The final glass eye icon necklace in my tiny series of four: a one-of-a-kind wine and purple micro mosaic statement piece with brass wings, a golden halo, hand charms, and a watchful little glass eye at the center. NomadicMoonArts.etsy.com

36:40 - Miles lifts up his hand 36:48 - SKRONK Love that little transition (and this whole show, of course) Hopefully I did it right and it is cued up for you youtu.be/XSH0p2Dt8ZU?...

Ford commercial: "We treat our employees well; they get employee pricing. Our customers are like family and so they get employee pricing, too." Ford employees: "WTF?"

gotta love when a financial institution emails us "your credit score went up!" Oh did it? is our unicorn feeling better too? since we're talking improvement to made up fantasy shit

The first warning arrived on a Tuesday morning, six weeks after consultants advised moving from dependency on six hundred small excel scripts - and nobody at Zenith Ledger Advisory paid much attention. It appeared in the system dashboard between routine audit notifications and a maintenance reminder

The weekend with friends that I had been looking forward to for months was excellent, but now it is over and I am melancholy and wondering if I did it right. Was i too aloof or too sentimental? Probably both. Did I manage to articulate what I wanted to say to folks, or did I just sound crazy? Hmmm.

This is just a person who is easily tricked

“Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis” - Tom Waits, 1976

I am so sick and tired of the faux outrage from people who are now pretending to have known what "sexting" means before they read about it on BlueSky yesterday. Stop pretending to be World War Horny historians, OK? Saying you want to be "a greasy rat sliding up your drainpipe" etc. is the kind of th

When you are in a bar and tell someone in a stunning dress and fire hair "respect from the most boring cishet middle aged dude you will ever meet" and they say "me too" and you die laughing and drink more Japanese whiskey, I call that a win or at least a draw. But I am a simple fellow.

Thomas Hardy via @geschwartz58.bsky.social

Was at wits' end yesterday so ditched work early and went uptown to Rudy's on 9th Avenue, a spot where I figured no one would know to look for me on a Wednesday afternoon, sweet anonymity as I ponder my fate. One drink in and I hear a laugh that could only be one person, and it was indeed 1/?

I would like to say a big Thank You to the Marketplace of Ideas

Tonight a the boozer a very nice fella put on the Norah Jones version of this tune and volunteered that he is not a fan of Waits because of his "manufactured persona" and I get it but FFS we are all manufacturing our personas every day for good or ill, come on now son, how long ya been alive??

Tonight talking about movies at the boozer and I have once again made my case for In Bruges and also The Long Good Friday youtu.be/3yBEIgZq_6U?...

This is one reason why it's great to have city venues like Wrigley and MSG that don't stand in the middle of acres of parking lot.

I know a lot of people are posting about Sonny Rollins and inevitably that will lead to folks pointing out that they do not like Jazz, or Saxophones, and they find the people who do somewhat pompous and irritating, and I fully understand. Anyway, here's Without A Song, which I have always loved.

Spare a thought for each of the NBA playoff teams the Knicks have beaten along the way, who are now being described as Long Standing Well-Known Trash And Garbage, etc., and many other unkind things, by people who would prefer not to say that the Knicks are a bit good at Basket Ball right now.

When I was very very young my grandmother took in a litter (?) of baby squirrels whose mother had been wiped out by a car in front of her house. Put 'em in a shoebox, fed them with a baby bottle. They all lived, used to come sit on her shoulder when she was hanging laundry on the backyard line. 1/?

Accounts That Are Good Here Include: - people that share cool stuff you may not have seen (silent movies, comics, music, paintings, photography, etc.) - people who tell good stories - people posting pictures of their pets - people posting absolutely horrific puns that just occurred to them ...

I cannot tell you how freeing and healthy it is to just shut the fuck up sometimes

Rise of The Machines

Every day my mind grows keener, my good arm stronger, my silly enemies more futile.

I am not sure what invasive thoughts are, but sometimes I think about drinking a shot glass full of mercury. I suppose I would settle for just looking at it, sitting on the bar in the right sort of lighting. I could probably refrain from drinking it, just admire it. Ah fuck it down the hatch

One More Story About Ursula Who Ran The Hostel In Amsterdam And Was A Queen When we walked in Ursula looked up at us, squinting from behind coke bottle lenses, a wary look on her face. "Americans?" she barked. We nodded, terrified. "Americans are the crazy people." Correct again. "Where from?" 1/?

