So questions that interest me more are “What is the first millennial movie” and “What is the last Gen X movie?” The latter should not include deliberate nostalgia plays.

Prince in mid air, London, 1986 Photo by Michael Putland

Time Out of Mind >>>>>>>

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Today’s Prince’s birthday, and in honor of what a huge basketball fan (and talented basketball player!) he was, here’s a photo of Prince and Spike courtside at the Garden.

I guess we have to wonder about whether the humanities and social sciences are too political now that we’ve seen with NSF and NIH that there are no hard or health sciences without politics.

someone's going to break an inner eardrum over here

bring back prosody!

Here’s my segment from today’s @velshi.com on @msnownews.bsky.social ! Hope you enjoy!

West Virginia State is majority white at this point.

Shoutout to the Eagles.

WEB DuBois addressed this question in a 1960 speech at Johnson C. Smith University, “Whither Now and Why”: credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mu...

“Spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time” ?

If Naomi Wolf were hired as head coach of the Georgia Bulldogs, I imagine it would work out better than Bari Weiss at CBS.

Curtis Mayfield (June 3rd, 1942 – December 26th, 1999)

Anakana Schofield has already written 3 of the best books ever and I have no reason not to believe that she's now written 4. Looking forward to this.

Working on my magnum opus: the enemies list. I don't mind telling you some of these names are getting triple underlined tonight.

For the culture: youtu.be/KsCV94MQs34?...

Watcher Indiana Jones and The Great Circle so I could pretend Dial of Destiny never happened.

This deserves a Tony: youtu.be/DUfgyc-R9-E?...

Today, I signed an Executive Order temporarily repealing bedtimes in the City of New York so that kids of all ages can watch our team in the NBA Finals. As Mayor, you’re forced to make many difficult decisions. This was not one of them. Go Knicks.

Where was this dude when I was coming up?

Like LaGuardia reading the Sunday comics to kids over the radio.

Whoa. This makes so much sense but I hadn’t known this either. Love Song is my second favorite track on the album.

Also TIL that Prince plays the iconic opening guitar riff on "Like a Prayer" and I will cringe in shame for at least a year for not realizing it because of course that's him. No one else sounds like that.

Do I own "Jungle Love" as a 12" single? You bet your ass I do. Do I try to do the little side shuffle dance and fail every time it's on? Without fail. They're supposed to be the better band at the beginning of the movie. Prince wasn't going to fuck with losers.

The whole bit with the mirror still kills. Iconic. The 80s were the best, and anyone who thinks it's cheesy just needs to get a better sense of humor. It's camp, not cheese. Big difference.

I've seen some folks chatting about Morris Day and the Time — who dropped out of the Freedom 250 concert, thank god — like they are a joke, like Milli Vanilli. Shut your mouth! The opening scene in "Purple Rain" is one of the greatest moments in music history. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAxZ...

Samuel Beckett used to give Andre the Giant rides to school.

I read Rainbow Six in about two sittings while staying up late to watch the 2002 World Cup.

Sexual Chocolate will not be appearing at the American State Fair.

It's now a year since my mom's last night on earth BUT after many year I finally the video for Matt Berninger's cover of "Holes" floating around.

“A logistical near-miracle,” the Washington National Opera’s production of Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha “was also an artistic triumph and a political vindication.” —Larry Wolff

Residuals must be crazy!

Squawk! Hallelujah!

In this episode of the podcast Passages: On Morrison, Namwali Serpell and Hanif Abdurraqib consider Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon.

It’s publication day for Library of Brothel in Canada (US/UK will be Jan 12, 2027 by @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social) This novel is REALLY going to need your support. If you “tip it off a cliff“ in literature not everyone will be willing to go with you. So come out for the proletariat and buy a copy.

"The sax can achieve any color with the orchestra. How often have I been fooled by its oboe-ish sound? And what a variety of tone it has displayed when simulating the sound of the trombone or the brilliance of the trumpet or the color that is open to us in strings" The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins

Of course the Knicks waited almost exactly a year after my mother died to FINALLY return to the finals.

Her: RASCAL Me: wut omfg

The stress when an email salutation you have already sent out reads Dead first name surname instead of Dear.

Wait. The portable hard drive I bought for $80 three years ago costs $287 now?!

The only thing I find interesting about Hakeem Jeffries is that he's Dr. Leonard Jeffries's nephew, and how that may have helped shape his political psychology. Though bland, this profile at least edges, briefly, towards this topic. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Pang rammed this with my first word. Guess what it was.

Think I need to do a deep dive into Stanley Jordan at some point: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldT6...

Wesley Brown (Tragic Magic, Darktown Strutters) on his new book "Looking For Frank Wills" h/t @politicsprose.bsky.social : www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dP2...

I'm looking forward to more from this series. (Need to check out Hanif Abdurraqib's writing): www.youtube.com/watch?v=p740...