Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social joined me on the Andy Richter Call-In Show to talk WORST JOB STORIES! You can listen to the episode now in the Three Questions with Andy Richter podcast feed, wherever you get your podcasts.

I can’t confirm this but apparently a half hour ago AI got good. I’ll be the first to admit I was being unfair and impatient. Congrats AI

You know its possible the rapture happened and it just took very few people. The world sucks enough right now that this could be the end of times. Why is everyone so sure it didnt happen?

I understand that there are a lot of people who are trying to mass friend request on here to build up their network. But actually please don't follow me unless you listen to my music. Social media is so meaningless as it is, I don't do reciprocal follows just to build my numbers. I'm a musician.

The scene in All the President's Men, when Bob Woodward gives up entirely on chasing a lead because they only speak Spanish, and he cant find someone who speaks Spanish.

It's bandcamp Friday? Here is a record about the tradeoffs in education investment and modern work. stlenox.bandcamp.com/album/ten-mo...

News media, the headline is: Florida becomes the last state yet to adopt school vaccine mandates. Fixed that for you.

Reminder to Columbus people that my book launch event at Used Kids Records is TONIGHT at 7 p.m. See you there?

Making misir wat. And i am no longer a spice fraud, suggesting deceptively, for years, through my meticulously labelled spice cabinet that I cook Ethiopian food, when in fact it is a lie!

Im watching Sesame Street with Libby and hearing a different actor voice Big Bird who sounds completely different. And I just think this is what it must feel like to suffer from Capgras syndrome.

1:33 PM "Korea" by 𝐒𝐭. 𝐋𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐱 from 𝑇𝑒𝑛 𝐻𝑦𝑚𝑛𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑀𝑦 𝐴𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝐺𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑐 (Anyway) #nowplaying

Does my baby not like this Gerber's Mexican Pasta dish because she is still getting used to different textured foods? Or is it possible she simply doesn't find it authentic?

Wait aren't *all* gardens good and evil? So just like a regular garden then.

Tune in to win tickets to see Upper Wilds, Last Legs, Samuel S.C. and St. Lenox at the Old Franklin Schoolhouse in Metuchen, NJ this Saturday night!

We're ordering pizza from this place that *only* serves pizza - no salad or sides on the menu. Elon: "Oh, i'm suspicious now." Andy: "No it's because they only serve pizza which is why it's going to be excellent!" Who is correct?

True or false, Elon Musk is an anagram of Alone Mollusk.

How many triangles are in my latest album? You have an IQ of 240 if you can count more than 48.

Orson Welles SLAMS the vertical video fad at SXSW 2024!

Rest in Peace Alisdair McIntyre. One of a group of ethicists who brought Virtue Ethics back to prominence which itself has been a major influence in how people popularly think about ethics today. dailynous.com/2025/05/22/a...

VARIETOPIA is a magical show that will change your life. But don’t take it from me! Want to see Varietopia in Los Angeles or on tour? Get tickets here: bit.ly/varietix

My theory is that the spiders on Ghorman in Andor Season 2 are meant to be grated with a microplane over a Risotto, like nutmeg.

Word on the street is that St. Lenox was name-dropped in the Pitchfork review of Sarah Mary Chadwick - look forward to listening to her new record. And always great to be compared to Daniel Johnston, Joanna Sternberg and of course Sarah Mary Chadwick.

Of course the real Miyazaki filter would be for you to pursue your dreams.

The question that comes to mind this Passover. What if Moses had been an ugly baby?

Because it is taking too long for me to get around to it, I wanted to trademark my idea now on Bluesky for honey butter shrimp toast, which is honey butter toast but with shrimp filling.

Richard Blais: I'm an expert on Japanese food! Richard Blais: "Chicken Karajji"

I want you to know I perform an unofficial SXSW Showcase every time I go to open mic.

My wife Marina is writing a book on sketch comedy! She's a fantastic writer and sketch teacher, and if you're curious about sketch or want to take your sketch writing to the next level there's no better person to learn from. Sign up here for updates: www.marinatempelsman.com/sketch-comed...

I don't want to contribute to The Great Egg Panic of 2025, but have large eggs seemed smaller over the past half year? I feel like they look at little smaller.

True or false, all documentaries are part of a giant cinematic universe bigger than Marvel and Star Wars combined.

I know from memes that the overarching plot of Game of Thrones is about a realistic horse that slowly turns into a cartoon. But the reason why he (or *she*) turns into a cartoon or who this horse even is, has evaded me through 5 seasons, unfortunately.

In Game of Thrones, technically we don't know if Melisandre is actually an old woman who uses magic to make herself look young. For all we know, Melisandre is actually a very young woman who uses magic to make herself look very old. We just assume the other explanation because of ageism.

Just watched the Dark Quiet Death episode of Mythic Quest and it was devastating. Applies to so much creative work.

Introducing my substack where I am chronicling my upcoming treatment for depression. C'mon, it'll be fun (snickering Grim Reaper from behind the apple tree). Entry #2 Dogs are gonna Dog. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Okay, I don't want to be a stickler here, but on Game of Thrones, they should really be calling it the Red Wedding RECEPTION? We are clearly already at the celebration taking place after the wedding.

Thanks @trismccall.bsky.social for putting Ten Modern American Work Songs at #7 on his Albums of the Year list @ Tris McCall Report. honored given a lot of other big records. (and most moving song). (Please check out his new project, eye-level, covering the visual arts in jersey city).

@stlenox.bsky.social a new discovery for me, St. Lenox, featured on recent Eternal Conjecture playlists, including #EC250124.

Watching Game of Thrones past season 1 for the first time. I haven't followed the plot, but I think i found a plot hole. They could have just made more thrones?

I just want you to know if you put Trump under a microscope, it's just shark jumping all the way down, under the shark is another shark being jumped over, there's isn't even a water-skiier, just shark jumping that goes on to infinity.

Hokkaido milk bread.

The year I turned ten, my mother and stepfather joined Amway. Our lives spiraled into unreality, and we lost everything. I never got my mother back. Our experience prefigured the Trump era, with characters from my childhood later showing up in the White House. My story for the @theatlantic.com.

Someone sent a copy of Ten Hymns to autograph. A record abt immigration, released right before the first Trump admin. Feels oddly out of step w the times when I don't see many records touted by the press about stuff going on these days. That's Trump Tower behind me on the back of the record, btw.

check it out #philsky!

Sorry messenger bag people, I have joined the backpack crowd. Though I understand I will sacrifice being able to go unimpeded in museums, the switch is worth it.

Thanks to susbtack blog miserypunk for the shoutout as their #2 record of 2024. It's really fulfilling seeing how many of these one-person indie blogs were pick up the album and love it. They listened to all the other big name bands too but pick out my record anyway. And love the writeups esp.

2nd page Bruch Violin Concerto. The way the best musicians think of phrasing is they understand that wordless melodies are narratively underdetermined, and so everything within the musician's control, can be shaped to wield the melody towards one or another narrative compatible with the melody.

Starting the Localist column back up at bigcityfolks - though I’ll be covering it from a both NJ/NYC standpoint. I realized the other day that there are many musicians who I can’t quite remember any of the music that they wrote, vs their online personas. bigcityfolks.com/2025/01/24/w...

Jerry Orbach on Murder She Wrote, I swear it was his audition to be on Law and Order. Great character.

A scene from Landman suggests that wind power is not good when looking at its carbon footprint over a turbine's lifecycle. But a brief Google reveals its still way way way better than coal and gas, and even solar. The show is ... okay.