@mrkbrdfrd.bsky.social
Attorney by day; walking and talking hallucination by every-other-day.
If democracy dies in darkness as the erstwhile Post erstwhilely phrased it, how's about we cultivate some hydroponic strains of the stuff? Democracy, I mean. With enhanced side effects.
March 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM
If democracy dies in darkness as the erstwhile Post erstwhilely phrased it, how's about we cultivate some hydroponic strains of the stuff? Democracy, I mean. With enhanced side effects.
Someday, “It’s made out of PEOPLE!!” will be welcome news.
January 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Someday, “It’s made out of PEOPLE!!” will be welcome news.
Why say "iconic" when you can say "high colonic"?
January 13, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Why say "iconic" when you can say "high colonic"?
Coals to Newcastle, of course, but good idea to stock up.
‘The Ultimate MAGA’: Global And Domestic Right Gathers, Ready For A New Trump Era
NEW YORK — Sunday night offered a sneak preview of what life might be like in President-elect Donald Trump’s second term at the annual black tie gala of Manhattan’s most MAGA political club.
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 17, 2024 at 5:25 PM
Coals to Newcastle, of course, but good idea to stock up.
We're gonna need a bigger gravy boat.
December 9, 2024 at 3:26 PM
We're gonna need a bigger gravy boat.
Advent Essay No. 5
5. Entertain
Sleater-Kinney: The Woods (Sub Pop, 2005); composed by Carrie Brownstein, Corin Tucker, and Janet Weiss By the time I caught them live, I ...
mrkbrdfrd.blogspot.com
December 5, 2024 at 5:32 PM
Advent Essay No. 5
Advent Essay No. 4
4. West End Blues
Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five (OKeh 8597, 1928 – b/w “Fireworks”); composed by Joseph Nathan “King” Oliver In the context of jazz history...
mrkbrdfrd.blogspot.com
December 4, 2024 at 3:02 PM
Advent Essay No. 4
Advent Essay No. 2
2. (Talk To Me Of) Mendocino
Kate & Anna McGarrigle (Warner Bros., 1975); composed by Kate McGarrigle Closing the first side of this great, simultaneously gemütlich a...
mrkbrdfrd.blogspot.com
December 3, 2024 at 5:50 PM
Advent Essay No. 2
Advent Calendar Essay No. 1
1. Talking Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues
Bob Dylan: The Bootleg Series, Vol 1-3: Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991 (Columbia, 1991; recorded 1962); composed by Bob Dylan In the hallowe...
mrkbrdfrd.blogspot.com
December 1, 2024 at 10:03 PM
Advent Calendar Essay No. 1
This presents as a musing-all-over-the-place piece, but never goes wrong, so maybe that's not what it is at all.
Patricia Lockwood · Diary: Encounters with Aliens
‘How do you know you’re not mistaking me for someone else?’ Scully asks in wild disbelief, looking like God’s...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 29, 2024 at 3:18 PM
This presents as a musing-all-over-the-place piece, but never goes wrong, so maybe that's not what it is at all.
Prof. Irwin Corey:
"I feel a lot more like I do now than when I first got here."
"I feel a lot more like I do now than when I first got here."
November 24, 2024 at 11:50 PM
Prof. Irwin Corey:
"I feel a lot more like I do now than when I first got here."
"I feel a lot more like I do now than when I first got here."
Does your Stilton lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight?
November 23, 2024 at 6:52 PM
Does your Stilton lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight?
Reposted
Field Notes from the first fortnight of the interregnum, with election week insect eggs, clickbait Rorschachs, autumnal coral snakes, wild robots, and a cold morning walk under the light of the year's last supermoon. Plus some book news: fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com/p/nymphs-of-...
Nymphs of the Chumbox Moon
No. 168
fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com
November 17, 2024 at 11:56 AM
Field Notes from the first fortnight of the interregnum, with election week insect eggs, clickbait Rorschachs, autumnal coral snakes, wild robots, and a cold morning walk under the light of the year's last supermoon. Plus some book news: fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com/p/nymphs-of-...
Karl Kraus:
"How powerful social mores are! Only a spider's web lies across the volcano, yet it refrains from erupting.”
"How powerful social mores are! Only a spider's web lies across the volcano, yet it refrains from erupting.”
November 17, 2024 at 1:08 AM
Karl Kraus:
"How powerful social mores are! Only a spider's web lies across the volcano, yet it refrains from erupting.”
"How powerful social mores are! Only a spider's web lies across the volcano, yet it refrains from erupting.”
No I will not sign this petition.
November 16, 2024 at 9:13 PM
No I will not sign this petition.
Rick Scott is not going to be Senate majority leader. That's the maximum level of positivity that any political news is likely to attain for the foreseeable future.
November 15, 2024 at 12:51 PM
Rick Scott is not going to be Senate majority leader. That's the maximum level of positivity that any political news is likely to attain for the foreseeable future.
This platform's lack of an edit function (like that Other Platform) limits what I'm likely to post relative to Facebook bloviations, so after, "Hey - this really isn't X!" , well . . . uh . . . ?
November 15, 2024 at 12:46 PM
This platform's lack of an edit function (like that Other Platform) limits what I'm likely to post relative to Facebook bloviations, so after, "Hey - this really isn't X!" , well . . . uh . . . ?
Ghostface Killah:
"I got knocked out and woke up in the melting pot"
"I got knocked out and woke up in the melting pot"
November 14, 2024 at 7:11 PM
Ghostface Killah:
"I got knocked out and woke up in the melting pot"
"I got knocked out and woke up in the melting pot"
As someone who never got the hang of Twitter even before it became X or some other wing-ding and not because he objected to it but because he never quite found a way to talk on it or play it even like you might play a kazoo if you know what I mean, well hi.
November 13, 2024 at 2:06 AM
As someone who never got the hang of Twitter even before it became X or some other wing-ding and not because he objected to it but because he never quite found a way to talk on it or play it even like you might play a kazoo if you know what I mean, well hi.