iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Mary McCray @mary-mccray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Unexpected pleasure of this project: writing out other people's names and thinking about where they live and what they might be doing where they are right now. Get your own postcards at Signs for Justice in Portland.

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Mary McCray @mary-mccray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Halloween month continues with the Cher head. #2: Cher as sunflower. This Halloween outfit was formerly Bianca's, purchased from PetCo. Rest in peace Bianca Jean.

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Mary McCray @mary-mccray.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My hand was shaky today for some reason. But I got 17/50 done! Meanwhile, my assistant...

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 01/10/2026

Can't work, have a cat on me, could be here all day

Spice the cat, laying on my legs whilst I am in bed, looking out the window

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026

seen on my porch this morning

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"We are upgradinge the OS, so nowe your software and printer will no longir worke" ys just anothir greate feature of livinge yn thys shininge momente for tech

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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Mary McCray @mary-mccray.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Simon Frith on gender and musical tastes.

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Mary McCray @mary-mccray.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Speaking of Turnstiles, Billy Joel was my 2nd concert. I could only go if I took my parents. Ugh. They wanted to get there early so they could park by the exit. Ugh. But they liked it and my pianist mother was very impressed by Billy Joel playing the Prelude laying on his piano. youtu.be/WdyxH3UzKr0

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Billy Joel - Prelude / Angry Young Man (Official Audio)

YouTube video by billyjoelVEVO

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Mary McCray @mary-mccray.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I am mesmerized by this visualizer (more than the demo actually). It gives us an outtake of the record album cover that fans have stared at for hours and memorized and bought it to life, energizing all the archetype characters. The train even comes and goes! www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMwI...

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Billy Joel - James (Band Demo, June 12, 1975)

YouTube video by billyjoelVEVO

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Mary McCray @mary-mccray.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the sound of grief, 4 days old and just in time youtu.be/SJlLd3XY6_U

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M83 - 'Opera' (Official Audio)

YouTube video by M83

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Mary McCray @mary-mccray.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In the Internet poems I did there was always a hidden set--the Grammar set a hidden poem called Synecdoche about how 1 woman can feel the pain of all women or visa versa (something women are feeling bigly now). As the argument goes in this song, ergo it's opposite is also true. youtu.be/LG58Z9QAVL0

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CHER SHE'S NO BETTER THAN ME 1966

YouTube video by ildiscollezionista

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Mary McCray @mary-mccray.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Joy Harjo surprised us with her band, Poetic Justice, last night. They played this, which she called "Stomp." I had only seen her play sax once before, at a theatrical show she did at the Autrey Center in LA. "Take care of the music and this music will take care of us." youtu.be/UJlH7Gzwy50?...

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Joy Harjo - Stomp All Night

YouTube video by Soulspazm

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Mary McCray @mary-mccray.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Last night's reading at the Kimo Theater. She's the artist in residence now at the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa and The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music has just commissioned a children's book poem from her about American music which she read to us last night.

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Mary McCray @mary-mccray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My arguments often are not about me. I personally don't love technology & look forward to an analog old age. At the same time I will defend those who attempt to bend tech to their artistic will, especially artists with a cultural critique to make. Much of my thinking around this is from this essay:

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

ANUBIS: "And nowe the weighinge of your hearte, to see the worthe of your lyfe, the sum of your deedes. Reache ynto your chest, seize it, and putte it on the scale. You may not believe you kan do thys, but you kan. Heere all rules bende and change." Me [figuringe out wher to putte my iced coffee]

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Mary McCray @mary-mccray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In a recent comment on this video "Ted Lasso brought me here." Another song from this week's episode of a show that brings us all here in one way or another. youtu.be/UkDbB2rMouM?...

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Royel Otis - Til The Morning (Visualiser)

YouTube video by Royel Otis

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Mary McCray @mary-mccray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Another good Bob Dylan song by The New Basement Tapes as seen on the new episode of Ted Lasso. youtu.be/BDUDx15KdkI?...

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The New Basement Tapes - When I Get My Hands On You - Lyrics by Bob Dylan & Vocals by Marcus Mumford

YouTube video by TNBTVEVO

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Mary McCray @mary-mccray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Great new song but interesting b/c when in ABQ Legend said we need less tech in music (& autotune) but this video highlights the MPC3000, a "legendary sampler & sequencer...widely celebrated in hip-hop/R&B 4 giving beats a...warm, and human-like rhythmic groove..." So...?? youtu.be/fEw6VZq9xg8?...

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John Legend, Pharrell Williams - Fireflies

YouTube video by johnlegendVEVO

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A.I. and corporate lingo are dragging language ynto drugged realmes of vague, airy, plastic nothingnesse: glitz and hyperbole wythout meaning. Language must have fur and clawes, make the floorboardes creake and leave wet dirtye footprintes. Wordes are rayne and fyre and stone. Wielde them. Save us.

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Mary McCray @mary-mccray.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"No one listens to heavy metal because it makes them feel hopeless...metal is attractive precisely because it offers a way of overcoming those feelings of loneliness and helplessness." - Robert Walser in "Running with the Devil, Power, Gender and Madness in Heavy Metal Music"

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Mary McCray @mary-mccray.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

...and Yazoo reminds us, of course, of Erasure. I had this extended single of this lovely thing: youtu.be/x34icYC8zA0

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Erasure - A Little Respect (Official HD Music Video)

YouTube video by Erasure

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Mary McCray @mary-mccray.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

...which reminds me of my favorite Alison Moyet, which is from her band Yazoo (or Yaz as we knew them in America): youtu.be/dt9gn7R683k What a voice!

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Yazoo - Only You • TopPop

YouTube video by TopPop

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Mary McCray @mary-mccray.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

New John Legend "The poetry is here somewhere between the lines" youtu.be/s_OJXrhazY0

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John Legend - Daylight (Audio)

YouTube video by johnlegendVEVO

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Mary McCray @mary-mccray.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

From Robert Walser's "Running With The Devil, Power, Gender and Madness in Heavy Metal Music"

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Mary McCray @mary-mccray.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

At the theater for Acme Vs. Coyote (which was a delight) and the preview for Taika Waititi's new film came up with an atmospheric remix of "I Got You Babe." youtu.be/wixzainceAE?...

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KLARA AND THE SUN – Official Trailer (4K)

YouTube video by Sony Pictures Entertainment

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Mary McCray @mary-mccray.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This song never fails to give me chills, 56 years later. It was released only nine months after I was but recorded 6 months before I was, give or take how you define the word 'record.' youtu.be/CGj85pVzRJs

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The Beatles - The Beatles - Let It Be (Official Music Video) [Remastered 2015]

YouTube video by TheBeatlesVEVO

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Thus, needlesse to saye Ich am oddes and endes Yet Ich wil be Trudginge awaye Slowlye learninge that lyfe ys okaye Saye aftir me: "It nys no bettir to be safe than sorrye." Take oooooon me Take me oooooon Ich wil weeeeeeende forth Yn a daye or twoooooooooooooo. #TakeOnMe

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Mary McCray @mary-mccray.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"To argue that the critical scrutiny of the details of rock music is inappropriate because people don't hear that way is like arguing that we can't analyze the syntax of language because people don't know that they're using gerunds and participles." - Robert Walser