GUY WHO INVENTED SPRINKLES: they're sweet and great for lots of stuff! I'm going to call them sprinkles because you sprinkle them on, heh. yours are neat too! what are you going to call them GUY WHO INVENTED NONPAREILS: *flicking cigarette* you are a fucking joke

Alert to all my Chicagoland wind listeners, today's a great day to walk among trees and listen to the wind

Ballads and weepers 2026 "Over" - Sydney Rose and Tom Odell captures the Nagging. Unrelenting. All-consuming. Persistence. of romantic crises in the minds of unfortunate lovers, who sing their frustrations in a cave with a small string section discreetly tucked away

From the 'Shared Sky' exhibition, 'Jupiter and Ten Moons' by Indigenous Australian artist Barbara Merritt #WomensArt

SHAFT

Darkthrone - A Blaze In The Northern Sky (Peaceville 1992)

The Shape Of Water (2017)

Did I spend a ridiculous amount of time creating this clock in Inkscape (as well as an accompanying spreadsheet that calculates the angle of the hour hand) just so that I can make a graphic of the Wrigley Field scoreboard clock set to any time I want? Of course I did.

Top 11 living American songwriters* DJ Premier Timbaland Organized Noize (Ray Murray, Sleepy Brown) Pharrell Williams Stephen Schwartz Amy Grant Madonna King's X (dUg Pinnick, Ty Tabor, Jerry Gaskill) Tommy James A.B. Quintanilla III Kirk Franklin

Wall of bangers 2026 (thread): "Zapateado Electrónico" - Deorro, Alacranes Musical a remix (I think) 2018's "Zapateado Encabronado" (I think) by Chicago duranguense group Alacranes Musical, whom I once included as one of my 5 Favorite Current Bands on a failed P4K app youtu.be/CL2kINIuXCY?...

The utterly bananas casts for David Rabe’s “Hurlyburly” over the years.

Never thought of this song as an offspring of Bo Diddley but now it seems obvious

Me to dog who's just peed for the 30th time on this walk: I think you've gotten your message out there, hang back and let them come to you

the mets are finding themselves in a pretty deep hole right now. no, i don't mean the losing streak. i mean i have kidnapped their starting lineup and they are waking up right now in my basement

Breaking: Local Goose Shows Michael Busch Where To Hit Baseball

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity

SPOUSE: I have to work late Thursday OUTER MONOLOGUE: I am going to miss you INNER MONOLOGUE: I am going to eat something very stupid

The first verse of "Ain't No Rest for the Wicked" is awesome because it's about a guy asking a woman why she does sex work and when she says "for money" he has an existential crisis

Stacy, your mother and I are in love

WHITE SOX POPE HAT

"my dog's just goin thru the motions!", I wave cheerfully to all the people we encounter on our walk. I don't catch their reactions

Had a great time at this festival last year, and the new Tomeka Reid Quartet album is SO GOOD

Thin Lizzy's "Jailbreak" is an Easter song

This object — really, talisman — arrived mysteriously* on our dining room table last weekend. It wields a rare and subtle magic that keeps drawing my voice into an uncomfortably high register. *a gift from my daughter's band director, which automatically enshrines her in the band director HOF

DLSS 5 OFF // DLSS 5 ON

My Life With The Ghosts Of Bush

NOT NOW, MYSTERIOUS LARGE STEEL CYLINDER

Ye gods Mark Goodman is SO uncomfortable with this conversation. Good on Bowie for not letting up, for not conceding bad defenses.

the horse and its rider has he hurled into the sea

Oh hey, this sounds familiar encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/t...

Wild story about a vinyl reissue of Local H's "As Good As Dead." I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often. vanyaland.com/2026/02/06/v...

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "Let's stand and roll our shoulders around!"

On the Oulipo movement, the found rough draft, and writing with constraints.

"Supermodel (She's Homeless)"

reading your timeline like

Does anyone else spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about what Sabrina Carpenter and Lee Hazlewood could have done together?

Today I officially became a guy who says things like "holy shit, dude, that version of El Paso on Steal Your Face"

With all the madness going on, a one-holed worm thing with a no brain or any identifiable organs is quietly crawling somewhere on the ocean floor--and it is named after a churro. #xenoturbella_churro scripps.ucsd.edu/news/researc...

"donald trump is the sovereign instantiation of the popular will and so of course the constitution is whatever he says it is"

"This is the worst fucking time. But watching people's response to ICE has just been the most affirming thing in the world.” We interviewed our friends over at @racketmn.com about what it’s like to cover the crisis in Minneapolis as community-centered journalists

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence. "We see Faust call up his magical powers, and a marvelous cosmic vision unfolds before his (and our) eyes."

grant to them even now glimpses of your beauty, and make them worthy at length to behold it unveiled for evermore

Interviewer: and how do you maintain your trim figure Prince: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! PORTION CONTROL!

Hey all, if you're spiraling I've got a couple of psychological first aid tips that can help until you're able to process with an actual professional. Do: name what you feel in your body very specifically. Don't link it to emotions yet. Name "my stomach hurts" and "my chest feels tight" and

son just alerted me to the existence of a product called "Tiny Vinyls" and I have pulled out all my hair

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