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This is deeply upsetting, not the least cuz I’ve been debating changing my dating app bio to: SWIPE RIGHT NOW, AND IT CAN BE NICE!! SWIPE LEFT NOW, AND I’LL HAVE TO COME BACK NOT ONCE, NOT TWICE, BUT AS MANY TIMES AS I LIIIIIIIKE!!!

Through a friend I knew a bunch of libertarians in college, including a woman who believed we needed to bring back “courtesans” to deal with male frustration and ego and such, and every ragebait op-ed dink is just a flashback to those cafeteria convos.

A clue!

"The faculty vote comes on the heels of graduate students voting in November 2025 to unionize. It also comes amid sweeping changes at Penn State, including the decision to close seven campuses, and hire McKinsey & Company to conduct a review of the university's operational and academic operations."

The new Mountain Goats song is so cool, I’m forgiving that it will force a conversation with my kid about the existence of Charlie Sheen.

As I told HR, they said we should be “numbering the monkeys.” I asked them to explain which monkeys, and they said “the monkeys and the monkeys!!!” I asked again and we were accused of being followers of chaos, out of control.

Saving you a click: “they should learn God Save The Queen - the anthem, not that blasphemous hogwash by Naughty Johnny or whatever he was named.” He also says the revolutionary war was “the first Brexit, the worst Brexit” and that King Charles will “set things right, by gum.”

My most-played whatever usually suggests a) inclusion in a blog playlist b) inclusion in a school commute playlist c) I’m screaming SERENITY NOW! Which do you think is to blame for this one?

I apologize if I make that app look cool by sharing this, but I have to show how cool I am (my kid helped too, on one song).

30 albums I love from one heck of a year for music, now fifty-five years ago. anthony-is-writing.ghost.io/my-favorite-...

have they looked between the seat and the center console

We’re through the fruitcage here, people…

interesting rationale from a prospective juror in the Elon Musk Twitter stock manipulation case

30 albums I love from one heck of a year for music, now fifty-five years ago. anthony-is-writing.ghost.io/my-favorite-...

This Is Not A Fugazi Song I Just Heard In An HBO Docuseries

He was a director before he was a politician?!?!

Watching a Tales From The Crypt where M Emmet Walsh is playing a resentful new retiree constantly hollering at his wife and her many pets (pictured here…he was 55). The firm gave him a huge silver hammer as a parting gift. I do wonder if we’ll see it again.

Gene Loves Jezebel is also as if, instead of calling Rick Rubin when they wanted to go hard rock, the Cult called “Weird” Al Yankovic. Those yelps HAVE to be a joke.

Every time I check out a Gene Loves Jezebel video I can’t believe they were from the UK, and not Eastern Europe. The “drunk horny exchange student in a bad 80s movie” energy is off the charts. youtu.be/tbJGst7CGr8?...

Honestly nice to see some superstar actors have a modicum of respect for other people on set when they’re doing their method thing

I bought the cyberpunk CD for a dollar for the lulz in college, circa Y2K, and the record store manager was laughing in disbelief cuz a stripper had bought it just the day before, saying she liked to dance to this cover. I’ll never forget this story, but remember almost nothing about the album.

If I could pull out books and read them, I’d be fine. If I was forced to just sit there with pen and paper, I’d turn into Jack Torrance before lunch, and Buddha by 3pm.

“Hot Love”/“Speak Now”/“He’s A Whore” might be the best opening one-two-three in the history of hard rock. Even if the CD pretends it’s the second side.

A fave obscurity in the Jack Douglas discography. He produced Local H’s fourth album (Roy Thomas Baker did the third!), Here Comes The Zoo, which ends with a 25 minute track referencing multiple earlier songs. youtu.be/M8WSmv5PHn8?...

Found out when writing this Douglas was already an accomplished engineer but Aerosmith was his real break as a *producer.* Compare the arrangement of “Lord Of The Thighs” to the mundane debut and you see what a difference his encouragement could make. RIP. anthony-is-writing.ghost.io/aerosmith-pt...

I’ve had Here Come The Warm Jets since the 90s, it’s officially my Favorite Album Of My Thirties, and *today* is the first time I really locked on the lines “Lucy please be still and hide your madness in a jar/ But do beware/ It will follow you, it will follow you.” What a dense marvel of an album.

