B(r)itches Brew and the Blue Sun

First the random minor sync, too minor to be worth a post of its own. Last night I read in Laeth's novel Sketches of Alice a reference to the Miles Davis album Bitches Brew, and I looked it up. This afternoon, I became curious about when exactly the word slop for "AI"-generated garbage became common. My investigations eventually led me to the Wiktionary entry for goyslop:

There are four quotation demonstrating how the word is used, all -- despite the word being tagged "4chan slang" -- taken from Reddit. The first is from a user called BritchesBrewin, which certainly seems like a reference to the Miles Davis album I had just read about. (I am completely ignorant of jazz and had not known such an album existed until yesterday.)

Not until I was cropping the screenshot for inclusion in this post did I notice the name of the user who provides the second quote: heythereeggboy -- which, as you will see, ties right in with the Blue Sun syncs I am about to document below.

("I know this is gonna sound r-slurred" -- there's just no stopping the euphemism treadmill, is there?)

Last night I skimmed /pol/ a bit and found a thread about how the Sun has supposedly changed color and used to be much yellower. People post about this fairly often, most often on /x/ and in the context of the Mandela Effect, but finding a thread about it on /pol/ was a bit unusual. Since the idea of the Sun changing color has recently come up here -- "Blueberry Hill and the Golden Age" references my poem "The Golden Age," which says that the Sun was blue in Homeric times -- I looked through the thread. Although it's about the Sun changing from yellow to white, one of the posts mentioned a blue Sun.

The first sentence is, "LEDs make eyes weak, weak eyes see sun as blue now?" The image is a cartoon character I didn't recognize at first, explained thus: "pic related Ivo changed the sun with the help of Shadow and Maria." I googled those names and discovered they are Sonic the Hedgehog characters, and that the character pictured is Ivo Robotnik, also known as Doctor Eggman (cf. heythereeggboy). This character actually came up back in 2023 -- see "They are the Eggmen" -- but it was the live-action version played by Jim Carrey, which is why I didn't recognize the original cartoon version. I have scoured the Internet in vain for any storyline in which he changes the Sun with the help of Shadow and Maria, and my tentative conclusion is that the poster just made it up for shitposting purposes. I know even less about Sonic than I do about jazz, though, so if I've missed something, I hope my readers will enlighten me.

This afternoon, I checked /x/ and found a thread about the Black Sun -- again a different-colored Sun, but not a blue one -- and again one of the posts in the thread brought up the idea of a blue Sun.

The interchangeability of black and blue came up in the comments on "Blueberries, divine daughters, and a neverbird."

Later this evening I was reading Sketches of Alice again. The two main characters happen upon a church noteworthy for its "blue tinted windows" and go inside:

The inside is more recent, probably from the baroque period, and it's all in gold. The ornamentation has so much detail that it all starts to blend but never fully does, so it seems like the walls are moving, especially if the sun comes in blue from the windows, you look around, and it's all blue, and gold.

Not only is there a blue Sun, but it's paired with gold, just as in "The Golden Age." Sketches of Alice was published two months after "The Golden Age," and I know its author reads this blog, so it's possible that the correspondence is not entirely coincidental. Still, my reading that passage so shortly after finding blue Suns on 4chan makes it a sync.

Since this post started with Miles Davis, I decided to google miles davis blue sun just to see what would come up. I got a 2024 article by Tim Coughlin called "Why New Blue Sun is my Album of the Year," which begins thus:

When I listen to New Blue Sun, I feel like I am witnessing history. I feel like it’s 1969 and I am hearing Miles Davis’s, In A Silent Way, for the first time. Just like the seminal fusion album from Miles, André 3000’s New Blue Sun represents a similarly bold departure from the expected. . . .

I had never heard of this album, so I'm listening to it now. So far it's remarkably good.