It occurred to me that I had never had chili cheese fries, so I am correcting that. I made vegan chili with TVP, and coincidentally my wife brought home a bag of Cabot shredded cheddar today. One more bucket list checkmark closer to sweet death.

Today I discovered there’s a new *7 disc* “super deluxe” edition of the Who’s 1978 album Who Are You. A single disc version of that album seems excessive.

Voters last night:

back off man, don’t make me use this

This is no different than the Republicans who refused to say Biden was legitimately elected in 2020, and instead would only concede that Biden was the President. This whole NYC mayoral cycle has been Schumer at his most despicable and cowardly.

In the mid 2000s, I was Middlebury to see a dance show. The guy in front of me kept bragging he’d bought Great Man Dick Cheney a fishing pole. It was an early glimpse for me into the personality cult adulation some people bestow on the worst pieces of shit on earth. And here we are in 2025.

Note also that the people quoted at the top of the piece are a “Democratic strategist“ listed on the Third Way site as a Senior Fellow, a Third Way Executive VP, and a couple of politicians from Long Island.

Goddamn Piano Man chased me out of the gym before I could do my third set of leg curls. I escaped at “makin’ love to his tonic and gin.”

From Lois Lane #136, 1974, art by John Rosenberger & Vinnie Colletta

One of the highlights of my meager blog back in the old days, IMO, was when I retold the story of Dick Cheney shooting Harry Whittington in the face via Jonah Hex covers. mountainofjudgment.blogspot.com/2006/02/new-...

This is all just a long set up for when Johnson launches his YouTube channel doing reaction videos to news clips and classic rock albums he’s never heard

Any good art invites multiple readings, but with Watchmen the one I focus on is the book as a response to Reagan’s 1983 “Evil Empire” speech and foreign policy. Moore and Gibbons use the comic book form to argue that a cartoon “good vs. evil” understanding of the world leads to moral horror.

Ida B. (today the B stands for beam of fluff)

Ida B. looking stylish

one stop shopping

The second album I’ve caught up with thanks to @mike-eagle.bsky.social and his list of a bunch of hip hop albums he thought of; no regrets, but I do wish I’d heeded the positive reviews back in 1997

@scottmccloud.bsky.social created the 24-hour comic in 1990, but Johnny Quick produced an overnight comic in 1947, courtesy of Mort Meskin and the Speed Formula.

“This was the book that started it for me.” It was a quick transition from Electric Co., plus reruns of Adventures of Superman and Batman ‘66, to my first comic book, Action Comics #444, when I was 3 and a half. The Great Comic Book Heroes by Feiffer, which I got shortly after, sealed my doom.

I can’t get over that the frame for this series is Barry Allen thinking he is writing a history of the universe, and filling it with things like “then Batman changed his outfit”

Okay let’s go

One of the best things about DC‘s Weird War Tales is that you could regularly see Nazis ripped to shreds by things like giant vampire bats

man, clearly not enough people were inoculated against Anti-Life by King Kirby

NY Post: HUNTRESS DIDN’T TELL THE WHOLE TRUTH ABOUT HER COWL-WEARING EARTH ONE ‘UNCLE’

Finally finishing this by @katejewell.bsky.social, I’m grateful the Middlebury College admin largely ignored WRMC-FM while I was there (1989-1993), allowing us to set our own program schedule and play whatever we wanted. (Then again, at the time we were 10 watts barely reaching a town of 9,000.)

I’m at the Pizza Hut. I’m at the infusion center getting my first annual infusion of Reclast for osteoporosis. I’m at the combination Pizza Hut/infusion center getting my first annual infusion of Reclast for osteoporosis.

[Halloween Steve Miller voice] I’m a creature I’m a screecher I’m a midnight feature My skin it dissolves in the sun I’m a specter Baby dissector I’m a Hannibal Lector I just want to eat someone

Finally caught K-Pop Demon Hunters, and man did that make me feel 54. The songs are catchy.

First listen: Yikes, this is nearly as good as Marquee Moon; I regret letting this get by me for decades

Saw an MS-related post in my feed and thought it was about the worst Pavement album

Bands that have played at the shitty bar down the street over the past few months:| Anaconda Bros Turn It Loose Bear Mountain Boys Jimmy Just Quit Small Town Radio Anaconda Bros (again!) The Lake Effect Mad Atter The Ripchord Rock 201 The Riff Backtrack Sugar House Fire

One of my kids called me up today to talk about how much he loved the copy of Hammett’s Red Harvest I sent him. That was nice.

As predicted, there’s the Celtics’ problem right there. Decent offense isn’t going to make up for the lopsided defensive weakness in otherwise winnable games.

From Spidey Super Stories #15, just 9 months after Giant Size X-Men #1

I still love this absurd thing so much

BREAKING: War Wheel found behind Graham Platner’s oyster farm. Candidate claims he had no idea what it was, thought it was for giant hamsters.

We hear you Timmy, a helicopter ride with John Cena and The Rock *is* a great idea, but have you considered instead a whole case of candied jalapeño slices or Zesty Italian kosher dills?

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only. (And this one is *extremely right*)

“See…fishnet stockings!”

Thinking about that time in 2010 when I met San Francisco horror host Ms. Monster

Those with sharp eyes might detect a subtle difference in NYT play last month of an event in one city, w 100,000+ attendees, versus play this morning of some 2500+ events w many millions of attendees, in all 50 states. See if you can spot it! /s Then you can find today's story on p A23

@mike-eagle.bsky.social reacting to that Pitchfork best hip hop albums list by listing the first 110 great albums he could think of got me to buy this, it’s excellent

Greetings from Brattleboro, VT

Breaking news from the NYT: the weather could go one of three ways

Strange New Health Issues is the worst addition to the Star Trek franchise

Introduce yourself with the last five concerts you saw Trombone Shorty Thus Love Drive-By Truckers Dinosaur Jr. with Snail Mail Roger Clark Miller (Mission of Burma guitarist)

Define your music taste in eight artists Prince Ride De La Soul Clifford Brown & Max Roach Spacemen 3 The Feelies Dinosaur Jr. MF Doom

Man, Jack Sparling knew how to do it

I believe all musicians should follow their muse wherever it takes them. Except Kevin Parker; I’d lock him in a closet with an electric guitar and wouldn’t let him out until I got Innerspeaker 2.

Ace Frehley is survived by his brother, I.P.