Hi my loves
Well, as usual. Best laid plans. I was gonna hit the ground running when I came home from tour but New England decided to play host to almost two feet of snow and school is canceled for the second day in a row here…so I’m just waving from the mom & sled underground. The kid has eaten his weight in snow already.
Lots more coming, but for now, sending love from the snowpocalypse…especially to my fellow parents dealing with shuttered schools and melting brains !...
2026-01-27 17:00:26 +0000 UTC
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Hi loves.
I have so much to tell you about the last few weeks, it’s been a great whirlwind of friends, work, writing and travel. But meanwhile: a question and word about the state of the political storm.
First and foremost: how is everybody feeling in the USA? And…how is everybody NOT in the USA feeling? Hint: that means all of you.
A pointed question: does anyone out there (esp from the ex-US countries) know any other artists pulling out of US tours?
When the ...
2026-01-24 23:30:40 +0000 UTC
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Good late late evening my loves.
My favorite photo of the year so far.
I was walking by the sea with a close friend yesterday, and we saw this.
She’s always reminding us, isn’t she. The sea, the sky. The all.
All around me, America, heartache. I have friends and acquaintances who are navigating through incredible personal darknesses as the nation feels like it’s veering into the jagged rocks. The dying parents, the illnesses, the addictions, the helpless fee...
2026-01-22 07:46:09 +0000 UTC
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Hello loves.
Reading comments. (Feel free to talk about the shows that just happened, and if you got photos, the embargo is OVER!! Feel free to post them online or send them to the wide-open chat on the patreon).
I'm collapsed, it's post-tour time.
Real show photos en route and in the system.
All three concerts (Auckland, Sydney, Melbourne) were unprecedented in their path of production and delivery (and we keep hearing this p-work term bandied around, but d...
2026-01-20 07:31:31 +0000 UTC
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Dear Ones.
Greetings from Sydney, heading to Melbourne soon.
Didn't think I'd be spending the last day writing an obituary for a friend that I was just beginning to have, but sometimes life is like that.
I'm posting the below bit to socials in a minute.
Some of you were at the Vineyard house salon I mention, and you may have even met him (a few of you texted me, thank you.)
Oof. I'll see many of you soon in Melbourne. I can't wait. I need it.
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Hello loves
Greetings from Sydney.
I’m sending my love all around the world to every one of you today. My friends in America: it really isn’t a good scene, is it. It has felt like an ongoing case of the wheels falling off the bus for a long time, now it feels like the bus is driving with no wheels, no driver, and no bus.
What to do? Pay attention, keep your head on straight, be true to your community, your friends and your family…and make art, make food, make good, ma...
2026-01-12 22:31:40 +0000 UTC
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Hello loves
Reading comments.
What it says on the tin, below.
The scale here is different, as usual. Fighte fuaighte. My distant gaelic cousins, trailing me over here.
Just a quick word and some picture postcards from Aotearoa New Zealand.
I’m thinking a lot, experiencing a lot, ruminating a lot, traveling moment to moment, and most importantly, spending a lot of time with my fellow human beings and old friends here in New Zealand. It’s hard, leaving a wh...
2026-01-08 10:10:32 +0000 UTC
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It’s everywhere, this moon. It’s taken over the whole island. Everybody’s going out to see the moonrise.
Greetings from Waiheke.
“‘O all the world is a little queer, except thee and me, and sometimes, I wonder about thee.’ I know about me. I am the moon’s sister, a tidal child stranded on land. The sea always in my ear, a surf of eternal discontent in my blood.” (Keri Hulme).
Late last night, after dinner and rehearsing, Big Oneroa Beach, 10:50pm.
We ...
2026-01-06 03:06:19 +0000 UTC
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Someone just DM’d me this on Instagram, but I figured I would share it with all of you, because I think….it’s true.
You are. ♥️
2026-01-04 04:06:24 +0000 UTC
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Oof
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/mtv-music-only-channels-off-air-1235492854/
I have never written about MTV because it feels, maybe, as a kid of the 80s, writing about the sky, or toast. It was just there and of course and hard to describe. But it was so, so, so important. Media doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Things come to be. The printi...
