Vintage Funk Kit 3 @ 90bpm ☔️

In addition, Lynch himself was dealing with a hernia "during the entire shoot"; he had injured himself while laughing too hard at something funny that Angelo Badalamenti did.

This tidbit from the Wikipedia entry on Fire Walk with Me

This happened to me with “Guns of Brixton” and the Muppet Show theme. It never goes away

in case you don't know, the old man getting upset and walking out of the interview is Dave Mamet, who is most notable for inventing the thing where something bad and loud happens and you say "so... that happened"

TIL about @samfragoso.bsky.social and while there is no way I am going to watch video podcasts, I would love to see more little clips of this guy

I last saw Mena Suvari in line in front of me in the Los Feliz post office

oh this is the treat I needed this morning 🙏🤘🍎🌕

How a fizzled recall attempt actually helped Mayor Karen Bass During a tenuous moment for Bass, the recall threat helped her raise far more money than she would have otherwise been able to collect.

LAT complicating that narrative today—she focused her fundraising on no-limit recall-fighting PAC and cleaned up.

The larval stage of a spotfin #flounder dancing to the music in its funky headdress.

#spotfinflounder #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #benthic #scubadiving #underwater #chrisgug #gug #gugunderwater #marinelife

Congrats on your son’s wedding!

Always on My Mind - Wikipedia

TIL: Willie Nelson didn’t write “Always On My Mind”, various writers of “The Letter,” “Hooked On A feeling” and “Suspicious Minds” did

He didn’t record it until 1982, 10 years after Brenda Lee and Elvis Presley released versions

The Pet Shop Boys released their version only 4 years later

The BLS staff've devoted their careers to informing Americans about jobs, consumer prices, & other key factors.

I will listen to the staff. They'll find ways to tell us when there are problems.

They'll do their best. They deserve our support, not to have their work impugned.

That can be part of the legislation! Consider the model of National Popular Vote Compact, which awards state electoral votes to the national popular vote winner only when states constituting a majority of electoral votes follow suit.

you know the world is ending when Summers is supporting a woman in STEM

Mourdour. Lives & works at Knaresborough Castle. She lives in the keeper's kitchen & likes to sit on her knee to watch TV. She demands to be petted & will peck if you stop. Her colleague Izbella is 'known to the police' for feigning injury then asking tourists, 'What the fuck are you looking at?'

YouTube video by HBO Max Peacemaker | Opening Credits | HBO Max

The show was all right but this is one of the great films of our young century.

Lightning Rods by Helen Dewitt | New Directions Helen DeWitt’s follow-up to her critically accalimed debut novel The Last Samurai arrives with a bang, ready to take on the complex issues surrounding sexual tension in the workplace with a wicked dos...

Sean have you encountered Helen DeWitt's Lightning Rods? it's like the Dale Carnegie version of that

MAN: What's that, girl? Trouble at the old mine?
LEFT-WING LASSIE: Woof! [The miners are striking for better pay and conditions]
MAN: B-but Billy's down there!
LEFT-WING LASSIE: Woof! [BILLY'S A SCAB]

is this a regular gig?

The Cosby Show
Family Ties
Cheers
Night Court
Hill Street Blues

One of my all time prized memories is of waking up in a tent on Assateague to hear @drdavegoldberg.bsky.social shouting (in a French accent) “Go away wild ponies! Get out of our Jiffy Pop!”

I don't know who needs to hear this, but there's free bread and salad in the hallway

You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah (2023)

Life is Like a Piano: Tom Lehrer (1928-2025) | Tributes | Roger Ebert A tribute to the iconic political musical satirist, who passed this weekend.

I adored the music of Tom Lehrer, who died yesterday at the ripe old age of 97. I wrote an appreciation of him here, with links to some of his best work. There is also a shout-out to Dr. Demento. www.rogerebert.com/tributes/lif...

paging @billwearsties.bsky.social

Absolutely appalling. I didn’t think I had a very rosy view of our institutions before, but they are all proving to be much more craven and willing to hurt vulnerable people than I thought possible.

yup, this is right. Trump has had worse rhetoric than Biden. But there's more hope than evidence that Biden, who permitted a military slaughter to such an extent that the Israelis were surprised, would be doing more to constrain Israel as famine sets in.

A republican can never be held accountable Therefore a Republican must never make a management decision

it's the only reasonable stance

this, paired with the demonstrated refusal of people to attribute plainly held reactionary views to the Republican officials who advocate them, is what is known in polisci circles as A Pickle

The Cowardice of Senate Democrats Made Emil Bove’s Confirmation Possible Senate Democrats could have confirmed Biden nominee Adeel Mangi to the Third Circuit last year. They caved to a disgraceful right-wing smear campaign instead.

Emil Bove's confirmation was only possible because Democrats caved to a vile right-wing smear campaign of Adeel Mangi, who would have been the first Muslim appeals court judge, when Biden nominated him for the same seat last year. Absolutely disgraceful. Bove's confirmation is on them, too.