Back from the War to Excelsior 2023

I know we don't really have an excelsior thread any more but this just made me happy

the meta conversation about the platform is a funny constant in online places because the owners of the platform do need users to make good posts thats what makes the platform good, so posters while having no official say do actually have power, the meta conversation posts are not good posts so they function as a threat to the platform encouraging admin to acquiesce

― lag∞n, Thursday, July 13, 2023 2:08 PM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

my praxis? bad skeets to bring the bosses to their knees

― mark s, Thursday, July 13, 2023 2:09 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah it's that users vs customers right? "i own this community" "no u don't, we're...the community" "i made this community, you are in my company houses and stores" "byyyyyee"

― rick james, critical moralist (Hunt3r), Thursday, July 13, 2023 2:10 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

its the perfect form of collective action you get to 1. make bad posts 2. win

― lag∞n, Thursday, July 13, 2023 2:10 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

ive been training my whole life for this

― mark s, Thursday, July 13, 2023 2:12 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Good to laugh in 2023 👍

What’s the big deal, nobody remembers the 1977 craze of Salòday Night Fever?

― But his face would not turn into hot Kirby (Evan)

loool

Omg I missed the title change the first time

You Sade Be Dancing

Oh yeah, a lot of 80 year olds are in the category of people who liked the Beatles until they got weird.

― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Saturday, July 22, 2023 6:27 AM bookmarkflaglink

To be fair the Beatles did get weird.

― Exit, pursued by a beer (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, July 22, 2023 6:33 AM bookmarkflaglink

Especially the Traveling Wilburys

― Andy the Grasshopper, Saturday, July 22, 2023 6:38 AM bookmarkflaglink

good god do I wish we could store light like water in a hose

― actual veggie mexican pizza received (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, August 17, 2023 7:49 PM (thirty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

it sounds like you might be interested in buying a dreamcatcher i can direct you to my etsy

― the late great, Thursday, August 17, 2023 8:10 PM (thirteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Try to threaten a grand juror in a small town

― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 19 August 2023 15:26 (fifty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

is that from a Miranda Lambert song

― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 19 August 2023 15:29 (fifty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

The Rural Juror

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 19 August 2023 15:42 (forty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

classic

Blueberry Hill is a decently successful restaurant in St. Louis, sometimes associated with Chuck Berry. It's not, however, the restaurant in which he installed video cameras in the women's restroom. That's a different restaurant.

― Pontius Pilates (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, September 4, 2023 3:04 AM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

^^Lady P. Goode, IIRC.

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, September 4, 2023 3:07 AM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

the “diversity” is absolute fucking false, there’s a class system, otherwise people i know wouldn’t be bartending or driving huge fucking ice trucks to the middle of the goddamn desert so some assholes can have ice cold drinks

it's true, only 1,000 people at Burning Man have fun, the other 69,000 are lowly peons.

― what you say is true but by no means (lukas), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 23:26 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

yeah, this is the appropriate venue to discuss Burning Man

― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 23:27 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

the funniest thing that’s happened in this thread is octobeard comparing Burning Man to cities that have been around for literal millennia. talk
about hubris.

― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 23:29 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

one of the biggest DUDs of all time. I should note that I haven't been, but every thing I've ever heard about it makes me cringe.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, August 11, 2003 10:14 AM (twenty years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Spencer set the tone twenty years ago, we're just sticking to it

― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 23:30 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

burning man and gathering of the jugglos should merge

― lag∞n, Thursday, 7 September 2023 00:32 (seventeen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

― omar little, Thursday, 7 September 2023 00:36 (thirteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

fuckin' magnates, how do they work?

― cracked fixed view mire (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 7 September 2023 00:42 (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Don't care about dogs either, other than the yappy little fucker that sank its teeth into my calf a few years ago because it didn't like the look of me.

― PKD did a job on me (Matt #2), Tuesday, September 12, 2023 6:47 AM (nine hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

don't sell yourself short - I bet you looked delicious

― Evan, Tuesday, September 12, 2023 9:20 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

My mind keeps exploding every time I get to a new line of that poster.

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, October 10, 2023 5:49 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Lords of Acid?!?!

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, October 10, 2023 6:23 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I wanna see your pussy, show it to me

― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, October 10, 2023 8:11 AM (twenty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Remarkable alternate lyrics to "Catch the Breeze" there.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, October 10, 2023 8:24 AM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

The article mentions Bettina Richards, but not her record label's name- It's Thrill Jockey Records. She has a house across from Leo in Maine!

― curmudgeon, Monday, October 16, 2023 9:39 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Wow running Thrill Jockey must really let you ascend the corridors of power. Lots of billionaire Tortoise fans?

― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, October 17, 2023 5:38 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Billionaires now living will never die

― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes)

Well I laughed:

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it would be interesting to know if there is literally anyone on the planet who has bought/downloaded more stuff from BC than Ned. serious question.

― alpine static, Wednesday, October 18, 2023 11:47 AM (one hour ago)

henry rollins probably. ned and rollins.

― scott seward, Wednesday, October 18, 2023 12:02 PM (one hour ago)

That'll be our spoken word duo.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, October 18, 2023 12:23 PM (fifty minutes ago)

Who's Got The 3.14159?

