Six years ago some friends invited me to their monthly Album Club. I wrote about it here: www.pastemagazine.com/music/vinyl/...

I put together The A.V. Club's best anime of 2025 list; this year was rounded out by moving historical epics, queer body horror, and plenty of wonderful weirdos. Also, if you've been hoping for general pop culture sites to pay more attention to anime, AVC will do so going forward, spread the word!

We finally watched 'em all! Here is The A.V. Club's best 25 films of the year, unassailable and fully correct as always: www.avclub.com/best-films-2...

Okay, yeah: Endless Mode is now The A.V. Club Games. We speedran this thing. Same editors, same writers, same content, just a different but familiar site. www.avclub.com/new-games-se...

It's not that impressive that a band named themselves Gas Station Boner Pills, but it is impressive that their press release made it past my spam filter.

Wrote about the new Gallup poll showing record high support for immigration. It's almost like Democratic popularists don't have a fucking clue what they're talking about! www.splinter.com/new-poll-sho...

The Outer Wilds, Nine Sols, And Embracing The End www.endlessmode.com/video-games/...

Spinal Tap: The band we need right now, again -- On the eve of another momentous performance, we reflect on the legacy of these rock heroes. #SpinalTap #ThisIsSpinalTap #SpinalTap2 www.pastemagazine.com/article/spin...

One of the things, I'm most excited about for ‪@endlessmode.bsky.social is the expanded anime coverage from @elijahgonzalez.bsky.social. www.endlessmode.com/anime/anime/...

For my first piece at Endless Mode, I tried to make sense of the everything while playing Mario Kart World. Fortunately, I've had the cow.

Welcome to Endless Mode: infinite possibilities in games, anime, theme parks, and more. www.endlessmode.com/video-games/...

Endless Mode launch day is here! A new home for great writing about games, anime and more - www.endlessmode.com/video-games/...

I don't want to freak out Fox News, but there was an Irish invasion at our Lake Michigan border last March.

An ode to the lowliest (deepest?) horror subgenre: Shark movies. From Shark Exorcist to House Shark, Sharks of the Corn, and beyond. #horrormovies #sharks #sharkweek www.pastemagazine.com/article/shar...

Ain’t that somethin’? I wonder what changed between then and now…

Sufjan Stevens opens up about his two (IMO) masterpieces, Illinois and Carry & Lowell, in this cover story from @yogurttowne.bsky.social: www.pastemagazine.com/music/sufjan...

You still have time to read the books. They're short! And outstanding!

a lot of people think you need a lot of money to buy clothes. now you're right. ok. my bad.

We just surpassed 500 million views on YouTube on the Paste Channel. So many amazing sessions here: www.youtube.com/pastemagazine

went to New York for 20 hours to write this thing

Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq

This is a fascist administration. www.splinter.com/masked-thugs...

Career-spanning interview in the AV Club just posted. www.avclub.com/they-might-b...

Sickening, evil, totally in line with everything in No Other Land. The final footage sees a settler shoot co-director Basel Adra's cousin point-blank in the stomach with a rifle. An Oscar can't stop hate crimes

Everybody should be watching this show. Funny, thrilling, character-driven, and depressingly timely. www.pastemagazine.com/tv/common-si...

When I saw MJ Lenderman in Atlanta, I was shocked to hear him cover This Is Lorelei's "Dancing in the Club." Those two very different artists released two of my top three albums of 2024, and it felt like he was in my brain. Now the rest of the world gets to enjoy it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1on3...

It's been encouraging to watch Splinter's traffic grow significantly each of the last four months as our writers try to actually push back against tyranny and corruption, but ad revenue per visit is about half of our entertainment sites. www.splinter.com/five-reasons...

Jordana played two songs for our Paste Session at Second Take Studio in New York, including one from her new album, 'Lively Premonition.' www.pastemagazine.com/music/jordan...

the accuracy

Elon Musk: Free speech absolutely-notist.

I will vote for the first candidate who tells me they're going to make the biggest government possible. Reacher-sized agencies. Braun Strowman-level social benefits. Government so big it starts belching out National Parks and free healthcare. Chungus State.

quite the sales pitch to subscribe: "If the government shuts Jezebel down, or the internet gets banned, or it becomes illegal for women to write or laugh online, we’ll buy some fucking horses and ride from state to state to scream the news Paul Revere style and throw abortion pills at your house"

Ok, Lady Gaga doing Dick in a Box is pretty amazing. #snl50

The latest on what I've heard from inside multiple agencies as the probationary firings come down:

NEW: Anti-abortion groups want to enforce a 150-year-old law to ban abortion pills, which would be deeply unpopular. Now they're trying to rebrand the Comstock Act as an anti-drug trafficking statute, a move one expert compared to Nixon's manufactured War on Drugs. Me in @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social:

Culture sites have so much to offer beyond escapism. This Random Roles w/ Carl Lumbly is a deep dive into a great actor's career and (in my mind) a way to preserve parts of history this admin is so intent on erasing. Thanks for taking this on, @willharrisinva.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4pcrjc8y

This is like Kendrick and Drake if both of them were Drake.

No surprise that New Orleans is killing it with the music so far.

Somebody needs to update Colin Jost on "sister publications," but still very cool to see @avclub.com as an answer on Pop Culture Jeopardy!

The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.

Just by way of comparison, one banana costs five times that

In 2023, six children under 12 were among at least 100 minors who had to leave Texas to have abortions. www.jezebel.com/texas-aborti...

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” Those words now ring ironic. What Trump and ICE—and every person who enabled them with their vote—are doing is just cruel.

MJ Lenderman covering This Is Lorelei’s “Dancing in the Club” is the live music moment I didn’t know I needed.

My early pick for album of the year: You Are the Morning by jasmine.4.t. I seem to have a new favorite song from this every day. "Guy Fawkes Tesco Dissociation." "Elephant." The title track. All so, so good. www.pastemagazine.com/music/jasmin...

So honored to work with all these great people. Follow them here.

There are countless individual stories of devastation from the fires, like Griffin Goldsmith of Dawes losing his home weeks before his first kid is due. The music community has rallied to cover his needs, but there are so many more artists who need help. www.pastemagazine.com/music/mutual...

Finally entered my exponential phase of life

Statement from President Carter’s family this morning.

Happy new year from the last bird I photographed in 2024, this curious Blue-headed Warbler.