You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another. … -Jorge Luis Borges El Greco. Detail of "The Virgin of the Immaculate Conception"

politics is show business, same as it ever was...

On this day in 1962 and 1969, the first and last photos of all four Beatles together were coincidentally taken on the same exact day - August 22nd - just seven years apart.

Back in 2007, I had a long chat w/one of the most formidable women I've ever met. Tonight, her oldest daughter accepts the Democratic presidential nomination. If you want to know how Kamala became Kamala, let me introduce you to Shyamala. New Mother Jones motherjones.com/politics/2024/…

If only a word existed, which described being "crammed" into a "shrinking zone"

Why does the The New York Times continue to soften the stupidity of Trumps' maggot brain???

At just $629, pretty soon you’ve gotta ask yourself if you can afford *not* to buy this goddamn marvel of modern engineering.

Thread of crazy paleontological discoveries 🧵 1. Drought reveals 113-million-year-old dinosaur tracks in Texas

Thread of hilarious maps you've (probably) never seen before 🧵 1. Bosnians: I wanna swim Croatia : No

'Chat Summaries' which keep showing up everywhere are proof of the lazy, generic quality of AI....what a crock of robot shit!

today we flew somewhere ABOVE the rainbow...way up high. 🌈 also, watching JAWS on a plane is awesome- no chance to be afraid of flying when you're afraid of the shark in the water!!

sick burn

Queen's 'Death On Two Legs' is still the most perfect song to ride upon the head of present day losers like old man Trump, and all the creeps riding in his hearse. "You're a sewer rat decaying in a cesspool of pride"....... youtube.com/watch?v=MQX-U7…

The opening song on Side 2 was really something to live for. off the top of my head, 'The Prophet's Song' on 'A Night At The Opera', and 'Deep In The Motherlode' on 'And Then There Were Three', and 'I Don't Like Mondays' on 'The Fine Art Of Surfacing'...

Tell No Lies had its video premiere during the very first day of MuchMusic on August 31, 1984. Retrontario 📺🇨🇦✨ covered this with me in great detail here: torontomike.com/2024/08/the-de… The keyboardist on Tell No Lies, rOb PreuSS 🔻🔕, visited me Friday for a fresh episode of #TOAST.

"What's going on! This is weird! I don't like this!" - My kids, waiting for a VHS tape to rewind

but but but Viktor Orban likes me!!! he's a STRONG MAN !!😂

Let's celebrate today- the 23rd anniversary of September 10th, 2001. The next day sucked.

if you think you need to add 'see what i did there' to your 'joke', it's probably a joke which only people who 'see what you did there' will 'see what you did there', without you needing to add 'see what i did there' to your 'joke'. this should be self-explanatory.