"The Times, They Are a-Changin'" is something like my 30th favorite Bob Dylan album. Not because it's his 30th best - it's anything but. Here's hi-res album cover art. Check next skeet for a helpful link.

Starting a playlist of "Great songs you cannot share with your romantic partner." What should I add? www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCgY...

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Duolingo keeps you motivated. League rankings, XP points for completing lessons, bonus XP for challenges, 2X or 3X XP for doing another lesson before a specific time. Gamification means everything gets gamed. Someone holds the record for highest Duolingo rank while learning the least French.

Here's hi-res album cover artwork for Miles Davis' E.S.P. (1965) [2368x2368]. Check next skeet for a helpful link. That's Davis' then-wife, Frances Taylor Davis posing with him. Back when ugly people could get recording contracts, beautiful women helped sell jazz records. This was one of the ...

I'll read any serious article that includes the phrase, "strategic monkey reserve." Also, I've got fifty bucks for any reporter who asks Trump or Vance if we're developing a strategic monkey gap with China.

Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope. Yes, THAT Pope.

Here's high-res album cover art for Jefferson Airplane's "After Bathing at Baxter's." Recorded during the Summer of Love, it caught the giddy vibe of young San Franciscans watching a rainbow-colored balloon swell to bursting. Check following skeets for useful links.

James Bond doesn't have to be an individual. Fan canon holds "James Bond" is a code name / job title for MI5's top agent. The movie doesn't have to explain, either. The supermodel playing the villain says, "I'm told you're a man of many talents." Daniel Kaluuya arches an eyebrow, and we're off.

The new Dave's Picks, Vol. 56 from the Grateful Dead sounds damn good. Fat bass, clear vocals. Brent takes many actual solos, as opposed to adding color the way he would mostly do later. Here's hi-res album cover art. See following skeet for useful links:

This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

A true story:

Enjoying "The Pride of Pimlico," a trad-Irish song from the Chieftains. The drone of the pipes and bodhran rhythms are particularly nice. Now wondering how severe someone's alcoholism had to be for them to be known as, "Keogh the whiskey-drinker." www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVcG...

Overheard The Kinks' "Come Dancing" the other day. It was gentlemanly of Ray Davies to mention his sister's honor: "He didn't know the night would end up in frustration He'd end up blowing all his wages for the week All for a cuddle and a peck on the cheek" www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRUE...

happy bday poet Sylvia Plath, b.1932, Boston. “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.” “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.”

Again, the Bible is unambiguous about it. Thus says the Lord of hosts: Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another; do not oppress the widow, the orphan, the alien, or the poor; and do not devise evil in your hearts against one another. Zechariah 7:9-10

Thanks, New Yorker

Fun story: in 1920 the Irish Republic loaned the Bolsheviks $25,000, who gave them as collateral the Romanov family jewels. For three decades, until the loan was repaid, these jewels were kept secret behind a fireplace in an unassuming house: 15 Marino Crescent—the birthplace of Bram Stoker.

Everybody shut up. I'm trying to shazam this song.

I watched a video of a Ukrainian woman with catgirl ears on her helmet along with a trans pride flag patch drop an artillery strike on an ruf position and blow up a dozen guys

Here's hi-res album cover art for 90125. Check next skeet for a useful link. It's weird that Yes' commercial-sellout album was also one of their best. And it's weird to hear how much prog remains under the MTV sheen. Most songs are under six minutes and started as Trevor Rabin compositions...

Watching Arrival (2016). Wondering why the race with the advanced technology didn't work as hard at learning our language as we worked at learning theirs. #filmsky #moviesky 📽

Duolingo speaking my language. #filmsky #moviesky 📽

Doing French on Duolingo. "Marcher" just means "to walk." "Demander" just means "to ask for." "Réunion" just means "meeting." French-speakers sound so cool and detached, but it's the language of melodrama.

