the final track of zeno’s Ambient 1 kind of sounds like the some of the slow parts of Copland’s Appalachian Spring

lieutenant columbo, hombocide

Hearing Jazz and Seeing Art the Fred Joiner Way, With a Poetry Debut 50 Years in the Making “The Mirror in Our Music,” a new collection by former Carrboro Poet Laureate Fred Joiner, is rich in references to art, music, and collaboration. indyweek.com/news/culture...

heart-to-heart w/the kids tonite: “since you refuse to go to bed at a reasonable time, mom and I don’t get enough sleep. since we’re sleep deprived our brains don’t work as well which means we can’t do our jobs as well which means we might be fired which means we could all end up in the poorhouse”

I had the good fortune to copyedit this book. It’s a very engrossing and interesting read!

spam text messages, websites that reload constantly, “AI” infesting every digital space you could think of, indecipherable citations, people who answer none of the questions you’ve asked it’s all so banal and cumulatively so stultifying

brb gonna go do some trading in dogshit futures

good morning i just Teams messaged a coworker to simply say "[person outside the org whom we have to deal with] sucks"

a rough week for those of us who care about books and writing. I’m finding some solace in music, of course—specifically the resilient optimism of Pat Metheny

an ecological crisis a labor relations crisis an epistemological crisis a moral crisis

back at it, now with the 9yo and the 3rd grade

re: the Olga Tokarczuk story that broke yesterday, as I was saying

arrangement-wise, this sticks very close to the record, but still this is a great rendition. the vocalists totally own the song, and the guitar fills are 👌 must’ve been really fun to be in the audience

when your living room is full of tchotchkes

AI-enhanced toilet paper, featuring Wipe Optimization™️ technology

I’m reminded that the commencement speaker for my college graduation was NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly 🤦🏻‍♂️

well, clearly Ronald Isley made a bargain with the devil because there is no natural way an 80yo man should be able to sing this well

y’all maybe there’s more to this than I even intended. what if, in pushing the Rhodes keyboard to the margins, we lost the love? what if the sound heals?

we need to bring back chorused Fender Rhodes electric piano as a main ingredient of popular music

tired: dealing with an annoying albeit minor situation wired: finding the absolutely correct analogy to describe the ways in which the situation is annoying

new life hack: INBOX 18,000

this morning our dog somehow escaped from our fenced-in back yard and was waiting to be let in at the house's side door (not where I let her out). none of the gates was open. so now I'm wondering if someone in the 'hood played a prank and let the dog out during her brief morning pit stop 🙃

You: please act normal you need these people to like you Me: ok! People: hi Me: it seems there’s someone at work who has been stuffing all the toilets with pounds of Boar’s Head ham

For Ham the Toilet Clogs

You: please act normal you need these people to like you Me: ok! People: hi Me: did you know Peter Falk was very close friends with John Cassavetes and acted in several of Cassavetes's movies? if you only think of Columbo when you think of Falk you should probably remedy that ASAP

Kirkland SIgnature Flatulence

Oh my god

why did no one tell me Harold Budd made other terrific albums beside the Eno collaborations??? C'MON GUYS

might take up problem gambling

kids, Just Say No (to slime)

Is there anything (essays, books) on how the American landscape is being turned into fields of warehouses? AI data centers and ICE detention facilities being the more environmentally and humanly genocidal turn recently, but preceded by Amazon distribution centers and Walmart and other big box stores

what i write to my boss: “i welcome feedback on any of this” what it means: “i know i fucked up and i am ready for my castigation”

reason no. 7,450,683 to NEVER buy books from Amazon

in case you forgot, this recording exists. a Platonic ideal was achieved

Joni Mitchell

of all members of society, school teachers should be ready and willing to accommodate ND kids and moreover any students with any kind of special needs. I am finding out that I have zero patience for people employed as teachers who demonstrate their unwillingness in those regards

honestly for me the thing "AI" (LLMs) most resembles now is an infestation of vermin. it showed up where I live, uninvited, and now it and signs of its presence are showing up everywhere and thoughts about it are taking up too much of my brain and I want to fumigate the whole damn place

1973-ass detective show theme music

it’s giving end-stage discursive entropy

actually, one thing has evidently stopped: my fitbit. good riddance. I'll put on my analog, solar-powered Seiko, which has worked without fail since the day I got it some 14 years ago

existing things are still happening and new things have emerged, to my dismay

when your first child is born when your second child is born

Happy 226th Birthday to John Brown, the only white boy to ever truly understand the assignment

Author, bookseller, and publisher friends: Please keep posting your positive stories about selling books through Bluesky, and I'll package them up and show them to publishers so that we can get more book publishers and even more authors and book conversation here!

first time watching Conan the Barbarian and I think I’ve found my new hair style

Tommy Tuberville sounds like a folk hero who died in the Mississippi River trying to prove that a single man with the heart of a lion, nerves of steel, a canoe & a fuckton of chewing tobacco could outperform one of them new-fangled tugboats.

I hope there are UFOs. I welcome the aliens. we’re cooked anyway; at least we might serve a purpose in their experiments

I know some mufos remember the 1010 WINS tagline, “you give us 22 minutes, we’ll give you the world” I think Canvas’s tagline should be “you give us 22 million, we’ll give away all your data”