Gramsci wrote: Mon Mar 09, 2026 9:12 am https://daily.bandcamp.com/album-of-the ... ons-review

A nice write up.

https://tapeop.com/blog/2026/03/07/albini-sessions

Tape Op, with a link to an article about Inner Ear.

The Bandcamp write points out something I’d missed: the small-but-awesome change to the cover!

cakes wrote: Mon Mar 09, 2026 11:43 am

penningtron wrote: Mon Mar 09, 2026 10:47 am Yeah he got MeToo’d maybe why people weren’t shouting his death from rooftops.

Spurlock?

Yep.

Pretty bad allegations, too.

Bernardo wrote: Thu Mar 05, 2026 5:49 pm I saw Sirat this week , I don't know. Make sure you watch it with BIG sound, I guess. If you're not in a good place emotionally it may not be a good pick.

Just watched Sirat at the Music Box. Absolutely loved it but agree that it’s not a good movie to see if you’re in a bad place.

In seriousness, what Trump says out loud about a ground war means nothing.

I, too, want Iran to have a good leader who will do a good job.

Also, does anyone else agree that it’s nice when the weather is nice?

Lu, you remember Ann Coulter? Do you remember how people made shitty “jokes” about how she looked “like a tranny” or had an Adam’s apple and all that? The anti-trans “jokes” didn’t suddenly become okay because Coulter was especially loathsome.

Nobody here is trying to protect the good name of ...

Can’t say I love ‘em, but they’re occasionally good in certain contexts.

Pickled beets and peppers are much better. Sauerkraut rules.

I ate lots of fantastic pickled vegetables in Japan, but pickled plums are among the worst things I’ve ever put in my mouth.

We decided that, from here on out, we’ll use Kayak to see what our options are and then just book directly with the airline. (Which we do often already.)

And fuck Priceline too.

Tried to buy plane tickets earlier today through Kayak, which pointed us toward Cheapflightfares. Long story short, it quickly became apparent they were trying to pull a bait-and-switch scam on us. (When things started sounding dodgy, we looked them up online and saw hundreds of complaints.)

We ...

Definitely, though it was a race to the bottom this last time around. You also had . . .

. . . Hispanic and other immigrant communities who didn’t think they’d be targeted for repression

. . . People who thought Trump and Harris would be equally bad on foreign policy (Hillary Clinton was awful ...