What are your top five movie genres? Mine: - Oppressively real, barely violent sci fi - Anything with a found family, on screen or off - Coming of age at any time in the past 80+ years - Movies that invite mockery - Pretty lights! Lound sounds! Having fun!

Got our asses stomped in trivia tonight. Typos, wildly bad guesses, and a whole lot of shit we didn’t know did the rest. Go back next week, try again. In other news, I heard this song in a public setting for the first time tonight. 🫡 #Musicsky m.youtube.com/watch?v=BBVA...

Night Cap Ed., November 16, 2025:The Burden of Life Under Metaphors & Of Course, Jeff Epstein LINK: tinyurl.com/mstm89w7 Re-upping this long, clunky, link-filled rant in the hopes of committing to a weekly and staying more silent. Good reads, some thoughts, it'll be better next week, etc.

Franklin Pierce, the 14th U.S. president, came within some minor adjustments of fixing the country’s current, contiguous borders, while also pushing to expand with offers to buy Cuba and dreams of annexing Canada. He was also a bit of a disaster. (1/8) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankli...

A week long pause in the middle of the playoffs. This is silly and embarrassing. #MLS

My daughter saw The Running Man last night,m. She knew it was a remake but didn’t know the original. I started to describe it as “a Schwarzenegger movie,” but realized that wouldn’t mean anything to her. People of a certain age would know *exactly* what that is, even as a cultural artifact.

November 16, 2025:The Burden of Life Under Metaphors & Of Course, Jeff Epstein LINK: tinyurl.com/mstm89w7 Notes from another week of Can You Believe This Shit? Posting them in a pocket universe to keep me from spewing them into this feed. Lotsa links in this one. Real long. Sorry. (1/3)

McMenamins should only be able to operate out of buildings that most people agree are haunted. Good night. #Musicsky m.youtube.com/watch?v=bOCO...

Watching U.S. v Paraguay, noticing the albatross wings on their keeper. Good God, how does one put two past that wingspan?

You’d think things like this would help people understand the nature of MAGA and vote to remove it from power. Nothing good will come of it. Not one fucking thing.

“It frequently matters what’s on voters minds, how they understand the parties and their leaders, in the moments before close elections, and it’s thus important to exploit issues that get people talking. Policy almost never gets people talking.” Yep. www.offmessage.net/p/force-a-re...

Half aslept all night, had a bounty of dreams. So much water. Even in that tunnel they dropped the roller coaster car into in reverse at 90 degrees. Tried to hype it a little with a “whoop” but no one bought it. Good morning. #Musicsky m.youtube.com/watch?v=zU7l...

Everybody sing, Everybody dance, Lose yourself in wild romance. I’m so, so sorry. Not even sure I got the lyrics right. Still, really sorry. Good night. #Musicsky m.youtube.com/watch?v=nqAv...

For anyone feeling down about the Timbers for the past few seasons… #rctid

The only thing that's interesting about Nuzzi is the story of how an amoral careerist with no interest in policy and abysmal ethics became an acclaimed national political reporter. But rather than tell that story, the entire media seems desperate to play a part in it.

All these assholes know a 50-year mortgage is a dumb fucking idea, but this is the essence of living in a one-party clown state: pretending dumb ideas are just peachy-swell!

Hope Paredes lands somewhere swell (just not in the West), gets lotsa minutes and even more happy memories. #rctid

Changing streaming services has not resolved my issues with grouping music in coherent genres.

When I look at MAGA people, how they exist and operate in the world, I often think that these are the last people who should bear and raise children. They have neither morals nor scruples, not even basic decency, and grievance consumes them. What kind of world can people like that build?

and, again. #Musicsky m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt-S...

Autumn, y’all. Good morning.

I have a grand theory on this, but, suffice to say there was a lot of “but the institutions” from *Northern* Democrats in the late 1840s/1850s. All this is in service of something else, but still really interesting! Good night. Great track. fwiw. #Musicsky m.youtube.com/watch?v=x458...

I never got to explain "morally compromised." For all their faults, each of America's first 12 presidents all acted as if they had something they wanted to do - and directly. Fillmore was the first to attempt, for lack of a better contemporary word, triangulation. He was "government" guy.

