Carter Baxter

Not many people know it, but the B-side to the 1984 Purple Rain single "I Would Die 4 U" was "U Have Died of Dysentery" kottke.org/26/10/prince...

I see we’re just gonna cram all the scandalous stuff in here at the end of the week

These are not very bright guys and things got out of hand, Charlie Brown

Angst in My Pants in my pants Sparks www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwUV...

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I lasted 5 hours in an embroidery factory. I don't know how to work a sewing machine. I don't know what I was doing there. I was completely, wholly unqualified for the job. Kind of like the fired lady.

The future of freelance web work.

@suddenlygreg.com I thought you should be aware that this week starts the first ever Fat Marmot week.

Google Maps thought they had me, but I had the 4Runner. This has turned into quite the road trip

Today I coined "Maniputainment" to describe Youtube, Instagram, etc, and I'm quite proud of myself.

Just saw someone say, of an AI prompt, "The only thing i would suggest is to prompt that it remove all bias in its responses" and I have so many questions.

Platner's had the other shoe drop so many times he's now buried in shoes. It’s a whole lot of shoes.

Happy DOGE Deletion Day to all who celebrate www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

You can tell I'm not really a jazz guy because I'm just now discovering Bill Evans, but I do love a new musical discovery and this is great stuff. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv2G...

An awful lot of things are terrible but not this cat.

Let’s run up Older Child’s numbers.

Took this Trek #bike for its first post-rebuild cruise tonight. It didn't do too bad!

I'm sure all these people will make nothing but good decisions with all that money they'll get from a $1.7B slush fund.

For no particular reason, here's a small playlist of songs that go "woo" open.spotify.com/playlist/6Wt...

Willie Nelson covering Pearl Jam’s Just Breathe with his son Lukas. Beautiful. I never even liked the song before Willie did it.

Remembering this morning why I haven’t flown Delta in more than a decade.

Tim Burton's Jabberwocky.

And also, that may be the worst headline I've ever seen. (In case you missed it, Cornell's president drove his car into a crowd of students. They weren't "bumped" by some autonomous car.)

Slightly diminish a book A small group of loosely affiliated dunces.

Slightly diminish a book The Sweater Weather of Our Discontent

Ralph Bakshi’s Mighty Mouse was completely bonkers and started a whole generation of animators who got famous in the 90s.

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Benicio Del Toro in the Usual Suspects. Took a nothing role, did something weird and wonderful with it, and upstaged the rest of the cast.

This feels like a good day to just listen to Ziggy Stardust on repeat. www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9tP...

One thing I've found AI to be particularly good at: Surfacing the laziest, most superficial, banal version of whatever might be called an insight. So if I was thinking I had an insight and AI parrots it back to me.... keep working. It ain't there yet.

This isn’t a new Gilded Age, although it kind of smells like it… this is the Pyrite Age.

Most of my optimism hinges on how much people dislike bullshit.

I think someday historians will look back on this as “The Pyrite Age”

Doing more to promote fuel efficiency than any president in 50 years.

I wrote a thing about the craft, humanity, our new robot overlords and The Artisanal Web another.rodeo/artisanal-web/

Auto mechanic/drinker and hell-if-I-know, because family trees often have gnarled roots. And also it’s a weird question and why are you asking?

I have a hard time understanding how Facebook can blow 70 billion+ on VR and AI but can't find a few pennies to build a web site that works.

I bought another raggedy old bike

Most days I think Kansas is a much better place than you’d expect. Today is not one of those days. Today Kansas showed itself as petty, mean and stupid. You can’t undo that.

The weather is drunk. 69 and snowy? Makes sense.

You can lead a horse to water, but he's still going to want to put a "Quick sync on equine hydration" meeting on your calendar.

Moe, Larry, Curly and Shemp. Nobody likes Shemp.

What the hell, Amazon. That's messed up.

A Super Bowl without memorable commercials or first downs…

This morning as I tried not to trip over the cat, I dropped the coffee container on the floor, spilling the whole thing. As I gazed upon the coffee bean blast radius I thought, “well, there’s a hundred bucks gone.”

I had to remind myself today that Brett Ratner was NOT, in fact, the inspiration for Mark Ratner from Fast Times at Ridgemont high. So there's that.

By the end of the day we’ll be told the man was trying to assault ICE officers with the pavement he was laying on.