Woohoo! The “Dark Disney” cartoons are now public domain. This includes Skeleton Dance and Hell’s Bells, both from 1929. [LINKS IN SUBSEQUENT POSTS] #animation #Disney #Goth

I’m new here and only have a few connections, while I have the max 5k “friends” on Facebook plus many additional followers. I want them all to migrate to Bluesky, so I just posted this on FB. #Bluesky #fuckbillionaires #Facebook #muskhole

Here I’ve mostly posted about horror novels and cats. But I’m mainly a musician who also has a line of guitar pedals. I thought we’d have to discontinue my fave, the Cult Overdrive, ‘cause we couldn’t source more antique germanium transistors. But we found ‘em, and it’s in stock! 🙏 #guitarpedals #fx

It’s the typical boomer attitude: It was so relatively easy to make a living in the field when I was young.

Pismo Beach CA is sorely underrated.

I kinda love the story in today’s Guardian about Rod Stewart’s lifelong model train obsession.

Best. Gravy. Boat. Ever.

Many posts lately on “scariest movie.” Well, Hereditary — duh! But nothing has ever terrified me like the jump scare in the original House on Haunted Hill, which I watched on TV as a kid in the 1960s. Camp today, but sheer horror then. Why is it so scary? The framing and composition, I think.

Yes … but for every graceful arpeggio there’s a blast of crazy chordal dissonance. Dig the last few bars.

Obnoxious self-promo alert! My guitar theory and technique book is on sale, both the ebook (link below) and the print version (only via Amazon, sadly).

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And I thought I was soooo cool for using an old-fashioned safety razor. (No, I didn’t have a lot of hair on my finger. Just clumsy.)