Martin McClellan

I learned about many cultural moments (including, of all things, The Story of O and Thy Neighbors' Wife) reading MAD Magazine in the 70s. Now I can't imagine a story lasting the publication production cycle of a real printed magazine.

Wish they hadn’t cast Alexa as the aunt tho

"Full-cast audiobook"?

I just watched Righteous Gemstones, and that was a fun binge. Also, if you haven't watched The Expanse, I think that's worth the investment. It *goes* places.

This song is so damn good.

Picture of Phil Specter from his trial, in an oversized curly wig

So jolly

My favorite part of December is writing a poem every day, inspired by @kelliagodon.bsky.social and the Two Sylvias Press Poetry Advent Calendar. They're a stellar way to consider your world, and yourself at the end of your year. Only $25 and supports an exceptional PNW poetry press.

Update: Thanksgiving week update MEDICAL UPDATE Hi friends — here’s the latest. The MRI brought some good news: no tumors in the left breast or chest wall…

If you're interested or can help: www.caringbridge.org/site/b13ab4f...

My friend Allison has cancer. I've been helping by giving updates for her on Caringbridge. I post them on Facebook, and they get less engagement than any other post.

How much $ do you think Facebook makes each year from people desperate enough to advertise the updates to their medical crises?

This image shows a three-section Venn diagram. The top circle is labelled Hard Rock, the right circle is labeled Pop Rock, and the left circle is labelled Occult Rock. The intersection between Hard Rock and Pop rock is labelled Queen. The intersection between Pop Rock and Occult Rock is labelled Led Zeppelin. The intersection between Occult Rock and Hard Rock is labelled Black Sabbath. The middle intersection has the logo for the band Blue Öyster Cult.

No notes.

I have that book by the good graces of the generous @kentmbeeson.bsky.social!

Defiant nuns flee Austrian care home for their abandoned convent in the Alps Sisters Bernadette, Regina and Rita needed a locksmith to get back into their convent, defying Church leaders.

@johnaugust.bsky.social could this be a movie? I really, really hope it becomes one soon

www.bbc.com/news/article...

The Seattle Times has called the mayor's race for Katie Wilson.

Join the Sweet Shop waitlist! Claim your username and be among the first to enter Sweet Shop.

Very excited about this new digital comics shop @sweetshop.app. I love print comics, but I think there's also a need for a truly great digital comics app—and I'm not interested in tying myself to Amazon in order to build a digital comics library.

Farewell to Louis Moholo-Moholo: Jazz revolutionary and anti-apartheid voice dies at 85 | News24 Legendary drummer Louis Tebogo Moholo-Moholo, who died at 85, transformed jazz through his fusion of African rhythms and free-form experimentation.

A notice of his passing:

YouTube video by Eric White You ain't gonna know me 'cos you think you know me - Louis Moholo

I missed that the South African drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo passed, at 85, last June. Listen to this song, which always soothes something unsettled deep inside me, recorded in exile in London in 1978. Unreal, non-egoist, beat-dragging, masterful drumming on this track. A musician's musician. RIP.

Quote-Unquote Designer | Notion We’re looking for a UI-heavy product designer with exceptional visual taste and front-end fluency for a new product.

Design friends! @johnaugust.bsky.social is looking for a "UI-heavy product designer with exceptional visual taste" for a new product. Contract, for now, but his shop builds exceptionally well considered software. If I was looking I'd be all over this.

Donate to Help Nisi Shawl write the book of her dream!, organized by Eileen Gunn Nisi Shawl, a wise and wonderful writer of science fiction and fantasy, had a… Eileen Gunn needs your support for Help Nisi Shawl write the book of her dream!

Oh, I love this GoFundMe aimed at helping @nisishawl.bsky.social fund the writing of a different kind of book: an "artifact of [an] imaginary philosophical movement". This is a book Nisi dreamed and has used in their fiction, so the idea of it jumping the veil into the realized world is thrilling.

A screenshot of the Apple Music Pink Floyd page. It shows the layout with "Latest release", "Top Songs", "Essential albums", and "Albums", but all of the artwork has been replaced with terse alt text. For "Essential Albums" it has: * "A wall of white bricks with red graffiti" for The Wall. * "Two men in suits shaking hands one man is on fire" for Wish You Were Here. * "A prism refracts light into the spectrum" for Dark Side of the Moon. * "Four young men viewed through a Kaleidoscope" for The Piper at the Gates of Dawn". For "Albums" it has: * "Four men walk across the ruins of Pompeii" for "Pink Floyd at Pompei * "A man rows across a sea of clouds" for The Endless River (Deluxe Edition) * "Two giant metal faces in a field" for The Division Bell * "Ultralight flys over rows of hospital beds on a beach" for A momentary lapse of reason (2019 remix) * Rows of hospital beds on a beach" for A Momentary Lapse of Reason

Apple Music appears to be showing alt-image text for Pink Floyd albums instead of cover art.

My favorite part of this article is that there was a schism and original Castrator vocalist Mallika Sundaramurthy formed a new band called Emasculator. May this new sub-genera flourish as it splits and divides in infinitum, death metal cell division building a body of bloody brutal feminist metal.

Anybody else’s frame rate dropping to 50fps during the last supper? I can never get my parry timing right for Judas’s kiss

Screenshot of a video game store featuring game titled “Jesus Simulator”. The illustration shows white Jesus ascendant in heaven, angels looking up at him as he glows and looks up to his godly father represented by billowing clouds

My favorite part of the bible is the Parable of the First Person Shooter

I'm literally wearing a shirt with her name on it and an energy dome like one does on Monday so I'm down with all new spuds

We made you a rigorously cited timeline of major moves, cases, changes, and other wildass developments in the immigration system since January 20. This is one of the most complicated things I've ever worked on, but we think it needs to be done. The thread breaks down the kinds of things we found.

Screen capture of a movie credits title card from the movie Airplane! Text reads “Stephen Stucker as Johnny” and shows the actor looking mischievous in the control tower after unplugging the runway lights.

Red was one of a kind. She was a radical in the best sense, unwavering in her identity. Yes, a lovable grump who, when you got a smile out of her, you know you really earned it.

I wish one of the streamers would pick up this model!

My brain immediate read "Looks bad to you", instead of LGTM.

Full hour! Full hour!

Picture of Nick Cave in profile singing, microphone in hand, in the audience, people in the foreground reaching out to him