Jeff Schroeck

@jeffschroeck.bsky.social

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Guitar (The Ergs!, Civic Mimic, Black Wine); Poetry; Boppin' baseballs with the Kensington Kayfabe; Maggs's Dad; Lynn's Husband

Screenshot of a Facebook Post from the New York Times: A black and white picture of Martin Scorsese. The text reads: Martin Scorsese on Tuesday announced that he is backing Black Forest Labs, an A.I. start-up that specializes in image generation. It's a sing of Hollywood's softening stance on artificial intelligence. The post has 164 angry face reacts
An excerpt from Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend: ...the dusty, busy stradone (stradone is italicized)
Excerpt from Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend (which starts midsentence): ...about but that very few in the neighborhood had in their house: a television, an apparatus, that is, with a screen on which one saw images, just as at the cinema, but the images came not from a projector but rather from the air, and inside the apparatus was a mysterious tube that was called a cathode. Because of that...
Two pictures side by side. On the left: American author, entrepreneur, and filmmaker Steven J. Rosenbaum in the process of placing a beige hat on his head. On the right: his book The Future Of Truth placed in front of some plants
Excerpt from Elena Ferrante's "My Brilliant Friend", which reads: Or maybe it was only that I was beginning to feel superior. When they dug around in a storeroom and took out the box, I encouraged them artificially. But the pair of men's shoes they showed me seemed truly unusual; they were size 43, the size of Rino and Fernando, brown, and just as I remembered them in one of Lila's drawings:they seemed both light and strong. The phrase "they were size 43" is highlighted in yellow
Chris Jericho hitting the Jacksonville Jaguars' mascot with a Judas Effect
Website tagline for a book that reads: You are not your trauma. You are not your past. You are not your body.
The top half of the cover to the Elena Ferrante book My Brilliant Friend
An entry from a kids' trivia book which reads 516: The quietest piece of music in the world is John Cage's "3 minutes and 27 seconds," which consists of a person sitting in front of a piano for thatblength of time, then leaving. There is also a drawing of Leonardo da Vinci, unrelated to that particular entry, painting at an easel while balancing a cabbage on his nose, saying "Mamma mia! If-a I only had-a another hand...I could-a knock up-a some-a plans for a submarine-" but cuts off there
The Orioles on the field at Camden Yards, POV from the first base side about a quarter up the outfield
Screenshot from a Merriam-Webster article on military slang. The entry reads: Ginormous Definition: extremely large Ginormous, a portmanteau of gigantic and enormous, traces back to World War II. Its first-known use appeared in a British publication, Wings of War: An Illustrated Air Force Anthology, in 1942. Early examples of its use are also found in a 1962 dictionary of sailors' slang, including "a ginormous brush with the enemy," "a ginormous raid," and "a ginormous party in the mess." Now demobilized, ginormous is used to describe anything humongous.
Chris Jericho adding a name to his List
Clickhole headline: I Spent My Whole Life Defending Cruella De Vil. Then I saw 101 Dalmatians. By Archie Gordon Accompanied by a picture of Ms. De Vil
Blue gig flyer, graphics include a big brain-head alien and a series of penguins Text, which is highly stylized, reads: Old Bridge High School West Campus February 26, 2000 a.d. The Winter Carnival Concert Doors 7pm Seven dollars Adam's Not Funny The Ergs Zyzzybalubah Substance No Way Home Jerk Chicken For more info email: (2 outdated email addresses as of 2026)
Inspector Gadget reading a message that Quimby is holding inside a safe; Inspector Gadget closes the safe and Quimby gets blown up. You can see his skeleton lit up through the safe wall.
Excerpt of the book Avant Garde Jazz Musicians Performing 'Out There' by David G. Such: After thirty years, one might expect the attacks against out jazz to soften. Yet while reflecting on the history of out jazz, critic John McDonough writes, "Jazz had never produced a music in which fakes (e.g., Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor) could move so easily and undetected among real musicians."
