Brian Flota

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Join @edrabinski.bsky.social & Karen Snow & Billey Albina & me for a free webinar, "Critical Cataloging & Librarianship Today: Ethics, Power, and Possibility" on Tuesday April 14th. Part of the Womack Lecture Series sponsored by @fresnostatelibrary.bsky.social. 📚 #critcat

Maybe she'll participate in the sequel to Montage of Heck

Record #1477: The Flaming Lips, Heady Nuggs—The First 5 Warner Bros. Records 1992-2002 (2011, 6x12” box set, US, Warner Bros. Records)

Record #1476: Hole, Pretty on the Inside (2011 reissue, 12”, US, Plain Recordings)

Record #1475: Henny Youngman, Take My Jokes Please! (1973 reissue, 12”, US, Artco Records)

Record #1474: Neil Young, On the Beach (1974, 12”, US, Reprise Records)

Record #1473: Sun Ra, Media Dreams (2004 reissue, 12”, UK, Art Yard Records)

Record #1472: L.L. Cool J, Radio (1985, 12”, US, Def Jam Recordings)

Yeah that’s a toothless sketch.

I'd not heard this one before. Thanks for sharing!

Record #1471: Black Flag, Damaged (1982 reissue, 12”, US, Unicorn Records)

The B-side, "God Speed," is great too (and not on the album Easter).

This document is intended to help the Ecampus Course Development Team, as well as faculty and staff, use a principles-based approach in deciding if and how to incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) into course development, research, and other work projects. After reviewing the risks identified below, consider whether the overall benefits of using the tool outweigh the risks.

This AI Decision Tree someone shared with me from Oregon State is pretty great, I think, once you move past the obligatory step 1*

*important to consult existing policy, but there is no assurance said policy is good or even thoughtful

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Record #1470: Patti Smith Group, Because the Night b/w God Speed (1978, 7”, US, Arista Records)

Record #1469: Bob Dylan, Infidels (1986 reissue, 12”, US, Columbia Records)

Wow!

The #1 hit the week I was born!

Record #1468: David Bowie, Fame / Right (1975, 7”, US, RCA Victor)

Record #1467: The Beatles, The Beatles Christmas Records (2017 reissue, 7x7” box set, US, Apple Records)

Record #1466: Prince & The Revolution, Around the World in a Day (1985, 12”, US, Paisley Park Records)

Record #1465: Kirkwood, Master of Dragons (2025 reissue, 12”, US, Out of Season)

Today's favorite line from Finnegans Wake.

p. 67: “We might leave that nitrience of oxagiants to take its free of the air and just analectralyse that very chymerical combination, the gasbag where the warderworks.” #FinnegansWake

Record #1464: Hawkwind, Hall of the Mountain Grill (1974, 12”, US, United Artists Records)

Record #1463: Paul McCartney, Man on the Run—Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack (2026, 12”, US, Capitol Records)

Record #1462: Alfred Hitchcock Presents Music to be Murdered By (1980 reissue, 12”, US, DRG Records)

Record #1461: My Bloody Valentine, Before Loveless (2009, 12”, bootleg, Lazy Records)

I've cooled on THIS Elvis over the years, and don't typically enjoy reggae, but this song, thanks to Nick Lowe's punchy production and Costello's clever lyrical turns of phrase, remains a favorite single of mine from the 1970s.

Record #1460: Elvis Costello, Watching the Detectives (1978 reissue, 7”, US, Columbia Records)

Historian here history first time as tragedy the second time as farce.