Just recently l confessed that to my mother that in 1984, when l told her l was spending the night at a buddy's place to watch movies, l was actually spending the night lined up in front of the Forum so l could be 1st in line for Neil Young tickets. Ticketmaster robs youth of that sort of thing.

I'm putting together a class for grade 8-9: "The US & the World, 1492-2016." The goal is to give students the skills and knowledge they'll need for APUSH or APWorld. What are some of your favorite primary sources for introducing younger readers to interpreting and contextualizing documents?

Can anyone recommend a decent article about the history of using social media to get people fired from their jobs ss punishment for behavior/acts/statements unrelated to their employment? How did this become the default reaction to something people find distasteful or problematic?

We were warned. We didn’t listen.

"If Liberty was a little girl, watching all the flags unfurl, standing at the big parade, how would she like us now? It's such a long walk home." youtube.com/watch?v=qP7T...

For my money, the greatest crime he's committed to date is putting RFK Jr in charge of health policy. If l had to pick just one. [On the Media] Paul Offit Has Opinions About RFK Jnr. #onTheMedia podcastaddict.com/on-the-media...

Watching Inside Daisy Clover. RIP Robert Redford.

Cancer people are badass. Take it from me.

They shouldn't be cancelling late-night comedians or deporting people, but we should maybe consider locking up anyone who had anything to do with developing ChatGPT and other LLMs. futurism.com/chatgpt-marr...

NSFW a band: The Grateful Head.

In response to Disney firing Jimmy Kimmel I will continue to illegally download any of their content that I might want to watch because I'm still too poor to pay for it anyways.

There's a guy carrying a globe on the cross-town bus l'm on and l want to ask him if he needs directions.

Look, guys. I can live with the fact that my body is broken and at any point the cancer may come back again and kill me. I can live with the fact that we're in a moment of extreme instability that could produce a series of civilization-endangering events. But l can't do both for much longer.

Look, guys. I can live with the fact that my body is broken and at any point the cancer may come back again and kill me. I can live with the fact that we're in a moment of extreme instability that could produce a series of civilization-endangering events. But l can't do both for much longer.

Jack Kerouac, "The Origins of the Beat Generation" Playboy, June 1959 #Beats #Playboy #Magazines #PrintCulture #1950s

I have taken down a re-post l made regarding Canada's House of Commons because someone whom l trust deeply about Canadian political goings-on pointed out some important inconsistencies between what was in the original post and what actually happened.

I have found my favorite characters on Game of Thrones and now l'm sad because in all likelihood something horrible will happen to both of them.

If my timeline blows up because Hermeto Pascoal died, l'm obviously following The Right People.

WE DONT GOTTA TAKE IT

Mickey and Billy.

I want to return to a world in which the sentence "Turns out Groypers did it because they thought the guy was a cuck" was still meaningless.

I want to return to a world in which the sentence "Turns out Groypers did it because they thought the guy was a cuck" was still meaningless.

Mickey and Billy.

I just can't help but reflect on Bobby Kennedy's 1968 campaign and how focused and deliberate he was on making vulnerable American lives better and using government as a means to do so. And how what's left of him must be a goddam turbine right now spinning furiously between the grass at Arlington.

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@asociologist.bsky.social Ah for just one time....

In poor taste? Sorry....

Today's random Pogo paperback.

The cruel joke played on people of a certain age: we spent childhood haunted by the likelihood of nuclear apocalypse, early adulthood with (an unevenly fulfilled) promise of a new era of peace and prosperity, and now we're approaching retirement age as stuff is falling apart.

Go Team Hebert!

A small joy in dark times. From 1957 to 1965, Charles Schulz drew Young Pillars, a single panel comic that ran in a newspaper aimed at Christian teens. I found this collection for 8 bucks at @pfbvan.bsky.social on the Drive.

Overhead on Commercial Drive: ".... obviously it's a false flag."

Jeff Sharlet, a voice l take pretty seriously, on the shooting today of the prominent far-right commentator/activist Charlie Kirk. open.substack.com/pub/slowcivi...

In the last 36 hours ir so, Israel bombed Qatar, the Russians attacked Poland and now a prominent far-right voice was shot. The centre cannot hold, mere anarchy yada yada yada.

Final thought on Last night's Neil Young show. Neil still brings it. But the kids in the band are what put it over the top. The energy and inspiration they got from being part of Neil's story was obvious, and they brought that energy to the stage.

Looks like he can finish this comic now

It’s me and @paulinraincity.bsky.social !! My friend Rin is here too!

Maybe, just maybe, the fact that just about every single person has unrestricted access to an unlimited stream of hardcore pornography on a device they carry in their pocket is a sign of a profoundly unhealthy and broken culture.

I crocheted Patti Smith’s Horses cover

An internet genre l don't get: People posting stories that obviously didn't happen in order to crap on young folks. "I went to McDs. It came to $9.25. l gave the kid at the cash a ten-dollar bill and a quarter. She couldn't figure out what to do, had to get the manager to approve the transaction."

September 8, 1942, was the publication date of Animal Comics #1, which featured the first appearances of Pogo Possum & Albert Alligator by Walt Kelly. The characters would go on to feature in Kelly’s newspaper comic strip, Pogo, from 1948 to 1975. Cover art by H.R. McBride.

Any Neil Young spottings in Vancouver today? A day off for him between shows here.

I hope Neil Young repeats Roll Another Number on Monday, or l'll be bummed out.

Say what you will about the original generation of fascists, at least they weren't tacky.

There's something wrong with a culture when someone who does something mildly objectionable at a baseball game gets their picture broadcast to every human being with a cel phone as people publicly conspire to identify them and deprive them of their livelihood. That's seriously fucked up.

New on my Doonesbury blog: "An Experiment in Holy Fascism": The Iranian Revolution Comes to Walden College. #Iran #Comics #ComicStrip #Doonesbury. readingdoonesbury.com/2025/09/04/a...