Clay (feet of)

A cryptic note from my stack of papers:

Piggly Wiggly vs Zork

It meant something to me at the time.

The Fall
Gun Club
Mission of Burma
Young Marble Giants

Maybe John Cale if you count The Velvet Underground to his total.

In alt music there's also Cate le Bon and The Mekon's John Langford.

Listen to Ryan Schwank. He’s an ex-trainer at ICE who previously served as Assistant Chief Counsel for ICE. Before that, he was a legal adviser at the Dilley Family Residential Center in Texas. He has defended some horrible stuff and here he is calling DHS out. You know it's bad when this happens.

NYC BLIZZARD: All NYC public schools will be closed Monday, bringing back ‘old-school’ snow day As a major winter storm continues to batter New York City, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced that all public schools will be closed on Monday.

Schools are closed. No Zoom classes. I have often felt a little sadness for the kids who no longer have traditional snow days. This is a nice touch. We shouldn't be so relentlessly relentless. That's for Nandor only.

#nyc #hernando #wwdits #2026blizzard

YouTube video by BBC Orkestra Obsolete play Blue Monday using 1930s instruments - BBC Arts

Ink Radio.
The only place you’ll hear.

Well I've been using that word all wrong.

Same, sadly, I no longer have my vinyl. I'll have to search it out one day.

Conserve The Sound: An online museum of vanishing and endangered sounds www.conservethesound.de

YouTube video by Pete Bilderback "Stupid Kids" Christmas (1989, from "Ultraprophets Of Thee Psykick Revolution" LP)

Just a Christmas tune for you from Ultraprophets of Thee Psykick Revolution. Really an underappreciated band, I think. And almost impossible to search for.

#PowerPopOfTheDay
#MusicChallenge

YouTube video by CamperVanBeethovVEVO Camper Van Beethoven - Eye Of Fatima (Pt. 1)

My mourning doves are angry. Here's Camper Van Beethoven. I loved them back in the days when mourning doves didn't haunt my window.

Tony Harrison from the Mighty Boosh, who is a squid-like pink head. He's saying, "Oh, come off it, Tusk, in its entirety, with the pauses as Lindsey Buckingham intended it to be heard."

Agreed on this. "Never Make Me Cry" is a standout for me and surpasses the original by far.

YouTube video by PinkDevilFish Elliott Smith - Thirteen (Live Acoustic Big Star Cover)(From 'Lucky 3')

Somewhere on blue sky, and I can't find it anymore, I stumbled across this lovely cover by Elliot Smith of Thirteen by Big Star.

#elliotsmith #bigstar

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The Mekons are champs at this. Especially when they drank more.

The Spouter Inn's famous McRib sandwich.

To Live and Die in L.A. (1985) When his longtime partner on the force is killed, reckless U.S. Secret Service agent Richard Chance vows revenge, setting out to nab dangerous counterfeit artist Eric Masters.

My TV fritzed into permanent darkness halfway through "Live and Die in L.A."

If all the wanging didn’t kill it, the chunging sealed the deal.

#filmsky

A black cat, Otter, chilling out on a grey couch. Plants overhang.

For Black Cat owners, Friday the 13th is yet another celebration day for these fuzzy little voids. This hardly means they're bad luck, but rather they are honorary members of the Knights Templar.

Mine has departed but I rarely miss a chance to share her.

#blackcat #fridaythe13th #photography #cat

Bud Cort, ‘Harold and Maude’ Star, Dies at 77 Bud Cort, who starred in 'Harold and Maude" and "Brewster McCloud," died Wednesday. He was 77.

RIP Bud Cort
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I feel like we need an preventative media accord.

When Trump dies and the inevitable official Trump AI is launched, endless social media posts, AI videos, etc., the media ignores everything it says and every bot-charged reaction to it.

Or else we'll be doomed to hear from him to the end of days.

Ring search party for turning your neighborhood doorbells into mesh video surveillance for “dogs” seems sketch.

That's about $136,000,000 in USD. I think we'll be losing a lot more than that.

A cartoon boy, Calvin, of Calvin and Hobbes, sitting at a school desk and saying, "Given the pace of technology, I propose we leave math to the machines and go play outside."

Apropos of nothing but the last couple centuries of technology.

YouTube video by Patrick R Mitch Hedberg Car Horn

Because they stop to let children off and it's going too slowly for them. I am convinced that honking is a power curve and 20% of the drivers will honk anytime they're paused. They need to be fined into oblivion.

Or

www.youtube.com/shorts/8r3nr...

It gets really bad at certain times. Usually when kids are going to or coming out of school, people love to honk at the school buses.

I was thinking about this game today when all the horns were blowing, which they do often around here. Seems like a good pitch game.

Or perhaps I'll just go insane instead.

I Get Along Without You Very Well (Except Sometimes)
Nina Simone

A hardback book on a wooden table entitled Maintenance of Everything by Stewart Brand.

I've been struggling to read anything long form, relying on books of short stories and essays while abandoning novels. However, Stewart Brand's "Maintenance: Of Everything" has been reassuringly engaging.

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#booksky

A shot of a Brooklyn Street empty because of the snow, about an hour before snow turned to sleet.

Our snow has turned to sleet in Brooklyn, just the heavens reminding us once again to say fuck ICE.

The cats and knob twiddling were very distracting during the flooding.