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Punk rock kid buskers (‘The Whops’, tiktok) near the Edgware Rd. They run into Paul Simonon, play Death or Glory for him. He asks if they know The Guns of Brixton. They do -

Saturn 1B on display at Cape Canaveral.

At Kennedy Space Center

At the Savannah Bananas game at Truist Field…

Does this mean the Trump administration will block all federal funding for the Pentagon?

This is the intersection point between Muskian arrogance and idiot populism: The conviction that there’s an extremely simple solution for everything that, somehow, nobody else has ever noticed & that you via either genius or “common sense” have uniquely hit upon.

“Dear Boomers,” Tina Fey wrote in the thread at 9:38, with a link to an instructional YouTube video for senior citizens on how to read, reply, and forward emails when using a Gmail account. “Ahahahahahahah!! Thanks Tina,” wrote SNL hanger-on Jon Hamm. “Also thanks Susan! I’ll see you there! BUMP!!” Colin Jost joined the thread at 10:04 p.m. “Guys, the video Tina sent is malware. Make sure to keep hitting Reply All or the virus can infect your computers.” Jon Hamm jumped in again. “Oh my goodness. Thank you young man.”

i want to be on this email nymag.com/intelligence...

“World Play Your Ukulele Day” is Sunday, Feb. 2nd. If you’re in Atlanta, come join us at Waikikie Hawaiian BBQ (2160 Briarcliff Rd.) from 2-4 to celebrate! Bring your favorite device or the Beloff books and we’ll pick songs to play and sing.

The people now in charge of the Office of Personnel Management apparently don’t know how to scrub PDF metadata, and have exposed the original authors of the guidance they’re publishing. Two, Noah Peters and James Sherk, have links to the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025.

This Saquon playoff run has a chance to rival Larry Fitzgerald in the 2009 playoffs and Cooper Kupp in the 2022 playoffs as all-time great playoff runs for non-QBs. He is playing out of his mind.

Nothing says “has been” more than Carrie Underwood’s MAGA gig. American Idolatry.

YouTube video by Turner Classic Movies TCM Remembers 2024 | TCM

TCM does such a good job with these year-end In Memoriam pieces. #RIP

Fisheye view of Mercedes-Benz Stadium, looking up toward the closed roof. At lower left, a reporter is doing a stand-up, while on the field, Greenbrier and North Oconee warm up for their flag football final.

The Georgia High School football championships are a great chance to see some top high school football and sit in the literal front row at Mercedes-Benz Stadium….

YouTube video by Hombre Supremo THE PLANET VENUS

Even Jesse Ventura knows that…

https://youtu.be/D-C6UvVGHto?si=f2Z-4w7M-BawqptX

Tomorrow is December’s third Sunday, which in Atlanta means the ukulele strum circle at Waikikie Hawaiian BBQ, 2160 Briarcliff Road, from 2-4. Bring something with wi-fi and/or the Beloff books, and we’ll play and sing some holiday classics.

Atlanta-area ukulele players: Thursday night is this month’s installment of Ukulele Open Mike at High Card Brewing from 7-10 in Tucker: https://www.highcardbrewing.com/music.html

Trouble in Texas – AHA A political controversy couched as a leadership fight roils the Texas State Historical Association.

I don't think that there has been any press coverage of the matter yet, but a recent lawsuit in Texas History has huge implications for academic freedom, free speech more broadly, and disciplinary associations. /1

www.historians.org/perspectives...

Sanford Stadium at the University of Georgia, from the east end zone, during Georgia’s game with the University of Massachusetts November 23rd.

Go Dawgs from Athens, where Georgia leads U Mass 28-14 at the half…

Georgia’s main academic building, at the Arch, was renamed for Holmes and Hunter-Gault on one of the anniversaries of their admission (2001?).

There was a sports component then, too: Much of the crowd was coming from a Georgia basketball loss, in the old coliseum, where the Psych-Journalism complex stands today. Dean William Tate was credited with defusing the crowd by collecting student IDs from participants.

With College GameDay in Athens, a little BTS UGA history: The space where they’re set up, outside Myers Hall, was also the site of a near-riot in 1961, after Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter-Gault were admitted as Georgia’s first Black undergrads.

Bruce Springsteen at Harris-Walz rally near Atlanta Wednesday night

The Boss, Bruce Springsteen, appeared with the old boss (Barack Obama) and the next boss (Kamala Harris) at a Harris-Walz rally Wednesday night near Atlanta

I made this meme in 2017 and it's even more relevant today:

Historian Timothy Snyder on the GOP plan to deport 12+ million people. “You will be expected to collaborate in the deportation effort: if you do, you will be harming others; if you do not, you risk being seen as disloyal yourself.” [kottke.org]

YouTube video by LegalEagle The Most Important Election Of Our Lifetimes

This is a really well done video on the stakes of this election

youtu.be/6bTpbDL5dcg?...

To those who say "they've been telling us this is the most important election of our lives since 2016" - yeah no shit.

We've been steadily watching the GOP get increasingly fascistic while many don't care.

Jake Shimabukuro onstage at City Winery in Atlanta.

Hanging out with Jake Shimabukuro at City Winery, Atlanta

Where I am right now….

Happy Ferguson Bowl day to all who celebrate! #nfl #bills #dolphins

Feels like a good day to remind everyone that JD Vance was a no-show on the vote for my bill to expand the child tax credit when it was on the senate floor two weeks ago. My bill failed after Republicans blocked it, leaving 16 million kids worse off.