Jazz, Comics, and Baseball

The worst I ever got were a small handful of these. I swear they were smuggled out of Italy in someone's armpit.

My mother _made_ popcorn balls to give out at Halloween. She also "packaged" them, by wrapping them in wax paper and tying that off with a ribbon.

Then Ann Landers spread the rumor about razor blades in candy apples, and suddenly home-made sweets were verboten.

To me, this looks less like Orwell, and more like the bureaucracy run amok in Terry Gilliam's "Brazil".

Meta lays off 600 employees within AI unit The cuts come as Meta has been pouring billions of dollars into AI

Meanwhile, it looks like the Zuck has decided to pull out of this particular race. What's odd is that he just plumped down $27 billion to create another datacenter in low-regulation Louisiana. Perhaps he plans to use someone else's AI tool on FB's data?

www.cnbc.com/2025/10/22/m...

Very bad.
Not good.
Go around.

A Stranger Shattered Their Lives. At First, They Didn’t Know Why.

I gave up watching American football in 2016. I used to love the strategy, tactics, and athleticism. But the evidence that it destroys brains became too conclusive.

Sadly, one set of destroyed brains becomes murderous.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/u...

I mean, I might. If it's based on the radio-show/books, then it's an attempt at making sense of the chaos that is reality, so the "immersive" thing could work.

If it's based on the TV show or movie, then it will be a linear narrative with side-quests, which is a thing I hate about immersiveness.

I am not one of those people who enjoy "immersive" theatre. If you like/love it, bully for you. To me, it's an evening of frustration and being _way_ too close to people.

So I did not need to learn that there is now an immersive version of "The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Dare I try it?

If you see this, post a goth and a punk

The "no sense of decency" line, sure enough, didn't work on McCarthy. But it worked on a _lot_ of his supporters.

Fallon needs to learn that "not taking a side" defaults to "siding with the oppressor".

To be fair, "fearing mass firings" is a valid reason. I seem to recall a post-Weimar outfit that did that, and that this administration holds that outfit in high esteem.

Jimmy Kimmel at his desk, where he will be again on September 23rd, 2025.

Cry harder, Kirk-suckers.

So… since we pretend like we don’t care about being the forgotten generation but really are filled with angst without it… what are our most GenX gripes?

I’m at the stage of complaining about teenagers never leaving their houses and getting into trouble like my friends and I did.

We're suffering our RISP problem again.

I need everyone to know that there’s a guy in Toronto who white girl dances to Kesha & he now gets recognized in public. People are ELATED about joining and it is just the best thing.

But I do appreciate them admitting that their nuts are a fake made-up story.

I dare say that #jazzsky would take issue with your summary.

However, I am also shedding a sentimental tear for Chuck Mangione and his family.

if only we had a recent example of what it looks like when the mainstream media decides the president's mental state leaves them no choice but to bury him in an avalanche of negative coverage.

Superman (1978): You will believe a man can fly.

Superman (2025): You will believe the most powerful man ever is fundamentally good. And whose strongest epithet is "Golly!", which he delivers unironically.

Wait; arguments can _end_?

The only happy fireworks dog.

Trombone Shorty playing to the back of the house

#jazzsky #SPAC
And finally, closing out this year's Fest, TROMBONE SHORTY & ORLEANS AVENUE!

I found it vacuous fun, but they so screwed up the love triangle, I'm not too sad to see it go.

A crowd of dancers in front of a Latin jazz horn section

##jazzsky #SPAC
La Excelencia inspiring the whole crowd to dance

Not really my thing, but DANG he's good at it!

Cory Wong on rhythm guitar with his horn section

##jazzsky #SPAC
West coast party jazz from Cory Wong.

Dafuq is wrong with Walker Bueller?