2026-01-03 09:15:22 +0000 UTC
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Hello loves!
This morning had a rare free moment so I did a spontaneous little live from New Zealand that lasted about an hour! It was free to ALL patrons - including free members - and the archive is open!!
About 100 folks tuned in. We hung out and caught up, lots of nice random chat, and we let the conversation wander ...
A few links I promised you who tuned in:
Here's a link to the "Oasis" video! I was really surpised to see it has almost 2m views on YouTube, yikes!...
2026-01-03 04:36:35 +0000 UTC
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This morning, the first day of 2026, I left my family behind in the dawn hours and went down to the water to send off to sea the ash-pile of wishes and nightmares that the children had burned to a quiet crisp at midnight.
Post here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/147072897?utm_campaign=postshare_creator
At around 7:30am NZ time I went live for the patrons - for whoever ha...
2026-01-01 03:57:08 +0000 UTC
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We got it first!!!!!!
To all of you, so much love and so many heartfelt wishes from 2026!!
We just rang it in here in Aotearoa New Zealand; it’s nearly 1am and I’m heading to bed, but first….
I hope this turning of the year gives you some new spark inside, some hopeful sense of quiet relief in the changing of the moment. If nothing else, I hope you get to just…let some things go.
A ritual can help. Even if you’re alone at home. A small thought, a wish or a n...
2025-12-31 11:56:26 +0000 UTC
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Hello loves....
I'm reading comments.
Happy last day of the year.
Greetings from Aotearoa New Zealand, where it's December 31st already.
I'm still deep in family, rest, and book research/writing time, but I'll come up for air within the week, right before tour starts.
We have a few things to get out to you (I'm especially excited to share the Amie McNee talk at The Brattle Theater with you all)....everybody's off work for the holidays.
And now?
As we...
2025-12-30 23:24:59 +0000 UTC
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Hello my loves
Greetings from Waiheke Island, Aotearoa. (There are venue updates coming for the NZ & Oz shows, all the dates have held but the locations have shifted slightly. Hold the phone, it’s the holidays…)
I was going to write on an entirely different subject this evening when the thunderclouds of darkness descended. We were in the middle of making dinner for the kids when that sort of text came in.
Can you give me a call when you get a minute
2025-12-27 07:47:01 +0000 UTC
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Kia Ora my loves.
Not all of you patrons out there celebrate it, but nevertheless, from these strange parts down under: a happy festivus and merry christmas to all of you.
I love and care about you all.
Heather Cox Richardson just said something in her post that resonated deeply: for many people, Christmas marks the point where the light starts coming back.
The light.
I’m down under, it’s nearly 9pm and still light. In NYC it’s 3am.
I still feel t...
2025-12-25 09:07:13 +0000 UTC
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My loves.
Greetings from BED!!!! It’s already late late on Christmas Eve down under.
The rest of the house is asleep.
The tree is lit. No mices are stirring.
I missed doing this reading last year, and the year before….i used to do it every year but then, things collaps...
2025-12-24 10:10:30 +0000 UTC
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THE BIG OL' LIFE N DEATH UPDATE
TOP HOUSEKEEPING/EVENTS
PATREON CATCH-UP (what's been happening here on the Patreon this month...)
LIVE SHOW CATCH-UP FOR THE MONTH
UPCOMING PATRON RELEASES, SHOWS AND EVENTS
COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD (notices from the global community and my art-friends)
AR...
2025-12-22 11:36:59 +0000 UTC
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Morning loves.
Greetings from Boston, two days to go til leaving for Christmas and tour down under.
This is a nice little tidbit to wake up to…
Lady Gaga talking to Rolling Stone about The Dresden Dolls’ early influence on her music/style. Punk Cabaret Is Freedom, rah rah ah ah ah…
Here’s the whole interview: https://www.rollingstone...
2025-12-18 19:44:13 +0000 UTC
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Hello, all my free Patrons!!
SHORT STORY: go fill out this form if you'd like to request a free gift of patronage from a generous secret santa!:
https://forms.gle/1Zi9XMbGw4UHgMsy5
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Here’s a fun experiment. (Well, perhaps this depends on your definition of "fun"). But.
