There are more great bars in every neighborhood of Chicago than the sprawl of Indianapolis.

Memes are slightly more tolerable than short form video content. I have no justification for this.

It always makes me laugh to see the reflection of a ring light during a leader's Teams call. Is that how I reach the next level? Should I care more about how I present on Teams?

I think I need a "Live, Love, Laugh" sign from Etsy to remind me not to be a miserable asshole.

Listen to a playlist of recent favorites I made for a boys trip to Chicago this weekend.

Rest easy friend

The rumors are true. Ike's new record is great. It's been fun hearing his music evolve over the years. Ike was the first musician I ever interviewed after hanging out with him on Turntable.fm years ago. In addition to his smart writing, I'll always appreciate his generosity. <33 Go listen.

“SML rattles and clatters, following slap-dash, stutter-and-roll rhythms through rave-glowing forests of incandescent synths.” My review at Aquarium Drunkard. aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/11/03/s...

Also, chili with homemade cornbread.

I didn’t know passing out Halloween candy to happy kids while sitting next to a bonfire on a cool, Midwestern night was the mental health treatment my soul needed.

Is Pitchfork throwing up a 503 error for everyone, or did my employer just block the site?

It really grinds my gears when people say "utilize" instead of "use"

I refuse to apply for a Sr. Copywriter role with Liberty Mutual Insurance, entirely due to my disdain for the LiMu Emu and Doug ads. We must each draw lines in the sand that can't be crossed.

"Glad you had fun, dad. We're going to take the cash over the toys or building a museum."

“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” John Adams, born on this day in 1735

A hymn. music.apple.com/us/song/the-...

My man George Drakoulias 💙🙌 He’s the Reason ‘Severance’ Sounds So Good www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/a...

Explore a free, 30-day trial of Headspace: hdsp.co/share/690142...

My kid asked me to stop doing my Martin Short impression while reading his Cat in the Hat books.

With AI music generators widely available, scammers are uploading songs to the pages of inactive artists and dead musicians. Spotify says it is cracking down, but the practice persists. n.pr/4hzHZ8a

Peyton and Eli are the best thing that ever happened to Monday Night Football. They just spent 10 minutes interviewing Billy Bob Thornton. Ideal sports broadcast.

Slacker dad psych rock power pop, as per description bsky.app/profile/robp...

Headspace helps me care for my mind, and I thought you might find this helpful, too: hdsp.co/share/68ffe8...

I nearly lost my genitalia To an anthill in Des Moines

Awoke to my idiot dog puking up one of the 4 y/o’s cloth gloves this morning. Great start to the day. 🧤

As a liberal Hoosier I can confirm this. 🙅🏻‍♂️ Also, good luck “winning us back.” ‘08 was the first time we swung left since 1964. Before that? FDR. Don’t model the party on what polls well here, I’m begging you.

Backstories of Springsteen's best LP and its indie-rock ripple effects — via the new film & box set, with a selective dip into the vast online archive of bootlegs. This one was very satisfying to write & research. You’re welcome.

Can you turn off AI search results on search engines? I don’t want them and I don’t want to contribute to the use of energy they require.

The greatest moment in broadcast television history.

Over the past four years Equipment Pointed Ankh have put out four killer records: Without Human Permission (Sophomore Lounge/Astral Editions, 2019) Changing Legs (Newtown's Kidney, 2022) From Inside the House (bruit direct disques, 2023) Downtown! (Torn Light, 2023) www.discogs.com/artist/50226...

These people keep your loved ones alive often in their worst moments, and we as a country and a people make them suffer, as a policy choice

Anyway, happy parent-teacher conference day.

No one told me when my son approached five he would turn into a monster with no ability to regulate his emotions who turns the simple act of wiping his ass into a knock down, drag out fight.

Warning to anyone entering a career in communications: Your entire career, your work will be destroyed by people whose expertise is not communicating.

I'm more concerned about people with power burning the constitution than I am powerless citizens burning a flag in protest.

Yesterday, Stephen Miller questioned details re 170+ Americans detained by immigration agents. “Abject lies,” he wrote. Here’s the thing: We tracked, catalogued, and compiled every one of those 170+ cases. Because...we do our homework. propub.li/4o2eeiL

The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year. In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.

Even though I'm a total music junkie, I could never be a DJ. I don't think about the music I love in singles. It's always artists and albums. I'm not even good at remembering track names.

“I may not be able to say all I think; but I am not going to say anything I do not think.” Hoosier Eugene V. Debs, who died on this day in 1926 rayboomhower.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-...

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

I’m convinced the real purpose of fall break is to wreck bed time for the rest of the school year.

CWA just shared their research into the lives of the US-based data workers responsible for training and maintaining modern “AI” platforms. The findings are, in a word, grim: cwa-union.org/ghost-worker...

this explains so much

Remember when 'Black Messiah' was the best record of 2014, and it missed everyone's year-end list because it dropped on December 15 and everyone had already published? Rest in power, D'Angelo. 🐐

we saw wet hot american summer at the cinema village iirc on 12th when it came out and we were the only two people in the theater and i think the only time ive laughed harder at the movies is during jackass when chris pontius drank horse semen and this guy in front of us hurled

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