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DIARY // huligani highlights
“onetime outsider cachet shading into states more detectibly pathetic”
Feb 10
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mark iosifescu
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INTERVIEW // sam kunkel on erik satie
“archival research is always an exercise in masochism.”
Feb 3
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mark iosifescu
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PSA // “esotérik satie”
“that heady fin-de-siècle admixture of pageantry and abjection”
Jan 27
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mark iosifescu
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POETRY // two poems about tour
“dustbowl townie scourge tumbleweeding frathouse row and tazzing into YIMBY lawnsigns”
Jan 20
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mark iosifescu
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MUSIC // xilf: stikklemuzick
“soon, this fugly world will be my brackish wonderland.”
Jan 13
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mark iosifescu
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MUSIC // nye on ckut
“on whose airwaves I first popped a plosive”
Jan 6
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mark iosifescu
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DIARY // anarcho comik-book
“wishing you happy holidays and a relaxing vacation from the hot summer of 1968”
Dec 23, 2025
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mark iosifescu
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DIARY // year in review
“historically, this is not an altogether rich area for me.”
Dec 16, 2025
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mark iosifescu
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