A few lucky first-run cult cinematic adventures when I was a kid: Bugsy Malone (1976) The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (1979) Foxes (1980) Valley Girl (1983) The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) Blue Velvet (1986)

You’ve seen the halftime show … now read my friend Petra’s new book from @dukepress.bsky.social about how Bad Bunny became the global voice of Puerto Rican resistance! 👏🏽👏🏽 www.dukeupress.edu/p-fkn-r

Elon Musk et al are totally fucking up the night sky ALREADY and they plan to make it worse 🔭 www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/satelli...

Brilliant and harrowing thread.

Catherine O’Hara wardrobe polaroids from Second City, 1983. RIP an absolute legend & icon💔

Very proud of the students of my old alma mater Deer Valley High, who walked out en masse yesterday to protest the ongoing criminal horrorshow that is ICE.

ICE & CBP never left Los Angeles. In fact, today the feds set a daily record for number of kidnappings. Do not fall for the trap of “X says they’re leaving the city.” LA may have disappeared from the headlines but it’s still going on. We must continue to organize & fight back. Solidarity 🖤

Featuring all the high comedy and bitter fury of Dylan’s mid-60’s misogynist masterpieces, Amy Rigby’s “20 Questions” is a repudiation of rock’s bad-boy myths whose funniest twist is the final one: she’s been the using one all along. Happy birthday to a hero of mine. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAN6...

And if you are interested in this kind of thing you may enjoy my brand new chapbook about Patti Smith! jukeboxgraduate.bigcartel.com/product/thre...

I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...

I'm definitely interested in this and wish them well but I fear that never in one trillion years could you ever hope to find anyone as magnificent as Paul Darrow and Jacqueline Pearce.

In case anyone would like to read about the making of this, I wrote a bit about it here: www.tom-cox.com/how-a-book-g...

One of my fave albums of the past five years. Will @dimorphodons.bsky.social turns @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Villager novel into an imaginary 60s psych-folk occurance imbued with an authentic haunted mysticism. Like Skip Spence’s *Oar crossed with the West Coast melancholy of *Pacific Ocean Blue.

Chuck Schumer is so fucking useless. At this point he’s got to be working FOR Trump and MAGA, because he sure as fuck isn’t working for the American people. He and Jeffries can both go fuck themselves. Goddamned Vichy Democrats.

Whelp, I was already making a video essay on it and was going to release it tomorrow, but because Stephen Miller had to open his fascist mouth about Star Trek, I added to it and released it today. So enjoy me clowning on conservative assholes terrible Star Trek opinions - youtu.be/3HOzBtDUlbo

Few things in life are as joyous and life-affirming as Phineas & Ferb. The writing, the songs, the cast & animation, it's all a delight and we're so lucky to have it. Tune in!

Look, I can't make him President of anything but would it kill Brian Benben to give me just *one* of his CableACE awards?

If the worst of the worst scum of the planet hate it it should be an endorsement to watch #StarTrek

Good reminder from this state highway!

Post your favorite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only!

Nobody knows why he tried to murder Captain James T. Kirk, but everyone appreciated the effort.

Very grateful to have @repyassansari.bsky.social representing our district in congress.

People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .

This year, I’m very excited to be taking more Programme 4 television into the analog world of screenings, showcases & happenings! 🫕

Following up on my "Gavin MacLeod sang at his own funeral" post with this gem.

Narrowing it down to four was tough...

Today’s march took the same Fifth Ave route as the 1917 anti-lynching Silent Parade, one of the first American civil rights protests. Both started at 59th, by General Sherman’s statue, and headed downtown. For more on the Silent Parade: hyperallergic.com/naacp-silent...

The corpse of Gavin McLeod, rising creakily from his casket: "Aaaanyone can whistle, that's what they say--easy! Relax, let go, let fly. So someone tell me why can't I? <jazz hands> I can rise from my grave, I can eat human brains, easy! I can shamble in terror any old week..."

BATMAN KERB DRILL (1967): Holy PIF! While on a promotional tour for Batman, Adam West filmed this road safety public information film for British kids, in character as the caped crusader, and it's every bit as wonderful as you'd expect.

I don’t know if a flood of calls at this moment asking for dissolution of DHS and abolishment, investigation, etc., of ICE and Noem will matter, but I made the calls - it’s easy to do, and it can’t be a flood without us.

Look, all I'm saying is nobody's seen Robert House and Ed Wood in the same place at the same time.

Whew, 2026 was quite a year.

Introduce yourself with what almost killed you. Hello, I'm --the North Platte River --a '75 Datsun spinning out of control on the I-17 --a drunk guy firing a gun into my apartment window in the Lower Haight --myself --an antibiotic resistant cat bite --an F4 tornado --the Loma Prieta earthquake

See you tonight!

HAPPY NEW YEAR’S EVE EVERYONE!

Exciting news from my pal Rachel Lichtman's Programme 4, headed out on tour in the new year! From house shows in your very own paneled rumpus rooms to all-star comedy showcases and more, You can host! You can attend! But you can't get it online--it's a gloriously analog live event. Details below!

Exciting news from my pal Rachel Lichtman's Programme 4, headed out on tour in the new year! From house shows in your very own paneled rumpus rooms to all-star comedy showcases and more, You can host! You can attend! But you can't get it online--it's a gloriously analog live event. Details below!

The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go... Yeah, that sounds about right.

Before going on hiatus until January 15, editor @rachelcholst.bsky.social highlights this year's trends and triumphs in queer country music -- and what's next for Rainbow Rodeo. rainbowrodeomag.com/... #QueerCountry #Americana #CountryMusic #RootsMusic #LGBTQMusic #QueerMusic #LGBTQMusician #lgbtq

Clifford (1994, dir. Flaherty)

This isn’t even all of the AIDS quilt. It was so long they didn’t have room to display it all. Reagan flat out fucking murdered queer people

Just watched Anthony Geary as the evil nephew in the Fat Boys' "Disorderlies" (with Ralph Bellamy!) and he was a weasely delight, but I think I'll always remember him like this... youtu.be/B7vwi2nifuA?...

Have a Cramps Christmas everyone! From my hometown Akron, Ohio, btw.

Latest in the music writing series I do with my daughter Lucy. This time around we tackle on of my fav Teenage Fanclub songs. I have a lot of favorites, but this one's always near the top of the list. ALSO DISCUSSED: What long strange year it has been. #music #musicsky #powerpop

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

It's a great show, with a fantastic cast including Hope Lange and Fannie Flagg; oddly enough I have a prop award from Dick's office hanging in my studio.

It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.

Hey, I know time’s are tough, so it’s all there for free, but if you’re looking to spend a few dollars on #bandcampfriday, I can always use the support! tedleo.bandcamp.com

Big credit to @oldmcdougall.bsky.social’s story here in @nj.com yesterday, one of the best pieces of music journalism this year in its final month. The missing tape is the hook but this is much more about moms and daughters, art across generations and finding new spaces in older styles.