Nate DiMeo

I guess the metaphor got too heavy.

Billy Joel voice

To clarify, this is a dumb joke about the movie, “Fjord,” which I found beautiful to look at but dumb and boring, not a dumb joke about Bjork, who is a beautiful genius.

if millennials could afford homes this wouldnt be a problem but this is going to hit the generation like a truck

More like Bjord

Luv 2 walk around the neighborhood.

“Never heard a more beautiful podcast than The Memory Palace.” - Jesus of Nazareth.

Saw a Mercedes with the license plate “COVID”

I just saw a digital ad bus stop at which a person was sleeping. It was for Polymarket. It was offering up as an example of the exciting things you can bet on on their platform, how many millions of Americans will receive SNAP benefits this year.

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

I’m giving a talk at the Mütter Museum tomorrow, October 8, and cannot tell you how excited I am! For the past few years, I’ve been working on a book on the American freak show for @onesignalbks.bsky.social, and this is the first public peek at what I’ve been up to 🎪 muttermuseum.org/events/meet-...

(raises gavel) Merritt Wever is America's best actor. (drops gavel)

I think this is completely true, and it is leaving shows like mine and shows that have documentary style production, totally by the wayside. It has made not just discovery/new audience growth challenging, it’s made maintenance challenging as the business infrastructure pivots too.

Driving around San Diego at night listening to old Gravity Records tracks the way God intended.

@jamieloftus.bsky.social has always known about Alcoholics Anonymous. As a kid, she loved the album where her dad kept all his AA chips. Imbued in those little chips is a hidden history of America’s relationship to gender, religion, and morality. Listen now 👉 https://bit.ly/4fNZhPW

Poway, California. What if Backrooms but a whole town?

As a Red Sox fan from Rhode Island I’d like to point out that you can’t spell Cam Schlittler without Hitler Chats

Literally risking the Paper Clip Maximizer scenario for the promise of super Clippy.

What a breakdown in democracy that we’ve ceded control of AI to tech sociopaths, an amoral marketplace, all manner of grifters up and down and in and outside of government, while the citizenry is just left to sit around and watch Pandora’s Unboxing Video.

He imposed Shania Law

The Memory Palace, pivoting to audio since 2008. Here's the latest episode. thememorypalace.us/the-last-game/

Jim Morrison/Riders on the Storm Voice: 🎵 Taylor Frankie Paul 🎵

Saw Big Thief again on Saturday in Ojai. Among the many things I loved about it was that her guitar tone on her solo in Simulation Swarm was, like, wicked sick. The sound of chrome-plated Nerds Ropes.

I've never read a book about writing because, I guess, I felt like I don't need some other voice in my head getting on me about writing but I did read Annie Dillard's "On Writing" which doesn't count because it is about being a person in such a profound way you will want to go off and write.

You want your world-conquering sports hero to have better things to do with their time than lure people into financial disaster. defector.com/lebron-james...

A horse is a horse Of course of course Unless you’ve been forced By a horse of course If so of course you can become The bureau’s Mr. Fed

Here's the latest episode of The Memory Palace, a podcast.

The Beekeeper 2: the Legend of Ulee’s Gold

Roger gets it

Well, I guess the old HOMES Great Lake mnemonic can just be swapped out for SHAME.

Bridge Over Jamiroquai

I’ll accept the notion that AI art is a kind of folk art but I won’t like it. There are other ways to make art. Big Quilt or the Yarn Lobby aren’t out here trying to destroy all other art.

When your small community theater is doing it right j tx ok

At the Hollywood night market where there’s a deep house track that mixes Billie Jean, The Power by Snap!, and the I Have a Dream speech.

How about instead they prepare for war against Republicans? Or corruption? Or inflation? Or war itself? Or pollution? Or fascistic police squads? Or climate change? Corporate tax cheats? Anything other than fellow Democrats trying in modestly different ways than is your ideal to make things better?

Everytime I return to the east coast I’m outraged anew that sports doesn’t start at the civilized hour of 4:30.

If you live in Philadelphia, I'm teaching a free class (with free stickers!!) on how to score a baseball game at Val's Lesbian bar next tuesday! Please come!

Things I and friends have done to calm an angry abusive man from further escalating and killing us or our children: -Smiled -Kept normal schedules in order not to trigger a fight -Appeased with kind acts (cooking, cleaning, favors) -Forced friendly tones and words

If there’s one thing United States senators cannot abide, it’s egotism.

My Odyssey and Iliad translations are available as audiobooks, read/ performed by very talented real people: Claire Danes and Audra MacDonald. They do a much better job than the robots! www.audible.com/pd/The-Iliad...

When there are people who have reveled in wielding power of you, who spent their lives making sure they stayed in power so they could do that, all you have to do—literally, all you have in your power to do—is laugh. Don’t let anyone shame you for saying good riddance.

Sounds like the evil version of the Tooth Fairy

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