This is actually weird as hell.

My kink continues to be reminding people on @mmafighting.bsky.social and MMA junkie that Conor McGregor lost a civil suit in Ireland for SA (the details of which are VERY AWFUL) and timing how long it takes for someone to call me a homophobic or transphobic slur. The record right now is 16 sec.

Jack Slack is a real one for this graphic!

Howdy Chicago! My band, Three Grebes, will be playing a show Monday night, June 8th at Color Club. We will be joined by the amazing Sarah Clausen and the lovely PowerBook. Would love to see you!

“I’m Kid Rock.” “I’m Naomi Wolf.” “I’m Kanye West.” “I’m Matt Taibbi.” “I’m Catturd. Those stories, plus Rob Schneider, tonight on 60 Minutes.”

CBS is TASS now. The slide started a long time ago; denouement is now. Glad I came up in a “60 Minutes house” where it was required viewing every Sunday night. Sad to see it decimated.

If you attended a junior high or high school dance in rural North Dakota between the years of 1989 and 1995, this jam got played, inexplicably and usually twice. RIP. youtu.be/phOW-CZJWT0?...

👏🏼GET👏🏼RID👏🏼OF👏🏼THE👏🏼HEAVYWEIGHT👏🏼DIVISION👏🏼PLEASE👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👊🏼👊🏽👊🏼👊🏻👊🏽👊🏼🫸🏼🫷🏼

I made a new album. Played everything myself, so watch out! Thanks to Garth, @stevesilverst.bsky.social, and @floatingcave.bsky.social for helping me land this plane. An ep of covers comes with each Bandcamp purchase (Bandcamp day!). michiganindienetwork.bandcamp.com/album/coaches

I went to send a text to my wife and typed “mom” instead so that’s cool.

Consistently well-curated fest in Denver entering its fourth year. I've been very happy to have played with a couple different projects, did all of the design work for them their first year, and did their flyer designs the other years. Top notch music, folks, times. 100% worth having on ones radar.

Maybe like one or two other albums mean as much to me, and at that point it’s just dependent on mood. Can’t imagine how it could sound better. Eager to find out.

Someone walked off with my work mug. If you see a well-used coffee mug that says DADDEST MAN ON THE PLANET somewhere in be SW MI area, send location, Спасибо.

Two lessons I guess: Javier Bardem is the only one with any guts at all, and maybe don’t be a dipshit anti-arts edgelord until after the Academy votes are in.

Typed this on the elliptical yesterday, apologies for NOT PROOFREADING. Some great films this year. Couple of head-scratchers, too.

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

Tried something unusual today: I ate only when I was hungry. Effin’ AWFUL. Not a fan and why would anyone want to live like that?

Very happy to announce the release of a new Three Grebes album, featuring our friend L.C. Bobalova! We were (ARE) all enamored with Leah’s art, and we feel so lucky she trusted us enough to embark on this trip with us. I love this album. threegrebes.bandcamp.com/album/syrinx

So you’re telling me you’re not excited that the new head of the DHS can explain the difference between a ninja choke and an anaconda choke?????????? #mma #throughthelookingglass #whyarewedoingthis #notsmart

I think she’s the best in the whole world, but they didn’t ask for my vote. Couldn’t be a bigger fan of our sweet Beth! chicagoreader.com/best-of-chic...

My note to the student? “Don’t do this. You’re better than this. You have other options.”

Here’s an Onion headline I just wrote: “Local dad declares, ‘Shoes just cost that much now, I guess’.”

The BBC bleeping out “Free Palestine” yet letting the hard r slide though is so on the nose it wraps back around to confusion for me.

Thirty years old today. Nothing blew my head open quite like this one.

It was a real honor to join the I'd Buy That For A Dollar buddies to discuss the Linda Ronstadt album, Simple Dreams. Have long had a fascination with Ronstadt, so it was fun to discuss this with the pals. www.idbuythatpodcast.com/e/linda-rons...

Joan of Narc

What a truly shocking development.

At the gym today listening to Afghan Whigs and thinking about how it’s been 30 years since Infinite Jest was published and yeah I’m basically a walking red flag, I’m so sorry…

Pretty cool weekend here in Kzoo. Collaborating tonight with some artists I’ve loved for a long time at a living room show, and tomorrow Katy from Katy Needs a Life has organized a really fun, exciting event. I’ll be one of the judges and I have my wig and gavel ready.

Even more clear than ever: some of y’all tolerate a lot of bootlickers in your various social media feeds, and by extension, lives. Wild.

We donated another $125 to MIRAC this week. We will continue to do so as long as we can here. newstandardsmen.bandcamp.com/album/new-wa...

From the “I’m a real tough guy” file: My wife is watching the dumbest show I’ve ever seen, Hijack, and the hijackers keep getting away with it. “Why don’t they attack LOW!!?? Go for the legs, take the back! Damn!!” Later, I go to the gym, kick the heavy bag once, and completely split my toenail.

New Standards Men donated $940 to Minnesota Immigration Rights Action Committee today. If we could snap our fingers and Thanos ICE out of existence, we’d do that, too. But this is what we got. We’ll continue to donate as the album sells on Bandcamp.

Only the very best, I see

A band I drum in, New Standards Men, is releasing an album today in support of MIRAC, the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee. We hate ICE with our whole hearts. Every penny will go to the MIRAC. No war but class war. newstandardsmen.bandcamp.com/album/new-wa...

Full live show from this very very good band. Never got to see em live; very much hope they tour again. youtu.be/9LJH5in-3vI?...

The world will provide some incredible ironies if you’re there to receive em. For instance, “There Is A Light That Will Never Go Out” blasting in the Asian grocery store just now. I told the clerk, “Don’t google the singer for this band and just enjoy the ride.”

Wild. I’m marginally stoked to see a movie about a guy who plays ping pong. Closing out 2025 in a way I couldn’t have predicted.

Nice to see David Foster Wallace conducting the halftime “orchestra”.

I wish Lydia Tár was real so she could appear on one of the new CBS debate shows

As is the custom with my people, when final grades are submitted, HEAT gets turned on for the next three hours. #wayngro #ponytail #deadmanontheotherendofthisphone

Had a day that was so Uncut Gems stressful this week I woke up with grey hairs. As in, went to bed with normal colored hairs, woke up with grey strands. Like what happened to Don King, but not as severe and I didn’t kill a dude or work for the mob. Wild nonetheless!

Jesus, today needs to CHILL. variety.com/2025/film/ne...

The Michigan football coach scandal has provided a solid lesson in paradox: you can be appalled by the misogyny, dynamics at play when powerful men use their positions to take advantage people, and a super disturbing, possibly violent turn in the denouement, and also love it because U of M SUCKS.

Do not have children if this is even in your solar system of “how to view the world and raise a human being to adulthood.” Begging you, don’t have kids. This is one of the bleakest things I’ve seen lately (not directly related to actual genocide in Gaza or ICE kidnapping people on the streets).

My first band, H is for Harlot. Nancy and Melissa set the watch for me in a few significant ways! Will always be thankful. 1996, back when we played shows in sugar beet storage facilities in the middle of winter.

Pretty great footage of Bedhead from 1998 on an Italian TV show. Kinda nuts. This band was so goddamn GREAT. youtu.be/yPOHa_T8LLM?...

They fuck you up, your mum and dad, they may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had, and add some extras just for you.

DC mentions that Cejudo comes from “an immigrant family” and rose to greatness in combat sports. This is IMMEDIATELY followed by an ICE ad. What a joke of an organization to its core. #ufc