Michael Stipe showed up in NYC tonight for the Michael Shannon/Jason Narducy show and sang @remhq.bsky.social "These Days" (!!!!) and "The Great Beyond." 😭 😍https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RiouUSsOIs
[from YouTube description] This was recorded on VHS from the 1991 PBS Austin City Limits with the Indigo Girls, Mary Chapin Carpenter and Julie Gold.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIe0...
Guess Bezos laid off all the breaking news folks at the Washington Post. As of 11 pm PT/2 am ET, it doesn’t have the attack on Iraq.
It was fantastic to see you perform with them both last night and tonight! An unexpected treat to hear "Crazy," too! Glad you got to be a part of such a wonderful show, and grateful my sister and I could be there.
Ding Dongs (aka King Dons or Big Wheels, depending on where you're from)!
We were in a small Southern town, and the Baptists were easily offended! The other thing I recall is that a classmate ran the projector, so when it ended they tried to run the filmstrip back to the racy images under the pretense of "rewinding" it, but the teacher got wise and turned off the lamp.
Pretty sure my high school screened Ben (about a rat, with theme song by Michael Jackson). They charged us 25 or 50 cents, and if you didn’t want to go or didn’t have the money (it was a small Southern town with its share of rural poverty), you got sent to the library. I happily went to the library.
For no particular reason, my high school screened Enter the Dragon, and because it was in a small Southern town, the Baptists got upset about the brief nudity.
We watched the filmstrip version of that in my 9th grade English class and the teacher put her hand in front of the projector so we couldn’t see that image!
Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy at the Fillmore, SF 2/17/2026
Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy at the Independent, SF 2/16/2026
It looks like I'll be seeing you two nights in a row now!
THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH A HISTORY MAJOR
A grid of mass market paperback books: The Grass Harp, The Member of the Wedding, Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl, Main Street, Scoundrel Time, Another Country, Invisible Man, Midnight Cowboy, Deliverance, Rebecca, Reflections in a Golden Eye, The Great Gatsby, Butterfield 8, The Blackboard Jungle, Other Voices, Other Rooms, Naked Came the Stranger, The Group, If I Die in a Combat Zone, A Separate Peace, The Maltese Falcon, Up the Junction, The Boys in the Band, The Fugitive Kind The Graduate.
I bought some of these used as a kid back in the 70s and 80s. Others belonged to my parents, and I don't know how I wound up with a few of them.
GM: Charisma check.
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
As a librarian, I have to say ... FUCK!
The cast of SCTV
SCTV is on Internet Archive if you'd like to enjoy the early work of Catherine O'Hara and her fellow sketch comedy gods.
S1: archive.org/details/sctv...
S2: archive.org/details/sctv...
S3: archive.org/details/19-m...
S4-5: archive.org/details/66-s...
S6 + Cinemax: archive.org/details/sctv... #TVSky
"Valley Winter Song" by Fountains of Wayne (from the album Welcome Interstate Managers), more poignant since the death of Adam Schlesinger from Covid in 2020.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdjB...
Welcome to the Occupation
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Document, 1987
Live in Chicago, 1995
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxCz...
No surprise to librarians, but perhaps surprising to users, demands/prices for ebooks /audiobooks are killing public library budgets. David Szalay's book, Flesh,” costs DCPL:
$28.99 hardcopy
$59.99 ebook
$69.99 audiobook
DCPL owns hardcopy; rents & must repurchase ebook & audio book every 2 yrs.
i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals
"Ask anyone who has lived in a country that became an autocracy, and they will tell you some version of a story about walls closing in on them, about space getting smaller and smaller. The space they are talking about is freedom." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...
I loved using the blow dryer thingy and watching the plastic wrap shrink. I worked for a music CD distributor that had one. One day a friend who was starting out as a lawyer came to visit me at my workplace and I showed it to him. He said, "no one at my firm ever asks me to shrink wrap anything."
THE song of 2026 (so far). by @axolotmusica on insta & tiktok.
OBITUARIES by Alexandra Grimm'17 EVELYN SKLAVER SHUMAN '40 died Sep- tember 24 in Chestnut Hil, Mass, at age 106. While an undergraduate she volunteered as a prenatal counselor at Boston Lying-In Hospital; as the war had rendered basic medical supplies scarce in the maternity ward, she advised that expectant mothers use newspapers to manage postpartum bleeding. Later in the war she spent four years working as a contact tracer of sexual ly transmitted diseases, particularly syphilis, in Boston. She lived for many years in Marblehead, where she participated in book clubs, regularly played bridge, and often took in a symphony performance on a Friday afternoon. She lived through 19 presidencies and was proud never to have voted for a Republican. She leaves three children, James, Robert, and Heidi Jay; her hus- band, Harold, predeceased her.
Avoiding my geopolitical anxiety by reading the Harvard Magazine obits, and damn this issue starts off with a banger
A plastic bread bag featuring illustrations of The Supremes and text reading: The Supremes Special Edition White Bread
We saw one of The Supremes’ White Bread bags, which I hadn’t known about before!!
“A plastic bread bag for The Supremes ‘Special Formula’ White Bread that was marketed in 1966 by Schafer Bakers in Lansing, MI, in partnership w Hitsville Merchandising in Detroit.”
