"There's nothing they can do, they're the minority" OK THEN ASK FOR *MORE* IF IT'S ALL ASPIRATIONS AND SIGNALING ANYWAY YOU FUCKING DOLTS

Sitting in my blanket with sleeves in the morning, eating my bowl of cream of wheat (Chew? For BREAKFAST? Nahhhh,) like a nice little grandpa. Getting old is terrifying, maybe the answer is to be old now.

In some ways, it still is to this day

Back in high school, I was just making my way out of metal's grip - the Black Album came after AJFA, Countdown followed Rust, NIN and Ministry were coming in, and I was finding out I really liked jazz. It was time for new sounds. I borrowed a whole stack of stuff from a buddy a year older.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Dunno why this one's stuck in my head right now

On a downtown street in Minneapolis, as people stream out from the massive march, Mary Tyler Moore says “fuck ice.”

SURPRISE NORTHERN DISPATCH

They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.

When the question is "You're doing something you've never done before, but you've done something like this. What do you do with your face?" It seems my answer was WORK THEM EYEBROWS

I keep encountering ads for services that will look up all the subscriptions you forgot about, and I think... don't y'all, like, look at your bank account? You can do it online these days, it's super easy

Everybody's comin' home for lunch these days

Ringo's lost Get Back-era tune, "I've Farted." You can hear him mention it to George Martin at one point.

Today in things that made me laugh hard enough to forget all the other stuff for a second: the Yacht or Nyacht podcast and its concept for GILLIGAN'S MAINLAND

Everything remains terrible, but I just laughed at this cutaway harder than I've laughed at anything for a good while. Still human.

Why must my troubles be so consarned memorable

I hate it here (global)

I really wish I could figure out how to not spend 75% of my time in states of sadness and boredom. But we might have oops'ed ourselves into the raw parts of song 10 at practice today, so that other quarter can get pretty sweet sometimes.

Bleak day, out there and in here. Had to get myself out of the house to do SOMEthing else than sit here, so I went to Pacific Produce to restock on various sauces and dumplings. When the baby in the cart in front of you is smiling and waving, it's hard to not smile and wave back, and that's good.

Happy New Thursday!

The good stuff about 2025: -put out 2 EPs and played some cool shows -did some good DJing -didn't have to worry about finding a new job or a new home -got some cool records -still got family and friends that love me (and I love them) That's all I got. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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This has reminded me that my biggest impact on the internet was probably saying "EYES ON BREEN" in a video which, like everything I've done that was basically nothing, had a Very Small Effect. This is fine.

I don't know how to set up a torrent site and I ain't gonna start now, but if I was it'd be a 100% tape rip who cares the quality thing I like some murky shit, sue me

Spent most of my evening catching up on bootlegs, here are reviews: Misfits - the Manny Tapes vols 1 and 2 What an absolute BLESSING! I have always wished the three piece electric piano Misfits lineup lasted past the single, and sure enough here are two tapes of evidence that they'd have ruled

Everyone, literally everyone: IT ME

I never realized there was a gentle 60's pop tune in here to uncover, and yet

My belly is full of delicious food, and I spent most of my day watching Muppety things with my friends (and yes, wrestling is Muppety.) This was nice.

This is the energy I'd like to see in debates going forward

And I heard him exclaim as he rode down the street, "A merry Thursday to everyone and to everyone a good meat!"

TIDINGS

Got a whole bunch of new videos for the 12/24 set. Not going to go all new because I want to put some classics in, but I'm gonna say it's about 75% stuff I've never showed before!

Fuck is-it-a-christmas-movie debates, the real question is: does Vince Guaraldi's Charlie Brown Christmas get short shrift as one of the best jazz albums ever just because it's holiday-themed?

I'm on record with my official stance that year end best-of lists should not be compiled until the year is done. Ideally WELL after the year is done. Worst-of lists do not require the same wait.

So tonight YES there is a stream NO it's not the usual crew YES it is the Wizard NO there will be no Christmas music* 9-2 Central twitch.tv/fuzzboxchicago * that's Wednesday night! The 20th annual Xmas Eve Spectacular!

Upcoming Fuzzbox streams I'm in charge of: Friday the 19th, 9pm-2am central: MISC! Wednesday the 24th, 8pm-1am central, my TWENTIETH ANNUAL seasonal tune-thing, mixed with all the cool stuff I discovered this year! Festive visuals! You can join on in at www.twitch.tv/fuzzboxchicago

I'm not allowed to buy any more tape decks, hold me to that

"Who's up for some MINDCRIME"

Back in February, @papapishu.bsky.social, @davidjroth.bsky.social and I chatted about this Ricky Jay special, and the importance of preserving content before it disappears. defector.com/someone-has-...

lol wut To be honest I find HCR a little pollyanna-ish at times, but what the fuck is this, it's like dude is trying to channel Christgau in the wrongest of ways Alliteration like fuckin' Daffy Duck in here

I've told this story, but I'll tell it again. The first time I saw Roar was in the midst of a 24-hour b-movie festival. It was hilariously traumatizing, as it remains. There was a brief break. Few, if any of us, knew the next movie was from MGM, but when that lion came on screen, we ALL screamed.

It's officially a Christmas movie (attn @sk-metaboxx.bsky.social )

Sign says (whoo!)/ "Stay away fools!"/ YOU'RE ALL FOOLS/ Stay away from the shack

If I cannot stop myself from groaning aloud every time I look at my phone and see the completely unacceptable high temperature that has been forecast, it's going to be a long fucking winter

One day, soon, this will end and we will have relief. But the cycle always seems to repeat, and we are never more prepared than we were. This post is about football.