Mariposa, by Alexander Calder, 1951, 📸 by Bruce Ely

what a deal i found on marketplace

me going home for the holidays

Never underestimate the satellite pre-feed. Something the CBS News EIC would understand if she did any meaningful broadcast work...you know, ever.

NW:

downloaded yakuza 0 (again) so i know this holiday break is gonna kick ass.

bears playoffs!

Maybe the Pope tried to bless the White Sox but he missed

he threw the ball and put his hands in his pockets. just breathless swagger.

HE IS HIM

what

bears by 30

all hail new leftist hero jake elliot

these pockets are just waiting for the perfect opportunity to fail you.

one step closer to that long awaited poker night i promised I‘d host after seeing chris moneymaker win the WSOP…20 years ago? progress!

Madison Cunningham joined Cafe host Raina @rahrahraina.bsky.social to perform in front of a small audience and talk about her new album, Ace. www.npr.org/sections/wor...

It's Fallout day!

Watching the new Knives Out flick and I gotta say Rian Johnson and Steve Yedlin know how to make a *MOVIE* - Every detail tells a story.

Created a graph of the songs, artists and albums in the #XPNCountdown. Here’s the whole thing and just the Grateful Dead. I can now quickly play 6 degrees between any of the artists in the list 😂

corrections dept: i forgot disney plus existed. Andor really came out this year! it was fantastic!

Maybe you could use a couple of gooofy playlist after this horrible weekend? If so, I am here to provide them: open.substack.com/pub/figgsroc...

Here's some music, video games and tv I enjoyed in 2025.

Good day for sicko football

The Los Angeles Chargers Eliminate The Kansas City Chiefs From Playoff Contention!

destroy AI

I think it’s also true that loneliness among women has historically been treated as an individual problem, while loneliness among men is treated as a societal problem. That, in turn, comes from an assumption that women are supposed to earn the company of others while men are entitled to it.

after the second answering machine greeting i would have demanded they changed their voicemail #pluribus

pluribus has a great concept yet i refuse to believe at this point the MC hasn’t interrogated the “antagonists” for what they are and it bothers me so much! a simple ”what the fuck are your doing? what’s the endgame?” would solve it! but because they can’t lie, they cant let me ask it.

This was the writers first ever television script and she deserves all the awards just for that dialogue. So good.

princess bride pluribus

blue prince is my game of the year. everything else was great, but nothing broke my brain or changed my expectations like it did. masterpiece.

no mans sky deserves everything. incredible!

ORVILLE PECK AS VEGA WHAT THE FUCK

did not have 46 and 2 on the game awards bingo card.

Exodus: Matthew McConaughey keeps getting older, space stays the same age #thegameawards

ok leon

holy shit stellan #thegameawards

J.J. Abrams looks like he would steal my weed out of pocket.

geoff wearing the same suit i wore to prom in 1997. #thegameawards

My husband, an avid wxpnfm.bsky.social listener, has been hospitalized much of this fall. Last day of #XPNcountdown has finally seen him perk in his embroidered XPN cap. Thanks for all of your work and your commitment to amazing music. Are we sustaining members? You betcha’.

Like Becca said.....😀 and thank you.

sophie (my wife) chimes in to say this is wonderful and depresssing! 😭#xpncountdown

this is how you run through the tape. incredible this was an alt hit in 1995; the one ballad on the downward spiral, the industrial record with a disco hit and a heroin apology song. wild. #xpncountdown

5 in the top 6, and nailed the #1. this is good work. 👏👏👏 #xpncountdown

“what’s up motherfuckers. what did you expect, imagine dragons?” #xpncountdown

For the younger ones - Johnny Cash’s long time wife died after when he recorded this song, but before he shot the video, and the heartbreak felt genuine. He died a few months later #XPNCountdown

the first time i heard this cover, a record rep crammed 6 of us into a production studio to watch a music video. said you wouldn’t believe who it was and who he was covering. Everyone at the end was trying to pretend they didn’t cry. a singular moment in my life. #xpncountdown

so it’s either the greatest cover of the 21st century or the first cover you learned was actually a cover song. who ya got?

welp, i thought it’s be #1! what an interesting conundrum for what remains. #xpncountdown