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Open thread
Wednesday, Jul 23, 2025 - Posted by Rich Miller * “Billy Corgan has cited the significance of ‘Sweet Leaf’ as an influence on The Smashing Pumpkins sound in numerous interviews, noting that he first heard the song from his uncle’s copy of Master of Reality when he was 8 years old and thought ‘this is what God sounds like’”… And soon the world will love you sweet leaf Any news by you?
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- Yooper in Diaspora - Wednesday, Jul 23, 25 @ 8:56 am:
All of the laid off university librarians at WIU have received the Illinois Academic Librarian of the Year Award.
https://www.ila.org/content/documents/2025_IL_Academic_Librarian_of_the_Year_Award_PR.pdf
- hisgirlfriday - Wednesday, Jul 23, 25 @ 9:19 am:
Thank you for this Billy Corgan reference which reminds me I still need to get tickets/make plans around seeing Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness at the Lyric Opera House this fall.
- JS Mill - Wednesday, Jul 23, 25 @ 9:35 am:
CNBC released their annual quality of life report. A two of our neighbors,Indiana and Missouri (gasp) were listed in the bottom 10 of the country. Tennessee was rated as the worst btw. Illinois wasn’t at the top, but we did ok.
Funny how some of our posters didn’t mention that yesterday.
The story in Newsweek is here:
https://www.newsweek.com/map-shows-states-best-worst-quality-life-2100141
- Friendly Bob Adams - Wednesday, Jul 23, 25 @ 9:43 am:
Been thinking about this since yesterday…
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/79605540-f463-4b46-bfd4-779f81c8ced5
- Grandson of Man - Wednesday, Jul 23, 25 @ 11:01 am:
Ozzy rocked and did what he loved til the end. He wasn’t just going to fade away into retirement. His band invented dark heavy metal that was not just hard blues rock, with songs like Black Sabbath. Did awesome work too with Randy Rhoads. RIP
- Give us Barabbas - Wednesday, Jul 23, 25 @ 4:56 pm:
The butter cow must have gone on a rampage because the roof and brick facade entrance to the Dairy Building looks like a kaiju was using it for sparring practice. Workmen and equipment were on it but I think it will be a close thing to have it repaired before the fair starts. This is what happens when people only care about fairgrounds infrastructure for ten days a year and keep skipping it in the budget for the next 52 weeks, over and over, year after year.