These redactions are quite telling.

It's complex because they're asking to use something that isn't theirs, on an international scale, in many possible iterations. Tech has compounded this, but so have the assumptions of consumers for whom music no longer has monetary value.

I feel lingering guilt over having photoshopped a Winger t-shirt onto an old friend post-mortem. Too soon. Buuuuut still accurate in spirit.

That's one in a million, for the decimal-challenged.

I became an adult the day I found the necessary willpower. It was a couple of weeks ago.

The olympic theme music was playing in my head as I arose from bed this afternoon.

I've only fan-remastered two albums for personal enjoyment: 5150 and OU812, desperate to extract some bass. Looks like this is enhanced video rather than 16mm film, but still, Live Without a Net was my guitar instruction video in the formative years, so any preservation is welcome.

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

"But I didn't do that thing he said in the joke!" That's part of what makes it a joke, not journalism. In other news, a man from Nantucket was revealed to be of average endowment but superior flexibility.

… and his drummer's got both SNB and MNF intros

In my youth I assumed fettuccine was pronounced like the Bon Jovi song "Bad Fettuccine," which still earworms whenever I see the word.

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

"douche" has become my default mouth sound effect, whether drawn out as a thud or doubled up like rayguns or tom-tom fills.

When I said "miss your face" I meant your previous one.

Pretty sweet being able to wear this closet full of Hoosiers gear more than one season of the year. Been the default family gift since I was a teenager.

TV brain rot: The real reason television shows are getting stupider www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...

Someone will make RC Cola cool the way hipsters did for PBR a couple decades ago.

I rarely title songs after people because Ben Folds already wrote them all. Finding yours is like browsing racks at a souvenirs shop.

Compounding real problems in the first world, I dreamed I was about to get the (snakeskin) boot from the band Poison in 1986 for telling the singer his lazy melodies were gonna make our sheet music look like morse code. Woke by a joke.

Dreamed I was back in church, but when we got to the handshakes, greeted each other with "The power of Christ compels you." 🤷‍♂️ Good exorcise, though. "And also with you."

My favorite part of Stranger Things was the 22nd time they explained what the hell is going on. It reminded me of that other streaming series that doesn't require attention.

"I'm not going to do it." michaelianblack.substack.com/p/what-i-wou...

No, I said I had no gift to bring (bah-rum-pa-pa-pum). Still got plenty of presence.

The Raiders did get more consistency this year, shut out twice 31-0.

Overheard someone bragging about a billionaire fellow parishioner, and wanted to remind him there are no billionaires in heaven. I first thought he said "prisoner," which made way more sense, but thought Why would they name a prison St. Michael's?

Got that damned piña colada song so earwormed, gonna have to title my next album Pene Accolada.

Definitely not. And I once bought a refurbished eight-track deck just in the hopes that it could play one tape that might contain the only recording of her voice. Thrilled that it did, I digitized it and listen … every few years. An untimely loss, coupled with lots of media, might be more tempting.

My Christmas budget unfortunately means everyone's just getting peace prizes again. I hope this won't impact their donations in my name to The Human Fund.

Just learned I have a cousin named Lori Strode, and for once I'm glad Halloween is still eleven months away.

I'm more likely to let an ad play than unmute a vertical video of someone preaching in their car.

Conscription is why my ancestors came to America—right before the pope was declared infallible—though some had to wait out our own Civil War first.

It's eerie how seamlessly Travis Kelce filled our Channing Tatum-shaped void.

Big #GranTurismo7 update just dropped, so this morning would be a good one to hit my YouTube for those latest tracks and cars as I test them. www.youtube.com/@GordonHighl...

Love it 🙌

I wonder what percentage of frozen peas are actually eaten versus applied as an ice pack.

I've been listening to The Beatles for nearly five decades, and just now got the homophonic joke of their company name Apple Corps.

A master strategist knows that Dept of War crimes sound much easier to prosecute than Dept of Defense crimes.

I hear Spotify is raising prices. If its artists were fairly compensated, such a service should be prohibitively expensive to the average consumer.

This got me thinking….how do we as a society normalize pumpkin pie as a breakfast option at restaurants year round? Who will be the change we want to see in the world?

Unplug your center speaker for an improved game experience.

I find your lack of faith arousing.

It's no closet, but a few more top-shelf shelves might complete me.

ultimate = last in a series penultimate = second-to-last in a series antepenultimate = third-to-last in a series preantepenultimate = fourth-to-last in a series propreantepenultimate = fifth-to-last in a series

30 years ago I bought a Boss DR5 with similar features, so at first I thought this was fake as well as hilarious. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbO1...

Despite using them as lifelong autumnal weather similes, I confess no direct knowledge regarding the temperature of either a well-digger's ass or a witch's tit.

I love waking up in the morning to see it's 11:00 last night. Maybe the secret of my success is being a night ranger.

Like Maverick tells Goose, "I feel Rashid … Rashid Shaheed!"

My kingdom to any soundman who swaps the Goldfinger theme for YMCA at the next orange rally.

Matt Judon's sleeves could result in fines from both the NFL and FAA, for sending them to commercial prematurely and diverting air traffic. I'm so glad I first tested that joke on my colorblind friend.