posts from 2025 / 10

1. idk, pentagon reporters should just wear neck gators pulled up to their eyes and generic media-surplus PRESS badges and claim to be from media that signed the loyalty oath

2. all week I thought I’d really messed up my left elbow doing some exercise with a cool name like skull crushers (which I hate but do) or something and then the kid asked for a piggy back ride tonight and up he goes and instantly I saw a flashback of the last time I did this like it was an infomercial before-product clip and billy mays (RIP) was about to come on and convince me that I needed to place an order on installments

3. everloving wife asked for a cappuccino even though, to her, coffee only smells good but does not taste good, because I’m still NYC jetlagged and waking up at 04:30 which she does not like.

   so I got one of her fancy tea cups she never uses out of the credenza (lol who has a gd credenza? this old guy I guess) for the occasion and accidentally got an appropriately spoopy one.

   

4. logging on

   https://mas.to/@gifs_bot/115339454480226078

5. kinda neat engineering (I have no idea what I’m talking about and am pretty credulous, but, neat to me for sure), the entire thing is an archtop with no sides or back ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbBzabnNJhk), ultimately compromised to move units / be a little more practical built with a bunch of 90s stunts like carbon fiber and stainless steel and lasers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbBzabnNJhk

6. I thought I wanted to do 3D stuff when I grew up and so I taught myself 3D Studio (R2, for dos. Layers, lofts, and tweening.) in ‘94 or ‘95 by, among other things, mocking up a Fly by eyeballing an ad for them in Guitar Player Magazine of Gabrels holding one.

   As soon as I was making any money, about ten years later, I bought one https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/parker-fly-classic/.

   

7. RIP Ken Parker https://kenparkerarchtops.com

   Reeves Gabrels playing a Fly w/ Bowie and on his own The Sacred Squall of Now solo record was my north star of cool in high school in the mid-90s to such an extent that I just learned he passed when a high school friend heard and thought of me to pass along the news.

   Ken’s Youtube is also great https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDuWp2Bg7MQ

8. just got back from three days in Manhattan [NPR foley sample of the white noise of car traffic and honking, and of scaffolding being put up or town down] and had pizza for lunch all three days; Patsy’s in Harlem, Prince Street, and Sofia.

   Each was incredible in its own way. Sofia’s slices are so, so thin, but still have that perfect crunchy/soft "wow” that it practically melts in your mouth.

9. valley-poster, a “broadly”-to-“like, “ browser extension. Now with "broadly speaking”-to-“like, totally, “

10. dualism is the evolutionary crab of philosophy

    

    

11. kinda funny in a non-ha-ha way that wearing a mask indoors now says “I have covid" in addition to saying “I’m a debbie downer” but I’ll keep wearing these damned things