Todd Mason

"They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Ha" and it's B-side a partial inspiration, I suspect.

Short Story Wednesday: short stories from THE SUN magazine: August 2024: "Clean Breaks" by Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum; May 2025: "The Healer" by Rob Keast. THE SUN, edited by Rob Bowers Links to the online texts from The Sun , which will allow two free accesses before asking for subscription money (subs can be print and onli...

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That they are willing to accept as long as the payments keep coming.

Happily, for them, their shrinking number of supporters never ask for any valid evidence for their claims.

A confederacy of dunces is currently infesting the US Executive Branch...and too much of the rest of the government structure...

First, the federal government getting its economic data from DoorDash is a bit alarming.

Second, people who use DoorDash pay an average of $63 for a meal from McDonald's. Sort of an odd place to look to gauge sensitivity to the cost of food.

I suspect the practice might've arisen from cooling the feet slightly in hopes of cooling the body as a whole...and, voila!, the fever broke! Or the afflicted eventually died from lack of sleep, with all the damp goo in their socks. But THAT would've happened anyway...folk alternatives to science!

This would be about 53 years ago.

Goofy friends of my mother who were sitting with me when I was about 8yo did the onions in my socks nonsense one evening when I had a fever...I took the socks off and the fever broke with a dose of aspirin I took myself by the time my mother got home from whatever event had kept her.

Brave Military Whistleblowers Say Go Green! We’re honored to have the support of these fearless military whistle-blowers! They are standing up for the people of Gaza and the victims of the U.S. war machine that they once served. They’ve chosen ...

We’re honored to have the support of these fearless military whistle-blowers! They are standing up for the people of Gaza and the victims of the U.S. war machine that they once served.

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Short Story Wednesday: "It Could Be You" by Frank Roberts, THE BULLETIN (Australia) 3 March 1962 and reprinted variously since "It Could Be You" by Australian reporter and short story writer Frank Roberts is perhaps his best-remembered story, and was first published ...

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Minor if enjoyable. BlueSky, why can't we edit our posts?

Courtesy Paul Di Filippo

PLAYHOUSE 90: A SOUND OF DIFFERENT DRUMMERS Essay written by Robert E. Tevis and Martin Grams, Jr.   Henry David Thoreau wrote that: “If a man loses pace with his companions, perhaps i...

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An Inconvenient and Problematic Holiday The title of my talk today is Armistice Day and the Empire. Armistice Day, of course, was the term, was the recognition for the end of the First World War. The idea that there needs to be remembrance....

Following his service, Smedley Butler. decried war. He broke from the silence that often accompanies, particularly general officers, when they retire. He broke from that and he spoke out against not just war, but America’s imperialism. #EndWar www.gp.org/an_inconveni...

Ahmed Malek - La Silence Des Cendres [Algeria, soundtrack] (1976)

Ahmed Malek - La Silence Des Cendres [Algeria, soundtrack] (1976)
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Trying to decide whether to use my invisible tariff check from Trump or my invisible cost saving rebate check from DOGE to fill the tank of my car with a 500-year loan with invisible $2/gallon gas . . .

"But of course it's intangible gasoline, Ma'am...who wants to touch gas?"

Resurrected Review: The Dramaturges of Yan, by John Brunner Here's another review of John Brunner, who is really one of my favorite SF writers of his era, but oddly more due to his less well-known wor...

A minor of enjoyable John Brunner novel: THE DRAMATURGES OF YAN (1971/1972): rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/11/resu...

Slightly expanded.

Not really acid jazz, but good near-fusion hard bop guitar jazz.

(Not inspired by the likely full pardon of Ghislaine Maxwell.)

"She's Not There" (composed by Rod Argent) as recorded by The Zombies and others: Saturday Music Club (on Monday) The Zombies: "She's Not There"   Maeve Lander: "She's Not There" (for Brass Quintet)     Santana:   Neko Case and Nick Cave:     Ola and t...

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Health and Human Services, or perhaps National Parks and Recreation.

Cringer - Still AOK [Manoa, Hawaii/Los Angeles, CA, USA ; Hardcore Punk] (1985)

Cringer - Still AOK [Manoa, Hawaii/Los Angeles, CA, USA ; Hardcore Punk] (1985)
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Damn. It took till now, 18 years later, for me to learn of Lance Hahn's death. I'd met him only a couple of times, even given I was on the utter periphery of Honolulu's and, several years later, DC's punk scenes...

Tuberville is one of the most blithering of blitherers.

Utter jackass.

And I was conflating your post with another, while distracted...sorry about that.

YouTube video by Rockin' Bandit Jackie Morningstar - Rockin' In The Graveyard

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