nevele lobby, ellenville, new york, 1977

it's so cool that these techies are cheerily speedrunning the ultimate demise of our social compact

Fuzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzy tysegall.bandcamp.com/track/black-...

thanks to everyone who spoke with me! here's my survey of how Americans are changing up their everyday lunch habits to avoid cyclosporiasis/explosive diarrhea, and why all your favorite salad and bowl joints (Sweetgreen, Chopt, Cava, etc) are getting hit in the process slate.com/business/202...

HR Records in D.C. combed through the Voice's online archives and created a zine that reprints all of the ads they could find for legendary jazz club Slugs' (1964–1972). Includes archival interview w/ club founder Jerry Schultz (run of 100 copies) homerulerecords.com/collections/...

The "third and final double album" from the Olivia Tremor Control is up for pre-order elephant6.com/product/the-... bsky.app/profile/bour...

Reminder: This event for my book is tonight at Unnameable Books in Brooklyn. Come if ya can.

NEW: Leaders in affiliate marketing tell me they had long suspected Phia was behind their lagging revenues. Others tell me they'd kicked Phia off their platforms prior to Bloomberg's revelation about Phoebe Gates' startup stealing commissions from competitors. www.inc.com/sam-blum/lea...

Joan Mitchell, Grandes Carrières, 1961-62 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135451

By the time artist Tim Lane uploaded his "Abolish ICE" poster to Instagram in February, at least six people had died in ICE’s custody. I wrote about his piece at my site b/c looking for a job is the worst thing ever and maybe this keeps me from spinning out www.dominicumile.com/blog/abolish...

Came up w/ friends from Philly to see Olivia Tremor Control at Bowery in 1999. Caught 'em in Philly too. Super Furry Animals opened, also fried our brains. Had the chance to tell Gruff as much—he was nice & seemed psyched but I couldn't really make out his response 😂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR30...

both will hart & bill doss are gone, but miraculously the 3rd olivia tremor control album is coming out this fall. i don't know which of those facts is the most unlikely, but i know there's only one that i want to believe. consequence.net/2026/07/oliv...

The 3300 HiFi Stereobar created in 1963 by Danish designer Verner Panton for Wega-Radio GmbH. On view at Cooper Hewitt as part of "Art of Noise" www.cooperhewitt.org/channel/art-...

wrote about the glitz and paranoia of Rome Streetz’s Sock It 2 My Pocket, his most high-profile—and most penitent—project yet for @pitchfork.com

LinkedIn—which promoted a native tool that was literally branded "Write with AI" (!), and is absolutely flooded with posts by brain-poisoned, engagement-farming cheerleaders for AI—is "the most AI-saturated platform" per this study www.pangram.com/blog/ai-in-y...

I linked to this extensive @comicsjournal.bsky.social interview with Tim Lane in my post because it is incredibly deep and TCJ is one of the few orgs on the planet that do this kind of important work www.tcj.com/you-can-best...

I wrote about Tim Lane's "Abolish ICE for Liberty's Sake" poster art and all of the senseless deaths I can see when I look at it www.dominicumile.com/blog/abolish...

Knew that Benny came up with a different sound entirely but didn't know that he *actively* disliked Daringer's beats in the early Griselda era 😂 I love Daringer's stuff, like all of it. That's a heartbreaker Benny. Truly thorough, sincere, non-PR-style intvw here www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvoQ...

CALL FOR SOURCES: have you changed up your daily meal routine in response to the Cyclospora outbreak? are you avoiding your favorite salad place for the time being, or ordering different items from your go-to joints? I'd love to chat with you for a story! feel free to DM here or on Signal (@ in bio)

For anyone who is more than a tad freaked out by the cluster of Legionnaires’ cases on the Upper East Side, this is helpful www.curbed.com/article/legi...

Released this day, 1963: 𝙎𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙎𝙩𝙚𝙥𝙨 𝙏𝙤 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙣 (Columbia CL 2051 [mono]). The LP brings together music recorded in Los Angeles on April 16 & 17, 1963 and New York on May 14, 1963. The album was produced by Teo Macero. #jazz #jazzsky #milesdavis

Anyway, the Action's “Brain” just destroys me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-7r...

