The best albums of 2025 - inbetweendrafts.com/the-best-alb...

Terrible news that Perry Bamonte of the Cure has died. www.thecure.com/news/2025/12...

Making sure everyone knows that Kate Bush's 1979 Christmas special is available to stream on YouTube and it's VERY worth your time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6BP...

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller March 22,1958

BREAKING: Man suspected in the shooting at Brown University has been found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility, AP source says.

My last story of the year for @npr.org published this week and it’s a doozy! I explore how & why teachers are using AI text detection software (despite its known flaws), and what can happen to students when these tools are wrong. Check out the full story here: www.npr.org/2025/12/16/n...

Rhode Island Blood Center reports record donations after Brown University shooting rhodeislandcurrent.com/2025/12/15/r...

GOOD NEWS: Rhode Island Blood Center tells me there were nearly **700** booked appointments made Sunday, compared to an average of 75. Donations are still encouraged. www.wpri.com/news/local-n... @wpri12.bsky.social

Why is this tiny gesture so funny

This list doesn't even have the most famous catchphrase in that slate of movies bsky.app/profile/ebyr...

We are saddened by the loss of actor, filmmaker, and activist Rob Reiner. A storyteller with sincerity that imbued his work and the causes he believed in, we are grateful for the time we spent with him over the years. We mourn the loss of him and his wife, Michele.

Rob Reiner's sudden death turns Spinal Tap II: The End Continues from an amiable reunion into a poignant epilogue. My thoughts are in my latest newsletter: sterlewine.substack.com/p/spinal-tap...

Rob Reiner made films that we remember, from "When Harry Met Sally..." to "This is Spinal Tap." Here's a look at some of the best and where to watch them.

Counterpoint: No

Kudos to the Rhode Island press corps for its tireless & measured coverage of the Brown shooting. And special thanks to the student journalists at the @browndailyherald.bsky.social for stepping up.

I bought this poster after moving to Rhode Island in 1985 & it always summed up the spirit of this quirky city-state. Our motto is Hope. And we truly do live off Hope. Especially after a tragedy, like too many we’ve witnessed elsewhere, visited us Saturday. ⚓️

Brown has canceled all remaining classes and exams for the Fall semester.

By @chrisgavin.bsky.social -- A person of interest is in custody in connection with the Saturday shooting at Brown University in which two people were killed and nine people were injured, officials said Sunday morning. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/14/m...

8:45 PM: Providence Place mall is closed and everyone has been asked to evacuate the building. Live updates: https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/providence/brown-university-reports-active-shooter/ 

www.brown.edu message from @brownpublichealth.bsky.social President Paxson

Kudos to the Brown University students who are posting continuous live updates, spaced just minutes apart, on the campus shooting. A lot of grace and professionalism under immense pressure. www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...

JUST IN: A RI Hospital spokesperson tells me of 8 patients they received, 6 are critical but stable, 1 critical, 1 stable. The hospital is in lockdown. www.wpri.com/news/local-n... @wpri12.bsky.social

BREAKING: Providence Mayor Brett Smiley said 2 are dead and 8 are in critical but stable condition. A suspect is NOT in custody at this hour. Asking people who live near Brown to shelter in place. If you’re not home, stay safe elsewhere. www.wpri.com/news/local-n... @wpri12.bsky.social

#Breaking: Two people are dead and eight people are in critical condition after a shooting near Brown University. Updates: https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/providence/brown-university-reports-active-shooter/ 

BREAKING: At least two people have been killed and several others injured in a shooting at Brown University, AP source says.

In case you have never seen this.

No student journalist should ever have to write this kind of story www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...

Some top-notch Rhode Island reporters to follow: @tednesi.bsky.social @iandonnis.bsky.social @amandamilkovits.bsky.social @fitzprov.bsky.social @waveelection.bsky.social @antoniafarzan.bsky.social @steveahlquist.bsky.social

UPDATE: Brown University now says no suspect is in custody and is warning people to continue sheltering in place. Details below. https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/providence/brown-university-reports-active-shooter/

BREAKING: Brown University says there is an active shooter on campus in Rhode Island.

Tubi is such a crazy streaming service. It’s like if the Criterion Closet was in a gas station

Among the albums affected was Neil Diamond’s 12 SONGS, a Top 5 album (his highest debut) that fell off the charts after the recall and caused a chain reaction that led him to take nearly his entire catalogue from Sony to Universal. Enormous unforced error!

For years, advertising has been how Stereogum made money to pay its writers. While we made progress moving away from that model, Google AI search has decimated the business almost overnight. Today we relaunch with a greater focus on subscription. We’d love your support: stereogum.com/2478838/ster...

turns out the answer to “are they malicious or just stupid” — a question often asked about big media boss types — is “yes, but sliiiightly more the former”

I hope whoever did this is haunted by Merle Haggard songs randomly blasting at maximum volume out of every speaker they own.

A quick reminder that this thread is turning into the best overall place collating Kaleb's longer-form work; Jake's been steadily adding to it, with the latest entries just today. (And the tweets and the photography and the podcast and etc. are all out there too.)

A farewell to my friend, Kaleb Horton, a great writer who died unexpectedly this past weekend.

I had to think for a long while how best to remember that remarkable writer and good soul, Kaleb Horton. I have done what I could. "An Absent Friend," via my Tumblr.

Kaleb Horton was a great writer because he wrote like someone who genuinely talks to ghosts. His words were alive, raw with wonder and weariness. You could feel the road under his sentences down to the pavement.

Kaleb Horton wrote one of the most powerful things I’ve ever read about memory and nostalgia. kalebhorton.ghost.io/memory-nosta...

RIP Kaleb Horton, one of the most dazzling, funny, kind, & truly original writers to ever grace this endangered medium. I was lucky enough to edit him for the most popular piece we ever did theLAnd. A strange poultry odyssey of true brilliance. thelandmag.com/pioneer-frie...

And now I'm just spelunking around and here's this Facebook post by Kaleb Horton from September 2017. It was three months after MTV dumped its freelancers. I'm sure it would have been a piece there; instead he posted this on FB just to have it written out: Toys 'R' Us as societal microcosm.

Some important info on Kaleb Horton and his writing for MTV: as I learned, he'd reupped the Merle piece on his site earlier this year, but otherwise his 2016-2017 work there was scrubbed and long unavailable. Happily, I was able to find a Wayback link with them all. Share, read, and remember.

Man, I remember hopping on the phone with Kaleb for this piece and thinking, "Oh you write almost exactly how you talk." He was so thoughtful & cared about his truth, his blue and funny vision of the world. Loved this piece, one of his many great accomplishments in life pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

I always admired Kaleb Horton's writing so much and am terribly sorry to hear of his death. It's a long list of singular writers who didn't have the careers they should have because of the people, places, and things that killed online media, but his name is right at the very top. I hate all of it.

My hometown of Bakersfield, CA is a strange place, and few understood it better than Kaleb Horton, a brilliant writer that I’m sad to hear died this week. RIP to a writer of tremendous talent, and a photographer with an eye for the Central Valley like no other. The world feels really fucked today.

Kaleb Horton wrote this perfect obituary of Shane MacGowan www.gq.com/story/shane-...

my husband @kalebhorton.bsky.social hated the phrase “passed away” and had nothing but scorn for softening euphemisms in general. he was a firm believer in the comedy rule of threes, but only if the third thing can hit as a surprise. and he just died

This, I think, is what a lot of us are thinking. Also this: it's needed. It will not replace him. He should have been here for it.