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YouTube video by Florence Road Florence Road - Heavy (visualiser)

Lots of good shoegaze and grunge revivalism popping up lately. I've listened to "Heavy" by Florence Road quite a few times in the past week. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r_R...

YouTube video by Cliffords Cliffords - Bittersweet (Official Music Video)

Been enjoying "Bittersweet," the new single from Irish indie rock band Cliffords. Iona Lynch's vocals are fantastic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpxF...

Delta Air Lines slashes earnings outlook on weaker U.S. demand, sending shares lower Delta Air Lines cut its first-quarter revenue and profit forecasts, citing weaker consumer and corporate travel demand.

The U.S. airline industry on their profitability during plane crashes and sky-high ticket prices: "The outlook has been impacted by the recent reduction in consumer and corporate confidence caused by increased macro uncertainty, driving softness in Domestic demand." www.cnbc.com/2025/03/10/d...

YouTube video by Darryl Vega TV Man’s Hilarious Plane Crash Interview Goes Viral

Returned to watch this delightful airport disaster monologue again. This man's take on air travel is about where I'm at with plane tickets in 2025. (It's actually a Darryl Vega sketch. He even got himself some Lightning McQueen luggage.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=9exk...

Illustration of two hands shielding Ukraine from incoming Russian missiles in the sky. A solid yellow map of Ukraine appears on a blue background, representing the colors of the Ukrainian flag. The original 2022 image by Andriy Yermolenko read: "Shelter our sky - we will handle the rest!"

Only the monstrous try to turn the screws on their friends and allies, try to make a profit from a humanitarian crisis. The unjust invasion of Ukraine was more than three years ago. Though the arc of time is long, people reap what they sow.

Animated graphic of a 1987 anti-drug public service announcement featuring basketball player Michael Jordan in a tan suit speaking directly to the viewer. Now an internet meme, the PSA was produced by McDonald's to increase sales in the era of Reagan's "Just Say No" advertising. Subtitle: "Stop it. Get some help."

Of all the memes from my 1980s childhood that my children have managed to discover (and then repeat ad nauseam), this Michael Jordan PSA is my favorite.

Oregon Trail, The : MECC : Free Borrow & Streaming : Internet Archive Important Technical Note:Thank you for enjoying the Oregon Trail! If your browser gives the error FAILED TO CONFIGURE EMULATOR upload loading, try opening...

"You have died of dysentery." I appreciate @archive.org for keeping classic games like "The Oregon Trail" alive through emulation. This is the 1990 DOS version. I played the Apple II version so much in elementary school. archive.org/details/msdo...

A frame from David Lynch's TV series Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper, played by Kyle MacLachlan, is wearing a black suit and tie while holding a microcassette recorder. He is dictating to his assistant Diane while driving a car. Subtitle: "Diane, 11:30 a.m., February 24th. Entering the town of Twin Peaks."

"Diane, 11:30 a.m., February 24th. Entering the town of Twin Peaks. Five miles south of the Canadian border, twelve miles west of the state line. I've never seen so many trees in my life." #TwinPeaksDay

The World You Grew Up In No Longer Exists, by FHMY 11 track album

My Bandcamp album download of the day: "The World You Grew Up In No Longer Exists" by FHMY. Egyptian shoegaze and math rock. fhmy.bandcamp.com/album/the-wo...

Rising tennis stars João Fonseca (Brazilian, 18), Learner Tien (American, 19) and Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard (French, 21) are currently three of my favorite players to follow. Mpetshi Perricard is 6-foot-8 and his serves are ridiculous. Fonseca just won his first tour-level title today.

YouTube video by Total Running Productions AN UNREAL WORLD RECORD! || Jacob Kiplimo Sets UNPRECEDENTED Half Marathon World Record In Barcelona

My mind is blown that Ugandan long-distance runner Jacob Kiplimo just obliterated the half marathon world record with a time of 56:42. At only 24 years old, he's set to make his marathon debut on April 27, 2025 in London. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8jJ...

YouTube video by Human Name Everyday Some Kid Throws Mario At My Truck

My wife found this bizarre, deeply stupid video. I laughed out loud by the 1:40 mark. So, like, what if the dissociative fugue from David Lynch's "Lost Highway" was sparked by trauma from relentless Mario sneak attacks on a man's truck? www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd1T...

YouTube video by OUT NOW-Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters Documentary The Amazing Screw-On Head Returns! Unseen Animated Pilot Expanded!

"The Amazing Screw-On Head" TV pilot by @mikemignola.bsky.social was one of my favorite things of 2006. A Civil War-era secret agent serving under Abraham Lincoln protects America from supernatural foes. I still have the DVD, but you can watch it on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX71...

We lost Tom Robbins on Sunday. From his 2007 Seattle P-I piece: "The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted ... but our lives are not as limited as we think they are, all things are possible." www.seattlepi.com/entertainmen...

Long-distance runner Kelvin Kiptum smiles as he holds the Kenyan flag aloft after winning the 2023 Chicago Marathon in a world record marathon time of 2:00:35 on October 8, 2023. Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images.

