Kinda starting to think America has a gambling problem

her website is like if a dog could give a TED talk. *freddie de boer* writes for her website, like his ideas go on there and everything. what are we even doing man

the thing about bari weiss is that she is so inept that she literally couldn't even get fired correctly, and everyone who respects her has a hamster wheel where a human brain goes

Steven has worked very hard to come off as diplomatic and non-bratty for the last 45 years so it’s very funny when the armor gets pierced

The Comeback is among the best media my wife has introduced me to—I don’t think anything I’ve shown her can compare—and seeing her longtime friend and classmate John among the new cast (whom I’m sure obsessed over the show with her at the time) is a small act of light in the world right now

All I know is Bari is short for Barold

I need this so bad

Imagine watching Ye swan-dive into absolute cultural irrelevance by explicitly cozying up to these fuckers and thinking “but I bet I can do it differently”

One song into this and I'm already angry lol - music is a wild thing, man

Prince singing voice: “you festive motherfucker”

Whoa whoa new FotB?? The first two are the best movies my wife ever showed me, this’ll be huge in our household

If you have been ravaged by The Grinch, you may be entitled to financial compensation

Seeing Ms Rachel having done videos with both Sesame Street AND Fraggle Rock characters makes that Muppet sale to Disney seem unbelievably dumb in retrospect

Lukas Kendall’s and Mike Matessino’s notes on the music of Star Wars (LK in the 1993 Anthology box, MM in the 1997 Special Edition remasters) unlocked a world of putting words down about music that has inspired…whatever I’d call my “career”

December 20th is DePiglio day

Running @theseconddisc.bsky.social (perhaps I may post more of its stuff on here in 2026)/all my bio writing (almost 500 career total for @allmusic.com) has been more tiring in the second year of parenthood but people keep reading and assigning so I keep writing

PS: the acts in question were Redbone and Mac Davis

they should publish last names i think if they wanna be talking like that white baby

Two albums (likely copyright extensions) were officially released today by a '70s rock band with a major streaming hit and a well-regarded country icon if not household name (singing early rock covers including Elvis, whom he co-wrote several songs for). No data about them anywhere. Classic!

Telling everyone at the Christmas party about my seasonal beliefs (that The Grinch is a ho)

I kid you not: two of my main sensory triggers as an autistic person are alcohol and wearing wet clothes, meaning I neither like piña coladas nor getting caught in the rain

I’m only being a little flip when I say this: for four years the highest-grossing film in the world had genetically modified dinosaurs changing sexes. It is not that hard to extrapolate from this what can happen in humans

Happy 79th, Steven. Thanks for letting us see what you see.

My two best friends came to help with my kids today, and I had the distinct joy of showing them “One Man’s Trash” for the first time

The president of the catalog label I worked for the longest believed our jobs were storytelling. They sacked him and replaced all our department heads with castoffs from Vice and Mic who thought “broadcasting Pink Floyd’s THE WALL on Trump’s wall” was a cogent way to promote our great titles

Is this irony

An incredible cousin from techno-hell to the person I just saw suggesting it WAS a politically motivated killing and his son was taking some sort of fall for it. Really disgusting ways to talk about recently dead people!

Farewell to producer, actor, collector, archivist, and curator of the legendary Bob’s Basement, Bob Burns. Beloved by generations of filmmakers and fans, Bob did meaningful work on both sides of the camera and lived a life most of us could only dream of. Rest in peace, sir.

My first thought was “this is some sort of weird reaction to where conservatism is in some sort of digestible entertainment package.”But just as the cruelest people governing us are also dumb, I think it’s a matter of a dopey nostalgia-addled studio coming to that potential conclusion accidentally

oh wow my 2025 wrapped is ready

This Guess Who card lookin mf

Holy fuck, the trailer for DISCLOSURE DAY, Steven Spielberg’s new film, looks amazing

Apropos of nothing but my own stress, here is my favorite piece of scene and favorite musical cue ever committed to film. If you’d like, you can put yourself in my shoes, living only in the joy of the moment. I’m not sorry if it’s copyright infringement or whatever

i don't super want to wade into the text vs video discourse, but one thing i will say as a longtime social media manager is that i think the platforms wanting a pivot to video means some of them give you stats that make the video look like it does better than it does

I just can't believe Mel Brooks & Dick Van Dyke buried Carl five years ago & now they're burying his son, the kid they essentially helped raise.

this reminds me of the weird, only context I've ever bothered to listen to Rogan: when Ben Folds was promoting his 3CD retrospective in 2011, he went on some radio thing Rogan was hosting and gamely sat through Joe playing "Frankenstein" by the Edgar Winter Group and nattering about how good it was

Pegging a-ha as a one-hit wonder even stateside is nullified by this one, a No. 20 Hot 100 hit

Brief thread Steve Thompson and Michael Barbiero, two of the premier New York club mixers in the ‘80s, did a PAIR of 12” mixes in 1983 of “Lapti Nek,” the original song in Jabba’s palace from the non-special edition of Return of the Jedi

me when it happens

Two Christmases ago I was coming to terms with being laid off months before my children were born. This one, I’m taking care of them while my wife is in the hospital. Might be time to call it on celebrating this dreadful season.

I hope this is true. So much needless suffering choking our skies like smog

just horrible that you can put so much good out in the world and just get the absolute worst the world has in return.

god bless rob reiner for spinal tap

Every time our dipshit president says something hateful about whole communities of folks, I wish someone on camera would just pop off one “shut da fuck up.” We got people screaming “liar” at Biden for reasons I forget; might as well give him a piece of right mind instead of playing stenographer

Some very kind words about our new album by my old friend @mikeduquette.bsky.social duques-delight.ghost.io/there-is-hop...

This is, of course, the category the long-moribund movie novelization fell into, which was always a favorite. Maybe the reason so many cultural oddities get talked about in past tense is because they have no present

Incidentally, “Gad Saad” is what I’d be saying if I was still logging into Twitter (in this scenario I am from Boston)

Last night, after more than a week of household illness, I saw @nojerseyband.bsky.social perform songs from what I now realize is my favorite album of the year. I wrote a little about what it's like to have the songs that save you written by your actual friends.

I'm gonna be real honest man, the fact that we have to keep constantly exhorting everyone to call their elected representatives every other day to say "please do not sign off on the Make Life Worse For Everyone Bill please" is intensely degrading, and also a pretty poor sign for a functional society