I also love that lakers get 3 “rivals week” games and none of them are against the celtics

my dad warned me as a kid and it’s proven true throughout my life: saying “I’m from california” or los angeles while traveling abroad illicits a very different reaction than saying “I’m from america”

I have no idea what the hornets-cavs rivalry is supposed to be but it’s cool seeing charlotte get a national game bc they play like a college team that accidentally found itself in the nba

something I think about a lot is how newsom and mamdani represent two very different performances of masculinity, with newsom’s being the kind that men do to impress other men

Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

2025 world series recap

why is every white guy’s 2 favorite rap albums “supreme clientele” and a one-off mixtape from a 2010s Atlanta rapper

theory about the pitchfork list: I think all eyez on me and life after death have inflated popularity in the streaming era because dsp algorithms seem to have a bias toward these albums (and maybe double-albums in general?)

(billy woods voice) burlington coat factory in hawthorne don’t even sell coats

trying to imagine the level of rock bottom I’d have to be at to start posting vertical video on linkedin

there are just so many bad decisions that must be made before someone decides they need ai to summarize an email

@rhyslangston.bsky.social’s new Pale Black Negative LP is terrific The live instrumentation, all self-played is routinely warm and inviting The singer-songwriter meets rap ethos of the record leads to some truly beautiful slices of melodic sweetness With thoughtful lyrical vulnerability to boot 🙏🏽

new level of hell just dropped

this is what playboi carti sounds like to me

who the hell decided calls are something we hop onto

just had a burrito that turned my whole day around

think I just found out I might be a jinx

as a casual nba fan I think cleveland vs okc or denver would be the most entertaining finals. just really hope the celtics aren’t there bc they are soooo boring

this is up there with lebron putting on those goggles that fell off another player

pasadena is like 1 small music venue away from easily being best city in LA county. something like the echo or the roxy would put it over the top

without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?

wild seeing a coworker get indoctrinated to ai in real time. made me realize that the only reason it’s “never going away” is because corporations are making it a requirement for employment for large swaths of the population

not exactly loving that my career prospects seem to be “job I love but toxic/abusive work environment” and “healthy work environment but it’s the most miserably boring job imaginable”

when I see that @caltropspress.bsky.social email on a friday night

people who “never use a recipe” are almost always bad at cooking

not sure if he’s on the ‘sky, but this piece on madlib by marcus j moore really hit for me activelistening.substack.com/p/madlib-and...

it probably has to do with the average age of people on this app but I see a lot of posts here about coffee and it really makes me miss drinking it

catching up on these Blu albums from last year and kinda blown away by the run he’s on rn

not gonna bother adding this to the mwe thread but don't sleep on this new ol' burger beats. Ill Camille, woods, siifu, quelle, fly anakin, and more! feel like this one deserves more love

Started sending out advances of the first single from my next album If you're a writer / press / radio person and are interested Bang my line

"you picked the right time but the wrong guy" my headcanon is that the "right" guy was the guy with the Free Gaza/Free Sudan flags

peekaboo:

“raw” “unfiltered” like ok jar of honey relax

I'm almost embarrassed for not listening to this sooner, but not really. honestly I like leaving little treats for myself to enjoy in the future, regardless of when a hype cycle ends

kendrick’s halftime show feels like the last gasp of american shared experience before we fully, irreversibly shatter into our fragmented realities

gave this a shot on a recommendation and also to gauge if I’m ready for the even-poppier sabrina carpenter. and while I didn’t hate it, I think this is about my limit for this kind of music

playing catchup on #mwe but really really enjoying catching up on stuff I've forgotten to make time for for life reasons

#mwe day 1: I'm not a huge techno fan so this mostly techno-pop album isn't really for me. "24hr Dog" and "Wanderlust" are standouts, maybe because they feel like the tracks with the most room to breathe. Otherwise I find myself missing the playful pop-r&b of Caprisongs.

playing catchup but gonna start #mwe late bc fuck it

My first and definitely last time working with the Los Angeles Times. Editing out the most urgent point of an OpEd in the minutes before sending to press while then also assigning a title and image that suggest an argument entirely opposite to the author’s clear intent is pretty shitty.

As someone who writes and thinks about air quality all the time, I wanted to answer some questions I'm getting and talk about what steps I'm taking, not necessarily as a reporter, but as an LA mom trying to do the right thing

distracting myself from the destruction of my childhood home and hometown to think about all of the people who treated my vigilant stance against fascism for the past ~10 years as an overreaction

thinking about which griselda member is going to be first to “drop shells like luigi but this ain’t mario kart”

at that stage of the job search where I’m getting rejected from places I have zero recollection of applying to lfg

no context Wicked spoilers

so far this is definitely the best piece I’ve read on gnx. don’t agree with everything in it but it’s a good reflection on the album from a west coast perspective

a sea of bad takes here but this might be the most “I don’t know how subwoofers work” music take of the year

as soon as I finished gnx for the first time I remember thinking “the reviews/thinkpieces about this are really gonna suck” and so far I’ve been mostly right

one more #producersky #musicsky