This was for the record books. I am really proud, and it was really fun, but it was ultimately challenging and exhausting. And totally worth it. I watched as many films as I could possibly watch in (more…)
AI Slop is ruining music like AI is ruining minds. Spotify publishing new songs from dead artists
Spotify Publishes AI-Generated Songs From Dead Artists Without Permission (no paywall here: https://futurism.com/spotify-ai-blaze-foley) https://www.404media.co/spotify-publishes-ai-generated-songs-from-dead-artists-without-permission/ According (more…)
Being subversive, Comedy, Art, Timing, and what % you are operating at, with Norm Macdonald!
The below article is a fascinating read into Norm’s mind. I remember reading it when it came out, and MAN was he ahead of his time, in so many ways. But I think about it in context of the last 7 years, (more…)
A rundown of some of the lesser known musical talent that is missed by the algorithm, here and there: Ladies edition.
TL;DR – Who do you love, who have you seen? Upshot, a buddy said he didn’t listen to many women artists because there weren’t that many good ones and my head almost exploded. I corrected him, and mentioned (more…)
Epstein isn’t about law and order holding a cretinous scumbag accountable. It’s a political coup.
This is my most conspiratorial post ever, but it’s not a conspiracy if it comes to pass, right? TL:DR – The GOP handlers who installed Trump have had the Epstein thing as the cure-all kill-switch to (more…)
Go Fly A Kite.
Apparently, 3 separate lines flown by one person is not a common thing in the Kite community! =) This 4th of July 2025, at Pajaro Dunes for my Dad’s 80th Birthday, I realized that flying a kite is the (more…)
The NYT Times Top 100 Films of the 21st Century, Printable list with columns, PDF, and easy full list.
Here’s the article, my list, the full list below just to copy and paste, or dear friends… a PDF and Word Document, 2 pages, 3 columns! at this Google Drive link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1L31odpEKyQOFjOPivOXdBeScy8P3rJyQ?usp=sharing NYT (more…)
A 1997 poem by Cesar A. Cruz, a brutal reminder that the march towards equality is realizing the entire planet is simply filled with immigrants looking for something better than where they came from.
To Comfort The Disturbed, and to Disturb the Comfortable: Onward children of the sun By Cesar A. Cruz, 1997 Daddy, why is Mommy hangin’ from a tree? the torture chambers of our minds collide hide disguise the (more…)
A poem about the terror of death. Wild work by Philip Larkin
I’m thrilled to say after a lifetime of this ceaseless, unyielding panic and fear of mortality and death, that started as soon as I could read, and the words hung over my bed, “Now I lay me down to (more…)
Newsletter #0073 – We are the universe experiencing itself.
The quote is Mr Alan Watts. Although charmingly engrossing with his cadence and style, and as much as he did for Buddhism and Philosophy in the West, his critics will absolutely suggest he was (more…)