The American Caliban

I’mma try to record my favorite song off of the radio today.

I muted “friendly reminder” which should lower my blood pressure.

Some trust fund baby DJ and her boyfriend just arrived in two customized bright pink Teslas. This town, man.

From my Flickr in 2006

My Mdou Moctar show got canceled :( I hope he’s OK

Guy on tv: “he had made some offhand color remarks”

Not a bad baseball stance. From the 14th-century Le Roman de la Rose.

It wouldn’t be October here without a big gusty Santa Ana and a slight smell of smoke

Cop on tv: “I was catching the blunt of it”

Thing I just learned from an LRB article: Jackie Robinson was a student of Arnold Schoenberg in L.A.

I thought I had at least passing familiarity with conspiracy theories until the man sitting next to me at the Lebanon, OH Skyline told me “space ain’t real.” “What do you think is between us and the moon?” an employee asked. The man seemed to think about this for a moment. “The moon…is with us.”

Here’s LL Cool J trying to explain Clausewitz’s “remarkable trinity” to an uncomprehending Joe Rogan

Welp the WiFi router died

Visit Newport Beach

kind of wish there was a whole like hanna barbera series from the 70s about the "new age healer" from one of those late-great-planet-earth new-world-order tribulation chick tracts

web.archive.org/web/20260917... As someone said on Mastodon: "Everybody's talking about Margaret Hamilton and the Apollo Project because Yay! Space! I don't see anyone else, yet, talking about this:"

[Exit pursued by a bear.]

Not surprised the peninsula flooded. I remember years ago seeing a wave cross the street headed from the ocean to the bay. Not a great place to have your beach house.

Once spent all night in a Denny’s here talking to the servers

Someone took a joyride on an airplane tug at SNA with predictable results. What’s up? High? Influencer?

The loss of living memory of the Second World War is absolutely catastrophic

aw man another late 90s/early naughties geek/nerd hero gone Bob X Cringely Has Died - news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4994...

Once again the distant midnight suburban kaboom

So I stopped my walk, climbed the gate to help an old farmer cursing his deaf god bringing in the last of a poor harvest… —Jim Carruth, “Only Human” published in A Little Touch of Cliff in the Evening: New Writing Scotland 30 (ASL, 2012) #BookWormSat #poem #poetry

They changed the narrator for the CSB videos :(

increasingly feels like my Perfectly Fine liberal arts education was an artifact grabbed fleeing a burning temple

There is a 60something couple here wearing Mötorhead shirts?

Ahh crap my tv is dying. Who has recommendations?

Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano

Things are terrible but I just remembered the old website about “David Bowie’s Area” and cracked up

Ah, a good old-fashioned fiber cut.

Yemeni Anthropomorphic Stele (3rd–1st Century BCE)

Do not tell me to buckle up for your “thread.” I will throw myself through the windshield. I will eat the hood ornament. I will never buckle up.

And scene.

It strikes me sometimes how much the humor I shared with friends 20 years ago relied on cruelty.

Knocking over five other 40 year old Californians: HUELL HOWSER

Cop on tv: “The head was decapitated from the rest of the body.”

never a good start

A good A1C result always improves the day

Everything is terrible but at least you don’t hear much about webinars nowadays.

It’s 100F in Irvine which I believe is a zoning violation

This weather is making me something something