Comfort movies ARE unhinged, tbh. I thought it was so weird when my mom would rotate the same five romcoms on vhs when zoning out late with puzzles. now I’m rotating twenty mostly found-footage horrors despite new films being a lot easier to access. It’s self-regulating, I accept it, but…cuckoo

I did it! The definitive millennial hipster playlist. There’s even a YouTube version if you dare. Plus grumbles about bluesky, respectful references to @maura.bsky.social and @judyberman.bsky.social, and a word I had to make sure isn’t an epithet! anthony-is-writing.ghost.io/my-definitiv...

Delighted Paul F Tompkins appears to be hating The Batman as much as I did. Still think it might be the dumbest of the Batfilms. anthony-is-writing.ghost.io/i-hated-the-...

I have been watching The Batman on a plane for as long as I can remember

Masterpiece. (Please add "Freak on a Leash" and "Voodoo")

Hey we made the noose, I mean news.

I did it! The definitive millennial hipster playlist. There’s even a YouTube version if you dare. Plus grumbles about bluesky, respectful references to @maura.bsky.social and @judyberman.bsky.social, and a word I had to make sure isn’t an epithet! anthony-is-writing.ghost.io/my-definitiv...

I will not engage in more bluesky hot take inanity I will NOT *throws empty water bottle*…oh hi, gawker nostalgics…

Fun fact! We insulted her grandfather in my film school project. He was a big donor, would come one day a year, watch student films and critique them. I skipped, but after, someone decided to yell “fuck Gerry Abrams!” as we recorded a loop of background noise for a scene in Hell. It stayed in.

A beta run before I make a blog post, if you have any suggestions or critiques. open.spotify.com/playlist/3EM...

What percent of the people who made Dead Man’s Pop a Grammy winning reissue first had Don’t Tell A Soul on a cassette with a puncture hole in hit?

I’m respectively replacing Eminem’s “Mockingbird” and The Family Guy Theme with LFO’s “Summergirls” and Vitamin C’s “Graduation” after consultation with @fireh9lly.bsky.social and @dronefloam.bsky.social. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

I want to believe every couple years Eno takes some instrumental punky demo, rattles off some “seven deadly Finns”-esque lyrics, maybe overdubs some super processed noise guitar solo. Then he listens to it, sighs “ahhhh, rock music” and tosses it.

Ok the top 5 ultimate millennial songs that aren’t “Mr Brightside” 1. POD, “Youth Of A Nation” 2. Britney Spears, “Lucky” 3. Weezer, “Butterfly” 4. Crazy Town, “Butterfly” 5. The Game, “Dreams”

The weird thing is Three Cheers was the rare mall-emo album at the time whose singles made me go “now THIS I get.” “Not ok” was a hell of a hookfest, “Helena”’s heartbreak - chef’s kiss! But black parade was such hollow fanfare in comparison! I dug “dead” but the rest…SHRUG.

This song is the best even before you even realize blank is blank as in “whatever I want” and that “I can take it or leave it each time” means you’re free to say “ahhh yes I am among those who were teens during the Macarena” one day and say “fuck you drinking from a water hose sucks” the next.

as far as what generation *really* owns a track? pish, I’m not working for YouGov. But Gen X needs to accept their job is staying zen & cynical & settling for appreciation by nerds cuz in terms of demographics they’re a popped zit.

After responding to unrelated posts about how a) millennials think they own everything after 97 & b) the millennial hit “1985” didn’t bother to fact-check, i realize my glib xennial pov on both these examples of boomer-esque hubris is “deal with it” but with a shrug instead of sunglasses

Part of why I love this as the “ultimate millennial song” is that it’s about how this dude is feeling emo as fuck, but he’s determined not to let that keep him from his birthright of the kind of cultural dominance he saw in 80s movies.

NYT clickbait pull quote: Billy Joel has like one song lol Jacobin clickbait pull quote: Kim Gordon plays 4d song chess

One of my most treasured mean musical memories is bringing a cd-r with a bunch of Chinese Democracy tracks to a friend’s apartment, both of us quickly literally collapsing on the floor, barely getting out “this took fifteen years” between giggles.

1. Tributes to other pop styles (assuming a glam epic “Captain Jack” and the pre-Beatles r&b homages on an innocent man should be consigned to one slot, irrespective of lyric) 2. Piano based pop-rock about how you should kiss his ass 3. Ballads to get that ass 4. “We didn’t start the fire”