Couple quick thoughts on #allherfault that I couldn’t find a spot for in my review: 1) No one owns pets; their homes are too nice for animals. 2) Everyone has ringtones. They all seem more sociopathic as a result.

Friend of mine is in that area tonight and this sounds very on brand for them to have knocked over a delivery robot like this…

Couple quick thoughts on #allherfault that I couldn’t find a spot for in my review: 1) No one owns pets; their homes are too nice for animals. 2) Everyone has ringtones. They all seem more sociopathic as a result.

PUB DAY

Some scattershot thoughts on #allherfault, which I hadn’t even heard about this time last week. As a Wilmette resident* for many years, I recognized many of the well-to-do, controlling, hyper-competitive status chasing characters. Read my spoiler-free review here:

Here’s how @teslatakedown.com Northbrook #6 turned out. Copies I distributed today have a typo and some crashing text, both of which are fixed in these pics and the scan available in my bio. Looks like I might need more printer ink, too.

Once again, we can see that the Tesla Service vehicle is a Ford Sprinter van. Cybertrucks must not have good hauling capacity or storage options.

Heading out now with TTN#6 in hand.

If you're in or around the northern Chicago suburbs, join us at today's #teslatakedown Northbrook. We're focused on the #notrillionaires message stated below. I'll have issue #6 of the zine "Tesla Takedown Northbrook" to distribute. TODAY 12PM-2PM 1200 Skokie Blvd Northbrook, IL 60062

It’s one of those days where waking up to read the news is infuriating and baffling in ways that take my words away, so I become a jaded, know-it-all teenager. I thought this feeling would pass now that I’m in my 40s.

Here’s a link for this weekend’s #notrillionaires #teslatakedown Northbrook protest. Join us! 12PM-2PM 1200 Skokie Blvd Northbrook IL 60062 @teslatakedown.com @indevanston.bsky.social

Here’s a link for this weekend’s #notrillionaires #teslatakedown Northbrook protest. Join us! 12PM-2PM 1200 Skokie Blvd Northbrook IL 60062 @teslatakedown.com @indevanston.bsky.social

Happy Belated Birthday, Cecil! I took up the offer to borrow one of these books a couple weeks ago and enjoyed it quite a bit. Read my review of Shifting Earth at this week’s installment of The Tall Rob Report:

For some reason, the Action Network site is being fussy with letting me log in to make an event. Nevertheless, #teslatakedown Northbrook returns this Saturday as part of the No Trillionaires Day of Action. Sat., Nov. 15th 12PM-2PM 1200 Skokie Blvd Northbrook, IL 60062 @teslatakedown.com

It was only vaguely clear the night I took the video below that there would be a whole new PULP album less than a year later. Here's my review of "More." from last week's edition of The Tall Rob Report:

Excellent, wide-ranging episode on the various negative effects cars have had on humans and cities. I loved hearing about Superman’s hatred of reckless drivers in the early days of the comic. Vehicular homicide is a greater evil than any supervillain.

Hey so I finally got around to listening to and writing about the PULP album from earlier this year. It’s called “More.” and it’s pretty damn good. PULP “More” more PULP. some PULP. “Some [pulp].”

Leaf blowers used to annoy me because of the sound. Now they fill me with dread because their sound might draw attention from ICE goons who think nothing of brutalizing landscapers.

It’s all Newsome this, Pritzker that. I’ll tell you what I want. I WANT OUT

A colleague just used “you didn’t hear this from me” a few minutes ago so I feel obliged to repost my review of @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social‘s book of that name. In the book, McKinney describes her younger self: I wasn’t just precocious; I could spell ‘precocious’. Still true! It’s a smart book!

This filing choice does seem of a piece with Dewey’s perspective on the world, though. At least, according to what I know from this utterly devastating Judith Flanders’ footnote in her book “A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order.”

In my review, I mention how I noticed McKinney’s book was filed under 296.3 at the library where I checked it out. This is a section on Judaism, specifically “Theology, ethics, views of social issues.” This choice baffles me and has some awful implications… (2/3)

@mckinneykelsey.bsky.social’s “You Didn’t Hear This from Me” is a delightful & informative book on the importance & utility of gossip for shaping our shared reality. Read my review of it (including an unexpected lesson on the Dewey Decimal System) in this week’s entry of The Tall Rob Report: (1/3)

@mckinneykelsey.bsky.social’s “You Didn’t Hear This from Me” is a delightful & informative book on the importance & utility of gossip for shaping our shared reality. Read my review of it (including an unexpected lesson on the Dewey Decimal System) in this week’s entry of The Tall Rob Report: (1/3)

I've gotten more pressure to use AI than I ever did drugs and alcohol.

