This feels like stolen valor

Now @sharonwaxman.bsky.social is reporting at @thewrap.com that a group of Wasserman music agents have delivered Casey Wasserman an ultimatum: "sell them the music business and leave or they will leave the agency." Additionally Chappell Roan is expected to leave Wasserman "imminently"

Shout out to the other redhead Sam

I can remember a song on the jukebox was ten cents, three songs for a quarter.

Hey this is really fun! It's almost as though multiliguistic multiculturalism is one of the best parts about living in the world today

Just a few weeks ago, the administration cancelled all remaining department of energy grid resilience projects in Puerto Rico. All of them. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-end...

Omfg Highland Park legends Villa's Tacos at the Bad Bunny bowl? Victor is a legend

This list is even funnier in retrospect

Fact-checking myself: Bad Bunny is a U.S. citizen but living in Puerto Rico apparently does not count toward the 14 years of residence required by the Constitution. So the earliest he could run for president is... 2040?

I can't believe Netflix has now had seemingly unfettered access to the Sesame Street brand for cross-promotional purposes for months and yet has only released FOUR new half-hour episodes some of which recycle content from previous seasons

Spotted at the park little free library: Emily Oster's CRIBSHEET and Deuxmoi's ANON PLS, which I assume were both tossed by the same regretful millennial mom

She can do literally anything

I say this from experience: nobody takes redheaded men who love Kirsten Dunst seriously

In retrospect it's very funny that I watched BACURAU on Jan. 7, 2021

Feel like the impact of the Guardian’s “EXCLUSIVE: Substack Profits From Nazis” headline is spoiled a little by the entire row of Related Stories at the bottom being ”Substack ❤️s Nazis” stories from the last several years

The mainstream media and its fascination with Trump has done a really grand job of underrepresenting just how much the George Floyd protests of 2020 and the COVID epidemic has radicalized this country to the left not the right

The LAPD sent officers to train in Israel. Officials can't explain what they learned

Which L.A. mayoral candidate will make a Silver Lake DASH bus route happen

The right wing 10 year cultural delay phenomenon has them all using millennial therapyspeak right when the left has dropped all civility. Really funny times ahead

This really is a great AAA pop record on an A-minus budget

On one hand: how the fuck was this only ten years ago? On the other hand: I guess ten years is a pretty long time

Easy. Thank you to whoever nominated the tremendous DJ Travella track, by far my favorite discovery of the tournament and a huge hit among the kids dancing at the museum last weekend www.mixcloud.com/sam3k/open-b...

Nagoya? Where the marimba is from??

ice spice voice:

production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA

Marty!! We used to correspond on Twitter. I'm not sure he understood why per se but he was definitely a singular guy

NEW ALBUM: ꒰ঌ D1G1TAL S3LF MV⸸1L4T10N ໒꒱ ♥︎ 1st release from p2p_g1rl ♥︎ for fans of: electroclash, witch house, trance, house, or extremely fucked MP3s love u links (will b on streaming minus spotify n amazon in a few weeks): e-f-d-g.bandcamp.com/album/d1g1ta... soundcloud.com/p2p_g1rl/set...

We can look to Sesame Street to gauge modern celebrities' ease in interacting with Muppets. It's not a universal skill! Hailee Steinfeld could do it. SZA could do it. Gaga already has!

Well, here we go: a fresh new printing of Who Shares the Restroom Code with ICE Agents? and a new follow up booklet from Public Collectors: What You Agents Are Doing In Your Hotels. Both are now available ($6.00 each): halfletterpress.com/what-you-age... halfletterpress.com/who-shares-w...

After the ICE/CBP raids first started in L.A. last year I got really paranoid about helicopters hovering overhead but then I realized I could just open globe.adsbexchange.com to immediately identify each aircraft and view its flight path. Now can anyone tell me why this Black Hawk just buzzed me

Some drunk guy made fun of my shoes as I walked into the bar tonight and I felt bad about it for about an hour but I just remembered that he was a white guy with dreads so now I don't feel bad anymore

Not beating the evil empire allegations... (This is absolutely buried on the LAT mobile homepage today, which feels like as much of an intentional editorial choice as anything else they do these days.)

There's a grim irony to the LA Times breaking this story about Karen Bass' inexcusable alterations to the Palisades fire reports, on the same day as the WaPo cuts. It’s a case study for why cities need healthy newspapers staffed by well-sourced and experienced Metro reporters.

Four just this morning. That's AGI baby

This is an evil place.

The new Muppet Show was great in the sense that I am not immune to nostalgia and most of the hits were played in the right key, but they need to do it live-to-tape at 30fps in front of a real audience to truly recapture the sweat-and-glue energy of the original. Treat it like SNL!

Days after covering a protest last week, I realized I had been shot with a new so-called "less-lethal" munition that the LAPD is using more commonly at protests: the FN303. This week, Chief McDonnell said that officers used the FN303 because a judge banned the LAPD from using 40mm launchers.

Heathcliff on a generational run this week

It's not that the blue-wave bot accounts on here behave any more egregiously than on the other sites; it's that their follower counts and engagement stats dwarf those of authentic users by a power of ten

It's been around for less than two weeks and the California Post is already being cited by the police union in attack ads against my city councilwoman. Who needs a "communication expert" when you have Rupert Murdoch

the main point is the 2020's aren't some moment divorced from what happened before and these are things that have been building

Kristen Stewart please hire me to fix up the old Highland Park movie theater. I have no useful skills but I'm a very fast learner

the $75 million Jeff Bezos set on fire for that Melania propaganda piece could have funded most independent newsrooms for literally decades

new MUNA incoming... Carly Rae Jepsen releasing "Disco Darling" on 7" for RSD... we are so back

NAVSUP WEXMAC 2.2 TITUS (Region 27) is one of the acronymic vehicles the Trump regime is using to put the U.S. military’s awesome logistical capacity at work building the concentration camps financed by the One Big Brutal Bill Act and the measureless Pentagon budget.

Strange but true: every reply to this prompt tweet is "Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money in My Hand"

They saw Clipse finally attain genuine success and thought "hmm can't have that"

Political winds in La shifting as more elected officials are willing to call for #LA28 Chief Casey Wasserman’s resignation. Before the Epstein file emails came to light, he was untouchable.