Doctor doctor every time I read the name "The Smashing Machine" I think about this

This 2002 press release of 'celebrity testimonials' for the PS2 is an absolutely incredible time capsule.

Best tough guy brag lyric of my lifetime is the Wu affiliate on the one Gravediggaz record who says "That's why I don't give a fuck/I dig up my nose and my butt on the bus/Or the train"

The Slick Rick record where he raps about the struggles of being a landlord is the blueprint to understanding 2025 class consciousness

One strange thing about aging is that, without even trying, you have to force yourself not to give in to the reflexive feeling that criticism from people in their late teens/early 20s reads like a bunch of kids standing on top of each other in a trenchcoat pretending to be an adult man

David on Jay

Kamala Harris, Tony Hinchcliffe, Morrissey, Issa Rae, uh Alison Krauss--Philadelphia's beautiful and historic "Met" has the entire political spectrum covered

Went to "Steam" to buy Silksong, greeted with a repeated "error updating cart" message--funny that buying a digital copy of some game has the same humbling feeling, 25 years later, as the kid I grew up with's dad who went into Sears and got laughed at for asking for "two Playstation 2s" at launch

Whenever I think about this I post it again because it makes me laugh every time

Paul Walter Hauser bloodied in a wrestling ring, powerful stuff--throw in the commentary solemnly plugging his forthcoming work in Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (Cooper, 2025), even stronger

My big takeaway from reading the Koresky queer Hollywood book is that we have a century of Snoop Doggs getting mad at Lightyear

Using the @ name of a famous guy is inadvertently a pretty good way to gauge the popularity of Bluesky as a website

The world is unraveling at an alarming rate and we just have to wait it out until Untitled Trey Parker/Kendrick Lamar Film (2026) saves democracy

Marjoe Gortner Mindset

It's pretty tight that "poptimism" has become even more free-floating and meaningless a boogeyman than "woke"

There's a 35% chance the vague smell of piss in any public place will trigger a Proustian memory of McGlinchey's vile, vile bathrooms. Will miss it deeply

Don't hear nearly as much about the Land of Nod as I used to

Job hunting in August has proven especially futile so I've been trying to use the extra time to come up with better ways to effectively market/pitch patreon.com/sfultra. Sadly, I keep just making shit like this instead.

Denny's Gandalf's Gobble Melt (2012-2012): Part of the themed promotional menu for "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey," this sandwich featured turkey breast & stuffing topped with melted Swiss cheese, on grilled potato bread with a cranberry honey mustard spread and side of fries and gravy

Think I'll go to my grave thinking about this fake Kurt Cobain quote more than any fake or real quotation anyone else has ever said to me

Elissa Slotkin feels like a politician who'd show up as a tertiary character in a PS2 game

KRS-One on Chelsea Clinton

Reflecting today on someone from my childhood who was very insistent the chorus of "Real American" was "I am a real American/fight for the right of a merry land"

Ozzy on pizza:

Side effect of everyone talking and then not talking about Clipse/Neptunes for a week and a half straight is that I've had the "Cross the Border" hook stuck in my head since

Gormenghast is sick

This is one of the best dumb guys trying to sound smart things ever

This was result for Jay Leno Aura Farming

Listening to Disco Rick before listening to more Poison Clan

Listening to "No Haps," featuring JT Money rapping over the "N.I.B." riff, by Poison Clan

Listening to JT Money, of Poison Clan

Listened to Poison Clan for the fourth day in a row

Listening to Poison Clan, again

Listening to Poison Clan

Listening to Poison Clan

Am repulsed by new and escalating global horrors every day, but the universe sometimes blesses us with something as sick as "knockoff Roll Away/Kula World"

Need someone to get in the Silkworm guys' ear and convince them to bring this reunion to the Philadelphia area. Thank u

A release of an Almighty Arrogant album/compilation is a true "I didn't even know I wanted that" situation for people who followed rare rap blogs 15 years ago