I think a 20 minute session of doing an expressionist painting of Bert was the break down I needed to have today.

Disaster preparedness was not his strength.

All the lawyers in my feed seem to agree the birthright citizenship case will not change the meaning of the Constitution. So, yay?

Not that many (any?) such people follow me, but genuinely interested in hearing what people who were outraged at anyone who expressed a negative opinion about Charlie Kirk after his assassination have to say about Trump's predictably odious reaction to Mueller's death.

Fear of Flying by Erica Jong

I endorse this idea. I would be first in line.

This is easily the subscription I use the most. I encourage others to sign up.

This whole trial has been such a source of joy and inspiration in a dark time. Even Too Much Joy's cop drummer says he's on Afroman's side.

In retrospect, I probably shouldn't have shouted, "Don't I know it!" and gone for a high-fibe after my wife's OB/GYN looked at her pap smear and mammogram results and said, "Your breasts and vagina are fine."

Seriously friends, you want to stream this and then you'll want to own it. Just click and preview "Crush Story" and try not to fall in love with it. It's better than love. It's Too Much Joy. The greatest band you've forgotten about.

It's very easy to have Oakland pride. This city rules.

Probably worth mentioning that any time you play Too Much Joy's most popular album online, all the royalties (such as they are) go directly to the band, as the rights reverted to us yesterday. Expanded edition coming latere this year...

I enjoyed talking to Billboard about our grand ambitions for Tapedeck.

Wouldn’t it be weird if Mar-a-Lago face wasn’t plastic surgery, but something that happens organically the more evil you get? Kind of like The Picture of Dorian Gray on a living human being

Rare good news for trans rights. We need more of this.

They can't stand that they lost the culture. Their main concerns are not shared by a majority of their fellow citizens So they use whatever power they can obtain to make it illegal to not be enough like them They don't even care if you mean it. They just need everyone to pretend as much as they do

Yodels!

I wrote about Alysa Liu and the winter Olympics because of course I did! Thanks for checking it out...it's free! open.substack.com/pub/gina19e/...

Hello from heaven

This whole story is so disturbing. I get that our corporate overlords want AI replacing human workers wherever possible, and some human workers are always going to take lazy shortcuts on top of that, but hoo boy is this grim.

I'm pretty proud of this poem I made out of the euphemisms that companies used to describe the ICE occupation in corporate communications. Also read the whole story: racketmn.com/corporate-co...

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

We had a bunch: Linda McCartney, Aaron Sorkin, Tovah Feldshuh, Robert Durst. Also Nina Totenberg and Andrew Ross Sorkin. Farther down the list, but cooler if you dig indie rock, are Chris Brokaw and, um, three members of Too Much Joy.

It is very funny that one of the only people, out of thousands of the ultra rich and celebrities who were exposed to Trump and Epstein's pedophilia, who immediately said fuck this and got out of there was the dude from 2 Live Crew

Santa kills the bird that can't fly when he drops it out of his sleigh at the end.

I bought my wife an O. Henry book for Christmas and it turns out she just sold her eyes.

The perennial question:

Christmas is a religious holiday that many secular people also celebrate (such as me, an avowed atheist who finds Christmas quite enjoyable without any of what I consider the religious rigamarole).

The first soundboard tapes of the entire Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour have arrived!

This is clearly the most accurate Best Of music list of 2025, because Wonderlick is on it. offshelf.net/2025/12/10/b...

I told our publicist I will talk to anyone and everyone to explain how Tapedeck is trying to make a penny per play the floor rather than ceiling for streaming royalties, so here's yet another podcast about it.

This is definitely an "only for those really interested" thing, but if you have any desire to hear what Too Much Joy sounded like when we were 16-year-olds calling ourselves the Rave and playing covers as well as originals, this Bandcamp Friday release might be for you.

Hey @tbquirk.bsky.social , as a major Too Much Joy fan (as evidenced in my #SpotifyWrapped stats), was there any chance I would not buy today's #BandcampFriday release of The Rave? I submit there was not...

This started out as a normal Too Much Joy interview (which I already had heard some of the anecdotes) but just about 20 minutes in, when Tim talks about Tapedeck, Rhapsody and the music industry (and the REM anecdote) it becomes fascinating.

The e-mail unsubscribe link is the digital equivalent to the "close door" elevator button.

I admire South Park because even a simple joke (like a song titled “Pete Hegseth Is a Fucking Douche”) will contain profundities (like, “Your kids are gonna hear this and their friends will watch it too”).

Saw the latest Knives Out today, which is pretty perfect by the way, but 90 minutes into it an older lady in front of us exclaimed, "I don't think this is Hamnet!" and left. Still trying to figure out why it took her an hour and a half to reach that conclusion.

“I was just following otters.”

One day each year this old TMJ song gets some love. Based on a true story!

Did some more blathering about Tapedeck with the Signal Chain podcast:

Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.

Getting mail from People Suck Music will always bring me joy. I haven't pulled the plastic off a CD in a while. But that thumb nail still does the trick between the black part and the clear cover. @tbquirk.bsky.social

It's always a good day when receiving a package from People Suck Music & @tbquirk.bsky.social ... and a day earlier than expected

I confess I was unsure about including so many outtakes and demos on the reissued Son of Sam I Am, but this reviewer seems very glad we did: "There are reissues, and then there are resurrections...This isn’t just 'the album + a demo or two.' This is the full ecosystem of Son of Sam I Am."

Glide Magazine has a nice piece about a new version of an old song of ours called Clowns -- includes a lyric video.

Had a long, fun chat with The Music Lab podcast about Tapedeck (though the interviewer begins well back in my past):

Was watching something else when my TV hiccuped and sent me to TCM, where a shot that was perfectly composed but patently ridiculous made me rewind to see which Brian DePalma movie I was missing. Turned out it was The Fury, and I watched it to the end, and I'm glad I did. Ludicrous fun.

I'd like to thank all the reviewers who lowered my expectations for Nebraska '82, because I probably wouldn't have enjoyed it as much as I do if they hadn't convinced me I'd wasted my money pre-ordering it. The multiple versions of "Downbound Train" are, surprisingly, what I like most so far.

Every once in a while I think about the far kinder and safer and less expensive and scary country we could all be living in right now if enough people had understood what he was gonna do, and voted for Harris. None of this shit was a secret!