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Is it just me or does everything feel incredibly beautiful and yet ominous at the same time lately?

I just took this photo in Saugerties, NY. I was at a rehearsal for a night of Christmas music and it wasn’t even my rehearsal. I was just invited to sit and listen. I sat there with my eyes closed remembering what it feels like to listen to other people make music for a change. (Spoiler: good.)

The weather turned today. It was 60 degrees. T-shirt weather after the freezing arctic winds. Fog blanketing the streets.

I hear you all loud and clear. TRANSCRIPTS IT SHALL BE!!

If you missed, the voice ramble I did got all nice and tran scripted by Alex and is updated here:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/75631522?utm_campaign=postshare_creator

…and I am so glad you enjoy these. I do.

It still reminds me of an old practice I really miss: leaving 5-10 minute answering machine messages for my best friends.

And

May we all get a huge round of applause for Alex, who does these transcripts on almost no notice, thus saving me shit tons of time and making everyone’s life more delightful.

I love you all.

xx

A

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Art Popp

Thank you, Alex!

S.

Applause for Alex! Thank you so much!

Superball

Yes—YAYYYYY Alex. Thank youuu!

Hev

This photo reminds me of some of Jeremy Miranda's paintings!

Karen Jarboe

Thank you Alex 🎄🎄🎄🎄

Coila

Thank you, Alex!

Erin Mannion

Everything feels like an especially sharp double-edged sword these days, wonder & wounding around each corner. I suppose that's the shape of true things though... Two sides to every coin.

Melissa Sunday Galvin

Alex! Thank you for all you do but especially the transcripts! They keep us readers in the loop

Francine Hibiscus

ALEX IS EVERYTHING!! ALL HAIL!! 👑👑👑👑

Yana

Love you Alex 💗! I'm finding much comfort within Drag Queen media at the moment. I feel mainstream media needs a thorough 'cleansing by fire' ritual applied. I'm creating some concept art to accompany my plans for 'world domination'. My inner child is giving me the biggest of hugs throughout this proces. She's able to express herself now as 'adult Yana' is the only voice and representation she can trust. Seasons Greetings and Best Wishes for 2023 Comrades 💚.

Mike C.

Thanks Alex! ❤️

Dana

i, too, used to leave long and winding messages on answering machines. back when they were the two-tape kind. and my Daddy kept all the tapes from his old answering machine. and the machine, too, for that matter. and he's been gone for a few years now but i've got those tapes. one day when i'm feeling brave, i need to digitize them before they get too old. mixed in with them are tapes of where he'd record our conversations, sometimes, when i was very little. in this age of digital everything, it can be hard to save messages and stuff like that.

Thomas Herlofsen

Not with you on this one. Beautiful, yes. Painful, occasionally, yes. But not ominous. In my life it's all out there. Nothing dark coming. Just me, staggering out of the tunnel that was 2022, my heart and soul and sanity reasonably intact. All the love.

Grace Beaster

Love your work in increasing accessibility, Alex. Yes, it is a surreal, exciting, creepy, fun, scared, amazed, horrified feeling out there on the streets, Amanda.

DebbieG

Alex is a star! Thank you! 🤩

Lynn Robinson

My visual image and also sensations for life at the moment is walking across a rickety wooden suspension bridge. I can see where I’m heading to but the ground under my feet isn’t stable, the wind is rushing past my body, my stomach is lurching but I need to keep moving to get to safety! I need to be strong and determined. Also had another visual image during your voice ramble - the ripple your new song is making as it reaches more and more ears. From you, to your 4 initial friends to … Alex - keep doing your amazing stuff 🌟

Tino Fella

Were there enough requests along with mine for SoundCloud? It would be comfortable for me listening to a file. <3

amandapalmer

anthony and i used to leave each other 10 minute messages. i would kill to have just a couple of them.

Tino Fella

Also, would it be possible to get a short discription of photos? I hope I'm not asking for too much here, as a blind fan I'm just really interested, and I feel it would give a more complete experience. Hugs.

Mo Gillette

It's not just you. There's been a lot of tragic stuff happening in the community here. And I can feel the dark & twisty hovering around my soul. I'm keeping it at arm's length but it's there just waiting for an in.

Lindsey Lubow

Accessibility is a right. Thanks for pointing this out, and hopefully there will be image descriptions coming soon. Lindsey

Lindsey Lubow

And for now, I'll go ahead and try to do the image description for this post- [IMAGE DESCRIPTION: a dark cloudy sky is interrupted by decorative Christmas lights that are lit up along the rooftop of a building. There's still a ladder upright near the building, towards audience left, so probably the lights just got added before the photo was taken. END IMAGE DESCRIPTION] from Lindsey, again, because my thoughts are a bit clumpy and don't always happen all at once

EmVT

Alex. Picturing your smiling self happily taking time away from all the things you do to pounce on the voiceramble and other AFP transcriptions, is itself a source of joy. Knowing you are there backing up Amanda--priceless. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. 🎉 😃 🧐

Nikki

❤ Alex!

D'Arlyn Jessica Wilde

Re: the wonder of long phone voice messages-- WhatsApp allows voice messages up to 28 mins, and my bestie and I trade the long rambling monologue therapy voicemails back and forth on there all the time.

Suzanne

All the love to Alex. And the dichotomy of the ominous and beauty has been making my soul twitch so bad lately. There’s just a constant pressure that won’t let up. I feel like it’s contributing to me getting sick this week and my perpetual sense of being out of place. I’m hoping that once the holidays have passed we can get back to something resembling normal-ish around here.

Jenna Tomlin

All the love and thanks to Alex

Lindsay Rickman

Bring back 5-10 minute answering machine messages.

Andrea Hamann

💯 on the answering machine messages