one regular writing client and I could likely get out of a part-time situation that today gave me a 48-cent (hourly) raise and every day gives bone-deep exhaustion. If these techie twits take no joy in writing, stop doing it and allow me

I am not kidding when I say this: the Prince estate is teasing a deluxe edition of Parade with a slow zoom on the cover image and then, in Arial font, white text on black: "PARADE Deluxe Edition / It's Coming"

Wow wow: after sporadic shows over the last few years, Sony's Ghostbusters in Concert - featuring the score conducted live to the film - gets a NYC date at the United Palace, one of my favorite theaters, in October. Pre-sale kicks off tomorrow.

(reading social media reactions to highly anticipated blockbuster whose review embargo lifts today) Jesus Christ, I hope I don't ever write or sound like this

“In a functional democracy Pete Hegseth would offer his resig—“ we’re past that. get me his teeth

Every day I am shown a video ad of a man in a Cat in the Hat (2003)-esque costume hyping a “Dr. Seuss Travel Agency” and all the comments say variations of “love this.” My question is for those people—are you on dope

Ah jeez just realized the probability of truly dumb jokes and fake stories on here tomorrow. No thanks!!

Stoked to hear she’s on the mend. Now—and @soulatlantic.bsky.social back me up on this one—wouldn’t this be a good occasion to do what Mariah has done and George Michael is doing now with Faith, and deliver any non-album/remix material to digital storefronts and streamers

once again, it should be enough that trans people are being harmed without bringing everyone else into it. we are more than canaries in the coalmine, and you should be able to care about our rights even if they don’t affect yrs personally. this is a human rights issue, period

I’d bet $100 that upper management minding that repertoire don’t know who either of those artists are. And I used to work with said management, so I’d easily win

Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis are on Questlove’s latest podcast, and Jimmy had a quote so good I had to stop what I was doing and write it down. Maybe you could use it too. (1/3)

This happened to me once, I hate to admit

I don’t even know ball but I know Chuck is also on the record supporting trans people, which is nice

Guys, I’m busy, okay?

Bob Dylan's Instagram posted a story (with link) to a, uh, Patreon of original short stories?

This van speeds up to ram me, but I jump away at the last minute and it spectacularly flips over

True either way, honestly

I only ever bothered with 2/3 of the selections, but I vividly recall one my dad taped off HBO that was Gotcha!/Ghostbusters/Gremlins

it should be this and it never is 😤

Somewhere there is a person who reads these words about this film and gets so excited they cause minor unintended property damage. I only hope I meet them and arrange for science to study them

The latest Weekend Stream is fully loaded: rare mixes from George Michael, the digital rollout of the coolest Beach Boys box(ed) set, new songs from McCartney and Manilow, a list of good reads (inc. @nedraggett.bsky.social’s latest Patreon piece) and that’s honestly only half of it

Every year I share this theres still someone who hasn’t heard the Creed guy sing this song about all the things that can happen in a baseball game www.mlb.com/video/stapp-...

Tolkan’s exit from this scene (around 2:22) is one of my favorite little funny moments in the film

Literally went “D’ooooooooooooh” when I read this

for some reason, my Bandcamp order of the new Courtney Barnett is still listed as a pre-order, and so I can't even download the full version until it changes. I'm P.O.'d!!!!

THURSDAY MARCH 26th 2026: Getting COSMETIC SURGERY to look like FRED FLINTSTONE to PRANK my WIFE (38:06) SATURDAY MARCH 28th 2026: I Messed Up. (57:23)

When the picture is taken on the count of 2 and you’re not ready, but you took it

Not to seem stannish, but I have to laugh at some Reddit rando I saw last night handwringing Disclosure Day, a Spielberg film that looks like it may concern the existence of aliens and its effect on belief systems, coming a few months after Washington DC is plastered with One Nation Under God signs

I found it, the most deranged way a grocery store has ever displayed pasta sauce

If you show up for work at Netflix for two minutes it counts as a full day.

The two most ridiculous things I’d put in that movie—one I’d bet money will actually be shown—would be 1) Michael singing “Billie Jean” backing vocals through cardboard tubes and 2) Michael freaking out over “meeting” a working E.T. animatronic for a photoshoot

Great list, gotta add some of my faves from this era as the Box Set Bastard: - Elton John / To Be Continued (90) - Fleetwood Mac / 25 Years The Chain (92) - Hitsville USA (two volumes, 92/93) - Star Wars Anthology (93) - Weird Al / Permanent Record (94) - Marvin Gaye / The Master (95)

Anyway how about some good shit for a change. It looks like Sony will be rolling out digital EPs of all the singles to George Michael’s FAITH, meaning this is the first time you can stream “I Want Your Sex” at radio length

i deleted all the games and apps off my phone, put my phone in a trash can, and now just carry my game boy around in my pocket instead. so if you want to reach me you will have to release a new game boy game.

That’s the thing that saddens me about going into day two of this discussion about a TV show: how many people on here still need explaining? An I Love the ‘80s guy? How stale that discussion turns

Chalamet stank up ya bathroom, call that Farty Supreme

Beyond the obvious, my question to a fan is how loyal are you to IP to risk a bloated streaming adaptation of flawed but coherent fantasy fables competently adapted for the screen with a cast that somehow didn’t get CTE from becoming massively famous before puberty

Tilly Norwood:

every single day the late night shows rack up millions of views on youtube alone we are the smallest of these shows and we have more youtube subscribers than theo von the episode this clip is from currently has about 1/5th the views of our most recent monologue these guys are literally just lying

Not sure if this is THE favorite, but as a (then-undiagnosed autistic) child, I always imagined how events in movies would read in newspapers. When I read this in college it delighted me to no end

A similarly egregious example I recently experienced on Netflix was Sunday Best, the Ed Sullivan doc, which used Respeecher to read print columns by one of the most impersonated voices in history

I hope he's playing Scrappy Doo, and I hope he plays it in full costume, not CGI. Just this fuckin' weirdo lumbering around in a dog suit going "ahh jeez I hope I'm not found dead in Miami"

@jefito.com, your ship has just come in!

this is a story I've been trying to follow as closely as I can without inflicting psychic damage upon myself. I don't think it's untoward to suggest - from a business POV, to say nothing of uhhh anything else - that the estate has moved erratically in the last decade

I only just heard "Choosin' Texas" the other day (mostly writing about Motown and German ska-punk lately, sorry!) and its timeless melody and production made my heart sing. There are plenty songs that hit this hard in country (or any genre you may think you don't like as much) - let's find them!

I’ve been laughing for years about the idea of some sort of weary millennial reboot about “trauma” but it’s the animated series Doug. I will not laugh if this happens, because Doug is a Bastard

🎶Vape…up against your will🎶

Sorry my promo staff are a bunch of babies, so only now to I remind you here: I’m on Radio Free Brooklyn with the pal @shaneoffools.bsky.social in like 10 minutes! Gonna play a bunch of re-recordings. Listen in at www.radiofreebrooklyn.org

New York is a place where a white guy can loudly be talking on the phone about the culture of Japan

The only way “Moby comments on ‘Lola’” would be at all interesting would, of course, be if Moby confused it with “Yoda” by “Weird Al” Yankovic