Several moments in rock music that border on the transcendent for me: a) in the Ramones' version of "Surfin' Bird," when Joey breaks into the poppa ooo-maw-maws, b) the very last line of the Kinks's "Strangers" when the melody switches to a sort of harmonic line...

On this day 31 years ago, Pavement performed Cut Your Hair on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Trying to not over-spam with information. Mass power outages, trees down, active wires all over the place. Duquesne light estimates 20% of the county has no power. Will take days. Also a tiki boat flipped over on the Mon.

Alas, poor Yorick. Very funny guy, very funny. Much funnier than the comedians we have now. He bore me on his back probably thousands of times. Maybe more. Not many people know that but he did

Apollonian in front, Dionysian in back

Heard the sad news about Brian today and thought about all the years I’ve been listening to him and admiring his genius. Rest in peace dear Brian.

One of the most dramatic opening minutes in rock history. Vanilla Fudge, 1968. Ed Sullivan. “You Keep Me Hanging On”…

having coffee

The philosophical innovation that created mathematical physics. It also explains why physical science can't deal with consciousness.

ICYMI: Here's Ep. 4 of Third Person Limited: "Paul Bradley Carr, part I". We invited former tech journalist and bestselling author Paul Bradley Carr for a rollicking discussion about his new novel, 'The Confessions'. thirdpersonlimited.com/episodes/paul-…

Paul Carr on tech's descent into fascism: "The tech industry has always had a fatal flaw, which is that it follows the herd. And we see this in investment [where] everyone is into crypto, everyone is into NFTs, whatever. And now, it's fascism... thirdpersonlimited.com/episodes