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33.3% skateboarder • jazz editor at soda killers magazine • youth basketball coach • zero tolerance for autism jokes • minneapolis

A cellular phone photograph of dub poet/roots reggae musician Mutabaruka's 1984 LP Outcry. The album art is a painting by Mervin Palmer. "Outcry" is written in icy graffiti-ish font, above a stencil of Africa that overlays a photograph of Mutabaruka's face. The foreground depicts broken flagpoles with Amerikkan, USSR, and unidentified Union Jack flags engulfed in flames. The top half is red, eventually giving way to drips, presumably blood, about midway down. I cannot confirm that 1980s Minneapolis hardcore band Outcry named themselves after this record, but I'd really like to believe so. Let's just go ahead and say it is. We live in a post-truth society; it doesn't matter anyway. Boom, and that's how facts are created!
A cellular phone screenshot of a block of text taken from the Hennepin County Public Library website, notifying users that effective May 11, 2026, they will discontinue their subscription to Kanopy streaming services due to the cost of said subscription being no longer sustainable. The text is black, overlaid against a grayish blue background.
A cellular phone photograph of a used copy of the 1978 sci-fi novel favored by anarchists, False Dawn, by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro; the 1979 mass market paperback poser version with rendering of feminine presenting person wielding a mysterious weapon and/or tool rather than well known hardcover version that features a leather clad wolf person on a motorcycle. A price sticker placed in the upper half indicates it was at one time only 95 cents. I purchased it for roughly 10 dollars, shipping included, from an eBay seller. They were asking double that, but accepted my lowball offer because capitalism baby!
A photograph of the lid of a Minneapolis garbage container showing faded blue graffiti that says "Hüsker Dü", which was a punk band from neighboring St.Paul comprised of drummer Grant Hart, bassist Greg Norton, and guitarist Bob Mould, a Macalester College student.
Retirement live at Black Lodge, Seattle, WA, 04/19/2025. The singer stands left of center, legs wide, screaming into mic, intense look on face. The bass player stands right of center, wearing a Throbbing Gristle - Beyond Jazz Funk bootleg T-shirt. Everything is awash in red lighting
A sign outside of the Keewaydin Park Rec Center in South Minneapolis, which I may or may not have rearranged the lettering from "Fall Registration" to read "No Fart Allergis"
A screenshot of an email confirming I have successfully updated my MySpace password
A meme from David Linklater's 1993 American cinema masterpiece Dazed and Confused, in which the character David Wooderson (played by Mathew McConaughey) proclaims, "That's what I love about these high school girls, I get older, they stay the same age." For the purposes of this incredibly specific and undeniably hilarious meme created by me,"high school girls" has been changed to "college radio DJs"
The 118-year anniversary issue (May 2025) of Minneapolis Labor Review, featuring a new title flag. The front page image is a photograph of a pile of Minneapolis Labor Reviews from throughout their publication history, which show a wide range of title flags
Album art by Neville Garrick for Steel Pulse's 1984 LP, Earth Crisis, from which the heavy metal comedy act took their name. Mixed media collage consisting of photographs, painting, illustration, ephemeral clippings, etc., depict riot police, famine, the pope, Soviet Union, Ronald Reagan, KKK, war, etc.
A latte from Cafe Umbria in Seattle, WA, next to issue #15 (1989) of Your Flesh, a punk zine from Minneapolis, MN
T-shirt for South Korean hardcore punk band Slant, designed by artist Yewon Kwon
A photograph of two crust punks done in the style of the classic "This Could Be Us But You Playin'" meme
A photo from a 1980s issue of Wrestling Eye magazine, in which "Dr. D" David Schultz holds a basketball, seemingly about to shoot a jumpshot (assuming there's a basketball hoop off camera). The caption reads "Photo of the Month," with the alt text reading, "A look at Dr. D outside the ring. He's quite competent in more than one sport." He's wearing wrestling boots, sweatpants, and a tank top.
Screenshot from Google Maps of famed DIY punk showspace 924 Gilman, showing both an electric rental scooter and an Amazon delivery truck out front, which is endlessly comical
Screenshot of Inkpad app, listing fanzine writer Nathan G. O'Brien's to-do items, part one