Kurt G.

YouTube video by The Painkillers - Topic Good for Me

I'm driving around Webster Groves, running errands for my elderly parents, and blasting the Painkillers in the car.

Living my own little version of Jonathan Franzen's Discomfort Zone.

The committee from The Good Place arguing: “He's got a point. The fair thing for us to do is just keep on giving up more and more stuff we want, unilaterally, until this demon is finally happy.”

YouTube video by Popular videos 小苹果之高铁乘务员版 0002 gangnam style mv

I saw this video on a train from Wuhan to Tianjin in 2015, back when the song 小苹果 was absolutely everywhere. The lead dancer is _working it_.

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YouTube video by Merge Records on YouTube Lambchop - Give It (XX Merge)

Here comes the cool air, the light chill of the fall
Blowing from either direction
Blowing across the yard it's crisp and it's cool
Dogs like it, as they sit around in the sun

Mood

That's the good stuff right there.

Strawberry Bon Bons Hard Candy, 12 oz. Bag Strawberry Bon Bons Hard Candy, 12 oz. Bag

I'm old enough to remember these being a staple at my great aunts' house, but I only just now learned that they have a name.

(Bonus points for being a Russell Stover product, whose assorted chocolates were a hallmark of the holiday season.)

I know nostalgia is a trap and a liar, but...

YouTube video by Ratboys Ratboys - "Light Night Mountains All That" [Official Music Video]

Ratboys get better and better with every release -- "The Window" as a whole was pretty great, and this new track is just fantastic.

What do you have for 1967?

YouTube video by D.J Weego TONY ALVON & THE BELAIRS - Sexy Coffee Pot

Mmmm mmmm mmmm.

I love this so much ❤️

What songs were 41 years old when "Mr. Telephone Man" was released in 1984? "Paper Doll" by the Mills Brothers, "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" by the Ink Spots, and "As Time Goes By" from Casablanca.

I'm so far removed from whatever ecosystem made this song popular 41 years after it was released, but I LOVE it.

Anthropic Judge Blasts $1.5 Billion AI Copyright Settlement (2) The federal judge overseeing Anthropic PBC’s proposed $1.5 billion copyright settlement is concerned class lawyers are striking a deal behind the scenes that will be forced “down the throat of authors...

I found this summary easier to track: news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/anthr...

Brach's is the only candy corn that matters.

YouTube video by Jenny Tian Performing in the US for the first time in September! #unitedkingdom #chips #australia #usa #fries

Ha, I came across this video a couple days ago, and apparently it's a thing in Australian English: www.youtube.com/shorts/fxJMe...

Ghislandi painting looted by Nazis recovered in Argentina Portrait of a Lady had been missing for 80 years before it was spotted on an estate agent's website.

But I'm so glad they recovered it eventually, even if the daughter is still asserting ownership:

"The couple insist they are the rightful owners of the artwork, which they had inherited, according to Argentina's La Nacion newspaper."

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"There's now a large rug with horses and some nature scenes hanging there, which police say looks like something else used to hang there".

Following the photo's appearance, one of the sisters told the Dutch paper she didn't know what they wanted from her, nor what painting they "are talking about".

Painting looted by Nazis has vanished again, say Argentine police Prosecutor says painting no longer at Buenos Aires home featured in estate agent's advert.

Of course, they first tried feigning ignorance:

Peter Schouten of the Dutch Algemeen Dagblad newspaper, which first reported the long-lost artwork's reappearance, said there was evidence "the painting was removed shortly afterwards or after the media reports about it appeared".

My earlier post contained an incredibly embarrassing math error, so I've deleted it to avoid shame and ridicule :-)

That said, the price of this imported item has increased 16.7% between May 9, when I took the first picture, and today.

Costco already has Christmas stuff in stock. On August 31.

Looks like the skewed images have been corrected on the Google version -- they'll probably propagate to HathiTrust eventually. Also looks like that 1847 Thomas Farris edition is not cheap to acquire:

What is Moiré and How it Can Ruin Your Photos Moiré can ruin your photos by adding wavy patterns to them. It occurs when an image is captured with a high-resolution camera that has no low-pass filter.

That a moiré effect introduced by digitization -- it's not present in the printed image: photographylife.com/what-is-moire

Ah, digitized by Google, ingested by HathiTrust. I thought the angle of the illustration at the head of Chapter 1 looked familiar.

Oh duh, are these the same copy from the University of Chicago?

Dombey and Daughter

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Accidentally arrived at Costco as they were opening on Saturday, to an enormous line. You would have thought we lived in the food-shortage-era Soviet Union for how fearful and desperate the crowd felt.

YouTube video by k0n0wanKo LuckyFes ’25　新しい学校のリーダーズ LIVE

Plus, their live shows are amazing, especially when performing with a live band. The level of fitness needed to sing while still doing all their crazy choreography is something else.

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YouTube video by ATARASHII GAKKO! - 新しい学校のリーダーズ ATARASHII GAKKO! - One Heart (Official Music Video)

I adore this group. Their sound is all over the place (everything from phonk to Shōwa era synthpop to southern praise break), but their message and perspective is consistently positive.