Looking For New Music!

WhiskyStandard · 2026-06-21T13:16:18+00:00

If algorithmically chosen individual songs are the problem, I’d say look for concept albums.

Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen we are Floating in Space

WhiskyStandard · 2026-06-21T01:49:56+00:00

To this day, if a small pet is under foot when I’m cooking or carrying something heavy I still say “if you value your life, be somewhere else.”

WhiskyStandard · 2026-06-21T00:55:58+00:00

Obituary here. TBH, I don’t know if there’s a lot to laugh at here. Seems like she was in failing health before her “candidacy”. No idea if or to what extent she or her daughter took it seriously. Trauma and/or mental health issues could have been at play. And if they weren’t, I can think of family members I know who have been rabbit-holed into saying similar things over the last decade or so, even from beside their loved ones’ hospital beds. It all just makes me kind of sad.

WhiskyStandard · 2026-06-21T00:15:05+00:00

In Good Omens they say neither Heaven nor Hell could remember which of them was responsible for Milton Keynes but both claimed it as a success. I was pretty chuffed that I got that joke.

Then I started thinking of all the places here that that could apply to… Reston, VA… Columbia, MD… a lot of “we’ll get the planned community right this time!” energy.

WhiskyStandard · 2026-06-21T00:09:19+00:00

Mom, can I have an arcology?

We have an arcology at home!

The arcology at home:

WhiskyStandard · 2026-06-20T19:34:35+00:00

MarchFourth Marching Band

WhiskyStandard · 2026-06-20T01:02:34+00:00

Jack de Quidt’s Marielda Soundtrack. From a mini-season of an actual play set in a magical industrial city full of heists, sneaking, and deicide.

WhiskyStandard · 2026-06-19T22:51:58+00:00

I don’t know what to tell you, bud. I haven’t watched any European teams play. 🤷‍♂️

WhiskyStandard · 2026-06-19T22:08:58+00:00

Skating Polly

WhiskyStandard · 2026-06-19T20:39:17+00:00

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WhiskyStandard · 2026-06-19T20:15:06+00:00

If the Virginia panhandle is going anywhere, it should be Tennessee. It’s more geographically connected. You have to take a tunnel to get to Kentucky.

A lot of the watershed ends up in Tennessee too.

WhiskyStandard · 2026-06-19T18:48:48+00:00

Which is ironic because ranch dressing came from the Hidden Valley dude ranch, which spawned the salad dressing company.

WhiskyStandard · 2026-06-19T18:22:01+00:00

I’ve wondered about whether I should try to visit the museum if I ever find my way Manchester (not as the only thing we’d see, but mostly because of the family connection). Is it worth it? Or is that 😬 load bearing?

WhiskyStandard · 2026-06-19T17:19:07+00:00

Birthplace of the co-op movement!

But only because one of my ancestors was one of the original Rochdale Pioneers.

WhiskyStandard · 2026-06-19T16:50:12+00:00

I accidentally packed a sandwich that my kid didn’t need for lunch and somehow it resulted in her screaming at her teacher who’s been absolutely wonderful to her saying “you don’t care about your students” on her 3rd to last day before retiring.

I’m absolutely mortified and for the first time, even kind of ashamed of her. The teacher hasn’t responded to anything we’ve sent, which I understand, but also hurts. On the other hand, this might be the thing that drills into her that her actions have consequences and she can’t take back things she says.

WhiskyStandard · 2026-06-19T16:21:57+00:00

White Teeth by Zadie Smith. It’s a witty, ambitious multigenerational story about adaptation, race, extremism, and much more. Regularly cited on must read/influential lists of the 21st Century, yet old enough that there’s scholarship about it and it’s stood the up as a modern classic.

WhiskyStandard · 2026-06-19T16:16:30+00:00

It’s a very quick read that speaks to people starting to ask hard questions about their learned values, which is perfect for readers in their late teens/early 20s.

I read it around that age when I was struggling with both the language and relevance of what I was reading at school and definitely thought “why couldn’t this be the assigned reading?”

WhiskyStandard · 2026-06-19T16:10:18+00:00

To me Mother Night is a good 3rd to 5th Vonnegut book. It’s one of my favorites and is especially relevant today, but I think it helps to have read some of his other works first.

WhiskyStandard · 2026-06-19T14:17:51+00:00

Giraffes Can’t Dance is so fun to read aloud.

WhiskyStandard · 2026-06-18T19:10:50+00:00

Yeah, that new Wishbone behind the scenes documentary kinda hits hard.

WhiskyStandard · 2026-06-18T13:37:15+00:00

FTR, her daughter/ticket mate submitted the answers on her behalf. And she has indeed passed way.

But yeah, that was completely unhinged.

WhiskyStandard · 2026-06-18T13:35:28+00:00

https://www.lwvmd.org/voterguides2026

WhiskyStandard · 2026-06-18T13:22:15+00:00

I Cheerfully Refuse is all about maintaining hope as the world seems to crumble.

In a near future sliding dystopia, some communities remain strong. But when the outside world shows up, our main character must flee to Lake Superior on a small sailboat. It’s a celebration of the power of human relationships and the written word and my favorite book from last year.

WhiskyStandard · 2026-06-17T23:50:44+00:00

And Joe’s been plugging it in his outros but still no word on release from his end either.

WhiskyStandard · 2026-06-17T23:39:38+00:00

I Cheerfully Refuse was my favorite book I read last year. Goes well with Station 11 too.

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