This is how they introduce Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka

I’m so sorry

This is why it’s risky to block out hangover time on your work calendar

Do you know why they moved away from that? It was so much easier to plan around than floating dates you had to look up.

It’s like if a local TV station showed Seinfeld and Big Bang Theory but only rotated through five episodes of each one

And why do radio stations have such tiny catalogs, when listeners from seemingly the same demographics generally love hearing songs they haven’t heard in a while?

Just ordered oatmeal in a coffee shop in Wisconsin and they asked if i wanted yogurt or whipped cream

It’s interesting—if all the recent reporting is accurate—that they felt empowered to do this with Trump, but FBI managers still felt they needed Patel’s signoff on a wide range of matters when he was indisposed.

Text from letter to editor of maximum rocknroll after the death of GG Allin: many more). In 5 to 10 years, he'll be even more of a punk legend... the American version of Sid Vicious. Having known G.G. since 1984, I can definitely say he was the one who took it farther than any other rocker. We toured together on boring & sleezy Greyhound buses and went though so much chaotic hell, it's unbelievable that he made it to June 28th, 1993. He took his first shit onstage right here in Peoria, Illinois in July, 1985!! If anyone wants to do a book on G.G., I have lots of rare photos & information to contribute. He even did a drunken recording session with me and my band (Bloody Mess& The Skabs) in 1989, which will be released at some point in the not-so-distant future. If you never got to see G.G. perform then you've never felt the intense aura that radiated from the man/ boy. I'd like to say "Fuck off" to Emphysema ("Shrinkwrap"). Now whose name will you live off of? Loser. Long live G.G. Allin. Take it sleezy, G.G.'s #1 fan, Bloody Mess/ PO Box 9021/ Peoria, IL

Will it play in Peoria?

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Have you seen the early recording studios? They didn’t even have microphones yet so everyone was just playing and singing into giant horns and pipes, it looks like a Super Mario level. Changing the levels meant moving people around and switching out the horns. www.alamy.com/stock-photo-...

Which I think is partly about movies, etc. being made by adults mythologizing a kind of carefree coming of age that very few people of any generation actually experience!

And realized in passing that John Philip Sousa must have been one of the first people to complain about going out in nature only to find people playing recorded music (from a record player in 1906) bsky.app/profile/smel...

AI music is booming, and the player piano saw it coming As AI songs get harder to tell apart from human-made music, an older technology offers a revealing preview of the fight over artistry, labor and pay

I wrote about the parallels between discourse about AI music tools today and the player piano—which makes also claimed could let anyone produce music without training, and which led to similar debates about copyright — more than a century ago.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-m...

Also, have more shows with single-episode stories! People will happily rewatch those a million times, and they'll keep people around who originally signed up to binge the 10-episode serials.

If everyone on this site logs off and returns to school for a second bachelor's degree, I truly believe we can simultaneously save American higher education and ruin college radio

This metaphor would be really confusing in DC

Yeah, generational discourse is very often implicitly about white people who work in offices

Hampshire College closing has gotten a lot of middle-aged adults posting like 16-year-olds who just read two college guidebooks

Delivery robot apologizes in new bus shelter ad after shattering glass in West Town The ad comes almost a month after a Serve Robotics delivery robot named Nasir crashed through a pane of glass at a bus stop near North Racine and West Grand avenues.

Move fast and break things

chicago.suntimes.com/news/2026/04...

I do hope Ollipop ushers in a new wave of less sweet treats. I would love to be able to get a muffin that tastes like something besides sugar.

Just tried this and it was legitimately interesting but definitely tasted like 90s health food. Might work as a cocktail mixer?

Of course I still haven't forgiven Dwight Garner for his review of Catherine Lacey's "Biography of X" where he refers to Connie Converse as a "singer who resembles Karen Dalton," seemingly convinced she was a made up character

Also more of its own beloved chroniclers?

I get the feeling he'd be unfamiliar with anything by Poppy Z. Brite, P. Curran's "Stay Out of New Orleans," James Sallis' Lew Griffin books, Julie Smith or J.M. Redmann, Louis Maistros, or (outside of novels) Lisa D'amour, or Everette Maddox.

Madison indie band Quokka releases an ode to Wisconsin birds New album ‘Lifer’ features 10 original songs written from a bird’s-eye view, with bird calls weaved into the instrumentals.

Just learned there's a band that released a concept album inspired by Wisconsin birds, where every track is named after a bird and incorporates its call

www.wpr.org/news/madison...

List of Capital One Cafe offerings including “talk to an ambassador”

Calling the Capital One Cafe Ambassador to discreetly inquire about asylum

Reading Marx at the Capital One Cafe

And I can’t reply to the quoted thread, but healthcare is an expensive mess for everyone now, not just Obamacare users.

Deductibles and premiums and copays up, high and unpredictable medical bills, unclear what insurance covers, etc.

Yeah, the basket of goods approach to inflation doesn’t seem ideal for capturing what’s going on right now.

The average increase will look low but the breakdown is like, food, healthcare, fuel, and housing are way up, but TVs are cheaper, used cars have come down, and phones are more powerful!

eric swalwell another great example of why you should never trust anyone over 30 who uses snapchat

"There was a time when the pine woods of the north were sacred to summer simplicity, when around the camp fire at night the stories were told and the songs were sung with a charm all their own. But even now the invasion of the north has begun, and the ingenious purveyor of canned music is urging the sportsman, on his way to the silent places with gun and rod, tent and canoe, to take with him some disks, cranks, and cogs to sing to him as he sits by the firelight, a thought as unhappy and incongruous as canned salmon by a trout brook." From John Philip Sousa, "The Menace of Mechanical Music," 1906 https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/21m-380-music-and-technology-contemporary-history-and-aesthetics-fall-2009/18ab3aba9fe7aa1502a55cd049333659_MIT21M_380F09_read02_sousa.pdf

When I see people playing music on their phones in the state park