I got the cd version of this at a public library sale maybe a year ago. I still haven't listened to it, maybe because I'm worried I will hate it or that it will suck hard.

Tonight I will find out what this puppy sounds like sent through the Ron Fucking Swanson Super Fuzz pedal. I think it will be life changing.

Yes please. I think most folks would be shocked to learn how much most books are in the red when accounting for overhead costs. People need to know what it takes to make that sausage.

Maybe their ubiquity was thr result of an astroturf marketing scheme. But whatever, I really like the record and bought it. I do not remember, however, how I learned about it. Social media, or a friend told me? No clue.

Holy shit.

Did I score this fully functional Blip Blox synth at a thrift store yesterday for $1.99? Of course I did. It was in the children's toy section, which makes sense. It's so much fun, but unless I was into samplers and had a 404, I'm not sure how useful it is. Maybe I need to throw it into some pedals.

Happy belated bday to drummer Arthur Taylor, who in addition to being a monster behind the kit, also happened to write one of the best books about jazz.

Would everybody's new favorite band be just as popular without the costumes and the polka dots?

I know that not everybody are dog/pet people, but I swear that there's nothing better than burying your face in your dog and inhaling all that great stinky dog smell.

Going to my favorite local record shop today for probably the last time before it closes up for good later this month has given me all the feelings. Here's to Bull City Records. Here's to you Chaz.

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

just to be clear, everyone, when 8 pm EDT comes and goes, regardless of what does or does not happen, the president still threatened genocide and war crimes and we should still impeach, arrest, and try him

Come on then, and remove him.

At the London Book Fair I met with one of the subagents I work with in Western Europe who helps me land translation deals for @dukepress.bsky.social They told me that the market in their territory was tightening up because, verbatim, "ppl are worried, will there be an atomic bomb?"

So, will we all get a free side of genocide on TACO Tuesday? Seriously, isn't threatening to wipe out an entire civilization more than enough justification for immediate impeachment, conviction, and removal from office?

Is that cool Artemis picture real? Is it AI? Is it real but touched up with AI? I'm not a moon-landing-didn't-happen guy, I'm just saying it's hard to know if what I'm looking at, even if it is shared or posted by a reliable source, is real, and that is disturbing.

I've seen Questlove and Paul Motian and a bunch of other baaaad drummers, but Victor Lewis stands out to me.

Y'all there is a woman and a black man circling the moon and NASA's mission control+ science teams are so diverse and people are nerding out about science and exploration this is all a gigantic middle finger to the stupid and hate and grotesque ghouls running our country

I've got a book problem that is more like a storage problem. And next month I'm going to a friend's who is going to point me to his book and music shelves and tell me to take what I want. I also have a CD problem. Nothing is stacked on the floor or anything. I'd like to avoid that though.

Cincinnati. I've been to worse, but none that would qualify as a city.

First, awesome photo, but second, @cpsc.gov is one of the great follows.

Yeah, so this is excruciatingly bad. There are so many things to dunk on, but the obligatory country trope of a broke down pickup? What in the actual fuck?

I am super sad that Chaz is closing up shop. This was my favorite record store in Durham and pretty much the only reason I only had to go downtown. He's a really good dude and I hope he kills it in whatever he does next.

People, this book is so good. I learned a ton about animals and philosphy and even though it's by a philospher it is super accessible. And the cherry on top is the divine cover design.

Why would I use "AI," I actually know how to fucking write

Star Trek figured this out thirty years ago. It's not hard. Even an old, drunk Klingon got it.

I cannot stress enough that we as a nation are not in the right headspace to handle April Fool's Day this year

Yup, just felt that, when I saw something at work and thought "well for the purposes of X, pretend you didn't see that." It wasn't a good tingling sensation.

Hot tip for authors: don't have you book translated before u or yr publisher has a deal with the publisher who will put out their translated edition. That path can lead to heartbreak, wasted money, frustration, and sometimes no translated book. Signed, your neighborhood friendly intl rights manager

Gas might be $4/gallon here, but the real crime is that a 4 pack of Cadbury's Creme Eggs is $7. At least they are still disgustingly sweet.

I saw that Blue Note just released a Tone Poet edition of Andrew Hill's Compulsion, which I haven't listened to in forever. I forgot just how great it is.

I started doing the archival research for the book I'm trying to wrap up this year in 2004. I'm so over having it haunt me on and off over the last 20 years. Fuck you book. I will finish you and then you can't get me any more.

I'm looking forward to this one. Especially the chapter about Andrew Wylie.

A tv ad for Claude with an MF DOOM beat in the background. Seems like a fitting metaphor for the end of the world.

This kitty looks a little too much like mine, which is one reason I've decided not to get into tape music.

Durham turned out for No Kings. Marchers all the way to the building in the background and presumably more around the block.

This is a killer album folks. Go get it.

Seeing interviews drop with a band that stood me up for their interview really pisses me off. Press is really hard to get, and how about showing some respect to the writers out there who aren't largely aren't getting paid what they deserve? We are all on the same team, living in the same ecosystem.

I remember telling my college students (I haven't taught since 2012) to never go to Wikipedia for sources. I wonder if Wikipedia now be a go to source for reliable information.

May thy bracket chip and shatter.

Waffles is really paying attention to this pedal steel lesson video. He wants to make sure he's got his bar on the right fret.

It's always great to have lunch with my coworkers (we mostly all work remote and don't see each other much) but damn, it sure is hard to go back and finish off the work day. And so much more hot goss to share.

AI is the deadly whisper of capital interests that betrays the working class in order to destroy it from within, and it couldn't be more simple than that.

Durham needs affordable housing badly. There was an option to build some. But we are getting a Target instead.

Despite its publisher’s hype, Andy Beta’s Cosmic Music is not the first book on Alice.

I'm gonna go with "Terran writer," just so I don't get confused for the Romulan writer with whom I share a name.

There is nothing that Waffles will not put in his mouth. Right now he's working on the small Bose badge on my bookshelf speakers.

Waffles is following the KU/St John's score very closely.

Is anybody's bracket busted?

Wow, Gul Dukat going extra dark.