I’ve been collecting these to show to students

ISOLARII Books of another dimension. Sent anywhere, every two months.

This press is so good:

www.isolarii.com

theonion.info

It’s called Stanford

Thanks for the heads up about this book!

“‘The ship! The hearse!—the second hearse!’ Cried Ahab from the boat; “its wood could only be American!’”

The cultural creations of the Empress of America's classical music, singing those St Louis Blues.

Blues legend, Bessie Smith, born 132 years ago today

Oh yeajhhhhhh!

@blastitude.bsky.social Fuzz-o! Hit me up - I need some BÖC information “the day’s ok and the sun can be fun”

Well well well

That archive is crazy -

Whoa!

In 9th Grade (Circa 1989) we were asked to write about the person we admired most in the world. I wrote about Tina because her playing always made me move.

@chrisfrantz.bsky.social So! Happy Tina Tuesday to all who celebrate!

More people need to read Angela Carter’s “The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffman”.

Happy Friday!

Tom Gaulkin- drums
Karen Silcock - bass
Matt Silcock - lead guitar
Yours truly - vocals, rhythm guitar and songs

Tom is a big rock drummer, Karen Thumps a Gibson Ripper, and Matt plays hammer-ons with his teeth. It all seems like a faraway dream of a cozy spring bar show.

Here’s our set: archive.org/details/ajc0...

Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10,000 concerts into an online treasure trove In 1989, an up-and-coming rock band from Washington called Nirvana played in Chicago for the first time at a club called Dreamerz.

This Aadam Jacobs archive is SO DEE0 on Chicago music that he even has a set from my short-lived Chicago group Perfect Teeth - 25 years ago! WOW so grateful to revisits music I can’t remember writing - that was a helluva crack band apnews.com/article/aada...

Screenshot: euro news. > Next › Tech News Live Poetry can trick Al chatbots into ignoring safety rules, new research shows Copyright Credit: Wikimedia Commons By Theo Farrant Published on 01/12/2025 - 15:18 GMT+1 Share → Comments Across 25 leading Al models, 62% of poetic prompts produced unsafe responses, with some models responding to nearly all of them.

When I imagined fighting the robots I didn’t imagine poems as part of that but that’s on me. www.euronews.com/next/2025/12...

Thank god. Christ.

But seriously folks. We cannot continue to live like this.

Renowned Iranian composer, Ali Ghamsari and tar virtuoso, announced he will stay at the Damavand Combined Cycle Power Plant.

His plan: Create music there as a symbolic effort to shield Iran's infrastructure from attack. @iranscreenshot

Of The Empire We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness. - Mary Oliver

God this poem is haunting me again.

The president is a mad man

Image of a page from the LRB saying “in the next issue, which will be dated 23 April, Ian Penman on the Beach Boys”

World is trash, but Ian Penman on the Beach Boys? Oh yes yes yes

POC Arts Nonprofits Face Severe Staffing Challenges, Survey Finds A new report by Museum Hue sheds light on the difficulties faced by dozens of museums and cultural centers led by people of color in the Northeastern states.

POC Arts Nonprofits Face Severe Staffing Challenges, Survey Finds

‘On a whole other level’: rapid snow melt-off in American west stuns scientists Experts say brutal March heat has left critical snowpack at record-low levels – and key basins in uncharted territory

“Climate change is going to result in these extreme events worsening,” said Frazier, a climatologist & assistant professor at Clark Univ, who added that compound events, where hazards overlap are on the rise -- greater fire danger."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

news to the enslaved!

When the birthright citizenship decision comes out, people will say it could never have gone any other way, that the law was obvious. But the mere fact that SCOTUS took on the case is evidence enough that we are living in a time of democratic precarity.

This is an extremely important read for my colleagues in academia - the upshot is, get the f*ck off Canvas. After reading this article in December, I went back to paper for everything. They’ve been the best classes I’ve taught in years. Turns out I had been self-enshittifying. Anyway🖕tech bros.

Why then do you try to “enlarge” your mind? Subtilize it.