A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity Great swathes of rock music since the nineteen-sixties would never have existed, we're sometimes told, were it not for the recordings of Robert Johnson. Certainly the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Cla...

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity

Audre told us.

Fairy Tales for Grown-Ups | British Library Fairy Tales have an older and darker past as stories for adults as well as the young. They were often sensual, bawdy, unflinchingly violent, sophisticated

This amazing online event is happening tomorrow, Tuesday, April 21st. Susanna Clarke, @amalelmohtar.com, Gregory Maguire and I will be talking about fairy tales, fairy lore, and fairy tale literature for the @britishlibrary.bsky.social. Please join us!

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Sorry to be overly sincere for a second, but here's why we decided to persevere through all of the bullshit and take over InfoWars.

There's just gotta be a line somewhere.

Thank you @pablo.show for letting me talk so openly about this.

Phish Covers Joe Walsh at Sphere -- in Front of Walsh, Who Loved It Phish treated Joe Walsh -- in attendance at their Sphere Las Vegas residency -- to a James Gang cover, and Walsh loved it.

“Phish Played the Hell Out of My Song”: Joe Walsh Loved Trey Anastasio & Co.’s Cover of “Walk Away” at Sphere Las Vegas (Watch)

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.

We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.

Please stand by for more.

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

Two hooded figures with lamps approach a moonlit, isolated cottage. A woman answers the door. We have come for the child, says the hooded figure So soon? she asks It is time, says the hooded figure. The woman is distraught. We should never have got him a library card! What is done cannot be undone, says the hooded figure We couldn’t see the harm! We just wanted him to enjoy reading! For most, it ends there, says the hooded figure, turning away and walking into the wilderness Oh lord, What have I done! says the woman, the child walks past her and out into the darkness with them. Do not cry mother. I am a writer now.

my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

if you're interested, I wrote about last night's Peter Wolf gig in Detroit: jukeboxgraduate.com/peter-wolf-t...

It really is something. I feel like I can hear the urgent vitality and flexibility of his voice as I never had.

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12 Fantastic Merle Haggard Covers – Good Country April 6 was both Merle Haggard’s birthday and the 10-year anniversary of his death. In recognition, we’ve collected 12 great 21st century covers of his songs.

In honor of both Merle Haggard's 4/6 birthday, and also the tenth anniversary of his death, I picked a dozen 21st c. covers of Haggard songs for Good Country. (Think of this as a companion to the 20th c.-only list I did last week for No Fences Review, link to that one in this one)

Thank you for posting!

Scientists Finally Solved The Roanoke Colony Mystery - After 400 Years YouTube video by First Humans

Oh! Well, this concise video sums up recent research, and it's all very convincing and satisfying: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUc3...

this is, without exaggeration, the single greatest piece of journalism of the past ten years.

Microblogging services down? Try Big Blogs instead

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Revealing Susanna Clarke's The Bishop of Durham Attempts to Surrender the City - Reactor A bewitching story set 700 years before the events of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.

We are thrilled to reveal the cover for Susanna Clarke's illustrated short story The Bishop of Durham Attempts to Surrender the City! Set 700 years before the events of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, this enchanting new tale arrives October 20, 2026 from @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social

Well-played, @zeit.de and Ben Wiseman.

my relatives who grew up getting smacked around by the nuns in Catholic school are reading this and breathing into a paper bag

So put down your phone and pick up a book!

25 years ago today 💔

In memory Jeffrey Ross Hyman, better known as Joey Ramone, singer and songwriter of the punk rock band Ramones, who passed away far too soon at the age of 49 on April 15, 2001, at New York Presbyterian Hospital.

#punkrock #joeyramone #ramones #history #punkrockhistory #otd

Her reaction got me to buy her "Samurai". I'm reading it now. (Will always buy your books.)

"He is a rage-addled dimwit with a savantic gift for manipulating lesser fools and a vulnerability to manipulation by men who are similarly vicious but more capable" www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/04/righ...

I subscribed back then and remember this.

The Grass is Always Greener Guess who turned up this morning, after going out into his field with his friends (he snuck back while I was finishing tidying their bedroom)?  Yes, I fed him and yes, I’ve realised I’v…

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The track system calls.

#myshetland #shetlandislands #shetland #shetlandponies #shetlandpony #TrackSystem #laminitis #LaminitisPrevention

All autistic people are time lords!!

Honestly what a takeaway. "This bighearted curious emotional person must be autistic or neurodivergent!"

It's Black Maternal Health Week, and my office is releasing a guide on the rights of pregnant women.

In Massachusetts, the rate of life-threatening complications during labor among Black women is twice the rate for white women.

Here's some other facts you might not know 🧵

Feels simultaneously more iconic than the flipping-the-bird shot and the not dissimilar Ben Affleck meme fifty years later.

Trump just lost the war in Iran SFGATE columnist Drew Magary unpacks the ceasefire between the US and Iran.

As of this morning, the nation of Iran continues to kick Donald Trump’s ass. www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

I’d wag my butt if I was greeted this way too