I've missed Greg Weeks' guitar, songwriting, heck his whole vision — fun to hear it in this sensitive dark prog zone he's working. Woozy!
magus4.bandcamp.com/track/exodus
Mac was in a chatty mood, and entertained us with amazing stories — I’m sure there was no better storyteller in New Orleans — including one about a fist fight he’d had with Jerry Garcia in front of the old Academy of Music on 14th Street (later the Palladium and now an NYU dorm); and about the time Keith Moon broke the glass and jumped out of a second story window in London’s West End as Mac and some other musicians tried to stage an intervention concerning Moon’s heroin use.
Mac stuff
Mac and I both liked offal, and that evening collaborated on a sheep head, kidneys, steamed tongue, tripe soup, and finally, the cryptic “goat eye in brown sauce.” As we ordered the dish, we wondered what it might be like, Mac not deterred by any potential gruesomeness. And gruesome it was, consisting of 15 or so eyeballs bobbing in a shiny tureen, the eyes peering up at us out of a brown gravy as we opened the lid. Now, all one normally sees of bovid eyeballs when looking at a goat is the rectangular pupil, but inside the eye socket is a vast orb filed with gooey vitreous humor, so that one couldn’t fit an entire eyeball into one’s mouth at one time. So we took to slicing them in half — Mac producing a sharp knife from one of his vest pockets — revealing a large white crescent textured like flounder cradling a wobbly jelly sac. The optic nerve could be clearly discerned. But hey, they were good! As other diners looked on in mock horror, Mac and I went eyeball for eyeball in a contest to see who could eat the most, in emulation of the annual Nathan’s Famous competition. We had some remaining at the end of our ocular binge, and Mac took four home for later. He was convinced they would give him second sight.
How to get second sight, or: Eating with Dr. John
robertsietsema.substack.com/p/dr-john-di...
There's No Face Like Noem
Wicked Witch of the Midwest Kristi Noem has more shmutz on her face than the Tin Man, and she probably bought ruby slippers with taxpayer money. But we know Stephen Miller is the (grand) wizard behind the curtain and Kristi's only skill is shooting Toto.
by Maureen Dowd
We are helping Russia; Iran is helping Russia; Russia is helping Iran kill Americans. Classic four-dimensional chess from our Commander-in-Chief.
by Marc Thiessen
"Detainee says guards bet on suicide"
There is no bottom to the hell that Trump has created.
apnews.com/article/suic...?
The problem with today's snowflake youth is that they demand participation trophies when really they just flat out lost.
by Kristi Noem, Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas
Honestly? I think he may drop a nuke.
Same. Every angle is incredible. Every call is fantastic. Pure joy and wonder. Beautiful beautiful.
leaving to spend more time with his measles, I assume
barack obama is eulogizing jesse jackson right now and he hasnt made a single mention of which late night tv show has been very mean and nasty or complained once about the 2010 midterms being rigged, its bizarre
Is one of them Markwayne Mullin?
Imagine dining with Dr. John on a restaurant tour arranged by Robert Sietsema. robertsietsema.substack.com/p/dr-john-di...
Best god ever, thx @mkupperman.bsky.social
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
Letting Kristi Noem give a press conference before she realizes she’s fired is a pretty hardcore start to white history month
Still gotta get this one online. (Never mind the ostensible subject of the piece, it ranged wide and went long.) jaybabcock.wordpress.com/2014/12/03/r...
The kind of music essay that makes you wanna shout “Wooh-Eee-Ah-Ah!”
If you can’t dig this you can’t dig nuthin’.
It really is bad. I've had to scan, OCR and then correct texts of my own RapPages features to get them online, on my own little web archive where (to date) they've attracted almost no visitors. Weird, sad situation. You'd think everything would be up on archive.org by now, but no.
Worthy of your support if you're able. (I hope to be able shortly.)
Corey Lewandowski to begin affair with Markwayne Mullin
Polymarket to allow bets on the name of the new terrorist organization spawned by the war in Iran.
some kind of metaphor but I'm not sure for what
The woke liberal cucks at Anthropic cut us off from using Claude right before we were going to ask it to generate a reason why we're invading Iran.
by Pete Hegseth
I honestly hope none of those influencers whose jobs is posting about their supposedly idyllic lives in Dubai get hurt, but, by Golly, JG Ballard couldn’t have constructed a more satisfying comeuppance for a dystopia sold as a Utopia.
