I'd never want a building in my neighborhood that would have the people who will live in this building as tenants. https://www.bkmag.com/2024/12/05/brooklyn-luxury-building-dink-couples/
Adam Bohman's billboard for Cafe Oto, London. Holy cow. (Photo: Clive Graham.)
The best thing about having two arms, two legs, etc. is that if, say, you hurt your elbow and some bone doesn't feel right you can just compare it to the other elbow. It that bone feels the same, you're good.
I don't think they ran out of I's. They're spelling "manicotti" according to the Brooklyn/Sicilian pronunciation, which is three syllables: "mah-nee-GUT."
I'm a cat person, but I bonded right away with my friend Maria's pup Polly, who is a VERY GOOD DOG. She's an Australian cattle dog.
nostr:npub17nvc70k9ezl2w57tm7qjw0smlh00h6svds42r75wjt95p6mnu5dsh996rn The correct answer is: "It depends."
nostr:npub1rkjpxkg78c7pqdzvlgx0w6uw0puccz44gwr80v6lem0kdstgn64shjufed That's what my friend (a former Bell Labs guy, btw) said. He assumed they meant "right at this moment."
A friend was recently in a trivia game where one question was "How many miles away is Jupiter?" I'm no astronomer, but one team gave the answer "1,000" and another gave "a gazillion," and I'm sure both are very wrong. NGL, it would be cool if Jupiter was as close as Chicago.
Perfect day: no work, radio show tonight, and I found a place in Bay Ridge to get the latest COVID booster without having to wait two weeks.
Finally had Indian food today, with my old mate Caroline at this great vegetarian place on Stroud Green Road. Caroline: "Last time I went there was in 1981."
Spotted in London. These folks (from Geneva) are playing at Barbès in Brooklyn next week and I'm incredibly excited about it. https://orchestretoutpuissantmarcelduchamp.bandcamp.com/album/sauvage-formes
"Forgetting To Cancel Subscriptions Boosts Businesses' Revenue By 200%, Study Finds." Not only is everything a "subscription" now, but people aren't even checking their bills to see what they're being charged for every month. Don't let this happen to you. https://m.slashdot.org/story/418006
This week's installment of "It's Complicated" (an hour of prog and prog-adjacent music) comes to you tonight at 7 p.m. Listen at https://wfmu.org or on the glorious nostr:npub1j4jz0spltwzazdgsszpc7pc53svrjdw3fh5mxplql4ctv6wmw37sp47vxf app.
#NowPlaying This CD that Belgian composer Jacques Bekaert compiled for me a long time ago. If he ever gave me track info it's gone now 😡, and I wish I had it. I think this is all unreleased material. Small orchestral pieces, musique concrète, great stuff. http://www.lovely.com/artists/a-bekaert.html
nostr:npub18wdjmfx5qfgr856p8nm468fcrlt576mh274rshagwr0adnrakfmsdlyr0m Agreed. But making everything public by default is criminal.
nostr:npub1cm8y2sg9ulf84wl506lq27r2wvkzc60mrgp6vg2fj2wmdhyn6wvqfmkypu So this is mostly "pre-history" up to their signing with George Martin? Can there be that much we don't know about that period? (Obviously yes?)
nostr:npub1l8822ehmvqy0fa4d88lgxc8tfaprw7d93u97u346ennlmf33q2wsn5rr8m Where is the show?
#NowPlaying Been listening to a lot of Art Blakey lately. The use of the word "orgy" (even playfully) in an album title seems surprisingly bold for 1957.
Cory Doctorow (nostr:npub1hykucplphuhelaxutcw4jw3vuu7gcg42czhqmk7jhchs8vdga4fsj73p33) on the monopoly in book publishing and the antics of private-equity vampire KKR: https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/08/vampire-capitalism/