Wayne & Wax

the embargo continues...

now, that's just Jon Hamm in a powdered wig

can die now lookinass

mother and child reunion

Ron Carter is on the bass, yes, my man Ron Carter is on the bass

this blessed boy had a front row seat for Ron Carter tonight at the Regattabar in Harvard Sq. so riveting to bear witness to a true great -- and in fine form at 88!

one of my favorite albums of the last couple years. exquisite arrangements, and somehow of many of my (our?) favorite composers.

Repertoire, by Shane Parish 14 track album

have you heard this? he's been on it.
shaneparish.bandcamp.com/album/repert...

dev/null rules! enjoy this set of sizzling jungle while watching what a good DJ does via the cellphone strapped to Pete's chest!

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just put my money where my mouth is. now for the ears...
bandcamp.com/wayneandwax

a screenshot of my inbox showing 16 bandcamp emails, and those are just the ones that fit onto one screen

you there, boy! what day is this?

that copy of Money Jungle needs to be unwrapped and placed on a turntable right away

a peanut butter and fluff sandwich, aka a fluffernutter, on a white plate. two slices of well toasted bread with gooey PB and marshmallow oozing out of it. in the background is a picture of a carrot and a string of dried marigolds hanging on a door.

made myself an "elevated fluffernutter" for lunch today. by "elevated" I mean that I held it aloft while taking this picture. (and toasted the country sourdough before spreading the spreads.)

lol, but then why, and I truly regret the scrutiny, do none of the guys seem to be ... packing? they all look like barbies.

wrapped slide showing top genres as 1. corridos tumbados 2) son jarocho 3) swing music (whatever that means) 4) rap 5) reggae

I didn't even listen to much music from the late 60s there, but maybe they're just taking an average? (with whatever they're calling "swing music")

a page from my Sp0t1fy wrapp3d showing my "listening age" as 76 because I listened to a lot of music from the late 60s?

did you say weird and creepy? because...

the neighborhood coyote turned down our street at the same time I was biking home. wish I'd gotten a better shot. broad daylight in the middle of town!

this degree of darkness is not 3:45pm, to me

can't believe someone leaked footage of me watching Stranger Things with my daughter last week, late at night, after several drinks and lots of tryptophan. embarrassing, honestly.

I’m a Professor. A.I. Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse.

My colleague Carlo Rotella wrote this as a response to doom-and-gloom reporting on genAI's impact on the humanities and as a framework for thinking about what works. I think it's pretty good.

Gift link.

now that's my kinda venn diagram

ostentatiously anti-sauce

flop dem!

a crabapple tree, now without leaves but still full of small apples running yellow to orange to red and looking like hundreds of little ornaments

crabapples looking like xmas ornaments

now that's what I call a grand crew

trying to hold a strict noGPT policy this term, so it's dismaying to see the occasional "Here’s a shorter, discussion-board style version" slip into a student's post :/

that's just the way it is

music hardware c/o Teenage Industries: the main console (Riddim) allows one to program and version various reggae-style riddims, while the smaller component (Ting) is a handheld microphone

met my first Riddim and Ting in the wild yesterday. too cute, and (if you've heard the presets) asking for a lawsuit.

my parents were into the Stones and Zeppelin, so I thought the Beatles sounded pretty fresh when I finally listened to them in college (mid-90s)

an elegant solution. I wonder if it was perhaps a hakurai turnip.

La cadencia de la okra.