D’Angelo was incredible and Black Messiah is straight up a life changing album. I spent the last few days listening to this album on repeat. His singing makes time reset to him. Here’s a snippet of a drum cover I attempted just now of “Ain’t That Easy”.
Beautiful October day, 80 degrees, breezy. Oh, and I start my new job in a week. More to come.
Thanks, LinkedIn.
Anika Nilles drumming with Rush is such a badass move on Geddy and Alex’s part. Rolling Stone profile of Anika Nilles.
Living Color still sound fucking amazing, Cult of Personality performed on Jimmy Kimmel’s show.
I have no clue why I'm writing this and wtf are these three fingers for?
Jimmy Kimmel went off the air for a few days. People voted with their wallets. They cancelled their Disney + subscriptions, they sent a loud clear message. Jimmy Kimmel is now back on the air.
Apple pulls key apps from the App Store that anonymously and safely allows communities some semblance of agency against the cruelty of this administration. Imagine the response being billions of dollars in returned Apple merchandise, overnight, cancelled Apple related subscriptions and iPhone orders.
Apple is not your enemy. Disney is not your enemy. Tim Cook is not your enemy. Google is not your enemy. But they wield power over our culture that can be reversed and channeled appropriately. We always say, money talks, people with money have the power, etc. Collectively we could easily use that as leverage, and put them into the appropriate position to say Fuck you, make me.
But we’re not doing that. We are bitching about how Tim Cook is bending the knee, online, dopamine achieved. My wife always reminds me about pointing fingers, there are three fingers pointing back.
The Nebraska Telephone Company Building in Lincoln. A reminder that infrastructure used to be built with style. From theclio.com:
The ground story is composed of cast iron with a simple classical motif spanning the width of the front of the building. The upper stories are St. Louis pressed brick topped by a terra cotta entablature and wall cornice, under a copper free-standing anthemion motif. This motif featuring of alternating lotus and palmette is shared by the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. The second and third floor facades also feature ornate designs such as a terra cotta panel featuring a bell (a symbol of the phone company) and floral motif underneath a palladian window.
Give me the titanium iPhone mini as the next air.
This. From Taegan Goddard’s Politcal Wire. Well worth the subscription btw.
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) could simply announce that Democrats will no longer filibuster appropriations bills, and when back in the majority, they’ll formally abolish it. That alone would render the filibuster meaningless. Such a move would leave Republicans fully responsible for funding the government. Democrats could vote against GOP proposals and then criticize them as bad policy without being blamed for shutting down the government.