Seven Notes & Three Chords
Aldean’s music is the music of resentment. There’s just the one clef, with seven notes & three chords.
It Burns
May was nice. June too. But now it’s July and scenes like this are fading memories. We’re in a prolonged heat wave. They say people in Phoenix are being hospitalized with second-degree burns (third-degree in some cases, per CNN) after collapsing on 180°F sidewalks. If it’s happening in Phoenix, it’s happening in Tucson. Walking the […]
NATO & Me
Who’d a thunk this old dog could actually learn something new from a YouTube video? Huh.
I, Robot Slut
I’ve been on Bluesky’s waitlist for more than two months, twiddling my thumbs on the couch with Mahomet, Jugdish, Sidney, and Clayton.
Saturday is a Rant Day
Journamalism these days!
Birds Aren’t Real*
Twitter was going downhill before Elon Musk bought it. I can’t put a finger on why, but it felt to me as if some of the spirit had leaked out of it. It was becoming less collegial, more angry. Maybe that’s the fate of any social media platform … as more and more climb aboard, […]
SA In the Shiggy
This morning I looked up shiggy in the Urban Dictionary. Turns out I was pretty close.
Memorabilia & Narrow Escapes
I can’t get all righteous over some rich asshole’s collection of Nazi memorabilia.