Vocal Fry will air as normal tomorrow evening at 8. Then I'll be getting the ol' AIRBORNE EVENT back up in the @wfmu.bsky.social sky on Wed 3-6ET, covering for Irwin. Dust off your magic carpets & take your dramamine!

The delightful new @wfmu.bsky.social LCD program guide arrived in today's mail. Jam packed w/goodies: write-your-own RHCP song, new music from Mali, un-Shazam-able music, AI literacy guide, @davethespazz.bsky.social origin story, @natethek.bsky.social on Elvis, old Peanuts records...

Hey! The @wfmu.bsky.social Literary Guild is back! It's a quarterly reading series at the Red Room at KGB Bar featuring WFMU DJs reading essays, poems, short stories + more. Hear work @davethespazz.bsky.social, @erazlogo.bsky.social (writing a history of WFMU), me & @saltzshaker.bsky.social, +???

Today my poem "connections" is featured in the San Antonio Review. Follow the mycorrhizae to sanantonioreview.org to read it.

I wanted to order a poetry chapbook from a small press in the UK. It costs $7 but the postage is $21 (3x the cost of the chapbook). Blah.

I have three haiku in the excellent new Password 3.2, a journal of very short poetry, veryshortpoetry.com

In Tuvan throat singing news: Alash will be touring the US from mid June to the end of July...they'll be at Joe's Pub in NYC on 7/22. Many shows on the East Coast! www.alashensemble.com/performances...

Also back: Evan Funk Davies @efd.bsky.social! Plus Olivia & Adrienne (of the Blind Tourist) will be doing a show together!

I had a poem come out today in the new issue of Bramble magazine. It accompanies a hummingbird illustration by Jasmin Barrios. brambleonline.com

More musicians are coming to perform live on future Vocal Frys: 4/28: Time Trout - rock group w/vox by Viv Corringham; they improvise everything but it sounds composed. 5/12 (rescheduled from 4/21): Charmaine Lee - extended vocals layered into extraordinary soundscapes, complete killer!

I knew McNulty made some weird choices but I did not realize that one was marrying Kristi Noem.

Duchamp did some other great self-portraits. One is in the form of a wanted poster (before such things were obligatory custom tourist souvenirs?) - in another Duchamp confers with himself, himself, himself & himself. (I suspect one or more may actually be Rrose Selavy in disguise though. Or Dalí.)

There are some fun variations. Picabia painted a box with LHOOQ + handling instructions. Dalí had himself (w/iconic mustache & fur pulled over chin) photographed while dressed & posed as Duchamp's female alter ego Rrose Selavy (whose name is a pun on "Eros, c'est la vie" aka Eros, that's life).

Years later - 1942 - Jean Arp found Picabia's version in a secondhand shop. He brought it to Duchamp, who added the goatee. You can see his note saying "beard added for Picabia in 1942." Duchamp made other versions over the years by drawing on whatever cheap Mona Lisa print was at hand.

Hey there. We @wfmu.bsky.social are so grateful for your donations over the last 2 weeks. Our pot overflows with excess molars - honestly I don't know why, could be something to do w/the Tuatha de Dannan? Anyhow if you need an extra molar, tune in at 8ET for your weekly dose of Vocal Fry! WFMU.org

Hello, children of @wfmu.bsky.social, blessings to you! Father Bodah is preparing to deliver my homily on radio during the Hoof & Mouth finale to our fundraiser to repair the church roof. Please give generously at pledge.wfmu.org/donate/VF !

Bethany Ryker (A440/Stochastic Hit Parade) joins Vocal Fry for my 2nd fundraising show at 8 ET tonite. We are both adorable & irascable so QED: donate at pledge.wfmu.org/donate/VF for prizes beyond your wildest imagining & to give @wfmu.bsky.social the sweet gift of life! Keep radio weird.

the second is that if you ever need a pot full of molars with a leprechaun holding a tube of toothpaste to guard them, just head out to staten island and boy are you in luck!

Here's what ai larpers drew about vocal fry and yodelers

I join Carol on Serious Moonlight Sonatas, 6-9 this morning on WFMU @wfmu.bsky.social. We'll be chatting & raising $$ for freeform radio. See here photographic proof that we're cute & therefore deserve many significant donations. Also you can get Carol's new T-shirt pictured here.

Weirdos rule. Contribute to keeping freeform weirdness alive: pledge.wfmu.org/donate/VF

Yes, in the early 90s I was in a cult that worshiped satellite transmissions.

At 8-9 ET, DJ Purple Haze & I will be joined by Roger from Double-Dip Recess to recruit new members of the Fryers Club during Week #1 of the 2026 WFMU Fundraising Marathon. Membership open to all! Just make a donation at pledge.wfmu.org/donate/VF & claim the life-changing perks of your new office!

Very Official Photographic Portraits from the Official Vaults of WFMU Nonprofit Industrial Complex Headquarters at Auricle Communications of Dan Bodah and Purple Haze of the @wfmu.bsky.social Radio Broadcast @vocalfry.bsky.social. Courtesy of Jean Schwarzwalder.

Some excerpts here

Life in early 2026

tfw you are so busy chopping off heads & arms of your enemies that you accidentally slaughter your lover & dance in his corpse...so embarrassing!

Finally, a take on hollerin' history that includes prehistoric cave paintings! Let the hollers ring out in the caverns under the mountains as well as the valleys! youtu.be/_PTK9AJ3OjQ?...

WARNING: HIGH CUBE

And here are a few genuinely perplexing cartoon faces in Münter's later work - I am reminded of the highly stylized faces of Japanese characters in some anime. But from the 1930s in W Europe.