Roy Edroso Breaks It Down

Roy Edroso spent years playing in punk rock bands and taking on various low-paying jobs. He didn't do this out of necessity, but rather to build the authenticity and edge that his writing required. This experience helped him create the sharp and biting prose that eventually found its way into the pages of New York’s Village Voice.

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I STILL Swear This Isn’t Like All The Other “What Is To Be Done” Essays, Part Three

Nov 14, 2024 | edroso.substack.com | Roy Edroso

Here's my donation list. I give to these organizations every month. None of them gets a lot of money from me, but all of them get at least $25 a month. The Carter Center Planned Parenthood National Network of Abortion FundsFund for the Feminist MajorityPharmacy of Grace, a local organization that helps people with prescription costs Elsie Publishing Institute, a woman owned, woman focused organization PBS NPRI'm six or seven years from retirement and hunkering down.
I STILL Swear This Isn’t Like All The Other “What Is To Be Done” Essays, Part Three

Nov 14, 2024 | edroso.substack.com | Roy Edroso

You read the first, you read the second (I hope!) Here’s the last one, it’s short, hope it helps. Don’t count on them fucking up. I call this the “Ah! Well. Nevertheless” rule, and those of you who are as internet-poisoned as I am will recognize its original application was to claims that Trump was about be taken down for one of his many criminal acts and/or political outrages (“I’d Like to See Ol Donny Trump Wriggle His Way Out of THIS Jam!”) which, as we have seen, always proved mistaken.
I Swear This Isn’t Like All The Other “What Is To Be Done” Essays, Part One

Nov 12, 2024 | edroso.substack.com | Roy Edroso

Fun fact! Extremely reputable sources estimate that 70% of the workforce in the Wisconsin dairy industry are illegal migrant workers. That this number is so high is a testimony to the fact that legal migrant workers aren't available.
I Swear This Isn’t Like All The Other “What Is To Be Done” Essays, Part One

Nov 12, 2024 | edroso.substack.com | Roy Edroso

Less than a week after the big disaster, I’ve been seeing a lot of What Is To Be Done essays. I don’t mean I’ve been reading them. Sometimes I look at the lede, and sometime a couple of paragraphs; if there are bullet points I may scan them. But I gotta say, apart from a couple of really hard, clear-eyed articles — like this one from a beehiiv site (!) previously unknown to me — they’ve all been kind of a drag and who needs it.
Post hoc ergo propter Hardcore

Nov 11, 2024 | edroso.substack.com | Roy Edroso

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Post hoc ergo propter Hardcore

Nov 11, 2024 | edroso.substack.com | Roy Edroso

We think of the internet as a fast-paced, up-to-the-minute thing, especially when the news is as big as it’s been lately. But many of stories I’m seeing in the world of Hardcore — our term of art for ragebait emails sent to your senile relatives to lure them to rightwing garbage sites — seem to have been filed before the election.
Roy Edroso Breaks It Down

Nov 8, 2024 | edroso.substack.com | Roy Edroso

I used to know a man—he and his wife were Manhattan Project alumnæ, he a chemical engineer and she a typist—who had an Apple ][ (I employ the strange typographical convention of the day) with a green phosphor monitor and a cassette drive (what, me floppy? Not, at least in that household, in 1980). At their home he demonstrated the first version of what eventually evolved into Microsoft’s “Flight Simulator.” This one was, by today’s standards…primitive.
When tech was magic

Nov 8, 2024 | edroso.substack.com | Roy Edroso

Here’s another Fun Friday — and boy, do we need it now! I was inspired to today’s theme recently when I used a simple app thing that I have used hundreds of times before — and remembered how, when I first used it, it struck me as so amazing that, as Arthur C. Clarke said, it was indistinguishable from magic. When personal computing first took off, I was a broke-ass musician, but I worked in offices and so got to know the technology on a casual-user basis.
Roy Edroso Breaks It Down

Nov 7, 2024 | edroso.substack.com | Roy Edroso

Political Party - a loosely knit organization that tries to control government by winning elections I learned that definition in eighth grade civics. We had another class my senior year. And this was in a redneck farm town of 1500 people. The kind of place that kept all the black people living in one four block area of town that didn't have street lights or sewer and never got the snow plowed in the winter.
Beat the Press

Nov 7, 2024 | edroso.substack.com | Roy Edroso

The damned thing about a fascist takeover is, the steps you need to take to get rid of the fascists are made impossible by the fascists. So people will have to improvise on these recommendations I am making. Maybe some local school boards will be able to implement them; maybe some people will have to do them at home as part of some subsidized home-schooling racket (sure to be popular in a Trump administration!) or else just as an evening parent-child activity like Bible reading or scrapbooking.