Life is unkind We fall, but we keep gettin' up Over and over and over and over and over And over and over and over and over

I will miss Ranger, I am glad he got paid, I am glad he’s in the American League and I can’t wait to hear people in Boston say his name

13 Jan 2026

What a piece of work is a man, what a fuckin piece of work. Get a load of his reason. Check out his fuckin faculty. Jesus christ, look at this form and moving. What a character.

Sean Penn at the Golden Globes

"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gender," i holler as i overturn my uncle's breakfast nook

What was your #childhoodcinema? The movie theater inside the Village Mall in Horsham, where I saw THE MUPPETS TAKE MANHATTAN, STAR TREK III AND IV, SCROOGED, SPACEBALLS, and much more. Later on, it became a $3 second-run theater; I saw the first AUSTIN POWERS and second JURASSIC PARK that way.

excellent nyt piece on tom verlaine's archives. he was such a great guy i miss him still. no firewall www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/a...

At the center of it all, and at the end. "Blackstar": bowiesongs.wordpress.com/2026/01/08/b...

Fuck this government. Fuck feckless cowardly Democrats.

I don’t know what to say except that human beings deserve better than whatever this is

Actual good news!

First single from a new @joepernice.bsky.social album!

Hell yeah. We got a punk rock pediatrician on the PBS News Hour tonight.

This week’s root beer.

01 Jan 2026

I’m sorry, who?!

All the stars are here.

Not gonna sum up the year in any great detail. More than most years, it was a mix of joyous and awful. Also I read fewer books than usual, but I’m shooting for quality over quantity. To 2026!

The best music video? A fool's question. But the video that most evokes the time, the vibe of early MTV? Steppin' Out, baby, now and forever. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJwt...

A thread of favorite music videos to memorialize MTV.

Who can ever forget this banger. We lost a real one.

“He's about at his limit. I happen to know a guy who's at his limit. He's one of our members.”

Truth

Make a Bond film casual No Time to Diet

Guess who finished reading LONESOME DOVE today?

25 Dec 2025

The scene at your local big box store.

Wake Up Dead Man was more Catholic than Conclave

NewsRadio, The Cane Twin Peaks: The Return, Episode 8 Seinfeld, The Library The Leftovers, The Book of Nora Homicide: Life on the Street, Black and Blue

The album MORE by Pulp

I wrote about the best to ever do it and the 45-year-old film that, for me, defined 2025 www.newyorker.com/culture/2025...

I would die for Kyle Schwarber.

“YANKEE HOTEL FOXTROT is a 2001 album!” “YANKEE HOTEL FOXTROT is a 2002 album!”

Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (either War or Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.

Baby Michael Shannon in JESUS’ SON.

Oh hell yeah! (Upcoming vinyl reissue of Versus’ first full-length)

One of my favorite TV moments from 2025.

In the Mood for Love Actually

Uh oh

RIP Steve Cropper

"Millie. Bonnie. Bongiovi."

RIP to a great, unique noir writer.

One of the oddest albums I own. Country-style ABBA covers by Swedish session musicians.

“When the bat meets that ball and you feel that ball just give, you know it's going to go a long way. Damn, if you don't feel like you're going to live forever...I couldn't give all that up. Not for nothing.”

Good morning! I took the opportunity of the BEATLES ANTHOLOGY's streaming debut to write about THE COMPLEAT BEATLES, the (imho) far superior Fab Four doc, and why, because of the ANTHOLOGY, it's so hard to see. Gift link, no paywall: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/m...

Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen. Morphine The Kinks The Beths Neko Case R.E.M.

THE NICE GUYS

Goodbye Jimmy Cliff. His vocal in this 1976 SNL performance, good lord---one of the best singers of his generation, of any generation. vimeo.com/155135842