Are The Assholes Still In Charge?
Excuse the delayed email today comrades but hopefully this collection of news will make up for it. We are starting with a new playlist to get us all through the week and once again, it is a 3 hour jam filled with all kinds of rare cuts, some more popular tunes and straight up jams. This one floats in a special little place, where old psychedelic, jazz, hip hop, some punk and whatever weird atmospheric tunes floated through my universe last week. Enjoy and remember to share these.
A couple of notes from the Black Lodges Product Team, that’s also just me but you know, I do try and keep those two personalities a little separate only for my own sake. Thanks to everyone that bought a ring this past week, they have been ordered and will be here by the end of the week. Next weekend will be the last drop for this year for multiple reasons. First and foremost, I need a break and want to concentrate on writing until sometime in January. There are a number of mutual aid projects I am involved in here, mostly helping the homeless, that also require my attention. Then, I want my screen printers to catch a breath as well. They have done an incredible job this year and without them none of this would ever exist. If you ever need incredible work done do feel free hit up Sehfeuer and tell him that I sent you his way.
Also, shipping. This is increasingly becoming an issue. As you know, I have friends in the US that print and ship most of my shirts for the US as borders are still mostly closed and airfreight is still not happening. Now, the UK is leaving the EU on the 1st of January and I have absolutely no idea, nor does anyone else yet, how to get product across. I am going to take some time to figure out whether I need to print all UK orders over in England or what other options there are. It’s a genuine ball ache aside from the other, real-life, serious implications for me personally living in Europe.
About this weekends drop: There are two A4 screen prints coming, both of which will be for charity, specifically the work that I am involved with here locally. There will also be a T-Shirt in collaboration with my friend Kim The Butcher. I’ll start teasing that as of tomorrow, it’s a banging Anti-Fascist Beauty and I am excited to welcome him back here. So much for the news from the Product Desk - which is also the same as the one I write these emails from. Just so we are clear.
We are kicking off this week with some more insidious fuckening from our tech overlords, in this case YouTube. I have linked the below thread and I can only suggest you go through this.
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the city that is home to the gang of proto-fascist binary tech capitalists actually has billboards threatening people of their city against building workers unions with this level of violent dystopia. Someone donate some ladders and spraypaint to the good people of San Francisco.
I hope everyone did their bid and avoided Amazon over the last weekend:
In extremely relevant global news that one in Europe and I would wager North America is aware of:
New week and President-Elect is doing exactly what he said he was going to “Nothing will fundamentally change” and I am just sitting here wondering how all the pushing this prick to the left?
We are going to end today’s email with a few more general takes to get you fired up for the final push of 2020.