It’s probably not the best (it’s extremely cheesy and I love it), but Billy Joel’s An Innocent Man is an obvious pick.

Ben Shelton phone celebration sighting in the NLDS

I’m sure some of you will want to know this: I can confirm that this High Park capybara (I’m not sure if it was Bonnie or Clyde) is still extremely wise.

American Eagle was dragged into an online outrage cycle after conservative media figures claimed that liberals were offended by the clothing company's ads featuring Sydney Sweeney and a denim-themed pun about her "great jeans." We checked the data. That wasn't true. openmeasures.io/american-eag...

There’s absolutely a case for Sarah McLachlan to be inducted into the RRHOF as a performer on the strength of her music, but as the Lilith Fair doc shows you could make just as strong a case for her as a non-performer (and the sports HOF term of « builder » would be absolutely fitting).

Here’s an extremely stupid question: at 6’ 8“ (203cm), is Montell Jordan the tallest singer to have a no. 1 hit?

It seems apt that this « author’s » name is Jack Cambron. Cambronne was a Napoleon military commander who, upon being asked to surrender at Waterloo, replied « Merde! » (« Shit! »), which became known as in French as « Cambronne’s word ». So the guy making a career publishing AI slop is Jack Shit.

This is despicable.

Show me a roomful of people mostly thinking « That was some weird shit. »

This is quite beautiful (with the inevitable caveat of course that in a better world we’d still be waiting to see what corner of the last unexplored remnants of an old and tired America Kaleb’s next feature was going to excavate).

There’s a song on the new Sarah McLachlan album that sounds like she’s sorta covering U2’s « Stuck in A Moment You Can’t Get Out Of » backed by Counting Crows, and I know I’m not really doing it justice because it’s actually really good.

Thanking everyone who has shared this post. It's appreciated, and seeing Kaleb's words here hit home and get shared out is exactly right. Realizing I'm repeating myself a bit but my own extended remembrance of Kaleb was posted yesterday: www.tumblr.com/nedraggett/7...

With Eric Adams dropping out, let’s remember the craziest low-stake moment of his time in the spotlight: when he named the concert where Curtis Mayfield was paralyzed *before* getting to sing a note as the best concert he’s ever been to. From a 2021 Vanity Fair interview:

This is great. Of course it is.

Someone should dump a truck full of money in front of Chuck Lorre’s mansion or island or small country he owns and convince him to bring back The Big Bang Theory to act out Kaleb Horton’s spec script that he reposted last year. kalebhorton.ghost.io/the-end-resu...

The way you could tell in the moment that Kaleb’s writing was so good is that if he ever wrote about someone or something, a line or a turn of phrase or a paragraph from that would be in the Top 3 things you remembered about that someone or something if you ever thought about them again.

Another Kaleb Horton piece. He was the perfect choice to write about Johnny Cash’s American Recordings for the Pitchfork Sunday Review. pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

RIP Kaleb Horton. A singular talent

An important update.

Count me among the hundreds of people who wish they could've met @kalebhorton.bsky.social and among the hundreds who want to keep writing as vivid as his alive. This piece, for example, about George Harrison and Formula 1 racing. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

The way you could tell in the moment that Kaleb’s writing was so good is that if he ever wrote about someone or something, a line or a turn of phrase or a paragraph from that would be in the Top 3 things you remembered about that someone or something if you ever thought about them again.

Kaleb Horton’s piece on the Chowchilla bus kidnapping was one of the best stories in recent years and what a goddamn shame there won’t be more like that. RIP.

I missed this recent Kaleb Horton piece on the end of X (the band). "Sonically, it's still Chuck Berry telling us we're all gonna die for half an hour. Still sounds like some kind of freedom." kalebhorton.ghost.io/the-last-ame...

« Go to a bad diner and just order some bad coffee because even bad coffee is good coffee. »

Kaleb Horton was an incredible writer with each new piece appointment reading, but I personally was so inspired by his photography. I had an album of his photos saved on my phone that I’d use as inspiration when writing myself. I needed him to put out that book.

Gutted at the news that Kaleb Horton is gone. Kaleb was a brilliant writer, of course, but he was also a gifted photographer. Years ago I encouraged him to sell his pieces. His work was so good, I told him, and people should see it. Here are some of his beautiful shots.

Thank you to Ned for doing the work & resurfacing this.

I’m so so so sorry to hear this. He was literally one of the most talented writers I knew, unquestionably the world’s biggest Norm Macdonald fan, and the perhaps the ultimate chronicler of life at the edge of the ditch in Bakersfield, CA. There’s probably Warren Zevon song that’s right for today.

I hope this means we’re going to be getting a new Highwomen album…

Having just finished watching it, I agree with everything that @carynrose.bsky.social says in this great piece about the new Lilith Fair doc (and the tour more generally). PSA: the doc is awesome and if you’re in Canada you can watch it on the CBC Gem app. www.salon.com/2025/09/23/l...

I didn’t know there was a U.S. stage for the Riyadh Comedy Festival.

I love Sheryl Crow and always will, but she sort of raps in her last single and I can’t for the life of me hear anything but Weird Al in « Amish Paradise ».

I’m not one for taking sides when artists split up, but it’s definitely interesting when the post-breakup albums are either « you destroyed this, I was shattered, I’m slowly building myself back » Or « check out the hot new girl I’m fucking »

I’m not one for taking sides when artists split up, but it’s definitely interesting when the post-breakup albums are either « you destroyed this, I was shattered, I’m slowly building myself back » Or « check out the hot new girl I’m fucking »

Frankly, this goes for anyone involved in the 6 Kings Slam as well, a meaningless tennis exhibition that hands out a total of $13.5M in prize money plus some appearance fees to its 6 participants who then embarrass themselves by dishing out ridiculous quotes like « I don’t play for money ».

One of the truly weird culture war flashpoints of this era is how an anti-parasitic on the market for 35 years became the right's cure-all snake oil and popular way of signaling contempt for modern medicine.

This is my kind of opening verse (from the upcoming Amanda Shires album).

As I was saying…

What I do find concerning here is how much on Bluesky a whole section of the political discourse has, in some way, closed itself off from the rest of the world—engagement here concerns is completely dominated by American or English-speaking users.

Still plenty of work to do because giving up a 440ft dinger in Comedy Baseball is more disqualifying than PEDs anyway. youtu.be/Vw6ek_tBgmQ?...

Claudia Cardinale and Robert Redford dying in the same week puts the world in a hotness deficit not seen since at least the 19th century

The front page of tomorrow’s Libération (one of France’s biggest newspapers) can roughly be translated to « Trump Pisses Off the World » or « Trump to World: Drop Dead », and I think either one works.

À propos of nothing: this new Sarah McLachlan album is really really good.

Happy birthday to Bruce Springsteen, who is probably most famous for giving me the two best concert photos I’ll ever have.

I wonder if the makers of Tylenol know anything about running a country because they’re definitely going to own the U.S. government once this lawsuit is settled.

It’s actually incredible that publicly musing about injecting disinfectant or UV rays inside someone’s lungs to kill COVID isn’t the worst medical opinion to come out of a Trump White House anymore.

the 2nd dumbest person on earth, and everybody that voted for him is tied for #1

« Donald Trump is practicing medicine the right way » - Ezra Klein

A broken clock is right etc.