I just saw this instagram post from the incredibly talented and breathtakingly hilarious Kate Welch, who was laid off around a year ago, and I wanted to share it here. It’s an important message, and you deserve to read it: (thread)

Parrots, Burbank, 1/31/2026 youtu.be/MJ4GNCvfmAs

As a bicyclist I feel a car is too close to me in traffic if I can tell what brand she's smoking, because she just asked me to help dig it out of her purse

Did you know that if you play the first albums by Gomez, Travis, Starsailor, and Coldplay all at the same time, then say your KCRW member number out loud, Nic Harcourt will appear before you and present you with an Enchanted Tote Bag

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Mark Newgarden, "Pud & Spud", 1983 #ThatsTrue

László Moholy-Nagy "25 bankruptcy vultures" (1922)

Anyone aware of any surviving audio/video of '90s NYC comedy troupe The Poster Boys (Paul Parducci, Russ Reiley, Jim Giordano)? Mark Newgarden name-checks them as an influence in his book "We All Die Alone". I can't let a comedy group exist without at least being able to dip a toe into their stuff

I'd like to ask Eric Idle if he knows if any episodes of that apparently great, shambolic, zero-budget early 1970s BBC comedy series "Up Sunday" have survived, but I'm not on Xwitter and I'm not going back, so that's the end of that

Oh now this really is the last straw

"Authorship gets tethered to human legibility until technology breaks the tether." Our Vicki "People Like Us" Bennett has some very useful thoughts on authorship in the face of Bandcamps's recent AI ban: www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...

I can't tell you without crying how important it was for me to get just one thing accomplished today by identifying the font on the back of the #FiresignTheatre LP "Everything You Know Is Wrong". There are a lot of font-identifying engines online. None of them could identify it. But I did.

In and out of the DMV successfully in 30 minutes. Please celebrate with me by watching Banjo Band Ivana Mládka perform "Jožin Z Bažin", featuring Ivo Pešák and his patented Swamp Monster Shimmy www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCmR...

With this snow storm coming, I should probably top off the dog's neck cask.

Billboard improvement by #ScomRK, Burbank, near Alameda & Flower, 1/21/2026 lataco.com/interview-wi...

Beatbunny's latest rigorously-researched delve into vintage drum patterns solves many mysteries about "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)", probably the most MAS COWBELL AHORA dance track ever: www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4rB... #DeadOrAlive #StockAitkenWaterman

From half a mile away, the sound of a Dr. Beat DB-90 metronome helping the John Burroughs High School marching band find its way

I watched "Riefenstahl" a couple of nights ago. I'd recommend it for anyone still clinging to a scintilla of the apologia that some have attempted to construct around this vile piece of shit. #FilmSky

"Don't let it get you down!" "I'm not down." Playwright Václav Havel was a dissident when he wrote "Audience" in 1978. He and an actor friend made it into a record. It was illegal to perform. Everyone in Czechoslovakia had a copy on tape. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrAw...

Vaclav Havel's "Largo Desolato", about a dissident writer waiting for the inevitable knock on the door. #FMurrayAbraham stars; translation by #TomStoppard; directed by #JiriZizka for Thirteen / WNET, broadcast on PBS' "Great Performances" 4/20/1990. #VHSRescues youtu.be/a1Gyz4sx01s

In this episode of "From San Francisco" on PBS, the Tandy Beale Dance Company with Bobby McFerrin (solidly in his Chaotic Good improv mode) perform "Voice/Dance" (broadcast 8/31/1987). #VHSRescues youtu.be/4d_I1WXYQHU

Rescued from an old VHS, "Face to Face: US/USSR" (8/2/1987). In this KING-TV news special, an American family goes to visit a Russian family in Leningrad; then that Russian family comes to visit that same American family in Seattle. Includes ad breaks! #Glasnost #Perestroika youtu.be/LXWO83CHwQ4

Acte Sans Paroles / Act Without Words (1964, dir. Bruno & Guido Bettiol, based on the play by Samuel Beckett). From VHS, as aired on KSPS-TV Spokane 10/10/1987: youtu.be/9oRDgBT-VnE

"Beechcraft Musketeer - Three Musketeers over Oak Creek Canyon AZ" print, photo by Jack Haworth, August 8, 1962. Gene Nora Stumbough (Jessen) is in N2303Z. #Mom

@heartywhite.bsky.social Lou Register's song "The World Is Wack" from your Xmas show was fantastic 👍

Spotted at East Broadway F platform

I think Jeremiad would be a good name for a social media ap and the posts would be called Jerms.

Last night I spent about 90 minutes carefully stitching this one-sheet together from 16 scans and I will have no need for the finished product, ever, so here it needlessly is. If you don't already have the "Theme from Tunnelvision" playing in your head, you are blessed.

Vivid Sex Dream About Steely McBeam Again https://theonion.com/vivid-sex-dream-about-steely-mcbeam-again/

To all the social media awareness heroes who use the phrase "Let that sink in": please remain seated, I have carved the phrase on a brick of molten iron and it should be landing on your head shortly. #LetThatSinkIn

Nichols & May "Don't Take That Tone" (from Monitor Radio, 4/3/1966) www.footnoteconspiracy.com/datadump/Nic...

Nichols & May "Get the Glass Heels" (from Monitor Radio, 6/11/1967) www.footnoteconspiracy.com/datadump/Nic...

I'm pretty sure I had more friends before social media. I know I went to more social gatherings. I think this is supposed to be a replacement for real socializing the way plastic display food is an adequate replacement for real food.

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1749

ok he died. stop emailing him when you nut

The sky in LA tonight has exactly two (2) clouds, and ends up looking like a cross between Fantasia and Nope.

Nichols & May "Joint Custody" (from Monitor Radio, 6/3/1967) www.footnoteconspiracy.com/datadump/Nic...

last year's food, total expenses = $9776.76 this year's food, total expenses = $11058.31 percent increase = 13% chance that this was due to me suddenly deciding to buy lots of really expensive liquor, as opposed to the current administration's suicidal economic policies = 0%

Nichols & May "Arthur" (from Monitor Radio, 12/31/1966) www.footnoteconspiracy.com/datadump/Nic...

A radical new theory regarding the Person from Porlock. samueltaylorbloggeridge.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-...

Nichols & May "We Welcome Your Comments" (from Monitor Radio, 9/25/1966) www.footnoteconspiracy.com/datadump/Nic...

New Oglaf! www.oglaf.com/true-crime-f...

Nichols & May "Madame Pinocchio" (from Monitor Radio, 1/29/1966) www.footnoteconspiracy.com/datadump/Nic...

Nichols & May "Some Secluded Rendezvous" (from Monitor Radio, 1/2/1966) www.footnoteconspiracy.com/datadump/Nic...

Nichols & May "Answering Service" (from Monitor Radio, 2/13/1966) www.footnoteconspiracy.com/datadump/Nic...

I worry that if I’m not telling lies on the internet, somebody worse could be.

MonitorRadio.net has over 700 hours of airchecks of NBC's Monitor (1955-1975). Nichols & May did bits for Monitor. I found all the bits and compiled them into a 93-minute album: taylorjessen.blogspot.com/2026/01/nich... (h/t WFMU)

@sasquatchers.wtf This was in someone's YouTube playlist along with Ricky Ubeda's "It's Not That Serious"...quite tasty www.youtube.com/watch?v=REPP...