Wild story about a vinyl reissue of Local H's "As Good As Dead." I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often. vanyaland.com/2026/02/06/v...

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "Let's stand and roll our shoulders around!"

On the Oulipo movement, the found rough draft, and writing with constraints.

"Supermodel (She's Homeless)"

reading your timeline like

Does anyone else spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about what Sabrina Carpenter and Lee Hazlewood could have done together?

Today I officially became a guy who says things like "holy shit, dude, that version of El Paso on Steal Your Face"

With all the madness going on, a one-holed worm thing with a no brain or any identifiable organs is quietly crawling somewhere on the ocean floor--and it is named after a churro. #xenoturbella_churro scripps.ucsd.edu/news/researc...

"donald trump is the sovereign instantiation of the popular will and so of course the constitution is whatever he says it is"

"This is the worst fucking time. But watching people's response to ICE has just been the most affirming thing in the world.” We interviewed our friends over at @racketmn.com about what it’s like to cover the crisis in Minneapolis as community-centered journalists

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence. "We see Faust call up his magical powers, and a marvelous cosmic vision unfolds before his (and our) eyes."

grant to them even now glimpses of your beauty, and make them worthy at length to behold it unveiled for evermore

Interviewer: and how do you maintain your trim figure Prince: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! PORTION CONTROL!

Hey all, if you're spiraling I've got a couple of psychological first aid tips that can help until you're able to process with an actual professional. Do: name what you feel in your body very specifically. Don't link it to emotions yet. Name "my stomach hurts" and "my chest feels tight" and

son just alerted me to the existence of a product called "Tiny Vinyls" and I have pulled out all my hair

Quad

The fact that the very first VU review ever in print is from a column called “Teen Talk” and the headline is “Blobs and Blurbs” is providing me with the delighted, peaceful feeling I require to walk into 2026 with.

pound for pound this might be the funniest thing ever written

BOOKS FINISHED 2025 top 5 "omg I just want to keep reading this and reading this" novels: The Man Who Loved Children Titus Groan Nana Wild Seed Murphy 2 crucial references to keep on the shelf forever: In the Brewing Luminous A Spectre, Haunting

2025 recapped

D'Wayne Wiggins, at the beginning of his journey as a member of what turned out to be the last great American R&B band, believed in connection, cooperation and what so often emerged from both: fellowship, mercy, song [🎁 link] www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Great list and writing here, and I can get behind this: "About five or six EUSEXUA tracks could have made this list,"

saw Romeo Must Die in downtown St. Louis, the crowd reaction every time Anthony Anderson came on screen was HUGE

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar. (this is my go-to gift wrapping background movie so I'll probably see it again tomorrow)

Say hello to our striking baristas in Buffalo, NY! 11 days into our national ULP strike and we're only getting stronger 💪 RT if you stand with baristas and won't buy Starbucks while workers are on ULP strike! #NoContractNoCoffee

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

Whose woods these are I think I know. He's Mario's evil cousin though.

Cubs pick up the National League’s Gold Glove team award for 2025 ⤵️

my goodness this is fucking immaculate www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOEk...

Love that Ozymand' Sculptin' with his hammer and a'- Workin' with his hands Never was a quitter In this land devoid of raindrops You've got to look! And he goes Nanananana...

Each issue of Maggot Brain is a reliably good read from cover to cover, but Andy's column is what prodded me into finally subscribing, and this piece was a highlight. Well deserved!

Post a perfect album from 1989, a perfect music year

Jack DeJohnette RIP. Here he's in charge of shaping the live band arrangements, giving Lloyd's tunes the architecture and personalities that'll make those tunes live in people's minds on the ride home. His solo on Pre-Dawn rips, and his fills during the trio section in Forest Flower are thrilling.

"Ready for trick or treating!"

As true now as ever.

new crab dropped

I worry the Barenaked Ladies' Be My Yoko Ono doesn't take her seriously as a conceptual artist, that's why I'm rooting against the Blue Jays

You know what's awesome? Baseball.

No Kings except Nosmo King

Just told my daughter that Se7en "was really the 6-7 of it's day," now need to find a home for the thousand word essay I wrote to justify this

Fave signs seen today in Gurnee, Illinois

Dodgers = Eloi Phillies = Morlocks Not taking questions at this time

Man, Virginia Woolf wrote good sentences.

[Skeeter Davis end of the world voice] Why does my car smell like garbage

I was born in Pittsburgh, I was a Pirates fan first, this is beautiful

This teeny marsupial is a newly described species named for the Chachapoya, who lived in the Peruvian Andes before the Inca. 🧪