Excerpt from New York Times article about a writer using A.I. The text reads: Ms. Hart found Anthropic’s chatbot to be the most versatile, and developed ways around Claude’s prudishness. Among her techniques: feeding Claude very specific instructions and a list of kinks, and stressing that sex was not gratuitous, but crucial to the plot.
Cover of Claude Bolling's "Suite For Cello and Jazz Piano Trio" featuring Yo-Yo Ma on Cello. Image is a drawing of an anthropomorphized piano and cello in a kitchen decorating a cake. And upright bass and drumset are in the background behind an open doorway.
Blue and yellow poster parodying the opening of 2001: A Space Odyssey. An ape is perplexed by a large exlamation point. The text reads: The Ergs plus Rodeo Boys. March 26, 2026, Cobra Cabana, Richmond, Virginia; March 27, 2026, Stanczyks, Durham, North Carolina; March 28, 2026, Norfolk Taphouse, Norfolk, Virginia; March 29, 2026, Wonder Bar, Asbury Park, New Jersey
Screenshot from Wings Of Desire, Bruno Ganz in hat and plaid jacket looking through a barred fence
Green tinted flyer featuring the Pennsylvania state seal Text reads: The Menzingers, I Am The Avalanche, The Ergs, Lax Poetic. January 24, 2026. Allentown, Pennsylvania. Archer Music Hall.
Book index entry for the Phillie Phanatic, page 34
Excerpt from a book, which partially reads: "Cardenal, who had just scored the tying run, proved to be the goat as he botched McCarver's flyball to right field" "Proved to be the goat as he botched" is highlighted
Sideshow Bob pointing both ways at once
Cartoon robot writing on a sheet of paper
David Graeber's "Debt: The First 5000 Years"
Orange and black flyer, generic wrestler in a wrestling ring with a fiery demon behind him Text says: Live at Thunderbird Hall it's...the Ergs; plus wrestling, vendors, raffles, cash prize costume contest Thunderbird hall 2856 Frankford Ave, Oct 18th, 5pm, $25
Yahoo headline that reads: "Coca-Cola under fire for allegedly misleading consumers about its products: 'There is no such thing'"
Black and white cat sniffing an unattended playe of potatoes and eggs
The word "dumbly"
An excerpt from the AEW Unified Championship Wikipedia page that reads: The AEW Unified Championship is a men's professional wrestling championship created and promoted by the American promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW). The title was unveiled during Dynamite: Summer Blockbuster on June 11, 2025, as the unification of the AEW Continental and International Championships, although both title histories remain independently active under the Unified Championship, which has its own lineage, with the section that reads "although both title histories remain independently active under the Unified Championship" underlined in red
Group photo of two Philadelphia Sandlot Baseball teams (Kensington Kayfabe in red and white, Wissahickon sluggers in green and off-white) in front of a backstop
Small crossword puzzle, 6 across clue: "audiophile's passion", 5 letter word
Excerpt from an article that says: Here's what you can tell writers about working with A.I. On “theft”: AI doesn’t steal your work—it’s trained on patterns from millions of texts, not copying specific pieces. Think of it like learning to write by reading widely. The real creative work—your unique perspective, experiences, and voice—can’t be replicated. On creativity: AI is a tool, like a thesaurus or writing software. It can help break through blocks, explore new angles, or generate raw material to shape. AI can spark more creativity by giving writers something to react against or build from. On blandness: AI output is often generic because it’s trained to be “safe.” Use AI as your first draft generator or brainstorming partner, then infuse it with your weird observations, your specific knowledge. The magic happens in the revision.
Flyer for a reading show at Brooklyn Record Exchange on June 27 2025 featuring Mike Faloon, Michael T Fournier, Jeff Schroeck, and Tobias Carroll
Onion headline reading "Showoff Pallbearer Carries Casket By Himself" with altered photo showing the same