The best edit I’ve seen in weeks, you absolutely have to turn the sound on for this one.

sharks do most socially congregate, and most hilariously feast

I got the results back from my cholesterol test. Evidently my steak is too juicy; my lobster too buttery.

I’ve started preparing for the @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social 1988 tournament. My favorite new listen of the week: UNE COLLECTION DES CHAÎNONS I: MUSIC FOR SPIRAL by Yoshi Ojima. A little scattershot, but this is some of the best ambient music I’ve ever heard.

Hedda Innshoulders-Neesintose (née Cintose)

“A whole civilization will die tonight” has shades of “if King Croesus crosses the Halys River, a great empire will be destroyed.”

Off to the movie theater to watch a double feature of vocal exercises: SCREAM “SEVEN!” and PROJECT “HAIL MARY!”

I love baseball broadcasts. “Well-hit by Canzone, but Angel Martinez is there for the out. And we have here in the booth with us the first Major League player with a hyphenated last name, Ryan Rowland-Smith.”

PONYO

The Best Album of 2001 Round 1 Match #2 #64 Rufus Wainwright, POSES vs. #65 Kings of Convenience, QUIET IS THE NEW LOUD Go here to vote: forms.gle/SqTN2eCU2DyS...

they all glowed

Avril 14th? Is that the one that goes, “My great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandma doesn’t like your girlfriend”?

I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.

I hate Avalanches Halloween. What does that mean that boy needs therapy?

@bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social community: I'm looking for music in the same vein as Air's MOON SAFARI, to listen to as I gradually get back into the swing of things after being sick. Bonus points if I haven't heard of it before. Any suggestions?

Ok, but what’s the SECOND rule of Bruno?

In the spirit of late-aughts books that combined the works of Jane Austen with genre fiction, I propose: Goldfinger Abbey.

Whenever I see an image of a right-side-up pineapple, it makes me think there’s a polyamorous person in distress.

STANKONIA is the Best Album of 2000.

RIP the mighty Jules Feiffer, whose collections THE EXPLAINERS and SICK SICK SICK were the first obviously “adult” comics I read - my parents had them on their bookshelf. The satire on 60s mores went over my tiny head but the flowing, expressive line made a deep impression

Doing a completely open invitation: What album do you think I should listen to today?

Thread about the debate going on in Congress about the trans sports ban

I want to learn embroidery so I can embroider the 22, A MILLION cover art, with the text “I’d be happy as hell if you stayed for tea.”

For those curious, the concept of Blue Raspberry arose in response to safety concerns over the use of Red No.2 food dye in the late 50s and early 60's, which was THE dye used for raspberry flavored food. Laws passed that companies could not use dyes unless they were PROVEN to not cause cancer

Bruce Springsteen had a lot of nerve to sing “I got me a guitar and I learned how to make it talk,” and then just play a normal guitar lick. He must have felt pretty embarrassed the following year when FRAMPTON COMES ALIVE came out.

Wednesday is the weirdest day of the week for Christmas to fall on

I’m so happy for the one guy who escaped Pentatonix and now makes videos with Ms. Rachel. He made it out. I bet his parents feel the same way that parents of cult survivors feel.

Not a shocker: based on mail I’ve received, it seems that the industries that are still reliant on paper catalogs are watches and model trains.

And a bit from another episode with Paulie and Bobby from the Sopranos. Paulie says 'Stunad'! It ends with a sudden blackout!

Watching old Sesame Street Christmas episodes with my sick 2-year-old this morning. There's a Bert & Ernie take on Gift of the Magi that is pretty great (with Mr. Hooper, so it must be from before my time).

The best U2 songs are all about days: New Year's Day, Beautiful Day, Sunday Bloody Sunday.

Just throwing this idea out there: What about... jazz lobster?

High school voice teacher, circa 2004: “It’s time to try ‘Defying Gravity.’”

Ohara Koson (1877-1945) Two egrets in the rain, с.1900-1910 #Japanese #woodblock

Southern Charm should bring on a second character named Shep, so they can be introduced as “Relation-Shep” and “Shep (no relation)”

It's all fun and games until you get to track three of MERCY, MERCY, MERCY! by Cannonball Adderley.

Pater noster is slang for Peanut Butter, No-Stir

We all know and love the soundtrack to "A Charlie Brown Christmas," but I want to tell you that the soundtrack to "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving," which was finally released in full last year, is also very good (and sounds very different! Very '70s)

Fido is short for Financial Dogstrict

The death of one at the hands of a manservant is a cozy mystery. The death of millions at the hands of a manservant is a Butlerian Jihad.

With the city’s ban on AirBNB and the explosion in accommodation prices, kids today won't understand what Ricky Martin meant when he said “Woke up in New York City, in a funky cheap hotel.”

"It's me. Hi. I'm the problem, it's--" [rips mask off] "GRACIE ABRAMS??"

Do you think that when his parents put the name on his birth certificate, they knew Caspar Babypants would grow up to be a children’s musician?

It's hard not to feel apocalyptic recently, and the weather hasn't been helping. No rain in six weeks. It reminds me of that Twilight Zone episode where the Earth's been knocked off its orbit.

A doctor walks out of the operating room and happens to see a clown in the hospital lobby. The doctor says, "Excuse me, maybe you can help an awful situation. You see, there's a little boy in there who's the son of a famous clown. He was in the car with his father when they had a terrible accident.

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is today. Woe to my friend John who planted a tree five years ago (the worst possible time, so the omens say)

Every Trump cabinet nominee makes me think of the Mouth of Sauron

Here's the song list from my college radio show on November 14th, 2008 -- sixteen years ago today!

I've been holding back from posting much on social media lately, because when I start to, there's a nagging feeling of, "Well, why aren't you writing about stuff that's actually important?"