Phthursday Musings: Bailter Phtursday meta-spiel.beehiiv.com/p/phthursday... Bailter Space, a great, weird, underappreciated band RIP Brent McLachlan, as I spend a lot of time talking about being 19 again #bailterspace #newzealand #christchurch #kiwipop #matador

Phthanksgiving Musings: Goodman & Grouse meta-spiel.beehiiv.com/p/phthanksgi... I spontaneously recommend a new holiday tradition for you all to adopt! #thanksgiving #phthanksgiving #arloguthrie #stevegoodman #ptarmigan #grouse #lierne #norway #wxrx

Suddenly realizing that there's a guitar line in Television's "Elevation" which was directly lifted as the rhythm line in Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Californication" and sharing that information with you all now just because

Phthursday Musings: Horses meta-spiel.beehiiv.com/p/phthursday... #horses #horse #pattismith #cbgb #sharqia #egypt #secretariat #zagazig #zigzagoon #pommelhorse

meta-spiel.beehiiv.com/p/sometimes-... I try an unusual political science diversion to unify some themes about the Epstein scandal and how awful Larry Summers is (and for that matter Bill Clinton...) #billkreml #dialectic #larrysummers #monopoly #politics

@matthewstoller.bsky.social I've given a lot of thought to your piece Saturday on Larry Summers and finally published this tonight. I think you keep making connections others aren't making and I for one really appreciate that. meta-spiel.beehiiv.com/p/sometimes-...

Sincere question: Is it time for us to cancel our subscriptions to The Athletic on the grounds that we simply cannot justify sending any money at all to the New York Times? Is there any other entity out there besides The Athletic and maybe ESPN that serves at all a similar function?

Announcing the META-FIFTY! meta-spiel.beehiiv.com/p/meta-fifty... That's right, I'll be writing 50 pieces about 50 albums over the course of the next year or so, and I managed to just explain that in one sentence, even though I wrote a many paragraphed piece of explanation.

@timmidyett.bsky.social this is probably as close as I get to a review of the SKWM book but there’s a lot of weird crap to go through to get there meta-spiel.beehiiv.com/p/escape-fro...

META-SPIEL: Escape From Vancouver meta-spiel.beehiiv.com/p/escape-fro... So this is about how the Democratic leadership sucks, but it's also about how Janelle Monae doing "Hey Ya" the other night and how it was awesome, and how it's all related #vancouver #rnrhof #rocknroll #silkworm #democrats

Phthursday Musings: Gambling Is Stupid and I Hate It meta-spiel.beehiiv.com/p/phthursday... #gambling #gamblingisstupid #ihateit #kennyrogers #mickeynewbury #oscargamble #reno #porcupine

Hey, maybe gambling is just a big problem in and of itself and sports leagues shouldn’t be partnering with digital gaming platforms Hey maybe?

Phthursday Musings: Falling About meta-spiel.beehiiv.com/p/phthursday... #mcintosh #apples #rockyrococo #racine #gourds #ginandjuice #portwashington #missilecommand #wisconsin

@hollywoodsteve.bsky.social I am so happy you guys got this one right

Bandcamp Friday! Anyone out there got suggestions for artists resisting what’s happening out there? Who can we support today?

Phthursday Musings: A Claim of Ginkgo meta-spiel.beehiiv.com/p/phthursday... #ginkgo #tokyo #semi-modulars #rosalbavaldez #nathangraham #icirr #gummybears #baseball #flags #phthursday

Running Around Illinois: Maple Park meta-spiel.beehiiv.com/p/running-ar... I found a race that spanned two counties! And finally posted about it a month later! #running #illinois #maplepark #runningaroundillinois

Silkworm: Night Four meta-spiel.beehiiv.com/p/silkworm-n... Report from the fourth night of the Silkworm reunion, this one coming from the very mysterious locale of Tolono, Illinois. (Posted after the fifth night but who's counting?) #silkworm #dianogah #loosecobra #tolono

Silkworm: Night Three meta-spiel.beehiiv.com/p/silkworm-n... Night three of the Silkworm reboot. Another recap with more silly attempts at deconstruction! #silkworm #dianogah #sleepingvillage

Silkworm: Night Two meta-spiel.beehiiv.com/p/silkworm-n... Night two of the momentous return of the Worm. Night three tonight, same Worm time, same Worm venue. And, yes, I managed to compare the members of the band to the four types of sentences. #silkworm #sleepingvillage #gotobeds

Silkworm: Night One meta-spiel.beehiiv.com/p/silkworm-n... Recap of last night's astounding return of Silkworm, with set list. Not a lot of pictures, I only got a few good ones. #silkworm #chopshop See you all tonight at Sleeping Village!

SILKWORM TONIGHT!

Phthursday Musings: Villanelles and Catamounts meta-spiel.beehiiv.com/p/phthursday... #freespeech #telecommunicationsactof1996 #patrickleahy #berniesanders #vermont #burlington #joelrlphelps #silkworm #skwm

Today is Roberto Clemente Day in honor of the great Hall of Famer and humanitarian and I hope you’ll all pause today and consider that this is what a hero looks like.

