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Hunting Mosquitoes With a Blunderbuss

Perhaps I’m more disconnected from regular life than the average Joe, but look at that video. Did you know the LLM thang had progressed this far, this fast? Internet wags who stubbornly still call it nothing but glorified autofill might want to rethink their opinions. Although no one

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Are You a Farmer? Are You a Star?

Wet Willie on the Midnight Special back in 1974. Aw yeah. To modern ears, the musical production can sound  “thin.” Recent recordings don’t have any dynamics in them anymore. It’s mixed to make every second of it just as loud as every other second. There’s not much air

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Amway Without the Soap

If you’ve been hiding under a rock lo these many years, everything depicted in this video might be news to you. If so, I’d like the address of your rock, and want to sublet part of the shadow from you. Even if you are clued in, the refresher

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Ferry Cross the Mersey and the River Styx

You know, I saw this photo of Margaret Thatcher at the beach, and I got to wondering: is it possible that this photo was altered using AI? Don’t laugh, it’s feasible. It’s layers inside layers. You don’t want to know who’s behind this sort of thing. For example,

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I Scare Myself

There are certain levels of creativity that transcend technique. I don’t like nearly all modern painters. But have you ever stood in front of a Van Gogh? It’s terrifying stuff. There is technique in it. He did his thing, over and over, always pushing forward, getting faster, further

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Y Te Da Felicidad

Well, they called it a Country song. I guess it was, at least before Freddie Fender got ahold of it. Then it became another country song. It had been recorded by a bunch of people, including Jerry Lee Lewis, but no one remembers that now. The Freddie Fender

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Greatest Hits

1980s

Guitar Army

It’s Chet Atkins and Doc Watson and Leo Kottke in the hallway and they’re just messin’ around like Michelangelo doodling on the outhouse wall or

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Sagas and Compilations