Raaaaaaaain #tbtxpn

My streak of never having a normal Sprouts cashier continues. It’s like dark-sided Trader Joe’s in there.

Live look at me during the Gin Blossoms #tbtxpn

Hell yes. #tbtxpn

I see my three-year-old has called in. #tbtxpn

It is time. #tbtxpn

@wxpnfm.bsky.social making my workday better, as always, especially with today's #tbtxpn theme. I am SEATED for the Singles spotlight later and am anxiously awaiting anything from The Crow, Angus, Empire Records, and/or Clerks (guess when I grew up?).

It’s one of those days where this is best song of the ‘90s and no one has ever been hotter than Gavin Rossdale in the video.

🚨 🚨 🚨 Need to find someone who’ll let me review this after not publishing anything since…his last album

Co-signed and we can delete “onscreen”

New playlist THIS WAS SUMMER 1995, recreating the most boombastic summer in human history 🥗Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/0vk... 🍎Apple: music.apple.com/us/playlist/... 🐠YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Picked the wrong time to renew my passport!

There clearly needs to be a ballroom in every school in America.

I’m no expert but I feel like it’s time to roll credits on Dr. President Jesus.

Cannot wait to get my hands on this. Congrats, Xnessers!

Gotta go Celine here. If Titanic is not '90s sadness, nothing is.

if nothing else, there is something to be said for spending time outside in the sun with thousands of people who share your anger at the state of things

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Collective Soul & I are still way behind & NEED YOUR VOTE in the Elite Eight of @marchxness.bsky.social! ICYMI Last week my wife, Laura, & I did a cover & I'm unearthing it again to spur the comeback! READ & VOTE "THE WORLD I KNOW" BY NOON ET TODAY!! 👇 marchxness.com#/elite8-coll...

Live look at me and my COVID getting our last-minute @marchxness.bsky.social votes in for Guns N' Crows today. (Not enough Crows votes. VOTE CROWS.)

RIP to the brilliant Sam Kieth, whose art made a big impression on me. 🖤

Catching up with @marchxness.bsky.social from within a house full of COVID (not me though 💪) to vote Nirvana and Bush today. It has come to my attention that Nirvana does not have enough votes. VOTE NIRVANA.

This fuckin’ guy.

This matchup is brutal.

YESSSS MICHAEL B. JORDAN

"To my fellow nominees, I wish I could go back and tell myself, as an even littler bunny, that someday I’d be in the same category as Madeline from 'Madeline' and Poop from 'Everybody Poops.'"

Nick Cave better be on my screen post haste.

It's getting real. This was NOT easy. My votes: Alanis, Mazzy, Des'ree, Bush.

I'll second this. If you're not voting for that Mazzy Star essay, you're nuts.

This Collective Soul vs. Des'ree @marchxness.bsky.social matchup is impossible. "The World I Know" and Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet are both PEAK '90s sadness. HELP.

“The floor is LIVER!” —my three-year-old

Emily Costa and I are the same age, and she has perfectly encapsulated the terrifying sadness of growing up in the era of stranger danger. I still can't watch the "Runaway Train" video, and I was afraid to keep reading her essay (but I did).

Similarly, if you ever see me vote against Nick Cave and/or the Bad Seeds (especially against "Nobody's Baby Now" in a sad song competition), I've been hacked. Also, Philip James Shaw's companion essay is wonderful. Give him and Nick and Nora your vote.

If you ever see me vote against Kurt, I've been hacked, but Jennifer Gravley's essay also might be my favorite: "Build a memorial to the voice of your generation through your midlife, medicated and screeching. Line the ground, the glass bottom, with grass from an untended graveyard which struggles."

Thank you to Barry Montgomery for the Grandpaboy introduction (Westerberg forever) and the incredible bio: "He won several regional Captain Beefheart lookalike contests, but was never able to translate that into success at the tri-state level." (Also, you will never get me to vote for Eric Clapton.)

The sublime interplay between musician and author in Mo Daviau's essay on Cat Power's "Metal Heart" got my vote: "I often wonder about people who got the memo before me. Who told them? How did they learn that lesson? Who loved them anyway?"

Give this whole thing to Christopher L. Keller's essay on Wilco's "Via Chicago": "Conformity might as well be a defense mechanism handed down at birth. 'Keep your head and limbs inside the moving vehicle at all times!' If nothing sticks out—if you don't stick out—nothing can hurt you."

Alright, back on my @marchxness.bsky.social bullshit to get my votes in before these games close today. More soon.

Here's what swayed my vote in this matchup: "I'm living as a gay trans man in Trump’s America now. The kingdom of heaven is within me, or it’s nowhere."

Some of the best writing in the @marchxness.bsky.social tournament this year is in the bios. Today's highlights include "butts and sadness" (put it on my grave) from Jendi Reiter and this from Andrew Schumacher Bethke: "There doesn't seem to be much else to say autobiographically beyond fuck ICE[.]"

In other news, I'm wondering how this JFK Jr./Carolyn Bessette show would hold up without its relentless playlist (to be clear, I will be watching the whole thing to assess).

I have apparently cast all my votes for this round (per my browser), but this was yesterday and I have NO IDEA how I voted because these are all great. Really.

Another tough one. Two wonderful essays and two bands I love. I will throw hands for Hootie (don’t try me), but LA writing is my kryptonite. What to do!

Damn. That Liz Phair essay by Chris Daley was incredible (and “Divorce Song” is in my DNA).

The songs? The essays? IMPOSSIBLE CHOICE.

That’s it for the Boys. We had fun! Congrats to Tom Waits and to @paleoctopi.bsky.social on his winning essay. Onward!

The essay on Backstreet Boys is SO funny and smart, especially for all us TRL girlies. I think it will earn your vote for it & @doritoshangover.bsky.social to pull off the comeback victory! Half an hour left in voting!

How do I summon the #bsbhive on here? We need your votes! #teambsb #backstreetboys #sos

The Boys need your help! Vote by 11 AM ET tomorrow! #backstreetboys #bsb #marchxness