Good-Golly, Glenn Annie!
The Lemon Twigs meet Harry Nilsson
Surfing big waves while drinking White Russians
Big Monkee Energy
The Glen Annie Golf Club bills itself as a “championship golf course with first class amenities situated in the rolling foothills of scenic Santa Barbara.” It’s “challenging,” with “breathtaking panoramic views.” With lush, rolling greens and charming wooden bridges, it sums itself up by promising “Exceptional Golf... Exceptional Service... Exceptional Value!”
The members of the band Glenn Annie think this description is pretty funny, which shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that’s heard them. Evan Blix, the band’s lead singer and songwriter, has worked near the golf club for years. Driving past its sign over and over again, Blix found that the name became “detached” from the course, he told County Highway. Eventually, it became a band (with an extra N tacked on).
Glenn Annie the band is about as detached from a stuffy golf course as any group of people could possibly be. They’re surfers who …
Fugitives
‘Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me’
From Huck Finn to Pretty Boy Floyd, H. Rap Brown and Abbie Hoffman, their home is the road
‘Don’t look for us, Dog. We’ll find you first.’
The English word “fugitive,” which has been around for centuries, was adopted as a noun and as an adjective in the 14th century from the Latin adjective fugitiuus, which comes from the verb fugere, which means to flee. Notorious 14th century criminals include Adam the Leper, Eustace Folville and Robert de Hellewell — who refused to fight with England against the Scottish, went into hiding and on the “lam.” H. L. Mencken included the phrase, “on the lam,” which was used by criminals, in his book about the American language.
In the early 1970s I lived a kind of split-level life: I taught literature at a university, wrote essays and books, including an autobiography Out of the Whale, and kept an apartment in Manhattan; I also hung out with fugitives, including my wife, Eleanor, in New York and California.
I helped Jennifer Dohrn, Bernardine’s younger sister, disguise herself …
Tech Jeremiad
Gates, Bezos, Musk, Brin Have Plan to Fry Your Brain and Eat It
Robots will punish you for wrong-think
The grim, absurd future of corporatized totalitarian tyranny in America is here
U.S. citizens no longer live in a democracy, but rather amidst the formation of an advanced system of corporate tyranny — one that controls most of our institutions and has its gaze set on the goal of colonizing the American mind.
Microsoft’s purchase of ChatGPT earlier this year is a distinct trail marker in the development of the next stage of the corporate colonization of our inner lives. Together with American regulators’ refusal to curtail TikTok use — as the Chinese government does with their own creation — the rise of chatbot software has revealed the corporate colonist”s endgame: Distribute soma in the form of hyper-addictive digital content that has already produced a pandemic of depression and suicide among teenage girls; then, with the population thoroughly distracted, construct the AI circuitry needed to fulfill capital’s long-held dream of "full automation." Then, ruthlessly surveil whatever …
