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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 4h

Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento en su silla de ruedas...

Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I'm going to be in conversation with Petra Rivera-Rideau next Tuesday, talking about everyone's favorite conejo fkn malo. join us if that's your jam! www.wbur.org/events/11089...

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Cognoscenti presents: The cultural phenomenon of Bad Bunny

Go beyond the music to explore how Bad Bunny became a global voice for Puerto Rico and a cultural phenomenon.

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

it's an odd, provocative translation, as is the imagery. picked it up as I continue to research and think about composing music for this classic "anti-war" play, which we'll be putting on in the spring: bostonexperimentaltheatre.com

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Towards a Theatre of Unknown & Dialogue of Civilizations

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I'm late to the game on Anne Carson, but somehow, serendipitously, I bought this book just a week ago

a comic book version of Euripides's The Trojan Women, drawn by Rosanna Bruno with text by Anne Carson

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

when did "I'll do..." become a common way to order food, and how can we go back in time and murder it as a baby?

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

imagine telling the pope "no one elected you"

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'd also like to know what bro is imagining (experiencing?), but I think Philip identifies and skewers all possible interpretations

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

enjoyed this necessary/unnecessary diatribe, personally speaking

a paragraph from Philip Sherburne's excellent takedown of AI tech bros wanting "infinite personalized music" and to "solve" music. the paragraph addresses the "personalized" part.

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We are so back* * notwithstanding that the Sox got swept out of the playoffs by the Yankees last night

the CITGO sign, now looking fully restored (but let's see it light up), with full red triangle and letters in blue

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

me? I'm choosin ta-exit this app

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"The factory that built them was thinking of a living room. The sonidero who buys them turns them into a public address system for the whole block, and then into a way of talking to a cousin in Chicago." www.mozillafoundation.org/en/nothing-p...

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Tepito: A Neighborhood Governs Itself

A dispatch from Mexico City's legendary barrio reveals how true innovation—from sound-system message networks to black-market tech adaptation—happens far beyond Silicon Valley. Filmmaker and technolog...

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

no Goffman? now that's just uncivil inattention.

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

guy next to me at the taqueria was ordering from the menu and said he didn't know how something was pronounced. I'm wondering what Spanish word he means, and the bartender is like "Narragansett" 🤣

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

my analysis extends a false offer of a handshake followed by a chin check

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

now I think I've found a hallucinated source. i'm done.

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If an essay repeatedly uses the phrase "Our analysis extends this argument..." it's a pretty clear tell, no? Trying to decide whether to stop doing this peer review right now or not. Don't make me read slop.

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

artichoke flowers, because they're beautiful. and you don't eat too many immature flowers -- so check em out as they mature. glorious flores.

a collection of artichokes and those that have gone to flower

close up of an artichoke flower on the plant, still very purple

interim stage artichoke flower, halfway between what we eat (immature) and full on thistle bloom

artichoke flower in a vase in the house, looking super blue/purple. so gorgeous.

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

the good Reverend Cherrycoke would give his blessing

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

what was the first kirkified solemn media spectacle? have they always been reflexively kirkified? i was recalling krista mcauliffe jokes just last month.

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

the first too-soon image that comes to mind every year around this time. incredible work by ... god knows.

an image I first saw (and snagged) two decades or so ago via the amazing Flickr set of cottoncandyhammer. two plastic planes carrying candles smashing into twin twinkie towers. on a plate with whipped cream? too soon? til when?

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

the Billy Preston ("5th Beatle") reference is 😘

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

the skyline looks so weird without the Citgo Sign. they can't bring it back (slightly moved) soon enough.

the Boston skyline, as seen from the Mass Ave bridge. The Citgo Sign is but a skeleton of its former self. Apparently it's being moved slightly? anyway, something of a gaping cultural/color hole at the moment.

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I thought immediately of the Robert Johnson song

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

the first product he can think of that we get from Mexico is "hot tamales." qué chiste.

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Macduff vs Macbeth was so epic

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M. Azevedo @azevedoaudio.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The thing about this that really sucks is in many places, 60 dBA is the municipal noise limit. I would bet they spent enough money to get to 59.5 dBA at the property line and not s penny more.

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

the first page of this album is all 87 Topps Cansecos, but I don't have a picture of it (and the crate is buried). unforgettable times/things.

a collection of 9 Bo Jackson baseball cards (well, two are football cards). I think all from 1987-88?

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

the delivery chop is the new police siren: a thing to slip into your beats to give listeners a little anxiety attack, as a treat

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I swear he chopped & dropped that delivery chirp into the first track, which is aptly titled Echoes

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I don't know why more people aren't talking about the Badu / Alchemist album that dropped today. listening now and it's solid as you'd expect.

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

this level of impassivity is impressive, disciplined even

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

a little treehouse of horror spotted at the farm today: a paper wasp nest engulfing an apple

a paper wasp nest in an apple tree. at the top of the nest an apple is halfway engulfed by the nest. it is backlit by the sun and the leaves are looking bright green against a light blue sky.

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

suddenly realizing that the clarinet-led sections in, say, "Peaches en Regalia" are very banda sinaloense. Zappa is Los Angeles through and through. has anyone talked about this?

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

agreed! a former student was in the group. I've got em on vinyl!

a spinning record, only kinda legible. it's Side A from the Boston Typewriter Orchestra.

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I keep getting pushed these audio "books" that are very clearly sloppy cash-ins. the tells are so obv: MOR phrasing, a level of generality that rarely mentions specific artists, songs, or examples, and an interminable set of variations on the same central, general points. brain rot history.

a screenshot of the AI "art" for an AI "audiobook" on reggaeton. imagine the cliches and they are there.

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