John McDaid

@AmericanAir Big thanks to Charlotte bag drop agent Alice, who went the extra mile, talking four very weary travelers through moving Xmas presents from one bag to another to save an overage. Outstanding customer service.

Finally, door open.

And our pilot is trying to raise operations.

Clearly @united didn’t pay enough crew to meet the demand at IAD for their holiday schedule. Nice view of the ramp, y’all.

@juliaasoni @united Security at ALB was sprightly. Great day to fly. If you can deplane.

@jmcdaid @united How long was security line?

Neil Postman, prescient as always.

Final cover reveal! Posters from all 52 weekends of the 2024 Pirate Cove Music Fest, with weird album covers and annotations. Cover by AD Puchalski, interior art Bailey Chumas and Cindy Zaglin. ISBN by Bowker. Luscious full-color on premium paper, print on demand 1/3, ebook 12/27

A very special #PCMF: Wing-assisted Incline Running fresh off a tour of Korea, where they nearly filled moderately sized venues, and you've seen the foofraw over Answers in Abiogenesis' latest single, "The Miller-Urey Experiment," a lightning rod (heh) for Christian nationalists.

I taught for 4 years at Expository Writing at NYU with Maria Benoit Landro, and we spent a lot of time at the White Room Zendo on East 10th. We both moved on from academia: she walked with the class of '91 and is now M.B. Dro, Roshi, her sangha is the band Rinzai Homiletics #PCMF

Geek week at PCMF! FRI: [Rock|Space] Vegas's glitzy Elvis-in-Bedrock mashups (cosplay welcome!), SAT: Acid rockers, Zero or two odd nodes, w/the floating trolley that caused so much trouble at Brixton. SUN: The dark cyberpunk world of CRIME SKELETON (bring your AR/VR glasses!) 🦋

So looking forward to this weekend's closer at Pirate Cove Music Fest. Like you, I first heard Friend of the Show when they were the house band for that Big-Five accounting firm, calling themselves "The Great GASB," and Kimmel played a clip someone had sent in and they went viral

Oh, what's that, Monsieur Baudrillard? Something about the precession of the simulacra? nytimes.com/2024/11/14/bus…

Face-eating leopards know that faces expressing betrayed surprise taste best. wapo.st/40L0ksG

The problem with PCMF being in a Temporal Autonomous Zone is never knowing quite when the weekend of August 4 is going to sync up with over in your reality tunnel. So we didn’t have anything special planned for this weekend. We will have some breakout yurts for grieving together

Senate candidate goes bonkers over a piece of campaign literature that looked like fun-sized ballots. What a world. (Ed. note: I take elections, the security of elections, and election laws very seriously. This is just a transparent attempt at flooding the zone.)

In response to your query, Tucker, September 12, 1933, Leo Szilard, waiting for a traffic light to change outside the British Museum. Sorry about your foot. That was real demons. theguardian.com/us-news/2024/n…

Please, let's not get complacent. Vote NO on Question 1. Just ask yourself if _your_ passionate issue's PAC can put a couple million on the table. Because electing delegates and supporting amendments is not going to be cheap, and the dark money will be plentiful. #RejectQuestion1

It's LITERARY AF at PCMF! Not only is Ass Sadness closing us out (hello, a little thing called "Waxing My H-Bomb") but that enigmatic Sixties writer (whose head was in a jar in the background of an episode of Futurama!) Leopold Schaffenhaus as half of Great Oxidation Event

In the battle between Superman and Lex Luthor, The Daily Planet has decided not to take a side.

@columbusmuseum, Ming Smith's "Transcendence" exhibition (stunning photography, w/words of fellow Columbus-born Jacqueline Woodson) & docent introduced us to Smith. She explained the image of the simple window was from her room as a child. What a moment. Made me choke up a little