Everyone in this house hates deckle edged books WHY WOULD YOU INTENTIONALLY MAKE THE PAGES HARDER TO GET A GRIP ON???

Last night’s Philly Writers Circle was amazing, as always. If you haven’t been, you’re missing an electric, supportive, rad space for reading!

we used to have Steve Jobs, Johnny Cash, Bob Hope, Mike Pensions, Gary Literacy, Pete Socialsafetynet,

I've seen an alarming number of instances in the past 24 hours (3) where someone doesn't know that, in the Descendents song "Coolidge" where they do the four-part harmony "ahhs" and someone hits a bum note and says "sorry", they are doing it as a bit and have not made a mistake that was left in

There's so much media I can't even keep up with everything I'm interested to watch and that's only a small fraction of what's being constantly churned out and i would gladly trade all that for like i dunno, HEALTHCARE

It's not a dealbreaker to me as a fan but I do think wrestling would be a lot better if they had never introduced the tapout. Slapping the mat while in a submission hold used to be one of the best looking ways to sell!

Absolutely fucking vile how quickly antisemitism is now spreading on the left. Fix your fucking heads

First Ergs show 26 years ago today

The longer I live and the more I see, read, and experience, the further I'm convinced that worship is the worst human impulse

Get rid of your NYT subscription and tell them why, you don't need your fucking Wordle

These people are unwell

I am simply begging people to put information about their events, programs, projects etc in more places than just Instagram. It's fine to post on Instagram (obviously) but when that is the ONLY place that one can find info about what you're doing and hosting, that sucks! For so many reasons!!

I think if I asked nicely enough I could convince a bobsled team to let me do a ride along

No, this is NOT brunch. I still intend to eat lunch. This is pre-lunch, or prunch

I never understand the 100s of open tabs thing; just email the link to yourself, open the email to clear the unread notification, let the email sink lower and lower in your inbox til it's off the first page and totally out of sight, and then never open that email ever again!

Someone with a better brain for remembering these kinds of movie details than me could probably find a film within a film that ALSO contains a film within a film, creating a further nested watching experience

I would be embarrassed to read any book from any writer who would do this It's already bad enough to have had the author (Jeanette Winterson) of one of your favorite books (The Passion) praising A.I. as a writing tool

Imagine being this much of a fucking idiot

I try to not demean people's abilities or credentials but "A.I. Prompt Writing" as a skill is loser shit

It's a computer program

Tomorrow!

the magic of the Muppets is that there are two fourth walls. they constantly break the one that reminds the audience they are performers. they NEVER break the one that reminds the audience they are puppets. this dynamic is the key to their entire comedy style

All these choices concern making a salable piece of work & have little to do with being an artist. A wealthy person can make a "bad" drawing as readily as a poor person, and the outcomes of b, c, & d mean that in that instance, you would not be considered the artist

With the WP book section closing and other publishing news, I think literary people really need to adopt a punk rock mindset. It's DIY or die these days.

A.I. slop has ruined trust in images to the point that it would now be impossible to convince most people that this unhinged album cover from 1984 is a piece of human art

"December 1963 (Oh What A Night)" followed by the David Essex version of "Rock On"

Ergs giggin' with Rodeo Boys in late March. We haven't been down to VA/NC in a while (18 years???) so it should a fun time!

Excited to be doing my first reading in a while at the next Philly Writers Circle show!

I'm reading a book about workers' movements that had momentum but ultimately failed & it's funny in a really sad way that in each of the two sections I've read so far (Paris 68 & Chile 72-73), the biggest obstacles to progress have been the center-left trying to maintain a look of electoral decorum

The Robby Starbuck response is one of the silliest things I've ever read in my life. And I have to assume when he's talking about Conquistadors he's talking about the no-name dead loser described here: youtu.be/T1uvzOeSkgc?...

Regardless of any evidence or how good a case the prosecution presents, a cop trial is always going to have the same problems a mob trial does. You're going to have to weigh the responsibility of putting in a guilty vote against the certainty that the defendant's cop pals will harass you afterwards

Well, it’s the 9th anniversary of this today. No special reason for mentioning it now, obviously

I will be joining the war on Greenland on the side of Greenland.

When someone points out that an ICE victim is actually a citizen, they are not saying that being a non-citizen makes ICE's crimes ok; they are showing people who ARE ok with ICE's attacks on non-citizens that ICE is actually the violent, non-discerning terrorist thug gang we already knew them to be

in case you didn't understand why transphobic rhetoric worried us so much about this guy, well it's because it's a signal that shit like this is coming next.

Shoutout* to the dad today at the Surrealism exhibit who, within 5 minutes, yelled at his young daughter for dancing along to the images in a Man Ray film & then aggressively pulled her from a painting for pointing too close (but not touching) while saying what the images looked like *(derogatory)

Thoughts & Prayers to every ICE agent, and by that I mean every THOUGHT I have regarding them is the same as the chorus to Shellac's "PRAYER To God"

Hopefully this ICE guy goes home, tells his family about what he did at work today, and then they beat him to death while he's sleeping

The A.I. community seems to be made up entirely of dweebs

Allentown Giggin' in January!

Once the last person who was alive in the year 9 died it's been okay to consider decades this way Same with centuries and the last Year 99 person to die and millenia with the last from Year 999

I've been playing guitar for 33 years and I still don't know how to not scrape the index fingernail on my strumming hand

It would be cool to see Dark come back as a regular show. I love the episodic storytelling of the mainline shows but I also loved getting to see 45-60 minutes straight of just wrestling It's beside the point that most of them were enhancement matches; it was great to get to see everybody's stuff

Online music peaked with the Myspace band page format 04-06. Just a few songs to sample before you decided whether or not to see a band or buy their record

There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who understand binary numbers...and 9 others, like me, who don't

Currently reading a 180 page book about the Phillies and apparently this guy appears JUST ONE FUCKING TIME??? SMDH

It's so funny to me how in the 14 years since this book was published, this word's meaning within a sports context hasn't just shifted, it's come to mean the exact opposite!

I love when an inadvertant double-feature book pairing happens. It's happened to me a few times before, like when I read Jeff Vandemeer's Annihilation and Leonora Carrington's The Hearing Trumpet back-to-back, both of which having large living structures as a part of their climax