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UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 37m

New month, new books! Check out everything publishing this month 👇 uncpress.org/hot-off-the-...

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that was what really struck me too! the confidence to show mistakes.

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

happy day-after-birthday! aging is A THING

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I started to create my list of 9 but I stopped when I realized that I keep thinking of favorites as opposed to albums that shaped me (and I do think the latter is in some ways more interesting to share)

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Michael Jackson’s short film THRILLER

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

rereading The Fisherman, by @johnlangan.bsky.social, for a spooky season buddy read. I think it hits even harder as a reread. such a memorable novel.

cover of The Fisherman, by John Langan. the cover art is a nineteenth century landscape painting of a stormy sea with a small boat on the shore in the middle ground

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

see Jan Hammer is one of the reasons I don’t like Maha mk 1 as much. his playing sounds like wanking to me everyone in mk 1 was trying to outdo one another

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

but also, there is some great playing from McLaughlin and Ponty on that record!

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

part of what I like about it is how unusual it is, with the symphony orchestra, etc

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I need to listen to the Trident material, never have. you mean it’s insane that I like Apocalypse?

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

more shred-maxing current-day Carlos Santana's politics are wack, but the band made some great music back in the '70s

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Waves Within

YouTube video by Santana - Topic

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

wow the Criterion Channel came strong with the horror movies for October. might have to use vacation time to just watch a bunch of these

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

dude, the grumpiness.... lol I will say I actually like Apocalypse more than any of the original-lineup Mahavishnu albums. Even Gayle Moran's awful singing can't ruin Apocalypse.

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UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Are you writing a book about food justice and race? Learn more about our Black Food Justice series with series editor Ashanté Reese and @lucaschurch.bsky.social next week at this online lunch and learn👇 utexas.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

itching to be able to say “a thoroughly benighted individual” in an appropriate context

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

no. the point about folks overusing the “react” function and excessively replying in general is legit.

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

ok, well I have not done the dual response of both “reacting” *and* replying, at least. but still, I’m suffering emotional damage at the realization that I am in fact the asshole

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

in some cases I want to confirm receipt of the sender’s email. would it be better to just write back “got it, thanks!”? (sincerely wondering)

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

you mean the option to click an emoji? I've used that in direct emails (i.e., not emails sent to a list) HAVE I BEEN ENABLING??? are they gonna bring me to the The Hague??????

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

it’s not Festivus time yet, but I’m feeling a need to air some grievances. let’s have a group kvetch

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

not that you asked for it, but a suggestion: buy the most boring thing on the list. everyone usually wants to be the "cute" or "amusing" items, but the boring shit is often the most helpful to the parents

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Schubert can bring you to that spot in the woods where the sun just barely reaches and it’s always late autumn and the wind blows just enough to give a shiver and the crisp dry leaves remind you of all that erodes

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Schubert: 4 Impromptus, Op. 90, D. 899: No. 4 in A-Flat Major. Allegretto

YouTube video by Maria João Pires - Topic

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

melancholia loves company always up for a sad chat etc etc

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

another good suggestion! EWF is a guaranteed mood lifter

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Native Dancer always lifts my spirits! good suggestion

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

did they change the materials the baseballs are made of?

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

hoo boy I feel a wave of melancholy-tinged ennui coming on. folks who know my taste in music, what should I listen to to help snap me out of this?

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

gonna hold up a sign that says “upstream timeout” anytime I don’t want to deal with my kids

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“71.5 percent of adults reported that at least some of the time in the past three months they felt fatigued, defined as ‘physical or mental tiredness or exhaustion that does not improve with additional sleep or rest.’” sounds familiar #giftlink

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Opinion | I’m Exhausted. You’re Demoralized. We Weren’t Built for a World Like This. (Gift Article)

A greatly underappreciated virtue of other presidents was that you could forget about them for weeks at a time.

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Sisyphus Blues”: you play 8,000 choruses of blues but each chorus is only the first 4 bars of the typical 12-bar blues form

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

honestly this is a big part of why I often stick with a book even when I’m not *loving* it. how can I fully appreciate the best without spending some time with the mid

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Matthew Somoroff @matthewsomoroff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

just finished Save a Seat for Me, by @markanthonyneal.bsky.social. it’s variously poignant, funny, and disarmingly frank. while it’s very much a book about Black fatherhood and Black family in the US, it contains many insights into the relationships and generational dynamics that define any family.

the first hardcover edition of Save a Seat for Me, sitting on a dark wooden surface. the cover is a bright yellow, with a small line drawing of two chairs facing each other.

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