the news for the afternoon & evening shift: our new album, Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan, is available for preorder & the first single is yours to hear now at this link: www.mountain-goats.com

KISS has several songs sung from the point of view of an adult wanting to have sex with a teenager, so this all tracks.

Rhode Island! Help me celebrate my birthday this Halloween at The Greenwich Odeum with a special showing of the only scary movie I can watch (and love): “The Exorcist 3.” Tickets are on sale tomorrow!

If your day is going poorly, revel in the fact that you didn’t just yell, “GDammit, you fuck!” at your locked car in full earshot of a woman walking to her car after church.

How far are we from Trump announcing that he’s getting a dog?

I’ve just watched two random movies from the 1980s and they both featured Fabulous Thunderbirds songs. Just an observation, not trying to start anything.

I think one of the worst opening lines for a hard rock song would be: “Despite what you heard, I can go all night.”

Starch. We eat it it, but we also spray it on our clothing?

Is it uncool for me to say, “What did you do?” to a guy carrying a bouquet of flowers?

I’m in Denver and I’m wondering if anyone in Metallica wants to help me psych up for tomorrow’s Elvis Costello show on their night off.

Reading Exodus/Slayer guitarist Gary Holt’s memoir. They had “get back” meth. Meth you smoke when you get back home.

“Jaws” premiered 50 years ago today. That iconic line, “This boat needs to be waaaaay bigger,” is just as relevant as it was then.

I KNEW something was up when I asked my mom if anyone else in our family rocked, and she ran out of the room in tears.

“I’d LOVE to have a friend like me.” -something I just said to myself

I bought one of those high frequency sound/flashing lights pest repellents and I want this mouse to be like, WHAT. THE. FUCK.

Some of y’all can’t handle two high agency males going at it and it really shows.

A Tesla truck just drove by and I can honestly say it’s the dumbest looking object I’ve ever seen.

I just heard someone say, “everybody’s moving, moving, moving,” and I’m 100% sure they’ve never heard of Fugazi.

“ I think that’s Charles Durning.” -something I just said to myself and was absolutely CORRECT about

It’s what you call cocaine mixed with tiny slivers of wood from a garden gnome.

NOW AVAILABLE! Tom Scharpling sits down with Brett Davis to celebrate 25 years of The Best Show. Learn about the contributors, callers, guests and the constant evolution of the show! Teaser: youtu.be/D80SGRrMTe0 Watch on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/best-s...

Streaming Macalester's graduation to see Bob Mould speak and it's so great -- currently a student band called She's In Shambles (which is a great name) is covering Hüsker Dü's "Makes No Sense at All" in a cool lo-fi punk way! www.macalester.edu/commencement/

I can’t tell if this guy in the airport lounge is Jimmy Iovine or an older golfer.

I was furious at the guy talking loudly on his phone in this Kalamazoo Denny’s until I realized he’s turned his booth into a makeshift office and he’s booking stars to appear at a Star Trek convention.

Join us Thursday, May 15th for Albert Brooks’s hilarious debut, REAL LIFE! Don’t miss this one night only event, presented by @jonwurster.bsky.social, drummer (Bob Mould, The Mountain Goats, Superchunk) and comedy writer extraordinaire. Tickets: hollywoodtheatre.org/show/real-life-with-jon-wurster

Portland! We are one week away from our date at @hollywoodtheatre.org. We will eat popcorn and watch Albert Brooks’ “Real Life.”

Why can’t he call himself Pope Bob?

I think one of the weirdest song lyrics would be: “My ears are ringing and my thing is stinging because I just had sex at a Motörhead concert.”

I smiled at a dude in a Misfits shirt but he didn’t smile back.

The average American has three friends @bobmouldmusic.bsky.social @jasonnarducy.bsky.social @jonwurster.bsky.social

“All I’m saying is, having a huge back doesn’t give you the right to be a total dick to everybody.”

Everyone’s mad at me because my new band is called Nivana. I already changed it from The New York Dlols!

Car in the middle of the street has some weird galloping sound happening that’s identical to when everybody kicks in on “Battery.”

Just heard someone say “self-own” as “cell phone,” and I was all, “whuuut.”

Karoline Leavitt sounds like a song Charles Manson wrote for The Beach Boys.

It’s weird for someone to leave a violin behind at the airport, right? Like, you’d probably be used to keeping track of it. What else do you want to talk about?

“Sir, I just want to say that I think you look very cool, and not at all terrified of everything.”

To his credit, Trump didn’t use the word “eggheads” once in his Harvard post.

An IMPOSSIBLE song to ruin.

New tour dates up — been in the kitchen but it’s almost time to serve it up www.mountain-goats.com/tour

Is Linda McMahon pronouncing AI “A1” because she knows he thinks that’s top shelf steak sauce?

Guy on the street in Boise is playing KISS’s “Beth” in such a way that it sounds like an outtake from “Lifes Rich Pageant.”

Sometimes I still think about the kid a couple seats down from me in the high school cafeteria who said his stomach hurt because he’d eaten “too much p*ssy last night.”

“When you ran out the…healthy arms…you ran out of…really healthy. They had great arms. But they ran out. It’s called sports. It’s called baseball in particular. And pitchers you could say, in really particular.” -President Donald Trump 4/7/25

Has there been a movie where a defendant says, “Your Honor, I plead the fist,” and then he punches his way out of the courtroom?

But Russell Brand is a Christian.

Portland! It will be my great honor to present what could be my favorite movie of all time—Albert Brooks’ “Real Life”— on May 15 at the Hollywood Theater. Tix on sale now: hollywoodtheatre.org/show/real-li...

It’s still weird to me that we say “vocals” and not “singing.”

Sometimes I wonder if when someone in Egypt gives directions, they say, “You know where the Sphinx is?”

It’s April 1, so I don’t know if any of these posts are true or not.