Find Bliss and inseparable this week with Pulse Emitter, Birchville Cat Motel,Black Boned Angel,Alastair Galbraith and Matt De Gennaro, and The Shadow Ring: xray.fm/broadcasts/6...

I kind of like the frog showing up in photos of the “events” in news articles.

I’m a little embarrassed that most of the images of the Portland protests are fairly cringe…but that is a fairly accurate representation of the situation.

That video of the puppy killer Kristi Noem seeing that the Portland protest is eight people and a chicken suit should be played all over.

I think it’s a deeply sad fact that we all immediately know who wore it best.

Of course wouldn’t have realized the misogynistic framing I was using. An interesting cultural document of a moment passed.

Watched the Lilith Fair documentary as I think it’s interesting to revisit phenomena that you were aware of at the time and dismissed, my objection of course was taste, I would have claimed I was into PJ Harvey and Sleater Kinney so any of my criticisms were valid.

It speaks to the frayed, dejected, and numb current mood of social media that we couldn’t get a wildly dumb conversation about Rush touring with a new drummer off the ground besides a few mutters. That’s the type of thing that used to be a week long feast.

The elevation of Bari Weiss is another indication that we’ve entered the golden age of grift.

WaPo meeting the moment.

Also after seeing what a panic the sulfur smell caused in students on Friday I can’t even imagine trying to keep 23 kids from panicking on a bus going through a firestorm.

Watched The Lost Bus as I dug the non fiction book it was based on. A barely dramatized retelling of the Camp Fire which went from “I think there’s a fire in the canyon” to destroying a city in two hours.

A lawsuit is not a strongly worded letter. I don’t want either popping through my mailbox tomorrow but one would ruin my day and the other could ruin my life.

More tapes! I been meaning to grab something by both The Cosmic Tones Research Trio and Hair and Space Museum for a bit, and both were sitting there at Specks.

Louis CK having to defend his appearance at the Riyadh comedy festival from his fans who don’t mind him continuing to have a career as an unrepentant sex pest.

Move over “I saw some youths popping a wheelie “ bring in the troops, it’s now time for “I saw a closed down 7-11” bring in the troops.

A show I might actually leave the house for. Two of my favorite local artists at my local record store.

They finally reissued Way Their Crept, hopefully they do the same for all of the Free Porcupine Society era Grouper: grouper.bandcamp.com/album/way-th...

How much of Claudia Sheinbaum’s popularity is connected to having been in the most awesome photo a world leader has ever been in?

Not now sexy Ed Gein.

A lot of comedians are just horrible assholes but I also wonder if the rush to embrace the Riyadh Comedy Festival money says something about how bad the internal economy of the comedy podcaster sphere is doing

Not now sexy Ed Gein.

I wish I could forget…

Chicago is the greatest city in the world and what’s happening there is making my body physically hot and sore with rage. Every rich dentist in the Ohio exurbs with a barely touched jet ski voted for this because they led poor lives that are now nearly over. Chicago will outlast your boring anger.