They keep inventing new people. I'm tired. I can't keep up
i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys
"Garage revivalists have 'projected a certain idealism onto the original bands', but ? and the Mysterians came as close as anyone to that ideal: young and unpolished, the DIY product of a hyper-local music community, yet full of wide-eyed pop ambition."
'A hypnotic effect that fills you with joy': The incredible story of 96 Tears, the US's unlikeliest one-hit wonder
In 1966, a Mexican-American teen band made one of the great smash-hit singles and helped invent garage rock, a genre that has inspired artists for decades.
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Emily Wilson gets one more piece on The Odyssey and then she needs to move on and let us know what she thinks about Mallrats
the intentional abdication by Congress of nearly all of its constitutional responsibilities is at the core of most of our problems as a nation
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
Aug 4th 1997 - Skynet, the world's first Automated Defense Network, was activated. 📽️📅 Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
It is $136 to sit in the upper deck of a Jets game Roger Goodell how do you sleep at night
An Eastern Meadow Vole munches on a water lily pad.
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
It’s such a boneheaded analysis. Like, yes, of course your site going to skew left because most the user base is escaped Twitter due to the whole ‘overrun by literal nazis’ thing. if we didn’t have to do that we’d still be on Twitter. It’s the entire reason you have a site.
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
Harvey & Joyce's adopted daughter Danielle is trying to raise funds to deal with Pekar's raw archive; basically four storage lockers full of notes, outlines, ideas, etc. Note this is not Pekar's comics per se. Those rights have been tied up in court for years. Long, ugly story. Worth backing.
His Name was Harvey Pekar
Saving the legacy of Harvey Pekar:Urgent mission to rescue four full storage units of American Splendor history before its lost forever
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Another example of the lunacy of thinking discrimination against a marginalized group won't affect you if you're not part of that group bsky.app/profile/gbbr...
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d agoAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
While Sophie Cunningham says stuff like i DoN’T HaTe tRans it’s nice to hear someone call out anti-trans folks’ total lack of historical knowledge and context.
@makeherway@makeherway.bsky.social · 2d agoIn addition to stating the obvious, that trans people should be welcomed into sports, Cheryl goes on to say that the men who hold girls and women down are the cis men in charge. Even a shout out to the lack of the ERA 🔥 #loslynx #wnba
Old band nerd high alert: there is a drum corps rehearsing across the street from my office today
I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.
Re-watching The Philadelphia Story and in a just world Tracy would hit her father in the face with a shovel.
