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Librarian. Outlaw. Texan. Public Art enthusiast. Union man in rtw state. Communist Party Animal. Avid television watcher and radio listener. Professor Longhair Studies Scholar Emeritus.
Marta public radio podcast? I’m there. Sign me up.
November 16, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Marta public radio podcast? I’m there. Sign me up.
Great tribute to Todd Snider this afternoon on WWOZ.
November 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Great tribute to Todd Snider this afternoon on WWOZ.
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A new look at zydeco argues that Houston’s clubs and communities helped define the genre as much as Louisiana did.
Houston’s role in zydeco history is deeper — and louder — than most people realize.
Houston’s role in zydeco history is deeper — and louder — than most people realize.
Houston area was an essential ingredient to the creation of zydeco
The genre is most closely associated with Louisiana, but one musicologist points out its entire "corridor" runs from the Bayou City up to Lafayette.
txst.us
November 14, 2025 at 10:00 PM
A new look at zydeco argues that Houston’s clubs and communities helped define the genre as much as Louisiana did.
Houston’s role in zydeco history is deeper — and louder — than most people realize.
Houston’s role in zydeco history is deeper — and louder — than most people realize.
Please. Keep going after Talarico. It only makes him stronger and people who before were like, “who?”, now know who he is. Really, but be sure and vote your conscience in March in the primary.
November 14, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Please. Keep going after Talarico. It only makes him stronger and people who before were like, “who?”, now know who he is. Really, but be sure and vote your conscience in March in the primary.
Reading about the man shot by his dog, I can’t get over the fact that the shotgun was loaded while he was cleaning it. Maybe some people should not have guns. Idk.
November 14, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Reading about the man shot by his dog, I can’t get over the fact that the shotgun was loaded while he was cleaning it. Maybe some people should not have guns. Idk.
If I’m Lana, I’m suing for libel rn.
November 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
If I’m Lana, I’m suing for libel rn.
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Like the Koch brothers and other conservative billionaires, Dunn and Wilks want to slash regulations and taxes.
Their endgame, however, is more radical: not just to limit the government but also to steer it toward Christian rule.
(Published Oct. 2024)
Their endgame, however, is more radical: not just to limit the government but also to steer it toward Christian rule.
(Published Oct. 2024)
A Pair of Billionaire Preachers Built the Most Powerful Political Machine in Texas. That’s Just the Start.
Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks are poised to take their Christian nationalist agenda nationwide.
www.propublica.org
November 14, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Like the Koch brothers and other conservative billionaires, Dunn and Wilks want to slash regulations and taxes.
Their endgame, however, is more radical: not just to limit the government but also to steer it toward Christian rule.
(Published Oct. 2024)
Their endgame, however, is more radical: not just to limit the government but also to steer it toward Christian rule.
(Published Oct. 2024)
Flame torched ham. Central Market be doing too much. Might have to do it tho.
November 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Flame torched ham. Central Market be doing too much. Might have to do it tho.
Yes, we should infantilize all media to reflect nobody’s taste.
November 14, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Yes, we should infantilize all media to reflect nobody’s taste.
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If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
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Very interesting themes emerged from the comments that teens made about the news that 12th-grade reading scores are at a 30-year low
#EduSky #TLSky
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/l...
#EduSky #TLSky
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/l...
What Students Are Saying About the Decline in High School Reading Skills
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Very interesting themes emerged from the comments that teens made about the news that 12th-grade reading scores are at a 30-year low
#EduSky #TLSky
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/l...
#EduSky #TLSky
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/l...
If you want media that mirrors your every whim, record a podcast about what gets you off and then listen back to it, otherwise you are setting up for perpetual disappointment. I think I’m beginning to understand why mofos like Rogan are so popular. Tell me only what I want to hear, Daddy.
November 14, 2025 at 12:05 AM
If you want media that mirrors your every whim, record a podcast about what gets you off and then listen back to it, otherwise you are setting up for perpetual disappointment. I think I’m beginning to understand why mofos like Rogan are so popular. Tell me only what I want to hear, Daddy.
I consume tons of shitty media, but none of it winds me up to the point that I dedicate hours of my day rapid firing responses to the employees of said shitty media outlets. Push comes to shove, I’ll lick a stamp and mail them a strongly worded letter and then crack open another nat light teener.
November 14, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I consume tons of shitty media, but none of it winds me up to the point that I dedicate hours of my day rapid firing responses to the employees of said shitty media outlets. Push comes to shove, I’ll lick a stamp and mail them a strongly worded letter and then crack open another nat light teener.
According to the logic of some posts I’ve seen today the faceless person who processed my dl renewal online and sent it to me in the mail is culpable for what is happening at Texas a&m university.
