As in, “AaaaAiiiiIiiii, what the heck is up with that hat.”

That is an AI hat.

Also on the occasion of Berne’s 70th, here’s Hank Shteamer’s NYT profile from yesterday: www.nytimes.com/2024/10/15/a... [🎁 link]

Tim Berne, a D.I.Y. Jazz Institution

The saxophonist and composer has spent 50 years in the New York scene. As he turns 70, he’s commanding gigs at a Brooklyn bar and continuing to inspire.

More likely, he’ll “work over the fry cook.”

Dog With a Blog crawled so Family Guy could etc etc

A foreign land.

The LaMonte Young/Marian Zazeela Dream House is technically a gallery, I think? Not much to look at, but it can rearrange the atoms in your brain: www.melafoundation.org/index.htm

ALSO TODAY: @csmcgowan.bsky.socialflaminghydra.com/a-glimpse-of...

A Glimpse of Robert Coover

by Colin McGowan The 92-year-old novelist Robert Coover likes a breathless, pages-long paragraph, fat with lists and layered metaphor, repetition, contradiction, bluster and refrain, puns, dialect, i...

There was also the great Triscuit thread of 2020 (which doesn't really touch on the singular collective noun, tho): twistedsifter.com/2022/11/an-i...

An Internet Sleuth Uncovered the True Origin of the Name “Triscuit”

Don’t spoil the surprise.

Dang!