Earwig and His Fearsome Critters
Taking back land and ideals, those which came before prejudice.
Sunday, November 15, 2026
Saturday, November 14, 2026
My stomach hurts, I needed this so much today. I had no idea about the history between the Sens and little Tkachuk, but it didn't really matter. What a great little hockey short story, so perfect without the commentators. Holy shit, I may not have to do crunches today. It hurts.
"FUCK YOUR PODCAST!"
Man, I really miss hockey.
Edit: Bonus, I don't know if I'm just an easy laugh today, or what, but I am not kidding, after this one I don't think I can do my crunches or rowing machine today. [Sorry for the Draft Kings ad]
Yeah, golf ball.
Friday, November 13, 2026
There is too much shit going on today. I missed this, so good old fashioned h/t to MapleTakes, who is a good egg, for playing this on stream.
Yes, Ground News Is A Psyop.- From always the reliable SecondThought
This woman should have so many more fucking views than she does.
[Sorry, bad day earlier, I removed my rant.]
I love Ruby. These two have been on repeat off and on all day.
Ruby Waters - Numbers (Official Audio)
Extremely thankful to Rich Terfry for introducing her music to me, I haven't been able to exercise my voice like I do with her in a really long time.
At least AI can't fuck up my Youtube playlists, ammiright?
Wednesday, November 11, 2026
I fell asleep almost immediately after The Elephant Graveyard Radio Show because it was amazing and brilliant, and calming, and funny, and beautiful. I literally said aloud, "Welp, I'm going to sleep well," about 5 mins before I was ignoring the tingling from my wrist bending backwards and on my way to open mouth snoring. However, I woke up about an hour later completely awake, as apparently my brain was still processing what I had just experienced. This was about 2:30 and I didn't want to stay up long enough that I wouldn't be able to get back to sleep. I went to bed, but needed something to sleep to. I opened my 400 tabs and this video was already pulled up after I'd stumbled across it by chance earlier today. It is great because he knows what he's talking about and he loves Rudimentary Peni an appropriate amount. The best part, for me, was when he got to Cacophony he said he's going to have to restrain himself a little bit, and I was like, ohhhh nooo, but he immediately became one of my new favorite people instead. His notes describing Nick's vocals made me laugh out loud, 'cause it's true. I don't agree with him about the later stuff, but I think everyone is going to have a different take on those albums/EPs based on your relationship with the band overall. I just have a hard time describing any Peni as definitively good or bad, I just think that misses the point of what the band is. For his part, I don't think he feels all that comfortable doing so either. Nick will just forever be one of my favorite people in the Universe and can do no wrong.
My kid tolerates them, thankfully, because they're always on the rotation and she knows how much I love them. I assume she probably lets the "trivial" stuff I tell her about them dissolve into the ether in the same way I know she does when I won't shut the fuck up about The Kinks or Leonard Cohen, understandably so. I know I am annoying. I just want her to be educated about her soundtrack, ya know? This means I haven't been around anyone who appreciates this band in probably 25 years or more (other than my ex, but I don't think we spent much time talking about them beyond the late nineties). This is one of the most important bands in my adult life, remains so even now. Anyway, watch or don't, I give a shit.
But do I hope you watch it.
AND NOW I CAN'T FUCKING SLEEP.
Also this dude has a whole lot of other videos on other bands I love like Zounds, Subhumans (UK, I assume, I don't think it's on the Canadian Subhumans, no offense to them, they have decent stuff), Crass, etc, so maybe I'll post more of his stuff once I have time to watch them.
Tuesday, November 10, 2026
I finally got to finish all of the Radio Hours that Elephant Graveyard has put up, and man, I was blown away by the last two. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed all of them, but this is some next level shit. A lot of them borrow from that kind of fantastical, old-timey radio storytelling that all at once feels like a warm blanket, menacing and cathartic. They have great music taste and the mixing coupled with the visuals are insane. It hits all of the right spots for me. It seems to be a perspective from a very specific place and time that I can easily understand, recognize, and feel. The Berger influence seems obvious, but I'd be truly shocked to find out that these guys aren't FOTs. Their perspective very much feels of that world. If not from Newbridge, from some remote Canadian sister city. I am so sad I don't have anything new to watch from them now.
This one got me. I will probably watch it again.
Edit: I am a liar. I didn't know these guys had a channel and were broadcasting these things live on our precious Twitch until about month or so ago, so I missed all of the past live streams. TONIGHT at 10PM ET they are streaming an episode that they did live like a year ago, but never put the video up. SO! I do have something new to watch from them! Tonight! Then everyone will be very bewildered and sad, but understanding.
[Removed the Boomer meme, it was dumb.]
Sorry.
Edit:
I was going to post a link to the EG Radio Hour that was streamed the other night because it was so, so good, but I just realized it's unlisted. I don't want to fuck that up. So you should go to their Patreon and become a member (or Substack) so you can watch/listen. I will probably watch it again (and cry and cry).
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