November 13, 2025 at 11:54 PM
According to the logic of some posts I’ve seen today the faceless person who processed my dl renewal online and sent it to me in the mail is culpable for what is happening at Texas a&m university.
So many Aggie jokes, so little time.
November 13, 2025 at 11:34 PM
So many Aggie jokes, so little time.
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Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"
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In a separate post, I named several from New York Times: Wesley Morris, Frank Bruni, James Poniewozik, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Jamelle Bouie. There's Ta-Nehisi Coates, Trymaine Lee, Lulu Garcia-Navarro, Audie Cornish...and lots of other people with lower profiles but great journalism to their credit.
Name some journalists who aren't sipping wine with the elite and who actually defend the Fourth Estate.
Pol reporters of late are as bad as senators and reps who look the other way so they can retain access to power as they move up the food chain.
Pol reporters of late are as bad as senators and reps who look the other way so they can retain access to power as they move up the food chain.
What I know is there are still great journalists - even at elite media outlets - who are doing good work. Adopting a knee-jerk cynicism about all they do abandons those journalists. And it's lazy. And it plays into hands of authoritarians who WANT people to distrust all fact-based journalism.
November 13, 2025 at 6:27 PM
In a separate post, I named several from New York Times: Wesley Morris, Frank Bruni, James Poniewozik, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Jamelle Bouie. There's Ta-Nehisi Coates, Trymaine Lee, Lulu Garcia-Navarro, Audie Cornish...and lots of other people with lower profiles but great journalism to their credit.
Standing over the laminator I was over heard saying, “it’s your time to shine champ!”
How’s your day going?
How’s your day going?
November 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Standing over the laminator I was over heard saying, “it’s your time to shine champ!”
How’s your day going?
How’s your day going?
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wrote an essay about the lowdown, and how it can be hard to think about drama at a time when there never seem to be consequences for bad guys, and how the lowdown offers us a way out
www.vulture.com/article/the-...
www.vulture.com/article/the-...
Drama in a Time of No Consequences
The Lowdown finds hope in a world where most crimes go unpunished.
www.vulture.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
wrote an essay about the lowdown, and how it can be hard to think about drama at a time when there never seem to be consequences for bad guys, and how the lowdown offers us a way out
www.vulture.com/article/the-...
www.vulture.com/article/the-...
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1. Watch The Lowdown, one of the best shows I've seen in quite some time.
2. Read Kathryn on The Lowdown, one of the best TV columns I've read in quite some time.
3. Profit.
2. Read Kathryn on The Lowdown, one of the best TV columns I've read in quite some time.
3. Profit.
wrote an essay about the lowdown, and how it can be hard to think about drama at a time when there never seem to be consequences for bad guys, and how the lowdown offers us a way out
www.vulture.com/article/the-...
www.vulture.com/article/the-...
Drama in a Time of No Consequences
The Lowdown finds hope in a world where most crimes go unpunished.
www.vulture.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
1. Watch The Lowdown, one of the best shows I've seen in quite some time.
2. Read Kathryn on The Lowdown, one of the best TV columns I've read in quite some time.
3. Profit.
2. Read Kathryn on The Lowdown, one of the best TV columns I've read in quite some time.
3. Profit.
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apropos of nothing, here’s a photo of a young chuck schumer attending trump lawyer & confidante (& joe mccarthy associate) roy cohn’s birthday party at studio 54, in 1979
November 9, 2025 at 10:43 PM
apropos of nothing, here’s a photo of a young chuck schumer attending trump lawyer & confidante (& joe mccarthy associate) roy cohn’s birthday party at studio 54, in 1979
Hawkwind is for lovers who are also stoners.
November 10, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Hawkwind is for lovers who are also stoners.
Anyone ever do steampunk time traveler cos play at the ren faire or was that a skit on some obscure sketch show.
November 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Anyone ever do steampunk time traveler cos play at the ren faire or was that a skit on some obscure sketch show.
Maybe it’s the friends we made along the way in the comments to some deranged manolouge.
November 10, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Maybe it’s the friends we made along the way in the comments to some deranged manolouge.
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Today is a great day to register to speak at the Houston ISD Board of Managers (state appointed not elected) meeting to tell them that you hate the takeover, want Mike Miles fired, and want his "reforms" ripped out of HISD. Oh, and want to keep our best HS as public instead of backdoored charters!
November 10, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Today is a great day to register to speak at the Houston ISD Board of Managers (state appointed not elected) meeting to tell them that you hate the takeover, want Mike Miles fired, and want his "reforms" ripped out of HISD. Oh, and want to keep our best HS as public instead of backdoored charters!