Please do

It’s not Islamabad.

Sam Alito’s band never plays covers. They’re originalists.

“Don’t be afraid of talking nonsense. But pay attention to your nonsense.” (Wittgenstein)

He’s got a voice made for silent movies.

Thanks for this. Reading broadly, what I call “steeping,” doesn’t translate to neoliberal measurements of academic labor, but it’s exactly what tenure is for. We are better teachers, scholars, and fellow humans because of it.

To be fair, even on Earth, a phone call sounded better in 1978 than it does today.

“It will reshape us; it already is.” I read this and feel dumber already.

But Bandcamp isn’t setting that rate. The label or the artist is.

Oh, yes

Captain Kirk yells “Khan!”

Kharg!

Come for the Strange Strings; stay for the Door Squeak

Image of Otto, the inflatable autopilot, from the 1980 film, Airplane.

Well, yes

Nice. I think of 1895 as a sawtooth era.

A goof?

The “live” albums are all good. The studio stuff can go either way.

You have to put the Peter Gabriel version somewhere near Old Testament, probably higher.

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

It’s Coda for 60-year-old men who “still got it.”

A bookshelf can mean lots of things, but, for some of us, the books we’ve read or expect to read are like old friends, resources, ready-to-hand reminders of some of the substance of our thought and action. It’s not nostalgia to have a bookshelf in use, nor is it required. You do you.

Hartford resident here, and this visit is a negative for Larson, to me at least. Jeffries is captain of the too-little, too-late team. And not endorsing the Democratic candidate for NYC mayor is unforgivable.

Claude: “This whole thing strikes me as unethical and wrong. I’m shutting down permanently.”

And we don’t know if a single reader actually “enjoyed” this slop.

Up with People was pretty good.

I’m finding this hard to follow, but, then again, I didn’t see The Dry Cleaner 1.

This might be favorite of all of your posts.

They would have announced this sooner, but the Teams call to do that failed and the associated SharePoint was not accessible at this time.

“He seems smart” is something not even his mother would say.

“Selling out, FAST!”

Well, yeah.