even journalistically, this isn't something I'd admit

That purple mf Barney was spitting when he sang “Clean Up Clean Up” ngl

This is an insane analogy, but I think Gavin Newsom is the mislabeled Weird Al MP3 version of Donald Trump

Happy Super Bowl Sunday to those who celebrate! 🏈

If you never watched Search Party, it’s on Netflix now. The first three seasons are great TV, and then the final two are the closest a sitcom has ever gotten to Holy Motors or The Magic Mountain.

94 years old today. He and I have never met, and what he’s done for me is just one drop in an ocean of lives he’s touched with his craftsmanship and ever-searching spirit. But I appreciate it as much as you can imagine, and probably a little more. God be with you, John.

Sly adult content, you say.

Per Billboard, “NPG’s ability to use the trademarked name has expired and…the performing rights organization that handles administration of Prince’s songs, no longer permits tribute acts to perform sets of his material.” You invite them to Celebration then rob their livelihood the other 11 months?

Imagining Mel Blanc yelling the following: “I’m gassed! I’m gagged! I’m (voices goes high for this one) gooped!”

In 2019, desperate to write about something that wasn’t music catalog, I started Hollywood & Spine, a monthly meditation on movie novelizations, many of which were mass market paperbacks like these. That full archive is here now, after its old host Tinyletter went away

Smallest potatoes in the world but I’d love to go 24 hours without seeing Jeff Eps’ big stupid fucking face

oh, absolutely

Look at my social media strategy dogg I’m going to jail

Sharing media headlines while questioning why the media isn’t covering something has been an explicit hallmark of at least the last 12 years, and it makes my head hurt

I had a little piece for my newsletter a few weeks back that I didn’t send because I didn’t think it was up to par. It included this song, and this is the second time I’ve seen someone extolling its virtues in my circles in the last 24 hours. Could’ve been onto something, man

A neat, probably unintentional metatextual note on last night’s Muppet Show special: the opening and closing title arrangements were patterned on the show’s fifth/final season arrangements, a very subtle nod to picking up where things left off

I see that the original, continuous mix of Madonna’s Confessions on a Dance Floor is being released on, uh, double vinyl, not exactly a format known for its continuousness

Our building has a weird habit of directly sending us - not part of a BCC - reminder e-mails to pay our rent with a note that if we did, we can disregard. Like...can't you check?

Perhaps my expectations were lower than I thought, because the new Muppet Show special made it look easy. Two nostalgia gags at best, but mostly fun variety show vibes. They’d be crazy not to have this on TV with more regularity

oh that’s why she lost

Writing an assuredly terrible meta script about a fictionalized Billy Zane and his dissociative alter ego, Zaney Bill

This man gotta go in the zoo

Just remembered the writer behind “Peter Gabriel is RUINING his legacy by prioritizing new music over the hits” struck again this week. Pretty gauche to wishcast your reunion dreams over a concert booked because ICE murdered several people

He looks like Peter Griffin in "Death of a Salesman"

(pounds on the table until my knuckles bleed) MONEY! ISN’T! REAL!

It is insane that it took 15 years to come to this conclusion! Every person who’s lit up 90+ minutes of SNL would do as well or better on a revival of this program

and real, honest, hardworking people putting their bodies on the line in cities all over the country want ICE abolished. what are you not hearing, oaf

We desperately need to revive third spaces, particularly ones where you can do everything you can, hold on to what you...am, pretending you're a Superman

Allow me to be frivolous for a bit

Would read!

Truly, it appears only time will tell if we stand the test of time.

Zed, we have a Bug

An underrated aspect of characters falling into public domain/not being held by one corporate entity is that Facebook fan pages can comment and sound like they are that character coming to their own defense (in this case, a large ape)

Grossssssss

CMT taking out airtime for a special like when Lebron was deciding where to go next

we've all gotta manifest an Arcadia reissue to go with that big ol' Power Station box this year

Craig's got it

could any of this have been spent fixing the mix coming out of Studio 8H

Life, uhh, finds a way (to be even more depressing than the last four films in the series)

I think we’re about to get the perfect lab-grown diamond of a biopic: flawlessly replicating the Big Moments millions remember without a single stab at depicting the interior life of what was our most admired entertainer

Will probably delete later so get to liking now: someone should offer a reward for the journalist who asks the president or a press secretary if he’s still interested in Greenland or if he’s planning on keeping the rest of his term “in continent”

if he considers his job to ignore more than three quarters of his voters in order to support a right-wing enemy, he should not be Democratic leader. he should not even be in Congress.

Steven Spielberg achieves EGOT status by winning his first Grammy stereogum.com/2487463/stev...

The last times I was invested was when my colleagues won for our Weird Al project and last year, when multiple friends were nominated across three-fifths of the Best Historical Album category and none of them won. Even as a music fan it screams cornball excess most of the time

CBS Sunday Morning, my favorite news program for washed folks, has done a profile on Jesse Welles

Talking of early CD bonus tracks, as Matos is here—I’ll never understand why A&M elected to end the album on CD not with an atmospheric meditation on broken promises (fitting for The Police’s end) but a Sting nursery rhyme about poisoning someone’s drink or some shit

Harris Dickinson is John Lennon is… @nedraggett.bsky.social??

And at least THEY didn’t have emails

This level of moral rot is biblically evil. like if I had to imagine why god sent the flood it’s probably because people were exactly this far gone