iverson Sextet at the Village Vanguard Tuesday though Sunday, November 3-8 Sam Newsome, Jacob Garchik Peter Washington, Kush Abadey trumpet: Skylar Tang, Tues-Fri Jason Palmer, Sat-Sun 021
Reposted by Jacob GarchikEthan Iverson @ethaniversonpiano.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Ethan Iverson plays the Beatles (AKA Pepperland) concert presentation of score for Mark Morris Dance Group Clinton Curtis, Rob Schwimmer, Sam Newsome Jacob Garchik, Chris McCarthy, Vinnie Sperrazza Joe’s Pub, NYC, Tues Oct. 27 132
Jacob Garchik @jacobgarchik.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This building at bedford and linden is only a few years old and already has scaffolding. 000
Jacob Garchik @jacobgarchik.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Very good bakeries in rich neighborhoods that run out of everything good at 11am are obnoxious. 010
Reposted by Jacob Garchik(Screams From The) Burning Ambulance @burningambulance.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I think I'm going to have to unsubscribe from the newsletter that pissed this into my eyes this morning. 7353
Jacob Garchik @jacobgarchik.bsky.social · 09/10/2026slop everywhere www.youtube.com/shorts/QsMzE... 140
Jacob Garchik @jacobgarchik.bsky.social · 08/10/2026According to Sec. Duffy, bike lanes are DEI. But according to my neighborhood facebook groups, the only people who want bike lanes are "transplants". (they also think bus lanes are due to transplants. Who do they think takes the bus?) 010
Jacob Garchik @jacobgarchik.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Maoist Communist Union has been flyering around Flatbush. 000
Jacob Garchik @jacobgarchik.bsky.social · 07/10/2026What is participation like for these teachers surveys? 100
Jacob Garchik @jacobgarchik.bsky.social · 06/10/2026One of the chief uses of AI is making text summaries of things in youtube videos that should have been text to begin with. 020
Reposted by Jacob GarchikNolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"N.Y.C. Leaders Want Integrated Schools. Advocates Want a Plan." -- www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/n...nytimes.comN.Y.C. Leaders Want Integrated Schools. Advocates Want a Plan.For a city as diverse as New York, the school system is one of the most segregated in the United States. 001
Jacob Garchik @jacobgarchik.bsky.social · 02/10/2026In Flatbush, yes. Church between Rogers and Nostrand. 120
Jacob Garchik @jacobgarchik.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I went in here and they had a bunch of bottom of the line bluetooth speakers and plastic all in one stereos that said "Radioshack" on them. 120
Jacob Garchik @jacobgarchik.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is basically what seeing a performing artist is - yeah a robot can or soon will be able to do it better, but we still like to hear somebody scratch away at Vivaldi or whatever, in person. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/o... 000
Jacob Garchik @jacobgarchik.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Just a couple days ago libertarians were berating Nikole Hannah-Jones for not sending her kid to private school. 110
Jacob Garchik @jacobgarchik.bsky.social · 21/09/2026ok, 6:30am-10am, not bad. www.nycgovparks.org/facilities/r... 000
Jacob Garchik @jacobgarchik.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Do you think maybe we can't all make sweeping generalizations based on Nikole Hannah-Jones's article and her daughter's experience? 010
Reposted by Jacob GarchikStefan Segi @stefansegi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Jedna chuťovka pro @siderorea.bsky.social. Mary Halvorson opět zasahuje, tentokrát jako space-rockerka. jacobgarchik.bandcamp.com/album/ye-old...jacobgarchik.bandcamp.comYe Olde 2: At the End of Time, by Jacob Garchik9 track album 111
Jacob Garchik @jacobgarchik.bsky.social · 13/09/2026youtu.be/QuQbus0xfhk?...youtu.beLeonard Nimoy The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins Full Album VersionYouTube video by Legends and Champions Podcast 000
Jacob Garchik @jacobgarchik.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Fugly + expensive house at Cortelyou and E17th, 8470 sq ft lot, used to be zoned R6 until Bloomberg downzoning in 2009 rezoned to R3x, now only this can be there. Somebody flipped it with a millenial grey special. Right next to Q train. www.zillow.com/homedetails/... 000
Reposted by Jacob GarchikNatalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Here are a series of essays I wrote about Dolly tied to albums at the beginning, middle and end of her vast, prolific career, if you're looking for a little themed reading. www.dontrocktheinbox.com/on-dolly-par...dontrocktheinbox.comOn Dolly Parton, Brilliant In Every EraToday marks an unfathomable loss: Dolly Parton has died. Brilliant artist, devoted philanthropist, remarkable human; to list her achievements here feels redundant, as the cult of Dolly has long since ... 31411400
