New blog post: In which I get annoyed with Jerry. (Hat tip to @scottmccloud.bsky.social for directing me to Portland's Memory Den, where I found this record!) #SmokeyTheFireEngine #KiddieRecords #BottomFeedingIndustrySchmucksOfTheMid20thCentury taylorjessen.blogspot.com/2025/09/unkn...

New blog post: Roger Flax "Clyde & Phyllis—A Musical Fantasy About the World's First Guitar Playing Elephant" taylorjessen.blogspot.com/2025/09/roge...

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New blog post: Harald Walter "Deutscher Humor". Teach yourself German with the funny ha ha! taylorjessen.blogspot.com/2025/09/hara...

New blog post: Sesame Street Fever. #RubberDuckie #BoogieDown #NotThatFarYoullDrown taylorjessen.blogspot.com/2025/09/sesa...

New blog post: "Music of Northern Morocco Vol. 1" and the slightly twisted history of wunderkind scientist Binx Selby. taylorjessen.blogspot.com/2025/09/unkn...

Ronny Kae "Drums Fell Off a Cliff" (Band Box Records, Denver, CO, 1963) www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYrX...

Terence Davies' "The House of Mirth" coming to Blu-ray in November from BFI: www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=37156

New blog post: Hubert J. Bernhard, "The Christmas Star". We will find it using science—and a whole bunch of production music! Look for tracks marked "Suspense", Charlie! taylorjessen.blogspot.com/2025/09/hube...

New blog post on how to capture old photos with silvering: Three methods. taylorjessen.blogspot.com/2025/09/arch...

Chlorhestapryn - Adultery in a pill™. Look for the box with the big red letters

Mike Nichols' "Catch-22" coming in restored 4K/Blu-ray from Shout Factory on Oct. 28: www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=37139

"The biggest kind of schmuck wants to be remembered. The next biggest wants to remember you. And the least schmuck of all simply gathers information to take into his grave." - Mike Nichols #CarnalKnowledge #NowAvailable

[opening monologue] "So the President's a fascist, which we knew. Well it turns out the Walt Disney Company is one of his whores! You hear about this?"

Good questions Nº 01-11

Why wait. #HopalongCasualty

Negativland open reel transfers, 9/6: Farewell, "1982 Grand National Rodeo", we hardly knew ye. (Actually we did sort of know ye. We could hear ye while ye were being transferred and frankly ye weren't that interesting)

If you are in SoCal: This was lunch at #ZhengyalovHatz on Broadway in Glendale on 8/27, and it was very good indeed

4K restoration of John Carpenter's "Dark Star" coming from Fabulous Films in November: www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=37122

If AI gets out of control, just erase the aleph from the word emet written on its forehead, and then it becomes met, dead.

the way to catch a fly in a cup is to wait until it lands on venetian blinds and then capture it in the cup i guess it gets confused by the surface so it doesn't jump off and fly away instantly anyway thats how you get em the end

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Omodaka "Donpan Bushi" (Video Mix) www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPwx... #どんぱん節

There's a new #Sparks / #Gorillaz thing and it's pretty good: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG_n... #ThePalaceOfYourMindWillBeBright

It’s done! 🔥 The original painting and prints will be up on the site in the morning ☺️✨🎨 “I've never seen an elf get picked up by his testicles before. Lucky thing for you that wizard passed by when he did, otherwise you'd be lifting up your schnutz to tie your shoes.”

I wish there had been someone like Plaster Caster but for character actor's noses.

“But then something happened that the ring did not intend. It was picked up by the most unlikely creature imaginable: a shower curtain ring salesman, Del Griffith, Director of sales, American Light & Fixture.” ✨🎨

Apparently didn't tag anyone on here so thanks to: @standuprecords.bsky.social @sidfudd.bsky.social @drinkingwithian.bsky.social

"Sonata for Computer" by asdf, from a various-artists tribute "Polish Artist Playing for Chopin": www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUbx...

Has anyone seen "Die Schwarze Spinne" (Germany, 2022)? The source novel by Jeremias Gotthelf sounds amazing: blog.nationalmuseum.ch/en/2022/06/t...

Learning Russian Through Humor

Oh just ADMIT it, you don't want him to die of natural causes anyway, not if he can still face trial and a firing squad😁

Can confirm from personal experience that this is the dickheaded-est record store owner I've ever met (although @andyzax.bsky.social says there's a guy in Las Vegas that beats him!).

This one would sit nicely on the shelf next to the 1964 LP wherein the NBC Symphony Orchestra's performance of Toscanini conducting Mendelssohn's "Midsummer Night's Dream" was repurposed to sell Jelly-Bellies. taylorjessen.blogspot.com/2014/11/feli...

Things got funky so I had to leave (right away) #Stargard www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW5-...

Just uncovered in the @negativlandland.bsky.social open reel collection: A radio ad for the Master Slam Jam Dunk Inside Festival, with headliners Grandmaster Flash, D-Train, New Edition, the Chi-Lites, Fatback Band, The System, and the Johnzun Crew, 6/25/1983. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtXq...

Watching a movie on Kanopy for free because I have a library card which is also free. Folks, if this ain’t livin

Cleanse your timeline with the most wholesome Velvets cover ever. Worth watching all the way through.

Hi, I'm a billionaire. I've fantasized for decades about making the "zoom and enhance thing" from movies a reality. My gig slaves have finally invented a system that shows you all the details you've missed, like this leprechaun that was fucking JFK in the ear in the Zapruder film. You're welcome.

Doing my WFMU/Give The Drummer Radio stream show The Radio Is Broken tonight at 6pm Pacific, 9pm Eastern and the year 10,386 on Proxima Centauri. Playlist & chat when live: wfmu.org/playlists/sh... @wfmu.bsky.social @gtdradio.bsky.social

I was just telling my girlfriend the other day that the old world is dying. And, my stars, the new world is struggling to be born. And now is the time when you meet such INNNNteresting monsters.

Dear Teddy Roosevelt-era white male w/big pile of money: Congratulations, you're now a Founding Father of Spokane WA. Please find enclosed your tiny hat (or, if Mason, fez). Pls wear at all times until it blows off in the wind. Follow signs to prosperity &/or future. Feel free to gesture at either

Cartoon: Inspiration from another classic Fletcher Hanks panel.

These men will not see the gates of heaven

If military camo makes you anxious, just attach a keyboard to the USB port behind your ear and hit ctrl-I. This technique works in many of life's stressful situations, including job interviews, weddings, and [this post has been abandoned]

I'm already mega-famous for life and I think my work with the Raw Sewage movement speaks for itself

It's Minnesota State Fair time! It's time for Minnesotan folk art! Here, for example, is Saturn Devouring His Corn, in the seed art category!

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