Rodney Boles

Wayne Coyne of the band The Flaming Lips stands on an amp. There are giant pink blow up robots behind him on stage, the audience in front, and confetti being fired from cannons

Got to shoot The Flaming Lips last night. My 3rd time getting to cover one of their shows. Just a concert photographer’s dream.

REM got $80 million from Warners to re-sign, then made New Adventures In Hi-Fi, probably their least accessible album since Murmur. Taking twenty million dollars each to keep doing exactly what you were going to do anyway isn't "selling out", it's not being totally fucking stupid.

A Manhattan Skyline Sketch by Trump Sells at Auction for $29,000 (Published 2017)

Trump says he never draws pictures and yet… www.nytimes.com/2017/07/28/u...

oh so it's illegal to have friends now, is it? it's cancellable to send your friend nice little birthday notes? the woke mob has come for poetry? for nice little drawings to your buds?

They are terrific live

Liberals never tire of invoking fascism when discussing Trump. It’s the same kind of thinking that led some to believe Jan. 6 was a nigh successful coup attempt and not a riot of deranged, delusional, and internet-addled human beings spurred on by hustlers and lunatics. If Trump becomes president again, there is a real threat he will try to remain in office when his term is up. But Trump is not savvy or cutthroat enough to hold power in such a manner. He is not Putin, he is not Xi, and American democracy is not fledgling and new, as Germany’s was in the Weimar years. Trump doesn’t have it in him to become a world-historical dictator, cowing the military-industrial complex and transforming the entire CIA and FBI into his personal army. Liberals want to believe otherwise, either out of a disingenuous need to elevate their own position—think of all the Twitter followers Timothy Snyder and Michael Beschloss have racked up over the last eight years—or a more genuine hatred of Trump borne out of a misreading of history. Or, more accurately, a misunderstanding of what America is—a federalist republic that will never, for better and worse, be dominated by a centralized form of government. Consider the thicket of laws decided by states, cities, counties, towns, and the like, or that the federal government can barely determine what happens in the public schools or in the courts. Fascism is coming here? MSNBC better hope so, if they want their ratings back.

reading 2024 Ross Barkan and man this has aged terribly

Watch this

Democracies do not use their military to try and intimidate their own citizens with “shows of presence”.

This is fascism.

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Watched the Kentucky Derby. Not sure I’ve ever watched it before. Kinda disgusted by how they keep whipping the horse.

Infuriating. These places are slammed with crowds and need more help, not less.

280K people in North Carolina are on Aetna ACA plans. Huge impact here

YouTube video by The Media Hoarder The Alarm- The Stand music video 1983 (60fps/stereo)

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“Every Bar Owner in Town Stands on Kenny’s Shoulders”: Brewery Owner Kenny Hobby Dies at 72 At the Brewery, which he owned from 1983 to 2004, Kenny Hobby hosted formidable national acts and momentous eras of local music.

The Durham native attended NC State, where he studied textiles. But his real education came from haunting local nightclubs—and then opening his own legendary Raleigh music venue.

Trump administration deports gay makeup artist to prison in El Salvador A gay man with no known criminal record sought asylum in the U.S. He's since become one of 238 Venezuelan migrants deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration.

60 Minutes could find no criminal records for 75% of the Venezuelans the U.S. sent to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4clubLP

My god, 75%. No due process.

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

yeah if I was another country I’d be doing this on principle at this point.

Goldberg said the level of detail in the targeting package that he received via Signal was down to the *names of individuals* to be killed.

That’s the good stuff that includes all kinds of sources and methods and never should have been outside a SCIF.

I’d be in prison if I fucked up that bad.

Here’s one of you in the crowd shooting

This sounds like the end of our constitutional republic.

There's so much incel energy radiating off DOGE that a regular guy could develop fertility problems just by walking by.

Billy Strings playing guitar

Billy Strings playing guitar

Billy Strings jamming out on stage while the screen behind shows a closeup of his playing guitar

Billy Strings interacts with the crowd after the show

Last year’s 3 night run in Asheville by Billy Strings was amazing. These are some I took with a small camera from my GA floor “seat”. Excited to be here again for the first weekend of a 2 weekend run, starting tonight

All signs seem to point to Roy Cooper

if you follow me and we know each other (*) and I haven’t followed you back, give me a heads up it is you if it isn’t clear.

I’m suddenly getting a good bit of follows from accounts that just look like they are fishing for followers and I hate that shit.

(*) I use this loosely

Hopefully we get to Flaming Lips, White Stripes, Interpol and others before long

“60 Songs That Explain the 90s” is back & now on the 00s. Other than Mr. Brightside, which, while overplayed, I do appreciate, I’m not into any of the other songs. I’m reminded why I dove into old Dead shows during that era. There’s stuff from then I dug, but it sure isn’t reflected in the show yet

Anyone have any tips for trying to learn French?

Duolingo was great refreshing me on Spanish (after decades) and even advancing me quite a bit. But I’m a complete noob on French and the pronunciations are killing me. Not sure this is the best way.