Sitemap - 2024 - Sweaty Spice

Holiday doldrums. Or, why haven't I posted a lot lately?

A musical "what if?": ELP's Karn Evil 9 on a pipe organ?!?

AI Slop

Is it time to utter the "R" word?

Music: SandraiseR - a Welsh band that covers Hendrix (& Gallagher)

Executive Coaching

What bugs me about billionaires and their purported love of Physics

Master of Schlock: Roger Corman

Too good to not share: Hendrix plays Machine Gun

Music: Angela Petrilli & The Players

Music: Bela Fleck

This Fucking Guy: Bret(bug) Stephens

Music: Sungha Jung plays that which shall never be played

Some odd thoughts about the Election

Music: Ayla Tesler-Mabe

Mr. Big: Road to Ruin

Music: Epic guitar battle - Eric Gales v. Bonamassa

Music: Where has Grace Bowers been hiding?!?!?!

Bad SciFi - or how I spent my Thanksgiving day

Music: Judas Priest

The most colossal of all bad ideas - uploading medical diagnostic images to an AI

An outside-in look at Musk's pledge to slash $2T

Music: Telegraph Road - redux

Trump, the endless grift continues

Consequences. Someone's going to be unhappy - Always

Retail Therapy - New Guitar

You don't say: Ann Selzer to Step Away...

What went wrong? - The Manosphere to Alt-Right pipeline

Some thoughts from ten days out

Music: Andy Timmons plays Queen

Music: Child in Time

Music: Sue Foley

Performative defiance - Twitter

The Manosphere - Where the Fuck did Trump's strength amongst Gen Z men come from?

Barney Kessel - Just what the Dr. Ordered!

We Used to Know

Music: Eric Johnson

Music: Won't you think of the children and put a stop to this?

How is Trump closing?

Music: House of Lords covers a classic - Can't Find My Way Home

Ode to Catherynne Valente

He said what? No, JD Vance, teens aren't transitioning just to get into an Ivy

Get your hankies out for the FTX Parents

That time when ... Wordle

It is a lie…

Musk and Security Clearance

What the actual (and I mean it) Fuck? - Trumpers in line at MSG

Misguided Protests: Canceling your WaPo subscription

Some thoughts for Substack's Product Management Team

Cowardice

We lost another one: Paul DiAnno original singer for Iron Maiden has passed

Music: Rush's 2112

Fixing Fouled up e-Books

David French Wades into "it"

Music: Doing a classic Justice - Holy Diver

Guilty Pleasures: Doc Savage

Music: Triumph

Music: Rachel Flowers

Foreplay / Long Time

What if ... It's all an act

Shredders: Impellitteri

Three Weeks. Why am I so nervous?

Music: Andy Timmons still has it

Music: Gretchen Menn

Music: Molly Tuttle plays Neil Young

Desperation is in the air, 3 weeks left

The tragedy of GenAI for education

Back for More: Lari Basilio

Music: A three-peat for Damian Salazar

Well I'll be a Monkey's Uncle, I agree with Ramesh Ponnuru

The real result of Musk's prostrating at Butler - DJT rises

Music: House of the Rising Sun

Well, that was interesting...

Three Months with the Martin 000Jr

The Times cracks the door open to the degradation of Trump

Music: Rodrigo y Gabriella

Music Twofer: Gabriella Quevado and "guest"

An update on DJT stock

More Zepparella: Whole Lotta Love

What's Left to Know?

Music: Damian Salazar - redux

Music: Yenne Lee

What it takes for me to upgrade to paid

Music: Shel Silverstein

Lazy today: Kashmir - Zepparella

More on the Trump Dump

The Song that Shall Not be Played

The day is here, does Trump dump?

And now, something completely different...

HGotW: Mark Robinson

Music: Jad & Den Quintet

Pure Genius - Rehearsing a Classic

Whoa, I think I need a smoke...

Hell's Belles

Time to Bring it on Home

Tech Bros are cray-cray

The OG: Take Five

Thoughts in the aftermath of the Debate

The Girl from Ipanema: Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto

Gypsy Jazz: Rhythm Future Quartet

Father Figures are where you find them

Music: Clayton King

HGotW: Ross Douthat, or is it Douche-Hat?

The NY Times read my post, and said "Hold my Beer"

Music: Helena Nagagata

Go Home NY Times, you're drunk

Music: Take Five for solo guitar

Shitbirds gonna Shitbird: Bill Kristol

The inconsistencies of JD Vance

Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac

Music: Lo-Fidelity Allstars

Music: Michael Angelo Batio

Money Well Spent: Donations to The Satanic Temple

Editorial Notes

Music: Polyphia (actually Tim Henson)

Shut your Pie-Hole Rich Lowry

On the media...

