Because the best version of Dolby Vision requires physical media (and a DV-enabled physical media player.) I mean, for me that's kinda it for my desire for physical media. :)

Tornado sirens just went off here in the South City. Eesh. Sounds like a funnel cloud may have touched down in Town & Country?

Glad that in my day, we were able to discover music organically and without any sort of hidden marketing plan, like the Strokes and Andrew WK

I have befriended, interviewed, promoted professionally, done tour support, etc. for a variety of bands. On the one hand, I cannot think of many, if any, who would decline to play this hand the same way if they were lucky enough to have it dealt to them. Promoters promoting well isn't a story.

The local library had this and I used to check it out at least 4 or 5 times per year. It's where I discovered Winsor McCay, George Herriman, and the incredible "Barnaby" strip by Crockett Johnson (think: Calvin and Hobbes 40 years before Watterson.)

Victor Orban not only loses, but the opposition Tisza party appears headed towards a supermajority in Parliament. JD Vance is having one hell of a 2026...

Today was the Andre Pallante I fully recognize from last season. Aggressively regressing to his own mean.

Do you think Disney ever sends Christmas cards to the 2018 DOJ regulators who forced them to sell the regional sports networks they'd acquired in their purchase of Fox assets in 2017?

Humanity: Pretty awesome, sometimes.

"You know how the University of Michigan says 'Go Blue', right?" "Of course." "Well, we're making limited edition Pop Tarts for colleges and Michigan would be a perfect school for this. We could do Go Blue Blu..." "Yeah, yeah, yeah. You don't need to tell me how to do my job." The result:

A movie couple who would definitely have a podcast.

God, I love her so much. Just banger after bager. She's in it purely for the love of the game and I respect that.

Me, joking: I can’t believe we chose “destroying the economy” and “losing wars” over “being nice to trans people occasionally” Conservatives, dead serious: it was a tough choice, but I’m glad we picked “destroying the economy” and “losing wars” over “being nice to trans people occasionally”

It me, the person who still kinda turns into a weepy mess when "Valley Winter Song" or "Hackensack" pops up on a shuffle...

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

I'm reading/re-reading Carlos Ruiz Zafon this year, and halfway through Angel's Game, it occurs to me that I know so little about the Civil War of 1936-1939 other than the broad outlines (Fascists/Franco won, etc.) Good narrative history book/documentary/podcast covering the subject anyone?

HOLY SHIT UCONN!

gooooooodness me

Supporters of every club complain about their medical staffs. Real Madrid fans may have a point, though. Yikes.

Well, there's a sentence I never, not ever expected to read in my entire life.

Holy shit this is great. Break out the Vespas and Lambrettas, we're years overdue for another Mod Revival!

When I would be FAR more interested in reading a biography of the biographer than the biographer's subject.

The new Sturgill Simpson (Sorry, Johnny Blue Skies record) record on the first 5 spins sounds very much like Sturgill and band made a Primal Scream record. A maybe really great Primal Scream record.

The early Crimson Desert reports from players sound like a lot of folks doing their best to talk themselves into liking a pretty, but empty, $70 purchase that ends up kind of being a fairly mediocre game.

It's gonna be so cool when a Bernard Butler collaborator wins Best Actress here. :)

At least the Academy didn't do Michael B. Jordan the way Bodie and Poot did.

Sinners' Autumn Durald is officially the first woman to win the Oscar for Best Cinematography.

Who knew March baseball could be this fun?!?

Love the wins, but man are they screwing up the tanking. :D

For the first time ever, tonight I took a book from a Little Free Library in my neighborhood; it's one I nearly bought a few months ago, so it seemed like providence to find it there. ("The Women", by TC Boyle.)

Flabby Road

This is like when they fired Jan and Michael took his name out of consideration for the corporate job out of solidarity.

LOLSpurs. I have teams in the Championship I already pull for, don't need another when Tottenham go down. Afraid it's time for the break-up. It's not me, it's them.

If the haul for Parayko really is both Mrtka and the Sabres 1st-rounder, that is a very nice haul...and nice front-office warming present for Alex Steen.

Netflix keeps on winning. And a reminder: those entities who've bought Warner Bros over the past 50-60 years have also been pretty eager to unload it. Just sayin'.

Love that an entire new generation is hearing MacArthur Park & thinking "What even is this batshit song, anyway?" And then six hours later, like every generation before them realizing that it has permanently imprinted on their brains. God bless Donna Summer, Jimmy Webb, and Giorgio Moroder.

Good on Connor Hellebuyck. He's had a bit of a rep, and I think over in Italy today he kinda buried at least some of that.

All the Cyril's Dads as Hockey Fans f on my timeline struggling with this outcome.

Alysa Liu: "THAT'S WHAT I'M FUCKING TALKING ABOUT" 🗣️

From a year ago: Wrote about Silkworm's reissued 'Developer':

Starting off my morning by 14:29-ing the NYT Thursday Crossword. So I got that goin' for me.

Happy 70th to the legend that is Peter Holsapple (@halfpear.bsky.social).

So good in House of the Devil. So good in LOTS of things.

Had the privilege of working at one of the coolest, hippest record stores on the planet in the 1990s (I was the least-cool person there.) My co-workers and I played the hell out of that song and that entire CD when it came out, and sold a fair few of them. Hating that song is like hating joy.

LRS: Algebra Suicide -- which was a recording project featuring Lydia Tomkiw's laconic sing-speaking and remarkable poetry -- remain one of the happiest discoveries of my college daze. I found a copy of their album "The Secret Like Crazy" about 20 years ago. It is one of my sacred possessions.

And uno mas banger not in English, my favorite song about the end of COVID lockdowns....

And don't mind if I post another banger that isn't in English!

Post a banger that isn't in English. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNK9...

#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow