National Guard is not ICE. This is not what they volunteered to do, but they have to follow orders and so far the orders are mostly to stand around doing not much of anything. Don’t take out your anger at the top on the men and women at the bottom.

(guy watching House for the first time) when are they going to start construction

The Glenn Miller/Cole Porter lines distract one from hearing that “Reminiscing” by the Little River Band is a brilliant Wings simulacrum—and then you realize that it’s prewar nostalgia, too, is pure McCartney. Somehow heartbreaking that Lennon loved it.

this chili is so good y'all. Arkhan the Cruel's Flame-Roasted Halfling Chili from the Heroes' Feast cookbook. COCOA and CINNAMON and CLOVES in it. Alt. Text.

Also Thierry Breton looks like Gordon Willis

David Gates is always a little darker than ”mushy love songs” If the world should stop revolving Spinning slowly down to die I'd spend the end with you And when the world was through Then one by one the stars would all go out Then you and I would simply fly away

Tom Peyer, soothsayer 1981

via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon

“Selling the show, finding a U.S. distributor was not easy, and I think that’s because of the political content of the show,” Wright said. Because the show struggled to find a market outside Europe, there are no concrete plans for a second season. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/a...

This is a great explanation of what's entering the public domain on 1st Jan, 2026. Plenty of notable works as well as a poodle-human hybrid Betty Boop. copyrightlately.com/public-domai...

Fifteen years ago! Jonathan Lethem & John Hodgman discuss THEY LIVE at IFC Center to launch the (alas, short-lived) Deep Focus series of film books.

Happy Holidays, Bluesky people

What a bummer that this is how "Ed" autofills. (I don't use Siri and I have't been reading about E.G. It's just...indicative of what people search, I guess?)

One day I'll get a nicer copy of this 1969 photo of Lowell Bergman of the San Diego Free Press speaking as Tom Forcade—sprung from jail earlier that day—looks on. Within weeks, the SDFP would become the San Diego Street Journal, and Forcade would begin a campaign to merge Yippies & White Panthers.

I'm sure that any number of people's DMs are open for Sharyn Alfonsi and Oriana Zill de Granados...

Apropos many different things: hang in there, everyone, please. We need you.

Tonight: deciding between THE MASTERMIND (2025) and HELP! (1965). (Mine is not the only, or even the most powerful, vote in this house.)

Anyone know where to get the 2nd pressing of the LP in the US?)

saw plenty of fun shows at music hall, & it was a fine venue, but more fondly recalling it as north six before it was gutted & turned into a bowery semi-clone that felt like a generic template for a chain (especially in contrast to the other venues in the neighborhood at the time it opened).

Now smoke that piece of paper!

We need a Taschen edition or something of Pete Frame trees

Player is mangled, but disc has been saved! All this for 70s jazz violin!

provides cause to (simultaneously) impeach Trump, remove him under 25th amendment & put Wiles, JD Vance & several cabinet members in prison ”Bear in mind that Dem leadership holds the view that House Dems should not support privileged resolutions of impeachment.” open.substack.com/pub/brianbeu...

Anyone know how to break a CD out of a CD player‘s grip?

GEE WHAT A WEIRD PLACE, BUILDINGS MADE OUT OF NEWSPAPER PRINT HOLY CHRIST, I NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT SURE IS CRAZY BEING IN A COMIC STRIP LIKE THIS

At the risk of self promotion, I am pleased with how this panel I drew came out

Ray Brown and Jimmy Rowles Coast Recorders, San Francisco, CA, December 1977 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L4c...

Just hanging out in my Ticketmaster account history, reminiscing

Good lord, it's the secret history of the 20th century, right there

also, @shirachess.bsky.social is my coauthor for the upcoming book about Mondo 2000. HUZZAH! www.mondo2000.com/freaks-in-th...

Didn’t expect this byline for this article

Andrew Sandoval interviews Bones Howe, 2022 www.podomatic.com/podcasts/com...

me & my hollywood pals

"Here is the promised Personal Pan Pizza post." Christopher Sorrentino, On the Personal Pan Pizza and the San Francisco Bay Area circa 1983 christophersorrentino.substack.com/p/untitled-p...

Anne Waldman - Uh Oh Plutonium [USA, New Wave] (1982) https://redd.it/f1y4lv https://youtu.be/FHX-PU9SN8A

Video: Miles Davis' First Great Quintet, Minus Miles The Apollo Theater, Dusseldorf, Germany, March 28th, 1960 Wynton Kelly, piano Paul Chambers, bass Jimmy Cobb, drums John Coltrane, tenor saxophone youtu.be/8kmd0cpGfbo?...

The first ten minutes of the AGENTS OF CHAOS audiobook is here, if you'd like to sample it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlXz...

breaking news out of the Barre-Montpelier Times Argus www.timesargus.com/news/nationa...

I don't really look at "reels" on Facebook but once I watched a clip of an actress being interviewed on a talk show and this is what I'm fed, in endless iterations, when I log into Facebook.

Paul Michael Glaser sometimes places a reassuring arm around his best friend, David Soul. It's an outward sign of their deep feelings for one another. —Teen Beat, c. 1977

Never knew Weber had played with Baden Powell and Mal Waldron before ECM—looks like I've got some listening to do!

"I don’t want to sketch out too much of the plot for you, because the greatest pleasure of 'Ella McCay' comes in feeling your eyebrows inch slowly up your forehead as the narrative beats grow ever more inexplicable."