The strokes at Coachella. Yikes.

My life is out of control. I have 31 pounds of Rancho Gordo beans in my cupboard.

VIA Rail makes Amtrak seem like the TGV.

Gerald Seligman (@geraldseligman.photo) and I are were interviewed by Oisin Lunny for the “Audio Talks” podcast from Harman (the audio electronics company), available wherever you get your podcasts. The topic is "The Fragile Future of Audio Archives."

audiotalks.podigee.io/86-the-fragi...

Santa Barbara liberals be like “I’m solving the world’s problems with my Little Free Library.”

Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive, sound historian says Labels push to spike cost of Internet Archive fight over old 78s.

I ended up as the headline. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

While sorting a collection today I came across this “while you were out” memo. Probably from the mid 1990s related to the release of Toy Story. That might explain the 415 area code.

Timeless - Single by The Weeknd & Playboi Carti on Apple Music Album · 2024 · 1 Song

Hip-hop+Dolby Atmos=❤️

music.apple.com/us/album/tim...

Kinora

Cocktail at Patent Pending in the Radio Wave Building NYC.

In William S. Burroughs’s orgone box.

In NYC for the week for work.

“LA is dryer than Kanye’s eyes at a screening of ‘Schindler’s List’”

YouTube is funny. If I listen to jazz, the algorithm always segues to Chet Baker. ALWAYS.

We rewatched the Lord of the Rings trilogy which has became a Christmas tradition. I watched the originals in the theater at successive Christmases with my siblings, the DVDs at another Christmas around 2010, the BluRays during Covid, and now the 4K.

My former boss died of Covid on Christmas Day. Of 2024.

Tamales are one food that isn’t better the next day. They need to be fresh out of the steamer

Yesterday’s dinner confirmed our long held opinion that Chinese food in Santa Barbara is terrible.

Jira suggests I delete Oxford commas.

Just cancelled my @latimes.com subscription.

I posted this a year ago and it’s even more true today.

UCSB in a nutshell with Comet.

My project the Discography of American Historical Recordings (DAHR) is on bsky now: @discography.bsky.social

Stephen Colbert has terrible writers.

RFK Jr. has literal worms for brains.

Nicole Shanahan makes RFK, Jr. look sane and rational.

Cirque du so-boring

I’m through with composting. Complete waste of my time.