logging off for a while

la times, gone. washington post, gone. paramount, gone. disney, might as well be gone. warner, soon to be gone. twitter, gone. tiktok, soon gone. where the f*** are lefty billionaires?

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everything about this trial is A-fucking-plus cardi, i mean of course, but also her lawyer and especially the judge i hope they both get features on her next album

my hometown ❤️

The Hardkiss "Дівчина" 🇺🇦

there are much worse problems. that said, as someone who loves writing reviews & has written thousands & is proud of that & thinks reviews are important, seeing culture coverage, critics & reviews constantly take it on the chin for the past decade--esp last few years--has been really fucking hard.

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One reason I regard the Reader + other regional pubs/crits as guiding lights is, as musickers, they hear what's going on locally before anyone else, which young/unestablished artist to consider, and the listing is the natural first piece of coverage, an introduction and an invitation. #LoveThisJob

Absolutely true about @dadastrain.bsky.social, and in fact I make a point of linking and x-reffing Piotr, Jim Macnie, and a couple of others every single week. It’s the same idea as having six or more listings writers and editors at Time Out… no one can know or do it all alone.

a) yes!!! b) but the attempt to blame the decline of listings on poptimism is weird and waaaay off c) there are others, in addition to the amazing @nightafternight.bsky.social, doing the crucial work of keeping listings culture alive in nyc. see, for example, the amazing @dadastrain.bsky.social

what's with all these characters on "the bear" who use iphones without cases? is that a thing people do?

fill the world with ozzy and never ever ever say die 🖤🖤🖤

dear @redsox.com: just sayin'...

Dearest Darlings, I used to be over there. Now I am here.

still fascinated by this weird quirk of professional tennis as i watch alcaraz and sinner try to navigate corridors and doorways with heavy, oversized bags hanging from both of their shoulders on their way to centre court

i am extremely late on this but i have just learned that mamdani is a POPPY SEED GUY. i am henceforth doubling my donations to him. we need this, new york!!! (but the fuck does he mean he has his orange juice "on the side"? does he think other people pour their OJ on their bagel???)

pouring one out tonite for one for one of the kindest hearts to ever bless the new jersey music scene -- and one of its most adventurous souls and ferocious voices. you were a force for good in the world, tim cronin 💔💔💔

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fun luke kornet fact #1: his 4-yr spurs contract is gonna pay him nearly double what larry bird earned in his *career* fun kornet fact #2: he earned it. gonna miss that goofy gangly gamer

globalize the primarying of these motherfuckers

random/first thoughts on bruce springsteen's the lost albums as they pop, freight-train-like, into the middle of my head:

wow

huge shoutout to the #karenread jury for continuing to insist on short workdays. these seven women and five men know how to live

jesus fucking babe mookie christ red sox

there are six sentences in the "about this candidate" description of zohran mamdani. three of them are about israel and gaza. unless i'm missing something, israel/gaza isn't mentioned anywhere else in this lengthy piece about why nor why not to vote for nine candidates

While there’s a riot goin’ on

you're the underdog and you've got to be twice as good 💔💔💔

and six of the nyc mayoral candidates did *not* say their first international trip would be to israel. but only one of them got the followup question "would you visit israel?" guess which one? (hint: it was the one who gave by far the best answer to the original question)

i don't think most people have processed the single most amazing thing about the taylor swift catalog story: the fact that she -- or any artist in any medium at any time ever -- could come up with that much $$$ she is an absolutely sui generis force in both music *and* the music business

tnt post-game show. no notes: kenny complains about the "slow music" they're playing at madison square garden ernie: "by the way that's billy joel, new york state of mind" kenny: "no no ... if they woulda won it woulda been the nas version of new york state of mind"

good name for a boston hardcore band: karen read ceiling fan #karenread #karenreadtrial

the good news is that under new fda guidelines, being a democrat is considered a pre-existing condition

so this hapless forensic analyst without a college degree has spent more time testifying to the #karenread jury about how two clocks might be out of sync by 15 or 20 seconds than any of our current supreme court justices spent testifying to congress before being confirmed

dynamic pricing for concert tickets is wrong 100 percent of the time

descriptor of the day: "anti-jewish influencer"

ZEVON!!!!! a couple decades too late, obviously, but if you can't take the punches, it don't mean a thing, i guess 👊

love this 🏈🎶

good morning!

jon bon jovi is an absolutely good and decent human being. the mayor of toms river, it goes without saying, gives new jersey a bad name

a focus group of seven average americans according to the ny times: five trump voters, one harris voter, one jill stein voter

Ivan Sigal writes that many of us, caught in the amnesia of our endless scrolling, seem to have forgotten that we control our attention. But if enough of us act, he says, we will create the demand signal that builders of technologies that privilege human agency need to validate their work.

[VERY VERY MILD SEVERANCE SPOILER] helly's walz-ian "god you're fucking weird" is up there w/ logan roy's "you are not serious people" as a perfect distillation of everything we know about their respective worlds... and a very useful phrase to have in our pockets in this world

how long until they un-retire jackie's number?

this is just so absolutely lovely

i imagine this shall happen to each of us once in our lives. for me, 'twas today. gonna be all downhill from here Wordle 1,366 1/6* 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

a true patriot, and one of the only consistently excellent pieces of a team that's been lost at sea for much (though thankfully not all) of his great career (see also: new england's other longtime snapper of balls, who arrived the same year, 2015)

if the times had figured how to put an S in the spelling bee with no possible plural words, THEN i would have been impressed