Kevin Laskey

The two Comcast towers are taller, which I always snarkily refer to as Kabletown I and II

Bill Frisell Quartet, John Hollenbeck Royal Toast, whatever you count as Tyshawn Sorey’s 12th album…

This, but for The Shaggs

A little brown pekeweenie curled up in a little ball on a big human bed

One of my favorite things that little Shosti does!

First!

Umphrey’s McGee would like a word

Ratboys, Plural | Notre Dame Magazine | University of Notre Dame The evolving indie band that began at Notre Dame keeps its ‘variety show’ on the road.

It was a real treat to write about the best indie band Notre Dame has produced since Ted Leo graduated in 1993. Listen to @ratboysband.bsky.social! magazine.nd.edu/stories/ratb...

A small brown pekeweenie sits among blankets

An uncanny resemblance to Shosti!

It’s similar to opinions about college - someone might think colleges in general are full of communist snowflakes, but they think their local college is great. People don’t trust journalists, except the ones they know in their favorite shows/movies.

ok this breakdown of AI writing indicators is incredible. Huge shout-out to the Wikipedia community for this

I mean, I know that left-NIMBYs want to find all kinds of complicated reasons why the housing market supposedly doesn't follow the logic of supply and demand

But his looks like as linear a relationship as you could possibly map out on graph paper

yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats

A 15-minute megamix of the upcoming opera by @cherialissa.bsky.social and me about the 2012 NFL referee strike

the 2025 Mets

When my family went to see the nouveau murderer’s row Yankees in 1998, we ended up seeing their worst loss of the year!

sometimes i watch classic hollywood films — this happened recently with HIGH NOON — and i think, “yeah i get it, this whips.” i’m having a similar experience with music right now and specifically the work of duke ellington. i’m listening to the man’s work and i’m like, “yeah, this stuff is sick”

There are a lot of good American cymbal smiths now too

Back when I interned there in 2011, a number of individual hosts and reporters were chafing at this, but they’ve all left since then.

If NPR stopped doing this false equivalence BS, they’d raise more money than what they got from the CPB and immediately become the most important American media outlet.

More than that. "The FBI ***recorded*** Tom Homan taking the money "after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration."

Part of the reason why my sister’s favorite artists for a time were Arlo Guthrie and The Lovin’ Spoonful

Just so I'm clear:

TV host says we should kill every homeless person? No big deal

TV host says the right must "go to war" with the left? Pfft.

TV host says the government is cracking down on critics? Well, the government cracks down on him for the criticism.

Free speech, everyone.

Exactly. Art is a vocabulary for processing what it is to exist

The Mets starter went for 4 innings and gave up 2 runs. The next pitcher went for 5 and gave up 1 run.

How many times has a pitching line like this happened?

I can send the syllabus via email, but I bet he’d be down to talk about what he’s doing.

Oooo! Is it a specific type of counterpoint class, or something more holistic? I like Robert Gauldin’s Renaissance book because it’s less abstract and more grounded in the music. If you’re doing something looser, my colleague Ramin Arjomand has a ton of fabulous stuff.

More tomorrow, but now might be a very good time to consider subscribing to What’s Alan Watching? alansepinwall.ghost.io

For the record.

My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers.

I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced. I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

substack.com/@karenattiah...

Brazilian composer Hermeto Pascoal, known as 'The Sorcerer', dies aged 89 Brazilian musician Hermeto Pascoal, who played - and even boxed - with Miles Davis and was known as "The Sorcerer" for coaxing tunes from everything from a live piglet to water-filled kettles, died on Saturday aged 89.

Brazilian composer Hermeto Pascoal, known as 'The Sorcerer', dies aged 89 reut.rs/41PaRCS