Not crazy per-se, but I worked in the rare book room at the college library for a couple of summers. I did a project about the collecting history of JP Morgan’s nephew, who was hyperfixated on collecting every single one of the earliest printed copies of Virgil.

what it's like being in a band with me and you forgot to block my number

THERE ARE NO JOBS IN ACADEMIA! NO JOBS! DOZENS OF HYPER QUALIFIED APPLICANTS PER JOB!

the good that you do persists in this world

Seeing Cast Away with my brother and one other person in the theater at 11 AM on a summer weekday

My aunt did design work for the Reebok NBA jerseys in the aughts and gave my family a couple of Yao Ming sample jerseys that went to the floor when I’d put them on

You will be visited by 3 spirits

“The Daily Nebraskan found in the leaked spreadsheet that every program eliminated appeared to be profitable…every program that the chancellor proposed eliminating generated more money from tuition dollars than the department costs to run”

Greatest fusion album of the 80s?

Featuring: – An Alma Mahler Labubu – The Britten Seaside Trauma snow globe – “Fratres” for Cats – The “Anna Netrebko Accountability” Advent Calendar – Lush’s “Shostakovich Panic Attack” bath bomb

if Mississippi State is gonna have an edge rusher named Sylla they should have a defensive tackle named Charibdys

This is totally self-centered, but one of the reasons I’m loving the new Mountain Goats so much is that the colors and textures sound like my first attempts at serious composing in college. It has that magical, quixotic “let’s put on a show” energy.

Last time I checked, a $140,000 income in the US is 4th quintile, meaning 3/5 of Americans earn below the poverty line by 1960s standard of living. 😰

Bluesky’s official song of the day: youtu.be/DuQMZjjAM1Y?...

New interview with the Messthetics on the humbling and inspiring experience of covering Sonny Sharrock's 'Ask the Ages' in full, which they'll do again on Friday in D.C., along with James Brandon Lewis: darkforcesswing.substack.com/p/like-tryin...

Pluribus - EP Vince Gilligan - 2025

They also happened to be my 4-month-old’s first live concert!

AI is going to use up all of our power and water, and all because tech bros are upset that no matter how much money they have, they will never have artistic talent. Why couldn’t they just invest in a Broadway show like normal rich people

Upon showing this to my wife, she says: “This is my personality.”

This is a good excuse to mention how I saw a beautiful pit mix in Washington Square and gave him a big grin before almost running into his human, Justin Theroux.

Wore number 9 on the Mets in 1996 = fan for life (or cursed for life)

Gotta say, I made a pretty banger soundtrack for this cover: music.apple.com/us/album/ano...

Ok - 2nd and 3rd, and there’s a single. 1st runner scores and 2nd is thrown out so we play more.

of all of obits for Jack DeJohnette that I've read, this one might be the most poignant. we already knew he was a once-in-a-lifetime-level musician. sounds like he was also a true mensch

Among many other accomplishments, Jack DeJohnette authored my favorite drum fill ever: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iAT...

Hey! Thanks for this deep dive on my wife’s and my first dance song!

This is the name of a Task/Mare of Easttown satire show

Fuck. I was literally teaching about Voodoo and microtiming last week.

The new Springsteen movie but it’s about Ween making “Chocolate and Cheese” and yes Rob and I will be playing Dean and Gene.

The Iowa Baseball Confederacy, by WP Kinsella (1986)

TONIGHT! Hope to see you there 🙏🏾

Maybe the best ever horror score as well from Jerry Goldsmith

I love how pointed this cover is, especially with Jeff obsessed with getting Lauren to be the next Bond girl lol

Bill Frisell Quartet, John Hollenbeck Royal Toast, whatever you count as Tyshawn Sorey’s 12th album…

This, but for The Shaggs

It was a real treat to write about the best indie band Notre Dame has produced since Ted Leo graduated in 1993. Listen to @ratboysband.bsky.social! magazine.nd.edu/stories/ratb...

ok this breakdown of AI writing indicators is incredible. Huge shout-out to the Wikipedia community for this

I mean, I know that left-NIMBYs want to find all kinds of complicated reasons why the housing market supposedly doesn't follow the logic of supply and demand But his looks like as linear a relationship as you could possibly map out on graph paper

yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats

A 15-minute megamix of the upcoming opera by @cherialissa.bsky.social and me about the 2012 NFL referee strike

the 2025 Mets

sometimes i watch classic hollywood films — this happened recently with HIGH NOON — and i think, “yeah i get it, this whips.” i’m having a similar experience with music right now and specifically the work of duke ellington. i’m listening to the man’s work and i’m like, “yeah, this stuff is sick”

There are a lot of good American cymbal smiths now too

If NPR stopped doing this false equivalence BS, they’d raise more money than what they got from the CPB and immediately become the most important American media outlet.

More than that. "The FBI ***recorded*** Tom Homan taking the money "after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration."

Part of the reason why my sister’s favorite artists for a time were Arlo Guthrie and The Lovin’ Spoonful

Just so I'm clear: TV host says we should kill every homeless person? No big deal TV host says the right must "go to war" with the left? Pfft. TV host says the government is cracking down on critics? Well, the government cracks down on him for the criticism. Free speech, everyone.