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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Honestly shocked no one has reached out for me for comment on the Todd/Taylor feud (such a non-story lol) as I’m probably the only person on earth who went straight from Todd Rundgren’s birthday party in Kauai to a Taylor Swift concert in Cincinnati

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

An all-male Bangles cover band called The Dangles

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Luv 2 roll up 2 a red light next to the beat-up Honda Civic that was trying to drag race me down the road just BLASTING Mary Lattimore’s “Wawa By The Ocean” from my station wagon.

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

✨Tori Amos setlists from Cincinnati & Louisville ✨ Too many stars and not enough sky…

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Still making this face 😍 over the Tori Amos show last night in Louisville. Winter/Silent All These Years/Waitress/Precious Things/Pretty Good Year… HUGE thanks to @anniezaleski.bsky.social for reminding me life is too short.

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

(Not a true story: it was apple slices & potato chips, which also is probably a Wesley Willis song)

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

[Wesley Willis singing about my dinner last night] Rock 'n' Roll McDonald's Rock 'n' Roll McDonald's Rock 'n' Roll McDonald's Rock 'n' Roll McDonald's

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I mean honestly this one is even better but you got an all-star show with my faves; that wins

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Wait I didn’t even scroll!! Adrian too! And Johnny Luca!!! Fantastic. ❤️

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Oh shit I didn’t know you were there for Stickmen!! Perfect. Tony Levin at Bearsville ❤️‍🔥

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Oh we have to find each other!!!!

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I mean I doubt she’ll perform Eminem in Cincinnati but I’m still excited. Maybe she’ll do “Debonair”

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I haven’t watched it yet!! I need to spend time with it tomorrow; I’ve heard good things about

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I’ve painstakingly built a library of Murdoch’s books, only lacking An Unofficial Rose. My latest acquisition is the one I’m reading now, The Italian Girl, found by chance late one night in a used bookstore on the Bowery. (Yes there are duplicate titles; some editions I can’t resist.)

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I can’t stop thinking about Ian McEwan’s What We Can Know. I had forgotten how great McEwan is at writing the internal lives of characters, with intricate plot to boot. It’s had the secondary effect of driving me straight back into the arms of Iris Murdoch, an obvious influence.

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Believe it or not I got really into madrigals my freshman year of high school. I wrote a paper on Palestrina. So these books aren’t so far off my beaten path!

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Everybody is getting into mycology while I’m out here tripping on musicology

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The Orchids’ Striving For Lazy Perfection is providing an excellent bookstore soundtrack today!

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I keep waiting for Blueboy’s Unisex (1994) to get rediscovered—how has “Also Ran” never been used in a Greta Gerwig movie? One of the sweetest and most underrated albums I’ve ever loved. Whence the Sarah Records revival?

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

“Complimentary,” as the kids say

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

In all sincerity, seeing Todd Rundgren playing in a cave might have been the most fitting environment I’ve ever seen him play in (Plato’s cave allegory, the dawn of man, “dragging my knuckles along the ground…”)

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Todd Rundgren is NOT my mom but I may see him more times in a calendar year than I see her

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Wait that makes it sound like Todd Rundgren is my mom

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Happy Birthday to Todd Rundgren (and my mom)

Todd Rundgren wearing a black long sleeved shirt with Japanese text that means “Fall seven times, stand up eight” with “The Great Wave off Kanagawa” print on it playing a green guitar and signing at a microphone

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Full disclosure I watched the first ten minutes already but I can save the rest.

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Even if this isn’t true I am disseminating it because I want it so much to be true

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I’d like to postulate that, in most if not all situations, science & physics > self-help

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I definitely think about this at least once every few months

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I’m currently Very Angry at all packaging that claims it is a “resealable bag” and then refuses to reseal

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

And everyone is guaranteed to hear at least one Tom Verlaine song since his entire discography is in the mix

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Anecdotally, Weezer gets the most toe taps, while Karla Bonoff gets the most hum-alongs

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I always love it when my bookstore playlist gets a compliment, but I especially love it when it goes Cate Le Bon —> Steve Hackett —> Otis Redding

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Working in a bookstore is the best because you will literally have the nicest conversations all day with people in their twenties or forties or sixties about Faulkner or Borges or Emma Straub and it’s never predictable which it will be and it’s always rewarding

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Yesterday at the bookstore I learned from a youth that Sartre’s Nausea is “trending” and Faulkner is cool again

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Twitter: Walt Whitman Instagram: Mary Oliver TikTok: william carlos williams Bluesky: Frank O’Hara YouTube: Charles Bukowski Facebook: Robert Frost

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I’m in love with being in love and listening to Schoenberg & Gesualdo, it would be a recipe for a breakdown if the sun weren’t out

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Apologies for exposing my inner Mary Oliver

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

That should be in cursive over a photo of a field of wildflowers and attributed to Rumi, it would get a million likes on Insta

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Today I am in love with being in love

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Whoa—reading about Carlo Gesualdo, and the music is gorgeous but the Renaissance was a wacky time!

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