Icono-Curmudgeon-Clast - Loring Wirbel's Rants

I turned 50 in 2007, so I'm practicing curmudgeon-like behavior by stressing, "whatever it is, I'm agin' it!" Call me anarcho-syndicalist or progressive, except I think most anarchists and progressives are as annoying as neocons. I like to point folks to way-outside-the-mainstream literature and music, while grumbling about everything else.

Sunday, July 27, 2025

Refuse to Participate in the A.I. Economy!

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There is a reason (besides old-school curmudgeonliness) I avoid using generative AI chatbot tools to help write articles, or even to help cr...
Friday, July 18, 2025

The DIY Underground Lives!

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  Now that federal funding for NPR and PBS is gone, and Stephen Colbert has been cancelled, it's useful to remember that people of integ...
Thursday, February 6, 2025

Transparency vs. Anonymity, Fearlessness, and Showing Up for Justice

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   I don't often use this blog for rants outside the music domain, but I thought that progressives' varied reactions to the spontane...
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

The List 2024 - Loring Wirbel

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                2024 was a puzzling and exciting year, at once innovative and predictable, over-hyped but under-studied. Musicians getting...
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Loring Wirbel
Colorado Springs, CO, United States
Born and raised in Grand Ledge, Mich., lived throughout the southwest, been in the evango-military center of Colorado Springs for 16 years.
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