― blazin' squab (NickB), Wednesday, October 18, 2023 12:34 PM (thirty-nine minutes ago)

me too, was just coming here to post that

I don’t get it, am I dumb?

lol no it's kind of an inside ILX joke:

100 things to do with a CD of Ned Raggett reading the number pi for forty-five minutes...

and

https://www.discogs.com/master/28711-Black-Flag-Whos-Got-The-10%C2%BD

better if you had a chart imo

Oh yeah … 10%C2%BD … the best Rollins track by far

damn you, bbcode

and Kira has the 10%C2%BD iirc

12%C2%BDs of Snow

https://variety.com/2023/music/news/dwight-twilley-dead-im-on-fire-1235761600/

It occurs to me that anyone unfamiliar with Twilley's biggest hit may very well be horrified by the implications of this url.

― Prop Dramedy (Old Lunch), Thursday, October 19, 2023 7:38 AM (fifty-five minutes ago)

...and if they used his other big chart hit it would have been just as bad.

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, October 19, 2023 8:24 AM (nine minutes ago)

roffles

it’s really important work, judging people for liking stuff too much

it is, quite literally, God's work.

lol

nicely formatted too tbf

- Bob Marley

i opened up and put on a live Pretenders boot from 1980 and the first person through the door had to tell me that he never listened to the Pretenders until he heard "Brass In Pokcet" and got physically aroused. he kinda liked them after that. i will have to live with that little tidbit until the day i die.

is that Brass In Pocket, or are you just happy to... hear the Pretenders?

have often found stuff on my wantlist on Vinyl Pimp's discogs account but the whole thing of "spend £300 and stay in my hotel for free" they blurb under every entry squicked me out.

good setting for a murder mystery imo

like Clue but all the murder weapons are things like "unstable Ikea Kallax"

this new formatting trend is very distracting to my eye and makes it hard to find the lol in the post

-me

Lol

I admit, I had a hard time finding the lol sometimes in the old format.

nothing to do with the format ofc

one thing will never change anyway

ding ding ding ding ding ding

last replies = thread delivers

There is a zing thread, y'know

Where's Loldo

Is it just me or is the first episode of Murder at the End of the World (Disney+ in Ireland) boring as shit? The reviews all praise Emma Corrin, but I'm not sure they're doing much here beyond giving it the pixie face every now and then.

― trishyb, Wednesday, November 15, 2023 3:32 PM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Is it the Frank Black Pixie face, because I would watch that

― the new drip king (DJP), Thursday, November 16, 2023 4:45 AM (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink

That face is broken iirc

― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, November 16, 2023 4:52 AM (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink

I feel like thats the joke DJP was already making, though?

_this new formatting trend is very distracting to my eye and makes it hard to find the lol in the post_


-me

uh, you're fine

thanks for thinking my joke was funny by the way

pplains joke was funny too but it's annoying how strenuously joyless people can be here

Oh, it doesn't take that much effort.

no indeed

jet fuel can't melt steel beams, Debra

Sandra Day O'Connor dead.

― stuffing your suit pockets with cold, stale chicken tende (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, December 1, 2023 10:21 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

gutted

― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Friday, December 1, 2023 10:48 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Jeez, I hope they catch the guy.

― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Friday, December 1, 2023 11:59 AM (fourteen minutes ago)

haha

there's a super deluxe of the Yes Album out now (feels like this album gets reissued every time I blink); remaster of the original mix+steven wilson mix again, a mono fold down which I guess was a radio promo at the time (pointless), but there are some live things from two 1973 sets which are cool and maybe haven't been out before, dunno, I honestly can't keep track. There's also a 2x45rpm pressing coming out as part of that Atlantic celebration (I don't fuck around with LPs at 45, I do not have enough time to get up and flip sides every two songs)

― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, December 6, 2023 9:59 PM (forty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I do not have enough time to get up and flip sides every two songs
buddy this is the Yes thread

― frogbs, Wednesday, December 6, 2023 10:14 PM (twenty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah but I'm not talking about 20 minute songs, I'm talking about the Yes Album. They're also going to split Close to the Edge (the song) in half and put half on side one and the other half of the song on side 2. That is dumb.

― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, December 6, 2023 10:17 PM (twenty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

what part of I get up I get down do you not understand

― frogbs, Wednesday, December 6, 2023 10:18 PM (twenty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

High quality Yeshumour

Might be different in the Chumbawumba thread

or Van Halen

I’m very sold on Obsidian now; there’s a plugin for everything and the Markdown is tolerable

― stet, Sunday, December 3, 2023 2:39 PM (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink

I’m very sold on Obsidian now; there’s a plugin for everything and the Markdown is tolerable

― stet, Sunday, December 3, 2023 2:40 PM (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Have they fixed the duplication issue?

― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, December 3, 2023 2:54 PM (five days ago)

this is lol to me because i remember when it was almost impossible to do duplicate posts on ilx ... hence the impressive feat of "Debra and Truther Pony 20 times"

I’m on the fence about names that are derivatives but then become their own names. Sometimes goes well, sometimes terrible. Lolita is just the diminutive of Dolores!

― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Saturday, December 9, 2023 12:35 PM (twenty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Actually, Lolita is a satire on the American Dream

― The Ned Wedding (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, December 9, 2023 12:51 PM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

almost all the top- and second-tier names in KR make obeisance of some sort to frank as inspiration, even if it's p hard to hear a similarity (i can't really hear one in faust tbrr)
The first Faust album is practically Zappa cosplay at points! They even had a member who called himself "Zappi"!

― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, December 13, 2023 9:30 AM (forty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

hey now

― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Wednesday, December 13, 2023 9:32 AM (thirty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

No offence

― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, December 13, 2023 9:35 AM (thirty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-LtddOgUCE