Fiddle and guitar in the shade of a carousel, Taos, New Mexico, JUly 1940 in a photograph by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration, Library of Congress.

Look, plantar fascitis sucks but I think this guy has bigger issues going on

Proton Mail users can now send emails from their Gmail address and sync Gmail messages inside Proton Mail. The feature imports recent Gmail messages and filters out trackers and ads, so your app activity cannot be used by Google for profiling alternativeto.net/news/2026/5...

San Francisco Story Fest is one month away. One night. One stage. No replays. The villain at the core of Emmett's story is not a person, but a notorious piece of Bay area infrastructure. 🎟️ https://www.cityboxoffice.com/StoryFest Sponsored by @americansunited @knightfdn @propublica @wsanfrancisco

People don't long for "inconvenience." They long for permanence. And though streaming services may be convenient, people are waking up to the fact that we are paying rent-seeking middle men month after month for things we will never actually own.

I have read this very passage at several of my recent book events. It speaks to the intangible joys of getting out there and supporting your neighborhood stores, a joy that cannot be delivered via "prime." It might a be buck or two more, but visit that local bookshop, record shop, whatever.

#CountryRockSunday Enjoyed this new song by Willow Avalon & Kaitlin Butts youtu.be/SM6-r8bg3Q0?...

I made Indian food today and to celebrate, we watched this excellent metal video about the greatness of Indian food. A stern grandma makes an appearance. Bloodywood- Tadka youtu.be/nihFu0YjkcE?...

Here is a poster full of different kinds of sandwiches.

Into the mess that is the app PoopCheck, that asks users to share their stool photos to be analyzed by AI. Also, they're selling the database of photos. www.404media.co/ai-poop-anal...

It is funny to be in the middle of an energy and medicine revolution while the part of the tech industry that draws attention to itself is entirely devoted to scams and exploding rockets.

Turns out you can just buy a birthday cake any time and eat it yourself. Nobody checks.

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

@cgraigy11.bsky.social just introduced me to a PHENOMENAL newish artist named Candi Jenkins- great traditional country with fantastic songwriting and vocals: www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0yr...

I was listening to a music theory podcast about minimalist composition and polyrhythms. Started talking to my classical music housemate about Philip Glass. She described it as "music that is like the starry sky".

OK ya'll, we have it: Body cam footage of the Texas Cybertruck driver who intentionally drove the vehicle into a lake to test the Tesla's "wade mode" feature. It got stuck. He got arrested. “Obviously I wasn’t thinking at all." Read now: www.404media.co/heres-the-bo...

we're popping out miracle drugs that address like basically every human ailment other than the inevitability of death, we're turbodeploying unlimited free energy from god, and the computers can do our homework, so obviously we are [checking notes] in the worst of all possible timelines. what a world

Classic, beat-up old beater. Love a Telecaster, world's greatest (and most musical) plank...

Guitar of the Day

I've always been annoyed by the misnaming of various AI systems and the conflation of modes. So I've decided to refer to LLMs as Lemming Tech and the people staking their future on them are lemmings. :)

If you can kill mint, you are truly Death, the Destroyer of Worlds. That stuff is tenacious.

Episode 264: Endangered Shellac A selection of things in the Dollar Country collection from the early days of recorded music. Listen at the website (linked below) or at apple podcasts. dollarcountry.org/items/show/3...

He’s back!!! We just captured male Bobolink LGB (light blue, green, blue) for the third year in a row here in Oswego. That means he’s been down to Paraguay and back at least three times- flying roughly 30,000 total miles! Simply an incredible feat for a bird that weighs as much as six nickels. 🤯

Ive been sick for so long (like 9 days now) that I read the entire internet and got too bored to keep scrolling. Started working on (re-)learning to read music in between bouts of passing-out .

This looks like a mash up of stolen VW minibus plans, a vehicle from Batman the animated series, and a confused owl… I’ll take it. carbuzz.com/china-skywor...

I'm browsing one of the Lomax archive websites and found some pictures of a 1944 rodeo in Pittsburg Kansas featuring an unknown all woman string band. archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/k...

Sinday Sunday here's your sermon. youtu.be/oQElth_oc4Q?...

X was my gateway drug to rockabilly though at the time I didn't realize it was happening. There will never be another like them. youtu.be/5qLFq9s-oEE?...

I genuinely love how more than half of us jump in with food recs. Add “gives unsolicited culinary recommendations” to the “how to spot a New Yorker (or child of a New Yorker)” list. (And yes, I save any new ones for the next time I’m in town to see my family.)

Got a notification from a medieval copyright lawyer

I fueled up at a "cheap" gas station and got charged for 21+ gallons in a 20 gallon tank. Somebody is getting Weights And Measures called on them on Monday.

The writing life.

Why are cybertruck drivers the WORST at parking

Be careful what you say to RFK Jr., he’s the rare government official who might take “eat a bag of dicks” literally.

Signals Music Studio is a phenomenal YouTube channel for composition in music theory, and he's so fantastic at explaining modes. He has many many really great videos that apply regardless of genre and he uses some really great examples to illustrate the concepts.

Shawn James released a new song: Tired of Trying https://youtu.be/BTwn49ru-pU Sometimes it's good to slow down and reflect. Put down the booze and take it easy, before the booze takes you. #americana #singersongwriter #shawnjames

Audiophiles, heads up if you didn't know: Bandcamp is genuinely one of the best places to download .flac format music. Enormous variety and typically very cheap.

Epiphone Fatoumata Diawara SG

Trailer: King of Bluegrass - The Life and Times of Jimmy Martin

When I was DJing country music at the storied punk rock bar Crash Palace/Delilah's, 1 AM would roll around and I would start what I called "The Unhappy Hour." This playlist is listed as Appendix C in my book "The Hours Are Long But The Pay Is Low." Enjoy it with someone you love. Or hate.

People that think A.I.'s are conscious should have to hold funerals for their Alexas like how red states have fetal burial laws

PS: As I like to say, I don't have an issue with Trump falling asleep. My problem is that he keeps waking up.

This week's episode is going to be all Endangered Shellac, which is what I call any 78 that is in fewer than 5 collections on discogs. We'll have 20s-50s stuff on here, it's gonna be fun.

Young John Watson - Space Guitar youtu.be/5gJg7_FgVTI ‘Johnny "Guitar" Watson, Space Guitar, notable for the early use of feedback and reverb. Released in 1954.’

For his 100th birthday David Attenborough should get to surreptitiously release an animal of his choosing into the home of a big game hunter.

Discussing the new Ashley McBryde album ‘Wild’, country music drinking culture and that very personal music video ❤️ highwayqueens.com/2026/05/09/a...

Damn, I loved The Texas Tornados. On Hurtin For Real #1208, it's all favourites from Doug, Freddy, Augie, and Flaco. Visit any time at hurtinforreal.com , Friends. #HurtinForReal #TexasTornados

My wife works at a middle school. I went with her to a nighttime STEM open house on Thursday in my normal rockabilly garb. Apparently word around school now is Mrs. White's husband is "tuff". Meaning cool. I always wanted to be the popular kid in school! 😂