🥁🎧As promised—starting a thread on 20 of my fave vintage drum & bass tracks @lareinamalvada.bsky.social tells me she’s married to a DnB DJ, so the pressure’s on🙀 We start with an undisputed, unrivaled masterpiece DJ Hype Presents The Ganja Kru, Super Sharp Shooter 1/20 youtu.be/l2KZoWLot0g?...

Fanny Pack Story Corner Back in 199_ , my pal & I showed up at a hostel in Amsterdam run by a tiny, terrifying woman named Ursula. We were kitted out in fanny packs containing our valuables. Ursula looked us up and down. "You little monsters! You little disasters! You plan to walk 1/?

i mean, yes. but left of center people do not need right wing spaces in the same way right wing people need left / liberal spaces because right wing americans are antisocial freaks who build nothing of value for society.

"I'm not sure if you know this or not" I dunno man, maybe hum a few bars?

That goal from Engels today 🚀⚽💚🍀

Celtic won the Cup, spent the morning singing songs & bidding farewell to another season with comrades in the boozer. Then down to the Library Bar with Woody, where I played one of the last CD jukeboxes in NYC and Woody and I stood outside smoking and swaying and laughing like fuck, good day out.

I have been thinking about this one and I have not seen many concerts, but more than ten, and so I ask myself should I list the ones that I think other people might think are cool, or the uncool ones? So I decided to just do chron order starting with two my parents took me to as a sullen teenager.

The poor cat in our house is in the basement because the dog (who was here first) will not tolerate the sight of her. My kid goes down to sit with the lonely kitty sometimes, and I make things worse by telling Hector that his mother is downstairs, kissing the cat, because she does not love him.

Last night I heard someone say three little words I will never forget, no matter how hard I try: "Eleanor Roosevelt's Vagina"

but real talk one time I had my younger brother in the car, I was probably 19, he was like 9. I told him I'd take him to mcd's. They were running like a 59c cheeseburger special and I had like 15 bucks. So we loaded up.

Was talking with some old friends last night about music and Glass and Reich and John Luther Adams so I am reminded to say again that Julius Eastman should be in that same company AFAIC.

This, together with any recording of their live shows through about 1984 serves as an objective lesson in why you should never let the studio fool you into believing you’re the band you appear to be on the finished 80s records. youtu.be/3mWp_Nr4uKI

Everyone should be rooting for Partick Thistle so that Kingsley can grace all of the SPFL grounds next year, scaring small children to death.

How're my pals doing @weltschmerz.bsky.social @strayarc.bsky.social @stellagarp.bsky.social @floregonian.com And all the rest of yeez This fucking life, right? My boys and I put Dennis Brown on the jukebox and many others and said dem can't conquer I. All I need on a Wednesday.

It is nowhere near the worst kind of entitlement, but one I see all the time and makes me grit my teeth: people who have made clear that they reject whatever position it is you hold, but feel entitled to a Debate or an Explanation (they'd reject) instead of simply being ignored or told to fuck off.

WSJ Sports Section continues to absolutely nail it ...

"We just knew that we were gonna find a fucking way" Apologies to @strayarc.bsky.social but AJ is my favourite Canadian youtu.be/z1S74p5WlZY?...

Spring is the time when I have to clip the oak tree that keeps trying to grow out from under my back deck. Maybe next year, little fella.

Legend

I am relentlessly and viciously sub-skeeted on this Social Media Platform by my legions of Haters.

What's your Top Five? My list changes but the one below is a cracker, along with variations of: "News Flash" "It's almost as if" "Hate to break it to you" "Here in the real world" [I have probably used one or all of these while being an asshole, you do not have to Hate To Break It To Me]

I am only quoting this because it illustrates a very good point about the domination of Scottish football by Celtic and Rangers for decades. There are no fans of The League in Scotland, there are only fans of teams with long histories & deep roots, football attendances in Scotland are incredible.

Can I still hang with the punk rockers if my favorite Black Flag album is The Process Of Weeding Out or do I have to go stand with the prog rock people? Asking for a... uhhh ... friend of mine.