In Millard Fillmore, we arrive America’s first morally compromised president. He was 13th (figures) & a politician in *every* sense of the word – i.e., more interested in having the job than in doing any good with it. Aggressive premise, but here goes… (1/7) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millard...

The American Heritage Dictionary defines “dignity” as: 1) The quality or state of being worthy of respect or esteem; 2) Inherent nobility or worth; 3) Poise and self-respect. This idiot would eat a used Kleenex on live TV if she thought one man would cheer. Gutter trash.

Just… …I mean… …there’s… …how… Fuck it. Just need someone to tell me when to show up/tune in Summer 2027. And what happens over the first half of 2027? Super Mega Mario Ultimate Fighter Leagues Cup ft. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and The Gianni Infantino All Stars? #MLS

Semi-serious question: does anyone actually like the U.S. Men’s National Team anymore? Can’t remember the last time I saw a note on them that didn’t have an edge of doubt or malice in it. #USMNT

one thing we need to do as a society is treat all fraud or theft over $100 million or so as a potential capital crime, with the possibility of execution for offenders.

“I have met some very bad people, none as bad as Trump. Not one decent cell in his body.” - Jeff Epstein The wealthiest Americans and "patriotic" Christian zealots support Trump to the hilt. Like Epstein, these are not good people. Also, hideous photo.($) newrepublic.com/post/203127/...

Someone sprayed a line of Silly String on my kitchen window. I do not feel silly. I don’t even feel whimsical.

Started reading the Fort Bragg Cartel this week, so small surprise that I spent most of last night taking operatives to and from targets and docking anyone who didn’t finish the job. And yet, this is stuck upstairs. Good morning. #Musicsky m.youtube.com/watch?v=RYr9...

Also, Zachary Taylor may have coined the term “first lady” in his funerary tribute to Dolly Madison, the OG, and official hostess for at least two presidents. Good night. #Musicsky m.youtube.com/watch?v=qYPP...

tourists. Someone mentioned how the helicopters new location is 1.5 hours away from Newport. Far too long to save lives. “Getting rid of a service that saves lives for an agency that destroys them is a disgrace,” said a Newport resident.

America's Pope keeps on clearing the low bar I generally hold for popes with room to spare.

Zachary Taylor (1849-1850) didn’t last long, died tragicomically (see below) & was always more military than politician. In the great American tradition, “he won election to the White House despite his vague political beliefs.” Also, 3rd shortest president… (1/7) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zachary...

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed

The extent to which MAGA/MAHA flatters its adherents is one of its less appreciated strengths, but, holy fucking shit, is it insidious and dangerous in the dumbest possible way.

Oooh… #rctid

This excites me. Tentatively. With the playoffs broken since gods know, this league has long needed a refresh of some kind. #MLS #rctid

I’d like to think the sirens-blazing corruption, malicious incompetence, gutter racism and open love of state violence would do it, but, if it has to be credible evidence of pedophilia, so be it. Good morning? #Musicsky m.youtube.com/watch?v=V3W1...

Also, this. Good night. #Musicsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5nf...

"While he would appoint no Democrats, [Zachary] Taylor wanted his cabinet to reflect the nation's diverse interests, and so apportioned the seats geographically." About a non-entity of a president, but this spirit is sorely needed...but also has to go in both directions...shit's hard.

James Polk, 11th U.S. president, Andrew Jackson protégé (red flag!), the first president to have his inauguration transmitted by telegraph, he served from 1845-1849 and promised he would serve only one term. Which he did. That’s cool, even if he was middling. (1/7) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_K...

I don’t think I’m alone in this, but I have a hell of a time getting out of my own damn way.

spending untold millions to replicate the way your extraordinarily drunk friend “walks” by around 1:30 a.m.

She goes on to call the same psychics “pathological liars” and the sum of all these things is so very fucking America 2025.

Not sure how it started, but it ended with me either protecting or stealing MF DOOM’s catalog. Couldn’t tell the color on the hat I was wearing. Good morning. #Musicsky m.youtube.com/watch?v=_YiH...

I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately…

Due to the fact that Quboz doesn’t share fer shit, I will have to share my musical enthusiasms in different ways at different times. In the meantime, if you haven’t listened to Geese’s “Getting Killed,” get on that shit. Good night. #Musicsky