Interesting piece from @hbr.org that fails to consider the scenario we lay out in an @theatlantic.com piece coming out today: the CEO doesn't just engage in political messaging but builds an entire alternative informational ecosystem to support his politics.
hbr.org/2026/04/when...
Rep Sanchez: You're spending taxpayer dollars to drink milk shirtless in a hot tub with Kid Rock and, somehow, you think that's a better public health message than informing the public about the importance of vaccines.
The Welsh guitarist's fingerstyle playing drones with a haunted quality, but her flurry of bends, slides and chord clusters rip open the firmament. n.pr/3QJ7OJo
there is zero excuse for this
(45) Chopin: 7 Préludes - Beth Levin, pianist - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxrO...
Does this mean that Rod Dreher has to move to Belarus?
Does he know the US has an extradition treaty with Albania?
Funny, I specialize in discovering jazz recordings about sixty years after they were relevant. Up to Miles Davis's second quintet.
I specialize in discovering bands about twenty years after they were relevant. Up to White Stripes now.
I just bought a 2027 Chevy Bolt like the one in the photo for under $30K. Too bad it's the only small ( <170 in. length), affordable EV available in the US right now.
Some of the new music that's been in my ears in the first few months of 2026. soundsoutoftime.substack.com/p/new-listen...
Good Morning From The Drummer, My Friends. James Gadson RIP.
I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake By A Horse Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food. I am thinking I would like to try cake. Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape. Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy. Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much. I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on." Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …
The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me.
It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."
This points to a much more serious problem than the stunt itself: the MAGA-fication of the military. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
I read it yesterday in a single sitting. So powerful. Congrats!
Excited to get this new chapbook by @nyurtsaba.bsky.social, with whom I share Lemko heritage on one side of my family.
Thanks so much to Bulb Culture Collective for bringing this poem back to life.
He must’ve missed that line about it being easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle.
Friends,
My chapbook HUTSULKA, a series of feminist odes about the war in Ukraine, is still available for preorder from! I hope you'll purchase a copy: riverpawpress.com/index.php/hu.... Please continue to stand with Ukraine and support Ukrainian/Ukrainian diaspora literature!
Michel de Montaigne would be amused.
Thanks. I started a free trial of Notesnook, which is working well so far.
Let’s all wish a very Happy Birthday to the great Charles Lloyd who is 88 years old today!
Listen to the legendary saxophonist’s most recent Blue Note album “Figure In Blue”: charleslloyd.lnk.to/FigureInBlue
Shop music & merch on the Blue Note Store: store.bluenote.com/collections/...
What subjective personal embodied attitudinal multi-layered tone in human writing is for.
Good luck AI....
Any suggestions for replacing @evernote.bsky.social ? I'm a longtime user and don't want to move, but I'm not getting value commensurate with a 90%+ annual price increase.
Congratulations to San Francisco for inventing the long-prophesied banana that costs ten dollars sfstandard.com/2026/03/11/g...
Richard Hell has lived in the same rent-stabilized East Village apartment for over 50 years. He's got some great books.
I had a terrific conversation with @tanveernaseer.bsky.social about when corporate leaders should address political and social issues. This question is timely in light of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's conflict with the Pentagon. tanveernaseer.com/leadership-b...
I found assembling this list MUCH harder than the Blue Note list, because Prestige’s catalog is so much bigger and I did not spend as much time parsing it when I was younger as I did Blue Note.
OK, here's the list:
Opening for an LA band called The Stevenson Ranch Davidians, which is the best band name since Brian Jonestown Massacre.
