But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

billy, not really known for his sense of humor

It is INSANE that we're in the midst of massive cuts to a bunch of essential services like transit while we're going to pay $600M to a billionaire who then gets to profit off the land he has the exclusive(?) rights to develop. Like this is transparently a wealth transfer to Dundon. Absolute joke.

Voices, by Sage Rats 2 track album

Cassingle just dropped:

sagerats.bandcamp.com/album/voices

Sage Rats / Small Things Go / Earthware performing live at Turn! Turn! Turn! Portland Oregon 2/19/2026 $5-10 entry, 8pm

Playing bass in Sage Rats tomorrow at Turn! Turn! Turn! Limited edition cassingle release, too. Gonna blow minds.

Wow.

production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA

I gathered up a bunch of versions of #sonicyouth 's 'Diamond Sea' and John Oswald did his thing:

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YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS - George Carlin YouTube video by HomeReality

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Nancy undefeated.

BANDS looking for a TOUR MANAGER but can not afford a tour manager on the road?

HIRE ME to manage your tour REMOTELY, with 29 years of experience, at a fraction of the cost of bringing an extra body to feed.

Also adept at all travel and accommodation booking for corporations/groups/individuals.

in these moments, in my view, it is a political and spiritual DUTY for my outrage and anger to be as fresh as if I'd never heard how they shot Fred Hampton in his bed. As fresh as if I didn't know Bobby Hutton was surrendering when they shot him. 1/2

There are people who don't know, who didn't know. Moments like these are when they learn, and a window opens for people who want to turn their hunger for justice into action, for our numbers to increase. Stay mad and don't get jaded, in my opinion, get the newly passionate on board. 2/2

I urge everyone who hasn't seen this to watch it--it's in five parts totaling 14:00.

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all 3 make swell hanukkah (or anytime) gifts!

The improv duo of Bill Orcutt (guitar) and Chris Corsano (drums) opened for Tortoise last night and they were freakishly telepathic, jaw-droppingly intense and utterly joyous. The crowd was blown away. Wow, am I glad I got there early.

I hope the centrists learned a hard lesson last night. No more reaching across the aisle to people who have been spitting in our faces for decades. Run young people, run socialists, run on actionable ideas that seek to make our lives better.

To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.

NYT headline: U.S. strikes second boat in pacific as anti drug operation expands.

This is driving me crazy. The New York Times calling this madness an “anti-drug operation” is one of the worst forms of propaganda: accepting stated motivations of powerful people as the truth.

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

NEW: The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did.

We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.

What Happens When Socialists Are in Charge? Portland Offers a Glimpse.

Not only does this story get a number of basic facts wrong, it doesn’t take time to actually explore why Portlanders elected these folks. Coming in with a pre-baked PDX story to fit a NYT narrative about NYC is harmful, especially at this moment.

hey @bandcamp.com — there's a company called en.mygomp3.com that's spamming your site, creating fake accounts and linking to mp3s they don't own but host on their site. I know this bc they did it to me -> bill-orcutt.bandcamp.com Can someone have a look? I'm sure yr security team would be interested

What a great shot of the Lucky Barn show. That was a good one!

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror... I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. ... Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.

I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.

The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.

This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.

I want to manage the Hard Quartet. I’d do it in the style of Allen Klein. Take each of them aside and say “you know, you’re the best member of the Hard Quartet”

Watching Baseball Smarter: A Professional Fan's Guide for Beginners, Semi-experts, and Deeply Serious Geeks A Professional Fan's Guide for Beginners, Semi-experts, and Deeply Serious Geeks

This is a great way to get going, bookshop.org/p/books/watc...