This whole song is jam packed with great lyrics, but "My beard a rough'nin' coal pile" is the one that always trips me up, like what did he just say?

lmao i need a prescription. what is there to say but death to america

okay I'm sorry, I'm done, I'm sorry my demons, you see

Today is the 30th anniversary of Homerpalooza, and it's mostly been my experience that Abe Simpson was wrong. You can still be "with it," kinda, in middle age. I do think of him, however, whenever I encounter a band or artist I don't recognize and it turns out they just went big on TikTok.

My elder kid is no longer a teenager as of today. Are there any other major cultural milestones for turning 20, or do we save it all for 21?

“Their records are colored in burnt gold and avocado green, decorated in shag carpet and wood paneling, filled with stale beer and skunk weed. “ Another excellent retrospective from STE

I am begging people who don't specialize in music history to not write about Robert Johnson. Your probably starting from a place of only knowing misinformation and are not equipped to find the accurate info without knowing how research this idiosyncratic field.

“Randy Bachman had never heard of Atkins, and assumed that "Chet Atkins" was a style of music” and he wasn’t completely wrong

This is well said, and there are so many examples of this in Tolkien's descriptions. For instance, Gandalf, Galadriel, and Bilbo all undergo apparent transformations under the influence of the ring, but in each case it appears to be Frodo's perception, rather than an actual change.

The fact that I don't know what this is about either means I've curated my timeline well, or poorly

I love these doofuses so much.

Hoot hoot hoot

You know what? Reagan was right. Mamdani is saying, every day, “I’m from the government and I’m here to help” and these rich guys who were Reagan’s core constituency are shitting their pants in panic

Like @rincewind.run just said, it doesn't feel real. Then you keep adding to the thread, and it keeps feeling unreal

they blew up Grogu in Philly last night

This is a fun question, I have no answer for either, but it does get me thinking about the individual tastes of my parents, both of whom were teenagers when rock & roll emerged

Featuring a James Jamerson bass line so good, you can hardly blame Carol Kaye for trying to claim credit for it

2025 Oscar committee:

I think we can respect Brian’s request, but you can @ ME with your favorite Beatles cover

I don’t have a ready answer for this, but I think there’s an interesting side question of when you learned the difference between “movie I’m not interested in,” “movie I don’t like,” and “movie that is actually bad.” (I also think a lot of loud online fans still don’t know the difference)

Teaser and Grogu

More English speaking people should be saying “Bom dia” It sounds cool

Speaking primarily for myself, I think our continued failure is a bookish devotion to the letter of our core principles of popular rule and universal respect. Our worship of abstract democracy means we feel bound to respect the outcome when "the people" choose tyranny.

I didn't know until today that Bebe Neuwirth was in the 1996 revival of Chicago, so I'll end my Friday posting with a gift for @awholedamntown.bsky.social

ive encountered thousands of us not a single one has ever said "i identify as" anything. its a lie they put in our mouths

Excellent bit

You'll be able to edit someone else's post, but not your own

Getting disproportionately emotional over "It's silly but, I'm glad she got to play silksong before this happened."

took a break from online today to inoculate a mushroom bed on the side of the house. some of you need to worry less about "my social networks" and more about "mycelial networks"

brb going to stop the world just to stop the feeling

Sitting down to think through a difficult problem

girl are you Christopher Nolan's adaptation of The Odyssey because you haven't even gotten here and a bunch of weird dudes are already whining that you weren't created specifically to meet their expectations

Directors will allow a mediocre performance and say “we’ll fix it in post” and then not fix it in post

Today I learned the correct pronunciation of Denis Villeneuve's name and I am reminded of Steve Martin's bit about speaking French

The good taxpayers of New York have given me a pair of Meta glasses because I am low vision disabled, and I seem to have used them more than a lot of people on here, so let me say a little about my experiences:

It doesn’t mean much until we see the polls, but I think it’s worth noting a Montana Democrat willing to (1) openly use the word “Democrat” about herself, (2) call out by name MAGA and Trump as things she opposes. Feels like a change from previous cycles

I swear every correspondence tournament bracket has one of these guys

My Facebook algorithm has recently decided I want to see knitted frogs, which is correct, but it's doing so with ai-animated knitted frogs, which is no way to run a railroad so enjoy these real knitted frogs. support real artists

“what if i primed you negatively, would you respond negatively?”

It sounds SO cliched and condescending to say “there’s nothing like seeing the painting in person” but I’ve had it demonstrated to me over and over. Both Georgia O’Keefe and Botticelli left me literally stunned, unable to speak or walk as the sensory impression settled in.

This is so cool. One of the greatest waltz composers ever* using waltz conventions over 5/4 to keep your expectations endlessly stymied, and done so well you don’t know he’s dropping beats until you fall down

Super grim that this is plausible

“The protocol is open. The tools are available. Blacksky is right there as the working example. Stop trying to renovate someone else’s house. Build your own, and let your friends visit, wherever they happen to live.” www.aaronrosspowell.com/3mlqxgn3hzk2...

What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 👍🏻

The crowd at this stage is going to look like an SCA event

I'm not even 100% sure I'm going to vote for Sam Forstag, but I appreciate that he's probably not going to have to do the Montana candidate rite of passage of getting photographed in hunting gear, because he's already done the hottest outdoor photoshoot imaginable in this state

I’ve long had a fantasy not of traveling back in time, but of bringing a person from the past to show them the present day. Like showing a stereo to JS Bach and explaining recorded music to him. I realize this is what people hawking “ai Friedrich Nietzsche” chatbots think they’re doing, and no

pasta party at flannel's house