Tanya just played "A Letter from Home" by Blue Gene Tyranny on "Hot Fudge Sundazzze" on @xrayfm.bsky.social . Quite beautiful. Really loved it.

I believe that @kathyvalentine.bsky.social posted this on Twitter 14 years ago. Def worth several viewings. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jutu...

I have to say, as someone who has been observing academics making material available for free online (or refusing to do so) since online became a thing, that linguists are leaving just about everyone far, far behind. This, for example: wold.clld.org "World Loanword Database"

Saw "A Private Life" ("Vie privée", 2025) at Living Room Theaters. Enjoyed it. Thought it was excellent.

With Artemis II, we're just doing Apollo 8 again 57 years later, only it's a lot less impressive because our stuff is so much fancier.

Watched "Train Dreams" (2025) on Netflix with my mom at her apartment. Enjoyed it. Thought it was very good.

He’s going to use AI to write so many airport nonfiction books on topics he doesn’t actually know much about.

Saw "Devil in a Blue Dress" (1995) at the @hollywoodtheatre.org . Really enjoyed it. It was excellent.

I'm glad I got to enjoy the Kennedy Center for 9 years of my life. Those were Reagan/Bush years, so that kind of sucked, but at least those two gomers didn't mess with that beautiful place. Faves: Scorsese at AFI ("Cape Fear" premier), Alvin Ailey Dance Company "Firebird", and NSO doing various.

Just got waved and yelled at from a car by half of Lithics.

I had forgotten that Deerhoof covered "Blood on the Floor". www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw2w...

Woke up with "Chapter III" by Killing Joke in my head, so that's a pretty good start.

Nice big moon kind of low in the eastern sky now #pdx

I've probably googled Wikipedia's "trigonometric identities" page a thousand times in the past year. Yeah, I'm gonna bung them some money. Good ol' Wikipedia, still resisting enshittification like a champ.

Looks like some good TV. www.pbs.org/wnet/america...

Looking forward to seeing "A Private Life" at some point. Have been a Jodie Foster fan since "The Courtship of Eddie's Father".

Woke up with "Jam on It" by Newcleus in my head, so that's a pretty good start.

Yikes, well a couple of ravens came by the uncharacteristically unguarded nest today and pecked the hell out of the two eggs. Jackie might just lay another clutch of eggs, but I hear from someone who witnessed the raven attack that it was like watching a horror movie.

Silver looks like it's restating past numbers, suspending the dividend, and investigating accounting irregularities.

Smart like that in the USA. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/americans-...

well done

Not Tulsi dropping this right on top of 'Melania' 💀

Woke up with "Follow the Leader" by Killing Joke in my head, so that's a pretty good start.

NBC report quoted unnamed ex-White House official saying Oregon was next... “...Minnesota is not going to be the last state that ICE goes to. Oregon was next. We were not done. We need to keep going.” It’s not clear if that’s still a possibility... [gift link] www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Recommended: www.netflix.com/us/title/826...

Watched "The Maltese Falcon" with my mom at her apartment. That was a good one, especially the bit about porkchops and applesauce.

Saw "The Chronology of Water" at Living Room Theaters. So good.

Watched "I Remember Mama" (1948) with my mom at her apartment. Enjoyed it. Ellen Corby was my favorite cast member. Fun movie, partly because it was about Norwegians in San Franciso in the early 20th century. My mom suggested it because my father, a sentimental cuss, was fond of it.

Jackie laid her first egg of the season about an hour ago. www.youtube.com/live/B4-L2nf...

Grim. jmarriott.substack.com/cp/185481589

Saw "Father Mother Sister Brother" at the @hollywoodtheatre.org . Enjoyed it. Thought it was very good.

the Nissan Pao is one of the all-time high scorers on the only automotive benchmark that matters: the "would an eccentric detective drive this around while solving crimes?" vibe check

Woke up with "Last Date" by Floyd Cramer in my head, so that's a pretty good start.

Saw "The Testament of Ann Lee" at @hollywoodtheatre.org . Enjoyed it. Very painterly. Looking at some shots reminded me of watching parts of "The Cremaster Cycle", so highly composed were things. There were aspects of the film that I didn't care for, but it's not my art. Was glad they made it.

The Entwistle demo of "Trick of the Light" is magnificent.

Let's make sure this happens.

"Freaking Out with Kendraplex" on @wfmu.bsky.social is some fun. wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

Featuring the superimposed oscilloscope - youtu.be/8G9mEwdp8Vs?...

This afternoon saw a guy around 31sth & Sumner walking four corgis, so of course I thought of corgi guy of yore. This could have been the old corgi guy. Dunno.

Saw "Dead Man's Wire" at the Laurelhurst. Found it diverting.

I miss Good Dog / Bad Dog on Alder between Broadway and Park. There used to be a lot of great stuff down there. Never bought anything from "The Big Bang", but it was fun. That punk clothes place on the second or third floor of that building. Rich's when magazines were still a thing. #pdx #codgertalk

When the record store bubble finally pops, it will take the entire world economy down with it.

via 'Cities by Diana' on Facebook

Saw an Oregon vanity plate that said "FOIA" today. Seemed like I should know who that was.

Join us on Monday, February 2nd as the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art presents MONK IN PIECES, a new documentary film about the visionary composer and performer Meredith Monk. Tickets: hollywoodtheatre.org/show/monk-in-pieces

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition, The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance Iconic imo

"Today marks the date my brother Gary was put to death in Utah in 1977, for two murders. . . for today, this post acknowledges the event with the resonance of a song." mikalggilmore.substack.com/p/night-beat...

Nice stripey sunset out there #pdx .

Watched "The 39 Steps" (1935) with my mom at her apartment. Enjoyed it. Thought it was good.