Jon Engel

almost four years to the day since i started, i retire from @mr_roboto_project . rip red couch, long live the black book and the white book. there is nothing left to say but that i believe we will win. kisses.

winter break 2025 love on a monday, football on a saturday home-grown strawberries to justify the rain sometimes i do but i shouldn't complain laughter in a time of war all eight billion kings wear cheap paper crowns

ANOTHER artist playing our gig @mr_roboto_project next Thursday, Jan 8. Take a big bite out of it with the ravenous @ruth_e_toothless fresh off the release of their new split with The Hague, which is available now on Bandcamp. As a reminder, this gig is fundraising to help some local friends and organizers recoup their losses from a house fire earlier this month. Link in the bio for more information and space to donate now. FULL LINE-UP ANNOUNCEMENT TOMORROW! We got some twists here so stay tuned! And don't forget @tilt_contrls too!

yes, hi, hello. popping in to quickly announce my new project: over at @feedbacker.music , I will be putting together some banger benefit shows featuring only the finest, handcrafted, artisanal DIY bands. we'll be raising money for mutual aid, disaster relief, and whatever else we need to keep our community safe, loved, and brilliant. show announcements are coming in the next week but for NOW: mark your calendars! 1/8, 2/13, and 4/2, all at our beloved @mr_roboto_project until then, please consider donating to this GoFundMe, run by our friend @harbinger_01 , which is raising money for one of our neighbors facing eviction 1: me photographed as a baby wearing crazy drip 2: me photographed by a baby, drip out of frame 3: Feedbacker Music logo by the ever-talented @knot_finished 4: I said, MARK THOSE DATES! 5: link for this fundraiser in my bio

this sunday at Roboto -- community! solidarity and craft! is there a difference? doing my first readings for this semester and Dr. Turner says: no! meet your neighbors, wherever they are, and build something together -- like your heart, perhaps? 1: I am a lineman for the county, and i drive the main road/searching in the sun for another overload 2: prison-writing organized by my best friend @the.glow.pt.420 -- per my usual multitasking, this is my birthday post, happy birthday I love you 3: hey I love you too @mik.jpgs 4: I made this flyer!! 5: from "Steel Destiny" (1979) by Frank Whitehead 6: :) (CORRECTION: @the.glow.pt.420 DID NOT MAKE THIS POSTER AS PREVIOUSLY STATED, I AM SCUM AND WILL NOW WALK DIRECTLY INTO THE MON)

@mr_roboto_project turns 24 today. it is impossible to put into words what this space and the community around it has given me. how do you lasso the sun? yeah, i'm a romantic, but what else but the power of the people deserves that? through collective effort, all things are possible. this is only a beginning. shout-out @hrdtrvlnq for talking with me yesterday about the history of the space. beginning to compile a new history of the project -- stay tuned for details. later this month, we'll be hosting our first public meeting in years. why? because you ARE Roboto, if you want to be, and your voice must be heard. bring holiday decorations -- any holiday. your space, your celebration. and don't forget to come by our art night tonight at 6. bring supplies! ----- our band could be your life-- real names be the proof -- the minutemen rip d. boon

got a new article up on the @riversofsteel on my work with the Currents cohort this year, featuring some of my very best friends. around these parts, we flow; down the muddy banks, past what was. we collect things, mixing and twirling in the tide. my friends have crawled the skin of the world in this motion and what bobs to the top is only a small sample, chosen wisely. humbled and honored to have been part of what they decide to show. Pittsburgh is a city of immigrants. all else shall erode until only these things remain -- the rivers and the people who love them. neither need fear any water rising. click that thing in the bio. ------ 1-2: weaving ghum (Bhutanese umbrellas) with Chitra Gurung at the Himalayan Foundation-USA 3-4: painting ebru with @marblingartgloria at @tccpittsburgh 5-6: writing calligraphy with @benjaminaysan at @tccpittsburgh 7-8: weaving abacá with @azhomedetails at @thefaaporg 9-10: see you tonight @mik.jpgs :) my deepest thanks also to @katydementforreal , @huffalo , @alisonzapataartist , and Mary Brenholts @pghartsmedia for their wisdom and mentorship. thank you also to Til & Lani for their patience for me and passion for their people. ------ it's such a little song, it don't compare to all the big ones you hear everywhere but when it dawns way in the back of your mind, the big ones are made up of the little kind; union song, union battled, all added up -- one is all that we've got now -- Woody Guthrie via Wilco and Billy Bragg

c. '97

notes on methodology; or, a summer condensed. 1-2: i am a graduate student now. certain honors are inexpressible. you are left only to live your life in service to them. most of these honors are people. 3: boy, because i know he reads these. 4: changes of state. 5: the mystical alchemies of @jadedpgh 6: changes of the state. 7-9: changes of my state, thanks to @madiwithamullet777 10: after tonight, if you don't want this to be a secret out of the past/i will resurrect it. i will have a good go at it. -- Jason Molina luck to you in all things.

may the Delaware run until the Sun itself burns out. 1-5: the city 6: céad mile fáilte 7: which means "one thousand welcomes" 8: which means always taking the fight 9: and then we'll never lose it IDLES rips and I will never ever be your man

been sitting on this until the first day of class. i am now a graduate student in Goucher College's Master of Arts in Cultural Sustainability program. (it's online so, no, you haven't shaken me yet.) over the next two-ish years, i'll be working to refine my skills as an organizer, storyteller, and, most importantly, community member. i say this with all sincerity: i have met all the best people in the world and they all know this -- that the worth of art, of community, of life is the friendships that hold us together. all molecules are made of the bonds between opposites. mine exploded in the basements of a hundred dirty house venues and reconstituted themselves in the rivers and in the earth, in the air and in the furnace fire of the coming future. i do not fight but i would fight for you. ----- 3: bruises i got when somebody tried to crowdsurf during @short_fictions_pgh 's set during the birthday show for @the.glow.pt.420 and @texaschainsawmadsacre in January 2020 -- i'll venmo you in a second 4: from Our Band Could Be Your Life by Michael Azerrad 5: learning for myself ----- all of my new friends look good in a weird way well, that'd be a good way for humans to look too; look around, look around you-- it's all around, all around you in attics and basements and I don't know how you're upset

it is spring and nearly summer. i have done far too much to say so little. catch Jeannie McGuire's People In Industry @riversofsteel . we'll be there every Wednesday from 12-4 PM until June 16 to show off the works, tour the Pump House, and live paint. Jeannie's also teaching a workshop in watercolors if you wanna get good -- more on the web. you also have until the end of the month to see @pghfringe @mr_roboto_project . punk may be dead but ours is a city of zombies. ----- @lucasbescovi has finally conceded to me and we are watching Doctor Who together, allowing me to re-explore the textures of my teenage years. why do we create alien eyes to see ourselves through? something to do with God, probably. i don't know. but i like ramblers and i like when things turn out ok. ----- when i say celestial, i mean extraterrestrial i mean learning to accept the alien in your own heart ----- more soon.