@dmandl
WFMU DJ, writer (The Wire, Los Angeles Review of Books, etc.), bassist, photographer, amateur linguist. Founder, Brooklyn Psychogeographical Association. Web: davidmandl.com Instagram: @dmandl Playlists from my radio show: https://wfmu.org/playlists/GX
They had to dig 30 feet under the studio floor to build the Rear Window set. They kept hitting water & had to pump it out. The whole set became a sauna at times. They had to invent new camera techniques to film it.
Covered Car series: Rockaway Ave. #photography
Stop these maniacs before it's too late.
The average family can't do those things.
Rehearsal of WFMU's Hoof and Mouth Sinfonia. (This is about half the members. I'm the other bass player, and there are also strings and horns not shown here. Also four other drummers.) Our annual show happens at the end of the @wfmu.bsky.social Marathon, this Sunday at 7:00 ET. With live video feed!
Tonight's special fundraising edition of my show, "It's Complicated," with guest co-host Matt Fiveash, hits the airwaves at 7 p.m. Listen at wfmu.org, and make a pledge to support listener-funded @wfmu.bsky.social and my show here: pledge.wfmu.org/donate/GX
Huh. I had no idea.
F----. I didn't know someone else covered it (but I'm not surprised).
Am I the first person to identify where your Bsky name comes from? I get it. I get it. I get it.
Tonight (7 p.m. ET), tune in as Matt Fiveash joins me for my second of two shows in WFMU's 2026 Fundraising Marathon. If you appreciate the amazing radio that everyone at freeform, listener-supported @wfmu.bsky.social does, support us and pledge whatever you can here: pledge.wfmu.org/donate/GX
A few days late for George Harrison's birthday: This song is underrated (appropriately), but probably my fave of his '70s recordings. His voice is beautifully trashed, there's those heavenly flutes and harmonies, and also the splash cymbal at the end of each verse. Catchy song. youtu.be/M3-so70ZguY
*New* Far East Liquor, Rockaway Ave.
Urban Monoliths: Rost Place. #photography
He never does anything that isn't psychopathic and designed to hurt as many people as possible. Never says anything that isn't a sick lie. He's like the worst disease you can imagine, in human form.
I consider myself "conservative" in the sense that I think you have to be very careful when doing things that could destroy the world irreversibly or lead to mass death, like launching a war or poisoning the air or water or food chain, or giving absolute power to a moron bent on doing those things.
Even if Trump swallows a cyanide capsule tomorrow (unlikely), the vast damage that prick has done will take a hundred years to undo, if we're lucky. Congratulations to everyone who had the power to stop him and refused to lift a finger.
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Been trying to curb my pizza intake. Without much luck.
Just ordered three slices from Impasto, one of my favorite pizza places in Park Slope.
"Want another slice on the house?"
*Long pause*
"You know, I really can't eat four slices. I mean, I *can*, but..."
Still, very kind of her.
Been thinking the same thing. It's like he's going down a list and wrecking every single thing that can be wrecked. Everything. I don't think this is sinking in, incredibly. Certainly it's not being reported.
What kind of lunacy is this? No one in the US hyphenates phone numbers this way.
Nothing but respect for this kind of car aficionado.
Ah, thanks. I looked for a year but couldn't find it.
Seen on the same block (E. 92 St. off Ave. N): nice light-blue '70s Cadillac with great hubcaps, crazy-painted Lincoln Town Car. Guy asked me if I wanted to buy the Lincoln. "Maybe!"
Because the consumers of dance (and opera and classical music) are overwhelmingly rich and privileged, I think people assume the artists come from the same world, but almost none of them do!
A grid of nine linoleum patterns arranged in a grid of squares. The patterns contain a wide range of alternating shapes and colors, bright or muted, most symmetrical. Most suggest marble or tile.
Selected patterns from “Linoleum & Felt-Base: Spring Season - 1932”
Sloane-Blabon Corp., New York
Image: Avery Library Architectural Trade Catalogs Collection (Columbia Univ.) via @archive.org; archive.org/details/lino...
Jealous?
For the second of my two shows in WFMU's 2026 Fundraising Marathon (this Monday, 7 p.m. ET), my co-host will be Matt Fiveash! Please tune in, support my show, "It's Complicated," and help us raise money to keep independent, freeform @wfmu.bsky.social going for another year: pledge.wfmu.org/donate/GX
Urban Monoliths series: Canarsie Park. #photography