Happy Thanksgiving

Obliged to stump for what, as far as I know, is the only podcast series about Shattered Glass (they get some great guests!) shatteredglasspodcast.buzzsprout.com

Jimmy Cliff's path from Ivanhoe Martin to Disney soundtracks is as wild as anything Ozzy or Snoop pulled off. youtu.be/ujTCZgPr5MA?...

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been a few "rainy night in soho" covers this year but if you haven't heard Dylan's from earlier this week. the instant audience reaction is something else. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrrY...

Riding in the quiet car always reminds me of Tim Kreider. www.nytimes.com/2012/11/18/o...

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"y'all still hating on generative AI over here?" "yep, y'all still paying the world's most powerful racist for clout over there?"

Burr Ridge resident Burt Meyer, who invented toys like Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots, Lite-Brite and MouseTrap in the 1960s that delighted generations of children, has died. He was 99.

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2015: it’s Black Friday! 2025: it’s Black Friday week! 2035: October is the start of Black Friday quarter! 2045: *gun to head* Black Friday starts December 26th

Throwing it out there that I have a manuscript for my debut novel and am looking for an agent/publisher :)

Hello network. This is real shit. I’m looking for transgender, nonbinary, or gender nonconforming front and back end web designers for a project to help trans people get housing in NJ. This is a paid opportunity. Please share this if you see it, and my DMs are open for more information. Tysm 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵

RIP early portrait of Jimmy Cliff 1980s

Are you a woman between the ages of 40-60 with a story about paying off debt that you’d be willing to share ANONYMOUSLY? It’s for a chapter about coping with debt in midlife We all have debt! Like, literally, all of us! Your story will help others ♥️ I’d love to hear from you. DM me!

Reggae is soul (not only soul but it is) and this is Sam Cooke level

I hopped onto IMDB in the wee hours to peruse his list of credits and it’s truly staggering. I scrolled and scrolled. He never stopped working and made more films in a year than some successful actors make in a lifetime and inspired so many directors, played a muse to many. #Udo

Marty actually loves everybody, a humanist like David Lynch or Vonnegut, even though he often makes movies about the worst humans

One of the greatest I'll ever see. Superhuman levels of positive energy. www.npr.org/2012/06/05/1...

Maximum Respect

I just think Trump understands Mamdani is not someone he wants to tangle with. Too smart, too charismatic, too New York, too straightforward, too young. Easier targets elsewhere, like everyone who works for him and most of Congress. (1/2)

Thanks so much to GQ for publishing my liner notes for the new Replacements 'Let It Be' boxset, out on Friday. Extra special thanks to Jessica Hopper, Patterson Hood and Brian Paulson for their extraordinary insights. What an absolute joy this project has been to work on. www.gq.com/story/when-t...

Come on along with the Black Ryder

WIRED is hiring for a senior politics reporter who will write our weekly newsletter; detailed job description below. This role will be based in New York or DC and report to me; the salary range is $95,000 - $132,000. condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeC...

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One of the best baselines ever. So simple but huge. RIP Mani. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D2q...

If I could recommend one movie for everyone to watch, this is it. Not only is the subject matter urgent and important, but Graham Greene's performance is so raw and terrifying and heartbreaking and haunted in equal measure. Truly one of the greatest you'll ever see.

oh yeah the new york city subway is so fucking scary, you never know what kind of weirdo you'll have to share a train with

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

Never delved further into Todd Snider than "Beer Run" until this week (I know, it was college), but y'all were right.

“do you motherfuckers like blast beats or what?” not nearly as much as i love being pandered to

Idiocracy was too subtle tbh

In honor of his 83rd birthday, my 5 favorite Scorsese shots 1. Casino - Car cutting across desert, reflected in Ace's glasses 2. Raging Bull -- Sugar Ray winds up to pulverize Jake 3. Goodfellas -- Copacabana 4. Age of Innocence -- lighthouse/dock 5. Last Temptation -- final shot--image burns up

This is not hyperbole. This is not undue hype. @sirosenbaum.bsky.social is creating the the most emotionally affecting graphic novel I've read this year, and everyone should subscribe to @flaminghydra.com to read it.

Outlasted Columbia House by almost 20 years

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Happy Birthday to the maestro.

we're hiring a senior politics writer at @wired.com -- come work with me!

Today's the last day. Best sale of the year!

For the purposes of this comment indie people is anybody who would turn off Queensryche after ten seconds

RIP Todd Snider. One of the greats, an unheralded songwriters' songwriter and a genuine character. Loved and proselytized for almost as long as I've been a music critic. A guy not only influenced by Prine/Kristofferson/Jerry Jeff but he seemed to come out of the same world.

The mighty Alice Wong has left us. A writer, editor, teacher, organizer, mentor, activist, creator, curator, podcaster, and oracle, her commitment to justice for disabled people and to centering disability in justice for all people is a call and challenge those who remain here. Praise and gratitude.

welcome to another crisp fall Friday of "Not Reading That"

Don't put money into anything you can't explain to another person

Body Count was right. youtu.be/rloidlFbi4w

He's made up his mind

If you have evidence of any NYT conspiracy to protect Jeffrey Epstein (while also apparently publishing negative stories about him?) my email is espiers AT gmail, and I am happy to report that out for a non NYT outlet.