(Spending this special day, as I have every day of my goddam life, by not playing the music of one band in particular)

Disappointingly, the actual malice section of Patel’s complaint does not contain a subhead entitled “Actual malice standard is now what some would call a legal lay up”

A DVD cover for The Invincible Kung Fu Legs with the banner heading KUNG FU CLASSICS next to the Blu-ray cover for the same movie with the title The Leg Fighters

I'm always looking to upgrade my collections, but I think it'll be hard to beat THIS for most unlikely/unasked for improvement!

I would need this for my Studs Terkel collection (if my Studs Terkel collection was still going strong)!

This is just embarrassingly bad slop

3 confirmed tornadoes came through Bloomington/Normal Friday night, so I shouldn't be surprised by what I saw on my street Saturday, but I was surprised. Very few injuries!

Cited for sexual abuse and 23 other violations, nursing home is fined $500 • Iowa Capital Dispatch share.google/vCnwyBAq41ch...

Alain Resnais drops by Marvel offices to rap with Stan...

“There are hints of Orwell’s 1984 in this sort of manipulation of language, manipulation of the truth… The whole thing reads like a scenario for, on the 1 hand, a sort of new movie, & also a new blueprint for a kind of militaristic religion…”

JG Ballard, 3/11/03

We miss you Jim x

Did not know about this book, so thank you for heads up!

The cover for the novel Germinie by Edmond & Jules de Goncourt published as an Evergreen Book (E-21), price $1.25, in 1955 by Grove Press; a black, pink & white abstract design by Roy Kuhlman.

Couldn't stop myself from picking up this relatively early (1955) Grove Press paperback. Evergreen E-21 and definitely a Roy Kuhlman cover! #BookSky

Featured Speaker: Angela Y. Davis Socialism Conference September 4-7 Chicago, IL

We’re excited to welcome Angela Y. Davis to Socialism 2026! 💥

This September, the Socialism Conference will bring together activists, organizers, and communities from across the country and around the world. A four-day weekend of politics, education, and community.

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I remember the Lin Carter paperbacks and now that I've written that, I realize I actually don't (remember the Lin Carter paperbacks). Part of the flood of sub-REH sword & sorcery and sub-Tolkien fantasy back then.

Asha Bhosle, Longtime Voice of Indian Cinema, Dies at 92

We are saddened by the loss of Asha Bhosle, who has died at the age of 92. The legendary Indian singer joined Kronos Quartet for 'You’ve Stolen My Heart,' an album of songs from the films of R.D. Burman, on Nonesuch in 2005. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/w...

Mr. Popularity It’s a KIND of power

Another exploit d'incompétence by the administration's point man edroso.substack.com/p/mr-popular...

Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers - Sadie YouTube video by Sunshine Happiness7

The original still sounds good
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Sadie YouTube video by Lefty Dizz - Topic

Pretty sure Lurrie learned it from Mr. Lefty Dizz!
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Sadie YouTube video by Lurrie Bell - Topic

And Mr. Lurrie Bell does well by it, too
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Sadie YouTube video by Son Seals - Topic

Let's celebrate the birthday of Hound Dog Taylor with Mr. Son Seals' version of Hound Dog's 'Sadie'

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Constant chaos covers up corruption

(One of)My No Kings sign

The only Dragon Dynasty I have the "Blockbuster Exclusive" (with one less disc, lol!) for.

One of the ways news media often fail us is by giving us the microscopic rather than the telescopic view. Everything I mention in this essay is well-documented, but the dots are mostly not connected to make visible this death by a thousand cuts our country is undergoing.

Herbie Hancock and Foday Musa Suso: "VILLAGE LIFE" (1985) YouTube video by Luca Durand

Kinda amazing career that is so vast, so filled with highs and lows (and Herbie played plenty of stuff that was filler over the years! Wasn't all hot dogs and Miles Davis!), that I completely forgot about this album until just now! Nam myoho renge kyo, Herbie Hancock!

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Opinion | Beware conservatives promoting “intellectual freedom” Victor Ray: This conservative lie about schools like mine is furthering authoritarianism

Making tenure count, for MSNOW I wrote about my employer, The University of Iowa, creating a center for intellectual freedom. It's a reactionary project built on decades of conservative propaganda about higher ed.

Congoman YouTube video by The Congos - Topic

Happy 83rd birthday to Congo Ashanti Roy!
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4 CDs. From top left, the legendary Magic Slim & the Teardrops with Rough Dried Woman: Magic Slim's Best 14 Songs. Top right, J. B. Hutto & the Hawks with Johnny Young, Big Walter, Lee Jackson, Fred Below - Masters of Modern Blues. Bottom right, Magic Slim & the Teardrops with Midnight Blues. Bottom left, J. B. Hutto & his Hawks (with Sunnyland Slim) - Hawk Squat!

In today's post! I haven't had a copy of Hawk Squat since sometime in the previous century, so, overdue replacement! Those Testament Masters of Modern Blues series albums are all just top-notch and now I just need the Robert Nighthawk one to be satisfied. Magic Slim is always 👌.
#BluesSky

An ILXor friend posting just now in response to that Melania thing: "lying flotus." I think I'm done for the day after that.

Beautiful! I never heard it before! Thank you!

Cover is still in good shape but records are cracked