META-SPIEL: It's Gonna Take a Lotta Love meta-spiel.beehiiv.com/p/it-s-gonna... A different take on where we are and what it'll take to get where we need to be. #neilyoung #courtneybarnett #nicolettelarson

Hey everybody, today's a great day to cancel your subscription to the New York Times, okay? You can play an equivalent of Wordle somewhere else.

Phthursday Musings: Pitchers, Soviets, Hurricanes meta-spiel.beehiiv.com/p/phthursday... #pitchers #tiraspol #transistria #neilyoung #likeahurricane #avnarolsky #tacoshells

Running Around Illinois: Bolingbrook meta-spiel.beehiiv.com/p/running-ar... #runningaroundillinois #running #illinois #bolingbrook #parkie

Phthursday Musings: Ruby, My Dear meta-spiel.beehiiv.com/p/phthursday... #fifteen #anniversary #ruby #crystal

Who out there has a good example of how AI is helping you get your daily work done (in whatever way you define "work")? Conversely, who out there has a good example of how AI is wasting their time or otherwise hindering getting work done? Sincerely curious as to answers, not looking for a debate.

@themountaingoats.bsky.social This piece I just published was spurred on in part by your Ozzy obituary which I thought was very profound, and I wanted to share this with you in turn. meta-spiel.beehiiv.com/p/maybe-we-s...

META-SPIEL: Maybe We Should Listen meta-spiel.beehiiv.com/p/maybe-we-s... This is a little differnet from most things I write. I try to tie together heavy metal and politics around a narrative of a former high school classmate. I hope it resonates with some of you.

You all know hanging folders have plastic tabs with little papers inside the tabs so you know what’s in the folder. I just cut up old business card stock to make some little papers, and put tabs on 6 folders to identify which manuals are in each. Let’s Kill Saturday Night youtu.be/qKccw252CdE?...

Phthursday Musings: Doc and the Veterinary Hospital meta-spiel.beehiiv.com/p/phthursday... #doc #melloyello #veterinarian #jayhawks #urgeoverkill #rem #gieten #vortex #winnebago

Phthursday Musings: Fishy Fragments meta-spiel.beehiiv.com/p/phthursday... #garda #tihany #mortonarboretum #grandparents #bow #paella #recovery

The children of today have a new hero and his name is… Bill Veeck

Phthursday Musings: Miscellaneous Debris meta-spiel.beehiiv.com/p/phthursday... #talkingheads #jamesbond #primus #thomasjeffersonslaveapartments #jamaica #peoria

Phthursday Musings: Beyond the Threshold meta-spiel.beehiiv.com/p/phthursday... #prius #mileage #grandrapids #furniturecity

The Enduring Michael Dahlquist meta-spiel.beehiiv.com/p/the-enduri... #silkworm #michaeldahlquist Michael died 20 years ago today. His legacy endures.

Phthursday Musings: Forever Felix meta-spiel.beehiiv.com/p/phthursday... #felix #hamster #mountain #mendelssohn #andalusia

Phthursday Musings: The People Speak and We Deliver! meta-spiel.beehiiv.com/p/phthursday... #phthursday #phthursdaymusings #phthursdayflag #saskatchewan #anthonydrake #serviceberry #philadelphialily #causticresin #linsanity

We should all remember that we can't trust the current administration to be honest and truthful, nor can we trust the current administration to be competent. They're underinformed, in over their heads, and they'll never cop to it. You simply can't have faith in most "reports", and that's how it is.

Running Around Illinois: Lyons Township meta-spiel.beehiiv.com/p/running-ar... #countryside #westernsprings #running #illinois @mrillinois.bsky.social this one's definitely for you!

No Kings: Report from the Rallies meta-spiel.beehiiv.com/p/no-kings-r... #nokings #nokingsoakpark #nokingslagrange #oakpark #lagrange

Phthursday Musings: A Fool for the City Won't Get Fooled Again meta-spiel.beehiiv.com/p/phthursday... #flag #vexil #vexillology #crystallake #foghat #tortue #zaire

Phthursday Musings: The Red, with the Bat, in the Hall meta-spiel.beehiiv.com/p/phthursday... #malkmus #stephenmalkmus #peterose #hall #yahtzee #derekjeter #82brewers #79pirates #chicago

@hollywoodsteve.bsky.social We used to play pirate metal on GOAT-SPIEL (my show of surprising long stead on WESN). The signature pirate metal song we played was, I think, “Sailors Farewell” by the band Detritus, though the rest of the album wasn’t really pirate metal. But that’s your answer!

Phthursday Musings: Reapers and Art Punks meta-spiel.beehiiv.com/p/phthursday... #reapers #davidthomas #pereubu #baseball #littleleague #cosmicexcrement #winprobabilities #sepultura #ricecakes

You all might not be aware that I'm still involved in maintaining the Sundown Towns database on the History & Social Justice website. Today we finally completed uploading most of the 2020 census data to the site. If you haven't seen the map, you really should: justice.tougaloo.edu/map/ #sundowntowns

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are playing Monday and Tuesday at the Salt Shed in Chicago. We have GA tickets for Monday, but would like to swap to Tuesday. If you're interested in a swap, or just outright interested in buying the Monday tickets, please let me know! #nickcave #badseeds #saltshed