If you’re into journalism kerfuffles and general media messiness, it’s been a banner month for that.

Carmelo Anthony was inducted into the Naismith Baskebtall Hall of Fame, bagged a studio analyst gig w/ NBC Sports and gets to see his son start in his freshman year at *his* alma mater all in the same calendar year. Hell of a 2025.

See, the reason I continue to waste my time on social media is so I can discover stuff like this.

Didn't know that I needed a go-go version of "The Right Kind of Lover" until today. Patti went from heels to barefoot to flats in the span of two songs. Incredible stuff here. An entire living legend.

Organizers were actin' up at the Home Depot in my neighborhood this past weekend. They were marching through aisles denouncing ICE and buying 17 cent ice scrapers and immediately returning them just to slow down the store. This is my kinda carryin' on.

#PostsFromProsperityAve salute to any parenting wins

Both my kids learned how to ride bikes this weekend after months and months of trepidation. All the props go to my wife for that. I get a camera operator credit so that’s something.

My guy @deephunk.bsky.social will appreciate this Isley/Khruangbin blend. Choosey Lover meets Friday Morning on.soundcloud.com/DwGNpfMbq9zi...

Currently watching Clipse on the Camp Flog Gnaw livestream. Median age is probably 28. Tyler is in the front losing his sh*t. Full rap nerd sh*t. And it’s *his* festival. Very inspirational.

The Orlando Magic will forever be a problem for my Knicks no matter what. Just a full on headache. It’s nuts.

The album prior to this, 14 Shots To the Dome, did not perform well. Too experimental. So they went back to the tried and true formula: sexy LL. “Hey Lover,” “Doin It,” and “Loungin” propelled Mr. Smith to double platinum. And to show you he was still hard as hell, “I Shot Ya” for good measure.

So let me get this straight… the fascist POTUS gave NYC’s Mayor elect a warmer welcome than the Dem leadership, who are lecturing constituents to “welcome” MTG into the fold because she’s being nice now? This timeline, wow…

TURN THE VOLUME UPPPPPPP! 🫠

Did the Orange Guy really scare the Dems w/ the whole "punishable by death" thing a couple days ago? Because it really looks like it did. Let's follow up the Herculean feat we pulled off for abuse survivors just days ago by looking like absolute p*ssies.

Super happy for Gareth Donkin. Amazing artist in his own right. I like to think he ended up on the new @wearedelasoul.com album by shooting this very specific shot on his debut in 2024. Pretty inspiring if you ask me.

"The reality is, you don't pay for a guaranteed good time when you go to a show. You pay for the attempt." If you bought tix for a tour marking a milestone anniversary of a critically acclaimed debut album and you read this, would you still be hype for the show? This isn't even the worst of it.

One of the young guys I play pickup ball w/ at the gym looked me right in the face tonight and asked me if I’m retired. I’m 47 years old.

"Diplomatic legalese, no time for a visa..."

These major labels decided that not giving artists a fair share of streaming revenue wasn't enough. Let's take things up a notch and license all of the music to a brand new app that'll let users rip songs to shreds using AI. It's an absolute sickness.

Jadakiss taking the De La Dunk right off his foot and handing it to Pos w/ a Sharpie for him to sign it means something to me. 🥹

*taps mic carefully* Vanity Fair? 🤔 *looks at crowd intently* More like Vanity AFFAIR? 😂 But seriously, folks…

this is certainly going to keep me out of heaven, but here's my exhaustive breakdown—with fresh reporting on some past artifacts—of the recent drama surrounding Olivia "Livvy" Nuzzi, from RFK Jr. to the comeback tour to the new allegations to the rediscovery of "Jailbait" slate.com/business/202...

It sucks that the first thing I thought of when I read "robots in your bloodstream" is the 2002 novel Prey by Michael Crichton. It's a great book. But it's also sci-fi/horror and a cautionary tale about advancements in nanotech. It seemed very far fetched back then. Now look at where we are.

