An Infinite Number of Monkeys

Posted by Athena Scalzi

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I heard an absolute banger of an earworm this past week, and have been listening to it nonstop ever since. I want to bestow upon y’all Tame Impala’s new song, “Dracula.”

If you had asked me a week ago if I liked Tame Impala, I would’ve said I was completely indifferent about him and couldn’t even name a song from him. That is still true except for “Dracula.” This song is an absolute home-run of a bop, and there’s even a remix version with JENNIE which is also very good. Here’s both versions for your listening pleasure!

And the JENNIE version:

I have been debating which version I like better, and honestly it’s so hard to decide. I listen to both an equal amount, and both are great. Can’t go wrong with the original, but I love JENNIE’s ethereal voice and the harmonizing with Tame Impala.

My favorite part of the song is how they make “Dracula” rhyme with “spectacular.” Stellar stuff, really.

I hope you enjoy this bop, and that it helps you get movin’ and groovin’ through your next week!

-AMS

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Posted by John Scalzi

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Apparently it’s true: The fellow who came to the Correspondent’s Dinner the other night with a bunch of weapons (and who, it should be noted, came nowhere near the president or anyone else in the ballroom), liked four Bluesky posts of mine in the last month. Which ones? I have no idea, although a cursory view of my last month of Bluesky posts shows nothing particularly spicy in a political sense. This does not surprise me, as I usually send all my really spicy political takes to Threads. Most of the last month of Bluesky posts for me were about JoCo Cruise, whacking on “AI,” photos of cats and Krissy, and talking about writing. Maybe this dude liked cat pictures? He’s arrested now and his Bluesky account is down in any event. We may never know.

My feeling about this is pretty much the same feeling I have about being in the Epstein Files: What the fuck, it’s not great, and also, it doesn’t actually have much to do with me, I’m mostly being sideswiped by this weird damn moment we’re in. I certainly don’t condone attempting to kill the president. Any president, and also, this one in particular. Among other things that would take away the fun of watching him one day rotting in prison along with the rest of his corrupt and horrible family and administration. Keep him alive! For justice!

I’m joking here about being on a federal watch list now, but I should be clear I’m pretty sure I already have an FBI file, and also that this FBI file is really super boring, so anything relating to this will almost certainly be funneled into that. I recently did an FOIA request for my file, so I suppose I will find out soon enough. In the meantime I’ll just have to imagine.

I’ve been informed that some of the folks associated with the Sad Puppies are trying to make hay of my tangential association to this fellow, which, I guess, they would, loud bad logic has always been their MO. My first thought is that when you’re related to an actual successful presidential assassin, a failed one liking your social media posts is weak sauce. My second thought was, huh, the right-wing chudguzzlers are whining about me again, whenever they do that something nice happens with my career, wonder what it will be this time. And indeed, today I got a foreign language offer on one of my books, which I happily accepted. It’s correlation, not causation, to be sure. But it sure does correlate a lot. So keep it up, right-wing chudguzzlers! We’re having our back deck rebuilt, I could use a few more foreign sales. Thanks in advance for your help.

— JS

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