something tragic about Jokic hitting left handed hook shots in the playoffs at 11:36 CT when so many of the nation’s dads are fast asleep

And produced Ken Kesey who helped shape the beat generation, the hippies, the acid tests, the Dead, etc etc

Sting playing his lute or possibly theorbo

🎶 sex on the beaches, what else is in the teaches of peaches… 🎶

Boastful Quaker Oats ad, Chicago 1891

S2 is compromised and S3 is uncompromising, is the way I would say it.

It’s the kid who sucks!

Yeah. Everyone is chasing their incentives (including Wired who put a misleading and provocative headline on a slightly more measured piece). It’s the incentives that are screwed up.

Just got out of a showing, bought the tickets after only seeing your post. What a film. Incredible experience.

Ultimately Wired let its readers down with the framing of the story (as did the prior blog post about the same subject, to a lesser degree). But “here’s what music PR looks like in the age of TikTok being the primary music discovery platform” probably gets less engagement than “Geese psyop???”

Every industry person & culture writer is posting the same “wow I can’t believe a big record had a PR team behind it” snark take but that’s pretty clearly not what people are reacting to. They’re seeing how the sausage is made and it looks gross (because the internet game is gross)!

The Geese “psyop” story (PR firm used fake accounts to game social algorithms) isn’t about whether ppl know that record labels use PR firms to push records, but that ppl don’t know or think about what modern PR looks like (Playing the Algo Game). The story is “algorithms killed word of mouth.”

Pulling tracks for a radio show and I discovered that 2/26/73 does NOT have a really good Deal. It’s a really good Loser (which of course has the line “last fair deal in the country” in the chorus), I always mix them up. We regret the error. Don’t you let that deal go down, etc

little cat Junie laying on a blanket mid yawn

big yawn, little cat

Map showing snow water equivalent percent of the 1991-2020 median for the Western United States on April 10, 2026.

This is a frightening map, especially given the fact that this is normally near the peak in snowpack across the West. There are many far-reaching consequences from this historic snow drought, ranging from increasing risk of summer wildfires to major water concerns.

Map by nwcc-apps.sc.egov.usda.gov

Sleepy time bear

It's Friday night baby

The sun shines every day in hell.

Vuc is probably underrated relative to a guy like Boozer (they’re statistically pretty similar as you pointed out) but Boozer is higher profile in part bc he won a gold medal, won an NCAA national title, and played in 85 playoff games, where Vucevic has played in 16 & never past the first round

".On April 7th, 2026, people stopped being born. On the same day, people stopped dying, and people stopped aging."

Oh well. I'm sure I'll find a way to take care of this problem.

I'd be so annoying on artemis 2. I'd demand to listen to pink floyd the entire time

Finished listening to the Grateful Dead’s 36 volume Dick’s Picks series. Took me nearly 3 mo of listening to the Dead (& the 36FTV pod) exclusively, every day, which I didn’t plan to do or force myself to do; I just kept wanting to hear more instead of doing anything else. What a band.

Vol 36: 9/21/72 (The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA)
on any other volume, the Bird Song would be the star. the 50 min of Dark Star > Morning Dew is simply stunning. the idea of hearing something like this is why you listen to this stuff. what a closing statement for the series. 5/5

Vol 35: 8/7/71 (Golden Hall, San Diego, CA) & 8/24/71 (Chicago) & bonus 8/6/71 (Hollywood)
it's cool that these were found & released. there's some rare material here (Empty Pages). not much I'd return to though. Sing Me Back Home is really good. 3/5

Vol 34: 11/5/77 (Community War Memorial, Rochester NY)
kinda sloppy set 1 until the Candyman, Jack Straw, Deal section, which rips. Phil is kinda fucking around on this Eyes of the World (complimentary I think). I also dig the unsettled Other One > gloomy Black Peter. 3.5/5

Vol 33: 10/9/76 & 10/10/76 (Oakland Coliseum)
afternoon sets opening for the Who. McNally book says night 1 they "tried too hard and choked" but night 2 was better. 10/10 is more consistent (typically good Cassidy, Deal, Loser) but 10/9 has the highlight: Help > Slip > Samson > Slip > Frank. 3.5/5

Vol 32: 8/7/82 (Alpine Valley, WI)
I'll be honest, I really struggled with this one. the recording has very little bass and Phil specifically is almost entirely absent. Drums > Space > Wheel > Playing sequence worked the best. I'll check out an aud before revisiting the official release. 2/5

Vol 31: 8/4/74 & 8/5/74 (Philadelphia) & 8/6/74 (Jersey City, NJ)
they're just itching to drop into fusion freakout mode at every turn. each show has at least one excellent jam vehicle - 8/4 Playing jam, 8/5 Truckin > Space, 8/6 Eyes (excellent despite a few flubs) and Playing sequence. 4.5/5

Vol 30: 3/25/72 & 3/28/72 (Academic of Music, NYC)
first 5 tracks with Bo Diddley. cool to hear the brief Keith/Pigpen overlap. both Playin in the Bands are worth hearing, the 2nd especially. this is otherwise more of an interesting rarities volume than a great one. 3/5

Vol 29: 5/19/77 (Atlanta) & 5/21/77 (Lakeland, FL)
6 hours of two May 77 shows + 10/11/77 hidden tracks. 5/19: Jerry's solos on Sugaree are electrifying. set 2 (Prophet thru Playing bookends) rips. 5/21: good Scarlet > Fire, good Brown Eyed Women, cool Jack a Roe. Other One > Comes A Time! 4.5/5

Vol 28: 2/26/73 (Lincoln, NE) & 2/28/73 (Salt Lake City, UT)
two really good shows from early jazzy Dead era. 2/26 features really good Deal and Jack Straw, fusion-y Playing, breezy (25m) Dark Star. 2/28's Truckin > Other One > Eyes > Dew sequence is terrific. 4/5