The “guy holding a card with song lyrics” reference in Weird Al’s video to the song “UHF” is not a reference to Bob Dylan’s Subterranean Homesick Blues (which *was* accurately referenced in Weird Al’s “Bob” video) but INXS’s “Meditate” video, which lines up with UHF’s other late-80s video parodies.

I bought a copy of Billy Joel’s Greatest Hits 1 and 2 and I’m disappointed that no one warned me beforehand that he sucks.

The reference to U2’s leadoff single from their 1983 album War is to blame for my bronze medal.

One of these two players has a potential theme song just waiting to be sung by @scottaukerman.bsky.social and @pftompkins.bsky.social

Was inspired by this skeet

Did we start this week’s break by watching UHF? Of course we did.

Top Five Side 1 Track 1s: R.E.M. - Monster, “What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?” Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss, “War Ensemble” John Coltrane - My Favorite Things, “My Favorite Things” Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) “Bring da Ruckus” U2 - War, “Sunday Bloody Sunday”

My 8yo has discovered Weird Al. Send skeet.

Arsenic and Old Lace with Boris Karloff in the Jonathan Brewster role

When my washing machine went out, I thought the most inconvenience caused by a lost appliance was the washing machine, but now my dishwasher has gone out and I’ve changed my mind— it’s the dishwasher.

This is one of the few movies I have triple-dipped on, back to the VHS days, but after having seen Shaw Brothers films from the 70s and Jackie Chan films from the 80s, I realize Bruce was a great player on a lousy team. It’s got great 70s vibes but generally very slow. Sorry, Bruce. I’m out.

Introduce yourself with the last five concerts you saw Soda Stereo cover band Blood Incantation Iron Maiden GZA Megadeth

When I was in high school, a new girl to our school whom I liked a lot named our local makeout spot and asked if I could show it to her. I said “I don’t know where it is” because I was both an dumbass and a loser. Like the dude in the sleepover tweet, I think about that twice every 5 minutes

Sure, the scene in Modern Times where he gets ground in the gears is funny, but the best scene is when Chaplin goes for that *second* bite of the cocaine sandwich

Just announce a Mobile Fidelity version of Tusk already, you cowards!

Leprechaun 3 Leprechaun 4 in Space Leprechaun In the Hood Leprechaun Back 2 tha Hood

If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.

Shout out to the house in Diamond Lake that celebrated Halloween by putting a projector outside their house to display 1995’s Casper on their garage.

Another visit to Minneapolis Institute of Arts, another viewing of my favorite dollhouse accessory:

Some all-time great corrections coming from WaPo coverage of the nationwide No Kings protests yesterday:

Bulls on Parade was the best song they played

#nokings Minneapolis

Since traveling to Central and South America in my 20s and seeing how “American” and “from the United States” do not mean the same thing, I consistently say the second option now when I want to say “From the US”, even though we don’t have a less-cumbersome option in English.

Listening to Rhino’s 2025 BD-Audio of Fleetwood Mac’s 1975 S/T. I generally opt for the high-res stereo mixes rather than Atmos. Won’t repeat the band’s lore of where they were when they made this, but my first listen was a pleasant surprise, as most of the Rumours songs were played-out.

My wife and son asking their bald dad to clean hair out of the clogged shower

My favorite genres are: 1. Chasing Jennifer Anniston and Francis from Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure. 2. In an urban setting, with Ice-T and (briefly) Coolio. 3. Las Vegas, don’t remember much but a woman gets cursed & her butt expands, explodes and she dies. 4. Back to urban setting. 5. In Space.

The Shawscope sets are so good because Arrow is very good at curating both insane action films and just insane films. Only a madman would put something like Mighty Peking Man with Crippled Avengers in the same set. I cannot believe Vol 2 is so low at Arrow now— it has the 36th Chamber of Shaolin!!

so funny they made a whole press conference about acetaminophen and no one told him how to say it

Joining Mastodon is easy! You just find an instance (not that one, not that one, not that one) and then you set up your farble to interact with the jibcrank but be sure to hide your content automatically behind a yuwving or you'll be in violation of the instances TOS and can be banned.

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

So my current age is now “the next two concerts I’ll be seeing are cover bands of 40-year-old groups” (REM and Soda Stereo)

It’s not just the fact that the U of MN campus is filled with young, college-aged people closer to my son’s age than mine, it’s also that only about 10% of the Dinkytown businesses from the 90s still remain.

Absolutely criminal that Jurriën Timber did not score against Nottingham Forest today. Not checking to see if anyone else has made a similar joke; I’m sure it only occurred to me.

TV Funhouse.

I showed my son Phil Hartman’s SNL Sassy skit, and, for the next month, he’s going to be doing Mike Myers’ Joey Lawrence impression to his confused classmates

If you are okay with this, if you think this is justified, if you think people living on the street have brought this upon themselves, if you think this is good leadership, you may be able to fool yourself that you care about others but you don’t fool me

Italian photographer Ray Giubilo with a one-in-a-million shot of Jasmine Paolini at the US Open

REM released its debut EP “Chronic Town” on this date in 1982.

Artist: Magnetic Fields Album: 69 Love Songs

"I wanna get to heaven," says a man working for the benefit of Hell.

I hurt myself* today / to see if I still feel *went in a Lakeshore on the weekend before teachers return to work

This is one of the funniest images humanity has ever crafted.

Can't stress this enough: nobody fucking cares what he was up to

Guy whose only read ISIS Magazine: "getting some ISIS Magazine vibes here"

Had the ideal turntable listening experience last night: 1. Put son to bed 2. Search several racks to find an album to fit my “mood” 2. Notice audio issue with playback. Spend 15 minutes checking connections to isolate issue. Identify issue on phono preamp. 3. Son gets sick, listening abandoned.

Everyone goes on and on about how we're in 1984 or some such nonsense. No. We are in RoboCop.

Spent some time with my retired father this week, and if you didn’t lament the phone as a communication system becoming totally worthless, you will at least feel sorrow in watching your 76yo dad take junk call after junk call, as he refuses to surrender the idea of the phone as a valid medium.