Gerbarbrimel Tedunkydunk

I'm old.

If you're not, listen to this.

Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.

Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.

It's literally never been more important.

Oh hell yeah, Mote is one of my faves!

The Civil War and Reconstruction with David Blight - YouTube This course explores the causes, course, and consequences of the American Civil War, from the 1840s to 1877. The primary goal of the course is to understand ...

Since I brought it up, you can watch the lectures from that course here on YouTube! youtube.com/playlist?lis...

I really enjoyed David Blight's course on the Civil War (OK, maybe more than once!) so I'm excited to hear more form him and Joanne Freeman and Beverly Gage...

Oh, man, thank you!

Elon Musk launches Grokipedia to compete with online encyclopedia Wikipedia Elon Musk has launched Grokipedia, a crowdsourced online encyclopedia that the billionaire seeks to position as a rival to Wikipedia.

Today in "nobody asked for this but we're getting it anyway..."

A favorite quote from the article: "While Wikipedia is written and edited by volunteers, it’s unclear how exactly Grokipedia articles are put together."

I suggest we dub it "Slopipedia"

apnews.com/article/elon...

Friends today I found a postcard that was sent to me from a friend, postmarked 1992. Tucked away in a book, marking a poem I liked.

Don't give up on postcards.

A cemetery memorial stone with the name Vider Boatwright and the birth date of 1887, a dash, and then no death date.

O man. Looks like dude forgot to die.

Or I guess he could be 148 years old. In which case, well played, old man!

Y'all, if you haven't seen the Pacific Northwest, I highly recommend it, 10/10. No notes.

A guess: because of the anxiety it would create when you worry about confusing them with the other thing

Completely stoked about my new friend...

This is about Zappa and Beefheart, but it goes back to what I've often said about how there's no such thing as individual genius, really, genius comes from scenes.

This definitely scratches the itch for that "I died and became a god after being eaten by a bear when the flying saucer that abducted me crashed in the mountains" vibe. Thanks, John and John.

😁

I just put a date of 2030 on something and I cannot lie it shook me a little

The peach truck arrived today and I literally cannot shut up about MILLIONS OF PEACHES

I mean, maybe, but they really don't seem clever or disciplined enough to pull that off.

Sometimes I am convinced we really are living in the dumbest timeline.

A world where this happens can't be all bad

We'll always have Eddie

YouTube video by Gabriel Tinnaro La Ment (The Cure cover)

Ugh, I do not have a new cover recorded for World Goth Day this year and I have shaaaaame.

So instead, I give you the old one I made last year: La Ment by The Cure

Made with love for all you spooky people.

Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.

Le garçon Steve.... Il est oraaaaaaange...

IDK, he'd just be singing in the middle of an office. It's not a diner or an alley or a commercial fishing vessel, but it's pretty weird. I think we just got used to it.

On my list of things to be grateful for today: manatees are not ambush predators.

Underappreciated ambient pioneers

If I am not allowed to laugh at this dumpster fire it's not going to be any fun at all.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs.

(“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)

The REAL hard mode is no Cohen Brothers or Muppets.