Basssoon, oboe, saxophone, clarinet. Maslow's hierarchy of reeds.

A sowing/reaping for the ages

Just went to see Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band play New Jersey and Garden State boomers are sooooo pissed. Last week I went to Lady Gaga’s final show of her Mayhem tour in NYC and my ears are ringing harder tonight from people with white hair up way past their bedtime booing ICE and DHS.

An opportune time to remind yall media and journalism scholars that there isn’t much scholarship out there on The Onion and I would love a pitch for a monograph or edited collection on the subject…

Pennsylvania's auditor general, a Republican, audited 210,000+ new voter registrations under Gov. Shapiro's new motor voter system to see if noncitizens were registering to vote. They found one. One. And that was because a PennDOT staffer erred. It was fixed before the driver left the office.

Did the Pope read Baudrillard?

you there! fetch my smallest of stringed instruments

on my way to get a second ice coffee

which Nine Inch Nails song is this

The desperate campaign to push AI down our throats is just what Nestlé did with baby formula, or Monsanto with patended seeds. Manufactured Intermediation—inserting a corporate tollbooth into a process that used to be self-sustaining, using a low initial barrier to entry to destroy the alternative.

It's Vinylthon weekend! That means tonight's Jazzish will be live, in studio, and all wax. Selections will be more classic than contemprary as a result, spanning 1958-2026. 10pm-mid ET on WIUP, 90.1FM / wiupfm.org / TuneIn / Radiogarden #jazzsky #collegeradio

trumps appointees being alcoholic incompetents and trumps jan 6th supporters being pedophiles seems like something historians are going to be studying tbh

They're cowards for not doing this.

"Those taxes you just paid? The money is going straight into Trump's pocket" would be good messaging

"Surfin' Bird" / Pink Flamingos

Magic combination of a summer birthday + the academic calendar takes care of this for me.

Oh! This is very exciting (still want public money revamp in the rebuilding).

If you didn’t think it was possible after yesterday’s house editorial (left) for Washpost Opinion to more obsequiously parrot their owner’s tax agenda, well, you probably haven’t seen today’s piece (right)

Some of y’all never got a approving nod from the record store clerk and it shows.

Last month in The Onion:

GET THEIR ASSES

the conservative obsession with children's genitals now extended to wanting to breed teenage girls tell me why democrats stopped calling these weirdos weird

“Your payment was successful” I bet it was you trick ass bitch

AI is profoundly unpopular. A recent NBC News poll found that among 18-34 year-olds, AI's net favorability rating is -44. *Negative 44*. Those are basically serial killer numbers. It's not much better among women 18-49. (Men over 50 and upper class are the only ones who like AI, and just barely.)

A+ headline. defector.com/president-ex...

Tickets are gonna be so expensive for the John Lennon tour.

The Baltimore Banner’s parent organization will buy the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, a deal that will keep one of the country’s oldest newspapers open

Instead of asking chatgpt, why not ask a librarian? You'll get real answers and they won't tell you to kill yourself.

This is the way.

This whole thing was a setup for TV and that any news organization takes this even remotely at face value is going to turn me into the Joker.

Now more than ever, God has the opportunity to do the funniest thing

From new Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar's acceptance speech tonight. This is the absolute BARE MINIMUM platform for any Democrat running for President in 2028.

REMINDER: Ending the war in Ukraine is now 447 days (1 year and 82 days) behind schedule

Happy Birthday Herbie Hancock! 🎉🎂🐐 All Herbie all day. 🔁 extremely thankful I will get to see him again (for the 6th time) at Jazzfest. 🙏🐐🎹👑 #jazzsky #vinyl

I'm old enough to remember when we won this war.

The asshole markup

Yes, don’t post any spoilers for the biopic about the most obsessively-covered, commercially lucrative musician of the last 100 years. Got it

boardwalk benches adjustable, asbury park, new jersey, 1978

On tonight's Jazzish, Pittsburgh pianist Tom Roberts returns to discuss his ongoing project scoring Charlie Chaplin films! Plus the latest from Thundercat, Henriette Eilertsen, Abate Berihun, and more. 10pm-mid ET tonight on WIUP: 90.1FM / wiupfm.org / TuneIn / Radiogarden #jazzsky #collegeradio

Reminder

Huey Lewis is a fascinating case study in making solid gold out of just whatever is lying around. One of his biggest singles is a song where he just lists a bunch of cities where people like rock and roll. The man could literally sing the phone book and it would be a hit.

I have zero interest in watching a podcast. Also, a favorite podcast recently "pivoted to video," and the production quality of the audio only version has fallen off as a result.

Looking forward to this.

thakn you god for giving iran a giant victory against america, we praise you for making gas $5/gallon

Oh, this is good. Idaho passed a bill banning local cities from flying the Pride flag. So the cities decided to wrap the poles themselves in pride colors. This is amazing.

a sex pest real estate guy who lost money on his casinos got elected president twice because he played a deals man on tv and then he destroyed the global economy. baudrilliard would die if he wasn't already dead.