K E Y: ✄= art ✎= lit ♪= music ✪= video; † = highly recommended content
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
5 years ago today ...
saw Dean Ween and Friends @ The Saint - Asbury Park, NJ 11.28.12
WHAT I WROTE AT THE TIME:
WHAT I WROTE AT THE TIME:
... Dean Ween organized a benefit concert for a friend of his who lost everything during Sandy. It all went down at The Saint in Asbury Park, NJ, a venue I had somehow never been to before that night. It was a really great show.
The above snippet is from the closing jam, a rawked-out take on the Neil Young classic "Hey Hey My My" with Guy Heller AKA Dickie Moist on lead vocals.
It was odd seeing 4/5 of Ween up there playing Ween songs without Gener. Dean did his best tackling the vocals on "Pandy Fackler." If this is what the future holds––each guy playing 'his' Ween songs with or without various pieces of the extended Ween live family––then I guess us diehards are gonna have to be OK with that.
Monday, November 27, 2017
Wednesday, November 22, 2017
Tuesday, November 21, 2017
Saturday, November 18, 2017
Friday, November 17, 2017
Thursday, November 16, 2017
⛑ ACCIDENT ALERT ⛑
RESET THE IMAGE - IT'S A DISGRACED - ALL OF THE GOOD DAYS HAVE BEEN REPLACED - AND WHAT FOR, FOR FOOD - WOULD THE JOLLY MAN ESCHEW? - IT'S GETTING OUT OF HAND - THIS FREEZING COLD LAND - SO RESET THE SIGN - DO IT THIS TIME - OR LEAVE IT BE - AND COUNT AGAIN - UNTIL IT'S JUST LIKE THEE . . .
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
Monday, November 13, 2017
Folks I've found the best Twitter. An unbelievably proficient high-% 100 Tweets since March 2011.
Seriously... shut it down, unless you are the owner of this account, in which case just keep tweeting at this rouhgly ~15-tweets/year clip forever, you gorgeous soul.Why I like the show Sports Jeopardy! on the Crackle network
One of the minor, if not allusive delights of 'cutting the chord'––an act which I am proudly on ~Year 5 or 6 of––has been the discovery of odd, poorly designed content aggregators, or apps, or channels, or networks, if you will. Crackle is borderline one of these delights, though––as they are owned by Sony––can hardly be considered an underdog like some of the other weirder, more mysterious yet equally trashed with bad advertisements ones, like Tubi TV. (S/O Tubi TV btw.)
In fact, in practice, Crackle more closely resembles something akin to new-age TBS. If you ever felt the need to watch Shutter Island but also wanted it to be consistently interrupted with commercials, Crackle is your spot bro.
But Crackle is home to one of the best shows going imo, and that's Sports Jeopardy!. I like this show for two, very specific and very different reasons.
Reason #1. I just love trivia. And I love sports. Voilà. Simple as that. This is the reason that regular J! is and shall forever be the best gameshow of all-time. The pacing, breadth of topics, scoring strategy (risk/reward), is unparalleled in the televised gameshow world. The fact that SJ! uses a points-based system as opposed to the cash-based one of its grandfather, is a big detriment. There's no getting around that. But not enough for me to stop tuning in when I am bored beyond belief, and overwhelmed with dread and apathy (my constant state of being).
Reason #2. The queasy interactions. For being a sports-based trivia program, SJ! still brings out the absolute nerds as contestants like you wouldn't believe. But what Dan Patrick's lacks in Alex Trebek's social cluelessness and general robotics, he more than makes up for with his over-the-top and doomed-to-fail desire to make the show… comedic? Dan Patrick, in general, is an off-putting presence. I find something about his demeanor truly upsetting. At times, he plays with the contestants' nervousness in a way that can only be viewed as downright mean. But it makes for fascinating TV, this dance. (NOTE: I'm currently catching up on Season 2, and he's significantly toned down this ribbing of the nervous, though this could also be due to just casting more comfortable players.)
The show, overall, is largely a hot mess, but at its core it really is about the gameplay and the questions (clues) which are consistently top-notch, thanks in part to Stump the Schwab legend Howie Schwab, who serves as a consultant and writer. But I love a good hot mess. When all the moving pieces are turning the messed-up machines' vastly different gears, it can truly be a thing of beauty.
In fact, in practice, Crackle more closely resembles something akin to new-age TBS. If you ever felt the need to watch Shutter Island but also wanted it to be consistently interrupted with commercials, Crackle is your spot bro.
But Crackle is home to one of the best shows going imo, and that's Sports Jeopardy!. I like this show for two, very specific and very different reasons.
Reason #1. I just love trivia. And I love sports. Voilà. Simple as that. This is the reason that regular J! is and shall forever be the best gameshow of all-time. The pacing, breadth of topics, scoring strategy (risk/reward), is unparalleled in the televised gameshow world. The fact that SJ! uses a points-based system as opposed to the cash-based one of its grandfather, is a big detriment. There's no getting around that. But not enough for me to stop tuning in when I am bored beyond belief, and overwhelmed with dread and apathy (my constant state of being).
Reason #2. The queasy interactions. For being a sports-based trivia program, SJ! still brings out the absolute nerds as contestants like you wouldn't believe. But what Dan Patrick's lacks in Alex Trebek's social cluelessness and general robotics, he more than makes up for with his over-the-top and doomed-to-fail desire to make the show… comedic? Dan Patrick, in general, is an off-putting presence. I find something about his demeanor truly upsetting. At times, he plays with the contestants' nervousness in a way that can only be viewed as downright mean. But it makes for fascinating TV, this dance. (NOTE: I'm currently catching up on Season 2, and he's significantly toned down this ribbing of the nervous, though this could also be due to just casting more comfortable players.)
The show, overall, is largely a hot mess, but at its core it really is about the gameplay and the questions (clues) which are consistently top-notch, thanks in part to Stump the Schwab legend Howie Schwab, who serves as a consultant and writer. But I love a good hot mess. When all the moving pieces are turning the messed-up machines' vastly different gears, it can truly be a thing of beauty.
Friday, November 10, 2017
Thursday, November 9, 2017
LAW & (pre)-ORDER
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
Monday, November 6, 2017
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
My latest award-winning creation at the primo web hub WEEKLYBOOKS.NET-–the internet's only destination for books published weekly––is a childrenz halloween book which conveniently came out LATENIGHT on HALLOWEEN NIGHT (yesterday), so I'm sure a ton of parents just hopped on and bought it for next year; that's cool. Click the cat fam.
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