All this time l've been thinking that Jonathan Haidt and Jonathan Chait were the same guy. (...many years ago, l did similar with the Dave Matthews Band and the Matthew Good Band...)

"Alcohol and marijuana, if used in moderation, plus loud, usually low-class music, make stress and boredom infinitely more bearable." Kurt Vonnegut (... allegedly.)

"Back Home in Derry" is an Irish rebel song written by Bobby Sands while imprisoned in HM Prison Maze. Sung to the tune of The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. youtube.com/watch?v=vMu6...

They got played by a man who's clearly suffering from dementia. Well done.

It was the most Toronto way to lose a championship

The jays having one good inning and then spending three hours holding everyone hostage while they waste any and all goodwill is the energy Toronto brings to this nation, I just want Americans to know this

Heartbreaking

I rooted for Vladdy Sr. when l was a much younger man. It's cool to see the kid now that I'm entering my dotage.

New on my Doonesbury blog: "What a Breath of Fresh Air!": Doonesbury on Iran and the Veil. readingdoonesbury.com/2025/10/29/w...

Kinda like the doctor telling you to go see the great clown Pagliacci. www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...

New on my Doonesbury blog: "What a Breath of Fresh Air!": Doonesbury on Iran and the Veil. readingdoonesbury.com/2025/10/29/w...

Should I?

Watching "Shifty," the newish Adam Curtis doc about Britain in the 1980s. Really love this guy's style.

Here we all are, watching baseball again

This is starting to feel like a cricket match.

Turns out they all did pretty well at the end of the thing.

I'm not even really a baseball fam.

Wheeeee!

This is a great ball game.

Apparently, it's "National Read About My Problematic Cultural Touchstones Day." Thanks as always to Vancouver's best independent, brick-and-mortar @pfbvan.bsky.social.

Jack DeJohnette was maybe my favorite drummer. Hell of a run. Aw, man. youtu.be/CQF9bJE800s?...

Listening to the new Zappa Halloween 1978 box. Gotta say, without Ike Willis, this band in demonstrably weaker than previous or later incarnations with him. Also: Dennis Walley's slide playing is off the hook.

Scroll down to the "Major Events Timeline." Then start scrolling horizontally. It's a whole fucking trip. www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...

The fellows I knew in the Navy got tattoos of their wife’s name, or their mother. Maybe a hula girl. An anchor.

Internet psychedelia in the news. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

The versatile Jerry Orbach was #botd in 1935. From Broadway musical star to popular TV and movie star.

I spent a chunk of today being somewhat confused because the only Sam Rivers l know passed about fifteen years ago. youtu.be/YPy7TjA3oWc?...

Is there anyone out there who can link to an article talking about whatever fresh hell this is?

I'll take "Things that don't usually happen in modern industrialized democracies for 200, Alex."

Being polite with AI bots is what Timothy Snyder calls compliance in advance.

Look what I found tidying up my room.

Should I go see the Residents?

Currently.

The American edition of the Mirror has a section dedicated to reporting mass shootings.

Dave Sim did brilliant lettering.

it's not FOR us

Finishing up Season 6 of Game of Thrones. They are leaning harder and harder into the badCGI, and man, the show is worse for it. Also, it was better when the magic and supernatural elements were further in the background, to the point where people could reasonably not believe in them.

For the first time since I was eighteen and heard The Clash in 1978, I have been once again listening to the Grateful Dead, mostly concert bootlegs. I am old and probably going to die soon. This is what this means, right?

This is why I don't care if they give it to you-know-who. They gave it to Kissinger. They gave it to Arafat. And they gave it to a guy who bombed seven countries and killed hundreds of innocent civilians.

Yesterday, to celebrate another set of clean scans and 18 months of being NED, Zan and I looked at some brutalist architecture and ate noodles.

I love old beatnik gags

The best part of Canada's supreme Court is that most of us cannot name a single one of these people and are largely content to go years without thinking about them.

On sale @ both PFBs tomorrow (Tue 7th) at opening. Special orders available for pick-up at the same time. I live semi-nearish; anyone who wants to pick up from Main Street at 12:01am is welcome to DM ***before 9pm*** & if there is any interest I'll walk over & briefly reopen the shop.