Michael Schenker: Rock Bottom

HGotW: We got a basket of trash this week folks!

Music: Joe Pass ... 'nuff said

I've seen paradise ...

Music: Brilliance by Irene Ketikidi

Interesting quote in The Atlantic

Wow, what a difference four weeks makes...

More Dark Brandon: John McAfee Wants to Kill Elon

A "This Fucking Guy" Two-fer: Ross Douthat & James Kirchick

Too good not to share: TLP's short podcast

Friday Afternoon Jam: The Toyes

HGotW: Kathleen Parker

Music: Nita Strauss

What the *&^% is this? More Jethro Tull?

Music: Crazy Train remix

Blue Oyster Cult - Gojira

You finally did it, I have to turn off all notifications...

Salvage of the Republicans - Yeah, right

Music: Boston Redux

Music: Johnny Cash

Aww, isn't that Cute, the NY Times is still miffed about interviews

Milestones: 700

Music: Buckethead

Musk is doing WHAT?

Music: Ayreon

HGotW: Reid Hoffman

Music: Hellana Pandora

Sometimes, words fail me. Trump shits his pants at the NABJ interview

Music: The Breaking Winds

Dafuq were you thinking Google? AI Ad for Olympics is just plain weird

'Sucker Punch' - Yeah, I like that...

JD Vance, The VC Veep ... or is he

Late Deep Purple

What a difference a week makes...

Oh, just fuck right off Ross Douthat

Beth Hart

Whiny lil' bitch Musk lies about his Trans daughter

David Brooks should shut the fuck up

Soo good, gotta share...

HGotW: Bret (bug) Stephens

Steve Lukather

The headlines... Oy Vey

They fucking did it...

Music: Dream Theater

One of the Greats: Rick Wakeman

HGotW: Musk Sucks

Strange Kind of Women

Taking a breather

Music: Ally Venable et. al.

Music: Shawn Lane

Music: Clown Core

Music: Arlo Guthrie

Music: Wasted Years, with a twist.

Time to get real: How to replace Biden

Street Music: Fear of the Dark

Music: Video Game Music - DooM Soundtrack

Music: Norman Blake

On EV's

This Fucking Guy: Kathleen Parker, again, again

HGotW: Matthew Walther (& the NYTimes)

The Day After...

Just Awful: The Man with the Golden Gun

Agonizing over a purchase

Rifftrax: My new addiction

Music: John Lee Hooker, a Blues Icon

Odds and Sods

Music: Ellen Plays Bass

It's not good.

Bad Dates

What the candy-apple fuck: Trump trusted more than Biden on democracy among key swing-state voters

Music: We Want MOORE!

Migrant Fights? For reals?

Music: Friday Night in San Francisco

MAGA is not well on Substack

Music: Kent Nishimura - again

HGotW: A Roundup

Music: Mario Parga

This Fucking Guy: Pastor Robert Morris

This Fucking Guy: David Brooks

What I'm Watching: Get Smart

Deja Vu: Kathleen Parker, again

Music: Zepparella

HGotW: Bret Stephens

Music: Dream On, a study

Music: Gary Moore

This Fucking Guy: Kathleen Parker

Music: Gretchen Menn

HGotW: Mitch McConnell

Gee, a "no-receipts" policy for expense reimbursement is rife with abuse...

Vegas Observations

Music Appreciation - My Sharona

And thus it was so, I am back in Management

Music: Thinking of my Dad

HGoTW: Jane Walker

WaPo on "The Bulwark"

Music: Eliana Cargnelutti

Photos: The Trees

Caleb Carr, Author, has passed.

Buy them some doobies...

HGotW: Nikki Haley

Debunking "Evolutionary Psychology" in style

Photos: London

The Rot at Facebook

This Fucking Guy: Elise Stefanik

The Fucking NY Times is at it again...

Page update...

What a Cold Open! Jethro Tull FTW!

HGoTW: The Basket of Deplorables

This Fucking Guy: Greg Abbott

Aryeon: The Source

Power and Employment

The Future is Bright: Jasmine Crockett

HGoTW: A Twofer - Thomas & Kavanaugh

At the start of #60

Music: Toccata in Dm - Just perfection

Photos: Loire Valley

Photos: Chamonix

Photos: Normandy

That date...

Photos - Paris

HGotW: Collin Davis

Aaron Copeland but better

Music: 2Sich - she is truly too sick!

