the villanous green goggling glasses deceitfully tapered downwards to a cheating bottom

Bought this 35 years ago today. One of the greatest singles of all time and the daddy of all dub tracks. Was totally stunned when I heard it for the first time. Earth-shaking, visionary. Seems nuts that it’s almost half a century old. youtu.be/ztq7-kkygZk?...

dumb dogshit as ever

'Imagination' is a magic carpet Upon which we may soar To distant lands and climes And even go beyond the moon To any planet in the sky, If we came from nowhere here. Why can't we go somewhere there? (Sun Ra)

I'm sure this soundcheck for the Ludacris concert, on a giant stage erected directly in front of my building, bottlenecking a major foot traffic area on campus and shaking the walls of our decrepit building, is not disrupting the learning opportunities of our students today.

Sara Romweber and Dex Romweber.

And it’s not a coincidence both came to prominence through the liberal media by offering “necessary correctives” to imagined liberal bubbles.

hard to believe it's been 12 years, but my FB memory feed is full of working on Bluegrass exhibits to coincide with the IBMA convention being held in town. In addition to the exhibits, I would cover most of the year's goings on, donating that work to the Southern Folklife Collection at UNC-CH.

Here it is, the only Orcutt LP on Palilalia this year. Recorded at Cafe Oto, this one's a great memory for me — incredible night of solo sets by the quartet, drinking w friends and playing for an AMAZING audience. Very happy to share it w everybody now. billorcutt.bandcamp.com/album/anothe...

Cheech Marin: stoner comedian, music journalist, and Karen Dalton's former roommate. For more, listen to our new episode, "Do It Or Die!" On Karen Dalton" podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... 📹: via Amoeba Records’ What's In My Bag (thanks to Jake Fussell for hipping us to this!)

You can tell how serious Pritzker is about opposing Trump's goon squads. These guys all work for him and instead of having them arrest the ICE guys who are doing all the stuff he says he hates, or even just telling them not to show up and support them, this is happening

Why did @govpritzker.illinois.gov send out Illinois police to limit protests at Broadview? Why is a progressive governor shielding illegal ICE activity from peaceful protesters? Why are our state tax dollars devoted to Trump’s agenda?

Musician Plays the Last Stradivarius Guitar in the World, the “Sabionari” Made in 1679

Today's teatime tunes: General Johnson meets Funkadelic (literally) and they cook up a sizzling slice of psychedelic soul. Stoned righteousness

Steely Dan and tango music are two things you will best appreciate once you are in your thirties and the intersection of this knowledge is that the cover photo for Gaucho is based on a sculpture in the Caminito Street Museum in Buenos Aires

Top of the Pops (2nd October 1980). Madness are at number four in the hit parade with 'Baggy Trousers'.

Not trying to be contrarian or make sure I get in my "take," but I did not click at all with One Battle After Another and bailed before it ended because I just did not care (I never do this). Dang, really wanted to dig that. Found both male leads annoying and Jonny Greenwood needs some new ideas.

Today In 1968: St. Louis #Cardinals legend Bob Gibson strikes out 17 Detroit #Tigers batters to set a new #WorldSeries record! Here's all of them in order! #MLB #Baseball #STLCards #History #Postseason

Reminder that @theguardian.com has a partnership with OpenAI, and has of late published a spate of asinine articles that are uncritical in framing, and just read as press releases for the company and for "AI" in general. The headline/implicit framing of this article seems consistent with its biases.

We are losing something by having newsrooms where everyone who has more than a few years’ experience has gotten fired. I don’t fault a young writer for not knowing about things that happened before she was born. But now there are no editors to help give context to these stories, either.

Sadly, Milton Nascimento has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease & Lewy body dementia

A few of months ago, I had a great conversation with John P. Hastings about my book Noisy Memory (with @uncpress.bsky.social). Now, it is an article in The Brooklyn Rail! We talked re: archives, creative process, and Appalachian Ohio. brooklynrail.org/2025/10/musi... #noisymemory #appalachianohio

Lovely piece about Rachel's ❤️ www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

Question: I've read that Woody Guthrie's "This Machine Kills Fascist" message on his guitar "originated from a sticker that American machinists affixed to metalworking lathes and drill presses to support the war effort." Can anyone point to a photo of the message on war-era machines?

Today In 1963: Los Angeles #Dodgers legend Sandy Koufax sets a new record when he strikes out 15 New York #Yankees in Game 1 of the World Series at Yankee Stadium! The great Vin Scully with the classic voice-over! #MLB #Baseball #WorldSeries #History #Postseason

Pirating new albums is another skill lost to time.

Graham Parker & the Rumour performing "Fool's Gold" live on the BBC in 1977. Song from the 1976 album Heat Treatment. m.youtube.com/watch?v=GJRo...

NEW — Italy's largest union (representing over 5 million workers) is calling for a general strike in response to Israel's interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla, and the Italian government's abandonment of it. 500 people from around the world joined the flotilla to break Israel's siege of Gaza.

The language of non-consent around AI is really telling. "It's too late to be scared." "It's here whether we want it or not." "You'll have to learn to work with it." "You can't fight the inevitable." All just variations of "you're not allowed to say no." Creepy technology made by creepy people.

Congratulations to Caroline Shaw and Sō Percussion on winning the Edison Klassiek Award in the Netherlands for Extraordinary Classic for their album 'Rectangles and Circumstance,' which also won the GRAMMY for Best Chamber Music / Small Ensemble Performance.

Remembering Al Jackson who was tragically murdered 50 years ago today. This tribute LP to "The Human Timekeeper" features his work with various Stax soul legends. I've recreated it on Spotify at 🥁▶️ open.spotify.com/playlist/7r6...

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

RIP Jane Goodall. She licensed this strip to raise funds for her institute:

RIP. A long life that did a great deal of good & added much to the richness of the world--all one could ask for.

New blog post: In 1909, the famous composer John Philip Sousa wrote that recorded music would lead to a deterioration of music and musical taste. The more I thought about it, the more I think that he had a point. aaronhertzmann.com/2025/09/30/m...

"Boy, someone's finally doing something really different." For a small publisher like us, not much feels better than this kind of praise. We took a big chance on this weird Steely Dan book. It has been a huge success and hasn't really stopped moving since 2023, but that's sort of beside the point.

Raul Seixas :: Gita aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/10/01/r... Gita finds the Brazilian musician further embracing mysticism through an infatuation with Aleister Crowley (the pre-chorus of “Sociedade Alternativa” is a direct translation of “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law”) ...

Myriam Gendron & with full band last night in Montreal! "La Luz"

The first part of the story: www.flaggingdown.com/p/they-under... And the second: www.flaggingdown.com/p/a-live-deb...

On September 29, 2000, a fan frantically waves a copy of New Morning at the window of Bob's bus, stuck in traffic. At the very next show, Bob debuts a New Morning song he's never played live before. Coincidence? Lesson: Someone wave Street Legal at Bob's bus this fall

Celebrate the start of Black History Month with the official Trojan playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/4BU...

I think when college administrations bow down, they do so not from fear, but because they agree with Trump's position.