One of my cats loves to dunk his paws in his water bowl, drink from them as they drip, and then march around in his litter box. It’s really gross but his dirty little paws are also so cute.

Make a band out of two others: New Kids on the Bloc Party

The little stickers on individual pieces of fruit. The hardened piece of lotion that comes out of a pump when you haven’t used it for a while. Bandaids (ugh).

Me, every time I check today's votes

This is a dance off. If you see this, repost with a dance or get eliminated.

I love IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE so much that I can't really talk about it in an objective way. Too personal, too much nostalgia, too much delicious melancholy. I guess I'd say the album sounds like the color of memory, like once vivid upholstery bleached by the sun, like sepia. Idk man. It's good

I love Ted Leo. I love Ted Leo so hard. I love this album, and the next one, and the next one (etc.), and I have tix to see them played in full, in that order, on three consecutive nights in sf this summer, at BOTH where I saw Ted Leo & the Pharmacists for the first time in 2003. An album a night.

I haven’t mustered the courage to say much during the tournament after realizing early on that, oh, the essayists are WRITER-writers. My own thoughts about the essays and songs have been poorly formed and hard to articulate, but I’ve found each piece profoundly touching. 1/2

Honestly considered abstaining today, but thought hey. This is the point. Listen to new things. I couldn’t remember the title NO MORE SHALL WE PART when I opened Spotify, so I typed ‘Tom Waits’ and scrolled down to 2001. Yeah, Tom Waits.

Christmas, 1992. I unwrap a boombox, along with my very first CD: Mary J. Blige, WHAT'S THE 411. No matter that Saigon Kick and Arrested Development followed quickly behind that morning, Mary was #1. I'm staying true to my roots and voting MJB. Also the SotL album is booooring

Rufus always seemed like an artist for people slightly older than me, like a Gen X thing. Strange considering how often I listened to Poses, and how many hundreds of times I’ve listened to Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk over the last 25 years.

Rufus gets my vote. I like both albums, though I strongly prefer VERSUS by Kings of Convenience (also released in 2001. Oh, where was my head when I sent my noms?). Maybe it’s because Versus was my first introduction to KOC, but QUIET IS THE NEW LOUD is just a tad boring.

My street preachers? Manic.

In no particular order, the results of my all-time favorite homework assignment from @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social

I recreated six covers in the tournament, one on paper and the rest on a free iphone drawing app. It was really fun. I've never used a drawing app, and perhaps more importantly, I don't draw

Remember to increase the amount of blank space around the text on all of your papers today

Listeners would punch walls, authors would votemaxx. There would be no winners.

I thought I'd do the last two in colored pencil, but they barely made it through a single cover. rip little guys, good job

Indeed

My most persistent intrusive thought has haunted me since 2003. It's an image of the FUKENGRÜVEN bumper sticker and it shows up, reliably, 36 seconds into Darla

Yeah my job is pretty cool. My uniform is a tactical vest that’s two sizes too small and a gaiter I bought in a gas station. They send me to sneak into schools to kidnap little kids because people got mad about having to press 1 for English. The president had to warn everyone to stop spitting on me.

yeah i love waymo, way mo immigrants coming to my city