Happy Thanksgiving 🍁

Gillian Welch & David Rawlings Prairiewolf Rosali Dallas Acid Stereolab

May we soundtrack your Thanksgiving? Title track will sound groovy when the tryptophan hits

Happy honeyslides day

Doing Italian small plates tonight because having a fridge full of leftovers makes me uncomfortable

The only conceivable way to monetize AI is to charge people to opt out, like Spotify Premium does for ads

Dave's TV Reviews: Pluribus - Very ok, almost great Welcome to Derry - Decent until the sewer scenes Chair Company - Brilliant, hilarious The Lowdown - A+ music supervision/B- plot

A singular record—Hartford’s best

Fellow instructors: as my Spring 2026 course load is uncertain, I'm seeking to broaden my professional network. Please let me know if your department might have open online sections of English Composition.

Good Fast Times article on New York Times headlines. I was interviewed. One thing I should have noted: the rage-bait comes increasingly from the opinions section. www.fastcompany.com/91450316/nyt...

I have to pick a Secret Santa record for my LP Buy/Sell/Trade group. It has to be something that Person X is not likely to have, but would like. What should it be?

Crazy that Marjorie Taylor Greene represents Norman and Nancy Blake's district

The difference between the dot-com bubble of the late 90s and the current AI bubble was that normal people actually liked the internet and thought it was useful—without it being shoved down our throats

Anxiety gig dream that I forgot my Champ amp, so someone gave me a space heater to plug into instead

First snow on Taos Mountain

Thinking about driving up to Trinidad to grab this

Steve Earle - Guitar Town - MCA 1986

I hate that I know who Olivia Nuzzi and Ryan Lizza are and I'm not even a journalist

Trump’s response to Mamdani was the most utterly predictable thing imaginable. Coming soon: the inevitable whiplash of the serial abuser

big bugs bunny getting elmer fudd to marry him vibes in the white house currently i see

Excited to announce our last show of 2025: we’ll be playing a few songs at The Masterson’s residency at Gold Diggers in LA 12/14, backed by an Chris and Eleanor Masterson and their amazing house band. Will be a fun night of great tunes & special guests!

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

I honestly believe College students turn to AI for the same reasons they use drugs and alcohol. Yet we don’t often hear of admin urging instructors to incorporate the latter into their course design

The new album from @goldenbrownmusic.bsky.social was one of my favorite finds from last week. 🎧 Western landscape paintings created with a palette of guitar, cello and electronics. #newmusic #musicsky innerislands.bandcamp.com/album/patter...

Had to take Wilkie to the vet today. He's been having digestive issues. Luckily it's nothing serious, just kitty IBS from stress. Feel ya, bud!

RIP Gary "Mani" Mounfield of The Stone Roses. Time for a little internet math: it's now 36 years since their 1989 debut. By contrast, the 60s music they referenced was only 20–25 years old back then.

It's funny that the words "underserved" and "overserved" have such different meanings

Universal Audio is running a sale, so I grabbed Neve summing at a nice price. Not a plug-in guy, but this sounds pretty boss on mixes.

"AI isn't going anywhere." Bro, AI ain't even here. What we have is a predictive text algorithm and thirsty plagiarism machine.

I have a few online students who continue to use AI to produce essays with massive factual errors even after repeated warnings. I'm at my wit's end with this shit and honestly don't know what to do—any ideas? Would prefer to make a positive intervention, but maybe failing them is the only option?

Taught research methods and information evaluation today and had to downgrade .gov websites from "highly credible" to "questionable"

Good writing class today. We discussed Simon Bolívar, Jose Martí, and attempted to put US aggression towards Venezuela in historical context. But now I have a headache.

Bought some vintage Wranglers on eBay only to learn the hard way that a 30" waist was much smaller in the 1970s than it is now. I had always assumed that the inch was a standard unit of measure, consistent across the decades. Nope! What's up with this size inflation, @dieworkwear.bsky.social ?

WTF IS THIS

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Scored a cheap, crispy copy of this 1969 folk-rock gem. Beautiful cover art too

Watched the first episode of Pluribus last night. I'm on board. Fun to see New Mexico landmarks such as the Very Large Array

We're about a day or two away from this headline, "Trump's ties to Epstein aren't a distraction, here's why that's bad news for Democrats"

The usual suspects are telling Dems that Epstein won’t win elections, get back to “affordability” and I think my head might explode. www.offmessage.net/p/force-a-re...

This is a nice, pleasant song. Sometimes that's good enough.

It would be very cool if there was like one Todd Rundgren/Emitt Rhodes-disciple California Raisin that released a breakout solo record on which he played *all* the instruments

Jamelle was cooking. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...

Skip the hazy IPAs, this is the best non-alcoholic brew out there.

Facebook is mostly stupid, but today I got to chat about 12 string guitars with Elliot Easton from The Cars

Tom T. Hall's "Pay No Attention to Alice" is ostensibly a sad song about some guy's wife's alcoholism and mental decline, yet it ends with said guy and his army buddy running out for another bottle of booze and driving their car into a ditch. Black humor. That's why I love Tom T. Hall.

My November show for NQRA radio is live:

*playing a California Raisins record for a friend* Pretty good right? These are raisins playing all the instruments

Hell yeah! What a band.