extraordinary mountain goblin

This only happens to you once

-- going to college
-- trawling the good record store and also the semi-shitty record store
-- listening to (and eventually DJing for) the college radio station
-- going to lots of shows, including for bands I'd never heard of
-- trading mixtapes with like-minded weirdos

Today would have been Bob Newhart's birthday, so I am celebrating with this quirky bank note from Vermont. The vignettes of a man plowing, a woman holding grain, and a classical scene with Hercules and Mercury appear on this odd denomination. Bank of Bennington, VT, $7, 18--.🗃️

has to be a really high price payable immediately -- promises not acceptable. fire rfk jr, grant kilmar abrego garcia citizenship, and release the full epstein files, that kind of thing.

the budget/CR is purely a leverage point, not a legislative exercise, and the Ds need to treat it that way

the beatles at shea stadium was the original five-dollar all-ages show ✨

A sign at our vet's office: "For the safety of your ferrets we ask that you please keep them in their carriers until the doctor is ready to examine them." The sign also has a small picture of an inquisitive little ferret standing upright.

the ferret escape epidemic continues unabated

Jon Stewart should not run for president.

*Jimmy Fallon* should run for president. He would galvanize a mass movement of people turning up at his rallies to tell him he fucking sucks. It would be low-key amazing to see.

interesting. I had forgotten sonic youth had brought them over

so then high-school students today would be doing paintings of mark arm I suppose

this match is 1989 in a nutshell

the classic-rock stations pushed the absolute hell out of "mixed emotions", and it was super tedious and very clearly time for something different

BLEACH remains a great album -- kurt had the sound and the attitude but also the songs, and that's why it works

I think no one outside the pacific northwest would ever have heard of any of those bands if not for NEVERMIND

there would be a K records retail store at seattle airport though

so bad at time management that I peed myself and then had a tantrum about it

The ocean at the end of sunset: a faint ripple of waves, a small rocky pier protrudes out from one side. A low shoreline is visible in the distance. The sunset is muted, pinks and oranges near the horizon. The sky is cloudless.

if you get the chance to dip your toes into the sea, you take it

I just walked out of a supermarket this afternoon carrying a loaf of bread -- no bag, no receipt. needless to say I'm a white dude

mollywop, a word you very commonly hear in rap songs

as the inventor of slicing a sandwich at a deli just enough that it looks like you have two clean halves but the bottom slice tears in a fucked up way when you try to separate the halves, i am honored to be nominated by our beloved president to head the food and drug administration

fantastic work citing US tax code as authority for being "president" of his own "republic"

the exclusion of ETFs is still a pretty big loophole imo -- those are proliferating, and "diversified" is a pretty wiggly criterion

too bad hot startups don't do IPOs anymore. it's almost as if the ability to convert equity into cash makes equity actually valuable

giving john lurie his props

I like the stone roses LP too, but expect I'll get a few more chances to vote for it

This is the truest thing I have ever seen. You cannot imagine how much the Romans would have lost their minds for excel. They literally already started writing our historical chronicles in synchronized columns *by hand*

this 11-yr-old has derived the majority of biggie's ten crack commandments from first principles. astonishing

we're going to have to start beating actual humans with actual sticks to make this stop, aren't we

A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

the absence of cider is kind of a head-scratcher, too. johnny appleseed wasn't out there because people were really excited about pie

Maude resting on top of a brown paper lunch bag that's been infused with catnip -- the edge of the bag is visible in front of her. Her eyes are blissfully closed.

sunday morning with the catnip bag

airside should be the Brunch Zone: alcoholic beverages and eggs made to order 24/7

domino meme, where little domino is "zohran mamdani applies to college" and big domino is "will shortz leads the american color revolution"

Pizza is the best food but things with “pizza flavor” are the worst food, this is known as the Noid Paradox

and just next door krs-one and the boogie down productions crew are doing geoengineering. truly wild place

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a propane salesman