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🎶 Crucial Track for today: "Kashmir" by Led Zeppelin →

What's a song that feels like magic every time you hear it?

I wrote about this album and this song five years ago during the pandemic start of this site:

My favorite Zeppelin song. Absolutely epic in every way. Apparently it was written after a long trip down a straight, seemingly never ending road in the desert of Morocco. We played this song many times on our two cross-country road trips, so it makes total sense. A perfect song for driving. A perfect song.

The entire Physical Graffiti album is magical, but this song is the centerpiece.

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🎶 Crucial Track for today: "Fugitive Motel" by Elbow →

Share a song that feels like it was written specifically for you.

I used to love Elbow back in the early 2000s. Not sure what happened. Maybe it was a string of albums that I wasn't too psyched about? Anyway, it got so bad, that I even skipped seeing them when they played Buffalo. BUFFALO. The kind of band that never comes here... and I skipped.

Anyway, Navidrome picked Cast of Thousands as the top random album today so I put it on... wow. Back in love... this album is SO good.

For this song in particular... as a parent of three, two of which just graduated high school and one just finished their first year of college... I gotta say these lyrics hit:

I'm tired, I said You always look tired, she said I'm admired, I said You always look tired, she said

Tired, but worth it. So proud.

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🎶 Crucial Track for today: "Song for the Messenger" by Chanel Beads

One of the singles off the new Chanel Beads album, which was a featured album on the blog last week.

Been enjoying the chill vibe this week during the heat wave.

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🎶 Crucial Track for today: "Place Position" by Fugazi

What's a favorite opening line from any song?

A masterful Fugazi song on xenophobia and "illegal" immigration.

Some of their best guitar work... and this opening verse:

All origins are Accidental You've got no papers and no roads lead home Anymore

Appropriate for today, considering we were allowed to keep the 14th Amendment. 🙄

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Farmer’s market breakfast, sushi for dinner, then Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu. Good day with the fam!

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Last high school award ceremony in the books! Z received three awards and finished 3rd in her class for total “points” earned through varsity athletics: ice hockey, field hockey, and lacrosse. Next year, D3 in the last two at Keuka College. Proud!

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AI Economics for Dummies - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency

mcsweeneys.net

As AI companies get ready to go public and we get a deeper look at their inner workings, it’s only natural to have questions about their finances, like “Do they make money?” and “How?” Here are a few examples to help the average layperson understand the business side of AI.

Kind of brilliant, absurd examples of the insanity that is the AI bubble.

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Craft Quick Capture

A simple one-page tool to speed up adding to your Daily Notes in Craft.

Recently I've stumbled upon a few quick capture systems for other note taking apps, like Obsidian... as a Craft user I got pretty jealous, so I used Claude to create a simple page to quickly add information to today's...

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Foundational Texts: Goonies Never Say Die

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A great read from Dan Sinker:

You can trace a very clear line from that summer of being scared and sad and loney and watching The Goonies over and over to punk. The underground that I discovered a few years later—probably four or five in actual years but it feels like far more separation than that—was exactly that: a place where you could exist separate from the conformity of the mainstream, where you could chart your own existence, where you could build possibilities that felt impossible and possible simultaneously, and where you could do it alongside others who had found themselves—their true selves—in the liner notes of 7"s and smudgy printing of zines and sticky floors of a Sunday afternoon show in a rock club that smelled of old beer and sweat. Down there, it was our time.

Underground and decentralized, always.

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Clear

Grievance and grift all the way down.

This was written a few weeks ago and has been sitting in my drafts. Fuck it. It's clear to me that a portion of this country is driven entirely by cruelty, revenge, and hatred. (Or easily duped into supporting such...

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It's all a scam

I stumbled across an eye opening article on how the poverty rate has hidden the true state of the economy for the vast majority of Americans. How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America by Michael W. Green, Chief...

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Stereolab in Buffalo NY

It's been over 20 years since I last saw Stereolab (Seattle, 2004, with Tortoise)... so wasn't sure what to expect with Stereolab in Buffalo of all places. I was blown away, though, both by the band and the crowd. Buffalo LOVES Stereolab, apparently. Sold out crowd and good vibes that almost took Lætitia Sadier to tears. I absolutely love when bands experience the Buffalo that I love and see the city as a place worthy of attention.

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YouTube: Hank Green on Sora

YouTube: Hank Green on Sora →

There are a lot of quotable parts of this video, but this one sums it all up:

The extent to which these very powerful people feel no sense of responsibility to anything makes me feel like maybe they shouldn't have this much power. They shouldn't be in charge of the kind of thing that could literally, by their own admission, destroy humanity.