welp, i guess that's it for grading for the day. probably won't be able to hold class in a couple hours either. back to the garden it is...

more like can'tvas

pa' mi gente de la mañana

hello bluebook my old friend 🎶

new pub alert! 👀 🚨 🇵🇷 🇲🇽 🎉 academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

I made an earnest post. might delete.

to "harness the power of AI" as they say, far as I can see, is to have enough domain knowledge to know how (or whether) to use it. if the government wants to support students and workers in that, the answer is not by integrating AI with everything, it's by supporting AI-free learning.

I was one of the 250 "music insiders" consulted for this piece (a full year ago!) and I'm cheered to see 14 of the 16 I listed here. (Joni was disqual'd for being Canadian; I knew that but cmon. Tom Waits was a long shot?) was afraid hip-hop & R&B folks might be overlooked and I'm glad they weren't.

we turn to hip-hop this week in my American Popular Music class, so you know I had to do it to em

Boston record heads: Brian Coleman has opened up his own shop in Newton, next door to a dispensary (for you other heads). Rooting for him: www.rootforus.net

choice placement of this ad right in the midst of a discussion of the allegations against Bambaataa

beautiful, yes, but real cruelest month vibes. sometimes it snows in april :/

April is the cruelest month

comp seems cool but was this review written in the 80s? "...with the spiritual sounds of caressed congos, shakers, and emotional vocal crooning, you can almost feel the rich smoke of this séance emanating from the speakers as Bio calls to the Rastafarian deity." daily.bandcamp.com/album-of-the...

tfw when you're reading an Eek-A-Mouse transcription

just drove past a bank of some sort in Xalapa called Más Kapital 🤣

ay que bonito es volar

so nice to be able to open the windows (sound on)

"viewer discretion" means watching the videos, no?

this doesn't do justice but the sunset was absolutely cooking tonight

gmail just showed me a preview of an AI-reply I could use to respond to an email, and while I shouldn't be so shocked, I was truly flabbergasted that the answer it composed drew from recent in-person conversations (as spied on by my phone) and my browsing history (to divine my travel plans). creeps.

a piece I wrote last year about dembow dominicano for Hyperlocal is now online: hyper---local.com/magazine/dem... a post-script today would add that the recent Tokischa collabs with Ice Spice and ASAP Rocky suggest that dembow might have more room for English verses than reggaeton.

I love the idea of trying to fire a dog. Good luck with that.

far prefer the Pru to tell me the Celts are playing than that we're bombing other countries

we discussed W.C. Handy's "St. Louis Blues" in class last week, and now my snitch-ass phone is pushing me notifications about the hockey team

the impressive choppa (scammer) code-switching is the big sell here, but I can't get over the irony that at the same time as this dembow lawsuit, dancehall drums have gravitated toward a 3-2 clave pattern (as also heard in trap and afrobeats). www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEzW...

riding my bike around town like a complete maniac (for riding my bike around town on these streets)

"sound system culture has expanded all over the world…The result of this is hundreds & hundreds of sound systems in Jamaican molds scattered around the world - as in Brazil, w. the sound history of this culture being passed on decade after decade, preserving the trajectory & creating new memories”

What channel is the Bad Bunny SOTU on?

gonna need some serious motivational music to get through this post-blizzard shoveling. too subjective to take requests -- I run toward Mingus and El Malo -- but wish me well.

unpopular opinion apparently: there are no bad fruits

just answered an unknown call with a local number. I know they're often spoofed but it could have been the dentist. anyway I said hello, was answered by the first two measures of Satie's Gymnopedie #1, and then they hung up on me. maybe it was the dentist?

sometimes eggs come out looking like decorative gourds

william shakespeare didn't have this to write about

and the winner for best slopumentary goes to...

"If humans could perceive the ultrasonic range, rat chirruping would be as much the sound of New York as sparrows, starlings, and traffic." #soundstudies #ratscapes #ultrasound www.newyorker.com/science/elem...

technically, your honor, cabrón refers to a male goat

the investigation

se nota que Benito shouted out Cuba twice toward the end there.

an hour of shoveling snow = more firewater. I make the rules.

@ericdharvey.com oh the quotes you could have quoted

nevermind spanish, some of you have three days to learn how to dance

😂 www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/faq...

time to take back Electric Boogaloo from the fash

vindication

thinking I might have to buy a trumpet for when it finally happens. just imagined myself beating a skillet and honking the car horn but surely there are better options.

the mighty @eddiestats.bsky.social goes deep on the multicultural roots of the Bam Bam riddim -- and the musical genius of Sly Dunbar -- making a rich case for why this one has enjoyed such resonance since its release and such ongoing reverberation. pitchfork.com/reviews/trac...

last night, Boylston & Mass, no filter. some beauty amidst the slush.

Best New Music, Jan 2026

fun frozen egg trick #63748