don’t give up.

guess i lied.

btw new website operating more as a partly conceptual workspace now still adding a few things but the basics of my weirdness are there I am for once happy abt it ( rarity:)) www.matanaroberts.com

Author William Peter Blatty once won $10,000 on You Bet Your Life. When Groucho Marx asked what he planned to do with the money, he said he planned to take some time off to work on a novel. The result was The Exorcist (1973).

What’s wild is people will get snitty if you point out there hasn’t been nearly enough pushback on this.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is a reminder that most of the bench has never seen the inside of a trial court or a public defender’s office. She’s schooling folks how this actually works.

A few people have replied to my Artemis posts with links to Gil Scott-Heron's "Whitey on the Moon." Here's a story from Space.com about Artemis II pilot Victor Glover, currently en route to fly around the Moon, and his connection to that piece. www.space.com/space-explor...

Lauryn Hill, Travis Scott, and Cee-lo on that concert is not shocking....What is shocking is apparently L Boogie was on time...

Sometimes it bothers me that I'll never know what my cat named me

my mother had 8 inside, and a gargantuan crew of garden alley entry grubbers bc she would cook for them lol, it was cute but also insane.

Flea has always bn complicated for me. I remember the 90's way more than I'd like to...

actually i blocked it out: Vegas is top of my list

ALL THE SUB SKEETS LOL

It does suck, but one thing I appreciate abt it is that it might push ppl to check in on their local scenes more, bc 9 times out of 10, there’s incredible music happening right around them.

Rightwing dudes: "Women shouldn't be in leadership. Women shouldn't vote. They're not rational like men." Also, somehow, rightwing dudes: "The hand of God teleported me to a Waffle House."

vibes🫤

Yep, this is our retirement community. Keep the noise down.

I don't really have one yet, which is interesting to think about...

Still shocking 😳🤯🤣

I'm scared lol

I think Epstein is still alive. This will be my one gen x conspiracy theory, that as well as the thing abt domesticated felines being spies for aliens... (that cat lottery distribution system thing is a set up lol)

Bank of America would not have paid out $72.5 million dollars to the Epstein survivors, if the Epstein files were just a "Democratic hoax."

same! amazing little machine

that top left is out of bounds lol ( Last time I had KFC the year was 1990.)

girl take us with you

my astrology friends freak me out the most tbh... they get that look in their eye and look out man... ( that said I get my chart done every 4 to 5 years, it's a nice therapy precursor LMAO...)

It’s complicated because some people see West as both responsible and exploited: a product of systems that turn instability into spectacle, news fodder, income,industry,while still feeling attached to his earlier visionary work. Cldnt be me. But he lost me way before any of this.

I mean, there are worse places...

most of the punks I came up with are now business owners or landlords... ( mostly ethical, but not all)

Do you think RFK Jr. can lay eggs?

In a rare move, Bruce Springsteen authorized the ACLU to use the iconic anthem ‘Born in the U.S.A.’ in support of our Supreme Court case challenging President Trump’s attempts to end birthright citizenship.

(I pre-ordered and am excited to read this)

wild read

to be fair this cld also happen at Dennys, but yeah LMAO

RIP James Gadson, drummer. Working with everyone from Marvin Gaye to Norah Jones, Aretha Franklin to Justin Timberlake, his career spanned 6 decades. He played on over 500 gold records, including Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On," the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack and Herbie Hancock's "Manchild"

"..sometimes you gotta go, where everybody knows your name..."

UK analogue: maybe a Nando's or Costa Coffee? Idk... to me it's deeply regional, but I'd rather end up at one in that region, than say a Cracker Barrel lol

I love it

many ppl I know have C. Love horror stories... she was one of the 1st lady musicians closer to my gen,plastered on the idiot tube, that seemed to just revel in Cunt behavior( Cunt as a compliment btw),and I found that comforting, at a coming of age time. Women behaving badly is at my bedrock lol.

this book was fantastic btw

#ResistanceRoots The banjo is more intertwined with American music and culture than perhaps any other instrument. However, the banjo didn’t originate in America. Enslaved people in North America and the Caribbean brought it from Western and Central Africa and used it as a musical outlet. /1

the entire interview is insane lol

People need to pay close attention to this OLC opinion on the Presidential Records Act. As @joshgerstein.bsky.social points out, nothing less than our own history is at stake. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

( also throw some “Rats of NIMH” in there for good measure:))

“paper of record”🫣

Somewhere up in heaven, Richard Scarry is like “fuck yeah, told you so”: www.bbc.com/news/world-u...

bro is looking quite vampiric lol

Stop talking about graphs, check this out.

i guess i have a connect to Leon Botstein of sorts…longer story…I am not surprised by the Epstein tie in tbh…whether just fundraising shenanigans or otherwise…but I would really like to hope it’s the former scenario and not the latter