Made my first ever waterzooi tonight. A Christmas miracle.

Something seriously wrong with Republicans

made a brutally cold Vesper to feel more like winter

Alarmingly unseasonable warmth be damned, I am making eggnog.

I think about this a lot.

America is dying to find out what happens when an insufferable force meets an unbearable object.

That Prekop is outrageously good. This is one recent discovery for me (via @andybeta.bsky.social’s roundup). redhookrecords.bandcamp.com/album/solace...

Ok I've seen your year-end lists. Now I want to hear about what you missed and just discovered this month through other people's lists. One of mine was surely Sam Prekop's swirling synthesizer record Open Close. Just gorgeous.

I feel like "academic hiring" discourse is always kind of downstream of the fact that in the 50s we started building a giant public system to make a college education almost universally available and in the 80s and 90s we started taking it apart to go back to the only-the-rich model

incredible headline

the what now

lmao

renaming the Kennedy Center is the most "oh, this guy is *dying* dying" I've felt in a while

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The one thing Americans can't be propagandized into is liking desperate, weird freaks.

Watch Cannonball instead of what's on TV right now. This is way better for your immortal soul.

America has deindustrialized so much they can't even manufacture consent

This was just a so-so joke back in the day, but I think about it all the time because everything is "superliminal" now. No rhetoric, no art of persuasion, not even the sham of a public debate. They just shout YES BLOOD FOR OIL! and expect everyone to shrug and say ok sure.

In a parliamentary system, serial rebellions like this from within the party would likely trigger a no-confidence vote and the speaker would step down.

John's got a good list here.

I think it's kind of beautiful that this was Rob Reiner's final line on television

just a dreadful, classless piece of shit incapable of normal human emotion or empathy

Latkes are happening.

Its kind of insulting just how stupid they think everyone is

looking great, sir

that is the most republican looking man i have ever seen

The fuck is happening in this framed photo three feet away from Steve Bannon?

Congrats to the Dems who voted to end the shutdown and were so convinced that they would get a deal.

We're all trying to find the guy who did this

for too long, the left wing in this nation has put forward only candidates who represent the "young and cool" or "curmudgeonly" identity groups finally, lame middle-aged left-wing parents have a candidate we can see ourselves in

I sometimes wonder how many times he can keep re-gifting the same cultural intangibles.

And the @aquariumdrunkard.com album of the year goes to … just kidding we don’t do that kind of thing. Our year end list is a massive unranked blob of great music, just as the good lord intended. aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/08/a...

This company is vile.

284 albums that I'm looking forward to spending all of 2026 working through.

Is that a Trump statement or is it real. Our modern life summed up in a sentence.

Aquarium Drunkard :: Year In Review 2025 aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/08/a... Looking back to look ahead. Our list arrives in the spirit of sharing, and we’re back with our annual Year In Review. As always the following is unranked and unruly. Let it blurb.

I got through listening to everything on @aquariumdrunkard.com’s midyear list like a month ago. Anyway, digging into this. See you in like April.

Some year-end lists congratulate you for having liked all the right things this year. The list @aquariumdrunkard.com buries you alive like an avalanche.

Figuring out in real time that people can't pay medical bills with cultural grievances.

a regime that is publicly humiliated by Henry Cuellar does not have the juice to dismantle the Republic.

He's running.

Truly the stupidest cult. Obsessed with a drug that doesn't work against an infectious disease that they don't even think is real.

When the riff comes back . . . but slower.

Erik Hall's solitary reconstructions of the classics of minimalism have been one of the more thrilling things going on in music these past few years. Very psyched he's got another coming -- taking on Branca, Palestine, Reich and Spiegel.

Sixty years ago today at the first public Acid Test in San Jose, a San Francisco band known as The Warlocks made their first appearance under their new name The Grateful Dead.

RIP Steve Cropper. Let's listen to Booker T. & the MGs's final Stax single, "Melting Pot," a track which smokes so hard it should be illegal. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPAw...

They keep saying Aftyn Behn but I keep hearing

Like a black hole, the Jeff Parker ETA crew is slowly consuming the entire musical universe.