Jay Sacher

For reasons that have become obscure to our family, we don't have a microwave, and when I neecd to heat up the morning's coffee, I have to put in a pan and then ladle it back into my cup, which makes me realize that coffee is I suppopse a kind of soup.

I wonder what Douglas Adams would make of LLMs?

I live in a small-ish enough town that my preferred candidate for mayor came to my door yesterday while out canvassing. At least on a small scale, democracy is still breathing.

These two ding dongs, each speaking to an audience of one.

Yes! I forgot about that!

I’m continually amazed that there weren’t like 5 sequels to ConAir…ConBoat, ConTrain, etc.

Are bay leaves bullshit?

it brought such a great sci-fi conceit to the table and explored it honestly, something that's rare in fanboy-centric franchise entertainment. That sincerity I think will be strained by the demands of serialized TV, but I'm hopeful...

you're like chum in the Bluesky ideological shark tank!

That's what always weirds me out about the other side--like can you imagine giving a shit about a politician to the point where you're going to rallies on off-election years, buying commemorative coins--how do all these people have so much free time?

I realize this is probably a "me" problem, but I don't enjoy people just shooting the breeze on hours-long podcasts. Even people who are talented breeze shooters. The cratered media landscape has more or less reinvented drive-time radio, fuzzed out background noise.

Rogan and Kimmel, standing like opposing titans atop the smoking ruins of American culture. One in league with dark forces, the other a purveyor of anodyne humor not sufficiently anodyne enough. Didn't these two used to host a show where ladies jumped on trampolines, a befuddled nation asks...

“Back in my day we even had guns at book depositories!”

What a lovely send off you've written. With the BBC Sounds app getting yanked for overseas listeners this summer, I'd lost track of his (hoped for) return from summer break. I find that I recommend the Year Without a Summer episode almost every week.

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live Frank Sinatra and Stevie Wonder Duet - SNL

Getting my shingles vax at the stop and shop pharmacy. Ebony and Ivory is playing on the PA. Occurs to me I think I only know the lyrics to SNL Piscopo/Murphy parody. youtu.be/0h2jZtuRuic?...

A government on double secret probation.

The marketplace of crappy ideas.

A History of Violence is doing its own thing for sure, but it does sort have that Shane-esque quality of a man forced into doing the one thing he's vowed to put behind him to save his loved ones, but then in so doing obliterates his own reason for being. You save the frontier by killing it.

Chekhov's Sound Bite.

yes that times article about AI Chat bots is disturbing and depressing, but this line is hilarious.

Trying to think who I'd want to see debate a human mind.

"Generals covering their asses just like witches at black masses...no, no. Generals coveting their lasses, just like witches at, fuck it, masses it is."

War Pigs is a fine number no doubt about it, but it's a shame that Ozzy couldn't come up with something to rhyme "masses" with other than "masses."

To what extent do cats know that we clean the litter box for them? I mean, they certainly know when it's been cleaned, but I wonder if they grasp the causation.

The age that I am, I have certain inevitable cultural blindspots, one being that I have no idea who Pete Davidson is, except that he's some guy with tattoos. If pressed, I'd say he's the dude from that britpop band who dated Kate Moss.

this is sad news, but at least it's not a heart attack ack ack ack ack!

I love how handily Walk Hard parodied this. "What do you think, George Harrison of the Beatles?"

The sad fact is that as media literacy declines i bet it will slowly creep its way in...

Do androids dream of electric JG Ballard novels?