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Marla Lepore @marlaink.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My shoutout goes to my roommate at Tulane, who played whatever she wanted on WTUL, and also to KSCL at Centenary College in Shreveport, which got me hooked in high school. Wayyyy left of the dial!

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Marla Lepore @marlaink.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For College Radio Day, a look back at the best era, the 1980s, featuring stoned DJs struggling to get through PSAs and playing whatever they felt like playing. “The only place left where people play records because they like them, not because they’ve already been proven in some other market."

rollingstone.com

College Radio's Brave New Wave

How college radio is reshaping the musical landscape, playing artists like R.E.M.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 02/10/2026

📻 To celebrate College Radio Day, tune in to more than a century of college radio history. In 1906, Harvard students formed what was described as the first college radio club. By the 1920s, students were building stations and broadcasting campus events. 📚 More: blog.archive.org/2026/10/02/1... 🧵

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Marla Lepore @marlaink.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Linda Cardellini said something similar about her character in DTF St Louis.

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Marla Lepore @marlaink.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

What kind of internet exists, once you remove trolling and shit-posting? What is the online public sphere without the permanent threat of misunderstanding? “The result is a version of slop, but of a sort that is paradoxically (for want of a better word) ‘mindful’ in its ambitions.”

willd10.substack.com

What is LinkedIn?

The rise of mindful slop

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Marla Lepore @marlaink.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'm so mad that I now know about this that I have to make others join in the misery. Btw it does not appear that opinions are divided AT ALL. Also, Hyrox is not the same as Hydrox, which is what I thought it said at first. Anyway, please erase this from my brain.

people.com

Hyrox World Champion, 22, Divides Opinion After Soiling Herself in Relentless Pursuit of Victory, Says ‘A Win Is A Win’

Joanna Wietrzyk soiled herself while competing in a Hyrox competition in Beijing, China, on Saturday, Sept. 12, according to multiple reports. Wietrzyk went on to win the race, with event organizers a...

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Marla Lepore @marlaink.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Also infuriating—the fact that no one has ever bothered to figure out what actually causes hot flashes. “Sorry, ladies, that must be inconvenient. Maybe try an antidepressant.”

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Marla Lepore @marlaink.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Come on, shake a leg! Happy birthday, Rita Dove!

Dawn Revisited

By Rita Dove
Imagine you wake up
with a second chance: The blue jay
hawks his pretty wares
and the oak still stands, spreading
glorious shade. If you don't look back,

the future never happens.
How good to rise in sunlight,
in the prodigal smell of biscuits -
eggs and sausage on the grill.
The whole sky is yours

to write on, blown open
to a blank page. Come on,
shake a leg! You'll never know
who's down there, frying those eggs,
if you don't get up and see.

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Marla Lepore @marlaink.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

“Ant wore glasses: thick-lensed, National Health whoppers. The first night Pirroni saw him without them on, wearing that white nose stripe and dressed in the 19th-century, gold-braided Hussar jacket ... his appeal was obvious. ‘It was like Clark Kent becoming Superman.’”

theguardian.com

‘We met Princess Margaret and she was paralytic!’ My wild life onboard the Adam and the Ants Antmania rollercoaster

With their twangy sound, madcap outfits, lusty yodelling and pirouetting pirate frontman, the band became global superstars almost overnight. But, as their guitarist Marco Pirroni recalls, the thrill ...

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Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry (1946-2026)

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Marla Lepore @marlaink.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

In the meantime, the airport is lit up in her memory

Photo from FlyNashville showing the BNA airport garages lit up pink in tribute to Dolly

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 25/08/2026

it should have been illegal for dolly parton to die

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Marla Lepore @marlaink.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Laugh along with the Spreadsheet People, even though they're laughing at you

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Marla Lepore @marlaink.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Thinking about it just makes me mad all over again

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Marla Lepore @marlaink.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Idk - Clinton left office with a historically high approval rating though. I think Gore should have done less to distance himself from the president. Clinton's behavior was reprehensible, but the general public liked the way he ran the country.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 17/08/2026

“Writing builds our working memory, executive planning skills and metacognition — the ability to think about our thinking, weigh alternate viewpoints and revise for clarity and style. It takes decades to develop writing skills, from toddlerhood into adulthood.”

nytimes.com

What Do Students Lose When They Stop Writing?

