Five thoughts about Grammy hopes, Iran, workers seeking change at the Obama Foundation, clingy businesses, and School Days at 50. one. never been a big grammy fan buti’d rawk with members ofextreme and living colour any daymilitia vox and corey glover coverbryan adams and tina turner’s“it’s only love”with nuno bettencourt and vernon reidholdin’ it down […]
Read More Tano — Oct 10, 2026Tano, October 3, 2026: Adult DVD’s debut, Jamilah Lemieux’s post, Cornell allegations, fading American habits, and Once Upon a Time in Harlem.
Read More Tano — October 3, 2026Five thoughts about historic art, modern wartime performance art, real estate, and an unsung star. one. experiment in starting a fight today12th–18th century ife and benin sculpturesset for nigerian ownershipand a renewable 25-year loan to the metindigenous art justice remixed or sumpn else? two. speakin’ of i dunnonyc acted like a private landlordchashama’s losing half […]
Read More Tano — Sep 27, 2026five quick takes on music, politics, and ai — plus a song stuck in my head. one. interpol’s this mirror weighs a ton ain’t hittin’ like 2002they just sound like any other decent alternative band nowno shade two. lauren boebert denies the staff-affair allegationsher anti-lgbtqia record ain’t a rumorfamily values sho’ stay busyminding eybody else’s […]
Read More Tano — Sep 20, 2026The United States is producing record amounts of oil. So why can a war thousands of miles away still make Americans pay more for gasoline? Fair question — especially since Team Trump’s had this oil-independence flex on loop for a while. There are three really simple answers. Here’s the simplest one: oil independence doesn’t mean […]
Read More Trump Says America Produces the Most Oil. So Why Are Gas Prices Still Too Damn High?Another example of a perfect song. The algorithm deities just gifted me with MOIPEI singing an a cappella version of Simon & Garfunkel’s “The Sound of Silence”. More than 60 years later, you can do damn-near anything to this song, and it continues to live well. With or without instruments, sped up or slowed down, […]
Read More A Perfect Song: MOIPEI Sings “The Sound of Silence”And you thought beating egg prices was a win … ? Five days ago, I wrote that America looked like the wild Calvin and Hobbes disaster game bit with the exploding plane, derailing train, earthquake, gas leak, and match. Cute metaphor. Horrible thing to watch age well. Reuters now reports that publicly tracked vessel traffic […]
Read More About That Last Iran Post — The Match Was Already LitThe Iran war’s economic effects could pull oil, diesel, Treasury yields, and election politics out of their separate crisis lanes and into one grim American adventure. I’ve been watching a developing situation in America that reminds me of a classic Calvin and Hobbes comic strip installment where Calvin plays a game and weaves together the […]
Read More Planes, Trains, and Matches — Or the Iran War, 5% Treasuries, and Political FireworksI’ve been silent about the Iran war for good reason … You haven’t seen much from this channel about the Iran war these days. Given all I’ve written about Iran for more than a decade — and much of what was predicted is playing out today — I asked myself “What can I say that […]
Read More Iran War: The Receipts Are TiringAs Congress targets organized retail theft, America still struggles to show the same urgency when Black, Brown, older, and LMI homeowners lose generational wealth through deed theft. I recently remarked to friends over tea that government officials seem to be more outraged over groups of young adults stealing Gucci handbags than over people stealing houses. […]
Read More Deed Theft Steals Homes. Why Does Organized Retail Crime Get More Outrage?