This is a man who grew up in NoVA, not Mass.

About as good as the show got. Wonderful stuff.

Dear McDonald’s, I have enjoyed your burgers since I was a child, I remember when you showed Super 8 movies at early ‘80s birthday parties in your restaurants. I celebrate the return of the McRib like the arrival of spring. Pls give me this man’s job or let me advise him how to be a person. Cheers!

kind of crazy that if you have enough money and don't like what you see in the media, you can just buy up every film studio, news station, and social media app and change it

My brother in Christ, gambling has gotten so granular that there is no real way to tell whether ANY sporting event is being tanked or not. Meanwhile, gambling sites are taking odds on aspects of a war literally in progress, including the use of nukes. You should be against it. We all should.

Some Wm. Gibson shit right there.

the two phases of writing: (1) writing and (2) wandering aimlessly like an unmoored ghost and complaining about not writing

Danny, we hardly knew ye.

Peter Buck always struck me as a solid guy. Don’t know him from Adam but he just always seems like a righteous dude.

Just @ me next time, jeez

I tend not to be a “politics as sport” kind of guy, I’m simply not wealthy enough to hold that world view, but my God, it is viscerally enjoyable to see a sitting office holder lose in a primary. Right or left, it is always funny.

I know journalism is a rapidly deteriorating industry, but it also feels like fighting a losing battle when folks on here are mostly sharing articles to dunk on them, rather than solid pieces from journos and critics out here trying our best every day to stay working and writing

A democratic candidate just won in the *checks notes* Arkansas state house special election. Flip from R to D.

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946. In 2007, the US president was born in 1946. In 2017, the US president was born in 1946. And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

Once again, I have tried to watch the very beautiful looking TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY from 2011 and once again I am infuriated by the total absence of John le Carré’s singular dialogue. What a waste.

Is this an Apple ad?

Polymarket has created a betting market on the use of nuclear weapons. Everyone involved in this should be put in prison for life.

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Hey, Austin, I have a q: Given that th parking at Far Out Lounge is non-existent, what do you do instead of drive there and how much does it cost from where you live? Or do you park somewhere else?

The show is going to absolutely rip.

Lovely job with this

Glorious performance

Evey day, despite a dominant culture of hyperindividualism and alienation, regular people are engaging in incredible acts of community defense, collective care, and mutual aid. Every day, people are already planting seeds of the new world in the ashes of the old.

“Add to that your fire-setting and wetting the bed….”

Sometimes I think the most therapeutic part of going back to church and bagging at the food pantry is being around people my parents' age who can step outside themselves and understand why us younger folks are stressed about current events and how precarious basic things feel these days.

Took seven min from getting in line to exiting. Do the thing.

Thin White Duke 50: Bowie in Chicago, with an audience tape that does give you the sense of being in a bad seat in a surly crowd. www.patreon.com/posts/isolar...

Calling AI "slop" has been one of the most effective instances of the public rebranding a product and it pisses them off.

All of us Gen X’ers who grew up poring through the liners notes and album credits on vinyl albums, the J cards of cassette tapes and CD’s reading all the names involved with the albums we loved will forever love & appreciate the contributions Bob Power made to the music that was our life soundtrack.

Many years ago, a Boomer-age Jewish relative of mine, not a dope, asked me if I, a person of Jewish extract raised largely Christian, knew why conservative Christians were so into Israel. I had to explain the End Times thing. He thought I was kidding. Me: “I kid you not.” Then he looked horrified.

GW‘s student newspaper appears to have broken the story that the institution has sold a satellite campus to Amazon to be turned into a data center, which is just about chef’s kiss for the state of American higher education rn

This is a terrific movie

Pere Ubu - Teatro Modica, Bologna, Italy, 3 mar 1981 LIVE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srZfVs0lej0

Boom times for Velvet Underground nerds

I just read a few words by a Christian pastor who wrote the following: "Don't take my word for it. "Ask AI." Eli, Eli... lama sabachthani? (Well, "us" more than "me.)

Minnesota would like a word.

Oof. I just read your post in the most uncharitable, pedantic way possible, and I gotta tell ya: it's not looking good for you.

Have I gone mad or didn’t we know this in… 1979?

The show is going to absolutely rip.

Sun Ra and his Arkestra 10/31/1988 live at Slim's, San Francisco, CA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa6MhJFpNkE

They would not riot in Texas wherein resides H-E-B, maybe the best grocery store chain in the U.S. Central Market, their higher end chain, has the best produce section I have ever seen. Were I a wealthy man, I would be at C.M. three times a week for absolutely everything edible.

this is so fucking funny oh my god

Hegseth & trump have a romantic view that "war = masculine;" simultaneously they a) will never, themselves, be on any front fighting lines, & b) genuinely cannot envision a world-imperiling event that would actually touch them in any meaningful way. They are children who think themselves invincible

shockingly people are capable of simultaneously, 1. Hating their government 2. Hating the people who bomb and sanction their country, making regular life impossible and murdering members of their family, even more

Well this looks fantastic

Honestly, thinking about stuff like this is a big part of what keeps me going.

"When a 65-year-old tree in Parker’s front yard died of oak wilt, he cut the trunk into “wood cookies” + transformed them into playable records, each encoded with migratory birdsong... The project emerged from Parker’s recognition that his grief for the tree echoed the loss of his father to cancer"

who could have seen AI become weaponized by a corrupt government, except for literally everyone, as well as decades of science fiction