With no @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social mandated listening, I'm listening to David Byrne. As good as advertised. www.npr.org/2025/12/01/g...

This was my finals match. They’ll have to fight it out for third!

The great Jimmy Cliff passed away. I think the best way to honor him is by voting for the Beastie Boys, who sampled "Stop That Train" on B-Boy Bouillabaisse. It's a sign from above. But I love DLS too.

fourth quarter cowboys-eagles

All the gigs I went to this year: Michael Shannon/Jason Narducy Dead Milkmen MJ Lenderman Ducks Ltd. Pulp Mountain Goats Geese

Go Birds 🦅 🏈

It's a close one! Razor-thin margin!

Octavia Butler is a master. Recommended!

Cached US Kindle giveaway, courtesy of @jtmcomments.bsky.social: 6 copies of Octavia E Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents, which I do not have, and have not read. #KindleBookGiveaway

Saw that today is the birthday of Gene Clark, the great songwriter from the Byrds. Before I dive into some sixties classics, I am going to start the day with this fuzzed out tribute. youtu.be/PzKFH-m9NGU?...

Lmao the one time they call it it’s wrong. Perfect.

Cooper Dejean!

Geese delivered a raucous, high energy show. It’s been a while since I’ve been to show with a real pit. Hope those guys got their shoes back!

Absolutely entertaining list here. (I can't believe no one picked "Powderfinger"--although the great Ryan Davis gives it some props.) Never caught the now obvious nod to "Pocahontas" in R.E.M's overlooked "Me, Marlon Brando..." Fun to read and then play the songs along to!

I’m an Eagles fan and know I’m a sick person. I can’t explain anyone else watching this

More senators (and their aides) should watch football. Imagine watching a stadium full of people booing the president and thinking, "Yeah, we should just give him what he wants."

A Philadelphia holiday

Re: Frankenstein, why 1857? For an adaptation reported to be faithful to Shelley, it alters the setting two seconds in.

Whoa! 4-4 in the ninth inning of Game 7. Buckle up

Game 7 it is!

Vote Stone Roses!

The most terrifying aspect of the movie is that it forces the viewer to imagine all the ways the current commander-in-chief and "Secretary of War" would absolutely screw this up.

The NBA has a new all-time points per game leader... 👀

The thing about picking your top five R.E.M. songs is that's impossible. I read everyone's list and agreed with each one. Such a catalog. For what it's worth, here's mine for today: 5. Country Feedback 4. New Test Leper 3. Talk About the Passion 2. So. Central Rain 1. Find the River

Phillies fans: does the ghost of Joe Carter loom so large in our collective pain that we would actively root for the Dodgers? Is Ohtani's greatness so transcendent that we can root for a team from California? Genuinely conflicted here.

Is there a visual metaphor for what Trump is doing to the presidency? wapo.st/4hqBNiU

[Exit King.]

In the year 2025, is Tom Petty somehow underrated? Under-appreciated?

Phils lose, Flyers lose, Eagles losing. A trifecta of suck.

Bryce, do something!

(Just so it's clear, this skeet was posted **three days** before László Krasznahorkai won the Nobel Prize for Literature)

Oh baby This is bliss

Schwarbomb! (At last!) Matt Stairs-like!

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

Pure cinema

Listen, I’m really happy the Eagles won that game, but today is all about making sure the Mets lose and miss the playoffs

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Eagles win in incredible fashion, Green Bay chokes against Cleveland, the Mets lost, and now how bout them Bears! What a day to be alive!

The Jordan Davis game

Never a doubt!!!!!! Haaaa! What!?!!

You know Stanford just keeps throwing to Puka over and over. Yeah, we should do that with A.J.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

The Kimmel cancellation reminded me of the final paragraphs of the essay I wrote about Trump, TV and humor back in 2017:

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With all due respect to the brothers Gallagher, the best British group of the nineties not only reunited and toured (and had the decency to stop in Philly), they’ve also put out a great new album. @welovepulp.bsky.social

I’m glad Ranger is doing what he is doing but please keep the camera on Taryn and the Bader Tots

Otto-matic! (No one else made that joke, right?)