The Clippers did not look like a veteran team in the final minutes against the Spurs. A lot of crucial mistakes. Meanwhile, the effort level of the Spurs was fantastic. And hearing Wemby post-game: that dude verges on Kobe/Jordan level of competitiveness. He care so damn much.
Geez, because the Venezuela operation was effectively a kidnaping, which is nowhere close the complexity of actually going to war with a country (not that kidnaping is easy, of course).
She opened for Miki Berenyi Trio here in the U.S. recently. Due to visa bullshit, she was without her band when they played here in Chicago. And it was still great -- she's so captivating (and the MB3 backed her on two songs). I dig her two solo LPs so much.
@gdwessel.bsky.social This is unexpected: Depeche Mode covering Donovan. I'm listening to the new War Child HELP(2) benefit album, and right now, DM is doing Mr. Leitch's "Universal Soldier". While I'm 99% certain you're aware of this, if there's a 1% chance you aren't, now you are.
For the complaining about how the OKC Thunder foul on every play, New York Knicks guard Landry Shamet does foul on every play. He puts both arms in the chest of whomever he's guarding and I'm baffled why the referees have given him immunity from handchecking.
The IRIS Dena, a prized destroyer in the Iranian Navy, had participated in an international naval exercise in India last month. The ship had been making its way back toward Iran from Visakhapatnam, a city in India where the joint exercise ended on Feb. 25. The United States was among the many participants in the drills.
so the US Navy fired on and sank a vessel returning home from a joint exercise that the US Navy also participated in ... is that skating kinda close to the line of perfidy? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/w...
The entire anti-trans care grift is built in treating the usual way medicine works as if it's a scandal.
Therapists figure out if a kid is trans the same way they figure out if they're depressed. They ask questions, maybe using a formal scale to quantify how kids compare to similar kids.
I'm stunned that was called a common foul on the floor. I think the Jayhawks player tried to block the shot, but wound up and yanked the guy's arm while he was in the air. It looked bad in real time and worse on replay.
So Iran and America have something in common.
SCOTUS has denied cert. in Thaler v. Perlmutter. That means that outputs generated by AI will continue to be ineligible for copyright protection under US law.
This is welcome news for musicians!
When you have the chance, please take the time to watch Harrison Ford's remarkable, beautiful Life Achievement Award acceptance speech. #ActorAwards
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Press gave Biden far worse coverage for a small number of American soldiers dying while leaving a war than to Trump for a similar number dying while starting a war for no reason. It makes you think!
That's right. Worse than Pointless
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date: can you take off your work gloves
Jim Henson: they have names
In retrospect, I now have to question the accuracy of every single one of her sideline reports.
It's a constant in the Peanuts comic strip that Snoopy's purple prose racks up rejection after rejection, but I feel like a diligent literary agent could sell even a terrible novel written by a dog, if only for novelty's sake.
Now, a SECOND book...
I got a request for that this morning, so I played it on my show.
Are there any stats on: 1) the number of behind the back passes in NHL games that result in turnovers, and, 2) the number of no-look behind the back passes that result in turnovers. Watching the NHL, it seems like more often that not, if try a clever pass behind you, it fails.
Here's the playlist for my @chirpradio.org show this morning. Thanks to everyone who tuned in! I'm back on next Saturday, 9-Noon (CST).
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On The Offsprings debut album, which came out in 1989, there’s a song called Teheran. During Desert Storm they switched it to having the exact same words but now it’s Baghdad, then it went back to Teheran, then back to Baghdad, and I guess we’re back to Teheran again
I'm back on @chirpradio.org this morning, 9-Noon (CST), and I'll have the latest from Gorillaz, The Womack Sisters, Voxtrot, Lala Lala, Heavenly, Ava Max, Mitski, underscores, and cootie catcher. Tune in at 107.1 FM or chirpradio.org.
underscores details her upcoming third album, U, a collection of songs inspired by transience and liminal spaces.
Regret to announce that we’ve reached Wrong Coat season. Every coat you wear from now til mid April will be The Wrong Coat for the weather
I have no problem with the Flagrant 2 on Dort, and think they don't call enough Flagrant 2s. I don't know if the "too close to the knee reason" is what'd I'd say. I think it was just such an obvious intentional bullshit play that Dort didn't deserve to stay in the game.
Oh, that was a misprint. It was supposed to be "chet-inspired menus." Inspired by Chet Atkins, Chet Holmgren, Chet Lemon, Chet Huntley, Chet Baker (anything he inspired is positively addictive), and others.
A few music things:
The new Jill Scott album is amazing. Eleven years since her last album, and she sounds as good (if not better) than ever.
Meanwhile, The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis pick up where their first LP left off.
And cootie catcher is soooo cute. Like the new LP a lot.
i'm a big fan of magazines, investigative reporting, and longform, all of which requires staff and institutions, but the really really dire thing that indie media can't replace? the fucking wire services
Wait -- she didn't threaten to withhold funding unless they named it after her? They just decided to do it because of her generosity? I didn't realize things worked that way in America in 2026.
In September, a box of old film reels was donated to the Library's National Audio-Visual Conservation Center. One of them was a nearly 130-year-old, long-lost film by iconic French filmmaker George Méliès. It had not been seen by anyone in likely more than a century. 🧵
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re: hockey, Muhammad Ali, one of the greatest boxers ever to live, gave up three years in the prime of his life — years in which his fighting would have been at peak; actual money incalculable — rather than fight in an unjust war, so noping out on grandpa’s burger bash should be an easy choice
