There's obviously other stuff going on, but I am still shocked that the US Vice President actively campaigning in a foreign election is not a bigger deal.

"It's a day where we celebrate religion" is such a bizarre way to describe Easter.

“Have you heard the news?” he said, with a grin “The Vice-President’s gone mad.” “Where?” “Downtown.” “When?” “Last night” “Hmm, say, that’s too bad." youtu.be/SmtQ6x1c_yo?...

me right now

My wife's aunt and uncle's house is filled with early twentieth century artists from the Rockport, MA school. Here's an exceptionally charming bishop made from a broken oar by Al Czerepak.

The problem with staffing your cabinet with interchangeable lickspittles and D-listers is that none of them are of significant enough stature for their departure to signal a meaningful change of policy.

The American civil religion can have all kinds of explicit Christian content on the one condition of not openly relitigating the Protestant Reformation.

Don’t know if this is serendipity but I was thinking the same thing this week. Particularly love these versions of “Grandma’s Hands”, “I Can’t Write Lefthanded”, and of course “Harlem/Cold Baloney”.

one of the great camera movements in live music history. RIP to an all-timer

RIP to drummer James Gadson, the man holding it down on what I still believe is the greatest live album ever made.

They could have bailed out the Division of the Humanities. But no. news.uchicago.edu/story/50-mil...

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

Chaz is the best & so is Bull City Records.

This is a little heartbreaking. During the height of lockdown I remember ordering records from Chaz and walking over to Bull City Records and picking them up at his backdoor. It was a lifeline in a pretty dark time.

Zero chance he can stay awake through this.

As a Jewish historian who works at a university, I think it’s great that an administration committed to destroying “the internal globalist enemy” which is staffed by groyper antisemites is collecting lists of Jews. Can’t see any potential downside here at all.

sorry but it's so funny to be one of the last actual human beings getting paid a decent rate to review books for legacy media and pull this shit

This. The dream of the 90s is dead. Cheap rent enables every kind of creative work and nothing else can substitute for it.

Countries banning all teenagers from social media because "their brains aren't developed enough to handle it", meanwhile nobody's talking about the percentage of retirement-aged adults who have irreversibly cooked their fucking brains on Facebook since 2020.

Big crowd at No Kings in downtown Durham.

After jazz and the Martini, sure

in an administration defined by unforced errors, "accidentally giving Iran formal control of the Strait of Hormuz" still might be a record-breaker

Messthetics and JBL called it.

SECOND SPHINX SECOND SPHINX SECOND SPHINX

Every GOP congressperson running for reelection needs to be asked whether they agree with Speaker Johnson that we are currently living in a "golden era."

The tendency of the right to express patriotism as bereavement and deprivation. It is always something lost, something they took from you.

I wish Baudrillard was still alive.

An earthquake in NC politics.

It’s cool that the highest level of our government is basically a Make-A-Wish program for middle-aged losers

Culture doesn't matter. We can have a materialist politics.

Caught Setting in a room with maybe 30 people. Walked out reasonably confident that this is the best band in America.

RETVRN

The “Red” Carpet

Matt Berry is doing incredible work.

Everything sucks, but the exquisite Joe Henderson reissues just keep coming.

RIP Jürgen Habermas.

when it's obviously going great

RIP. Keep f**king that chicken.

jfc

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Let him host, cowards.

Criminal records reveal GOP senate candidate Michael Whatley appointed a convicted sex offender to senior leadership positions in the North Carolina Republican Party.

I'm not looking up a pic of Bobbi Boudman. That way I can continue picturing her as Bobbi Fleckman from This is Spinal Tap.

No one amalgamates vices like America.

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Extraordinary piece. But not so much as a study of royal privilege but of the shabby and beggarly nature of the Yorks' wealth. Everything borrowed; everything on loan; every iota of their identity & access monetized for a quick payout. Whatever they could squeeze from their position, squandered.

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holy shit

This week I'm on Not Just the Tudors with @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social talking everything you want to know about the Hanoverian succession of 1714.