As we all know, 2020 was a trying year. Everything was in disarray. This album was one of the most important musical offerings of said year. I submerged myself in music and Sons of the James restored some semblance of balance. Highly recommended: freshselects.bandcamp.com/album/everlasting

Black (and Brown) ppl have also been STEALING Ralph Lauren since Ralph first Laurened. The irony: he has credited shoplifting and boosting in the '80s/'90s for a large part of his early success. Lo Lifes were essentially a street team. Even when we're committing crimes we're influencing culture.

the whosampled side of the announcement touts "faster moderation" I remain reticent!

The story slightly buried in this announcement of the launch of SongDNA and the expansion of song credits is that they acquired WhoSampled to do this. I guarantee you there's about to be a slew of bad info attached to music now and it'll be damn near impossible to get corrected.

My all time top five favorite Pete Rock productions, ranked: 5) “Respiration” (remix) 4) “Straighten It Out” 3) “Fakin Jax” 2) “Shut ‘Em Down” (remix) 1) “Take Your Time”

Elmo going: “fuck em up Socrates”

is big bird a sagittarian (or another fire sign)???

Then there go Elmo just instigating like “uh huh tell em what they did friend!” Name wasn’t even in the list of ppl who believed him mind you Just over there like

This is still such a funny scene. Big Bird walked in like "WOW! WOULD YOU LOOK AT THIS? Y'ALL WAS TALKING HELLA SH*T ABOUT ME! FOR YEARS! NOT YOU GORDON AND MARIA. Y'ALL HELD ME DOWN. BUT THE REST OF Y'ALL! LOOK AT YOU! GOT YOU STANDING HERE WITH THE STUPID FACE! TELL ME AGAIN I WAS LYING!"

This milestone anniversary is a great reminder that the fantastic 2013 documentary Dear Mr. Watterson: An Exploration of Calvin & Hobbes (an independent film that was launched on Kickstarter and backed by more than 200% of its original goal) is up in full on YouTube.

I had the displeasure of hunting down the photo for this story. Not only was this taken when Clinton was president (and he seems TOTALLY cool w/ it), it's part of a collection straight from the William J. Clinton Presidential Library.

[Cam'ron voice] he desired desiring and being desired/ architect of the spire in the maze of desire/ the squire of the choir don't look like Richard Pryor/ desiring desire, birds like Larry on fire

Having a conversation w/ someone or telling someone a story w/o having to pull your phone out in the middle of it to accent it w/ a Google search or visual aids.

I'm literally never doing this so who can confirm for me that all my DMs are officially gone from the other app? If you create the passcode, do they reappear?

Lemme find out a surrounding of mac and cheese and a surrounding of sweet potatoes is dirt cheap right now.

Reading this article and finding out the CEO is a Trump supporter doesn't surprise me as that USA flag shirt is very popular with white 🗽 culture.

Big shouts to @nickengvall.bsky.social for allowing us at @slate.com to reprint his piece re: Steph Curry leaving Under Armour, how big of a blunder that was for the company, and just how much they undervalued him for his 13 years there. (Last night, Steph wore Kobes pregame and dropped 49.)

Knicks just hung 140 points on the Heat w/ no Jalen Brunson and no OG Anunoby. It’s a wonderful evening.

Jalen Brunson out. Lost OG for the game w/ a hammy in the first quarter. KAT on pace to have a 50-point game at this rate.

An entire music festival is being postponed due to a forecasted full weekend of rain yet my daughter's soccer league still refuses to push her Saturday afternoon playoff game. (Just venting, nevermind me.)

Listen to the concern and despair in this woman's voice for a seal as LITERAL KILLER WHALES swim within feet of her boat just trying to grab lunch. It's the circle of life, lady. Sit your ass down, I'm hitting the gas.

A friend in a group text just described the new show It: Welcome To Derry as "Stranger Things on PCP."

It's a classic. In every metric. In every sense of the word.

GOOD MORNING CHERYL HINES.

OMG the newest @wearedelasoul.com drop is soooooo fantastic. Yummy Bingham back! New Q-Tip verse! I could cry. Full album drops on 11/21. Almost there. youtube.com/watch?v=VqDyTvMwpFg

OK, I'll say it. To this very day I *still* don't understand Minesweeper. There's math involved, right? That's probably why.