Leadbelly, man. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqst...

If more men learned to flirt from bird documentaries, the world would be a far more interesting place

Introduce yourself with 5+ live concerts you've seen: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper/Too Much Joy/Dick Nixons Metallica Bob Dylan Lisa Loeb

"Really I think that the poorest he that is in England has a life to live as the greatest he...."

Extremely basic answer, but: 1) Wish You Were Here 2) The Wall 3) Dark Side After that? 4) Meddle 5) Animals 6) Piper at the Gates of Dawn 7) Obscured by Clouds 8) Saucerful of Secrets 9) More 10) Division Bell 11) Atom Heart Mother 12) Momentary Lapse of Reason 13) Ummagumma 14) The Final Cut

Choose your top 25 favorite female characters in comics. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews. Day 8: Magik

Thinking today about that mega-wealthy guy who in 2014 warned fellow mega-wealthy guys that it would not be too long before they faced popular revolt. badfaithtimes.com/americans-ar...

Choose your top 25 favorite female characters in comics. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews. Day 7: Mary Jane Watson

Frog tied some string around the box. “There,” he said. “Now we will not eat any more cookies.” “But we can cut the string and open the box,” said Toad. “That is true,” said Frog.

The only downside to the return of Stranger Things is the return of Stranger Things Discourse.

Choose your top 25 favorite female characters in comics. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews. Day 6: Wonder Woman

nose down ass up that's the way we cyberstuck

Smooth Criminal

Wicked: For Good. And it was actually good!

I think the main reason for this is the way AI is being shoved down the throat of consumers who aren’t asking for it. If it was just “go use ChatGPT or not” I think it’d be a lot different.

I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.

Rachel Talalay’s Star Wars or Kathryn Bigelow’s The Shadow over Innsmouth.

If you can’t live without merchandise featuring a mouse riding a lobster then @themerl.bsky.social is the place for you.

Hard to look at this and not think 'peak human achievement here, we're done'

Rewatching Stranger Things from the beginning and my extremely hot take is that it is extremely good teevee.

Fuck you, too, Forbes!

Choose your top 25 favorite female characters in comics. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews. Day 5: Zatanna

Yes, HID headlights are very bright but the bigger problem is the proliferation of gargantuan vehicles with 5’+ hood heights so that if you’re driving a normal sized car their headlights are at your eye level rather than seat level like they’re supposed to be.

Breakthru by Queen youtu.be/CEjU9KVABao?...

I only went to see this because the weasels stole the title from the then-alive Warren Zevon. It turned out to be pretty good!

Choose your top 25 favorite female characters in comics. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews. Day 4: Storm

I need a horse immediately

This is not the way, and @cnygren.bsky.social and I lay out in detail why it isn’t in this essay here. static1.squarespace.com/static/55577...

Post your getaway vehicle

Yes, and also, leave X if you have not already

I think I must be a little younger than these guys (but, being born in 74, I still qualify as GenX?) and neither one of these takes really captures my experience. The real enemy in my teenage years (pre-grunge) was the overproduced, bombastic pop music MTV would just not stop playing.

I recommend reading this fascinating MA thesis on The Life and Letters of the Lady Arbella Stuart, by Rowena McCoy: researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/server/api/c... #Stuarts #History

What fictional creature/villain traumatized you as a child? This music video was the scariest thing I saw in my childhood, unless you count the house in POLTERGEIST or the second half of TEMPLE OF DOOM.

Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.

Or this cover of Cry Baby Cry by Throwing Muses from 1991 with the acoustic guitar intro that the Goo Goo Dolls ripped off. youtu.be/cZxoEwqmcCk

the multi-year lack of a truly functional manuscripts catalog at the BL is finally over!!!!

Choose your top 25 favorite female characters in comics. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews. Day 3: Rogue

Darkness, imprisoning me All that I see, absolute horror I cannot live, I cannot die Trapped in myself, body my holding cell Landmine has taken my sight Taken my speech, taken my hearing Taken my arms, taken my legs Taken my soul, left me with life in Hell

Every gimmick hungry yob digging gold from rock 'n' roll Grabs the mic to tell me he'll die before he's sold But I believe in this and it's been tested by research He who fucks nuns will later join the church

Prince Valiant by Hal Foster #comicstrip #princevaliant #arthuriana #middleages #comicstrips

Ghostbusters Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure Near Dark Ladyhawke

I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone. Killing IMLS could have killed ILL. This is great news. 📚

They used to make real soundtracks for movies (and Wes Anderson still does, so):

Choose your top 25 favorite female characters in comics. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews. Day 2: Shadowcat/Kate Pryde/Ariel/Sprite (with bonus Lockheed!)

The VVitch.

Choose your top 25 favorite female characters in comics. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews. Day 1: Kahvi.