Thanks to Cleveland Magazine for having me scribble up some words about my highlights from last night's Rock Hall inductions! clevelandmagazine.com/articles/8-h...

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

JUST IN: Two pitchers with the Cleveland Guardians have been charged with a gambling/ bribery/ money laundering conspiracy. See the indictment: www.justice.gov/usao-edny/me...

🥰 great bookstore name!

TIL Failure's Ken Andrews was a director for Ice-T's O.G. Original Gangster video album! (h/t @localh.bsky.social Lifers podcast): www.discogs.com/master/28374...

An honor of my life to write Cyndi Lauper’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction essay! ♥️♥️♥️♥️

Spotted in the Rock Hall program! Thanks to Lenny Waronker from R.E.M. ♥️

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

Cyndi Lauper absolutely never misses. ♥️ “True Colors” at the Rock Hall induction.

Chappell Roan never misses! Inducting Cyndi Lauper.

No matter how many times I hear Soundgarden’s “Rusty Cage,” it makes me want to go like 100 mph on the freeway. Favorite song by them by far and encapsulates all their influences.

An honor of my life to write Cyndi Lauper’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction essay! ♥️♥️♥️♥️

Yesssssss!!

With Cyndi Lauper’s WELL-DESERVED induction into the Rock Hall tonight, thought I’d re-up this piece I wrote on her a while back. anniezaleski.substack.com/p/shes-so-un...

Incredible cover by @highcountrynews.org and story by @btoastie.bsky.social. 🤘🏻

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If you name your cocktail after a Kelly Clarkson song, I will try it.

Her sister wrote my favorite essay about her. She points out that RF would have been famous even if she'd never looked at DNA www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Bizarre fact of the week: Failure’s “ Fantastic Planet” is out of print on CD and going for absolutely eye-popping prices online. Friend just sold a copy for $80.

Million stars to the Uber driver who just turned up the volume on Bobby Brown’s “Every Little Step” on the radio when he heard me say it’s a jam.

Martin Scorsese and his daughter Francesca read Letterboxd reviews and guessed which Scorsese movie they were about.

Since 2022, Horsegirl, Lifeguard, and Friko have gone global—but what happened with the teen scene they grew out of? I talked to 18 different people about the Hallogallo scene now chicagoreader.com/music/music-...

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The first-ever MUPPETS solo movie is coming Executive producers Jennifer Lawrence and Emma Stone are teaming up with writer Cole Escola to develop the first-ever solo movie set in the world of The Muppets: Miss Piggy.

(Adding this to main thread so it doesn’t get lost.) Gilson also tried out for Wings. Here he is talking about it in an interview with the Daily Mirror, Aug 78. “I’m not in the slightest bit disappointed that I didn’t get to join Wings. I don’t rate McCartney’s music very much these days, anyway.”

Gutted to learn Gilson Lavis has left the material world. Squeeze has been such a formative influence & inspiration on me since I was a teenager, and it was a privilege to have seen him play with them live so many times (and with Jools Holland solo, where I took this). An incredible drummer. RIP 🙏🥁

Neneh Cherry at the Wag Club in March 1983 www.instagram.com/p/DQmWcg9DGiX/

The latest, 11pm: —Prop 50 wins —VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG; & gain in House —Dems win NJ-Gov —Mamdani wins —PA Dems win supreme court —ME vote-restricting measure loses —Krasner & Bragg win —JD's half-brother loses —GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices + Dem are leading to flip so many local offices.

AOC: I have to tell you, in my traveling across the country, I am hearing and have been seeing consistent things from everyday people. And it is that they are terrified, they are frustrated, they are angry, and they are shocked by a president violating the values that we hold dear

If we learn nothing else tonight, please PLEASE let's learn that the American people were NOT won over by an absolute firehose of the most vile dehumanization of trans people. Please @democrats.org, for the love of God and all that's holy, let's FINALLY start refusing to throw ANYone under ANY bus.

BREAKING: Democrat Aftab Pureval wins Cincinnati mayoral election over Cory Bowman, half-brother of Vice President JD Vance. Follow AP for live updates.

Tonight was a great night to attend Patti Smith's book launch in NYC, I'll tell you whut

BREAKING: Democrat Johnny DuPree has flipped a Republican-held Mississippi Senate district in a special election. DuPree was previously the mayor of Hattiesburg. His win imperils the Mississippi Senate GOP's narrow supermajority. www.mississippifreepress.org/democrat-joh...

Herbie also said his grandson just started taking piano lessons….but doesn’t like to practice. (And Herbie stage-whispered he doesn’t like practicing either, ha.)

I am at a Herbie Hancock concert and he pulled up his iPhone and read, apparently what I presume is a calendar invite, “Joni Mitchell’s Birthday Party.” Then he talked about how amazing she is. A+ stage banter.

This is the ideal bibliography. You may not like it, but this is what perfection looks like.

Congrats to me who completely forgot I bought Herbie Hancock tickets for a show tomorrow.

and if you're jamming donna this evening, might i recommend this very fun tape from '75. bsky.app/profile/bour...

it was such a privilege of privileges to feature donna (& her laugh) as a deadcast regular & especially to work with her to clarify her & keith's often mistold stories. www.dead.net/deadcast/don...

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine is ordering the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services to give $7 million to regional food banks and up to $18 million in emergency relief benefits to more than 63,000 low-income Ohioans ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/10/31/o...

Dolly Parton releases “9 to 5” 45 yrs ago today. “I knew what it was like to be a working woman trying to make a decent living, trying to be taken seriously. .. I wanted a song that sounded playful on the surface but spoke to that frustration .. A song about women .. saying, ‘We deserve better.’”

BREAKING: Diane Ladd, a three-time Oscar nominee known for roles in “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore” and “Wild at Heart,” dies at 89, daughter Laura Dern announces.

“You don’t know the times your movie will meet when you begin to make it. ... And I’m not saying you have to trespass, but I think symbolically we need to encourage a certain amount of creative trespassing. We need to lean into what’s uncomfortable.” matternews.org/culture/expe...

time to put away the halloween decorations

Will Smith has a reading foundation and visits public schools. Just so you know the guy who hit that game winning homer has done good things for the LAUSD

My 84-year-old father texts: “What a game. Best series in my lifetime since Johnny Podres made my mother happy.” And now that it’s past midnight, Nov 2, it’s his mother (my maternal grandmother)’s birthday. Clara Gottfried Jaffe (1912-2006) was an amazing woman.

well, 101 days until pitchers & catchers report

For the 6th year in a row, a player named Will Smith has won the World Series 2020 - Will Smith (C), Dodgers 2021 - Will Smith (RP), Braves 2022 - Will Smith (RP), Astros 2023 - Will Smith (RP), Rangers 2024 - Will Smith (C), Dodgers 2025 - Will Smith (C), Dodgers