Educators are worried that many students can no longer write essays without A.I. And it’s costing more than just grammar skills.

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Marla Lepore @marlaink.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Had to laugh at "Hollywood [is] a members-only community that gathers in reliable spaces, whether the studio lots, the Hotel Bel-Air, Riviera golf course or restaurants like Craig’s." She picked a Hollywood restaurant that actually has an outpost here. Also fyi outsiders: TN is red, Nashville isn't.

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Marla Lepore @marlaink.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Ready to move on from The Odyssey? Read Glorious Exploits! Set during the Peloponnesian War, written in a modern-day Irish voice, it earns the googly eyes on the cover but is also studded with gorgeous descriptive prose. A funny, heartbreaking testament to the power of art and humanity in wartime.

“Glorious Exploits,” a novel by Ferdia Lennon

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Marla Lepore @marlaink.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I will never forget seeing the Cramps perform live -- everything you'd hoped it would be and more. Henry Rollins has been hinting he's been working on something big since he moved to Nashville. Not sure if this is it and/or if there's more to come, but this is super cool.

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Marla Lepore @marlaink.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

"Garage revivalists have 'projected a certain idealism onto the original bands', but ? and the Mysterians came as close as anyone to that ideal: young and unpolished, the DIY product of a hyper-local music community, yet full of wide-eyed pop ambition."

bbc.com

'A hypnotic effect that fills you with joy': The incredible story of 96 Tears, the US's unlikeliest one-hit wonder

In 1966, a Mexican-American teen band made one of the great smash-hit singles and helped invent garage rock, a genre that has inspired artists for decades.

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Anthony Breznican @brezwrites.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Spaceballs: The Clickbait I spent Comic-Con with the gang from Spaceballs: The New One, shadowing them as they orchestrated the return of Rick Moranis after 30 years. Then ... they lost him. Here's what happened behind-the-scenes at Hall H. 🚀

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BeatGhoul @beatgrrrl.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Norman Lewis was the sole Black member of the New York School of Abstract Expressionism. He was active alongside William de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko.

hyperallergic.com

Filling Out the Story: On the Art of Norman Lewis

Norman Lewis (1909-1979), in the last two decades of his life, fused black struggle with abstract painting.

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Marla Lepore @marlaink.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

nothing to say about a 40-degree day

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Marla Lepore @marlaink.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I remember being so excited to see Iggy Pop perform about 20 years ago, thinking that might be the last chance to catch him. (He was great and terrically shirtless)

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Marla Lepore @marlaink.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

And this is true in any city in the world that's a popular tourist destination

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Marla Lepore @marlaink.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

What "right things" do secret Nazis vote for?

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Marla Lepore @marlaink.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

It is funnier than The Bear, at least

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Bluesky: the home of vindicated but still often annoying opinions

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Ron Charles @roncharles.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Everyone's writing about Dua Lipa's new library of banned books. I just went. Here's what it's like inside. roncharles.substack.com/p/inside-dua...

roncharles.substack.com

Inside Dua Lipa’s Library of Banned Books

A firsthand look at the new collection beneath one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world.

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Marla Lepore @marlaink.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Nothing has worked for her as well as this lol- if she goes outside, though, she's definitely going to smell them

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Marla Lepore @marlaink.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Ears packed with medicine due to a double ear infection = the first relaxing Fourth of July of Lucy's entire life.

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Marla Lepore @marlaink.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

From the great Ann Magnuson, one of many quotes that feels like it could be prefaced w/ Stefon saying Danceteria is New York's hottest club: "Our Manson musical was called Family! Joey Arias was Manson, I was Squeaky Fromme, and Marc Shaiman played the piano. We had dancers and lots of fake blood."

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