Crime pays. Terrorists who violently attacked Congress will get millions of our tax dollars. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

White Sox take the series from the Cubs and win Crosstown Classic series. www.mlb.com/news/edgar-q...

Kathryn Crutchfield is a billion times better than Taylor Swift. People know that, right?

My article about anthropologists and surrealists. Can't we all get along? open.substack.com/pub/bartonbi...

California appears to be headed toward going MAGA for governor. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

New Stones song: youtu.be/oT5LwwEHgnc?...

White Sox take series from KC. They are now a .500 team!

Kimmel, Meyers, Colbert rose to the occasion. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-ban...

Forever the visual of the downfall of an empire.

The structural repair in DC will be enormous when Trump is gone. Will cost taxpayers millions. Wash monument pool will have to be fixed, that absurd arch will have to be demolished, ballroom either demolished or repurposed.

When Wilco played the entire 'Star Wars' album in Golden Gate Park. youtu.be/T01d0le06ig?...

Yahoo! bought Tumblr for $1.1 billion. Sold for $3 million in 2019. www.cnbc.com/2022/09/15/h...

If that's all they have, there is basically nothing here. There is zero evidence life from outside Earth has has ever reached Earth in 4 billion years. You can argue that by changing the definition of the word 'evidence' I suppose. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

Remembering Trump's military parade of American might! www.instagram.com/p/DK5rjl-P5g...

I work really hard all week. I’m not working for the grocery store for free scanning at the checkout lane. I only go through lanes with checkout employee

Stewart Brand, creator of the Whole Earth Catalog, which was the precursor to Amazon is still around. Interview: Stewart is from Rockford, Illinois. Brand produced the 1966 Trips Festival featuring one of the first light performances of The Grateful Dead. www.skeptic.com/michael-sher...

Where they came from: Jordan Leasure - Lance Lynn Edgar Quero - Lucas Giolito and Reynaldo López. Chase Meidroth and Kyle Teel - Garrett Crochet Miguel Vargas - Michael Kopech Luisangel Acuña - Luis Robert

According to multiple sources, the amount of savings an American needs to be "comfortable" is $1.46 million in total savings for retirement.

Must be all the jazz theory, but I don't do sharp keys. Yuck. After B Major, it's Gb, Db, Ab, Eb, Bb. I cannot think in sharp keys. I guess jazz is that way because of the Bb and Eb horns.

There is such a thing as internet ennui, especially for early adopters. People show me amusements on the internet all the time and I’m internally thinking, “son. That ain’t nothing. I was doin’ that shit in ‘96” Online gets old after couple decades.

Santa Rosa Cat Show in Sonoma County. Sometimes the owners are as interesting as the cats. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSgj...

More instances where one realizes the social media internet isn't that useful, at least for media consumption. Just settled in to watch a nice show on YouTube about the Ice Age and 5 minutes in I realized it's that Graham Hancock bullshit. You can't hide from the conspiracy epidemic. Ugh.

Rockford, Illinois demolishing this Civil War era home. Tragic and reprehensible. www.rockrivercurrent.com/2026/04/civi...

Found a way to display all the foreign currency I've pocketed during travels.

Sox starters have shut down San Diego for 15 scoreless innings over 3 games. And Padres have an elite offense.

San Diego is the stage for the latest Murakami mash. www.mlb.com/news/munetak...

White Sox .500 in April, 1.5 games out off first place. Oh, how we Sox fans have dreamed for 5 years of attaining mediocre status. And they might even get better than that this season.

Seashell memes are truly a danger to society.

My district, Bucktown, is tiny!

Frank Lloyd Wright designed a whole neighborhood in Runyan Canyon, just east of Laurel Canyon. Only one house was built and Errol Flynn lived there, throwing "wild parties." www.kalinestates.com/blog/frank-l...

Classical rendition of Angine De Poitrine's "Fabienk" for 2 Pianos, youtu.be/CX2Ar1XpCE8?...

Every ball Murakami hits, the crowd sounds like those old Beatles films where there is deafening screaming. I've never ever seen that happen in MLB. He's a phenomenon.

Nick Cave Mammoth www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/s...

I shot this music video in a couple of hours on Venice Beach. Quickly put together in a day. Has over 946,000 views. People love the Circusman and his cyr wheel! www.youtube.com/watch?v=o358...

Bay Area's own all-star drummer Andy Sturmer vintage article from Modern Drummer Magazine.

Amazing map of American dialects. aschmann.net/AmEng/#Large...

LA's Jeremy Buck & The Bang new release: www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0IB...

Review of our film "Theory of Obscurity" www.horrorgeeklife.com/2020/03/23/b...

Never tell Murakami the odds.

It's amazing we are not seeing entrepreneurs create YouTube competitors. YouTube is bogged down in ads and ineffective algorithms. Would be easy to create a more alluring product.

Why in the world did LA pitch to Murakami? Now he leads majors in HR. 3 run blast. Vargas then finishes another back-to-back for the duo. He’s gonna hit 60.

Sox drop Sunday game to Nationals despite strong pitching from Burke. #whitesox

Wow, Burke looks great. 67 pitches with one out in 8th. Zero runs allowed.

Four Never-Heard 1960s Dylan Shows www.flaggingdown.com/p/how-a-macy...

No, there is not a large amount of scientists suspiciously dying. Another psychological tendency exploited by the internet. It's called patternicity, which is the brain's tendency to find meaningful patterns in random noise. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kGz...

The level of paranoia and conspiracy theorizing here is indistinguishable from the MAGA nuts on X doing the same thing

Is Murakami going to hit 60 homers?

10 Mune shots and it's only Aprl 23. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y8s...