I just saw that one of the tracks on the upcoming Boards of Canada album is titled Somewhere Right Now In The Future. 😂

Boastful Quaker Oats ad, Chicago 1891

Tomorrow morning (Saturday March 14, 9 am sharp) I am presenting a learned treatise on the subject of smooth music at USC's Pop Conference. Free admission with pre-registration! www.popconference.org

Catching up with new albums by Gorillaz, Bruno Mars, Megan Moroney, Bill Callahan, Crooked Fingers, and a new Clifton Chenier box in my latest newsletter.

Just passed a weed store named FlynnStoned and I don’t know what to do with my anger

Well done, Clickhole.

My second episode on Billy Corgan’s The Magnificent Others podcast is now up. youtu.be/laaofgUMsBs?...

And then Hideo Kojima has Norman Reedus looking like he’s about to drop the hottest post-grunge video of 2001.

bro this lady on Jeopardy was deep in third place going into Final Jeopardy, and she didn’t know the answer so she just wrote “i hope they both bet it all” and the other two guys fucking bet it all and got it wrong and she won

Beak looking like a Far Side character talking

Over on Substack (The Flynn Effect) and at Tom Erlewine’s (So It Goes) we discuss the spooky real-life stories about Mark E. Smith of The Fall. One tale even ties into a death at Disneyland. @sterlewine.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/theflynn...

Over on Substack, I went into the strange real-life historical figures that parallel, and possibly inspired, Back to the Future II. A movie that is weirder than we realized at the time.

open.substack.com/pub/theflynn... Over on Substack, a lengthy post about the strange real-life history behind Back to the Future II. Time travel devices, Tesla, Elon, Trump’s scientist uncle, and von Braun. It’s a bit much—even for me.

open.substack.com/pub/theflynn... Hollywood Players Directory 1992 Part III

It’s a testament to the endemic interest in occult matters in the sixties that both the Grateful Dead and the Velvet Underground, despite being seemingly on opposite sides of the countercultural spectrum, were both called The Warlocks early on.

David Bowie was trending at the same time as the Renee Nicole Good. Coincidentally, Bowie's widow, Iman, is from the same Somali sub-clan, the Majeerteens, as Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.

Did Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins’ podcast. Talked music and entertainment underbelly. youtu.be/Z3z-OSCslYY?...

Happy to share this first taste from Running with the Devil, a project I’ve been developing with my friend @conradflynn.bsky.social about rock and the occult. Naturally, the place to start with rock and the occult is the Rolling Stones. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Did the Bret Easton Ellis podcast. www.patreon.com/posts/145972...

Wrote about Nick Fuentes and the cultural memory of the Scorsese Cinematic Universe (the SCU). open.substack.com/pub/theflynn...

Wrote about my friend and former comedy-writing partner Kaleb Horton.

Burn one for Kaleb Horton.