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Some of us are living the “rip Blu-rays to huge, uncompressed digital files and stream them over Plex” life. It is even fiddlier than managing your own MP3 music library, but only a little bit. Anyway, you can still rent Blu-rays through the mail, it’s just slow: www.store-3d-blurayrental.com
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October 20, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Some of us are living the “rip Blu-rays to huge, uncompressed digital files and stream them over Plex” life. It is even fiddlier than managing your own MP3 music library, but only a little bit. Anyway, you can still rent Blu-rays through the mail, it’s just slow: www.store-3d-blurayrental.com
Some other reasons writers might have for not wanting to get stuck on their platform: daringfireball.net/2025/08/the_...
The Substack Branding and Faux Prestige Trap
Only with Substack does anyone perceive creator branding as being subservient to the platform — something that ought to be seen merely as an interchangeable CMS.
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August 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Some other reasons writers might have for not wanting to get stuck on their platform: daringfireball.net/2025/08/the_...
The Pencil Factory! The only bar for the gentrifying twenty-somethings in Greenpoint in 2002, of which I was one.
July 28, 2025 at 12:48 PM
The Pencil Factory! The only bar for the gentrifying twenty-somethings in Greenpoint in 2002, of which I was one.
What are you going to watch first?
July 19, 2025 at 10:21 PM
What are you going to watch first?
True dat! I guess, in that case, I prefer three hours of the Red Sox.
May 31, 2025 at 6:02 PM
True dat! I guess, in that case, I prefer three hours of the Red Sox.
They put you out during a colonoscopy. It’s kind of pleasant.
May 31, 2025 at 4:54 PM
They put you out during a colonoscopy. It’s kind of pleasant.
If only one thing could exist, I’d take “Sorrow” over all of No Prayer. But if Satan forced me to listen to one album all the way through, I’d pick No Prayer every time. (Album cover–wise, Pin Ups is the winner, no contest.)
January 27, 2025 at 9:46 PM
If only one thing could exist, I’d take “Sorrow” over all of No Prayer. But if Satan forced me to listen to one album all the way through, I’d pick No Prayer every time. (Album cover–wise, Pin Ups is the winner, no contest.)
Counterargument to Maiden doing a covers album as being a good way to reset: Bowie’s 1973 Pin Ups album. Did it help Bowie leave Ziggy behind and get to Diamond Dogs/the rest of the 70s? Maybe! Is it listenable? Nope!
January 27, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Counterargument to Maiden doing a covers album as being a good way to reset: Bowie’s 1973 Pin Ups album. Did it help Bowie leave Ziggy behind and get to Diamond Dogs/the rest of the 70s? Maybe! Is it listenable? Nope!
Ah, yeah, that is interesting. I do think of Seventh Son as the most Maiden-y album, as in it’s their most distinctive sound. No other band sounds anything like that. But maybe it’s that Hallowed and Trooper strike me as the “most” Maiden, vs the “most uniquely” Maiden. Idk! They contain multitudes.
January 26, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Ah, yeah, that is interesting. I do think of Seventh Son as the most Maiden-y album, as in it’s their most distinctive sound. No other band sounds anything like that. But maybe it’s that Hallowed and Trooper strike me as the “most” Maiden, vs the “most uniquely” Maiden. Idk! They contain multitudes.
Yeah! That might be my second choice for most Maiden-y, too. Certainly the most gallop-y!
January 26, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Yeah! That might be my second choice for most Maiden-y, too. Certainly the most gallop-y!
Galloping, head-banging epic loaded with story and atmosphere, cool changes, rad harmonies, killer solos, top-2 wail from Bruce — if not their best, definitely their most Maiden-y.
January 26, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Galloping, head-banging epic loaded with story and atmosphere, cool changes, rad harmonies, killer solos, top-2 wail from Bruce — if not their best, definitely their most Maiden-y.
Why are you calling a baseball journalist pathetic for this? Weirdo.
January 21, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Why are you calling a baseball journalist pathetic for this? Weirdo.
The first time I used Apple Music, it misidentified and overwrote custom metadata for so many tracks, I never trusted it again.
I use AAC rips with iTunes Match for my Music app library (weird stuff happens with MP3s sometimes) and Spotify for streaming. Basically, I keep the Music service away.
I use AAC rips with iTunes Match for my Music app library (weird stuff happens with MP3s sometimes) and Spotify for streaming. Basically, I keep the Music service away.
January 5, 2025 at 10:19 PM
The first time I used Apple Music, it misidentified and overwrote custom metadata for so many tracks, I never trusted it again.
I use AAC rips with iTunes Match for my Music app library (weird stuff happens with MP3s sometimes) and Spotify for streaming. Basically, I keep the Music service away.
I use AAC rips with iTunes Match for my Music app library (weird stuff happens with MP3s sometimes) and Spotify for streaming. Basically, I keep the Music service away.