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Back listening in my musical home turf this evening music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Massive gratitude to everyone who shared my book and for the kind words. I'd also like to point you all to @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social who proves again and again that you can be an author on your own terms.

Open for freelance and commission work. Book covers, album covers, pet portraits, rpg illustrations, fan art. Email or dm me for pricing or project quotes.

Just listen to how this song by Abdullah Ibrahim and Ekaya from 2019 builds up, how it modulates a groove-based figure, how the piano comes in, how the full band arrangement finds room for everyone to explore. How I wish I could compose, play, think like this some day.

If you like strange stories, experiments with different ways of telling a story, and stories about beginnings and endings of worlds and lives, please consider buying my short story collection SHELTER FROM THE STORM? If you're not in India, this page also contains links to amazon. Com.and .uk

The publishing industry views Bluesky as some tiny unimportant island out somewhere in a far-off ocean. It's not worthy of their attention like Amazon Algoland or The Republic Of Instagram Influencer Collaborativepost is. What they don't realise is just how much the island's inhabitants love books.

You can help Ahmed's family survive Israel's genocide by sharing & donating. His severely ill father urgently needs healthcare that's unaffordable under Israel's genocidal siege. You can help by sharing & donating, Ahmed is just 17 & struggling:

Psst: Yasmine Claire and I even collaborated on a few stories, like this one, which expand on her recurring character, the occult confidence trickster schoolboy Dheeraj. Dheeraj is all her own creation, based on students she has taught. www.patreon.com/YasmineClair...

Really good trolling would be to go see Picnic at Hanging Rock with some friends and then 35 minutes in get up and leave the theater and disappear and never be seen again by anyone in their entire life

The Delhi police is doing what it does best. Brutally 'clearing' away popular protests.

When he's not nerdily giving us potted biogs of every musician, promoter, producer and other supporting cast in the lives of Miles, Trane, and Evans, in his 3 SHADES OF BLUE, James Kaplan finds time for wonderful moments of scene-setting like this:

“I was thinking that it was going to resonate with the world, with whoever, but man, people are strange out there,” he said. “Meaning like, nobody is really coming up with support, especially financial support. So far I’ve spent all my money on this.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

HE'S JUST SHOWING OFF HIS RECORD COLLECTION (I would too)

www.patreon.com/YasmineClair... Here is one of about fifteen stories I have written about strange children and their very normal interaction with the supernatural.

In the early days of this century, I was told users of websites should be able to find anything they want within 3 clicks. Writing and planning websites for businesses with often quite complex offerings, I soon learned there is no good reason to break this rule. In fact, it's easy to follow.

“I want to sue Meta for damages.” Secretly filmed using Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses at a Delhi protest, an illustrator tells Karen Rebelo the technology has turned them into a viral meme while Meta & India's laws have failed to protect their privacy Link below 👇

Letting James Kaplan's excellent book 3 SHADES OF BLUE guide me through Miles Davis' 50s recordings for Prestige and Blue Note. I only have a spotty knowledge of them, Columbia did (and does) such a great job of keeping their share of his discography in print...

sleep-deprived people arriving like this at work on a Monday after a long world cup final match...

Bathers, 1891 https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/12957

If freed from the need to themselves produce kitschy ersatz literature, some humans (many) will produce it anyway. GenAI is just a demonstration, in this sense. Do better! Read and write things one couldn't make with AI! If enough of us did, it might put the big 5 publishers out of work but oh well.

Need noise? Do recommend: 29a.ch/noise-genera... Lets you adjust a lot and then export as a wav I'm using it for making audio tracks for relaxation & writing at the moment & it's super useful

Since We Met, a 1964 Village Vanguard set by Bill Evans w/Eddie Gomez and Martie Morell is a gem, and should be heard as much as that original Village Vanguard set. Ted Gioia rates this version of But Beautiful highly. The cover art, by Ron Warwell is one of the most quintessential jazz images ever.

SO MUCH

My wife, Yasmine Claire, has been writing strange little stories for a long time. She's decided to start sharing them with the world via her (absolutely free to read) Patreon. Please drop by, read this tale about a child's eerie encounters, and subscribe? www.patreon.com/posts/163787...

There are clusters of good people on Substack. It's still not worth being there. As a fan of firsthand knowledge, I tried for a month. Encountered way too many nazis and edgies. I'll miss the good people doing good things but it wasn't enough to make up for somehow helping fasch.

My neighbourhood is full of bats; must look up which kind. (i live in Bangalore, India)

I've been listening to BB King's 60s albums. A particular favourite is 1965's Confessin The Blues. A lot of fans and critics seem to deplore the loud, prominent brass on these albums,

Oh well at least there's a new season of DEATH VALLEY.

A new poem, free to read on my Patreon www.patreon.com/Thatweirdjay...

Back in the weird, wild 1970s, the prestigious firm of Alfred A. Knopf ran a crazy experiment in publishing outsider fiction in shiny hardbacks with striking designs and without dust jackets. They called them Borzoi Puppies. Here's a look at the eight puppies in the litter: neglectedbooks.com/?...

Each decade is better. Take good care of your health!

I’ve been writing about the rich for years and ho boy, this one

Good morning. A bee on my Buddleja davidii, Butterfly Bush. Hope your Sunday is a happy and relaxing one my friends. If you’re on your own today, we’re all one big family here, so stop by and have a chat. 😊 #bee #NatureLovers #BloomScrolling #Stunday #MacroMonday #photography #ECK

A small team is working to digitise decades of Somali history in the country’s main public radio station.

A lot of leftists liberals are screaming at voted for Kamala anyway. They just had common sense that continuing to support Israel wasn't a winner anymore with the genocide & actual compassion for Palestinians. They wanted more from her & held their noses. They have real standards for politicians.

Photographer Gjon Mili's cat Blackie cleans up after the famous 1943 all-night jam/photo session with Duke Ellington.

Oooh yeah Oh yeah Everything Everything Everything's gonna be alright this morning music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

An author once posted a photoshopped image of Rajasthani women carrying water pots to imply a (correct) point about women's labour and, when it was pointed out that the supporting image was doctored, said she didn't care, she just liked the image.

🏳️‍⚧️🌿MY PATREON IS OFFICIALLY OPEN!🌿🏳️‍⚧️ here on my corner of the internet, you'll find sketches, wips, and illustrations 🌿 thank you for your support and i look forward to seeing you there! 💚✨🍵 [🌸link below!🌸]

'I'm never like this when I'm not with you.' youtu.be/by-fZiJLvzI?...

for real, if you're thinking about seeing THE ODYSSEY, watch or read this report first: “By staying silent for one year and then using this footage, Nolan has basically become an accomplice to Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara.”

Maybe it's Billie Holiday weather. Maybe it's just that it's evening. music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

I iz eggs ite

It is probably time I read more Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Everybody will have their own redlines but, after nearly 40 years, this will be the end of my Labour membership... There is no economic sense to this - the cost of living argument is bullshit - and it is insane environmentally www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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I've been reading and thinking about the miserable, uncertain lives musicians and other artists so often experience if they try to live by art and this from 3 SHADES OF BLUE by James Kaplan sums up a lot, while talking about heroin addiction among jazz musicians: