Tonight in records I forgot I had

my partner still laughs at me because this is what I always thought the song said as well; it makes more sense! They have to sleep SOMETIME! Little me had it right!

Ned…this is great & somehow I missed this when it came out. I’ve been telling friends for years that Lange perfected everything with Lep over a decade & 4 albums & translated it all for Shania. Every damn country musician has tried to replicate that sound & groove but none come close.

An absolutely killer #HitParade from @cmolanphy.bsky.social here on the uber-producer Mutt Lange, give an ear when you can. I admittedly speak as a total _Hysteria_ obsessive, as my 2012 piece on the album for @thequietus.com makes clear. It’s just THAT good.

I have a new conspiracy theory.

It is very funny that this Pope is just going to get jerseys from now on. Everyone decided that's what this Pope likes and that is it. It's like if your grandmother got you a puzzle for Christmas one year and you said you liked it so your entire extended family is like "oh that's the puzzle kid"

Here is an obituary for Alice Wong from The Sick Times, a publication aligned with disability rights and disability activism, if you are looking for an alternative to reading the nyt one: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...

Really, really proud of this interview.

I actually enjoy not being good at playing an instrument because then when I do improve, it’s like, hey this practicing shit works! And also maybe I’m not a lost cause!

I’m not sure we’re ever meant to feel like we’re in command of our craft. The only artist I’ve ever heard say that he’s there is Daryl Hall, and that’s just proof that he’s an asshole.

Not that I can compare myself to a professional, but I feel similar. I know there’s a point with enough time that you get a kind of embouchure, as it were, but I don’t think you ever feel as though you can master this thing that you love. I’ve imitated scores of voices before I found my own.

"Some days you get up and put the horn to your chops and it sounds pretty good and you win. Some days you try and nothing works and the horn wins. This goes on and on and then you die and the horn wins." — Dizzy Gillespie

holy shit rip, this is the first i heard about this. we haven't kept in touch much lately but we were mutuals on twitter and talked a lot about covid. people tried so hard to tell him he wasn't even sick. him and alice wong in the same week: please just wear a damn mask in public.

Facts also Franklin is cussing them out 😂

If it’s any consolation, as someone who has played an instrument for their job for their entire adult life, this feeling never really goes away. Sometimes you feel the limitations so strongly, you feel like a total beginner still, however much you know you aren’t.

The Papal strut is killing me

Current (permanent) mood as an American in 2025:

Dear DCC Family, We write to you with broken hearts. Disability Justice leader, MacArthur Genius, and a dear friend of the DCC passed away last night. Take care of yourself and each other. We leave you with her final words from our grand opening, "Thank you and Free Palestine.”

Alice Wong's GoFundMe has been transformed into a mission to continue her work after her passing. gofund.me/47a499d5c

In nomine Kevin et Fender et tremelo sancti, amen.

The Pope can’t meet with you at this time, there’s a Criterion flash sale.

Iirc tom Verlaine became a great guitarist because the sax was his “Albert ayler, let’s goooooo!!!” instrument in adolescence, while with the guitar he could practice scales calmly.

This response is as it should be. (I've seen too many Waymos around already here and now I'm seeing Zooxes as well and ow my brain.)

The way below zero days make you want to do nothing and everything all at once

This is the thing. See, writing, I work on it and always work on it, I won't ever stop. Cooking, I happily put in some time as I can. But I never got around to playing guitar because I am always "Dammit why can't I sound like Kevin Shields immediately." (I realize this is unrealistic, and yet.)

Big tangent, but this conversation reminded me: it bugs me when smug urban liberals are like "white people in cities are less racist because of proximity to/familiarity with different races!" And as someone from a small Southern town that is 80% Black, I can tell you...that's just not true.

I like to think back decades to the prospect of "Okay, so just one live-action sequence at the start of this film and then I'm voicing a doll, sounds like an easy gig," and now he's been doing that all this time and is an icon several times over. For that ONE role alone on top of all the other ones!

As far as MAGA people "seeing the light" if they're regular people then they should admit they got swindled and explain how that's changed their outlook. If they're media/political actors their regret is hollow and self serving anyway

i used to think the lyric was ‘i wanna rock and roll all night / and part of every day’ and i remember thinking, honestly that sounds reasonable

hold on, it's #shoegaze Saturday

Sometimes, I kind of feel like a Frankenstein myself. Just a handful of mismatched limbs held together by vibes and one questionable thunderstorm.

I always wanted to hear a version of This Corrosion with Jeffrey Tambor's Hank Kingsley doing the "Hey Hey Hey Now Now" bits.

Y’all wanna hear a wild story? Charlie is right — this medley Prince made 30 years ago, blending many of his greatest hits & fan favorites into an extended mashup, is one of the most fun “only Prince could do this” things he made in the 90s. BUT: he told us he was gonna do it. In an AOL chat room…

This is a project Alice helped to organize - just made a donation in her honor, and I hope some of you will too.

"Such things I hear, well they don't make sense / I don't see much evidence" comes to mind a lot, of late

NWR second row aisle baby

If you want to share the joy you can get it here: libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

Spent the last few hours listening to John Waters read a bunch of his scripts. Pure joy.

Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.

The fiercest of souls. Thank you for your tireless advocacy, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social. Rest in peace, Alice. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...

A nice obituary for Alice, who was going to be recognized as one of The Post 50. I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman. #GiftLink wapo.st/49WOdx1

Totally blew my mind the first time I heard that album. So damn good.

What a fucking record indeed.

It's that time of year again. If you're in Scotland and go see the sunrise on a partly clear morning near the Cobbler in Arrochar, you might get lucky and see the grass dramatically lit up by the sun before it hits the mountains.

“I hear the roar of a big machine Two worlds and in between Hot metal and methedrine I hear empire down”

Alice Wong was one of the most effective people challenging the Whiteness of disability communities and its many flaws, but who believed fiercely in us as a community, in disabled people as oracles. Alice brought so much to so many of us, it’s hard to measure the kind of gratitude I have for that.

Of course it does.

A lot of the (often quite powerful!) guys emailing Epstein were asking him for dating advice, which seems to suggest that they saw his own sex life as aspirational.

I love the library, I love librarians I go to the library and there’s a placard on top of a bookshelf. It says “mysteries” and there’s a black and white stock image of a Sherlock Holmes on the placard. I turn and another placard says “science fiction” and there’s a stock image of an alien 👽 on it.

I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte. ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018. We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff: