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Oct 18, 2023: Could Jordan actually be busted? Do I dare to hope that pos is smacked down? I do. I do hope.
Oct 17, 2023: How many votes before the election-denying, sexual-assault ignoring, true believer Jordan is the new Speaker of the House? I’m betting six.
Oct 16, 2023: The most annoying responses on X were along the lines of “we don’t need math, we can actually read Shakespeare and see how good he is.” This is the …
Oct 15, 2023: About to start the final episode of Season 2 of Foundation. It’s been two seasons and Empire has essentially been unscathed. The writing is two …
Oct 13, 2023: Anyone who wants to “get” the bass, whether in rock or elsewhere, should listen to good jazz…and not for the solos. But to …
Oct 12, 2023: 📺 Noted Video → One of Norm's Last Live Standup Sets (Full Show)
Oct 11, 2023: I know we can’t have nice things, but I miss the ability to “Like” a post in a way visible to the creator (don’t care about it …
Oct 11, 2023: I’d hoped making it to the age my mom likely would have been dead from natural causes anyway would help me break from the weight of my responsibility. …
Oct 10, 2023: I’m so tired of the pointless “theater kid” description of musician, which is at the far end of the spectrum of being about the …
Oct 9, 2023: I’m sure the same Right-wingers who are ecstatic about being able to derail aid to Ukraine are equally resolute against providing aid to Israel, …
Oct 9, 2023: Positive thinking BS: “Dream It, Believe It, Achieve It” as if one of those things is not distinctly not like the others.
Oct 9, 2023: Billy Corgan is insufferable. JFC. Love some of the Pumpkins' music, but if I never hear his pontificating again it will be too soon.
Oct 9, 2023: Frasier has re-entered the building, though we’re not sure why. source 📺
Oct 9, 2023: Finished reading: Red Queen by Juan Gómez-Jurado 📚 — a quick, action/suspense mélange of Holmes, Starling and Lisander in Spain. The characters …
Oct 9, 2023: Finished reading: Blood Music by Greg Bear 📚 — I’d read this years ago. It was interesting to return to, given where technology has (and …
Oct 9, 2023: In other words, the triviality (and to a lesser degree the number) of posts here is probably inversely proportional to the health of my state of mind.
Oct 9, 2023: Why do I bother posting mostly pointless minutiae here that no one reads? Because it’s one way not to think about the other, darker, things. And …
Oct 9, 2023: Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend remains one of my favorite podcasts. But Matt Gourley is becoming insufferable. He used to interject himself just …
Oct 8, 2023: 📺 Noted Video → Sufjan Stevens - Should Have Known Better (Live at Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, 2016)
Oct 8, 2023: I hope the people I love understand that my still being here is, and will be, stronger evidence of that love than anything else can possibly be.
Oct 7, 2023: 📺 Noted Video → Cannonball Adderley with George Duke, Walter Booker and Roy McCurdy Colorized live 31.10.1971
Oct 6, 2023: 📺 Noted Video → Demetri Martin - If I
Oct 5, 2023: On faculty accountability (or lack thereof) From a long ago email, discussing participation in a faculty development workshop: I know we are providing something of value. I just continue to …
Oct 5, 2023: I know nothing about Jon Fosse’s work, but I guess I can forgive him for being Karl Ove Knausgård’s teacher now. That said, it is beyond …
Oct 5, 2023: Identity politics not only isn’t wrong, it’s vital. It just needs to be fused inextricably to character politics.
Oct 5, 2023: Heavyweight is back, emphasis on the heavy. Wow.
Oct 4, 2023: It’s really difficult to try to maintain an individual standard of excellence when buried in an institution that doesn’t value it. I am …
Oct 4, 2023: Kevin McCarthy is a duplicitous dullard. But before we enjoy his downfall too much, remember that it’s quite likely we get a similarly …
Oct 3, 2023: 📺 Noted Video → Art Ensemble Of Chicago: Great Black Music "Ancient To The Future" (Documentary, 1981)
Oct 1, 2023: Polished up by AI, apparently, but the sound is incredible and really gets at what they sounded like live. Only four months before Cobain died. Not …
Sep 29, 2023: I will miss the vast catalog available on Netflix DVD. The great tragedy of the streaming age, in movies and music, is the lost potential to truly …
Sep 29, 2023: Man, The Complete Freddie Hubbard Blue Note & Impulse Studio Sessions goes hard. So much good music, so well sequenced, and remastered …
Sep 28, 2023: So much bad news about Seattle/Tacoma lately: MacPherson’s closing, ALMA closing, Chinatown Night Market closing, a parade of restaurants …
Sep 26, 2023: For posterity: I predict Robert Wright will be clearly on the Right by 2025.
Sep 25, 2023: An education podcast blurb ending with a promise to explain why “Audrey Watters is the GOAT” is a hard pass from me. Never understood the hype about …
Sep 25, 2023: Grace Potter and Joe Satriani cover Cortez the Killer🎵 This is a really fantastic cover. All the soul, all the groove, and a soulful Joe Satriani.
Sep 25, 2023: The Morning Show is the first TV or movie I’ve seen that includes the onset of the pandemic in a (mostly) realistic way. It reminds me how hard …
Sep 22, 2023: Dolly Parton - What’s Up? (feat. Linda Perry) has no right being as good as it is! 🎵
Sep 22, 2023: Apparently my new hobby, approaching a part-time job, is managing my digital music collection. So many rips to better tag and organize! 🎵
Sep 22, 2023: The discovery of ancient wooden logs in the banks of a river in Zambia has changed archaeologists' understanding of ancient human life. Researchers …
Sep 21, 2023: This one is hitting hard on both dimensions, today. Depression and chronic pain in a terrible feedback spiral.
Sep 18, 2023: Tweets : Twitter :: xcretions : X
Sep 18, 2023: Today’s article from Ted Gioia 10 New Albums I’m Recommending Right Now is worth the subscription cost all by itself. I’m happy to …
Sep 17, 2023: Dropping an epub into Readwise Reader with its sync to Obsidian has replaced most of my other online—and a lot of my Kindle—reading.
Sep 17, 2023: I would totally pay for (more) for a Strong Songs podcast mailbag episode every month. Love the variety of insights in often unexpected musical …
Sep 15, 2023: Making the Mac: 20 Vintage Apple Ads – PRINT Magazine Seeing these old Apple ads makes me yearn even more for those days, when computers were exciting …
Sep 15, 2023: Finished reading: The Jazz Ear by Ben Ratliff 📚 I love the format of listening to tracks that inspire(d) the artist, unpacking their life, influences, …
Sep 12, 2023: “Pretendian” – that’s a new one to me.
Sep 12, 2023: Sorry, but living in a time of Trump and Musk is definitive proof that things can get worse. It’s not always golden age revisionism.
Sep 12, 2023: I have this weird quirk that when I am dragging between folders, tabs, or windows, I must have the source on the left and the target on the right.
Sep 11, 2023: I broke my “no Substack” subs rule and paid for Ted Gioia’s “The Honest Broker” – No regrets.
Sep 9, 2023: One of the worst weekly (at least) experiences are thinking I should tell X about that” or “I’ll send that link to Y” and then remembering they are …
Sep 9, 2023: I’m afraid to have hope about psychological treatment, but I’m more hopeful about Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy than anything since …
Sep 9, 2023: Winter oolong is, if you have to choose one, the best oolong. Change my mind.
Sep 9, 2023: If you can’t identify the “higher” (or “lower”) quality encoding of a music track, the difference doesn’t exist. …
Sep 6, 2023: Finished reading: Crown and Country: A History of England through the Monarchy by David Starkey 📚 Readable and accessible history that spans from …
Sep 6, 2023: Lossless Audio Conversion and Playback Current audio chain for conversion from lossless (FLAC, usually) to MP3: FLAC file → MediaHuman Audio Converter (Lame MP3 VBR 2 … I don’t …
Sep 6, 2023: If they have evidence against Hunter Biden, and his earlier plea deal is void or doesn’t apply to the alleged crime, then indict him and try …
Sep 5, 2023: A friend told me they just signed up for Twitter, started following some poets and writers—all somewhere on the Left to Far Left—and their …
Aug 31, 2023: 📺 Noted Video → Maria Bamford – 28th Annual OCD Conference Keynote
Aug 31, 2023: Social media transformed the great majority of my friendships into parasocial relationships, thanks to “ambient awareness,” friendship …
Aug 31, 2023: It seems to me that Metacognitive Therapy is the same as mindfulness work. Misguided, straw man-based articles like Five Reasons why MCT and …
Aug 30, 2023: 📺 Noted Video → 鉛筆を大量生産するプロセス。職人たちが作る日本の鉛筆専門工場
Aug 30, 2023: Finished reading: The Lucky Ones by Rachel Cusk 📚 My copy is full of underlining, mostly moments of amazing metaphor, simile, and depiction of the …
Aug 29, 2023: A dual monitor set up with the secondary display on the left is a crime against nature. Or something like that.
Aug 29, 2023: It’s kind of amazing to me how many people want algorithmic book recommendations. My To Read list is organically many times longer than my lifetime! I …
Aug 29, 2023: I have nothing approaching the level of knowledge to do so myself, but I sure wish there were a Song Exploder style podcast focused on jazz. Or maybe …
Aug 28, 2023: Finished reading: The Song of Achilles: A Novel by Madeline Miller 📚 The book deserves all the praise it has received. It’s an enjoyable …
Aug 28, 2023: 🔗 Cool link → Jazz History - YouTube The videos in this series are adapted from a PowerPoint presentation used to teach a course for university jazz …
Aug 28, 2023: 🔗 Cool link → A History of Jazz - YouTube In this podcast I try to tell the story of jazz from it's early beginnings to the modern day, but also …
Aug 28, 2023: 🔗 Cool link → Jazz History 101 - Origins and Development of Jazz Genres Free course on the history of jazz ...more links on Pinboard→
Aug 25, 2023: 🎵 Noted Track: Worship The Whip Worship The Whip Be Your Own Pet Found on Worship The Whip
Aug 25, 2023: As much as I personally love seeing The Mugshot, the prosecution better win because the vile one will raise a LOT of money using it.
Aug 24, 2023: Ionos web hosting jacked the price up by 40% for one of my domains! An increase is OK; that much is ridiculous. So I moved that site to Reclaim …
Aug 21, 2023: 🎵 Noted Track: The Magician The Magician Larry Carlton Found on Strikes Twice
Aug 21, 2023: 🔗 Cool link → ‘Here Begins the Dark Sea’ Review: A Map From the Future In 1460, a Venetian monk illustrated an epic-scale ‘mappa mundi’ that provided …
Aug 21, 2023: 🎵 Noted: Arietis - Remastered 2003/Rudy Van Gelder Edition Arietis - Remastered 2003/Rudy Van Gelder Edition Freddie Hubbard Found on Ready For …
Aug 21, 2023: 🔗 Cool link → 55 Rare Photos Of The U.S.S.R. In The 1960s And 1970s From elegant Russian ballet to impoverished families struggling to sell bread on …
Aug 21, 2023: 🔗 Cool link → 12 Movies That Were Shot, But Never Finished ...more links on Pinboard→
Aug 21, 2023: The second season of Dark Winds is such a letdown. 📺
Aug 21, 2023: 📺 Noted Video → Jazz Icons - Oscar Peterson - Live In '63, '64, '65
Aug 21, 2023: From romantic lunches at eye-watering prices to must-have T-shirts and covetable clutch bags, the humble sprat is having a massive moment Source: …
Aug 20, 2023: Will this be the year Magnus finally wins the Chess World Cup? It’s pretty much the only major title that has eluded him (except the Olympiad, which …
Aug 20, 2023: Here’s the thing, though: I know who Fugazi is. And you will never grow beards because of the xenoestrogens in your plastic water bottles. Don’t be …
Aug 20, 2023: I’m moving most of my streaming audio listening to Tidal, and investigating Qobuz. I like that both pay artists more and have native integration …
Aug 20, 2023: 📺 Noted Video → Hank Mobley Video
Aug 20, 2023: 📺 Noted Video → Hank Mobley N.Y.C 1967 and Holland 1968
Aug 18, 2023: I enjoy Chris Botti’s music, but $100 per ticket, pre-sale price, is…a lot. 🎵
Aug 18, 2023: I, nay we all, need a jazz music app akin to Apple Music Classical. 🎵
Aug 18, 2023: Me, walking around the house with my phone playing like I used to walk around as a kid with a little radio leashed to my wrist. The more things …
Aug 17, 2023: Season 4 of The Crown is really challenging my affections for some of my favorite actresses. 📺
Aug 17, 2023: 📺 Noted Video → World's Not For Me Short Film
Aug 16, 2023: 📺 Noted Video → Sample Breakdown: The Most Iconic Hip-Hop Sample of Every Year (1973-2023)
Aug 16, 2023: Sacking faculty and programs...never the useless administrators Today, like many land-grant universities, WVU sits at the convergence of several cultural and economic tectonic shifts that are working in tandem to …
Aug 16, 2023: 🔗 Cool link → Paul Fairie on X: "A List of Things People Blamed on Jazz 🧵" / X I hate to link to Twitter, but this thread is too fun. ...more links on …
Aug 16, 2023: 🔗 Cool link: Dimitriou's Jazz Alley - Home Every week, this premier west coast club brings the greatest names in jazz to Seattle audiences. ...more …
Aug 16, 2023: 📺 Noted Video → Rick James Dio - "Holy Mary Jane"
Aug 16, 2023: 📺 Noted Video → James Priest - "Electric Sex Machine"
Aug 16, 2023: 🔗 Cool link: Blot – A blogging platform with no interface. https://blot.im/ Turns a folder into a blog automatically. Use your favorite text-editor to write. Text and Markdown files, Word Documents, images, …
Aug 16, 2023: Is it weird that I only write on the recto of notebooks, at least in the normal order of things? I sometimes use the verso for annotations about the …
Aug 16, 2023: Taken together, “GADPY” was seen as a collective triumph, a Good for something that a lot of people understood even by 2009 as being Very Bad – a …
Aug 15, 2023: 📺 Noted Video → Kyle Gordon - Planet of the Bass (feat. DJ Crazy Times & Ms. Biljana Electronica) [Official Video] This song legitimately …
Aug 15, 2023: Currently reading: The Lucky Ones by Rachel Cusk 📚 So far, uneven. She has some remarkable insights and crafts beautiful sentences, but the story arcs …
Aug 15, 2023: Hot for this place!
Aug 15, 2023: Have to agree…this is how the IMDB app should be (and I go back with IMDB to the days of illicitly mirroring the then Cardiff Internet Movie …
Aug 15, 2023: 🎙️ Matt Haughey: I know it’s petty but when you boycott a favorite podcast after it moves exclusively to Spotify for a couple years then learn …
Aug 15, 2023: 🎵 Noted: Miracle Drug Miracle Drug A.C. Newman Found on The Slow Wonder
Aug 14, 2023: The common thread linking these musicians is that they don’t treat “pop music” as a commercial category, but as a discrete musical lineage with its …
Aug 14, 2023: 🎵 Noted: Morning in the Sun Morning in the Sun Rubblebucket Found on Earth Worship
Aug 14, 2023: I always have a book of fiction going while I read various poetry and nonfiction volumes. The question today is: The Lucky Ones (Rachel Cusk) or …
Aug 14, 2023: 🎵 Noted: Noccalula Noccalula Waxahatchee Found on American Weekend
Aug 14, 2023: Camille Dungy and Tiphanie Yanique, who contributed to the book, How We Do It: Black Writers on a Craft," discussed Black identity in the …
Aug 14, 2023: Finished reading: The Church of Dead Girls by Stephen Dobyns 📚 Stephen Dobyns has long been a favorite poet, but I had no idea what to expect from …
Aug 14, 2023: Christopher McCaffery’s guerilla typesetting project to republish Infinite Jest as 3 portable volumes, and with per-page footnotes. Get it while it …
Aug 14, 2023: The big question: do I watch the new seasons of Only Murders in the Building or just give in to my distaste for the extremely talented, but personally …
Aug 12, 2023: Looking back at some mailing list archives from the later 90s through the mid-2000s is making me sad. I used to be so much smarter!
Aug 11, 2023: At least once a day I am struck by how little folks understand about chronic depression and suicidal ideation unless they’ve experienced it …
Aug 11, 2023: A sensible ruling in Huntley v. Instagram. Plaintiffs argued that Instagram embeds infringed on copyright by allowing their photos to be displayed on …
Aug 11, 2023: What most Substack writers don’t seem to get is that, on their own, almost none of them are worth even $5 per month, much less more. They rely …
Aug 11, 2023: It feels like music (and film/tv) criticism needs to evolve to fit the new(ish) context of abundance vs scarcity. The value of negative reviews has …
Aug 7, 2023: Regina Spektor at Château Ste. Michelle on Saturday. She was as excellent, charming, and beautiful as always! 🎵
Aug 7, 2023: I watched most of the AI x Education | Conference—some live, some recorded—and what an underwhelming experience. I’m literally not …
Aug 7, 2023: You can trace my adjustment to my new iPhone by the slowly diminishing number of accidental screenshots in my photo-stream.
Aug 5, 2023: No Doubt > Gwen Stefani solo by a great distance. I have spoken. 🎵
Aug 2, 2023: Thanks, @pratik for your thoughts on the Arc browser. I’ve been giving it another go and having a better experience. I needed to spend more time …
Aug 2, 2023: Mariana Allesandri says Plato never explains who the “puppeteers” are in the allegory of the cave. Really!? The entire metaphor hinges on …
Aug 1, 2023: The claim that one’s professed religious belief can be set aside in writing/theorizing about the self, freedom, and authenticity in modernity …
Aug 1, 2023: Also: I don’t care if something is wholly or partially created by an AI/LLM. I usually find it better not to know much about human authors and …
Aug 1, 2023: If the acceleration in nostril hair growth continues to track with age, I could be in real trouble.
Aug 1, 2023: It disturbs me that “AI”’s use of public texts is convincing folks who are usually on what I believe to be the correct side of Fair …
Aug 1, 2023: Returning to using micro.blog…but I am steeply limiting my time to preserve my sanity. No one cares, but I note this for the record.
Jul 31, 2023: 🎵 Noted: Just A Memory Just A Memory ODESZA, Regina Spektor Found on A Moment Apart
Jul 28, 2023: 🎵 Noted: vampire vampire Olivia Rodrigo Found on vampire
Jul 26, 2023: 🎵 Noted: Let Down Let Down Radiohead Found on OK Computer
Jul 25, 2023: 🔗 Cool link: Typography Manual by Mike Mai https://mikemai.net/typography-manual/ A set of rules that will improve your typography 10x. ...more links on Pinboard→
Jul 25, 2023: 🔗 Cool link: Typographica Library https://library.typographica.org/ A digital bookshelf of type and lettering resources, brought to you by Typographica. ...more links on Pinboard→
Jul 25, 2023: 🔗 Cool link: Cool Dad Raising Daughter On Media That Will Put Her Entirely Out Of Touch With Her Generation https://www.theonion.com/cool-dad-raising-daughter-on-media-that-will-put-her-en-1819572981 RENTON, WA—Local man Paul Campbell confirmed Saturday he …
Jul 25, 2023: 🔗 Cool link: Infinite Mac https://infinitemac.org/ This should be called an infinite nostalgia machine ...more links on Pinboard→
Jul 22, 2023: 📺 Noted Video → Animation vs. Math
Jul 22, 2023: Taking a break from social software until I can figure out A) if I need a web presence at all outside of work, and B) how to use it in a healthy way. …
Jul 21, 2023: What’s the reason for not being able to include an image with an @ reply in a micro.blog post? @manton
Jul 21, 2023: For a moment, I thought this was a connected sequence and I was baffled and laughing.
Jul 20, 2023: I rarely—extremely rarely!—post selfies, and now two in one week…but this appropriately displays my sad aging against the backdrop …
Jul 20, 2023: Trying to write my way out. A losing battle, as are all fights with ourselves.
Jul 19, 2023: 🎵 Noted: Wrong End Of The Spear Wrong End Of The Spear The Wallflowers Found on Exit Wounds
Jul 19, 2023: 🎵 Noted: Basement Tapes Basement Tapes Semisonic Found on You're Not Alone
Jul 19, 2023: Reading: Opinion Men Are Lost. Here’s a Map Out of the Wilderness We can find ways to work with the distinctive traits and powerful stories that …
Jul 17, 2023: Games I’m convinced no one actually likes but merely claim to in order to torture others: Clue and Monopoly. There are more, but this is the list.
Jul 15, 2023: Six was a lot of fun. Short (no intermission needed), energetic, and funny. Highly recommend it!
Jul 15, 2023: 🎵 Noted: Punisher Punisher Phoebe Bridgers Found on Punisher
Jul 15, 2023: 🎵 Noted: Need 2 Need 2 Pinegrove Found on Everything So Far
Jul 13, 2023: My once every three years or so selfie. I’ve gotten so old!
Jul 11, 2023: TIL: 14 years before the Titanic sank, a fictional story was written by a man named Morgan Robertson. In the story, the ship was described as the …
Jul 11, 2023: Reading The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams In between bouts with Paradise Lost. Excellent read so far! Love the depiction of the OED’s …
Jul 11, 2023: The casual barbarism demonstrated by so many Americans tacitly and overtly cheering on prison rape and abuse is appalling. No one, no matter how …
Jul 11, 2023: It’s astounding how much more I rely on—or at least desire—routine as I get older. Sometimes down to tiny details. This could not be …
Jul 10, 2023: Either Spotify got caught in a loop or something weird happened with the connection to last.fm. I mean, I love Lana, but even I don’t listen to …
Jul 10, 2023: Halfway through Paradise Lost, and it resonates so much more than it did with my 25-year-old skim reading self. I appreciate the poetry …
Jul 10, 2023: It feels somewhat antithetical to the micro.blog ethos, but I’m starting to wonder if—with a bit more grasp of how the templating/design …
Jul 10, 2023: One massive advantage Threads has, for me, over Mastodon, Micro.blog, etc., is that the artistic and writing communities I missed most are already …
Jul 8, 2023: Note to self: never read the comments.
Jul 8, 2023: Some of the farmers' market haul: hot sauces from hotbabe, Ukrainian pvlov and salad, and cards by mariamademe. Not pictured…fresh Rainier …
Jul 7, 2023: That moment in the file archive when you find something special.
Jul 7, 2023: 🔗 Cool link: Boring Report https://www.boringreport.org/app "aims to remove sensationalism from the news and makes it boring to read. In today's world, catchy headlines and …
Jul 7, 2023: 🔗 Cool link: Legible News https://legiblenews.com/ Intentionally "boring," simple, lightweight news. “Legible News takes a different approach with the news: Educational …
Jul 7, 2023: Taylor Swift’s new album might have dropped…
Jul 7, 2023: I wrote in a letter this morning that my current life state is like an old computer booting up with a newer (but not contemporary) OS. Then, mixing …
Jul 5, 2023: New 📚 Day: Letters of Ted Hughes. I’ve read bits and bobs here and there and it was well worth it! Brilliant poet, whatever his now-irrelevant …
Jul 5, 2023: In theory I understand those who protest their words getting sucked into the LLM maw. In reality (emotionally and practically), I have no sympathy for …
Jul 4, 2023: Twitter will lurch on for a while. Reddit even longer. My future is retrograde—forums, RSS, newsletters—and progressive—community …
Jul 4, 2023: 🔗 Cool link: Board Game Arena https://boardgamearena.com/welcome "...the largest boardgame table in the world. No download necessary - play directly from your web browser. With …
Jul 4, 2023: Today’s tea: 2019 Gabpu Maocha from Liquid Proust. Tastes of chocolate and fruit.
Jul 4, 2023: Patriotism baffles me. I don’t get it (nor do I begrudge it). It just doesn’t compute. There are good things and bad things, trending …
Jul 4, 2023: 🔗 Cool link: Economic inequality cannot be explained by individual bad choices, study finds https://phys.org/news/2023-06-economic-inequality-individual-bad-choices.html Big surprise. ...more links on Pinboard→
Jul 4, 2023: Wilson Creek Beach, Klamath CA. The southern Oregon and far Northern California coasts are my favorite place in the US.
Jul 3, 2023: Finished reading: Gallows View by Peter Robinson. The first Inspector Banks novel. Not great, but I understand it gets better. The dated attitudes …
Jul 3, 2023: Another general solution for email subs, regardless of what is used to consume the resulting RSS: Kill the newsletter. It’s been solid for me! …
Jul 2, 2023: this is more or less my hope too. More intentional communities as they used to be, but energized by selective use of 2.0 technologies. …
Jul 2, 2023: Happy, hot pups. Willow Bea Arthur and Ruthie Belle Ginsberg 🐶
Jul 2, 2023: Apple Music Classical is a sweet app. I wish there were something similar for jazz. I miss my meticulous database of thousands of CDs tracking songs, …
Jul 1, 2023: Sometimes it’s the little gestures…
Jul 1, 2023: 🔗 Cool link: NativLang https://www.youtube.com/@NativLang "This is where I share animated stories as I learn from & about people living on a planet full of languages and …
Jul 1, 2023: Interesting Pop Pantheon episode on Lana Del Rey and the LDR project with guest Kathy Landoli (though the host suffers a bit from my aforementioned …
Jul 1, 2023: I’m an avid podcast listener, but nothing is worse—not bad production, confused hosts, or irksome speech patterns—than those who …
Jul 1, 2023: I stan Lana Del Rey so hard. Exquisitely imperfect. No apologies. 🎵
Jul 1, 2023: The artist’s death is (or will be) the only thing that lets me “separate the art from the artist” in many cases.
Jun 30, 2023: ForwardDomain.net is a cool service that allows you to redirect domains, including paths and URL GET data using only DNS entries with your registrar. …
Jun 30, 2023: My creative output being so meager (when I haven’t burned it, sometimes literally), it remains a boost to see something of mine shared or built …
Jun 30, 2023: I can’t believe we are stuck with this Supreme Court for decades. It really is a terribly bad joke. At this point, for mental health reasons, …
Jun 30, 2023: Apologies if there is any strange noise for my social.coop Mastodon followers. I am attempting to migrate to micro.blog as my miocro/social hub, …
Jun 29, 2023: The current chaotic poetic choir in my head, some since I was a teen: #Keats, #Hopkins, #Berryman, Stanford, Blake, Clifton, Szymborska, Larkin, …
Jun 29, 2023: Can the hellscape that is contemporary web search ever change for the better given the incumbent advantages? Not to be one of those “back in the …
Jun 29, 2023: I’m quitting Reddit for much the same reason I quit Twitter: both actively disdain and mistreat the users whose community and effort generates …
Jun 29, 2023: A Pilot Legance (not a typo) fountain pen I rediscovered in my obscene stash of pens. And a pro photo of the same make and model. I believe these were …
Jun 28, 2023: This is the right* take on Meta’s imminent entry into the Fediverse. *Where “right” means I totally agree.
Jun 27, 2023: Paradise Lost is astonishing. I wasn’t ready for it in grad school, and it took most of the first book to get comfortable with the syntax, …
Jun 26, 2023: 🔗 Cool link: the html review https://thehtml.review/ "The html review is an annual journal of literature made to exist on the web." ...more links on Pinboard→
Jun 26, 2023: 🔗 Cool link: Phil http://www.keiranking.com/apps/phil/ a free crossword maker ...more links on Pinboard→
Jun 26, 2023: 🎵 Noted: It's a Shame About Ray - Remastered It's a Shame About Ray - Remastered The Lemonheads Found on It's a Shame About Ray (Expanded Edition)
Jun 26, 2023: Noted Track: Alaska by Pinegrove Alaska Pinegrove Found on 11:11
Jun 26, 2023: Noted Track: Problems by Pinegrove Problems Pinegrove Found on Everything So Far
Jun 26, 2023: Seeking the death penalty for the suspected murderer of the Idaho college students isn’t a win. The death penalty is a barbarism that …
Jun 26, 2023: I’m still amazed when I remember (or rediscover) how seriously some folks take astrology.
Jun 25, 2023: L.E.A.D. 2.5 Word Processor A flea market find. When I told the vendor I kinda-sorta collect pencils, he was mystified. I showed him the pencils I happened to have in my case…and …
Jun 25, 2023: L.E.A.D. 2.5 Word Processor A flea market find. When I told the vendor I kinda-sorta collect pencils, he was mystified. I showed him the pencils I happened to have in my …
Jun 25, 2023: Noted Track: Mice by Billie Marten Mice Billie Marten Found on Feeding Seahorses by Hand
Jun 23, 2023: ChatGPT is Me ChatGPT does more or less (mostly more) just what I did for a good bit of my university days, grad and undergrad.
Jun 20, 2023: 📺 Noted Video → Caroline Polachek - Full Performance (Live on KEXP) This performance is simply stunning. That voice! 🎵