Kelvin Kiptum died on this day in 2024. I'll always wonder what could have been. Set the marathon world record, seemed on track to be the greatest. Gone four months later. At age 24, just like Oregon's Steve Prefontaine.

YouTube video by DAVID LYNCH THEATER David Lynch's Weather Report 1/16/21

This morning I woke up in California, the last day of a short family vacation. It was also David Lynch's birthday, a Monday with beautiful blue skies and golden sunshine all along the way. www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1gx...

YouTube video by scaynes David Lynch on Cooking Quinoa

When I heard about David Lynch's passing today, all I wanted was to watch him cook quinoa and talk about the violet drinks and "frog-moths" outside his train through Yugoslavia in 1965. (The video is an extra on the "Inland Empire" DVD.) Rest in peace. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSP-...

Exclusive: Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, Flashes More good news for those looking to exit Meta's social app ecosystem in favor of a more open alternative: An independent developer is building a

Monitoring this interesting development in the open, decentralized world of AT Protocol: "Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, Flashes." techcrunch.com/2025/01/15/b...

YouTube video by Grizzly Feeder - Topic House of the Rising Sun

Stumbled across Grizzly Feeder recently and have been enjoying "The Universe at Play" album. Was initially sucked in by the "House of the Rising Sun" cover. (Joshua Clark calls his music "Lana Del Rey meets Deftones.") www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_xd...

YouTube video by Netflix One Hundred Years of Solitude: Part 1 | Official Trailer | Netflix

I recommend this adaptation of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez. Part 1 of the series (the first eight episodes of 16) released on Netflix last month. In case you want some Colombian magical realism TV in your life. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oQe...

Close-up of a canary rockfish, a marine ray-finned fish with orange and white markings. The image shows its large eye and glum mouth against a blurred background. Photo posted by the Oregon Coast Aquarium on July 3, 2021 to promote their immersive Passages of the Deep exhibit.

My eight-year-old, yesterday: "The reason all the rockfish look like that at the aquarium is because they all got divorced."

'Murder hornet' eradicated from US, officials declare The so-called "murder hornet" has been eradicated from the U.S., five years after the invasive species was first discovered in Washington state, officials declared.

Since we're often in northwestern Washington and my wife has been nervous about an Asian giant hornet invasion, she was relieved to see this news: "'Murder hornet' eradicated from US, officials declare." abcnews.go.com/US/murder-ho...

YouTube video by Samuel Kim Music Star Wars: Imperial March x Carol of The Bells | EPIC VERSION (Epic Christmas Music)

"Carol of the Bells" is my kids' favorite Christmas song again this year. More specifically, I'm referring to the epic mashup with "The Imperial March (Darth Vader's Theme)" arranged by Samuel Kim. www.youtube.com/watch?v=66M8...

A stack of three Cards Against Humanity cards: one black question card and two white answer cards. The combined fill-in-the-blank statement reads: "When you get right down to it, an unhinged ferris wheel rolling toward the sea is just a windmill full of corpses." Photo posted to Tumblr by jayjayvanzz on March 23, 2014.

That time, 10 years ago, when jayjayvanzz won the entire game. jayjayvanzz.tumblr.com/post/8051716...

Pedro the Lion (SOLO) / 2024 Holiday Show! Live Stream from Pedro The Lion.

The annual @pedrothelion.bsky.social holiday show on @bandcamp.com will happen in 24 hours. I believe the tradition originated following many Twitch livestreams in 2020 during the pandemic. So this may be the fifth edition. pedrothelion.bandcamp.com/merch/pedro-...

Just realized I missed an opportunity to go running on the Crystal Lake (and Willamette Park) trails today in honor of Friday the 13th. I guess this would've been the sequel since September 13 also fell on a Friday this year.

City of Bend to vandal: Stop putting googly eyes on statues The City of Bend is asking for a vandal who has been putting googly eyes on statues in roundabouts to stop.

There are big problems in Central Oregon right now, you guys. Really big, googly problems affixed to sculptures in the city of Bend's roundabouts. www.koin.com/news/oregon/...

Gene behind orange fur in cats found at last After 60 years, scientists know why gingers, calicos, and tortoiseshells look the way they do

The reason for orange fur in cats (gingers, calicos, tortoiseshells) is a surprising deletion mutation in the ARHGAP36 gene, which is involved in many aspects of embryonic development, on the X chromosome. No word on "orange cat energy." www.science.org/content/arti...

YouTube video by TheBeatlesVEVO The Beatles - A Day In The Life

Remembering John Lennon, who was shot outside his Manhattan apartment building on this day 44 years ago. He was 40 years old. www.youtube.com/watch?v=usNs...

Horrible Occurrences, by Advance Base 11 track album

Been enjoying the lovingly minimalistic "Horrible Occurrences" by @advancebase.bsky.social this weekend. I'll always gladly listen to any story Owen decides to tell. advancebase.bandcamp.com/album/horrib...