Been reading a fiction and a non-fiction book at the same time for the past year or so and between last night and this morning have finished both and find myself in the rare, exciting position of getting to pick two new books at once. This is what life is like in your 40s.

Buying things online these days is looking at a perfectly reasonable option that is all 95% of people will ever need, looking at reviews and seeing the extremely vocal 5% declare it beginner shit that's not as good as their preferred option that costs 3x the price and is usually out of stock anyway

There should be a $25 bill

Imagine being saddled with the name Hobart C. Buppert III. Not hard to imagine at all if you’re the founder of Bawls energy drink.

White reggae guy is an inherently funny premise, but the one I just stumbled across who is Italian takes it to another level

Time to cast off a good chunk of the ol’ pandemic hobby

I think about this every time I see something I would have thought was cool at the youngun’s age or thereabouts. You have to stay vigilant as a parent to not curse your kids like this. A little is fine, a lot is narcissistic.

every $15+ copy of Sports I flip past puts me one step closer to the edge of not even looking through bins of records anymore

Hell, I reckon we’ve all been there!

It’s not something I’ve run across all that frequently, but it’s nice to occasionally visit a bookstore that has a dedicated display specifically for a niche publisher that’s there because an owner or employee really likes them. You see it most often with NYRB Classics or horror/sci-fi/fantasy.

No, babe, not those, those are my dress basketball shorts

Yngvie out here trying to sell rickets, what’s next, Steve Vai trying to sell scurvy?

6 ear beers deep

Submitted my first maintenance request to the department of transportation to clear a fallen tree and some overgrown landscaping from obstructing the sidewalk near my house because I’m a taxpayer and I believe in the common good, goddamnit

I like it when people use the descriptor "Lynchian" because it lets me know I can walk away without a second glance and miss out on absolutely nothing

‘I bought this before he went crazy’ sticker on a 1938 VW Beetle

Bone broth and rice taste so good when you’re on a primarily liquid diet

As a kid I always figured this figure and the mummy from Real Ghostbusters were related

I’ve always respected that the singer from Kansas has a solo album where his only apparent direction to the guy who did the cover was “make me look cool as fuck”

I reckon every mid-sized American city has at least one barbershop with fascist vibes

abysmal aesthetic sense in this office setup I saw on reddit for what I have to assume is some sort of gamer/magician combo with too much disposable income

According to WhoSampled, Three 6 Mafia are still the only group to have sampled the soundtrack to Turok 2

Saw a Yes bootleg a few years back with a hand-drawn interpretation of this same cover

Study: Majority Of Middle-Aged Men Lack Support Network They’ll Need To Handle Neil Young’s Death https://theonion.com/study-majority-of-middle-aged-men-lack-support-network-theyll-need-to-handle-neil-youngs-death/

Ragged dick struggling upward? Couldn’t be me!

Listened to Fu Manchu for too long and my wallet grew a chain

drunk and listening to top-shelf gospel-funk tidal.com/track/108012...

depending on the circumstances and the people in your life, being a dipshit who doesn't know they're a dipshit has the potential to be one of the best or one of the worst hands you can be dealt in life

Basically no good reason not to enable custom screensavers on your ereader and put dozens and dozens of cool pics on there

Popped into an estate sale I saw a sign for after we went to the park and cleaned up for the boy for eleven bucks 👍

Really been enjoying my new Hats For Guys With Bigass Heads™️

Yeah, I'm into ASMR: Always Stayin' Motherfuckin' Readin' 15th book of the year down

Dudes who switched back to Firefox or a derivative thereof years ago stay winning

good week in tunes as almost always

Wife and the youngun out of town for a few days, gonna need to fend for myself

I'm on that shit that made Tom wait

Father in laws are always trying to watch ”the game” at your house on a streaming app you’ve never heard of called some shit like Fubi or Tibbi or Plink that they do not have themselves and is $70/month after a 7-day trial if you don’t cancel in time

One of the great unsung qualities of Neil Young is how he demonstrates that jam band fans do, somewhere deep down, have the capacity to like good music as well

This is musicology.

I saw a video a while back by a guy who got through drug addiction by starting a collection of GG Allin memorabilia and honestly it’s less embarrassing to just be a junkie

This is why we deleted our account there years ago. Being on that platform comes at a cost to you *and* the world. Leave and delete. ~ME

One fun thing about getting into jazz and casting a wide net in terms of what you check out is eventually you'll put on albums where you know and like most if not all of the folks playing on it

Who can forget that classic Doobie Brothers tune “Take Me in Your Arse”?

AUSTIN POWERS: OH BEHAVE! TARANTULA STUDIOS 2000 (Captured on Game Boy Color screen)

will be referring to stuff like AC/DC, Van Halen, ZZ Top, Motorhead, Boston, etc. as "ear beers" moving forward

I know that the pen freaks would have my head for this, but I can't shake the feeling that choosing to use a fountain pen is an affectation in the same way as choosing to use a Zippo when your average Bic lighter works better, lasts longer and is much cheaper

Someone with more time than me should come up with a big list of albums that make reference to their physical format. i.e. at the end of the third track of Manilla Road's "Invasion" album a goblin voice keeps saying "turn me over." Three 6 Mafia's Most Known Unknown does this re: it being a DualDisc

Top uses of Metal Archives: - Did that 80s American power metal or NWOBHM band that had one album that ripped do anything else? - What's the consensus on best albums in this thrash band's discography? - Is X band considered too nu/metalcore for the Archives? - Are these guys a bunch of nazis?

Hell, I reckon we’ve all been there!