#at40 look what you done for me, a sublime classic. what many an adolescent boy was hoping for a chance to say

#at40 they wanted to title this "holy f*ckn shit!" but cooler heads prevailed

#at40 the Rolling Stones condense 17 years of rock n roll into 3 minutes of grainy joyous perfection

#at40 Ringo's version of "I'll play whatever you want"

#at40 the duo of Sylvia's mother and the Candyman ruined many a life

#at40 slippin into darkness- about the bleakest song ever to hit the radio- the brevity of the lyrics just make it that more crushing

#at40 one of the few songs to use the word "unfurled" for better or worse

#at40 apparently this song sholud be called Khartoum

#at40 known in these here parts as "Ollie's Song"

#at40 ahh the irony of a rock song in which the singer takes to task a promiscuous woman...

#at40 VU's Run run run is all about a motley cast of characters looking to score. this could be a sequel.

#at40 a Millie Jackson song that can be played on the radio!

#at40 America later covered this Andy Williams banger, retitling it, "a horse with no name"

#at40 neil young, odd guy that he is, singing about his ranch caretaker

#at40 CCR with another one of their blazingly optimistic takes on life.

a cheese I made back in early February.

brown rice. lentils and roasted sweet potatoes with pomegranate syrup

#at40 If I can even approximate a shadow of this at 78, things will be good youtu.be/Wgzgp-Pvwi0?...

Trump plans to steal $1.7B from taxpayers to pay off the terrorists he already freed from prison. abcnews.com/US/trump-poi...

my mom, late 1930's

#at40 The rumor that Elvis did eventually weugh as much as a steamroller are not true. Probably.

#at40 Hot August Night being one of only 2 lps that I believe my dad has ever owned himself. The other being The Righteous Bros. greatest hits.

#at40 in 2026, I'd prefer a song by the Independents, "we are leaving you"

#at40 a little more from Barry would be the equivalent of 3 nights for the average guy

The U.S. killed two more people in a boat strike in the Pacific Ocean yesterday. One person is still missing. 193 people are now dead from extrajudicial boat strikes.

a dragonfruit and mango morning

This story is WILD. Juan Orlando Hernandez, the Honduran ex-president pardoned by Trump for narcotrafficking, seemingly caught on tape in dozens of conversations (if true), discussing plans with GOP and other figures to attack left-wing governments, and saying Israel paid for his pardon from Trump.

aged ten days, already getting soft on the edges

This was a hard story to report. Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably. But more and more families are declining the shot. And babies are dying. www.propublica.org/article/more...

SCOOP: The F.D.A. blocked the release of studies finding that Covid and shingles vaccines were safe. In the case of Covid, FDA staff had to withdraw studies heading toward publication: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...

Hundreds of foreign doctors about to complete training in the U.S. will have to depart the country and abandon their plans to treat underserved patients if the federal government doesn’t rapidly process their visa waiver applications, immigration attorneys told me. kffhealthnews.org/health-indus...

33 years ago today. not quite, but almost the last time I wore a tie.

When Trump pulled out of the international nuclear agreement with Tehran in 2018, Iran lacked even a single bomb's worth of uranium. Since then, it accumulated 22,000 pounds of enriched uranium. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

the anti expert administration

#at40 imo, this lives in the land of terrible, awful covers

#at40 pop culture evolves from the singing nun to the flying nun to sister Janet in just over a decade

#at40 Bobby Womack, the man who spent his early life being wildly talented and doing just about every possible sketchy thing involving women and girls.

#at40 "See that last girl I was with only deserved a special love song. yours is _very_ special."

#at40 we are all just starfish on a beach, are we not?

#at40 when your parents drop like flies, keep on singing. words to live by.

#at40 3 dog night being, intentional or not, incredibly honest here. they were really running on fumes by this point.

#at40 Sami Jo disputes BTO's version of events

#at40 the old "faithful rock star sitting at home while his cheating partner is out doing him wrong" song

#at40 "dark lady" is absolutely bonkers.

Quinn emphatically announcing wheel time is over

#at40 "Always treat her with respect, I never would abuse her" you just know Paul Anka had a hand in this

#at40 The only thing you done was Yesterday and since you're gone you're just another day. Lennon pipes in...

#at40 i definitely believe drugs were involved writing the lyrics to this 5th D thing. it just brings this to mind:

#at40 perhaps the most alarming thing of this song is the b side: "It Feels Good"

#at40 if you broke in the 79s and really wanted an Eltin John lp, here was your go to, in the bargain bin for $1.99