Yes, this interaction happened in the same Wheeling where recently deceased podcaster Charlie Kirk graduated from high school.

Learned about the existence of Neo Cab just last month, even though Fellow Traveller (@fellowtraveller.games) put it out in 2019. It’s got some cool things to say about gig work, automation, friendship, and technology. (1/2)

Headed home on the L from Chicago’s #nokings protest & march. Incredible amount of people there. Tribune headline estimates 100,000 and that may be correct. Last Sunday, I took part in @katmabu.bsky.social‘s poster-making party at @raygunsite.com in Andersonville. Glad to have a huge sign to carry!

Shohei Ohtani’s 10K / 3HR night so impressed Magic Johnson that Magic made a baseball shoot out of his own mouth.

The real meaning of ‘Shotime’ is when you get one of the Showtime Lakers to reveal why everyone calls him ‘Magic.’

If the right really believed that the problem with universities was elitism in the form of, e.g., inaccessibility, then the strategy would be to make tuition free. Instead, the strategy is to destroy universities as institutions and education and its liberatory potential.

A haunted house but it's just a nation without public education.

Robin Wall Kimmerer’s The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World is a powerful argument for reframing our economic models on abundance instead of scarcity. The gift economy is one way we can open ourselves to the idea of abundance. My thoughts on the book here:

Yes, exactly. “Knowing isn’t being” is it. Reminds me of a favorite post from the other site.

Hey it’s Friday morning. You know what that means! You can listen to those Friday Night Parts you treasure so dearly when you get home tonight. Hope you have some cool ones in mind. #fridaynightparts Sadly, the new #taylorswift lacks such parts, but you can read more about the concept here:

Because certainly there's no reason why this history might be terrifyingly relevant right now, here's a link to preorder @stschrader1.bsky.social's "Blue Power" on how police in the US organized to exempt themselves from democratic oversight and control: redemmas.org/titles/48838...

Haven’t used my blog to be very negative before. But, I had to work out how I felt about “The Life of a Showgirl.” It looks like I’m not alone in saying it’s a dud. On the plus side, you can learn about Friday Night Parts, a concept I’ve found useful in thinking about music through the years.

What does fandom mean in 2025? Must I keep supporting an artist even when I don’t like their music? Who do I need to inform about this change? The Dan Brown of Music is back with another album of cryptic messages for us to decode. Too bad the music isn’t as interesting this time. #taylorswift

Man, I was thinking of getting this shirt today as a way to tongue-in-cheek show my ambivalent/negative feelings toward OSU football. Now they’ve made it clear The Buckeyes ARE The Dark Side.

Thinking of going as a basic bro for Halloween.

Happy Bandcamp Friday! @fuckedupband.bsky.social #amandashires #coldsweat @joyoladokun.bsky.social #obfusc #neocab @joshuaidehen.bsky.social #marytimony #deadline

Al Llorens was indirectly responsible for my choice to ride various buses to canvass voters out of state or rally lawmakers in state last fall. May he rest in peace.

generals gathered in their masses/president calls them all fatasses

It was hard to hear that IEA President Al Llorens died last week. I won’t pretend like I knew him closely, but I was in his presence a few times about a year or so ago. Some thoughts on those times and his passing here:

Celebrating Cliff by playing my copy of the Music for Nations pressing of “Master of Puppets,” which contains a cursèd insert.

Check out my appearance on History Mixtapes hosted by @katejewell.bsky.social. Great idea for a podcast and well executed - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

There are many reasons to read The Payback by @kashana.blacksky.app. In writing the review below, I found that how she discussed the “terroir” of a mall cinnamon roll was clarifying for me in ways I didn’t expect. Discover other cool parts of the book in my review and then read the book yourself!

I enjoyed the premise of @kashana.blacksky.app‘s The Payback and the hilarious writing kept me coming back to see where the plot would go next. She refers to someone as “being dressed like human LinkedIn profile” at one point! Read my review of the book at this week’s entry of The Tall Rob Report:

SABRINA CARPENTER VOICE: 🎵Rain storms are one thing / But thunder’s another / So we bagged our protest / of that greedy fucker oh-a-oh / He’s a sleaze🎶 Anyway, the lightning came earlier than expected today, so we packed it in for #teslatakedown Northbrook out of caution. Four of us there though!

Quick selfie in front of the #CybertruckGraveyard in Northbrook. #teslatakedown #muskmustfall @teslatakedown.com