An exquisite jeremiad defector.com/the-world-cu...

Pay what you can for this Great Plains classic (there's a physical reissue too) greatplainscolumbus.bandcamp.com/album/naked-...

Before Buffy, Anthony Head was best known for this series of Nescafé Gold Blend ads - brands had used characters and mascots for ages, but this was an early example of an ad campaign following two characters on a story. youtu.be/OJ8JuEBu8ZY?...

So, let me get the annoying part out of the way. [Clears throat] [Taps mic] "That's BESTSELLING AUTHOR STEVEN W. THRASHER TO ALL MY HATERS IN GENERAL, BUT ESPECIALLY TO THOSE OF YOU AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY!"

It's still asparagus season! Will always be grateful to Meat Cheese Bread and Portland Monthly for this recipe. They otherwise make it with green beans, also great. www.pdxmonthly.com/eat-and-drin...

POISON 13 REISSUE IS OUT TODAY!!!!!!! redparakeet.bandcamp.com/album/poison...

are you just going to do this for every generation

The third-most famous Mike White www.espn.com/nfl/player/_...

Three more outs #hookem alcalde.texasexes.org/2026/02/texa...

Violet Grohl has gotta be the most happening new artist booking a certain beleaguered Philadelphia venue has gotten in many months. Even if nobody told her agent it's not called that anymore. www.violetgrohl.com/tour/

TD and Robinson look like a boy band reunion

elmo is a fictional toddler but also TRAITOR!!!!!!!! SUPPORT THE HOME TEAM COWARD!!!!

Hey, it's New York Knicks point guard Jose Alvarado! As a Phillies phan, I've Googled him accidentally so many times.

True story, I missed the first half of this Villanova-Temple game, in which freshman Jalen Brunson scored 25 points against his Dad's college team, because I was in line at the original Pizzeria Beddia www.espn.com/mens-college...

Getting the impression there's something other than Phillies-Padres going on in sports tonight?

my favorite part of this package is @cohenesque.bsky.social's guide to casual fandom, ie most World Cup fandom:

This summer is going to be like no other summer in Philly history. We here at @phillymag.com took the guesswork out of it for you and built a nearly day-by-day guide to the best games, cookouts, concerts, festivals, and hot-dog contests that make up this once-in-a-lifetime summer.

Went to the Phillies game last night in part to get a Nick Castellanos moment and I guess that moment was "Nick Castellanos appears on Jumbotron the night before getting DFA'ed by his new team instead of going 0-4 against Cristopher Sanchez tonight."

Excited for Philadelphia Phillies RF Jo Adell

Bruce Cassidy is Deborah Vance www.nytimes.com/athletic/732...

I have a Phillies bathroom song

Ok, this is crazy. Apparently AEG is actually taking over the lease for the current Emo's space... finance.yahoo.com/sectors/tech...

Very much here for Robert Sietsema's NYC egg salad round-up open.substack.com/pub/robertsi...

New at @comicsjournal.bsky.social: an in-depth look at Dark Horse Workers United, as 48 hours remain before the union's deadline for recognition.

I'd lost track of Bill Keenan, who I knew from his memoir. Love it. www.nytimes.com/athletic/730...

Always jarring as a baseball fan to get into the Women's College World Series and see that someone is about to throw 150 pitches.

If I were an action hero, this is what I’d say to the bad guy before the kill shot.

Seven-piece The Paranoid Style (@paranoiacs.bsky.social) line-up, including "Peter Fucking Holsapple" and Wiliam Matheny, Club 603, Baltimore.

So it's America vs. the Knicks right?

"Like more than a few people I know, I sometimes suspect 'Doonesbury' is responsible for at least 15 percent of my personality and worldview." - @dwightgarner.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/b...

Whenever I go to a graduation or Bar Mitzvah I immediately revert into a bored snarky teen myself

Whoa. Someone finally did it.

here's a round-up of all of my Springsteen tour coverage! Chicago: www.radio-nowhere.com/bruce-spring... Pittsburgh: www.radio-nowhere.com/bruce-spring... Cleveland: www.radio-nowhere.com/bruce-spring... DC: variety.com/2026/music/r... tour overview: www.salon.com/2026/05/28/s...

This sucks. They did great work. Rich person on the left fund great journalism challenge.

Anyway, shouldn't it have been the Great American Republic Fair?

Sad but not wholly unexpected news from @mikemcgonigal.bsky.social on FB this morning that _Maggot Brain_, the great quarterly music/culture magazine he brought into being, has come to a close. A wonderful run, well worth looking into their back issues. thirdmanrecords.com/collections/...

RIP MAGGOT BRAIN — the only magazine that would ever pay me to write a 7,000 word history of a Feelies side project that never released a record

There's a cover band called Gender Neutral Milk Hotel playing West Philly Porchfest (h/t @thisismari.at) which is how I then learned there was also a song called that. And someone used it for a North Carolina bathroom sign during HB2 westphillyporchfest.com/shows

Sure were a lot of uninformed political people with high hopes/expectations for the Prince estate today.

I just got the most vitriolic hate mail I've received in 20+ years of journalism...about this piece (it closes with "Fuck you and fuck the WNBA")! Oh well

thought this was a great wnba 101 by @christenmccurdy.bsky.social www.wweek.com/sports/2026/...

"Early polls that are favorable to the party are common—and have about the same predictive power as a preseason AP poll that ranks the Texas Longhorns first in the nation." www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

This looks more like a Doonesbury cartoon than real life

Saw these guys at YYZ on their way to Lubbock, San Antonio and Dallas. Stayin Alive indeed! www.stayinalivetribute.com/the-band

Okay I'm asking it: Ghost or Beehiiv?

Seven terrifying words www.facebook.com/watch/?v=977...

"Yukon potatoes don't come from the Yukon!" - Stuart Murdoch, learning about Canada.

Owner Terry Currier is hoping people share memories and messages about the longtime record store.

Boycott Uline.

Belle and Sebastian pre show music on point Do You Believe In Magic? by The Lovin' Spoonful www.shazam.com/track/510168...