Twitter Account Probably Going Away

As noted everywhere on the interwebs today, Twitter is going to shut down all free access to their APIs. And since WordPress uses the API to automatically post links to articles on this blog, I guess this means that this will stop working.

The lowest paid API access level is $150 per month. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

So the Elmo Twit Apocalypse is proceeding pretty much like expected, only stupider. But if you want to keep up with my deathless prose and inherently interesting nattering about comics, I’ve tied this blog to Mastodon instead: https://mstdn.party/@larsmagne23. So you can use that to get notifications instead of on Twitter.

(I wouldn’t be terribly surprised if Twitter reverses this decision in a couple of days, though. I.e., a new tweet that says “we never said that”, because it’ll probably impact both tweet volume and “engagement” significantly, and nobody wants to see numbers go down. (I think “number go up” is the entire idea behind cryptocurrencies.) How can you live without the DMV bot? Well, you use Mastodon.)

January Music

Music I’ve bought in January.

So what did I get this month… Oh!

Laura Jean - A Funny Thing Happened (Official Music Video)

I checked out Laura Jean’s discogs page, and it turned out she’d released a new album last year! You’d think there’d be some way this information would, like, filter its way to me, like, by magic, but the tech apparently isn’t there yet. You’d think I’d be profiled sufficiently now that somebody would push an ad that way to me but nope. SURVEILLANCE STATE! YOU”VE FAILED ME!

I’ve only listened to it three times since I got it the other day, but I think it’s quite swell? I have to listen to it more, but I think it might be a classic.

Shearwater Plays Lodger - Look Back In Anger - David Bowie - The AV Club 2016

The other thing is that I started listening to the Shearwater Bowie concert covers again, and I was reminded that these sounded quite swell, so I got the thing that started it all, and it’s… totally amazeballs. I mean, it’s not Bowie, but what is? It’s so exuberant and wonderful that it’s almost better.

Uhm… what more… Oh yeah! I went through the The Wire Best Of 2022, and bought some stuff.

Oren Ambarchi "II" (Official Music Video)

The new Oren Ambarchi is fantastic.

And the Carl Stone is so weird — half of it is perfect and half is maddening.

PX Stuff

PX Stuff by Gary Panter (280x320mm)

This is a cloth patch, and I found it randomly on ebay. I have no idea what the provenance is — I think it has to be a brand new bootleg thing? Because the cotton hasn’t yellowed at all.

But it looks pretty good, right?

So now I just have to hand stitch it to the back of my Rick Owens coat.

This blog post is part of the Punk Comix series.