Minnesota State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark Hortman, both gunned down this weekend by a right wing lunatic posing as a cop. I got to watch MAGA's shifting talking points about this assassination play out in real time with a family member who was glued to their cell phone thi...

losthighway wrote: Fri Jun 13, 2025 12:46 am Did Israel just start a world war?

The kindling has been being placed all over this planet for decades. Not sure any one action now could be seen as the "start" of the conflagration that's coming.

The Phoenician Scheme . I enjoyed it more than any of Anderson's stuff since Isle of Dogs . I seriously disliked French Dispatch , was bored by Asteroid City , and had a good time with the Netflix shorts. I'll always watch his new films, but I'm glad he's put out another feature that I will probabl...

My favorite moment for WTF was when he playfully called Nick Cave a cowboy (which I guess has different connotations in Australia) and he came back with a cold-as-ice, "I'm not a fucking cowboy," and the interview didn't really recover.

four_oclocker_2.2 wrote: Fri Jun 06, 2025 2:00 pm ^That band has a harmonica player?

Harmonica. keys, sax, and (amazing) vocals from Ambrose. He doesn't play guitar with them, but he does with his other band The Murlocs, who are amazing.

King Gizzard playing live in Athens, Greece as I type.

I had the over/under of how many times he would call Josh Homme "dude" at 15, and I think the over won around halfway through. But also, when they were talking about the Bataclan attacks, at one point Josh told Mark he appreciated not being asked to go into detail...and then Mark pressed h...

I found a couple of Lawrence Block's short story collections in a used book store over the weekend and I'm re-reading them.

Really fun little stories that usually end with a zinger. Recommended.

Pig I'm a few years behind on this one. What I thought I was getting was some kind of grimy exploitation flick in the tradition of tough-ass old man gets his ass kicked repeatedly but ultimately achieves righteous, vengeance in the form of comically gratuitous violence. I don't know where I got tha...

The post Jane’s Addiction album Deconstruction. It had a little publicity recently after Spin republished a Substack piece on the making of the album. https://www.spin.com/2024/12/deconstruction/ I love this album, a vinyl release due. One of my favorite 90s albums. I'm always surprised when hardco...