Apropos of nothing I think people are overusing the word “material” to sound smartypants when “real” or sometimes “tangible” would do

Today at water aerobics they played smells”Smells Like Teen Spirit,” it was like a joke about aging Gen Xers you’d tell someone to edit out for being too cute, and yet there it was lol

Do you think all the Kryptonian dogs look like Krypto or are there many breeds, like here on earth, except of course super

Just listened to a BBC Newshour interview with a man who wrote a book about the history of movie props. “People in narrative cinema are always doing things, and they have to do things with things,” he said

Maybe it’s the Gen X half of me talking but I still really don’t know what a “going-out top” is (I read my Strategist newsletters today)

Apropos of nothing, every time I get a letter from the NOLA tax assessor I get “tax assessor” stuck in my head to the tune of Neko Case’s “Fox Confessor”

Oddly thrown off listening to ATC today and hearing Ari Shapiro keep pronouncing “piano” with two syllables

I can’t be the first person to learn about the new Star War called Andor (suspiciously similar to where the Ewoks are from) and then try to make up a song about how it’s Andor with an A, not Endor with an E to the tune of “Liza with a Z” … or am I

I wish everyone a good sleepy, dusty Delta day youtu.be/cJZ_ViDADOE

*Eagle screech* 🦅🏳️‍🌈

I would buy this if it had just a few more of the lyrics from Up On Cripple Creek (because if the name is really changed it fucks up the scansion of one of my favorite songs)

Cheese is a privilege, not a right, I just told my dog But on second thought is this actually true? Where is the case law

@alisonf.bsky.social Squeee!!! neworleans.libnet.info/event/13446183

Can’t spell CAMELS without SCAM

Chicago-style pope

I’ll be on WWOZ for kitchen sink tonight, ten to midnight central, if appointment listening is your sort of thing. I think it’ll be my favs from second weekend of the fest and maybe some extra piano because it’s WWOZ’s Piano Night, but I can’t make any promises

They couldn’t even give David Jo his flowers after he was dead

Obviously Carol Kaye should have been inducted into the Rock Hall as soon as the sidemen category was invented, and the sidemen category should have been invented a lot sooner. Still, some points:

Welcome to the Rock Hall, Cyndi Lauper! Once I got caught in the scrum of folks leaving her show at House of Blues NOLA next to ALLEN TOUSSAINT so I awkwardly asked if he enjoyed the show and he told me she was “always so enjoyable and just a wonderful evening”

At 48, I’ve unlocked a new level of aging: needing my readers to pluck the random hairs out of my face

As a slightly weird Jewish woman, Roz Chast is my R. Crumb

This is how New Orleans is prepared for the coming wet season

The latest in “dear package thief, I hope you like…” is a biography of Robert Crumb

If you were the air-conditioning repairman and your fly was open, would you want to homeowner to say something or should she just not

Is the breakfast sandwich an American invention? What are the breakfast sandwiches of other nations

Hi, the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and the Jazz and Heritage Foundation have both had major funding cancelled by you know who and you already know the Jazz Museum is threatened by the new activities of same. If you follow me, these institutions likely support work you care a lot about.

Possibly for the first time in my professional life I have typed the terrible words “happy to jump on a call about it!”

For anyone else enjoying Torrey Peters’ Stag Dance, there are some great websites glossarizing early 20th century logger slang and even more out there if you have JSTOR access

I think part of what Lumon is doing is harnessing human emotion for its power as a limitless resource, like atomic fission or hydroelectricity (?) #severance

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I’m sure dickey’s barbecue pit didn’t mean for me to hear this in stephin merritt’s voice but I did

You can leave here for 286 days in space but when you get back it’s the same old place (actually not this time but we are indeed on the eve of destruction)

Hi friends! Please join me, Gwen Thompkins, Melissa “DJ Soul Sister” Weber and Jennifer Odell this Thursday at 2pm at the New Orleans Jazz Museum where we will display blazing repartee and incisive commentary ❤️ nolajazzmuseum.org/events/2025/...

I'm watching the Super Bowl at Drake's house, and it is very uncomfortable right now

I was PSYCHED to see Suzanne de Passe featured at the Motown Museum when @carynrose.bsky.social took me there this fall

Got a bit weepy thinking about how last year’s Puppy Bowl participants are all grown-up dogs now

Walked down to the corner bar and interrupted three cats in an important clandestine cat meeting

This is just so fucking good

Marianne has gone home to be with …herself m.youtube.com/watch?si=wva...

Where are the snows of yesteryear (in New Orleans)

After everything I’ve done for my rescue dog he still acts embarrassed when I sing and dance

Also Bob is in deshabille so many times in that movie that someone from wardrobe must have had to do the historical boxers-or-briefs research?

I personally think A COMPLETE UNKNOWN only barely escapes WALK HARD territory (but can any biopic?? anyway) But I really applaud Chalamet for nailing, as far as I’ve ever heard it on tape, Bob’s funny little giggle.

Now that you are recovered from surgery you have to get back to eating regular kibble, she said sternly to the dog as she carefully shredded twenty dollars’ worth of organic chicken to add to the regular kibble in case it was not pleasing to the palate on its own

This is a very local skeet but I was at LSU vet hospital and learned that their dentists gave Valerio the jaguar a root canal recently

Just found this blank Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers notebook and can’t remember why we have it or imagine what it’s for - I guess it’s for writing down my thoughts about Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

Dog, Kryptonian