NATE!

Two guys in driving helmets sticking out of the top of Herbie the living car from the movies, a classic VW bug with a 53 on his hood. One of the guys is spitting out water because of my amazing joke.

I had to break it off with Herbie....he was just so high maintenance

Equinoctial melancholy

There should be a name for the specific kind of seasonal affective disorder that comes from the fact that fall doesn't happen anymore and it's going to be eighty degrees in October. I guess the word for this is eco-grief but I want a word that captures specifically how much I miss fall.

Peña, by Compilations 15 track album

Perfect morning working music; also the CD came in a square wooden box like a cajón 🤩
secretstashcomps.bandcamp.com/album/pe-a

If the Incredible Hulk eats a giant, Hulk-sized sandwich with his big green mouth, does Bruce Banner have to try to pass a Hulk-sized green poo poo later? Does Bruce Banner worry about this? Cuz I guarantee the Hulk is not worried about this for a second

The alt text is perfect: "WHEN YOUR ON A ADVENTURE AND YOU RUN INTO ANOTHER GUY RUNNIN AROUND STEALING SHIT WHY ARE THEY YOUR ENEMY, SEEMS LIKE YOUR JUST COWORKERS IF YOU ASK ME"

GRAHNT AHHS EYEZZZ

A screenshot from Reddit suggesting that nobody in the world of Bloodborne actually say "Kosm" and Micolash, Host of the Nightmare is just full of crap

@itsben1week.bsky.social lol

Alas, it was shame that drove me to evil

@optional.bsky.social how could you make such a terrible pun

Florida cities race to save rainbow crosswalks as the state's deadlines for removal loom Fort Lauderdale city leaders have decided to fight the state of Florida’s order to remove rainbow-colored street art, potentially risking millions of dollars in funding.

The FL GOP literally wants a colorless and bland world, painting over simple joys in the name of petty cruelty. And like sure, fascism demands uniformity, but also I just don't understand how these lame and boring people are popular enough to get anyone to vote for them
apnews.com/article/flor...

In the hard quiet corner of my heart where the fear of hell used to be, something admittedly cruel sits, wishing such an afterlife existed in which someone is doing to James Dobson what James Dobson told our parents to do to us

A Dangerous and Evil Piano Piece

Also one of the NY'er's better headlines
www.newyorker.com/culture/cult...

It's also about the other identical fan just standing behind him the whole time doing regular fan things

YouTube video by ELECTRONICOS FANTASTICOS! Electric Fan Harp in the bathhouse │ 銭湯で扇風琴 ♨️

It's not just about the playing the fan, it's about playing the fan with an almost unbearable level of bonhomie and grace
youtu.be/QJavHc48iZU?...

the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back

"Well kids, looks like they're always going to be burning the Library of Alexandria, so I guess you better go get your torch from Mr. Altman over there. I know of no other ways to deal with fire."

Also, to this point, the degree to which classroom academics have adopted the "they're always going to live with this, so we have to teach them how to use it" approach is staggering. There is no case in which it actually makes sense to use a nonsense generator, unless you need a ton of nonsense

(the thumbnail is misleading but the video should start playing during the Palmieri part)

YouTube video by Rafael Villegas DEREK BAILEY - ON THE EDGE

Eddie Palmieri's part of the Derek Bailey "On the Edge" documentary was positively transcendent; when he wanted to, he could go as hard as Cecil Taylor. Watch the way he can't stop himself from singing along with his solo here. Legendary. #musicsky #jazz
youtu.be/B6fSMxXDZNY?...

My list (as he rushes rapidly over to his personal account) would definitely also have Shadow of the Colossus near the top somewhere, and BotW/TotK honestly near the bottom. You're telling me Link can get a little ways up ANY surface, unless it's wet? Is he part gecko or something?

Like, it's money. That I have. Or in a credit card's case, money that I am already allowed to have. Of course there have always been things that are legal and illegal to spend money on, but those things have been determined by...the LAW. Not by a thing that one random guy woke up worried about today

Like John Darnielle wrote, "No matter what he's singing, Ozzy sounds like he was always going to sing that anyway, even if there was nobody listening, even if everybody hated it, even if nobody was even going to put his record in stores."

YouTube video by Black Sabbath BLACK SABBATH - "Children of the Grave" from The End (Live Video)

"I love you...God bless you...You're the fuckin' best." Notice how many times Ozzy stops to send love to the audience? Today was going to come sooner or later, but it's still a day of great loss for me and a bunch of other weird people
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUT7...

if the first thing I saw after waking up from anesthesia was a horse playing the piano, I think I would arrive at a number of incorrect but very convincing conclusions about the afterlife

YouTube video by Songlines Recordings RICHTER 858, A Slideshow

Did anybody else already know that Bill Frisell could be terrifying? I only knew him as the good at front porch music but still highly respected for his technical chops guy; this stuff is terrifying #musicsky
youtu.be/anS5KrxE0Ig

doesn't matter if the music is basically just late to the party Beatles knockoffs, I'm looking at this picture and playing a cool video game in my mind

An album cover in a vintage sci-fi style showing a red celestial body rising over an abandoned city with a crumbling sun mural in the tiles of the foreground.

there is a certain (mostly) 70s-era album art aesthetic that essentially guarantees that I will purchase the vinyl, and it looks like this

A totally fucking badass box with a grim reaper skeleton in a flaming chariot being pulled by a trio of pit bulls baring their teeth in righteous fury

i went all the way to #asle2025 in Maryland just so i could find the greatest box in history at a gas station in Ohio

A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."