American publishing regularly punishes women in their 50s by simply not interviewing them for new jobs in the way @saribotton.bsky.social describes here. So it’s great revenge that she launched Oldster magazine on her own, now with 70k subscribers.

Had the good fortune to talk a bit about Oldster Magazine with Kasia Pilat at The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/s...

"We keep patrolling neighborhoods, running supplies, offering rides, stocking pantries, gathering with each other, showing each other that every moment of fear or anger or grief can come with others ready to feel those things too. They have no answer for these things."

Who do I know here who's a professor and/or instructor at a college teaching anything in the realm of rhetoric, pop culture studies, gender studies, media studies, writing, and its ilk? I'd love to send you an ARC of my forthcoming anthology Here For All The Reasons: Why We Watch The Bachelor!

which means people still can't leave their homes to work and go to school, we're facing a massive eviction crisis, but mayor frey doesn't seem to think that's his problem.

Yesterday the Texas Rangers erected a statue of a segregationist cop at Globe Life Field. A statue that was removed from public property in 2020 because of its racist history. @mlb.com has refused to comment. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...

Dorchester has entered the chat. [93 overpass as seen by my sister from the Savin Hill T stop]

Tantrump

$25 gets you an invite to our virtual happy hour on March 13 at 5:30pm. Come join us!

"look what this conservative influencer said now!" no, I don't give a fuck and quite frankly if YOU care I'm having second thoughts about you too.

Guest blog on milestones that happened later in life, as well as "punk rock, Liverpool and trying to be normal" - the themes of my new book. www.advantagesofage.com/p/atypical-g...

U.S. Shoots Down Three of Its Own Fighter Jets as Iran War Spirals | New Republic newrepublic.com/post/207197/...

Thin White Duke 50: Bowie in Chicago, with an audience tape that does give you the sense of being in a bad seat in a surly crowd. www.patreon.com/posts/isolar...

A short history of the end times/rapture in the American military. Cold war: Forces were seen as the defense against godless communism, but also as a rich environment for missionary outreach. 1959 - National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) estimated 50% of those in service were not affiliated

Congress approved the Hegseth appointment. And can impeach him too if they ever actually worked and stopped making TV appearances and social media posts.

Coolcoolcoolcoolcool

So many of us have spent years warning about the dangers of Christian dominionists in the U.S. government...

I caved and bought a hat.

These hats are official merch!

The rise of the DJ clout deepfake, because dance music isn't in enough trouble. My newest is up at Rolling Stone. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Two men are sitting next to me at Bridget Everett tonight wearing hats that read BIG CUNT ENERGY & got their photos taken with hats in front of the stage. And then promptly declared they’d put the photo into ChatGPT to remove “cunt.” When they could have just … not worn the hats!!

I'm gonna take my time with my Sturgill thoughts, as anyone should, but the amount of folks already missing how sex - in country music, in a world hell bent on controlling women's bodies and honestly what anyone is doing in the bedroom if it ain't for making babies - is a fuckin act of protest

ICYMI: This is insane and is not getting enough attention IMO www.huffpost.com/entry/aliya-...

PSA to Mpls property owners: The city’s annual grant application for up to $10K to repair the sewer line to the street just opened up today (amount depends on your neighborhood). Get those tree roots checked and potentially save a ton of $$$ Info, application, etc. Closes March 20.

You guys really need to learn what we retweet and what we just appreciate, I swear to fucking God.

You just gotta do your best to resist the urge to share every fiery video you see, slow down, and evaluate where it comes from and how the person sharing it knows it's real/timely. And please remember that anyone anywhere can write BREAKING: in front of something.

33 Samoyeds rescued from an apparent puppy mill situation need foster homes in or near Wisconsin. If you're in the area and have space in your house and heart that you could share with a sad cloud, please consider it. www.facebook.com/permalink.ph...

NOW, starting off w some Patti Smith

Hardcore History lesson: Once upon a time in the 1980s, there was an astonishing band from Texas named Fearless Iranians from Hell. You can file them under things that probably couldn't exist today. Check out this eye-opening interview: www.anus.com/metal/about/...

this reminded me of marc ribot's "bella ciao" which features tom waits: www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_pW...

I wrote about America's illegal, unprovoked, evil, and stupid attack on Iran. craigcalcaterra.com/blog/america...

HELP

Transformative work of the day:

ICYM my latest at No Such Thing As Was: I wrote about multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee, his terrific memoir Straight Up, Without Wings, and a still-relevant question he asked a half century ago. joebonomo.substack.com/p/what-time-...

Things ICE is doing, based on my own observations: testing our response times by parking in highly visible areas or driving in circles; alternating periods of quiet with sudden bursts of high activity; trying to keep us on edge so that we get tired out. It won't work. We fucking live here.

Eagerly anticipating the Michael Shannon/Jason Narducy et al R.E.M. extravaganza in a few weeks, so I wrote about some of the cool things happening on the tour to date. Found some vintage ads from Cleveland to underscore/hint at the coolness. anniezaleski.substack.com/p/we-are-hop...

March is women's history month! My Flash Sale sight is celebrating that with this offer all month (please excuse so-old-its-ancient site - it works!) sponsor-theresa.blogspot.com

Operation Epic Furry sounds like the time the Mets were in Pittsburgh and staying at the same hotel as the furry convention & Twitter got to explain to Kevin burkhart what a furry was (and then Kevin went to interview some furries)

Operation Epic fraud.

If you want an actually functioning democracy, it is actually in our interest to make working for fascists really uncomfortable. I don't know what to tell you.

This:

Most coherent way to view the Trump second term is as a mass project of settling scores, not just his but conservative’s writ large. Obama, Biden, VRA, Venezuela, Cuba, the 14thA, the Ayatollah, feminists, liberals, avenging Nixon, fucking PBS. Spiritual enemies since before most of us were born

I got my reps here in Michigan. We have to do this

It's also invaluable if you didn't manage to see any shows along the tour.

so many great anti war memes I can’t share BECAUSE YOU DILDOS WON’T USE ALT TEXT

It is now my birthday and I need someone who knows how to order D. Idaho transcripts!!!!!

Give Lexis-Olivier Ray ALL OF YOUR MONEY. He produces some of the best investigative journalism out of L.A. for one of the best indie publications there is, @lataco.bsky.social!