"I always liked Aslan a little better than Jesus...While the image that Jesus conjured up in my head was a blurry amalgamation of Jim Morrison and Allen Ginsberg (without the glasses), Aslan was always crystal clear: the golden hair; the strong, soft paws; the sexy, sonorous tone of his voice."

I think I've definitely shared this before, but if you are thinking about the 75th birthday of Narnia, as I am, you might enjoy this piece I wrote about re-reading The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe after leaving the church as an adult. the-rambling.com/2023/04/06/i...

I'm always down for dancing about architecture and this absolutely hits the spot: warrington-runcorn-cis.bandcamp.com/album/interi... #musicsky

This is a straight-up #dungeonsynth song, like, I have heard these exact textures on dungeon synth albums. In 1986, Ray Lynch predicted the exact aesthetic that a certain type of indie game soundtrack would be going for, and he did it on an album called Deep Breakfast www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8mE...

This isn't my campus newspaper anymore but it's still great to know that nobody stops the IDS. Without their persistent coverage of our unionization efforts, we would not have been successful at demanding raises for grad workers. Network journalists could learn a lot from these brave students.

Claims about the "inevitability" of generative AI prove how accustomed we've become to a magic hat economic model in which one in every thousand hats contains a rabbit, but if we want our money to mean anything, we have to collectively pretend that all of them do. 999 invisible rabbits.

This is what I've been saying, put more clearly by an actually knowledgeable journalist. If you want to Have A Company, you have to Sell A Product. A lot of companies take a while to turn a profit, but all the ones who do have one thing in common: selling a thing www.theregister.com/2025/10/15/o...

"Some AI is being used to make images and videos online" is perhaps the funniest possible way to respond to "What are the benefits of AI?" Yes, these things are primarily sausage grinders that feed the products of human arts and culture back to us as slop... www.npr.org/2025/10/14/n...

I had to break it off with Herbie....he was just so high maintenance

There should be a name for the specific kind of seasonal affective disorder that comes from the fact that fall doesn't happen anymore and it's going to be eighty degrees in October. I guess the word for this is eco-grief but I want a word that captures specifically how much I miss fall.

Perfect morning working music; also the CD came in a square wooden box like a cajón 🤩 secretstashcomps.bandcamp.com/album/pe-a

If the Incredible Hulk eats a giant, Hulk-sized sandwich with his big green mouth, does Bruce Banner have to try to pass a Hulk-sized green poo poo later? Does Bruce Banner worry about this? Cuz I guarantee the Hulk is not worried about this for a second

@itsben1week.bsky.social lol

The FL GOP literally wants a colorless and bland world, painting over simple joys in the name of petty cruelty. And like sure, fascism demands uniformity, but also I just don't understand how these lame and boring people are popular enough to get anyone to vote for them apnews.com/article/flor...

In the hard quiet corner of my heart where the fear of hell used to be, something admittedly cruel sits, wishing such an afterlife existed in which someone is doing to James Dobson what James Dobson told our parents to do to us

Also one of the NY'er's better headlines www.newyorker.com/culture/cult...

It's not just about the playing the fan, it's about playing the fan with an almost unbearable level of bonhomie and grace youtu.be/QJavHc48iZU?...

the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back

Also, to this point, the degree to which classroom academics have adopted the "they're always going to live with this, so we have to teach them how to use it" approach is staggering. There is no case in which it actually makes sense to use a nonsense generator, unless you need a ton of nonsense

Eddie Palmieri's part of the Derek Bailey "On the Edge" documentary was positively transcendent; when he wanted to, he could go as hard as Cecil Taylor. Watch the way he can't stop himself from singing along with his solo here. Legendary. #musicsky #jazz youtu.be/B6fSMxXDZNY?...

Like, it's money. That I have. Or in a credit card's case, money that I am already allowed to have. Of course there have always been things that are legal and illegal to spend money on, but those things have been determined by...the LAW. Not by a thing that one random guy woke up worried about today

"I love you...God bless you...You're the fuckin' best." Notice how many times Ozzy stops to send love to the audience? Today was going to come sooner or later, but it's still a day of great loss for me and a bunch of other weird people www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUT7...

Did anybody else already know that Bill Frisell could be terrifying? I only knew him as the good at front porch music but still highly respected for his technical chops guy; this stuff is terrifying #musicsky youtu.be/anS5KrxE0Ig

there is a certain (mostly) 70s-era album art aesthetic that essentially guarantees that I will purchase the vinyl, and it looks like this

i went all the way to #asle2025 in Maryland just so i could find the greatest box in history at a gas station in Ohio

A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."

i can’t stop watching this vid of dan deacon doing the anthem before the orioles game yesterday it just gets better and better and all the crowd shots are golden

between this and his brief stint as James Bond on Seth Meyers i believe Joe Pera may be well on his way to becoming one of the great action stars of our time www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR1a...