Jacob Garchik @jacobgarchik.bsky.social · 25/08/2026"With his oblique humor and whimsical end-time fantasies, the man has enough fuel to chase the unconventionally cast ensemble with three guitarists heartily, cheekily and infinitely excitedly through his “galactic” compositions." 120
Jacob Garchik @jacobgarchik.bsky.social · 25/08/2026"And no question, the most original supplier was not unexpectedly the unspeakably imaginative US trombonist Jakob Garchik, who again delighted with a new edition of his “apocalyptic ensemble music” with his infamous, extremely complex quintet Ye Olde. " 120
Jacob Garchik @jacobgarchik.bsky.social · 25/08/2026i could probably get through the theme to "Blossom". 000
Jacob Garchik @jacobgarchik.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Well, the white hippies could get with it. And there were a lot of them, and record execs who saw the $ signs. Same sad tale of American music. On another note, did you see this? robertsietsema.substack.com/p/dr-john-di... 120
Jacob Garchik @jacobgarchik.bsky.social · 25/08/2026yes, well put. Yeah the part about his persona being sort of invented on the spot as an afterthought, and then he stuck with it all those years, is revelatory to me, that's wild. 120
Jacob Garchik @jacobgarchik.bsky.social · 25/08/2026He was certainly generous with giving thanks to those that came before him in stuff like this. Maybe he felt at this point in his career he had to be sure to give credit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Cmt... 110
Jacob Garchik @jacobgarchik.bsky.social · 25/08/2026This I would like to read about in the book. There are many degrees of appropriators, there's white guys who say "i invented this", then the ones who benefit but say "I didn't invent it and I owe it all to them" and then those who don't benefit at all and give kudos...He's somewhere in middle. 220
Jacob Garchik @jacobgarchik.bsky.social · 25/08/2026oh, agree 100%. I would only add that it's a rich conversation to be had, which should really be had with the creators in New Orleans...did they feel like he ripped them off? Was he good for their careers or a mixed bag? sideman gigs, gigs of their own, writing credits, producing credits (cont) 110
Jacob Garchik @jacobgarchik.bsky.social · 25/08/2026also, if you grew up in that environment, and were a talented young white piano player, are you supposed to *not* imitate Professor Longhair and James Booker? 110
Jacob Garchik @jacobgarchik.bsky.social · 25/08/2026as to the appropriation conversation, I want to read the book, but my sense is Dr John gave credit where it was due, and brought awareness of Longhair and others to mainstream America. That's gotta be worth something, no? 120
Jacob Garchik @jacobgarchik.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Don Alias claimed he learned the beat from Gene Perla. I emailed Perla but got no response so far...but yeah, it seems like, the Meters and Dr John were hip and new, so Miles was willing to riff on that in the studio. I think the Meters tune was a 1968 jukebox single too. 101
Jacob Garchik @jacobgarchik.bsky.social · 25/08/2026the legend of the tune is this: They already played a faster, non NOLA version of the tune before the went into the studio, with Jack on drums, and Don Alias was hired to play percussion, but he suggested the beat and played it on drums. They (harvey brooks I think?) worked out a NOLA bassline 100
Jacob Garchik @jacobgarchik.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I love Gris Gris but my favorite is Desitively Bonnaroo. 110
Jacob Garchik @jacobgarchik.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Such a great article! relatedly - working on writing about Don Alias's NOLA beat on "Miles Runs the Voodoo Down" which bears some resemblence to "Gris-Gris Gumbo Ya Ya" as well as Working on a Coal Mine and Sophisticated Sissy. Possible he or Gene Perla were inspired by those? 210
Jacob Garchik @jacobgarchik.bsky.social · 24/08/2026brownstone brooklyn: tearing down bqe would flood our streets with trucks. This is gonna require a generational investment. Flatbush: where were you for the past 60 years. 070
Reposted by Jacob GarchikTed Reichman @tedreichman.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I'll post more about this tomorrow but yes, I'm very honored that my review of David Toop's excellent analysis of Dr. John's "Gris-Gris" album was posted today at the New York Review of Books. 2295
