Thinking of my mom today. This was her favorite thing.
Maybe It Will Happen Today
"I used to cycle up to Scarborough, Whitby, a long way actually. You get to know it, and you know it’s hilly if you’re cycling. I was always attracted to it. I always thought it had a space. One of the thrills of landscape is that it’s a spatial experience.”
— artist David Hockney
Listening to obscure soft-psych singer-sogwriter records. Most of them are not famous for a reason but it really has me thinking about how narrow the constraints of pop music are in practice. We all only know about 40 bands for our whole lives and one of them is loverboy. hole. the bacon brothers.
Cliff Edwards is my favorite ukulele player and that is a seriously cool bike.
I know the motorcycle jumping and flipping were occurring in front of a photo of the white house but it would be funny if one of the motorcycles did a bad flip and crashed into the white house and it exploded.
Re the under-16 social media ban in a far-away nation: I don't even have kids and I know that the #1 attribute that children have is the ability to figure out how to get around stuff like this. They are just making kids do it in secret now, which is absolutely not safe.
As a long-term fan of @robynhitchcock.bsky.social , I really appreciated his conversation one my favourite mental health podcasters, @johnmoe.bsky.social in a serious conversation about the mind and all the practical considerations of having a unique take on the world.
David Hockney (July 9, 1937 - June 11, 2026)
"Bigger Trees near Warter or/ou Peinture sur le Motif pour le Nouvel Age," 2007, Tate.