Like a Broken Clock... The WaPo's Megan McArdle

Odds and Ends: 4/27

The muse at work: Jeff Kollman

HGotW: Kristi Noem

Back to the Future: Jethro Tull circa 1977

Elon Musk: Mush mouthed idiot?

What I'm Reading: Jeff Tiedrich

Lessons learned, and thanks!

Just fuck right off Mike Pence (and the NY Times)

Nina DiGregorio - Eruption on a Violin

Just wow: Yvette Young

Saturday Morning Memories

My quiet passion: Yacht Rock

Hmm, this 'Stack might make me ineligible for the Trump juries - Good.

The Never Trumper's Great White Hope Disappoints, again

In case you missed it: DJT goes on trial tomorrow

The Terminally Stupid get Fleeced by bronzed twatwaffle

Dear Baby Jesus, please make it so... Trump says he will testify

Hey Nineteen - in style

This Fucking Guy: David French

HGoTW: Bonus edition - Ramesh Ponnuru

HGoTW: Arizona Republicans

A Family Affair: The Warning

This must have been fun: The Mary Spender Trio

Palette Cleaser: California Dreamin'

Editorial Notes

Photos: Italy - Part 2 - Pompeii

Oops, I did it again... Review of the Harley Benton Amarok BKRD-6

Photos: Italy - part 1 - Rome and Naples

Palette Cleanser: More Kent Nishimura

Musical Interlude: Jeff Kollman

The start of the end for Substack...

HGoTW: Susan Necheles

New Toy: (mini) Atari 400 Console

Getting into the Science of Music

Where have I seen that before?

Guilty Pleasure: The Incredibles

HGotW: Tim Walberg, R-Douchebagastan

The Curse of Product Management: Self Checkout Kiosks

Palette Cleanser: Kent Nishimura

You Hate to See It: Youngkin has big sadz

More NYT Fuckery - David French

My Kink: Elon Musk's idiocy

It pains me to write this... Trump will not be held accountable before the election

Memories - a good meme

Photography

Just another day in the Blender

The Best version of Fanfare for the Common Man

Thoughts on a year of Substack

What I'm Watching: Monsieur Spade

Once Again: NY Times WTF Headlines

The Ladies are alright

Inflation, some thoughts

I think my co-workers are trying to kill me

This will end well (NOT): Trump Takes Over the RNC

Wow, that Blew Up...

Fuck Ezra Klein, and fuck the NY Times

NY Times - C'mon, stop this shit NOW!

Music Appreciation: Dire Straits

What I'm Reading: Sweary History

Music Appreciation: Mohini Dey

Who Knew how much Sykes carried The Bulwark

On Substack...

Once again, I agree with David French

Good day for a Dog Walk

Some audible bliss: Malmsteen circa 1984

Distasteful name, heinous crime

The teenaged crack dealers are here.

Pleasant surprises

My Dudes, be better

Why I still sub to WaPo

More Fuckery: Arizona edition

What Fuckery is afoot? Alabama does it again.

Muzak Files

Bread Baking day

F*cked up Headlines

The Lincoln Project is on FIRE

Must Read 'Stack: Catherynne Valente

Too good not to share...

Some palette cleansing: Tommy Emmanuel

How to Identify Human Garbage

Betting on the National Anthem?!?!?!

Musical Remembrance - Mojo Nixon

The Fail Sandwich

ODing on Schadenfreude: Haley loses to "None of these Candidates"

More Headline Takes

Tech industry tribulations

I can't believe I agree with David French

Habba, Lawyer or ?

Closing in on a year of Substack

Forza: Best Race Yet

Music Appreciation: Glen Campbell

Writers I like: Talia Lavin

Music Appreciation: Jeff Beck

The Haley Situation

Should, but not likely - On the use of AI and how that will impact the future of work

No. Just NO. (Buddymoon)

I am not a fan...

The Schadenfreude is delightful...

Music Appreciation: Boston

Movie Review: Oppenheimer

Dark, rainy morning, Time for some Nerd Halen!

Things that make me go "hmmmmm"

Chatbot Markets

Rant: Carwashes and their "express" detailing

Growing up Gifted.

Growing up Poor

Music Appreciation: Eric Johnson

Little Known Facts about Me

It's Over...

Just in: LinkedIn is the new hottest dating site...

Online Forza: Yeah, it ain't pretty

Fucking NY Times Headline bullshit

Eugene's Bag of Tricks

No, I will not allow ads Atlantic...

Open Guitar Surgery

Nazi's and Substack

An ominous anniversary

Music Appreciation: Nina Hagen

I got nuthin. More Lari Basilio

Wow. My first ban on Substack