Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time

Been mesmerized today by this album of, uh, Petula Clark math rock? Idk but it’s good tidal.com/browse/track...

I was idly chatting with my officemate last week about how my old neighbors would make us kabsa in exchange for herbs from the garden and the next day his wife, who is Saudi, sent me a gift. LFG

Making Up Women To Get Mad At is the primary driver of 21st Century global politics

Snocaps album has pristine Matador Records c. 1993 energy

@peterblair.bsky.social alert there’s a surprise Crutchfield/Lenderman supergroup tidal.com/browse/album...

Persimmon season incoming 🔜

Thinking this morning of the Blue Jays as they torture themselves with thoughts of what they could have done differently to hold on, and also of the Dodgers, as they smear themselves with the blood of the innocents and chant their prayers of thanksgiving to the Father of Lies

I do not care for the Los Angeles baseball Dodgers

Ohtani washed

Commissioning a wall sized mural on the street side of my house of Joe Camel and The Pink Panther at an Addis Ababa jazz club in 1960

There is a light that never goes out

The US has a deep well of train songs, car songs, some solid boat songs—what kind of walking songs are we working with though?

I think that an underreported key to understanding the contemporary evangelical right is that they hate Darwinism (performatively) but they fucking LOVE evopsych nonsense, especially when, as is so often the case, their thoughts turn to gender.

[sternly, rolling up my sleeves] Let’s fucking go

Me at age 9 explaining what I wanted to be when I grew up

An aunt is any woman who 1. Knows your parents 2. Sees you 1 or more times per year on average 3. Notices how tall you've gotten

This is definitely Pynchon at Newport, right?

Whoever takes up this project with conviction will write the great American 21st century novel

I’ve done the research and can now say with confidence that my first edition hardcover copy of The Last Samurai is worth somewhere between $9.50 and $700.00

Geese: If you want me to pay my taaaaxes… if you want me to pay my taaaaaaaxeees… You better come over with a cruuucifix… You're gonna have to nail me doooow— IRS agent: Okay, let’s all take a breath

There’s a particular type of intellectual whose parents were professors who are absolutely convinced that they’d be great at working on an oil rig and that all the other oil rig guys would would really like them if they just got to know them. These guys are all Nazis now.

Tracing my life through a succession of rivers

The coffeehouse Dad in me is levitating tidal.com/browse/track...

I love taking hormones to improve my mental health in an extremely non-transgender way

Maybe the solution is to just make Maine Massachusetts again. Just do something. I’ve had enough of this dude

The drift away from the station wagon to the SUV is a symptom of fascism

Who would you put on the banknotes? is a fun game I’ve somehow never done before.

New coffee shop at the mall in 1997 design

Algorithm just tossed up a long forgotten track from the brief but prolific ukulele indie era. Boy that was longer ago than it seems

One more stray Pynchon thought: since he was friends with Richard Fariña, and presumably also Mimi (Baez) Fariña, it’s remotely possible that there’s a Pynchon/Baez/Dylan photo hidden out there somewhere

The Pynchon papers are gonna be 400 bankers boxes full of store-brand Kleenex

Certain outposts in academia have become the last stand of late 20th century bumper sticker culture.

It’s prurient I know, but when the Pynchon archives are released eventually I do want to know which of his hippie girlfriends left him for a fed/real estate magnate/whatever iteration of “the man” it was. I understand that’s it’s his shorthand for the 60s counterculture crashing out in the 70s but

My big cringe opinion after today is we need to get back to this type of propaganda, just not for brands

A sashiko chore coat would fix me

I do not care for the Los Angeles baseball Dodgers

I am “settling in for the weekend with the latest mystery novel about crime solving English retirees” years old and that’s fine

You don’t really hear about guys building implausibly tall bikes or converting diesel vans to run on used cooking oil like you used to

Fun classes today teaching The Pillow Book. Got really granular about our favorite times of day, bitched about our pettiest grievances, hammered out some working definitions of “vibes.” Literature IS existential @poetryforsupper.bsky.social

Banging on the table, getting louder,

Microbreweries stop making “American lagers.” That is not your station.

Gen X writers reminiscing about the 90s all still remember themselves as being the most special boys and girls. Oh did Bukowski change your life when you were 15? Were you a contrarian libertarian? Let me just get MTV news on the phone.

It doesn’t compute for me somehow that this photo of Arthur Russell was taken in the 80s. This is clearly a man of 2003.

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

At the folk art festival, y’all need anything?

Greatest is an impossible question but my (first thought best thought) favorite might be Rennie Sparks

The Geese video for “Taxes” seems aware that Cameron Winter might be a generational talent but he also might become the zoomer Jim Morrison