Hey you should read Dan's book!

Hard to imagine that the saxophone could be played any better than this.

I guess this cover is accurate in that this launch, inexplicably taking place in the middle of downtown lol, would probably kill a lot of people and cause immeasurable amounts of damage to public space, which neatly summarizes Musk's whole deal.

"Brighton, England, August 21, 1992," from Beach Portraits https://www.artic.edu/artworks/180799/

Guys, ANGEL DOWN won the Pulitzer Prize. Let’s get nuts.

A+ story about Konnor Griffin's family here.

Greetings from Media Burn's new HQ at 348 N. Ashland!!

Not enough mascots attacking umpires these days tbh

Happy Opening Day from Studs Terkel!!

I'm hearing that baseball is back?

The 90s People

A new-ish contender.

A reminder that the Academy shamelessly and wrongly fired a lot of its archivists variety.com/2024/film/ne...

Good morning, Lucy.

Mar 5th 1857 - Carlotta Valdes, the mistress of a wealthy man, took her own life after he cast her aside, keeping their child, once she'd given birth. 📽️📅 Vertigo (1958)

Patent Office https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.POB107

velvet underground researchers have apparently confirmed that this audio from a random youtube user is genuinely the long-lost july '67 performance from upbeat, a cleveland teen tv show, doing the unreleased "guess i'm falling in love" complete with screaming girls. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU2U...

Steve Albini to Ratso: "I think we're a pretty normal band."

Hard to overstate how much Fred Wiseman changed the cinema. He's often grouped with the Direct Cinema pioneers like the Maysles and Leacock, but he built on what they did with handheld cameras and sync sound to create a different kind of documentary, something that had really never existed before.

Self-portrait - Claude Cahun, 1921

The Blair Witch Project website in 1999 #WebDesignHistory

Here’s Lucy

"rich dipshit owner doesn't understand the industry he's bought into and clumsily destroys what made it good" feels less like a narrative unique to the washington post and more like the music that's been playing in the background of all our lives for at least 40 years

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania http://www.moma.org/collection/works/57406

Update:

When I wrote a thing for Defector, Dan McQuade designed one of the greatest things I've ever seen to illustrate it

Civil Rights Demonstrator Being Arrested, Los Angeles — Charles Brittin, 1965

I deeply love the half of this movie where Ralph Fiennes is hanging out with his gigantic naked zombie pal, getting high and looking at the stars, occasionally dancing to Duran Duran.

Roughly 9000 tapes. Media Burn’s other 3000-4000 are already at the new space…

Filmmaker Eagle Pennell speaks about his legendary indie film "The Whole Shootin' Match."

Renee Macklin Good's wife, Becca Good, released a statement and it moved me to sobbing tears: archive.is/ur35j

As a small distraction I highly recommend putting together a playlist called "When It Happens!!!!!" and starting to populate it with all the most exuberant and/or angry songs you can think of, and returning to add more songs every once in a while when you need to think about it for 10-15 minutes.

I know it's not mainstream conventional wisdom but I think "Abolish ICE" is a perfectly reasonable response to this and you can get the public to buy in. Most people don't want masked murderous thugs roving their streets

Here's Rudy Ray Moore on the legendary children's dance show Chic-A-Go-Go

Here’s Lucy.

Metropolis depicted 2026 as a rigidly/literally tiered society in which the ultra-rich controlled everything and lived in obscene luxury on the backs of a ground-down workers, using a sexy robot to distract and sow dissension and chaos among the underclasses.

Here's Rudy Ray Moore on the legendary children's dance show Chic-A-Go-Go

Probably my favorite song of 2025 tbh.

So, is Bari Weiss the worst person from Pittsburgh? Like, there are some descendants of robber barons with real influence who are evil sadists and some grating public personalities, but does anybody from SW PA combine malicious power and personal unpleasantness like Bari?