Now reading Chuck Klosterman's Rock*, which imagines a world where the Velvet Underground outsold everyone. Lou Reed is a messiah, the Beatles are a cult band, and hip-hop becomes country. The songs are the same. Nothing else is.
In India, a group of uncles take on AI via @NewYorker
The Humans Are Coming for A.I.’s Jobs in “We Were Here” | The New Yorker youtu.be/EMSQtqUIlXY?si=imym… via @YouTube
From their album, SHOPNOBHUMI, here's EXCISE DEPT
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Wow someone sent me this... brings tears to my eyes.
#ThoseWereTheDays at the Sweetwater in #MillValley
@jerrygarcia James Burton’s son Jeff, Pete Sears on bass, Audie Delone and Mitch Woods on keys, I think Scott Mathews on drums...
And yes that was Elvis Costello exiting stage left
WTF! Rubio is answering reporters' questions at the Taj in Mumbai. Yet there is no Indian reporter asking questions? youtube.com/watch?v=OkZj7O-I…
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Utterly incoherent how he goes from Athens, where he denigrated Persia as the eternal Other in a clash with Western "civilization," to this embrace of Samarkand, a city that's wholly bound up in Persian "civilization," if talking about civilizations is so important to you.
It's taken him a f***load of time!!
"At 56, he may have found his moment by rising to oppose the strongman-style politics of the current prime minister, Narendra Modi, and stand with the youth movement that has taken to the streets..."
How Rahul Gandhi is transforming from a shy dynast to an effective challenger to Narendra Modi. With @PreetaTweets
nytimes.com/2026/10/18/world…
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Every year, Rory Gallagher came home to Cork to play Macroom, Ireland’s first open-air rock festival.
In 1978, he made it legendary. He rolled up in a car, grabbed his battle-scarred ‘61 Strat, ran straight up the steps with no soundcheck, and tore into “Shin Kicker.”
Pure rock and roll.