Hi-res album cover art for Bob Dylan's "Time Out of Mind" (1997). As close as he came to equaling "Blood on the Tracks," & just as much of a divorce album. Reddit and imgur compress images, which hurts picture quality. There's an uncompressed 2830x2830 .jpg here: drive.google.com/file/d/1ohzJ...

Got my COVID shot today at CVS. The sign-up asked if I had a condition causing vulnerability to long COVID. I clicked "Yes," honestly, and that's all it took to get the shot. It's still BS there's any gatekeeping to the most effective disease fighter we've ever had www.who.int/news/item/24...

obsessed with this 21 savage/Amadeus edit

Practice sentences in language lessons are surreal. If I heard real people talk about a mutual friend who loves to eat fruit, I'd assume they were doing a coded drug deal.

Samuel Beckett lived in the French countryside in the 1950s. Local kids had to walk to school, so sometimes he'd give them a ride. One of them grew up to be Andre the Giant. www.snopes.com/fact-check/a...

Did the Predator find worthy prey? It looks as though the Predator found worthy prey.

Great documentary on the making of "Fitzcarraldo" (1982). Wish they'd released both together as a two-fer. They're both about inspired madmen risking their crews' lives deep in the Amazon in pursuit of aesthetic triumph. 📽️ #filmsky

RIP Terence Stamp. It's a shame he'll mainly be remembered as General Zod in "Superman II". If the Lionsgate publicity department had guts, these 84 seconds would have been the trailer for "The Limey" (1999). www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9yu...

@davidlemieux.bsky.social, could you help settle a friendly reddit debate? Was The GD Movie shot in 16mm, 35mm or both? Press releases refer to original 35mm negative. Blu-ray booklet only mentions 16mm camera negatives. Says Leon Gast had to talk them into using 16mm instead of video. Wondering,

"slightly diminish a band" ok Phil Collins is now the frontman

Slightly diminish a band: Neurosis

Re-reading Jaws. 1st time since I was way too young. For a beach read, there's a surprising amount about tensions between the snooty "summer people," and the blue-collar locals who resent their dependence on them. No wonder Castro praised the book's class-consciousness.

Tracked down one of my favoite quotes about one of my favorite bands: "The continued and increasing popularity of (the Grateful Dead's) ur-space boogie is incomprehensible to the uninitiated and requires no additional comment here." - Byron Coley. books.google.com/books?id=hcb...

My Favorite Doctor and Companion.

An analogy about AI www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-t...

What's your favorite ending to a movie? #Filmsky 📽

In theory, I'm opposed to horny-shaming. In practice ...

Skeeted about the Grateful Dead's "Steal Your Face" months ago. Didn't include a link to unsquashed album art. There's an uncompressed 3722x3722 .jpg to download here: drive.google.com/file/d/1PEl0...

Every... (allow me to emphasize) EVERYONE make a protective circle around Martin Scorsese. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...

The most interesting fact about Hulk Hogan is that as a kid in France, Andre the Giant sometimes got driven to school by playwright Samuel Beckett

Bob Uecker - January 16 Garth Hudson - January 21 Gene Hackman - February 26 George Foreman - March 21 Val Kilmer - April 1 George Wendt - May 20 Sly Stone - June 9 Brian Wilson - June 11 Michael Madsen - July 3 Ozzy Osbourne - July 22 Everyone make a protective circle around Martin Scorsese.

Alice goes down the rabbit hole because she wants to know why the rabbit has a waistcoat and a pocket watch. She never finds out. She only gets more questions, confusion, insults and accusations. If anti-intellectuals stopped to think about things, they'd love that.

Young Ozzy Osbourne spotted backstage at the Hollywood Festival, Newcastle-under-Lyme, England (May 23-24, 1970), at which Black Sabbath and the Grateful Dead performed. This split-second cameo appears in the lost documentary of the Dead’s first trip to England. Thanks for everything, Ozzy.

Good night, sweet prince of darkness.