"Hey guys, we're finalizing this deal. What's one more thing we can do to help increase piracy?"

How long until people start selling boutique subscriptions to their Plex servers?

“The M.G.’s had a magic to it. Stuff would come out of us that we didn’t even know we could play.” Remembering Steve Cropper, who has sadly passed away aged 84, MOJO revisits a career-spanning interview with Stax’s guitar hero...

This was kind of an unfinished demo that Steve Cropper had to turn into a song in the studio after Otis died. Cropper -- always mindful to never over-play and let his guitar serve the song and not his ego -- has some fun nevertheless with the guitar flourishes here.

Happy for her, she's so clearly a star in this field and she's gonna be great in a brighter spotlight. Stinks for us Cardinals fans though!

Somewhat relatedly, is Cristian Romero's oft-used nickname of "Cuti" the most hilariously inappropriate nickname in sports? It's like having a snarling, feral barn cat you call "Fluffykins".

The "dusting" of snow we were supposed to *maybe* see in the 314 predicted on Sunday AM has turned into a Winter Weather Advisory and "Here comes an all-day snow event."

Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat

I wasn’t expecting much from a Thanksgiving halftime show, but Jack White and Eminem delivered an absolute clinic. That was incredible.

I am very much in favor of Bad Bunny being the Super Bowl hafltime show this season... ...but NFL, I am just sayin', consider Jack White and Eminem for some future year, please?

As I was saying. :)

Important St. Louis Thanksgiving Eve Holiday South City House Decs Update based on my circuit last night (I can't help it; I freaking love Christmas lights...) 1/

This morning's NYT Crossword a delight for fans of a certain film critic. (I recognized those review sentenced *immediately*. Some of the most fun reviews the man ever wrote.)

Whole lotta smoke drifting out of Jesse Hall in CoMo tonight... Mizzou may be locking down their head coach. Last week I was sure he'd be gone at season's end.

Hard-throwing ex-Cardinals reliever who had injuries throughout his career thinks he can maybe start? The ghost of Jordan Hicks smiles devilishly from the wings...

I AM STILL THINKING ABOUT THIS

RIP Udo Kier.

Noel, Liam and the lads in Buenos Aires last night.

I love these morning football games because *anything* can happen, like a commercial using the phrase "NFL legend Ryan Tannehill"

The kids are all right. (Also, while I'm trying to figure out if that's a real Rickenbacker 4001 bass, I'm also realizing I don't care, because the tone is amazing here, and that color is just...I covet it.)

We appear to be trending towards three blowouts in the late window here.

The Netflix miniseries Death By Lightning turns a historical footnote — Charles Guiteau's assassination of President James Garfield — into a grand entertainment, with wonderful performances by Matthew Macfadyen, Michael Shannon, Betty Gilpin, and, especially, Nick Offerman. My review:

I know my ol' home state...er, commonwealth of Virginia quite well, and those House Delegate flips last night were in districts that were at minimum purple, and some which were Fire Engine Red.

One last (fairly giddy) political post from me, then back to ephemera that is my usual nonsensical prattling: But. You would THINK at this point that pollsters would recognize that they need to use different weighting formulae for polls on elections when DJT is on the ballot, and when he isn't.

Will we see a few more House retirements in advance of a year from now?

Bad night for AtlasIntel, and their "polling" which is actually mostly "Making shit up." And a bad night for whichever NYT editor made them a "Select Pollster" because Atlas's made up polling numbers in 2024 were close to the final results.

Trailer for this show, which drops on Netflix on Thursday! I truly hope: 1. More people recognize the amazingness that was James Garfield 2. More people recognize the awesomeness of Candice Millard and read Destiny of the Republic....and then read her other books as well. They're all great.

College basketball finally returns today😃 Bluesky's CBB activity is FAR too low, but I'll keep posting here all the same. Here's a big Starter Pack I created about a year ago. Share it! If there are accounts posting about ball near-daily that should be added, let me know and I'll share tonight.

I still cannot believe that Mel Brooks and Buck Henry snuck the name of this robot past network censors back in the day.

Are we on Jim Montgomery watch yet?

I am not unconvinced that big online sports books don't run player prop bets as honeypot traps to catch athletes engaging in prohibited gambling activity.

Was heading out for the evening constitutional and passed by the local bottle shop across the street and...what's that I spy in the window? Yes. Yesssss. First case of 2025 enboughtened. The most magical time of the year is upon us!

Not exactly one for the Louvre, but Mizzou somehow messes their way to a win at Auburn. Vandy looms next week. I don't think this team has that kind of juice.

My very hottest music take is that if Wilco had kept Jay Bennett post-YHF and sacked Jeff Tweedy instead, their musical output across the last two decades would be one hell of a lot more interesting and rewarding to listen to.

With all the Mike Schildt news coming out, I feel like were gonna get reaaaaally close to hearing the reason why Mo felt the Cardinals needed to trade Randy Arozarena in the 2019 off-season.

Her resemblance to her then unknown, now exponentially more famous brother are incredible.

Great new song. And also: that's definitely an old clip of the band playing Strat-O-Matic baseball about a minute into the video....

We are nearly through week 6 of the NFL season and I basically have no idea which teams are any good.

Doug Eddings had a fairly shaky first inning in this game. He's somehow managed to get worse as the game's gone on. (I have no rooting interest here -- and he's cost both teams.)

About the only local pop-culture facing thing about Eliot being a St. Louisan by birth is his star on the U-City Loop / St. Louis Walk of Fame

Time for all the Joe Buck extra inning apocalyptic sun memes!

Finally got around to watching two movies I've been meaning to see for a while: Speed Racer and then also The Fall. Might be two of the most visually important, groundbreaking, and unique films of all time. They hit US theaters less than two weeks apart in Spring, 2008.

Me, looking at the trending topics today:

Coming up on Programme 4: Gary Brooker (Procol Harum) is BROOKER

October. The only month we are guaranteed NFL, MLB, NBA and NHL games all taking place. Maybe the best sports month of the year.

Kaleb Horton was a wonderful, wonderful writer, and a lovely person to talk to, and someone gone many decades before he should be. High lonesome California’s best. RIP.

RIP Kaleb Horton kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/