A still of Cary Grant in The Bishop's Wife, 1947 #Christmas #ChristmasVibes

Richard Williams' 1971 animated version of 'A Christmas Carol' is beautiful! youtu.be/ZTzyC9CZuOA?...

Seeing How to See ~~~~~~~ “As Kathleen Raine put it: ‘the imagination does not see different things, it sees things differently.’ This is why the meaning content of many mystical experiences is a kind of ‘oh yes’ or ‘of course’ and seems to be something you *already know* ...” ~ Gary Lachman.

The Good, The Bad and The Grinch

"Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy." — Albert Einstein

'We are about to get a "post-American internet," because we are entering a post-American era and a post-American world. Some of that is Trump's doing, and some of that is down to his predecessors.' 🔥 amazing writing from Cory Doctorow....

The 10 best music blogs of 2025: Aquarium Drunkard, Bandcamp Daily, The Quietus, and more. Real human curation that beats Spotify's algorithm every time. buff.ly/XKBZc2V

House Democrats have introduced War Powers Resolutions to block further military assaults on Venezuela. We’re expecting a House vote this week, so call your representative ASAP and demand that they vote YES to check the regime’s lawless violence: indivisible.org/resource/cal...

“Have you ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates? Morons!” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/o...

Congrats to all involved and I can’t wait to see it !!! www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/the-cfny-spi...

That idea at the end of setting an example is really powerful. You know how you have friends you admire, learn from, emulate, almost wish you were? Or public figures who show you how it’s done? Basically, virtue signalling. It’s really important. bsky.app/profile/will...

this is not serious. just weaponizing more distractions, but now expanding their existential bullshit to other countries... summarizing my social media from the last five years, more like 9 years, basically comes down to this: FUCK MAGA. ✌️

very stable genius.

'There is a sort of profundity in sleep & it may be usefully consulted as an oracle. It may be said that the voluntary power is suspended & things come upon us as unexpected revelations, which we keep out of our thoughts at other times'. William Hazlitt (1778-1830) art Edmund Dulac (1915)

isn't he a good boy??? look at the good boy, did such a good job and ate all his pablum.....who gets milk and cookies and TWO stories before bed tonight??? yes, you, good boy.....🍼👶

‘He played with language better than anybody’: Terry Gilliam and John Boorman on Tom Stoppard

The New Deal wasn’t built on a promise that there would be “no ceiling” for the richest Americans. Quite the opposite, in fact. FDR knew its politics could only work if he singled out the rich as villains and knew that its policies could only work if the rich paid their fair share in taxes.

STAR TREK in black and white.

William Blake ~ The Youthful Poet`s Dream (1816 - 1820) #WilliamBlake

Fire at Full Moon, 1933 by Paul Klee

There’s always a moment. Usually, it’s “here’s teen-aged pop sensation that you’ll forget exists tomorrow singing her YouTube song, ‘Inappropriate for the Thanksgiving Parade Audience’ bullshit song!”

I also like when places have Black Friday sales that don’t make any sense. The Humane Society will give you 15% off a guinea pig and the thing with that is the cost was never the main consideration

Donald Trump is moving too quickly to embrace Zohran Mamdani. by Chuck Schumer

Rhythm of the Northern Lights Daphne Odjig ~ Anishinaabe 1983

Calvin and Hobbes is one of a handful of pieces of art that I sort of expected to leave behind when I grew into adulthood but instead continue to point at in increasingly desperate ways to beg people to increase their humanity

Hey @nytimes.com? Fuck off and leave us alone. We don't give a shit what your band of sweaty billionaire fluffers thinks about our politics.

Entry into Jerusalem, 1305-1306 by Giotto

I really can't recommend 'Who Goes Nazi?' by Dorothy Thompson highly enough. Published in 1941 & as relevant now as it was then.

Ryan Coogler said part of his influence for making Sinners was a childhood love for the Disney movie “Luck of the Irish” and let me tell you…he is so real for that.

Cracked Actor: A Film About David Bowie (1975 BBC Documentary) youtu.be/MfbN_wVDVcw?...

omg is there anything more boring than..ready for it? DONALD TRUMP this. DONALD TRUMP that.... omg can he just die or go away already??? life is short. why is this one fucking idiot taking up everyone's bandwidth??? just stop..... bye bye Donny. fuck right off. now. ok. thank you....

'Another Green World is a thoughtful, melancholy, fragile record, arguably one of Eno’s most emotionally resonant moments...' Listen to John and Luke discussing this seminal album as #BrianEno's Another Green World turns 50 today! buff.ly/CiQ7g6F

the fact that SNL spends so much time recreating shitty American/MAGA reality just shows you how fucked it all is. not funny. literally just recreating actual moments with lazy paid cast members. be better!!!!

Patti Smith: "People have the power Power to dream, to rule To wrestle the earth from fools"

-Oct 18, more than 7 million Americans stand up and stand together. -Nov 4, millions of Dems turn out for landslide wins in VA, NJ, NY, CA, GA, many other places. -Nov 9, eight "Dems" say "Oh, this nice Mike Johnson and Mr. Trump say they care about health. If they don't, well shame on them..."

The 8 Dems who surrendered: @SenAngusKing @timkaine @SenCortezMasto @JohnFetterman @SenatorDurbin @SenatorHassan @SenatorShaheen @SenJackyRosen

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Credit where due, fucking with air travel was genius MAGA move. It impacts upper & middle class and, more importantly, a powerful business interest. Starving millions of poor people doesn't piss off Wall St.

2/2 You think Dem voters would have turned out in the numbers, and with the enthusiasm, they did JUST FIVE DAYS AGO if they thought the party was going cave like this? Jesus

you know what? fuck 'the shareholders'. money for nothing? fuck that. most of the shit in the world is a result of creating 'results' for greedy people. 🤑💢☠️

45th anniversary today - November 7, 1980 - release of the album "Gentlemen Take Polaroids" from Japan. #55 on CFNY's Top 80 of 1980. 👍😎👍

fuck ai revenue and this robotic lazy bullshit.

Tim Buckley ~ Venice Beach (Music Boats in the Bay) (KCET Broadcast, 1970) #TimBuckley #BOTD #MusicSky Live, otherworldly performance of this remarkable unrecorded song at Boboquivari with the Starsailor band. A prime testament of magic being conjured. youtu.be/PwWcGSB8wWI via @YouTube

Multi-instrumentalist, record producer, arranger & sound designer, soundtrack composer & college professor Joseph Byrd -- leader of The United States of America, and who, in 1968, recorded 'The American Metaphysical Circus,' credited to Joe Byrd & the Field Hippies -- has died at 87. More: alt text

@writingonmusic.bsky.social today i was happy to find your book at @roughtraderecords.bsky.social Rockefeller Center.... it was waiting for me!

Short interruption of our daily program for this health check. Please close your eyes, press play and wait. If you don't start to tap your feet, shake your head or feel the need to jump up and dance, get in touch with your doctor. It's for your own good. youtu.be/r2S1I_ien6A?...

If Trump’s fascism is so bad, why aren’t the students protesting? We asked three right-wing oligarchs who bullied their alma maters into enforcing total bans on freedom of assembly on campus.