Thanks to Sam Charters et al for the Everyman series to introduce rubes and roughnecks like me to classical music. I'm a big fan of semi-insulting marketing

I dont remember who reminded me of him, but I'm going in on Paul Horn, the quintessential travel budget buster of 60s jazz

The number three cause of death is the FDA commissioner (This is a deep cut joke for the old heads)

In my state, to get approval through Medicaid for hepC drugs, you need about 10 labs, and paperwork sent via a direct to state process (vs the PA we do for other high$ meds). It can take months for approval and a few hours of our time.

This record is such a miracle. Everything about it screams PBS fundraiser - CTI label, Bob James, Gerry's haircut - but it is really beautiful. You can hear how ruined Chet's lips are, and he kinda warms into each tune.

Confirmed. Im seeing people using Zyn or similar based on podcasts that promote it for ADHD/increased productivity

Yessir.

My local record store just got a weird obsessive VU collection. 30ish copies of the banana album, multiple copies of dozens of boots. Third and fourth LPs dont seem to have hit the floor yet. A reminder that this band was beloved by a certain sort of weirdo.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf_1... What if we copied U2, but with Jim Morrison on vox? Geffen made a big investment in this - you'll find the 12" and the LP in a bargain bin near you, esp in flyover country.

This is a budget label barrel scraper released right after Lee died. Probably outtakes from the Lighthouse live LP. Hotter than a match head. Still so sad how many greats left the stage in early 70s. Monk, Blakey, Ayler, Mobley, Mr PC. Some died, some just went away.

Your half baked insults like douchenozzle and orange turd and shitler etc etc never were funny, and they need to retire. Except buttsmoke and dickslap, which are useful.

The only thing that gives me any solace about this is that we are inevitably going to see RFK jr go the way of every other dunce who tries to suck up to the throne, and when he does, he will be back to third string Air America fill in host.

One of the few heavy psych LPs that lived up to the hype and beyond. Absolutely mighty.

Did anyone in seattle just see a ton of planes leaving from near Bremerton? Like 15-20?

Dietary calcium is simply not very important a predictor of bone integrity. May be important during development, but come adulthood, nope.

That little smiley face on the cover is a vibe killer.

A Fleetwood Mac LP in all but name and style. I think there is an u named subgenre of absolutely deranged albums from 69/70 that mock 50s styles and float into incoherent jams. Syd Barrett, Peter Green, Bruce Palmer, Mayo Thompson. What else am I missing?

Do I have any fans of solo Tom Verlaine in the network? Which ones are good? Ive got the first two, all the rest is a mystery to me. Thanks

It is amazing to me that major league baseball can't have a streaming app that works well on a web supported TV. Not only is their app not available on my TV, it won't work from the web browser. Bonkers

I put 5 jazz tunes on the lobby music at my clinic, and the PSRs skip them. Haters. Maiden Voyage was just getting good....

Seconded. Ive seen this band twice. Rare to see anyone having that level of fun on a stage

Fare thee well, old homestead. Thanks for the last decade.

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Dial S for Sonny. Lots of bangers in this catalog.

I feel like we are about to learn why throwing out all the experienced statespeople in favor of good shitposters was a bad idea.

My daughter just had a seizure at a grocery and 10 patrons walked right by us and one literally stepped over us and I dont know what to think of my new neighborhood.

I just moved to a posh neighborhood, and ive heard at least three times in the wild some version of "I just avoid the news because I find it too depressing." It is one thing to do it, and another to admit it in public. Yer privilege is showing etc.

My stove requires me to download an app to change the time and I'm past my expiration date by a few years. It will be back to DST by the time I get it sorted.

Im gonna start saying Mogg a lot cause I am in my 50s, and this will kill the word faster than Ebola.

The freaks choice: pre-beard Willie. Get the whole run, they are all worthy.

I was in undergrad watching Gulf 1 unfold on CNN. Me and bandmates made a drinking game of it (Michigan, yo). Was first of kind - war unfolding in real-time on TV. Gulf 3 is similar. First war unfolding in our post-media info vacuum. It is unsettling.

www.theverge.com/tech/887040/... Somebody in the administration made more money than I am going to make in the next decade of full time work by leveraging his inside info on a betting website.

I bet he had a gut laugh when he got to lecture the US on extra judicial killing and international law

Summer 2035: President Hegseth launches Operation F*** Sh** Up against Park Slope Brooklyn after a camera catches a pilates instructor making a disparaging comment about administration. Democratic senator goes on CBS to express "grave concern." Host asks why she hates freedom.

Check it out: there's a new Laughing Hyenas live comp out. On the shortlist of bands I've seen the most, the Hyenas were a bridge between hardcore and what became grunge. Hyena house in Ann Arbor was between my basement room and my filthy job when I was in college, and Id hear them a few mins/wk.

I have the power to make every PA in every grocery play Life Is a Highway. Three for three this week. Also Life Is a Highway is three minutes of pure torture. A dumb metaphor clubbed like a baby seal.

I stole my dad's van and backed over my friend's bushes a few days before the start of driver's ed. Friend's mom was the French teacher, and told Ms. Driver's Ed. I was the guy who backed over the bushes the whole quarter. We played Yellowman in the cassette player in the car on the range.

You might have watched Clint ranting at an empty chair at the 2012 RNC, and thought "what is he on about?" A generation of youtubers saw it as a career path. Im as baffled as ever about why it sells.

They are playing Barry White at Home Depot. Sounds like a Silver Jews lyric.

Well, this will get my primary care some business. Might also lead to lots of inappropriate d/c of blood pressure meds

The head of our scientific establishment is on a scary diet and we act like it is normal

Happy Dave's Picks day. Im absolutely torturing the new new neighbors with this.

www.cnn.com/2026/01/29/u... If this happened to me, my daughter would die within a day. These people are monsters.

If your official stance is "we had to shoot these people because we were in fear for our lives," you should probably stop with the touchdown dances over their still warm bodies.

Mark Hyman going to CBS News.

It is easy to miss something in the minutae of the past couple weeks. Ive never seen law enforcement cheering after killing someone til 2026. Now I've seen it twice. I hope to never see it again.

History is generally pretty silent about the people on the Bull Connor side, but we will get to see them all around us this year.

John Yoo is probably not the right person to argue for new international law structures.

Bamboo Garden in Seattle. Vegan Chinese faux meat place. I found out I was gonna be a father there. I lost a great love of my life there twice. Bathrooms worthy of a punk venue. Always an elderly woman sweeping the parking lot. Best corn chowder in the world.

One of many reasons this is worse than Kent State: these people are thumping their chests like they are glad. Another: we are now investigating the victim, not the shooter. And we all remember Kent State 50+ years later.