Blake Leyh

As if I were Beyoncé, I am suddenly releasing new music at midnight tonight. I've just spent two weeks in a cottage in the hills of Honolulu playing Satie on my electric cello. The birds have accompanied me. I've made a video, & the 4 track EP will be out worldwide tonight. SATIE ET LES OISEAUX

Good morning from Inwood.

I would like the AI bubble to collapse soon because I really need a proper desk chair and I’d like to get a super-cheap refurbed Aeron from an office liquidator.

Erika Hilton, who was instrumental in ending Brazil’s six-day working week. Absolute heroes both of them.

I have vowed to defy this Age of Enshitification by modeling my social behavior after Gomez Addams. Thank you, Chris Schweizer.

“Lord, here comes the flood We will say goodbye to flesh and blood If again the seas are silent in any still alive It'll be those who gave their island to survive Drink up, dreamers You're running dry”

Bone Idols: The Cult Of Dripping Saints In Jewels in Incredible Photos (Karen Strule / Flashbak) Venerating human remains is not to everyone's tastes. Pouring wax over skulls and bones to form a kind of skin adds a ghoulish air. #31DaysofHalloween #MementoMori flashbak.com/bone-idols-t...

You know what is nasty defense tech top to bottom? Vocoders. Roger from Zapp has some questions to answer.

Venice patina is unlike any other - the entire city beaten and battered by water and wind into a glorious meld

This is a beautiful, beautiful thing

How do you feel about someone setting up an automated process that hammers restaurant-reservation websites to gain an advantage in booking a table? The NY Times thinks this is not only acceptable; it's a "killer task" for AI, worth paying $100/month. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/t...

I have just published a piece that is very important to me. It's about why so many "progressives" and people on "the left" are lying to us right now about crime, safety, and repression, and what we should be doing instead. equalityalec.substack.com/p/why-is-eve...

There's a great new interview with Wadada Leo Smith on the Tonearm Podcast, talking about his brilliant new album Constellations And Hemispheres: podcast.thetonearm.com/wadada-leo-s...

blotter style?

Good morning from Inwood.

EL-SAYED: I get that the President takes personal offense to my first name. He doesn't mind as much when it's the Saudis who are funding his son-in-law's private equity. Doesn't seem to mind as much when it's the Qataris who are giving them a $400 million private jet…

Good morning from Big Pink.

Good morning from Big Pink.

Working with your hands/building things is good for character development. When you only deal with abstract thoughts in your work you can easily spinoff into goofy shit because nothing opposes you. When you work with your hands the universe itself opposes you and reminds of boundaries and costs.

Great to see on the front of the Mail, Telegraph, Express, Sun.* 'The no. of young people admitted to London hospitals after knife attacks is down 55% since Sadiq Khan launched a Violence Reduction Unit, with London falling faster than the rest of England.' *Joke www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/y...

I saw this a few days ago and it is fantastic. And really worth seeing with an audience - especially in Harlem at the Magic Johnson! Go to one of these screenings if you have the chance.

Once Upon a Time in Harlem is a film that every New Yorker should see — and this weekend you can, at no cost. We partnered with the filmmakers to offer free screenings this Saturday and Sunday at the Lincoln Center, Film Forum, and Magic AMC in Harlem. Go to on.nyc.gov/seeharlem to reserve a seat.

About to start making this cut & sew Noah’s ark from a 1972 Women’s Weekly magazine. I had the kit as a small child in the 80s & neither cut, nor sewed it then & having recently bought this one from eBay for a tenner, I’m hoping that, this time, I will actually accomplish both cutting & sewing…

possibly the greatest cat photo ever. happy halloween

When a worker wears an Amazon vest, drives an Amazon van and delivers on an Amazon-controlled route, but Amazon denies they work for the company — that's exploitation.

If you paid any federal income tax last year, then you paid more than these profitable corporations. When I say the system is broken, this is what I mean.

I will be attending the Sō Percussion performance of Steve Reich's "Drumming" next Wednesday at @92ndstreety.bsky.social, which should be a great concert. But charging an $11 "In-Person Event Fee" is absolute bullshit! The fee is mentioned nowhere until you are about to check out. Shameful.

Here's a non-paywalled archive link to the Vanity Fair Kushner story: archive.is/FHGAt

Vincent Curson Smith & Blake Leyh The Apprentice to the Surgeon of the Nightsky Morning listening @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social

Good morning from Yonkers.

George Washington Bridge as seen from 180th Street right at this moment.

When your favorite websites or YouTube channels or whatever go offline, hide behind a paywall, or just stop producing because all their public work is stolen with AI, the Internet is going to be such a miserable and shabby place - devoid of the only spark that made it truly magical years ago.

New essay mostly about a strange conversation I had with Alan Lomax in 1994 that came to mind while I was working on a visual art thing which involves smashing Bing Crosby 78’s. Hopefully it makes sense in the essay. www.tedreichman.com/writing/alan...

Trees, oil on canvas, by Soichiro Tomioka (1922-94). Japan

I went to Charleston, SC, to interview John Goodman. I expected a tour through the career of a beloved character actor, but the conversation got surprisingly dark and raw. "There was an underlying fear about everything..." www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

*I think they're *underrated" and they just don't create or perform "good songs" *I mean: Mark could sing. He always chose not to sing *They're beyond conventional pop-song aesthetics

“Putting the Talking Heads on the playlist allows a restaurant to absorb a sense of timeless cool. Like the band, it signals that what you’re eating is not hyper-contemporary… singular but still deeply enjoyable.” How “This Must Be the Place” Became the Ultimate Restaurant Song:

Tom Waits is also a Digger fan

My space cats on Caturday night.

since California ballots are now out: prop 40 is the billionaire tax, and you should vote yes to stick it to them but both props 41 and 42 are designed to retroactively cancel the billionaire tax because they’re afraid they can’t beat it at the ballot box yes on 40, no on 41 and 42

The interesting thing about Elon‘s rocket car is that he’s a war criminal