One of my favorite annual traditions (a bit belated this time since Paul left showbiz) is this podcast where we share our favorite Wikipedia pages with each other

Still got a little showbiz left in me baybeeee

Discursive, self-indulgent, and inconsiderate of the audience’s time or interests, it’s everyone’s favorite Brutal South tradition: The exchange of rare and unusual Wikipedia articles with my pal the sportswriter @baumann.bsky.social

New podcast episode: brutalsouth.substack.com/p/wikifest-2...

Bees know what's up

Wear Black, by the Mountain Goats from the album Goths (Deluxe Version)

Listening to "Wear Black" by the @themountaingoats.bsky.social for the umpteenth time and got chills at John's delivery of the line "wind in the evergreen cypresses," somehow doing a pitch-perfect impression of the great Bruce Cockburn for a moment

themountaingoats.bandcamp.com/track/wear-b...

"Loving you is not separate from the struggle for liberation. It is liberation itself."

Doodle of a little cartoonish guy peeking over a wall and the text "Kilroy was here"

I think this might be the Kilroy Was Here of Gen Alpha

Doodle of a face looking left with a ponytail (?) and a spot on the cheek

Doodle of a face looking left with a ponytail and a spot on the cheek

Doodle of a face looking left with a ponytail and a spot on the cheek. Text reads "is that hyperpig mentation?"

Doodle of a face looking left with a ponytail and a spot on the cheek. Text reads "Harperpigmimtation"

I kept seeing this doodle at an event with my kids, and as I was staring at it, 3 different kids walked up and said "Is that hyperpigmentation?"

Bernadette Peters and Steve Martin in "The Jerk"

This is still Peak Romance, to me

Hospital tells family brain-dead Georgia woman must carry fetus to birth because of abortion ban A hospital is using a breathing tube and other measures to keep a brain-dead Georgia woman's body functioning because she is pregnant.

"Georgia state Sen. Ed Setzler, a Republican who sponsored the 2019 law, said he supported Emory’s interpretation."
apnews.com/article/preg...

As Israel blocks aid, Gaza’s mothers watch their children starve After more than two months of an Israeli blockade, the Gaza Strip is running out of food, and few are more vulnerable than its children.

Our country provides weapons, money, and unwavering diplomatic support for a campaign to starve children on the other side of the world. www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle...

🎧 "Sentiment" - Un
unvibes.bandcamp.com/album/sentim...

India launches missile attacks on Pakistan India has launched strikes in several parts of Pakistan and Pakistan-controlled territory, in a dramatic escalation of tensions between the two nuclear-armed rivals.

Nuclear weapons are a threat to all life on earth and we will never know peace until we dismantle them.
www.npr.org/2025/05/06/n...

Haha yes, WART BATTLE MUSIC let's go

summoned this riff from a hazy memory of a metalcore show at the american legion hall, circa 2005

🎧 "Dull Knife pt. II" by Planning for Burial

Happy May 1st. The value of your labor belongs to you and the actions of the state are best understood as as a coordinated effort to distract you from this. The state fears an organized and unified proletariat like it fears death and rightly so. Power to the workers and power to the people

"Action Alert" in red text on a grayscale photo of the State House

On Tuesday, 4/29, at 10:30 a.m., SC lawmakers will consider H. 4123, a bill that would criminalize teachers and school librarians. We need everybody who can make it to show up in the Blatt Building (1105 Pendleton St., Columbia), Room 110, to speak out against this bill.

No new law enforcement agencies had to be created to carry out this year’s mass deportation campaign. The departments spawned during the George W. Bush administration — Homeland Security & ICE — are now in the hands of an even less accountable unitary executive. brutalsouth.substack.com/p/rehearsals

Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan charged with 2 felonies in ICE case Brady McCarron, spokesman for U.S. Marshals Service in Washington, D.C., confirmed Dugan was arrested at about 8 a.m. at the Milwaukee County Courthouse and is in federal custody.

Please take a few minutes to read about what ICE did in Milwaukee and think about where we're headed as a country. www.jsonline.com/story/news/b...

God is returning to Indiana and She's not happy with what They see

Dorothee Sölle wrestled with this, ultimately arriving at the conclusion she was called to speak as a liberation theologian to what was then called the "first world." Not an easy task, but a necessary one in the belly of the beast.

We Said Hello by Sequoyah Prep School (album art)

I've been staring at your pictures cause you've got sparkling eyes Makes me jealous I want to be there beneath that same western sky And I'm wondering what that sign means by dangerous (dangerous) I'm headed to the state line later this week, I'm finally getting my tattoo done I hope that you'd be proud of me, Oh I know what you mean its going to set me free

Listening to some vintage South Carolina emo music and came across this little time-capsule lyric from before our state legalized tattooing. sequoyahprepschool.bandcamp.com/track/ill-fi...

Is that Bonhoeffer in your profile picture

She said the men didn't tell her why they were arresting her and shackled her. She said at one point, after they had changed cars, she felt "sure they were going to kill me." During a stop in Massachusetts, one of the men said to her, "We are not monsters," and "We do what the government tells us."

"We do what the government tells us."

www.cbsnews.com/amp/boston/n...

DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States

One fun thing about living in an old house is gradually discovering the, uh, ingenuity of previous residents

"Beast of the Southeast"

The Trump Administration Is About To Release It's Own Anti-Trans, Junk-Science "Cass Review" The review is expected by insiders to establish new standards of care to justify state bans, with no expert participation in its crafting.

"When the report drops, it won’t be a scientific review—it will be a political weapon."
open.substack.com/pub/erininth...

The book Celebration by Damir Karakas

"He spat again and thought how in this world the only abundance was of evil and trouble, and with these words he was overcome by bleak and vague forebodings."