I'm so fucking excited to see The Dick Slessig Combo tonight. I'm REALLY hoping they do their rendition of Kraftwerk's "Computer Love," as I read they did that in San Francisco last week. Matmos is playing too, and that will be cool. Matmos played in Boston (ok, Cambridge) in '22 and it w...

I'm so fucking excited to see The Dick Slessig Combo tonight. I'm REALLY hoping they do their rendition of Kraftwerk's "Computer Love," as I read they did that in San Francisco last week. Matmos is playing too, and that will be cool.

Not crap. Production and disposal of the batteries is another matter, though. Isn't this the thing though? People are so excited to declare that they've saved the planet that the ugly truth is kind of kept out of the conversation. Lithium mining is one thing, but as I understand it, the current &qu...

*weird orange shit on the roof of a car above the windshield* WTF is that? Cheetos? Someone trying to attract seagulls or pigeons? My guess is cat vomit. The ambergris of urban feral cat colonies. Ding! Love the ambergris reference! I'm gonna start referring to cat vomit as "felambergris."...

Yesterday I was going through the Top 100 hits of the 90s and OMG 90s chart-makers fucking sucked.

Goo Goo Dolls "Name" was to 90s mainstream panty-dropping what "Killing Moon" was for 80s goth girls.

Not that either helped me that much.

Digging Fallout on Prime.

I got two books by Clarice Lispector this weekend. I am soooooo excited to read these. I don't recall how I heard about her but she and her books seem fascinating. I found The Passion According to G.H. to be a slog. YMMV though. That's the one that actually didn't interest me. I got Near to the Wil...

I got two books by Clarice Lispector this weekend. I am soooooo excited to read these. I don't recall how I heard about her but she and her books seem fascinating.

My sweet wife means no harm. I'm just blowing off because it's hard to type with my finger all bandaged up. She definitely has not worked in a restaurant kitchen and means well. When I go away for two weeks, the falcon abandons the falconer in our kitchen. Things fall apart. The centre does not hol...