lmao dailyorange.com/2025/11/syra...

comical universe shit to find out you have sciatica two weeks after turning 40

Finally. My big 2800 word essay about One Battle After Another and its black women characters is live. www.vulture.com/article/blac...

Big changes at Stereogum today. A message from our founder: stereogum.com/2478838/ster...

I've finally found my life's purpose (telling everyone I see about Thundercat's chainmail, cape, and DOOM tee fit) www.gq.com/gallery/excl...

at least half of this stadium are Tim Kaine's constituents

"How dare you paint my business in a way that attracts more customers? This windmill-themed restaurant, funded by eight generations of the French aristocracy, was doing great without your brilliant Fauve ass." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...

Back in 2020, I profiled a random Long Island dad named Bill DeBlasio, who constantly received vicious hate mail intended for Bill de Blasio. This is the same guy who just pranked The Times of London into publishing anti-Zohran quotes from Mayor de Blasio. God, I miss MEL Magazine.

I obviously knew I wasn't the only unemployed person tossing their resume they worked on for hours into a black hole 10 times a day, but it is deeply depressing reading how widespread it is www.thecut.com/article/job-...

Hey NYC Bluesky, this lovely little restaurant that just happens to be down the street from me is struggling and could use your help. Please support, their food is excellent (and we are in dire need of good places to eat on Franklin)! agiscounter.com

he's even on record stating his thoughts on this www.theguardian.com/culture/musi...

three masterpieces

As what now

I really appreciated this thoughtful piece about Ta-Nehisi Coates & Ezra Klein. Andrea Pitzer says “lost” folks like Klein “don’t have a clear idea how this moment fits into history and what it is exactly that they’re doing”. [degenerateart.beehiiv.com]

My 40 hr/week contract job, which was recently reduced to 20 hr/week, is now Zero hr/week due to budget cuts. (Not just me, a whole team.) If anyone wants to hire the best entertainment writer in the galaxy (me) please be in touch. “I will do dog food commercials!” [email protected]

He was waiting outside for all the sickos like myself who went to see the 830am One Battle After Another IMAX showing

Just ran into Benny Safdie on Broadway wearing a Smashing Machine sandwich board. “I gotta take advantage of foot traffic” he says

I wrote about the firing of Alan Sepinwall, which is awful. And I tied it into what's happening all over in the media, why it's scary & what we can do to help. I used my words, but it's definitely Hulk Mo dialed up to 11, if that's a thing you would like to experience: www.moryan.com/on-the-firin...

In the midst of an Alias S1 rewatch. Show still holds up but I cannot stop laughing at Sprinting Tarantino

absolutely chaotic hour to watch this

reminds me of this legendary Awl piece www.theawl.com/2010/07/what...

support independent leftist music journalism by signing up for my antifascist heavy metal newsletter, Salvo (pretty please) salvo.ghost.io

this is a HUGE part of my experience growing up as both a music fan & wanna be music journalist. I saw the women I loved to listen to routinely destroyed in the press by beloved journalists, often, it seemed, for sport. "mean male critic" was a caricature for me, to a point.

Pennsylvania antique mall ass display

good song but it still blows Kelis doesn’t get writing credit on a Milkshake interpolation

Over the past 16 months, @thenation.com has published regular dispatches from Lujayn, a teenager in the Gaza Strip. Lujayn has endured huge loss and trauma. Now she, along with the rest of Gaza, is starving. But she is still writing. This is her latest. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

HOF nightmare blunt rotation imminent

there are much worse problems. that said, as someone who loves writing reviews & has written thousands & is proud of that & thinks reviews are important, seeing culture coverage, critics & reviews constantly take it on the chin for the past decade--esp last few years--has been really fucking hard.

this Childers album rips, 10/10

I was sad to hear of the passing of Marthe Cohn, a French Jew who spied on the Nazis during WWII www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

EVERYBODY SHUT THE FUCK UP! HERE'S TODAYS REAL TRAGEDY www.whec.com/top-news/roc...

thank you to the intrepid HBO producer who decided to use Nas as a talking head in the Billy Joel doc

journalism industry is in tatters and every shitbag media CEO is like "I know what would solve our business, salting the earth"

jon pareles used to take notes at concerts that involved **actual musical notation**, he's whipping up sheet music in real time at bowery ballroom or whatever. one of the best to ever do it.

Don't Rock The Inbox is officially on Ghost (yay!) instead of Substack (boo!)! We're celebrating with a 30% off sale so there's no better time to subscribe :) www.dontrocktheinbox.com

shoutout @imgarysuarez.bsky.social's CABBAGES for putting me on this one colored.bandcamp.com/album/2nd-ca...

pivoting into oblivion

Donate! L.A. Taco has been closely covering the ICE raids that haven’t stopped in L.A. even after the national headlines went away.

I'm hearing a lot of "Jews in New York are scared" today. So, a couple of thoughts: 1) Jews should be angry, not scared. We were targeted with a relentless, heavily funded barrage of lies playing off of real fears of antisemitism by a man who came within 7 points of winning. That reeks of contempt.>

Vulture postscript www.instagram.com/p/DLIVKmKM-J7/

increasingly obvious that congressional dems have seized on the "distraction" thing because it provides them with an excuse for doing nothing about any concrete issue and instead complaining about some general principle that they think plays well in focus groups

Essential reporting from @danreilly.bsky.social

My feature on how musicians deal with the American medical system is here, with artists detailing their struggles to get decent care for cancer, gender-affirming care, chronic illnesses, substance abuse, and catastrophic injuries. This one is important to me, so please take a few mins to read it!

safe travels, Brian www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Riq...

Everyone go buy Jeff's excellent new book!!

Salute to the legend. RIP Sly Stone www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNwS...