“She Fucking Hates Me” by Puddle of Mudd

When you get visited by three Puerto Rican ghosts

Macbeth: SHIT

1. Brian Dunne - Clams Casino (2025) Heartland rock with uncommon smarts, chops, and hooks. Proof you can write accessibly in that vein without playing to the lowest common denominator. Handclaps on “Graveyard” and 12-string on “Gracie Mansion” are the details that make good albums great. #MWE

there needs to be a sex offender registry but for ice guys. you should have to go door to door when you move to a new area and inform your neighbors that you used to be an ice guy. they shouldn't be allowed with 500 feet of a school

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

The best essay about this film that I've ever read, and I've not only read dozens, I've written a few myself. Hooray for Mary!

Yearly appreciation post for Richard Kendall Gibbs, whose score for the ‘90s Hallmark Christmas movie The Christmas Box is a work of utter beauty. Makes me cry by itself every single year.

A full majority of these songs are good. The fuck?

this exists it is called thinking

Allison Janney, best known as the aggressively appreciative mom who is now coming to Cole’s for “everything but toilet paper and bananas” in the 1994 MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET remake.

Fuck. Yes. That’s. The. Stuff. I wish I lived 1/3 of a mile west of where I do so I could vote for her to be re-elected.

Finding a CD that’s been too pricey to get online in the wild at a record store is straight up thrilling. This message brought to you by Richard and Linda Thompson’s First Light

As strategy, I think "I will boycott this" is more effective than "I demand that people refuse to participate in this" which is more effective than "I will boycott people who participate in this" which is more effective than "I demand that you boycott them too." Anyway: I will boycott this.

The Billy Joel doc is mostly very good but man they just let him breeze past some of the things I was most interested in hearing his perspective on now. It’s pretty unforgivable to never once say Doug Stegmeyer’s name in 4 hours of runtime.

Age verification? I once had to say the sentence “Did we get dimes from the bank to use on the subway today?”

Theodore Aloysius Huxtable is one of the most important television characters of my lifetime. The Cosby Show was not about Heathcliff or Clair or even Denise, that show was about Theo

Not to take “look over here” rambling by the senile asshole-in-chief more seriously than it deserves, but Guardians is a terrific name for the team. The Guardians of Traffic are cool as hell and literally RIGHT next to the stadium. That was a huge upgrade.

ESPN doing their damndest to make the Derby completely unwatchable. Desperate pick-me WrestleMania “celebrity” nonsense. Foisting Pat McAfee on us. And this awful fucking split screen so you never see a single goddamn home run go. Just awful TV.

I’m certainly not an expert, but that Ripley/Sky headline match at Evolution was definitely a classic.

A billion movies out there I could stream and I’m using Kanopy tickets to watch Fleetwood Mac’s The Dance for the forty thousandth time.

There’s late ‘80s commercial for A1 steak sauce that tries to sell the concept of hamburgers as just chopped steak and it ends with a VERY specific cadence of: Kid: “…and save the ketchup for the fries” Dad/chef: “GOOOOOD”

I really am not big on most Italian desserts. I just don’t like anise.

Albums That Are Annoyingly Not on Spotify Chronicles: The J. Geils Band - You’re Gettin’ Even While I’m Gettin’ Odd (1984)

When are we going to talk about how the NBA’s salary cap structure is kind of ruining the league? One of your stars gets hurt? Every player you like is getting dumped in a firesale to avoid the luxury tax for a year. That’s no way to retain fans.

I still believe “Miserable” is the best song released by any artist in the last decade. This album gets slept on too often.

So many. The real answer is actually a whole world of female singers and artists, at a time before the whole world had caught up to that idea. But to stick to the actual parameters of the prompt: definitely The Marx Brothers oeuvre, particularly Duck Soup.

What kind of Wile E. Coyote-ass shit is this?

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.

Finally got around to Edge of Darkness (1943) because it would have been my Nana’s birthday and she loved Errol Flynn. Absolutely fantastic movie. Ruthlessly brutal in showing what it takes to defeat fascist occupiers. I was repeatedly stunned by how powerful it was.

“Tyrese Haliburton has gone mad!” is an instant-classic call from Kevin Harlan.

Man, I know LuLu is “the worst album ever” yada yada yada, but man “Junior Dad” is an absolutely transcendent song.

These MAGA pieces of shit are harming my classroom now. Just found out that fitted funding for the Institute of Museum and Library Services means my students just lost access to dozens of research databases we use every single year. Fuck these reactionary losers.

at the core of andor is a very simple thing that i think about a lot the older i get and the more loss i naturally accrue: we are made up of all the people we've ever loved or respected, crown to heels

Man, do not sleep on the new Jensen McRae album. Such an incredibly unique voice, in every sense. “Tuesday” may have my lyric of the year so far: “Like Judas giving Jesus one kiss. Fuck it, maybe Brutus’ hand slipped. You still get the benefit of this doubt of mine”

“Now listening to: ‘She Fucking Hates Me’ by Puddle of Mudd. What a classic”

if you'd like to see a wide re-release of Hundreds of Beavers in theaters this year, one night only, in thousands of cities — repost this. we've got some doubters.

This is a pretty wonderful little essay. I think often how I wish I could ask my Papa about the music he loved. Even without those specifics, I still feel close to him when I put on Patsy Cline or Jerry Vale’s Italian album, knowing he listened too.

Haven’t heard it in a bit but I loved Olympia when it came out. Gotta throw it on.

"but how will doing this good and moral thing play politically?" how will you live if your soul is rotting you from the inside out

This is the angle. Every TV show. Every social media avenue. “Guess Trump isn’t a good enough dealmaker to get him home.” You know it will work.

LL Cool J playing Coachella with the LA Philharmonic would absolutely be an all-time musical bingo card moment, but I would never even have thought to make it a square.

“Reporter” is GENEROUS here. Fawning sycophant? Parasitic brown-noser?

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

Bruce is a hero of mine and one of my favorite artists. But $300 for 7 CDs is disgusting and people in his life need to tell him how much he’s betraying all that people love him for.

This is a really good idea. Not going to magically fix things. But it’s going to take a whole lot of people doing everything they can to get people’s attention.

My cousins and I used to mime songs on the radio with golf club guitars and when Sister Hazel’s “All for You” came on I would actively call dibs on the bass player who sang harmony. Not the singer. Not the guitarist who has the solo. The glue guy.

Game clock was under 18, so you knew he’d hit it…