LOUIE VEGA & ELEMENTS OF LIFE FEAT. ANANE @ THE SUPERBOWL - FEB 2007 YouTube video by Louie Vega

I had forgotten that the year Prince played the halftime show was also the year Louie Vega played the pregame show.

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It Was on Your Table Every Morning Growing Up. It’s Dying Before Our Eyes. No One Wants to Face It. The powerhouse of American citrus is suffering a brutal decline. Everyone has a theory about why.

Totally off-topic, but did y'all the know the Free State of Florida's citrus industry is basically dead??

This is quite a story:
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screenshot of WashPo editorial board August 20 2025 "The Texas Gerrymander freakout What's happening in the Lone Star State is not a threat to democracy"

screenshot of April 21 Wash PO editorial board: "Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss The redistricting scheme was always a power grab by Democrats. Voters went along with it."

listen hun if you can't handle the Washington Post editorial board at their the Texas gerrymander "freakout" is "not a threat to democracy" you don't deserve them at their "Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss"

Photo of a cat sitting with sun illuminating hos face and chest.

Photo of a bag of ashes with the text “Until We Meet Again At Thr Rainbow Bridge” written on it, next to a collar and ceramic paw print.

Blessings upon our greatest Prince, but also upon my family’s other prince, Tahji, also 10 years gone.

Gentle, loving, wily friend. And just as much missed.

…Though it wasn’t until I moved to Minnesota that I could really and truly understand “Sometimes It Snows in April” properly.

When the Frères Hardkiss were interested in releasing my song “Joy to the World,” a crucial detail that convinced me to let them was Gavin telling me he had a cassette of the movie—*not soundtrack, actually the movie*—to listen to in the car.

I was appreciative but kind of indifferent to Prince until I moved into my freshman dorm and found a shoebox filled with cassettes up in a closet corner left behind by the previous resident. All of them very good and enlightening, but Parade, from which I had only heard Kiss, was *the* revelation.

It does be like that! 😄

Tho I thought the Prince-on-a-bike sightings around Chanhassen were enjoyable when they were happening. (Never witnessed one myself.)

if you see this, post something orange from your gallery.

Used to enjoy seeing the Flair Fountains tower…

Cool. My electric mixer stirs faster than my finger

long-winded shaggy-dog joke about how despite the Scooby Doo Crew unmasking and demystifying supposed supernatural phenomena when at the end of the day they travel in the company of a talking dog

the crisis of modernity

Photo of a cat curled under on an ottoman, viewed from above.

Loki has been unfazed by the outages.

DFL Chair Richard Carlbom Shuts Down Humphrey Project Division Last November, I wrote about a concerning centrist DFL / Republican alliance I noticed during the Minneapolis city elections, where Mayor Jacob Frey and the City Council candidates aligned with him we...

after watching minneapolis DFL centrists flirt with republicans and try to ban dual DSA endorsements last year, i can't believe they attempted this division into 2026 with the humphrey project even after operation metro surge rearranged the political landscape

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Gary Bartz NTU Troop - Nation Time (Live In Bremen 1975) YouTube video by MIG Music

Good weather for Rhodes solos and fizzy ride cymbals…

(At around 5’45”)

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Why???? 😅

(Now the Ten City 12"... that's a keeper of course.)

…while I’m just shrinking down in my seat like: “Sample your voice, you say? Now *that’s* a crazy concept!” 😅

T Tauri - Key Largo (Spiritual Heaven) YouTube video by jammingAK

Reminds me of sampling it for this:
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…and specifically bringing copies to the New Music Seminar & being in the audience for a discussion where Nomad was part of the panel and Byron Stingily stands up *right behind me* to argue with him about the ethics of the “Devotion” sample…

Asha Bhosle - Bongo Bongo YouTube video by worldlove

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Jab Chaye Mera Jadoo 1080P HQ Audio YouTube video by Shiva Maharjan

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Current attire:

WEST INDIA COMPANY - Ave Maria YouTube video by mydiscostuff

Pretty sure if it was possible to compile records I’ve pulled out repeatedly for DJ sets, this would make in into the top 10, maybe top 5. Not a song that signifies the main current of her talent, but a record that’s unique in ways I have always wanted to share with dancers.

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Asha Bhosle - Dum Maro Dum (1971) YouTube video by Thecharityshop

Rest in Peace, Asha Bhosle

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Snort. @nytimes.com wrote "Diplomatic Skills" and "Vance" in the same sentence.

Definitely Challenger first.

But, more entertainingly, remember the last day of my high school Physics of Music class. Our teacher served us tea and cakes and we watched a videotape of the wedding of Charles and Diana.

Better question: Will white rural voters stop blaming immigrants, “wokeness,” and trans people for everything and start voting for, instead of against, their best interest?

OMG. Missed this too.

I want to add the phrase "Heritage Cheese" to my general conversations to signify... something? Disastrous overconfidence and presumption?

[Rankin-Bass Bilbo Baggins voice] Hello, what’s this?

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Sump pump started running again yesterday. It’s time.