Here goes!
I'm so grateful that you're here. If you know my philsophy - from my book or from y TED tal...
2025-12-17 21:18:27 +0000 UTC
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Hello
My loves !!! Thank you for all the comments on my little piece of writing earlier. I glove you. :D
(If you missed it, it’s here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/145955740?utm_campaign=postshare_creator)
I’m feckin shattered after a lonnnnnnnng day in the studio - we shot an entire little music video - and LOOK! A gorgeous and lonnnng Steinway concert grand....
2025-12-17 06:22:40 +0000 UTC
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{Contains: rape, trauma, and hopefully instructions on how to deal with both}
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Maybe it was because the friend who gifted me the glove (I mean: the gloves, because they always come in pairs) meant so much to me.
And maybe also because her own life has become so unfairly mangled recently; sliced and disfigured by the flying shrapnel of yet another immolating man, and so she is my sister in survival.
And so the gift of a pair of gloves from her...
2025-12-16 13:50:52 +0000 UTC
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Hey patrons of the globe, and especially the Oz and Aotearoa New Zealand people.
TL;DR: the whole world feels fucked, you're not alone, don't stop trying to be kind, and I'll see you Oz and Kiwi folks soon enough. You now have your own dedicated patron chat, please use it to comnfrot and find one another, and there's also a shadowbox thread for the Waiheke, Melbourne and Sydney shows so you can locate one another in the lead-up to share info, rides, tips, couches, love.
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2025-12-15 22:18:19 +0000 UTC
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Hello loves.
Happy first night of Chanukah.
Fuck.
Ash lit the candles. I made a post earlier today about the shooting in Sydney.
The comments that I got about sending love to the community in Australia without specifying the Jewish community spoke volumes. People were appalled that I didn’t specify the Jewish commonly.
So I wrote, and added to t...
2025-12-15 00:18:26 +0000 UTC
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Hello my loves.
A long catch-up, it's been a while since I wrote at length, and there's a lot going on.
Greetings from a beautiful little coffee shop in Boston where I'm trying to get caught up on admin before a big friends-n-fam weekend for the kiddo.
I'm feeling the frightful nearness of the holidays, the fractured time-blitz that always comes with this time of year when you have a diaspora of friends and family, and the political landscape continues to provide endless po...
2025-12-12 17:38:30 +0000 UTC
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G’Day my dears and Kia Ora….
SURPRISE!
I’m doing a super-limited solo piano tour of OZ & NZ this January, and we are putting tickets on sale to the patrons only RIGHT the eff NOW.
I’ll be playing my new piano material, holding a Q&A about the state of all things, and doing a hang/meet & greet after every show.
I know you (mostly) all know how much the community down there in the antipodes means to me, and I am so inexpressibly excited for thes...
2025-12-12 00:18:31 +0000 UTC
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Happy Holigays.
Greetings from BOSTON....it's cold. I have huge news coming LATER TODAY (wait for it, wait for it)...but MEANWHILE....
Just a quick housekeeping reminder that the beautiful Dresden Dolls card (painted by Niki McQueen JUST for the holidays of 2025), signed by both band members, is almost WRAPPED!
This is your LAST CALL for holiday shipping - so get on it....we only printed...
2025-12-11 16:31:43 +0000 UTC
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I’ll explain later.
Your patronage and support is fucking appreciated.
These recording studios aren’t cheap.
♥️🤘
2025-12-10 17:28:03 +0000 UTC
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Join us NOW! We are online until 1pm EST today!
https://www.crowdcast.io/c/december9thwebhang
Up your patronage to $15 to join....or watch the archive later.
LETS ROAST SOME VEG
x
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2025-12-09 16:23:10 +0000 UTC
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Hello my loves.
Greetings from the nearing darkest day of the year up here in Boston. It's tree time.
AND
Behold....beautiful new artwork from beautiful Niki McQueen.
Grateful beyond measure to all of you, as usual, for keeping me (and the band, and my family) so afloat this year. It's been a hard one, but I've never felt more clarity and, in a strange way, joy in the thin...
2025-12-07 20:13:03 +0000 UTC
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