"Iapetus remains compelling as a vastly underrated album that exists beyond neat historical categories" — I have the self-titled Hadley Caliman but Iapetus is a tough pull! Definitely need to grab that @wewantsounds.bsky.social reissue activelistening.substack.com/p/hadley-cal...

"We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company" WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG

"Too much fighting on the dancefloor". In the summer of 1981 The Specials returned to the top of the charts as Ghost Town captured the air of Britain's discontent. Don’t miss our latest Extended Play feature: buff.ly/yZfso9u

"Auction in Philadelphia, pickup in Chicago. Which is wild, because photos and slideshows really do not capture the sense of what this thing is; and buying it without seeing it in person feels crazy to me" greg.org/archive/2026...

The homie Nitish P. back in late June: "The practice of undisclosed monetary partnerships, as corporate sponsorships or political campaign ops, has been a scourge upon digital commons ever since the rise of the influencer" slate.com/technology/2...

“Skill and effort and innovation are useless when you’re little more than a line item on a spreadsheet” open.substack.com/pub/jennromo...

Cops and ICE agents are arming themselves with military-grade weapons at the same time that they're signing more deals to work together on Trump's mass deportation campaign. New from me in @prospect.org.

ICE has fatally shot 11 people since Donald Trump's second term began. These are not isolated incidents. They are the predictable result of a cruel, violent system. Abolish ICE.

Original Don Heck artwork introducing Iron Man in Tales of Suspense no. 39 (March, 1963) fetches $3,875,000 (!!!) at auction, “a new auction record for original comic art” www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-n...

A behind-the-scenes look at how we put together our new single, “What’s New On The Beat Scene” & how we cooked up the fuzz bass caramel at the center of the New Perennial Sound

Would take money from Steppenwolf's people to quietly promote their wrongly maligned debut (a secret shredder, don't let "Born to be Wild" fool you, see also the Mars Bonfire album and the Candy soundtrack) www.npr.org/2026/07/13/n...

Lots of appropriate mentions of Sam Neill's Jurassic Park performances today. I'll also add that Dead Calm (1989) is a riveting thriller (as I recall from seeing it when it opened). Billy Zane is chilling. Kidman is excellent. First Neill movie I ever saw. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Ca...)

A few words on the passing of South Carolina Sen. Lindsay Graham, who spent the last ten years of his life eagerly helping Donald Trump in his quest to destroy American democracy. youtu.be/z4HMequIiiY

"If I’m a patriot, I’m a patriot because of Miles Davis and John Coltrane, who are both celebrating a centennial in 2026" | Mammoth piece from @ethaniversonpiano.bsky.social here open.substack.com/pub/iverson/...

2/2 In reply to many queries, here is how you could re-cast headline to include "lies": (Below, pic of imaginary better headline, by me. Same line count, acceptable breaks, etc. I used to make headlines fit on a hot-lead Linotype machine. Could adjust below in many ways, if needed.)

Love the Howard Nostrand-drawn ‘Chamber of Chills’ stuff! www.dominicumile.com/blog/howard-...

One of Jim's kids plays drums in the great Seattle band Kinski.

Regret not being in Anthony & Sons in Williamsburg when Conway the Machine apparently scooped up lunch in there per IG. Don't sleep on that premium potato salad king

In the 1960s, Budweisers at Seattle’s Penthouse jazz club cost a dollar, and on any given night you could see the likes of Bill Evans, Horace Silver, and others on the bandstand. Tapes of the era made by KING-FM's Jim Wilke have a “visceral, in-the-moment immediacy" stereophile.com/content/lost...

My only quibble with this @drewmagary.bsky.social piece is his analogy that Google has changed from a utility to a roach motel: there's more honesty in the drug & sex trades than Big Tech's A.I. scam.

Spent lots of time at my last job explaining Google's E-E-A-T to coworkers/prioritizing it re: editorial projects. Watching Google peddle evidence-free, spammy trash at the top of every result, and now ensuring that its SERPs are completely useless, has been surreal www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

Appreciate your historically accurate spelling of "Towne." It was a classy establishment and it earned that "e."

cracking up at the concept of the delco cinematic universe

A Frank Gehry-designed desk “carved from blocks of emerald glass” is headed to auction. Can you technically still call it “reconfigurable” or modular if this thing weighs 15,000 pounds? Who’s gonna reconfigure that www.archpaper.com/2026/07/iceh...