A. J. Payler

If you're posting AI-generated images, you should know it makes everything you post look slimy and gross, like engagement bait content with no soul or meaning. Is that why you're here? Is that who you are?

#ai #networking #content #ripoff

If a Famous Author Calls, Hang Up: Anatomy of an Impersonation Scam - Writer Beware You open your email program one morning. The usual work stuff. Some spam (annoying that it got past your filters!). A couple of newsletters (maybe later). You sip your coffee, scroll down. Wait. What’...

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#writingcommunity
#writers
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#IndieAuthor

De La Soul – 3 Feet High And Rising
(1989, 2 x Vinyl LP 2023 Reissue, 180g)

#nowplaying #vinylrecords #nowspinning #vinylcommunity #vinylcollectors #musicsky #hiphop #delasoul

Who Got Screwed When Vinyl Me, Please Went Bust? Inside the subscription vinyl club's unpaid debts and troubled relaunch

Vinyl Me Please and other similar clubs always seem like a pointless scam to me: pay more than full price for records you don't even pick out? What a deal! #vinyl #records #ripoff

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YouTube video by The Midnight Special Ep 37 - The Midnight Special Episode | October 12, 1973

00:12:19 King Crimson - Lark's Tongues in Aspic
00:50:30 King Crimson - Easy Money

#progrock #livemusic

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The Dream Syndicate at Soda Bar, San Diego CA Nov 9 2025

Stevie Wonder – Looking Back (3xLP, Motown 1977), later known as simply "Anthology"--was the title changed after someone got cognitive dissonance at the notion of a blind person 'looking' back? You gotta wonder

#nowplaying #vinylrecords #nowspinning #vinylcommunity #vinylcollectors #musicsky

Nicodemus – Spacechild Squall (1977 Zedikiah Records, 1995 reissue)

My article about Nicodemus (for which I spoke with him directly and extensively) is available in the Trapped in This World anthology: books2read.com/trappedinthi...

#nowplaying #vinylrecords #nowspinning #vinylcommunity #musicsky

Jefferson Airplane – After Bathing At Baxter's (1971 RCA Victor)

#nowplaying #vinylrecords #nowspinning #vinylcommunity #vinylcollectors #musicsky

Fugazi – The Argument (2001 Dischord Records, 2024 reissue)

#nowplaying #vinylrecords #nowspinning #vinylcommunity #vinylcollectors #musicsky

The Dream Syndicate – Medicine Show & This Is Not The New Dream Syndicate Album... Live! (both 1984, A&M)

#nowplaying #vinylrecords #nowspinning #vinylcommunity #vinylcollectors #musicsky

AI nailing it again

#ai #machinelearning #neilyoung

The Dream Syndicate Tickets | $35.54 | 9 Nov @ Soda Bar, San Diego | DICE This is a 21+ event w/ valid ID at Soda Bar - San Diego. The Dream Syndicate will perform their visceral 1984 album Medicine Show on tour in the US and Euro...

Whoa, the Dream Syndicate Is going to be in town playing Medicine Show in its entirety in less than a week?! That snuck up on me somehow

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#music #gigs #psych

YouTube video by Giuseppe Aversano The Dream Syndicate - Halloween

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#halloween #psych #music

YouTube video by Elliot Roberts Every Ringo Starr Album Ranked Worst to Best

This video's existence and my recommendation of it might seem like a joke to those not in the know-four-plus hours on Ringo and his recorded solo work??--but is very much not

youtu.be/AijcJ-Wm14A

#beatles #ringo #music

And as Yoko didn't include any of her songs on the original 1986 Lennon Live in NYC album, the live "Sisters, O Sisters" now exists only on the VHS release. This makes the new set well short of definitive, especially as both songs remain available on streaming. #bowdlerization

Obvious why they omitted "Woman Is..." from this new set (whether one agrees with this choice or not) but what was the thought behind deleting "Sisters, O Sisters" from both concerts, especially as they retained the studio version? Baffling.

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#beatles #lennon

How often California lawmakers in San Diego didn’t vote Some of San Diego’s delegation of state senators and assemblymembers didn’t vote more than 100 times this year.

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Kickstarter United Workers Launch Strike Demanding High Wages With management refusing the Kickstarter Union's demands of a codified 4-day work week and higher wages, workers have stepped out on strike.

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The countdown begins...

#beatles #paulmccartney

A must read for writers. I'm seeing same thing Jason is seeing, in form of scammers' creation of online "readers' communities" populated with bots. AI adoption by foreign scammers has been expanding since 2023 but this year has really been a watershed. They're becoming impossible to keep up with.

Out now from @hollowoakpress.bsky.social the new anthology Short(b)Reads, featuring my new story "Table for One, Folly of Two" along with a dozen more fine tales to peruse--each one paired with a recipe from the story itself. Food for the mind, soul, & body!

#shortstories #food #recipes #writing

Yikes, just yikes.

Hard to argue when their only post-Wolf LP got them dropped from their label and none of them did anything of any significance afterwards.

Lol, Wolf spends all of six pages recounting his 16 years fronting the J. Geils Band and what he does say can be adequately summed up as "those guys were selfish assholes who threw a good thing away over inflated ego."

Wingspan doesn't count?

Just one example of the kind of lazy, easily checked bullshit that pervades 'Fab': not only did McCartney not write "You're Sixteen" (the song he contributed was "Six O'Clock") but the original version of the song was a top ten hit in both the US and UK for Johnny Burnette in 1960-61. #hackwriting

The Home of The McCartney Legacy by Allan Kozinn and Adrian Sinclair | McCARTNEY LEGACY The McCartney Legacy book series on Dey Street Books. A deep dive into the post-Beatles life and music of Sir Paul McCartney. Every song, every recording session, every concert, and everything in betw...

Stick to the two volumes (so far) of The McCartney Legacy for a far superior biographical overview which maintains journalistic standards and avoids the many teeth-gritting errors Fab imposes. Hopefully the next volume isn't too far away!

www.mccartneylegacy.com

Fab : an intimate life of Paul McCartney : Sounes, Howard, 1965- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive 634 pages, [16] pages of plates : 24 cm

Lost count of the factual errors within this clumsily-written, badly edited book--pompous author interjects his ill-informed opinions at every opportunity. And Imelda Marcos comments without even the vaguest context of her larcenous rule? Just no.

Skip this.

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#beatles

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