Okay, what if we didn't let them have their fucking cutesy alligator name. Like just stop calling it that, it fucking sucks, and scare quotes don't change it. It's "Florida's camp for the unlawful detention and removal of innocent people"; we can't let them paper it over www.npr.org/2025/07/01/n...

I've presented at the National Humanities Conference: my very dangerous and un-American work organizing a downtown scavenger hunt about circus history. Other work included community-building programs for veterans and exciting new ideas for neglected historical sites...

I regret to even acknowledge the existence of this "song," but here we go: BOUGIE LIKE NATTY IN THE STYROFOAM SQUEAKY-SQUEAKIN IN THE TRUCK BED ALL THE WAY HOME WITH SOME ALABAMA-JAMMA, SHE MY DIXIELAND DELIGHT THAT'S HOW WE DO How WE Do .............fancy like

I think this latest by Matt Jencik and Midwife gets as close as I can get to a "summer jam." Maybe not the very first thing you'll hear but it reminds me of my favorite things about The Appleseed Cast's Low Level Owl, which is one of my all-timers #musicsky youtu.be/TIg_-JjqM2s

Sometimes your new favorite album is eight years old, and that's okay. Mainstream music press focuses too much on new music anyway, imo. If @thequietus.com hadn't linked to their archive at the bottom of a different article, I wouldn't have found my album of the year (from 2017) youtu.be/qwROTPYgFDs

"Set in the same universe as The Office" - so...a world where you go to work and sit in a chair? Is Frasier in "the same universe" as Cheers? I was trying to think of a snarky way to put this but now I'm just actually curious what the word universe means in realist sitcoms kotaku.com/office-spin-...

Susana Baron Supervielle, born in Buenos Aires in 1910, lived much of her life in Brazil while maintaining close ties to Buenos Aires and Paris, where she became a pioneering figure in electroacoustic music. www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2025/05/the-...

Besieged! Postcard from my collection, unsent, photo copyright 1902.

There's gonna be a Voivod game! Now do Neptunian Maximalism next you cowards #metalsky www.polygon.com/gaming/56672...

holy crap this is good

"Jesus Christ is rizzin' today" <- my son right before bed making a funnier joke than I will ever make in my life

Am I done with Nintendo? I think I'm done with Nintendo. Zelda meant the world to me for decades, but I never rolled credits on TotK anyway. Food and arrows felt like work. $90 for an eight year old game? Nobody has debased their legacy so hard since the reunited Pixies kotaku.com/zelda-botw-s...

Aw yeah, who's ready to pump some Band of Horses in the club #musicsky youtu.be/yP2bNcz2l8o

for all the metalhead fans of nineteenth century French magic shows, don't worry, my Deafheaven review has you covered. #metalsky www.popmatters.com/deafheaven-l...

Really excited to present my debut #dungeonsynth project under the Hermeticist moniker. I felt like a lot of dungeon synth sounded a little like M83, so I tried to kind of swing for those fences. Maybe I missed! Only one way to find out. #musicsky clownschooldropout.bandcamp.com/album/a-year...

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I absolutely adore how at the beginning of the live set Keith Emerson says "We're gonna give ya 'Pictures at an Exhibition'" and the crowd completely explodes at this extended Mussorgsky cover like it's Ozzy and he just said he was about to start "Crazy Train" #musicsky youtu.be/xWQct6D6HsM

Northwestern denied tenure to a guy who physically placed himself between dangerous armed state forces and innocent students, aka "doing the right thing." Also if you're in Indiana be aware that it was, inevitably, our dolt of a senator who demanded the fascist suppression of Dr. Thrasher

Am I the only person on #musicsky just now learning about the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band? All of the Beatles weirdest impulses at play all the time (i.e. "better than the Beatles"); anticipating the Flaming Lips' whole thing by twenty years? Yes please, this is very important youtu.be/beRe_HUYzmg?...

Santa totally does have IBS tho

Somehow last year's Kiasmos album is just the perfect music for being on a plane. I'm not on a plane right now, but I still intuitively know this to be true #musicsky kiasmos.bandcamp.com/album/ii

also "Did you hear there was a department of government efficiency? They fired everyone, hired 'em back, then tried to fire 'em again" literally has both the form and content of a Jeff Foxworthy joke