Tristram Shandy

50 years ago, the Edmund Fitzgerald, a 'rock star' ship, sank in Lake Superior Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship was immortalized in a surprise hit 1976 folk ballad by Gordon Lightfoot.

Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship was immortalized in a surprise hit 1976 folk ballad by Gordon Lightfoot.

Montreal smoked meat isn’t a good thing, it is a great thing!

Zip drive?

Sausages? Sausages!

Thomas Pynchon's new novel, Shadow Ticket. Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Al Capone in the federal pen, the private investigation business shifting from labor-management relations to the more domestic kind. Hicks McTaggart, a onetime strikebreaker turned private eye, thinks he’s found job security until he gets sent out on what should be a routine case, locating and bringing back the heiress of a Wisconsin cheese fortune who’s taken a mind to go wandering. Before he knows it, he’s been shanghaied onto a transoceanic liner, ending up eventually in Hungary where there’s no shoreline, a language from some other planet, and enough pastry to see any cop well into retirement—and of course no sign of the runaway heiress he’s supposed to be chasing. By the time Hicks catches up with her he will find himself also entangled with Nazis, Soviet agents, British counterspies, swing musicians, practitioners of the paranormal, outlaw motorcyclists, and the troubles that come with each of them, none of which Hicks is qualified, forget about being paid, to deal with. Surrounded by history he has no grasp on and can’t see his way around in or out of, the only bright side for Hicks is it’s the dawn of the Big Band Era and as it happens he’s a pretty good dancer. Whether this will be enough to allow him somehow to Lindy-hop his way back again to Milwaukee and the normal world, which may no longer exist, is another question.

Happy New Pynchon Day to all who celebrate.

#Pynchon #ShadowTicket

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

YouTube video by Gang Of Four Gang Of Four - He'd Send In The Army (Official Live | Urgh 1980)

The Private's not born that way
Guns take up all his time
With no job he'd be in a mess
Wanted action, gets some in

Gang of Four - "He'd Send In The Army" (LIVE - 1980)

#BestSongHeardToday #Bestsong #Musicsky
#GangofFour

I always assumed that was his overly complicated plan to get a divorce.

The new Sloan album, Based on the Best Seller, arrived in the mail today, 10 days early!

Happy Sloan Music Arriving in the Mail Day to all those who celebrate, and those who don't.
#Sloan #SloanMusic #Canrock

YouTube video by sloanmusic Sloan - No Damn Fears (Official Visualizer)

#BestSongHeardToday #Bestsong #Musicsky
#Sloan #SloanMusic #BasedontheBestSeller

Trump, Pence, Ivanka, and Jerod appear as skeletons behind bars with a note, The Haunting of Leavenworth 2120

I made this collage for Halloween 2019. The cell this year will be a bit more crowded. #trumpbehindbars

I mean, it still says “Cracker.”

a man with a beard says that 's a name i ve not heard in a long time ALT: a man with a beard says that 's a name i ve not heard in a long time

3dfx?

YouTube video by KEXP Eyelids - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

#BestSongHeardToday #Bestsong #Musicsky
#Eyelids #FallingEyes

Beep beep, Ribby ribby.

YouTube video by Pöstpöp Tart Echo & The Bunnymen Live @ Rockpalast 1983 08 - Rescue

Things are wrong
Things are going wrong
Can you tell that in a song

#BestSongHeardToday #Bestsong #Musicsky
#EchoandtheBunnymen #Rescue

And his resemblance to Roy Cohn.

YouTube video by FreddeTl Tom Lehrer - Lobachevsky

I am never forget the day I first meet the great Lobachevsky
In one word he told me secret of success in mathematics
Plagiarize
Let no one else's work evade your eyes
Remember why the good Lord made your eyes
So don't shade your eyes
But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize

YouTube video by MBSS20 Circle Jerks - Coup D'etat

General Lissimo sets up shop
Step out of line, your neck's on the block
Armies marching through the streets
Dressed so sharp, dressed so neat
Coup d'état
A push from the left and a shove from the right
It's all planned up, we'll do it tonight
#BestSongHeardToday #Bestsong #Musicsky
#BlackFlag #Coup

YouTube video by einzack Frank Black - Kicked In The Taco (live)

Today at the New Morocco
I got kicked in the taco
All I saw were stars

#BestSongHeardToday #Bestsong #Musicsky
#FrankBlack #TACO #BleckFrancis

A one-minute gap?

YouTube video by The Dead Milkmen - Topic Ringo Buys a Rifle

We start wars
Forget the poor
That all must change
Ringo buys a rifle
We stand tall
Try to evolve
We'll walk on water
Ringo buys a rifle

#BestSongHeardToday #Bestsong #Musicsky
#DeadMilkmen #Ringo

strange rumblings in aztlan...

Doug from animal house

Ah, Doug Neidermeyer. That’s who Peter Thiel reminds me of.

YouTube video by getmegold Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Goon Squad

Thinking up the alibis that everyone's forgotten
Just another mummy's boy gone to rotten
They pat some good boys on the back and put some to the rod,
But I never thought they'd put me in the
Goon squad

#BestSongHeardToday #Bestsong #Musicsky
#ElvisCostello #Attractions

And they still won’t give him the Nobel Peace Prize…