The merch table at this Tennis show doesn’t have any CDs but it does have a skateboard deck.
Reading
Of Human Bondage
W. Somerset Maugham
The last couple of mornings, reading This & That, the zine from @JohnBrady over breakfast instead of looking at my phone have been rather pleasant.
Few realize that Sabbath’s “Iron Man” was originally called “Iron Bloke.”
Tech
Readwise MCP
Microsoft made the Model Context Protocol (MCP) a major focus of their Build conference last week. Though the Microsoft engineer I spoke with, who is heavily involved in AI thought the emphasis was a little overplayed, it’s easy to understand some of …
Noise
Saturday Night Video
The Laughing Chimes - High Beams
Brothers Evan and Quinn Seurkamp, who primarily make up the Ohio band The Laughing Chimes, call upon the hauntings of the Appalachian foothills of their native state as inspiration for their gothic jangly post-punk. There is a wistfulness …
Noise
Tech
Choosing Physical Media
Hunter Tice (a man after my own heart) writes for Christ and Pop Culture about the importance of physical media in a world that is increasingly detached from the material when engaging with art.
An increasing reliance on digital micro-conveniences …
Noise
Tech
Bandcamp Playlists
Bandcamp is finally adding a feature that I, and other like-minded enjoyers of music have been wanting for some time. The new ability to create playlists feels like it aligns with the ethics of the service, which is mostly a good thing, but the focus …
I couldn’t resist the temptation to break out my cassettes again. Time to give this puppy a spin.
Thanks @jack!
My wife suggested to my son that he watch Lars And The Real Girl. I don’t think he made it through the whole thing and he was quite critical. I don’t think he’s ready for a film like Pumpkin.
Tech
Pocket Closing
Mozilla made a surprise announcement today that they are closing the Pocket read-it-later service. With nothing but a bland, corporate statement to go on, I imagine users have a fair amount of confusion about the move. I was actually looking at the …
Faith
Nosferatu Nights
Richard Beck writes about his experience with Bram Stokers' novel Dracula.
Bram Stoker’s Dracula is a very Christian novel. I would even say that Dracula is one of the greatest Christian novels of all time. Christianity suffuses the book. …
As a plain text nerd, I’ve got to admit I really want to try out Journelly. It’s been a couple of years since I messed with org mode, but this looks like something very different.
Finished reading: How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill 📚
But in the age of John Scotus Eriugena, Christian churchmen did not burn books. Only barbarians did that.
I felt really gross setting up a Ticketmaster account just now. Where’s Ed Ved when you need him?
culture
Culture: An Owner’s Manual has an edition focused on the significance of Rocky IV as a cultural artifact.
But unlike most bad films made in 1985, Rocky IV remains fascinating nearly forty years later. It has great value to us in 2024 as a …
Faith
Pleasant TV
Tim Challies writes about All Creatures Great and Small, which he dubs “the most pleasant show on television.”
So much of today’s entertainment is violent or edgy, provocative or profane. So much of it is a thinly-veiled veneer for …
Faith
Do Not Pass Me Just To Slow Down
I’ve long been a little allergic to brandishing symbols of my Christian faith. When I was a youth, I had a beloved cross that I used to wear around my neck. The chain for it was broken whilst I took a thrashing at the hands of a playground bully in …
One of the reasons I chose Qobuz as my streaming music service was the ability to download tracks in a DRM-free format. About a year and a half into my subscription, I finally purchased my first album. Frankie Rose – Seventeen Seconds. Burned a CD …
Finished reading Shōgun, Part Two by James Clavell 📚a while ago but I still think about it on the regs.
Noise
Friday Night Video
Tennis - At The Apartment (Live)
In June, I hope to see long-time indie pop favorites Tennis on their farewell tour. The husband and wife duo of Patrick Riley and Alaina Moore are calling it quits after an impressive run.
The pair made this statement regarding the end of their time …
What I’m up to /now.
Tech
Bio Vinyl
I noticed that The Cure was advertising their heavily praised new album Songs From A Lost World in a bio vinyl format. I was curious about what that meant. Fortunately, I had my good buddy Claude to help answer the question. He responded with this: …
Faith
So sentiments expressing objective claims of morality or beauty are still, as in Lewis’s day, found to be offensive, but sentiments expressing identity are seen as sacred.
~ Alan Noble, on C.S. Lewis and education
Noise
Vinyl Me? No Thanks.
Just as I’m starting to get back into vinyl records, one of the format’s proponents, a popular record club called Vinyl Me, Please is shutting down.
Since launching in 2012, Vinyl Me, Please has offered boutique, collectible record pressings to a …
One of the advantages to my seventh grader not having much homework is that he’s using some of that time at night to take a Udemy course on Python.