🔖 If only more companies put in half this much effort. 💜 Rogue Amoeba » Making Digital Confetti Accessible
🔖 This is a great piece. – Alabama’s capitol is a crime scene. The cover-up has lasted 120 years.
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'"–Isaac Asimov
Making your own crunchy taco shells in an air fryer is my new favorite thing. 🌮😋
Song of the Day – Last Christmas (Pudding Mix) by Wham! 🎵
The original Alvin and the Chipmunks Christmas special is just such a delight to revisit. 🐿❤️🐿💙🐿💚 🎵
I am absolutely heartbroken at the news that we have lost Anne Rice. Her work has been a fixture in my life for more than thirty years, and she is one of my most important influences. I can’t believe it. The world will not be the same. 💔📚
We discussed our complicated feelings about Masters of the Universe: Revelation in the most recent episode of Masters Cast. Check it out wherever you get your podcasts. ⚔️
I would have ranked these in a different order and there are some surprising omissions, but this is a solid list. 🎵 George Michael’s 30 greatest songs – ranked! | The Guardian
Smart TVs are great in some ways, but I think they all should have a “dumb mode”.
1980s FM Radio
#My musical awakening came a little earlier than it does for most people, whose taste in tunes tend to settle in during their teen years. For a long while, I have been wanting to make a purely nostalgic playlist. I wanted it to take me back to the days of my youth, when turning on the radio in the mid 1980s meant that I knew (and generally loved) most of the music on the airwaves. It was a time when “pop” was less of a genre and more about whatever happened to be popular at the moment. It was a time when WHAM !, Bon Jovi, Sting, and Guns and Roses were all battling it out at the top of the charts. It was a glorious time, full of variety and talented artists.
Those of a certain age or musical persuasion will understand. Music, inherently, is incredibly subjective. I’m not here to judge anyone else’s taste, only to celebrate mine. If you have a similar love for the decade that shaped me, you might enjoy my 80s Radio FM playlist on AppleMusic. It’s intended to be listened to on shuffle. With over 21 hours of music and nearly 300 songs, I wanted to recreate flipping on the radio in the 1980s—you never know what you’re going to get, but it’s all going to be something good.
Depending on your own taste, you may find some glaring omissions in this list. I deliberately left off some songs that I really didn’t care for, and also included some that are here more for the nostalgia than the artistic merit. AppleMusic makes it easy to use a playlist like mine as a basis for your own custom version, so feel free to do that if you find it lacking in some area you would prefer.
I hope you enjoy, and happy listening!
It is too early in the season for it to be 27°f while I have my morning coffee. 🥶☕️
Carving jack-o'-lanterns is one of my favorite Halloween traditions. 🎃 Next up? It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown and Garfield’s Halloween Adventure 👻🧡🖤🧡👻
Nothing says autumn like sitting on the screened-in porch on a crisp rainy morning and roasting fresh coffee beans. ☕️🍂
🔖 42 years later, how ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ has endured : NPR
What a loss. He was such an incredible musician. 💔 Wham! and George Michael bassist Deon Estus has died aged 65 🎵
I now have a profile on BingeBooks.com, and you can follow me there. I really like BingeBooks, both as an author and a reader. Other similar sites have always felt like work to me. BingeBooks is fun! 📚
I can’t be the only person who is considering, if the new iPhone is indeed called iPhone 13, renaming my device “Mockingbird Lane”. 🧟♂️ 🧛♀️ 🦇
Listening to this newly remastered and expanded soundtrack to STAR TREK II – THE WRATH OF KHAN, I am once again reminded why this is my favorite movie score of all time. 🎵 🖖🏽
Jon Kallis and I recorded this special episode of MastersCast, where we discuss (and sometimes debate) the history and importance of the Masters of the Universe character, Teela. – Ultimate Battleground 1: Teela | Masters Cast ⚔️
🔖 This is a promotional video for a print reading device for the blind in the 1970s. 😱 It would have been like learning to understand R2D2. 🤖 Crazy!
Imagine if everyone online expended half as much energy toward celebrating the things they love or making the world a better place as they currently do spreading hate. What a world we could have.
On episode 74 of MasstersCast, we discuss Masters of the Universe: Revelation in depth. Join us as we celebrate the power’s return!