David Erik Nelson's Blog, page 21

Is this song about a serial killer or a sex criminal? ♬♫♪

I just 100% don’t know how to cope with the existence of the song “Butcher Pete.” And, yeah, this may be one of those murderous earworms that literally consumes you from the inside out. Sorry! My bad for sharing!

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My funny, glamorous, gracious Aunt Lola was enslaved in Auschwitz at 16.

Today is Yom Ha’Shoa. Yesterday I was at lunch and my Aunt Lola was brought to mind, so I thought I’d share this post from 2015: My funny, glamorous, gracious Aunt Lola died last night. She was enslaved in Auschwitz at 16. The full text I wrote then follows.] I just learned that my Aunt Lola died last night–great aunt, technically, the wife of one of my father’s uncles.

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Straight Talk: Every Rap Crew Should Have an ASL Interpreter. I LOVE THIS!!!

Yes, I saw CODA. Yes, I hella dug. No, I WASN’T CRYING THAT MOVIE THEATER JUST WAS MAD SETTING OFF MY ALLERGIES GOTO HELL IM FINE!!1!

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“Dave, I’m concerned that Greg Gillis (of Girl Talk) may not be an absolute genius; can you help me?” ♬♫♪

Yes. Yes I can:

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Distraction of the Day: Work Less Lonely

Coffee shop working for the agoraphobe, introvert, or pandemic-dweller:

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Distraction of the Day: Cold-Flaming Crystal Skull💎💀

I would like to make Yoichi Kobayashi’s cold-flaming crystal skull the executor of my estate.

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“The most unjustly under-loved jazz great of the 1950s” #WomensHistoryMonth

I take exception to Tom Moon’s characterization of Dorothy Ashbury (quoted as the title): she isn’t just among “the most unjustly under-loved jazz greats of the 1950s”; she is almost certainly the most inexplicably under-appreciate jazz great ever. Born in 1932 in Detroit, Ashbury broke barriers at every angle: a Black female professional artist in a male dominated industry...

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Brothers and Sisters, I 100% Feel You

Yep, it’s a trap. This is how the AIs get us: they set us up on serial petty theft charges, ruin our credit records with fines and court fees and legal bills, then get us disenfranchised as parole-violating felons. Pretty soon, the only jobs we can get are dusting off their motherboards for minimum wage or working the spice mines of Chiron Beta Prime.

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Man, they totally *nailed* the 1990s in this old SNL skit!

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FLASHBACK FRIDAY: This is your reminder that Mars is now populated entirely by very lonely robots…😢🤖

and hungry, hungry sandworms (presumably). These are fun on your computer, and absolutely immersively astounding on your phone/tablet. The future is here, but unevenly distributed—with some portions dune-buggying around Mars, picking at rocks and wrecking up the joint.from “360º Views from the Surface of Mars(!!!)” (with immersive VR video doo-hickey!!!

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