I mean I like pavement but this feels like a “Charlie Brown had hoes” level of revisionist nonsense

dobie gray: give me the b-boys and free my beastie boys: SOUL dobie: i wanna get lost in your rock and beasties: ROLL

I mean, this just makes too much sense

Not necessarily in that order, but, yeah.

I’m just gonna play this on a loop until my work day ends m.youtube.com/watch?v=4MOE...

We Gen Xers swing right harder than our parents. Why? We grew up with Reagan's vapid certainties, still bullied kids or endured bullying, accepted gender stereotypes handed down to us, and had jobs offering the last gasp of New Deal protections. I talk about it here. wp.me/pzXeC-le5

Night lights #oilpainting #art

Invoking the 25th is only impossible until it becomes possible.

I’m maybe 1/3 into a novel where a private investigator working for the defense is pursuing a lead about someone on the fringes of the case. The PI has been directed to an out of the way bar to find this person

There are definitely far worse ways to spend money if you have a lot of money

In the spirit of counting blessings, at least streaming album promos are less glitchy and less prone to swift expiration now

“Look man, all I can do is describe these things. I am not responsible for the world being like this.”

DON'T USE SELF-CHECKOUT

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I mean, this seems like a capital idea

this Allan Horing poem, my god

“You know what? Don't even worry about it. It's not supposed to make sense. It's drugs. It's fame. It's attention. … What matters is that, like so many other Weeknd-related products, it feels arty and vaguely transgressive. It makes a statement, even if nobody's quite sure what the statement is.”

Yes, true, but many commenters on this post are also right

A pastel done in my garden. On the left is a statue made from pieces of driftwood on an iron rod with a rusty metal base. On the right is a plastic dragon on the bough of a crab apple tree. It has been tied on there for decades, gradually disintegrating.

Michelle Mischkulnig, Australian (1961- ), My Happy Place, 2023, textile, private collection

Trapiche amethyst slice from Brazil

Echoing in my subconscious in recent months for reasons perhaps too obvious to explain m.youtube.com/watch?v=m4L2...

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he got everything he ever wanted and he’s fucking miserable

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

I actually wrote for the first time in months yesterday. Just a spontaneous burst of 1,200 words on the novel in progress. A scene that I started telling myself in my head when I thought, “Wait, I could just write this down.” And then there my characters were, just as alive and present as ever.

Los Angeles at the ICE Detention Center

more like "loser orban" amirite

Max Ernst, German-American-French (1891-1976), Compendium of the History of the Universe, 1953, oil on canvas, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Nice to come home to this

Fun fact: Michelle Obama and Jill Biden never had to hold a press conference to deny being part of a sex trafficking ring

The asshole markup

The four humans who have traveled the furthest from Earth. (Via NASA.)

#sciart Night Sky in Cobalt & Viridian 10”x10” Oil on cradled wood panel

A very astute (and upsetting!) piece that touches on four scary cultural trends: 1) The demand for spelled-out moral clarity in stories 2) A growing inability to understand different types of narratives 3) The "customer's always right" version of fandom 4) The growth of fandom as a social identity.

Foaming

Anyone want a psychedelic Backwoods bucket hat?

When you are a huge bureaucratic state agency with a reputation for terrible customer service, padding your “hold music” (and the waits on the service line are endless) with mini episodes of your lame in-house podcast no one cares about is beyond adding insult to injury

Holy heck, what a discography!!! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_G...

Presuming that elections proceed largely unimpeded, the question we have to ask our candidates is: “Will you do everything in your power to investigate and prosecute every single crime* committed by this administration and passing legislation to prevent a repeat of this nightmare?”

Dumbest Grisham book ever

Every once in a while I’ll be out to lunch or dinner and some song playing will remind me that “oh yeah, Gwen Stefani had a solo career“

Jim Shaw: Right now we’re suffering through an idea I had while working on the show: to have this column with a nest and a giant egg that lights up. Claude Lévi-Strauss: I think it’s largely due to surrealism. www.splicetoday.com/pop-culture/...

These are questions that should be asked often and loudly

From “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle“, by Haruki Murakami.