Peter Baird

Much better Texas song:

Do yourselves a favor and give Theo Kandel a listen.

So much great new music this week. Ive never had 11 tunes make the list before.

When Julia Curlee was in the CIA, she was guided by the motto “Service before politics. Country before self.” The Trump White House needed her—until her gender identity became public. On Radio Atlantic, she tells her story to Adam Harris: theatln.tc/aP7x2DgM

I really do not want his name on that building. www.npr.org/2026/08/13/n...

Soft goods going up.

@mattcameron.bsky.social The Alito book arrived Tuesday, but I’m going back to my parents’ 1962 copy of Beard for a little appetizer first.

I'm not even american @openargs.bsky.social @seriouspod.bsky.social @mattcameron.bsky.social @jenessaseymour.bsky.social

@openargs.bsky.social have you seen Accommodation Nation in The Atlantic? Instantly put me in mind of Jenessa and the Patent Bar. I’d gift share the article but I don’t want to promote it.

“Students should learn that good and evil exist, and that human beings have the capacity and duty to choose good.” From The Phoenix Declaration and the wonderful folks at Heritage Foundation, who want you to know they will be issuing guidance on just where the dividing line between the two is.

I kind of sense that the lesson tonight for the Democratic Party isn’t whether to run radical or progressive or moderate candidates as much as it is to run candidates who listen to their voters and reflect their concerns. And maybe open up and fund a few hundred field offices in reliably red areas.

Apparently I’m not the first to notice this, but Honda EVs sound like the Bb6 on the vocal opening of Bohemian Rhapsody when they drive by.

@kenwhite.bsky.social Je Suis Le Frog Popehat. I am riding this til I die.

@kenwhite.bsky.social 30-50 feral hogs hat

Re: THE ABUNDANCE DELUSION in The Atlantic today. Mike Solana takes all his smarmy anti-woke/Peter Thiel/Founders Fund vitriol and spews it on the only people in the country trying to effect the changes he advocates. Luigi Left? Go fuck yourself.

@kenwhite.bsky.social disgustingly infer something nefarious hat (even though it should be “imply”)

Your Dad, waiting for you all to get in the damn car. #FathersDay

Thousands of demonstrators in Ventura.

@kenwhite.bsky.social goddammit I was about to say City of Criminals Hat.

“A big celebration of the country’s armed forces…could familiarize civilians with their armed forces and, in doing so, draw talented young Americans to serve.” —The Atlantic I just can’t shake the mental image of Brezhnev smiling at T-62s passing in front of Lenin’s portrait.

Pomsky Local 711 is ready to negotiate today’s treat/activity contract.

“The national-security system of the West is led by two men who cannot be trusted to defend America’s allies—and who deeply sympathize with the world’s most aggressive dictator.” —David Frum

Oxnard winter berries. Shown actual size.

Using Mattel’s My First Protest kit.

From deep in my childhood I remember my mother dashing off Debussy’s fiendishly difficult Dr. Gradus ad Parnassum like she was doing a crossword. Turns out her copy of Children’s Corner is a 1908 original edition.

EVIDENCE THAT COLERIDGE WAS HIGH WHEN HE WROTE KUBLA KHAN #1 Rhyming “fertile ground” with “girdled round” (lines 6/7).

Artists "keel over like canaries in poison coal mines long before more robust types realize that there is any danger whatsoever.” --Kurt Vonnegut William Bell doing the artist thing. Great track. music.apple.com/us/album/str...

So if you've been a fan of big band music at any point in your life give this a listen. music.apple.com/us/album/my-...

Eight songs instead of the usual four this week. Lots of good stuff. music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

I don't make my Best New Music playlists to please anyone but me. But damn, there's some great new stuff this week. music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

Humanity: “an immensely powerful anthology intelligence with a profoundly disordered soul…” —Brad DeLong (who is here on bsky)

Pomskys in alert mode.

Smitty and Rikki are concerned that everyone is exercising some kind of self-care.

Kinda jazzy this week. But this Claire Martin track is really special, worth several listens. music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

Final tally: 520 pieces, handed out individually. First little ghoul at 5:40, supply exhausted by 7:35, lights off and door locked. Then a short tour of the neighborhood, finally Young Frankenstein in honor of Teri Garr. And remember, put the candle back.

Some great new music this week. Never heard of The Wild Feathers before, they've been around since 2010.

For decades I thought the lyric in We Are The Champions was "no flesh accrues". I still think it has a certain poetry.

Just workshopping this, but how about LOTR with a quirky sense of humor? #OnlyMordorsInTheBuilding

It’s a nice place to hang out.

Ummm...this is brand new and amazing. music.apple.com/us/album/fou...

Very sad he's gone. Treasure that I got to work with him. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSDj...

Best new music of the week: Middle/The River Runs Both Ways-Aoife O’Donovan and Hawktail Chanson Pour Maryline-André Ceccarelli Wildflowers In The Sky-Sara Jarosz Jingles-Jocelyn Gould music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

Dentist used a torque wrench to tighten my uppers. I felt like a '65 Mustang 6-banger getting its head gasket replaced.

Great new music this week. Give a listen. music.apple.com/us/playlist/...