Brandon Sanderson's "Dune"

I have an essay in this month's issue about Tom Morello's jukebox musical and theatre as a space for cultural reinterpretation. Feeling very lucky to have such talented collaborators.

This month on the podcast we did another contrast episode. This time we defined "real emo" and remembered some unfortunate things about Fall Out Boy.

Backing out of singing Iris at karaoke like- I just don't want the dive bar to see me, 'cause I don't think that they'd understand

They should put the Kardashians in magic the gathering

Went extremely viral on twitter and it's been interesting to watch the hate comments keep up an almost perfect 1:1 ratio of transphobia to mocking my "PhD"

Was deeply and truly bummed that a whole gaggle of irl issues prevented me from writing about Godsmack’s Awake for this one, but @riviera.bsky.social did a fantastic job capturing the life, times, and messy legacy of the boys from Lawrence. Thanks for picking up the torch and running with it.

I wrote about Godsmack's "Awake" in exactly the way you'd expect

Jared Leto is like the John McCain of Disney intellectual property

Reading The Fort Bragg Cartel like damn, Serj Tankian really had them dead to rights

this implies the existence of a Yaoi Gagarin

There probably aren't that many people whose breakup song is Cubs in 5 by the Mountain Goats, but I know they're all the type who are thinking about their superstitious obligations right now

HEGSETH: *points to general's ribbon bars* "What'd you get that one for? Fucking your mother?" GENERAL: *sternly* killing vietnamese children

Eric Adams dropping out of the mayoral race to clear his schedule for the Riyadh Comedy Festival

Men: you need to stop worrying about your hairlines and start worrying about your snoring

🌱soft launching the website for orders 🌱 dovesplants.com

Hello Bluesky, aerial classes are going well and I love Hayley Williams

No one at the function knows I'm a nu metal influencer

CTA is really not cooperating with my last minute concert arrival habits

No horror persists more than the laundry

Made @numetalmoment.bsky.social put the 9/11 episode of our nu metal history podcast on the free feed for the anniversary. Check it out, it's some of my favorite work we've ever done.

I need someone to explain in excruciating detail which muscles you engage in what order to do a pull up, I'm so stuck

Metalcore discourse is just affinity fraud

I bring a sort of "I carried a watermelon" vibe to every function I end up at

Owen Shroyer is leaving Infowars because he hates post grunge

You can tell he's not dead because if he were they would've started on time

Watching system of a down move around each other on stage reminded me of when I babysat for a divorced couple and had to walk the kids to the neutral pickup location

Huge update: my dad is all in on the savannah bananas

At System of a Down, looking around the audience like idk if all of you are taking this seriously enough as an indictment of Western imperialism

Been a huge year for seeing bands I never thought I'd get the chance to see live

Bluetooth earbuds are ableist

I hate when a podcaster is apologetic about the depth of their research. What do you mean you "won't bore me with the details" I'm here for the details!

Moving to Chicago will fix all you problems and I'm not just saying that because I need someone to move into the empty room in my apartment

Shout out to the bus driver who started to pull into my stop, almost hit a biker in the bus lane, interpreted me pointing at the biker they almost hit as waving them off, and left me

Fred Durst should go on dancing with the stars

What is the HARDEST line ever said in the history of cinema?

Every time I learn more about Mormons I'm like damn... We really should do something about Mormons.

If you are a leftist and you are watching sports you are honestly not as good of a person as I am

Popular knapsack with many different locations

Wait so if you delete the reply to a skeet it deletes both?

Guy who calls rock n roll "classic rock"

This year I'm all in with they guys who think Metallica should be the Superbowl halftime show. Hell yeah, why not.

Important to me that you all know my emotional support elderly polish man is wearing cargo capris and tevas

Huge night for gen z lesbians and gen x men who look like gen z lesbians

The most oppressed demographic in America is the podcaster

rebranding as an alternative rock influencer (going to see the goo goo dolls tonight)

So do we think Taylor Swift has been watching that TikToker who works at the moulin rouge or what?

There were so many kids with their parents at Linkin Park tonight, both equally excited to see them. I think that's beautiful.