Eric R. Danton

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

The Antlers, 'Blight' Album Review Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

The new Antlers album "Blight" is beautiful and sad, and though the subject matter is heavy, the songs never feel weighed down. My take, for Paste:
www.pastemagazine.com/music/the-an...

I have about 800 GB of body cam footage from a protest at UMass Amherst in May 2024 that I can no longer justify the drive space for. If you have an opinion on how I should archive the metadata, or perhaps have a use for the video footage lmk.

What's the point of a union if it's going to fold like a rusty lawn chair?

Kind of skeptical about two-thirds of Rush going on tour without Neil Peart, but intrigued that the drummer who will sit in for him is Anika Nilles, a woman three decades younger than the rest of them.

That's some Turkmenistan-style nonsense. Soon he'll be renaming days of the week after himself

If only someone could have tossed that canister back into their SUV. (Not feasible, I realize, but wow)

Freak Scene #86: Eryie House Ruins Revel in Gothic-Folk on Debut Plus, Winterpills return with a song from their first new album since 2016

New in Freak Scene: Northampton's Eyrie House Ruins summon the spirit of the long-since burned-down Hoyoke hotel on their debut, while Winterpills are back with a new song from a forthcoming album:
buttondown.com/freakscene/a...

YouTube video by David Dean Burkhart Cassandra Jenkins - Hard Drive

"Hard Drive" by Cassandra Jenkins for me. When she counts to three in the middle, it's like some magical incantation that knocks down walls
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-T6...

Freak Scene #86: Eryie House Ruins Revel in Gothic-Folk on Debut Plus, Winterpills return with a song from their first new album since 2016

New in Freak Scene: Northampton's Eyrie House Ruins summon the spirit of the long-since burned-down Hoyoke hotel on their debut, while Winterpills are back with a new song from a forthcoming album:
buttondown.com/freakscene/a...

YouTube video by Casey Dienel - Topic People Can Change

When the doomscrolling starts to overwhelm, there's "People Can Change," a lush new song from Casey Dienel's gorgeous upcoming album to help snap you out of it:
music.youtube.com/watch?v=wlD2...

For the founder of a company called Palantir, he's basically Saruman

The more I think about this, the dumber it is

The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.

More evidence that making billions of dollars doesn't mean you're immune to millenarian quackery. This would be hilarious if Thiel weren't bankrolling extremist nuts because he believes they're holding back the Antichrist, based on the teachings of a Nazi philosopher
www.wired.com/story/the-re...

He's given you a blank slate in that photo!

Here for the niche CT politico references

Like Wu-Tang, I'm for the children

As one of the coaches, I have to temper my disrespect in front of the kids, and also because I don't want a card

I've seen it go both ways. Last weekend, the ref was a young person, but the contact -- a two-armed shove in the box without coming close to the ball -- should have definitely resulted in a penalty kick

Perhaps youth soccer is for you, when there's a LOT of contact between players and still no penalty

And how!

Ah, so committing genocide = bad, but having committed genocide is a big shrug?

I've never seen a Wal-Mart with a lobster tank, but I also try to avoid Wal-Mart in general

What venue is having that much trouble maintaining a coherent schedule?

Amanda Shires, 'Nobody's Girl' Album Review Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

Wrote about Amanda Shires' wrenching new divorce album for Paste. She reclaims her own story as she struggles to get back on her feet again after the bodyblow of the split with her ex-husband. My take:
www.pastemagazine.com/music/amanda...

I dunno, that El Salvadoran prison for terrorists seems appropriate

Watched the Mike Judge movie Idiocracy last night for the first time, and boy was he spot-on

The computer science track is ripe for derision

Diplomatically put

En serio? Que casualidad!