I feel better about never having read this book knowing that the person who made the cover also never read it

Nothing like the relief of checking out a hot new artist and realizing right away that they're not for me so I don't have to pay any more attention to them

In my experience people who say "both parties are crazy/corrupt/etc" do so because they like Trump even though they know they're not supposed to in their circles so they want to put Democrats on the defensive rather than defend their own preference

Woody’s many great grandchildren join for California Stars

The #TransitCat of the day pair, on multiple levels 💜⤵️

The many songs I've never heard of on this chart and @andrewhickey.500songs.com's recent observation about why UK and US hits are often so different (tldr: they're different countries apparently!) inspired me to prompt this playlist that I'll try to update now and then to hear what I've been missing

you can’t read this excerpt from lester bangs’ interview with lou reed and take that halsey/fantano “beef” seriously.

I wonder if the Supergirl costume designer who came up with that sick jacket is like really pissed at the Supergirl popcorn bucket designer

While this headline is technically true it would be more informative to say FEMA official who (quoting the article) "stood out because he was willing to resist moves that would potentially hobble the agency’s work" ousted from agency

how does it know how often mamdani looks at porn?

Read ‘em and weep

This edition was my (and I suspect many people’s) introduction to Dylanology

Just a heads up that since I'll be on vacation starting tomorrow I will be trying to post less here but not very hard in fact you probably won't notice any change at all

oh cool they did our joke

lol looks like my mom was a bit overwhelmed at the @jewishcurrents.bsky.social election watch party on Tuesday

Thread #3 because now we're easing into Prime Joni. Still a few downy baby feathers left to shed but you can feel the eagle about to soar. I don't need to say much about this album because it's hardly new to me so I'll just mention that my father briefly lived in Morgantown WV and it was indeed nice

I’ll never forget @squidocto.bsky.social’s sister snapping at the bros next to us, “I was quiet for Bryan Adams, you can be quiet for Joni Mitchell!”

“It’s like their eighth time on the subway but they still get so scared” 😳

The Times misses a big part of this story by not even mentioning that the mandated translation is, wait for it, the NIrV

Depressing numbers here. Can't decide if this joke was too smart for Bluesky or too stupid

I recently remembered a gig I had in the mid/late 90s writing ironic self-deprecating comics for the labels of a gen-x soft drink/juice line in the anti-marketing spirit of OK Soda. If it ever reached market it was only briefly and regionally. But I can't remember the name or find anything online!

Name a film with a title that is a full sentence.

Steven Spielberg didn’t vow to finish Stanley Kubrick’s last film no matter what so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

I know it's unhealthy to stay awake all night worrying about things but lately I can't shake the feeling the Maisie Peters will never make another song as good as Cate's Brother

Hannity looks great

Well I guess I'll start a new thread now that I've finished the rest of Archives 1 and beyond into Joni's official debut. I basically never listen to this album anymore so I hadn't realized how dirty it does her. As I've noted before I'm a big fan of Joni's music but know very little lore so...

"Maybe I'd better wear a disguise" *changes from lingerie to different colored lingerie*

61 years later and I just got the pun

Pronouncing Mamdanites like Maimonides

I'm trying to imagine describing it to my 12-year-old self in 1981 when Michael Harrington was creating DSA in my dad's living room

It's mostly that TK is easier to spot than TC when eyeballing a page (in the pre-ctrl-f era) and it's a much more rare letter combo. But also (I believe) it came about in an era when there was a weird fad for misspelled abbreviations. You may be familiar with the one that stuck for Oll Korrect: OK

I'm not gonna say the Times had this story ready to go but

A better world is possible

Guess I spoke too soon!

Brad Idea Right? #NY10

the url answers the question in the headline lol

Went looking for a good annotated ebook edition of Moby-Dick and I think I found the one

random Dylan lyric of the day

They should just make the next prime minister and the next Doctor Who the same person

This was my kids’ favorite movie when they were little and easily the one I enjoyed watching (over and over) with them most. No shade to the Disney/Pixar/Dreamworks hegemony but if you want something with more chaotic energy and joy in your lives, put this shit on

Here’s the JFREJ slate for Election Day on 6/23! Repost and share with your friends! jfrej.org/ballot

🎵 Long time passing...

My dad also jammed with Bobby at the University of Wisconsin around this time but since there are no pics of that, here he is listening to Woody Guthrie and Ramblin' Jack Elliott in Washington Square Park several years earlier

Here's my dad that same year (far left in profile), singing along with Bob Dylan (Zimmerman) at the University of MN.

Worth noting, however, that Obama's (expensive) fix really didn't work either, as this 2012 pic shows. It's probably just an intractable problem. Trump's mistake was making a big deal about how Only I Can Fix It and then doing an extra shitty job and funneling $ to his cronies

Wild story that probably will make less of a splash than it should since they unfortunately couldn't button it up while she was still in office

Watched the World Series & NBA Finals for the first time in my adult life Started telling my kids they should work out because I started working out Posted repeatedly about the 22yo's budding game design career (and tagged him) Suggested Goodfellas every time the 16yo wanted to watch a movie

The most Democratic Party thing possible would be if Donald Trump's inchoate, incoherent and solipsistic lashing out at Israel allows Republicans to capture the anti-Israel vote for a generation because the Dems can't bring themselves to disown AIPACism

Bringing this to the Dylan show to request the song I know he's gonna play no matter what