It's back!!

STOP EVERYTHING!!!! the japanese mundane halloween costume thread is this week!!!

Impatiently awaiting coverage of this year’s Jimi (Mundane) Halloween costumes from Japan

"Teen Rex"

was anyone aware that Frankenstein got picked up by the theater in West Mifflin? Because it uh doesn't look like it

tonight's the big night!

@spiralisland.bsky.social and the rest of Gentle Brontosaurus sound checking for the windy pop set tonight! Come on through to Cole's if you're in Chicago!

Still time to get a ticket and see meeee on Saturday night with the Garment District! Use the code, save some bucks! Say hello!

ruby ruby ruby ruby soho

Windy Pop Weekender is this Saturday and Sunday! Get your tickets! Weekend passes $50 with code “SWEATERWEATHER” and single days $27 with “CARDIGAN” linktr.ee/windypopweek...

Cardiff will be the first UK city to introduce a surcharge for oversized SUVs and trucks, "while very large vehicles – those over 3,500kg – will be excluded from residential permits entirely."

downside: car's radiator broke, I need to have it replaced to get back home from philly slight silver lining: i got to hear someone say "radiator" with a philly accent for the first time since I moved away

amazing thing about d'angelo: after voodoo, he decided to learn guitar to get closer to the sound he had in his head. he put in the work, and then made an album as good as his first 2 it's rare that an established artist is even willing to see an idea like that through, let alone do so successfully

in 2014 I was dating a d'angelo superfan. I liked him well enough, but she made sure we went and saw him perform at the apollo (albeit from the last row) months later I got us tickets for her bd to see his only east coast show that wasn't a theater (so you could get right up against the stage)

people who expect you to call a thing made from beef 'ham': "vegetables are confusing 😞"

ooh cheat codes was a great album! excited to hear what they come up with next

another tour hits Cleveland but skips Pittsburgh, smdh

My band Gentle Brontosaurus is part of this too! Our first Chicago show in several years

Chicago! I'll be playing with the Garment District at the Windy Pop Weekender on 10/18 at Cole's Bar! If you're in the area, check it out! Headliner is Idle Ray (side project of Fred Thomas from the wonderful Saturday Looks Good to Me) colesbarchicago.com/event/windy-...

finally, an exception to betteridge's law of headlines

interesting -- Monroeville was held up as a success story in the doc "Wal Mart: The High Cost of Low Price" (2005) as a community that had successfully blocked a Walmart from opening. 25 years later, Walmart gets their way

5 pm, let's go everybody

happy 25th anniversary to the time my hometown movie theater played Kid A over the IMAX movie "Into the Deep 3-D", but I wasn't allowed to go because I missed school that day with a stomach ache

Here's a fall mix I made a couple of years ago, if you want some songs to get you into the seasonal spirit. baroque pop/folk/etc, good leaf-crunching-sounding-music "A Word to Say About Things Today (And Fallen Leaves): A Fall Mix" tidal.com/playlist/298... (track list added for people w/o tidal)

my time is here

First: cracker/gin blossoms/spin doctors, 1994 Last: geordie greep Best: Cornelius and mogwai? YLT Hanukkah in 2001? Pre-yoshimi flaming lips?

Girl Talk at the peach pitt to like 6 people beach house and kurt vile to like 30 people at garfart Brian Wilson pet sounds with Philly symphony 1999 Sigur Ros playing all of () at a 1k venue on the aegytis tour, ~2000 Blur at same venue, 2004 So many yo la tengo Hanukkah shows

this is just a trick to keep bands from leaving the platform and users from dropping their subs, don't fall for it

good time as any to revisit the @uwebollocks.bsky.social Soundtracker podcast episode where Kaleb Hearon (rip) and @alansiegella.bsky.social give way more background into this film than you'd think possible www.buzzsprout.com/1840875/epis...

If you haven't listened to Rachel's recently (or ever), this is your sign to do so

watching gosford park and astounded that Charles Dance looks exactly the same 24 years later

hell yeah, some good news

Removing bus stops from the Waterfront disregards the needs of thousands of riders who depend on this lifeline every single week. My team and I will continue to work with all stakeholders to find a solution and get these stops restored.

npr's article reminds me of the miserable nextpgh article that wondered what to do about jaywalking crisis, except that of the 6 jaywalking deaths they cited, 4 weren't actually jaywalking, and one person was killed when a car rolled onto the sidewalk nextpittsburgh.com/city-design/...

This is fascinating - it shows that basically Bluesky is a mindless Blue Resistance platform at heart, but because the website doesn’t push anything on you, and that scene is such a bubble, you never have to see any trace of it.

I would love to hear the audio from even one Isaac chotiner interview. What kind of vorcas tone does he have to use to be able to ask those questions without the subject saying "perhaps I have embarrassed myself enough and should cut my losses now"?

One of the bathrooms at my office has had 3 poorly framed Dylan posters on the wall, but someone recently added this inexplicable Beach Boys picture grid that has: - one picture of Carl - one of Brian - two of Dennis - two of David Marks (?!) - three of the band

Geordie Greep @ the Thunderbird, right now. Only two songs in and I'm already impressed by this band

starting a thread of reaction images I feel like I'll have use for at some point so I know where to find them

Japan has a wrestling camp for kids where at the end they have a show match in front of their parents to show off what they learned. Thought you'd enjoy this.

I don't care how old I sound, text chatting at length on a phone is an abomination. Quick updates? Fine, whatever. Lengthy conversations? I will address these from a desktop computer at a designated time of my choosing

I know that "the bigfoot porn guy supports me" might sound like a winning argument for the bluesky set to an outsider, but the alf hog and bigfoot hog constituencies are not perfectly overlapping. this is a very amateur and misguided political miscalculation

and now begins the long process of listening to all of the musicians playing Big Ears 2026 who I haven't heard before

the only thing worse than when your computer shuts down on its own and closes all your tabs is when it restarts and tries to open them all back up

A certain set of Pittsburghers will remember when a punk stole the taco bell sign from the shuttered Baum Blvd taco bell dumpster in 2008 and threw a big party

that's not how this works, you can't just put that magnet on that car

I really appreciated the design of montreal's bikeshare app -- the default view showed you what bikes were available, but as soon as you rented one, the default view became the number of available docks at a station

the deep American inability to think about other countries is going to mask how much we're destroying our international reputation I think

currently at the second location in Montréal I've bopped into where the poutine is vegetarian by default, i don't wanna hear anyone (esp outside of Québec) tell me about how it's not real poutine without beef gravy again